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#81053
Topic
Beer
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/81053/action/topic#81053
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Bossk, you've got good taste.

Perhaps my favorite beer is called Dragoon. There is one bar in Florence, Italy that had it, and that is the only place in the world I have been able to find it. Very stout. Very tasty.

Otherwise, Anchor Porter (brother to Anchor Steam), Lowenbrau, Guinness, Smithwick's, John Courage, Kirin... gosh, I guess I just like beer in general. It's good to be Irish

If you're ever in San Diego, make your way to Bottom Up or Pizza Port and try the Shark Bite Red. And go to BJ's Pizzeria and try their Hefeweizen. Spectacular.
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#81052
Topic
Riddles
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/81052/action/topic#81052
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That's right Bossk...Each of the three has to entertain the possibility that the other two raised their hands in response to each other. ...or to say it better, regardless of what he has on his head, he knows the other two people can see at least one dot.

Here's the out of the box answer you're looking for, Bossk:
Since this is a job interview, it has to be fair. Therefore, all three of them must be answering the same question, so they all must have the same thing.

BUT, there's a real answer. Here's a hint if you want it (skip if you don't)

It is important for whoever answers to know that all three of them are skilled in logic.
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#80977
Topic
New PS2
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/80977/action/topic#80977
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I assume you all have seen the kick butt new PS2 design. I'm tempted to get it but I know that's ridiculous until it comes down in price, since I've already got one. But that leads me to my second point; the built in ethernet adapter. That's almost worth getting.

Has anyone played Ratchet 3 online? It looks awesome.

Thirdly, if you check ebay, the new PS2 is going for over retail. You can buy this thing at Best Buy for 150. People are trying to sell it for over 200. And...people are bidding. Idiots.

So anyway, to sum it up, thoughts on new PS2, Ratchet and Clank online, ebay, and idiots?
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#80970
Topic
Riddles
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/80970/action/topic#80970
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OK, I'm just going to roll with this now.

Three people are being interviewed for a logic professor position. There is one final test.

They are blindfolded and told either a black or a white dot will be applied to their foreheads. All three are then given a black dot. They are then sat in a circle. When the blindfold is removed they are asked to raise their hand if they see a black dot on either of the other two applicants' foreheads. (all three raise their hands).

They are then told that the first person to identify what color dot is on his own forehead and how he knows it gets the job.
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#80917
Topic
Myths
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/80917/action/topic#80917
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The way I described myths, yes. If you read revelation, the guy's talking about giant locusts with human heads (sounds kind of like Hueys) and beasts that crawl backwards spitting fire from their tails (sounds kind of like mobile artillery) and so forth. The point is, this guy saw *something* that he had no familiarity with and no way to describe. I don't doubt that he saw something, but his understanding limited his ability to write it down. In a similar way, human language and understanding only allow so much of a literal account of creation. In my reading of the creation myth, I believe:

God spoke creation into being
God intentionally created everything in existence
God created Mankind as the pinnicle of creation, in His own image. He also created Mankind with greater care and in a different way than the rest of creation (sculpted as opposed to spoke into being)
And so on.

So I would call it a myth insofar as it is trying to describe and define something with no perfect equivalent in human experience. I would call it a true but imperfectly related account rather than a folk tale or anything like that. After the Noah story, I read the bible strictly literally. Pre-Noah, I read it as I read the creation account.

I just hesitate to name it "myth" because myth is so hazily defined these days.
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#80806
Topic
Myths
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/80806/action/topic#80806
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If you assume the atom as the starting point and look at the present, then biology must be increasing in order. But if you look at things like rate of extinction compared to rate of species generation...or increasing cancer rates (that is, the harmful mutation of DNA)...and trace that line all the way back to origin, it points to a MORE complex biological history rather than a less complex biological history.


Forgive me i dont understand your logic here. What points to a more complex biological history?


I don't have a hard and fast point, nothing scientific, just an observation. Sometimes as you look around it seems that life in general is degrading rather than evolving. It seems like more stuff is dying out than is developing. It seems like the human genome is getting more disease prone and more unstable rather than evolving to a higher state. There are of course lots of different possible reasons and a myriad of competing factors in that, so it's not an argument. Just food for thought.
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#80761
Topic
Lucasfilm acknowledging fan hate
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/80761/action/topic#80761
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I hear they are going to re-insert David Prowse's dialogue in the next edition. Thus, it will turn out that, in fact, Obi Wan did kill Luke's father, in episode III. Anakin has been dead all this time and just lurking around in the force for kicks, having a good laugh. Meanwhile, Luke and Vader met in an internet chat room and Vader disguised his identity, a chronic stalker, by claiming to be Luke's father.

So, there you go. Vader was never Anakin to begin with, the joke's on all of us, and Hayden belongs in the film. Who knew?
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#80733
Topic
Hellboy
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/80733/action/topic#80733
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Anyone see Hellboy?

When I saw the trailers I was like "hoo boy, they just keep pumping them out." I had zero interest.

But then my roommate got it and was watching it one night, and once I sat down I was doomed. It was shockingly good, and not just for entertainment, but for quality. Maybe this discussion happened long ago, but it just happened to me.

Anyone else have the same experience?
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#80730
Topic
Is it wrong to name your kids after a Star Wars character?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/80730/action/topic#80730
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Boneco is one of the heads of "capoeiral brasil" and touts himself as quite the stud. He's got magazine covers with himself on it and some brasilian film credits and so forth, but having met him I always wanted to ask a Brasilian if he really was a "name on the street" or if he was just on the covers of small local publications who had no news to print.

Yeah, Mindinho went to capoeira for the first time as a young kid, to hit on a girl. His first class was her last class, so that didn't work out, but he fell in love with the game. But he was about 12 years old with a bunch of adults, so they called him "pinky." And now 15 years later he could kick my butt 12 ways from tuesday but I still get to call him pinky