"supplementary amounts of wild ass"
That's lifted from a description of the hunting & grazing habits of the Khormusan culture of Paleolithic Egypt in Michael A. Hoffman's Egypt Before the Pharoahs. I hereby challenge all Gameblog readers to try to use this phrase at least once today, either on the internet or in passing conversation.
A Return to the Stars
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After a veeeeerrrryyyy long, and mostly unplanned, hiatus, Stuart and I got
together to play more Stargrave in recent days. It was good! It was also a
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"Owing to the large number of pack mules abandoned by abortive forays into the Howling Mine, the gelatinous cube was able to include in its daily diet supplementary amounts of wild ass. These it consumed voraciously, punctuated irregularly by bands of hapless adventurers."
ReplyDelete—Orthag the Ambivalent, from his epic "Annotations on the Howling Mine: 60 Years in the Shadow of the Mountain"
Wow. I thought I was the only one who had ever bought and/or read that book! Flinders Petrie FTW!
ReplyDelete"Your honour, I'm objecting on the grounds that after the complainant's testimony, any closing comment by the Crown prosecutor will only be supplementary amounts of wild ass."
ReplyDelete-Me, in my ideal courtroom
Word verifcation: inkshl; an ink shill who is running low on product.
I notice you've been contributing your own supplementary amounts of wild-ass commentary on that RPGsite thread. Way to go!
ReplyDelete(Okay, I cheated and added a hyphen.)
Mission accomplished!
ReplyDeleteJust tweeted the following: Beat to Quarters will very soon kick supplementary amounts of wild ass. http://tinyurl.com/c4k3xf. Duty and Honour already does.
ReplyDeleteThat phrase reminds me of an ex-girlfriend. She was hot, yet oh-so-very-she-may-just-kill-me-in-my-sleep-crazy. "Wild ass," indeed.
ReplyDeleteI'm not seeing a trackback or the comments she said she left yesterday, so here's a link
ReplyDeletehttp://neartpk.blogspot.com/2009/08/jeffs-phrase-of-day.html
to my wife's response to this on my blog yesterday.
So I see http addresses in comments aren't turned into links automatically (and it's too early for me to have noticed that when I previewed). *sigh*
ReplyDeletehttp://neartpk.blogspot.com/2009/08/jeffs-phrase-of-day.html
"I run Savage Worlds, and have offered Bennies for narrative input. I’ve even considered offering supplementary amounts of wild ass, but nothing seems to get much response."
ReplyDeleteIn a discussion on encouraging narrative input from one's players...
http://www.gnomestew.com/johnnys-five/johnnys-five-five-ways-to-get-your-players-into-shared-narrative-when-it-isnt-the-focus-of-the-game/comment-page-1#comment-8366
Word Verification: denap. What happens when the dog inevitably barks during our 18 month old daughter's nap.
Link for above.
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