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Congratulations, web-wanderer...
You have located the Shadow Unit discussion boards. In which you have the opportunity to talk about what happens when an elite team of unrealistically sexy smart people save the world from the worst monsters imaginable... or die trying.
Come in! Hang out! Have fun!
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« Last Edit: January 11, 2008, 09:06:49 pm by Emma Bull »
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Chaz: "As if puberty weren't stressful enough."
Todd: "See? That's why we're better than all those other law enforcement agencies. Correct use of the subjunctive."
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Elizabeth Bear
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« Reply #1 on: January 13, 2008, 05:37:16 pm » |
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And as of tonight, the secret clubhouse becomes much less secret.
Welcome, new folks. Come on in. Enjoy the ambiance.
Don't forget to examine all documents for anomalous content!
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Chaz: "As if puberty weren't stressful enough."
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Lioness
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« Reply #2 on: January 17, 2008, 02:31:22 am » |
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w00t!
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Elizabeth Bear
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« Reply #3 on: January 17, 2008, 08:08:47 am » |
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w00t right back! (You founded us!)
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Chaz: "As if puberty weren't stressful enough."
Todd: "See? That's why we're better than all those other law enforcement agencies. Correct use of the subjunctive."
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Razorsmile
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Works as well for the Anomaly , I figure.
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« Reply #4 on: January 18, 2008, 12:48:05 am » |
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Woohoo!
*joins*
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Remember: You are a soldier in the data war. It is important that you use only real bullets. - Jon Carroll
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Footling
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« Reply #5 on: January 18, 2008, 07:32:59 am » |
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I can't believe it's taken me a week to get here! Although, on consideration - yes, I can.  Thanks for this - it's brilliant! |
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Athaylin
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« Reply #6 on: January 21, 2008, 05:08:43 pm » |
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I wasn't sure about this whole thing but the more I dig in the more I am enjoying.
Yay you guys!
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Nebris
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« Reply #7 on: January 26, 2008, 11:18:11 pm » |
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I have read everything here and am hungry for more.
~M~
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"It is no measure of good health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society." ~Krishnamurti
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Elizabeth Bear
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« Reply #8 on: January 26, 2008, 11:25:18 pm » |
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We're working on it!
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« Reply #9 on: January 26, 2008, 11:29:44 pm » |
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I'll be patient. I got two novels working right now, so I feel your pain.  |
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"It is no measure of good health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society." ~Krishnamurti
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saddlechariot
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Henry and Im mucking about
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« Reply #10 on: February 05, 2008, 05:02:33 pm » |
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I'm just worried that my English isn't going to cope with a very definite US flavour, but I love it. I'm not even vaguely sure what "it" is but I do love it and will be back. Will you please excuse requests for translations into Queen's English, remembering off course that the Queen to whom I refer wrote Bohemian Rhapsody.
Simon
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Horsepower measures work, ponypower measures pleasure!
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« Reply #11 on: February 05, 2008, 05:08:11 pm » |
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Hello Simon.
It's okay. I'm bilingual--I speak English and American. *g* I blame it on too much J.R.R.Tolkien and Doctor Who growing up. And my editors are forever taking phrases like "ladder in her stocking" out of my writing. ;-)
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saddlechariot
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Henry and Im mucking about
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« Reply #12 on: February 05, 2008, 06:17:25 pm » |
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OK I feel at home.
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Horsepower measures work, ponypower measures pleasure!
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« Reply #13 on: February 05, 2008, 06:49:18 pm » |
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I taught English overseas for about ten years, seven of them in Dubai. I've spent a lot of time with Brits (and gotten very, very drunk with some of them). Plus heavy doses of Monty Python and Doctor Who. Etc. Etc. And my advisor's British. I can spell either way, can translate from one to the other (though I can't always get -all- the British slang!), can tell you the temperature in F or C with reasonable accuracy and can make equally bad guesses at distances in either US or metric.
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"We all ended up somewhere with our various uncertain lives flapping about us in tatters and our pockets full of foreign coins."
K. E. Gordon - The Transitive Vampire: A Handbook of Grammar for the Eager, the Innocent and the Doomed
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saddlechariot
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« Reply #14 on: February 06, 2008, 06:25:23 am » |
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he thing I like about British measurements is that we have joined the metric system when even the French haven't. You only have to look at a case of wine. When they scrap dozens, so will I. Also we actually use the metric foot, ie 300mm so most of the time you can't actually buy a metre, you can get three or four metric feet ie 0.9 metres or 1.2 metres. Wow what a clever system.
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