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Nightmare

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  1. It's usually near 50 C here in Summer days, or sometimes 50 itself.
  2. I'm off to sleep now but TUNE IN NEXT TIME FOR SERENES FOREST HISTORY 101!
  3. Adam left probably for the same reasons as Hanz, i.e. got bored and didn't really like the direction the forum was going in.
  4. Hanz said a lot of confusing stuff and such, but he was never one to abuse his power. As responsible and righteous as they get, he was. A shame he left, we lost a valuable member.
  5. I swear that smiley cried when I first passed by your post.
  6. They're no problem. Just swallow them, they go down with so much ease, you don't even have to put effort into it.
  7. All hail Ultima! Heroes rise again! Obliterating everything that's not your friend! Nothing can stop you now, No ghost to bring you down! When there's nothing left to lose, you win! (Bow your heads low, all hail Ultima!) (Bow your heads low, all hail Ultima!) Suffer long and it will set you free, Only through trial do we find the strength we need! It's never over, just another day! Of hope and tragedies, and everything that comes our way! Determination of the strong! Found the meaning that you searched for so long! All hail Ultima! Heroes rise again! Obliterating everything that's not your friend! Nothing can stop you now, No ghost to bring you down! When there's nothing left to lose, you win! (Bow your heads low, all hail Ultima!) (Bow your heads low, all hail Ultima!) Somewhere in chaos we all find ourselves! This destruction is the only tale we tell. White is black, and black is white, Right is wrong, and wrong is right! Nothing ever fills this hole inside your heart! Determination of the strong! Found the meaning that you searched for so long! All hail Ultima! Heroes rise again! Obliterating everything that's not your friend! Nothing can stop you now, No ghost to bring you down! When there's nothing left to lose, you win! =INSTRUMENTAL= All hail Ultima! Heroes rise again! Obliterating everything that's not your friend! Nothing can stop you now, No ghost to bring you down! When there's nothing left to lose, you win! (Bow your heads low, all hail Ultima!) (Bow your heads low, all hail Ultima!)
  8. Hearts are still pretty awesome. I would wear a lot of hearts too if I could.
  9. Dio wears a lot of hearts though. And Giorno has a heart-shaped cleavage window.
  10. Turn down that music, you dang kid, step in time Turn down that music, you dang kid, step in time Turn down that music, you dang kid, step in time
  11. Awesome, step in time Awesome, step in time Never need a reason, Never need a rhyme Awesome, step in time
  12. We shall see. You leave me with no choice...very well, I shall choose Janice. I'm not sure if the rules agree with it being a great username, is what I meant.
  13. Hand me that piano!, step in time Hand me that piano!, step in time Hand me that piano!, step in time
  14. I was just about to tell you, that's probably not a very good idea.
  15. Step in time, step in time Come on, mateys, step in time Step in time Step in time, step in time Step in time, step in time Never need a reason, Never need a rhyme Step in time, you step in time! Kick your knees up! Kick your knees up, step in time Kick your knees up, step in time Never need a reason, Never need a rhyme Kick your knees up, step in time Round the chimney! Round the chimney, step in time Round the chimney, step in time Never need a reason, Never need a rhyme Round the chimney, step in time Flap like a birdie! Flap like a birdie, step in time Flap like a birdie, step in time Never need a reason, Never need a rhyme Flap like a birdie, step in time Up on the railing! Up on the railing, step in time Up on the railing, step in time Never need a reason, Never need a rhyme Up on the railing, step in time Over the rooftops! Over the rooftops, step in time Over the rooftops, step in time Never need a reason, Never need a rhyme... step in time! Over the rooftops! Over the rooftops! Link your elbows! Link your elbows, step in time Link your elbows, step in time Link your elbows Link your elbows Link your elbows! Step in time, step in time Step in time, step in time Never need a reason, Never need a rhyme Step in time, you step in time!
  16. LOL, an abbreviation for laughing out loud, laugh out loud, or sometimes lots of laughs, is a common element of Internet slang. It was used historically on Usenet but is now widespread in other forms of computer-mediated communication, and even face-to-face communication. It is one of many initialisms for expressing bodily reactions, in particular laughter, as text, including initialisms for more emphatic expressions of laughter such as LMAO ("laughing my arse/ass off"), ROTFL or ROFL ("roll[ing] on the floor laughing"), and BWL ("bursting with laughter"). Other unrelated expansions include the now mostly historical "lots of luck" or "lots of love" used in letter-writing. Laccetti (professor of humanities at Stevens Institute of Technology) and Molsk, in their essay entitled The Lost Art of Writing, are critical of the terms, predicting reduced chances of employment for students who use such slang, stating that, "Unfortunately for these students, their bosses will not be 'lol' when they read a report that lacks proper punctuation and grammar, has numerous misspellings, various made-up words, and silly acronyms." Fondiller and Nerone in their style manual assert that "professional or business communication should never be careless or poorly constructed" whether one is writing an electronic mail message or an article for publication, and warn against the use of smileys and these abbreviations, stating that they are "no more than e-mail slang and have no place in business communication". Yunker and Barry in a study of online courses and how they can be improved through podcasting have found that these slang terms, and emoticons as well, are "often misunderstood" by students and are "difficult to decipher" unless their meanings are explained in advance. They single out the example of "ROFL" as not obviously being the abbreviation of "rolling on the floor laughing" (emphasis added). Haig singles out LOL as one of the three most popular initialisms in Internet slang, alongside BFN ("bye for now") and IMHO ("in my humble opinion"). He describes the various initialisms of Internet slang as convenient, but warns that "as ever more obscure acronyms emerge they can also be rather confusing". Bidgoli likewise states that these initialisms "save keystrokes for the sender but [...] might make comprehension of the message more difficult for the receiver" and that "lang may hold different meanings and lead to misunderstandings especially in international settings"; he advises that they be used "only when you are sure that the other person knows the meaning". Shortis observes that ROTFL is a means of "annotating text with stage directions". Hueng, in discussing these terms in the context of performative utterances, points out the difference between telling someone that one is laughing out loud and actually laughing out loud: "The latter response is a straightforward action. The former is a self-reflexive representation of an action: I not only do something but also show you that I am doing it. Or indeed, I may not actually laugh out loud but may use the locution 'LOL' to communicate my appreciation of your attempt at humor." David Crystal notes that use of LOL is not necessarily genuine, just as the use of smiley faces or grins is not necessarily genuine, posing the rhetorical question "How many people are actually 'laughing out loud' when they send LOL?". Franzini concurs, stating that there is as yet no research that has determined the percentage of people who are actually laughing out loud when they write "LOL". Victoria Clarke, in her analysis of telnet talkers, states that capitalization is important when people write "LOL", and that "a user who types LOL may well be laughing louder than one who types lol", and opines that "these standard expressions of laughter are losing force through overuse". Egan describes LOL, ROTFL, and other initialisms as helpful as long as they are not overused. He recommends against their use in business correspondence because the recipient may not be aware of their meanings, and because in general neither they nor emoticons are (in his view) appropriate in such correspondence. June Hines Moore shares that view. So, too, does Lindsell-Roberts, who gives the same advice of not using them in business correspondence, "or you won't be LOL". LOL, ROFL, and other initialisms have crossed from computer-mediated communication to face-to-face communication. David Crystal—likening the introduction of LOL, ROFL, and others into spoken language in magnitude to the revolution of Johannes Gutenberg's invention of movable type in the 15th century—states that this is "a brand new variety of language evolving", invented by young people within five years, that "extend the range of the language, the expressiveness [and] the richness of the language". Commentators disagree, saying that these new words, being abbreviations for existing, long-used, phrases, don't "enrich" anything; they just shorten it. Geoffrey K. Pullum points out that even if interjections such as LOL and ROFL were to become very common in spoken English, their "total effect on language" would be "utterly trivial". Conversely, a 2003 study of college students by Naomi Baron found that the use of these initialisms in computer-mediated communication (CMC), specifically in instant messaging, was actually lower than she had expected. The students "used few abbreviations, acronyms, and emoticons". The spelling was "reasonably good" and contractions were "not ubiquitous". Out of 2,185 transmissions, there were 90 initialisms in total, only 31 CMC-style abbreviations, and 49 emoticons. Out of the 90 initialisms, 76 were occurrences of LOL.
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