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 PostPosted: Sun Nov 06, 2011 12:40 am Post subject:  Ever wonder why this forum is called House of Lords?
 
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So honestly I don't know, that's why I'm posting. Anyone old enough around here to remember why this is called the House of Lords (Dark Elf?!?)? To me being British it just conjures up notions of peerage, but that's about it. Also I wanted the question to echo Gross's thread title to draw people in, what can I say I am shameless!

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 PostPosted: Sun Nov 06, 2011 10:51 am Post subject: 
 
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I don't know to be honest. Always seemed like an approriate title though, at least for me. Evokes nicely that wonderful sense of top hats, monocles, cigar fumes, industrial progress and Sherlock Holmes chasing Jack the Ripper down cobbled streets. Very Victoriana.

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 PostPosted: Sun Nov 06, 2011 11:09 am Post subject: 
 
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Yeah I guess it was probably for the cool Victoriana-ness it evokes, still it seems weird we all post here and yet probably no one can provide a definitive answer.

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 PostPosted: Sun Nov 06, 2011 11:15 am Post subject: 
 
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Well, I've asked DU about it, we'll see what he says. If he doesn't know, Calis is bound to.

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Lacy: How did I fall in love with such a jerk like him? Why can't I ever meet a nice man?
Tom: You've met lots of nice men, Lacy. I'm a nice man. The biggest lie all of you women tell yourselves is that you like nice men, when, in fact, we bore you silly.
The trouble is, you tell this lie out loud and so damned often that some of us more gullible types hear it growing up and work hard to become nice men.
Well, from all the nice men in the world, Lacy, fuck you very much.


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 PostPosted: Sun Nov 06, 2011 5:51 pm Post subject: 
 
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It fits the zeitgeist of the steampunk era that Arcanum inhabits, or at least it does to me.

It worked out pretty well for our now-defunct CyberNations alliance too, which required a theme at the time.

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 PostPosted: Mon Nov 07, 2011 2:30 pm Post subject: 
 
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 PostPosted: Mon Nov 07, 2011 3:07 pm Post subject: 
 
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Yeah. We see ourselves as a House (forum) filled with the cream a la cream (sp?) of the internet.

Can CyberNations Alliance be ressurrected again?

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 PostPosted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 12:16 am Post subject: 
 
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Arthgon wrote:
Yeah. We see ourselves as a House (forum) filled with the cream a la cream (sp?) of the internet.

Can CyberNations Alliance be ressurrected again?

Yes, cream has cream. But we are the best of the best (objectively), a.k.a. creme de la creme.
Alright, imagine you have some creme (Fr. cream). Now, imagine making creme from that creme. Creme is already pretty awesome (unless you're allergic to lactose), which would make us...(capable of sparking a case of anaphylaxis)
From what I know of the time period in which Arcanum takes place, and the upper house parliament of the UK being called The House of Lords, I figured it was just an appropriate name, considering the Victorian era being named for Queen Victoria.

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 PostPosted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 8:52 am Post subject: 
 
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I can't help but think it's a fantasy of power for that most powerless of creatures: the role-playing nerd.

But that's autistic thinking. *Shifts gears* Yes, the gaslight flavour of the name is surely its inspiration, old chap, and, of course, we are indeed superior to ordinary people, wot?


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 PostPosted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 10:22 am Post subject: 
 
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I say, Good Yitzak, a young cockney-mouthed street urchin has expectorated upon my cherished monocle. I merely conjectured his mother was a lady of the evening after he deigned to improperly shine my shoes. I directed at him a hearty harumph, and challenged the lad to fisticuffs...but I then had a change of heart and took him in as a house-boy to build his character. I endeavor to teach him the finer things in life, such as scoffing at the audacity of the poor to beg, as well as the pleasure derived from a properly packed heirloom meerschaum calabash.

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I expect it's something to do with cheap rolex watches enlarging his penis while he makes $400,000 an hour working from home.


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 PostPosted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 11:15 am Post subject: 
 
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Arthgon wrote:
Can CyberNations Alliance be ressurrected again?



You can't resurrect something that's not dead.

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 PostPosted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 1:55 pm Post subject: 
 
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That's what SHE said.

About my penis.


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 PostPosted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 2:14 pm Post subject: 
 
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You did WHAT to the cockney-mouthed street urchin?

That sounds awfully unhygeinic, old chap, wot?


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 PostPosted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 4:08 pm Post subject: 
 
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ytzk wrote:
cockney-mouth

That's what SHE mumbled.


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 PostPosted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 6:00 pm Post subject: 
 
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Smuel is the cockney-mouthed street urchin.

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 PostPosted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 6:07 pm Post subject: 
 
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Coming soon... in a vagina near you.


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Coming soon... in a vagina near you.

That is all.

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