Café de Nuit

Well, generally speaking it would be difficult. However, I'm blessed with an utterly fantastic group of players (several of them fellow Whovians), who would enter into the idea with great enthusiasm. I once replaced half the party with doppelgangers and sprang the information on them last-minute (wh...

Heeeyyy, that's an excellent idea! I hadn't heard about the Silence being based on Munch's work, but it makes sense when I think about it. And if there's one Who monster that qualifies as more terrifying than the Angels, it's the Silence! Dang, they'd make an excellent Ravenloft monster, period. I m...

"Blink" or anything involving the Angels would be a blast as well. Doctor Who is just a fantastic source for horror!

True enough...but if you're in a desert and have no water... :p

Not to mention that urine is sterile to begin with. Horrifying as it is, I understand that you can survive where there isn't available water by (gag) drinking your own urine. So yeah. People knew that water=germs, but no one seemed to get sick from pee. (And then there's those people who think that ...

In regards to the 2012 predictions: I read somewhere that archaeologists realized that they had, in fact, translated the Mayan stuff wrong. The Mayan 'doomsday' date in fact probably happened fifty years ago. Or will happen in fifty years. :p

Not so much. Just a day of thanksgiving, and I suspect turkey became traditional because a.) it's native to the North American continent and b.) who *doesn't* love turkey-coma?

Thanksgiving has several sources. The one most Americans will cite is the 'First' Thanksgiving, when the Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony thanked God for surviving their first winter in the New World and was a huge dinner celebrated with colonists and some local Native Americans (apparently, they were ge...

I strongly suspect that it doesn't matter what phase the moon is in when you plant crops, either.

Heh, we're both wrong.

It's the Lost Dutchman Mine. My bad. Flying Dutchman = Davy Jones' ship

Hmm. That's cool about the blue bead. I do recall reading that the reason blue has been the traditional color for boys since the Middle Ages is 'cause it supposedly warded off demons. (Betcha they got it from the Greeks, originally 8) ) Of course, they chose pink for girls....because it was complime...

The general belief regarding drinking ice water is that it will make you sick. They're not very big on refrigerated drinks period, and ice in drinks in particular. They're not entirely wrong, either, or so I've heard. :) There are some (not many, I grant you, but I did talk to a few) who view mamali...

I lived for a year and a half in Romania, and I'm still fluent in the language, so this article caught my eye. If they're taxing income from a profession? Totally cool. If they're singling out and taxing just one religion? Not so much. 'Course, if they tax *all* the various religions, then I suppose...

Okay, never heard of this series. When was it made/what is it about?

Hmmm. Interesting article and interesting discussion. I have to admit that I refused to see anything past the first film--but I *have* actually read all the books. I think I would have loved them when I was eighteen. Having read them at the age of twenty-nine...ugh. On the article author's remarks a...