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#261 Bhurnae

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Posted 02 July 2008 - 07:51 AM

Matriarch.......find a start point or person that interests you...then by the time you have tracked sons/daughters/predecessors it starts to hang together......The War of the Roses is a big bag of fun in those respects......Top Tip Dont read anything without a UK map beside you and get used to the scale of this tiny island.
and Welcome

Mezla PigDog, on 28 September 2009 - 09:34 PM, said:

I have been entertaining tourists for many years now.... A girls gotta make a living.

#262 Matriarch

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Posted 03 July 2008 - 04:05 AM

Yeah... British history is a bit like the history of the Malazan Empire. No idea who was there first or what happened in the meantime.... Thanks for the input.

#263 Bhurnae

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Posted 03 July 2008 - 05:15 AM

Hint*
Willie Willie Harry Stee
Harry Dick John Harry three;
One two three Neds, Richard two
Harrys four five six....then who?
Edwards four five, Dick the bad,
Harrys (twain), Ned six (the lad);
Mary, Bessie, James you ken,
Then Charlie, Charlie, James again...
Will and Mary, Anna Gloria,
Georges four, Will four Victoria;
Edward seven next, and then
Came George the fifth in nineteen ten;
Ned the eighth soon abdicated
Then George six was coronated;
After which Elizabeth
And that's all folks until her death.
http://www.britannia...history/h6.html

Mezla PigDog, on 28 September 2009 - 09:34 PM, said:

I have been entertaining tourists for many years now.... A girls gotta make a living.

#264 Matriarch

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Posted 05 July 2008 - 07:53 PM

That is so clever, and utter nonsense at the same time! Yay Britain!

Thanks for the web-site link. I added it to my favorites.

And as for Queen... yeah, not so much.

#265 caladanbrood

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Posted 05 July 2008 - 08:36 PM

Matriarch;345031 said:

Yay Britain!

I like this one already

O xein', angellein Lakedaimoniois hoti têde; keimetha tois keinon rhémasi peithomenoi.

#266 Gem Windcaster

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Posted 05 July 2008 - 09:29 PM

RaZjInSaR;342002 said:

@gem: everything comes out on an emulator eventually! it should be interesting to see it played on a keyboard ^^, I imagine it would be way cool

or you could just come you know.. come to brisbane and play with us bunch of randoms

I'll take you up on that.

_ In the dark I play the night, like a tune vividly fright_
So light it blows, at lark it goes _
invisible indifferent sight_

#267 RaZjInSaR

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Posted 06 July 2008 - 08:03 AM

broodling of the squish.... poor poor man/boy/creature! you need no new brit lovers! where are all the aus new members gone

we need some caring for also

@gem *is held to that* >.> give it a few years

ps: best sig ever gem

#268 Idkillthemule

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Posted 06 July 2008 - 08:17 AM

Hello everybloody(Benny Hill reference for all the recent Anglophiles here). I was a history major in college many a moon ago. I kinda remember a paper I wrote in high school about Charles I, if I remember correctly, he was the only English king ever beheaded. I think it had something to do with all the fighting he was doing with parliament about taxes.

Just introducing myself. I remember buying GotM several years back and I just could not get into it. I am an avid reader and have not put down many books without finishing them ever. So confusing and boring to begin with. The confusing part I probably could have dealt with, but boring not so much. I came back because of a certain RJ site and I think you know the one. So I tried again and after plodding along for the first 150 or 200 pages I got into it. The thing is, only after the first re-read can you even begin to understand the sheer complexity of this series. No other series I can think of has the scope of this one.

So from now on I will probably be a lurker here. Why, I only post while drunk and I've had a few. But hope to continue getting all the inside info and insights from y'all( did that just identify me as a Texan?)

By the way, I chose my name because I think it is the best joke punchline ever. Granted, it takes several books before it makes sense, so you can't ever really use it as a real joke, but in this site it should be fine.

#269 Andy_is

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Posted 06 July 2008 - 01:16 PM

sup newcomers

#270 Shiara

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Posted 08 July 2008 - 07:00 AM

WB Saint Chains!

@ Raz: *hugs

And welcome all noobs! Don't drink the water :eek:

*casting the shaved knuckle*

#271 Raymond Luxury Yacht

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Posted 08 July 2008 - 07:19 AM

Or the kool-aid!

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#272 Shurque's biatch

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Posted 08 July 2008 - 02:44 PM

Raymond Luxury Yacht;346635 said:

Or the kool-aid!

WUT? that was kool-aid?

Welcome padawans...

"Piss on Hood!" ~Roach

#273 Grayjay

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Posted 09 July 2008 - 04:03 AM

Well I've just found out about the MBotF series in the past month or so. Having seen GotM in my local Chapters with its UK cover not that boring US one.

I Picked it up and after strugglely through the first bit, eventually became hooked. SO far I've finished it and DhG and am over half way through Memories of Ice

#274 Centzon Totochtin

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Posted 09 July 2008 - 04:28 AM

welcome grayjay

wow at this rate you will have read them all before me! I am on House of Chains right now, I better pick up my act!

That Elephant is looking rather frayed at the edges

#275 Terminus Est

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Posted 09 July 2008 - 04:38 AM

Shiara;346616 said:

WB Saint Chains!

@ Raz: *hugs

And welcome all noobs! Don't drink the water :eek:

Thank you, it's good to be back

#276 Freya

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Posted 09 July 2008 - 11:41 AM

Hi all!

I've been lurking on these forums for a while now but have never actually posted anything before. I'm a huge Malazan fan and am currently a couple of hundred pages through Toll the Hounds. I'm finally posting something today because I'm going to Steven Erikson's booksigning in Milton Keynes today and can barely contain my excitement!!!!