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Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2003 9:16 am
by Vinny
Come on, put Cid up next week! Pretty please with sugar on top!

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Quote of the week:
"SIT YER ASSES DOWN AND DRINK YER GODDAMN TEA!” – Cid Highwind, FF7
Image of the week:
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Pointless fact of the week:
Three men who killed Sir Edmund Berry were hung for the murder in 1911 at London's Greenberry Hill. Their last names were Green, Berry, and Hill.

Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2003 1:00 pm
by Dee Emm
WHICH ONE??? there's a different one in almost EVERY final fantasy game! (and they're all inventors too!)

Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2003 1:30 pm
by Vinny
FF7 Cid, of course!

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Quote of the week:
“Don’t knock masturbation. It’s sex with someone I love.” – Woody Allen
Image of the week
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Pointless fact of the week:
A flea can jump more than a foot. Comparable to a human leaping over the Washington Monument with plenty to spare.

Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2003 10:45 pm
by AJ Middleton
Belthasar is cool.

RANDOM RELATED FF FACT:
Did you know that Belthasar, Melchoir, and Gaspar are misspellings of the 3 Wise Men who visited Jesus?

A reference: http://ww2.netnitco.net/users/legend01/wisemen.htm

[ January 06, 2003, 08:50 PM: Message edited by: BoltDragoon ]

Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2003 10:58 pm
by imported_Kaeru 7
Chrono Trigger is the reason I know the names of the three wise men in the first place.

Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2003 12:47 am
by Heroine of the Dragon
Pretty cool!

Lots of games draw on some point/names in history. :D

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Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2003 4:01 pm
by Vinny
Shiva: One of the principal Hindu deities, worshiped as the destroyer and restorer of worlds and in numerous other forms. Shiva is often conceived as a member of the triad also including Brahma and Vishnu.

Gilgamesh: The semidivine king of Erech, a city of southern Babylonia, and hero of an epic collection of mythic tales, one of which tells of a flood that covered the earth.

Odin: Ruler of the Aesir; supreme god of war and poetry and knowledge and wisdom (for which he gave an eye) and husband of Frigg; identified with the Teutonic Wotan

Ragnarok: The so-called ``Twilight of the Gods,'' the final destruction of the world in the great conflict between the [AE]sir (gods) on the one hand, and on the other, the giants and the powers of Hel under the leadership of Loki.

Freya: The daughter of Njorth, and goddess of love and beauty; the Scandinavian Venus; in Teutonic myths confounded with Frigga, but in Scandinavian, distinct.

Alexander: Lots of myths there, but I doubt they got him off them

Golem: In Jewish folklore, an artificially created human supernaturally endowed with life.

Bismark: A raised doughnut filled with jelly or jam :D

Leviathan: A monstrous sea creature mentioned in the Bible.

Titan: Greek Mythology. One of a family of giants, the children of Uranus and Gaea, who sought to rule heaven and were overthrown and supplanted by the family of Zeus.

Lucrecia (the real spelling is Lucretia): In Roman legend, a woman who was raped by a son of Tarquinius Superbus and took her own life; this led to the expulsion of the Tarquins from Rome by a rebellion under Brutus.

Hades: The god of the netherworld and dispenser of earthly riches.

Pandora: Greek Mythology. The first woman, bestowed upon humankind as a punishment for Prometheus's theft of fire. Entrusted with a box containing all the ills that could plague people, she opened it out of curiosity and thereby released all the evils of human life.

Quetzalcoatl: A god of the Toltecs and Aztecs, one of the manifestations of the sun god Tezcatlipoca and represented as a plumed serpent.

Eden: The garden of God and the first home of Adam and Eve. Also called Garden of Eden.

There. That's enough for now. Oh, and get Cid for next week.

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Quote of the week:
“Don’t knock masturbation. It’s sex with someone I love.” – Woody Allen
Image of the week:
Image
Pointless fact of the week:
A flea can jump more than a foot. Comparable to a human leaping over the Washington Monument with plenty to spare.

Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2003 11:34 pm
by Dee Emm
Gilgamesh was REALLY taken from The Smurfs!!!

Oh wait, that was GARGAMEL!!!! Oh, my bad.