Agent327
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Not really. I am not at home in aussie kiddie TV.
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- Thread starter AyeMatey
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Not really. I am not at home in aussie kiddie TV.
DeletedUser31440
Back in the days of yore, there was a Christmas gathering attended by a few authors. Now in those days the interwebs and booby tube did not yet exist, so in order to pass the time while waiting for their cookies and milk to be stolen said authors had a small contest. They broke up their party of 4 into 2 groups of 2 and each group was given a writing prompt with which they could be base a poem. Two of those authors, Mr. Percy Bysshe Shelley and one Horace Smith were given the inscription of an Ancient Egyptian statue, "King of Kings Ozymandias am I. If any want to know how great I am and where I lie, let him outdo me in my work.". From said inscription two poems were born, I have chosen Mr. Shelley's version as the namesake for my playing time here in FoE. If you'd like to read the whole thing it can be found below.
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert... near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal these words appear:
'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings;
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
DeletedUser31440
It is a nice poem, but alas I think you are mistaken on the poet's identity. Would you like to hear another poem?
DeletedUser31440
Ok, well when you get hungry for more let me know, I've got a good one on standby.
DeletedUser31440
Shelley does have a way with words, would you like to hear Horace Smith's poem based off the same prompt?
DeletedUser31440
Ok, we'll keep the poetic exposure to baby steps, just let me know when you're ready for the next one.
DeletedUser31440
EST?
DeletedUser31440
DAVT so EST -12 right?
DeletedUser31440
@Agent327 I'm going to be taking a few weeks hiatus from the forums, but before I go incommunicado I wanted to share a poem with you. Take from it what you will, or ignore it if you wish, but regardless it'll be here waiting for you. Hope you're still around in a few weeks so we can pick up from where we left off.
The Bridge Builder
by Will Allen Dromgoole
An old man going a lone highway,
Came, at the evening cold and gray,
To a chasm vast and deep and wide.
Through which was flowing a sullen tide
The old man crossed in the twilight dim,
The sullen stream had no fear for him;
But he turned when safe on the other side
And built a bridge to span the tide.
“Old man,” said a fellow pilgrim near,
“You are wasting your strength with building here;
Your journey will end with the ending day,
You never again will pass this way;
You’ve crossed the chasm, deep and wide,
Why build this bridge at evening tide?”
The builder lifted his old gray head;
“Good friend, in the path I have come,” he said,
“There followed after me to-day
A youth whose feet must pass this way.
This chasm that has been as naught to me
To that fair-haired youth may a pitfall be;
He, too, must cross in the twilight dim;
Good friend, I am building this bridge for HIM!”
The Bridge Builder
by Will Allen Dromgoole
An old man going a lone highway,
Came, at the evening cold and gray,
To a chasm vast and deep and wide.
Through which was flowing a sullen tide
The old man crossed in the twilight dim,
The sullen stream had no fear for him;
But he turned when safe on the other side
And built a bridge to span the tide.
“Old man,” said a fellow pilgrim near,
“You are wasting your strength with building here;
Your journey will end with the ending day,
You never again will pass this way;
You’ve crossed the chasm, deep and wide,
Why build this bridge at evening tide?”
The builder lifted his old gray head;
“Good friend, in the path I have come,” he said,
“There followed after me to-day
A youth whose feet must pass this way.
This chasm that has been as naught to me
To that fair-haired youth may a pitfall be;
He, too, must cross in the twilight dim;
Good friend, I am building this bridge for HIM!”
DeletedUser3882
Oooooooooooooooo!!!!
“Aaaaand on this Bridge, I go a-walkin’...
Head reverberating with all the smack-a-talkin’....
I look down before me and what do I see?
A wonderful overlook that I can sit and rest my feet....
But with so many words of ice as far as one can see...
This place I plant my feet has become dangerously slippery...
Now, before I fall and tell you the rest...
Let me tell you what I think is best!
A few weeks or more with no AgentOzy smack-a-talkin’...
So we all can breathe easy, and get back to just a’ Bridge walkin’!”
<drops mic...>
“Aaaaand on this Bridge, I go a-walkin’...
Head reverberating with all the smack-a-talkin’....
I look down before me and what do I see?
A wonderful overlook that I can sit and rest my feet....
But with so many words of ice as far as one can see...
This place I plant my feet has become dangerously slippery...
Now, before I fall and tell you the rest...
Let me tell you what I think is best!
A few weeks or more with no AgentOzy smack-a-talkin’...
So we all can breathe easy, and get back to just a’ Bridge walkin’!”
<drops mic...>
Mustapha00
Well-Known Member
I'm looking forward to this new feature, no doubt, but wondering a couple of things:
1) should you lose connection with your buildings in storage, I am hoping that they will stay there and not go >poof!<. I can recall back in the day playing EverQuest and, if you lost your connection in the middle of a transaction of any sort, you lost whatever you were exchanging.
2) what is to prevent this from being a sort of giant Store Building? My only guess is that you have to place everything that you stores before you can hit "save" (or maybe you can use a Store Building on something that is in "storage").
1) should you lose connection with your buildings in storage, I am hoping that they will stay there and not go >poof!<. I can recall back in the day playing EverQuest and, if you lost your connection in the middle of a transaction of any sort, you lost whatever you were exchanging.
2) what is to prevent this from being a sort of giant Store Building? My only guess is that you have to place everything that you stores before you can hit "save" (or maybe you can use a Store Building on something that is in "storage").
DeletedUser12620
Can we change our city expansions also?