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Case in point. Where's the setting for those of us who are above the age of 12?

That feces is fornicating silly as heck.

I'll admit I was exaggerating for parody's sake, but yes, one of the arguments you often hear is that Shakespeare, being born as one of the Great Unwashed, couldn't possibly have possessed the intricate historical knowledge to write plays where, for instance, 8th century Danes quoted Christian...

Alright, so if I understand this right, I'm supposed to issue a new challenge? ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ NEW CHALLENGE RUNNING FROM: 10AM GMT MONDAY 8 JULY to 10AM GMT MONDAY 15 JULY ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^...

I think it came out in English just a week ago or so. I read it in Swedish, it's been out over here for a few months.

Mmmm. Chemical soup.

We have a thread for that. And as always, I'd be interested in hearing exactly what evidence there is, that hasn't already been disproved a dozen times... most of the time, the authorship question seems to boil down to "Non-noblemen were STUPID until the 19th century, so as long as we don't have...

Whee! Thanks! So where do I pick up my million dollars? :)

Well, Marlowe might have. Since he was dead by the time Shakespeare wrote his best work, he probably had little to fear from the queen by then. :P

Thanks! I was actually pretty surprised at how rundown this place was (and how easy it was to get in). It only closed about 5 years ago, and it already looks like something out of Stalker...

Yeah, but now they can finally make it official. :) The Star Wars prequels summed up in one image:

In 1913, exactly 100 years ago, several well-established thinkers agreed that the world had seen the last major war. There was simply nothing to be gained from a war at this point; all countries were so dependent on trading with each other, while at the same time not trusting each other enough...

OK, so for the Hunger Games challenge I went on some urban exploration. This was taken at an abandoned water park in Stockholm, that has a certain "forbidden zone" vibe, complete with barb-wire fences with holes in them: I like the "STAND" and the nettles breaking through the floor.

There's no way a lizard would base a song on Voltaire's Candide.

Two short ones: William Beckford, Vathek (1786) Fun, if slight, over the top gothic pastiche of Doctor Faustus as filtered through every orientalist cliche you can imagine. Of course it's blazingly racist, but then again, so's Lovecraft and that's not the only connection between the two - ol'...

The Guardian: Are Children's Books Darker Than They Used To Be?

Fine by me. :) I'll just leave my post up there asking for more concrete examples up there, then, for anyone who's interested; it's very hard to google exactly what evidence it is you're claiming doesn't exist when you're flat-out denying the existence of any evidence at all, despite it being...

I expect acting in a good horror movie. If they'd advertised it as "crap slasher" rather than "for people who liked Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer" I'd have adjusted my expectations accordingly.

Awww.

Um, nobody you've quoted has said that there are no gaps anywhere in the evolutionary timeline. Since the fossil record isn't complete, of course there are gaps - though funnily enough, every time a new fossil is discovered, it tends to fit right where the theory of evolution predicts that it...