Extortion [3] (Action)
+1 Action
Choose a Supply pile that is not empty, put 2 Coppers from the Copper pile on top of the chosen pile. Those Coppers has the same cost as the norm card of the chosen pile.
Archway [5] (Action)
Discard any number of Victory or Curse cards; +$1 per each discarded card.
Quarry [6] (Action-Victory)
3 VP
+$3
You may trash this card, then gain a Gold, putting it on top of your deck.
Seriously now though: did we reach any conclusion about whether AdamH could keep saying "full English breakfast" to designate bad luck?
I think dog meat is the perfect example for this discussion. In many countries in Asia, it's a normal staple. But Americans are just horrified.As I understand it, human meat tastes quite a lot like Pork. And those most certainly don't make for cute pets.
Really, a dog is a cute pet, but eating one is no different than eating a pig, which can also be a cute pet.
Are you saying people shouldn't eat pigs? Or dogs? I'm confused.
Right, there is no convenient shorthand to designate English people specifically (limeys?), so I used the ambiguous "brits" in its stead. I apologize for the confusion.
How about "English"?
I thought "English" was either an adjective or the language. I do my best to write grammatically correct posts, when I am not consciously doing the opposite.
EDIT: Muphry's law.
True, many people in England would use "English". However, many foreigners use England/English to refer to Britain/United Kingdom/British, which is why there's confusion.Right, there is no convenient shorthand to designate English people specifically (limeys?), so I used the ambiguous "brits" in its stead. I apologize for the confusion.
How about "English"?
Is that what that's from? I guess that makes sense. I was just enjoying a crying cheerleader.+1 for that GIF
Confirmed: WW (and therefore all of f.ds) is a fan of Glee.
(I somehow stopped following it some time ago, but I'm certain that I will return to it at some point because I am a glutton for punishment like that. Bleh.)
That breakfast looks really disgusting and unhealthy though.
Isn't black pudding, like, literally congealed blood?
I'm really struggling to get my head around the concept of naming a bad thing a "Full English Breakfast".Not sure about good luck, at least for your digestive system. Wikipedia depicts it thusly:
What part of bacon, eggs, tomatoes, mushrooms, sausages, baked beans, hash browns, toast and a cuppa suggests "bad luck" to you?
Also, is any of this +Action, or just a bunch of terminals and draw?
As a cricket and football (soccer) fan I also have a hard time parsing the concept of a hat-trick having a possible negative connotation.That would explain a lot of things, as doubling 3 is obviously 4. No wonder cricket is hard to fathom.
In these sports, four-in-a-row would be called a double hat-trick.
I keep seeing that this discussion has new posts, and I get really excited. Then I click it and this conversation shows up...
Well, what cons are coming up that Adventures could conceivably be released at? There would probably be previews the week before it.Well Goko is a massive con, so maybe there?
(Also:
1. This data doesn't allow parents opportunities to "correct the error". It's just what was filled out on the initial forms, dumped into a database. If people "registered their son Donald as female" and did correct the error, that wouldn't make it into the name file.
2. The Social Security Administration didn't yet exist in 1930, so the 1930 data isn't about how "parents registered their son" in 1930 anyway.)
I would say it's fairly uncommon. I'm 55 and I've only known one other person that went by Donald. Everyone else shortens it to Don, or their legal name is just Don, not Donald.
Obviously, it's me, right?
Here is a graph of how popular it is (taken from here).
I looked up the same thing. The interesting thing to me was that it was very close to cracking top 500 for girls circa 1930
The majority of the "Donald" girls are probably the result of typos—boys named Donald for whom someone accidentally checked the wrong box somewhere along the data-entry chain.
I've never seen the thing on the right, but I own the ones on the left, and there are 8. I don't know why.
Actually, I do know why (read: I have a guess). There is also the trade route mat. There need to be at least 6, one for each player, but 7 is prime, eww. Might as well make there 8 mats so the mats fit nicely in a 3x3 cardboard punch-out.
Adventures apparently only has 6 mats though. What would the rest of the cardboard be for then?
The ones on the right look like Dominion art. Middle left is from the Prosperity box, bottom left is Alchemy, bottom right is Seaside.
Actually, the top two on the image on the left are also from Prosperity/Seaside, matching the ones in the right image. Huh. The one in the middle is from the Intrigue box and bottom left looks like base. Middle right is Vineyards. Middle left looks like a different section of the Seaside box.
Can anybody identify what all the other images are from?
Adventures doesn't have a lone Trade Route map bumping up the number, though, so it can go with 2x3. Prosperity couldn't; that'd mean one Trade Route and five VP mats.
How did Seaside handle the mats thing? The only physical copy I've seen is missing them.
If one of your kids wouldn't look much like you, would you call it Donald XI?The X isn't a Roman numeral, it's a variable. So the real question is, what about Donald Y?
And the answer is no. I like having an uncommon first name and don't want to spoil that by assigning it to more people.
Which metal has the atomic number of 79?XTC - Gold
For me the bonus tracks really make this album (Mummer). It's pretty weak without them. But the bonus tracks are all good. Now if you had gone with say 81, I would have been stuck with
Tom Lehrer - The Elements
XTC - Complicated Game
But, but... Spandau Ballet...
...are there that many references to thallium in popular music?
Are you suggesting that Tom Lehrer is not popular music?
Certainly he is (was? hard to say), but I was surprised that any other song, ever, had mentioned thallium. Then again, the lyrics for Complicated Game dont' appear to actually involve thallium, and I have no idea what Spandau Ballet song is being referenced, nor what the heck Ozle is talking about.
