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Pagans have persisted throughout the Christian era in Europe. In fact organized Christianity as we know it did not reach parts of Europe until 1000 years into the Christian calendar.

Pagan influences on modern society can be seen in various rituals such as Hallowe'en. Even the phrase Hocus Pocus is believed to be a pagan corruption of the Latin Phrase Hoc est enim corpus meum (This is truly my body)

Aww, Pagan and Abin... feel the !!

ARRRRRRGGGGGGGG!!!!!!

DIE YOU BASTICH THREAD!!!!!

DIE, DIE, DIE!!!!!

(You have activated the Auto-reply feature of Abin's Computer, on your head lie the consequences!)
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Uh, did Abin and Pagan Lass have a tiff last night?

I think Abin and Pagan are fine.

Mebbe i should put the poor man back in the strait-jacket again...

Caliente asked how I valued my relationship with her at 100 tera-spacebucks.

While I do wish to once again assert my Genius, I feel that a full description of the Black-Scholes real options methodology would be beyond the audience in this thread. Instead, I will give a brief summary here, those interested may look up Black-Scholes on the internet for a more detailed treatment.


I built a probability tree containing all the possible terminal conditions of my relationship with Caliente over 64,000 in all.

Then I calculated the relative probablities of each terminal condition using a variety of Bayesian statistical techniques.

Then I discounted the terminal condition using the the estimated risk-free rate-of-return for investments on Legion World (Ie LW Central Bank Bonds.)

Summing this and making the adjustments I arrived at an option price of 30 tera-space bucks which I added 70 tera-SB to compensate for my pain and suffering and extreme emotional distress.

Huh. I wasn't aware evil people suffered emotional distress. Or is it a kermit-thing? You know, i't's not easy being green' and all that jazz.

Also, you are a very, very large dork. To do all that work. Geek.

There are delegates to the constitutional convention who will testify to my extreme emotional distress this morning.


And really it was no work at all, it's all a matter of having the proper Excel Templates.

1st of all if you do go through with suing me I could just counter-sue and I have a better leg to stand on since she was my fiance to begin with. Your ego inflated the "relationship" to more than it was.

I think you've all been infected by some kind of reality TV virus.

I should have moved to Jersey.

*snerk* Because obviously that's the lesser of two evils...

Really? I heard something about that from Cali - she said you smelled.

And, like I said before, 'Geek.'

FTR you have no case, she seduced me. The record will show I rejected her advance once, but the second time was just too much it was the evil cheerleader thing.

Reality TV? Well I have thought about trying out for The Real World a few times.

Of course Luna, Bast and those other interfering harpies didnt help matters either, TL

Out of curiosity, what's stopping you?

I was under Pagan Lasses influence!! And if you were so disinterested, why're you the one who's all wrecked?

No camcorder to make a audition tape. Also the chances I might have to go on Road Rules instead. Some of the stuff they do on that show is a bit nutty.

Does Road Rules still exist? Haven't seen ads for it in a while.

I think it does but I then I don't watch MTV as much as I used to.

How about the follow-up...Road Rage - the affliction that anybody can catch!

Eighteen hours without a post is long enough. I see that there was talk of video tape so I want to revisit the age of video tape.

Picture it... Sony Headquarters, ca. 1975. The age of colour television is now in full swing around the world. Thanks to your expertise in electronics you are about to pass the US TV manufacturers who have spent the last decade not improving their electronics but by buying cabinet makers. (Younger readers will not remember that TVs in North America were once considered furniture.) You want to create a device to make it easy to record images. Tape machines had been used in professional settings for almost a decade.

You decide to do things the Japanese way and invite all you competitors in to the design meeting. You settle on a compact cassette format, utilizing analog helical scan technology. You invent the Betamax. Your competitors are excited, they take samples back to the their HQs for their R&D freaks to look at. They anxiously work on Betamax machines of their own.


Picture it... Sony Headquarters, 1985. The Video Wars are winding down. What happened, everything was lining up their way, but Betamax is dying. How did we get here?

Coz of a little innovation called VHS?

i wasn't talking about this thread.