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Okay,

First time experience with a bidet?

When I was about 16, I answered a phone call from an older lady who was a friend of my mother's. She was a nice lady and I would always chat with her for a moment when she would call before I handed her to Mother. I had just gone on a school trip, so when she asked what was new with me, I told her. She then told me about a trip to Europe she took once. Her hotel room had a bidet, though she couldn't remember what it was called. She told me that it was so nice to sit on it when she had her "time that ladies have." With a beet-red face, I handed mother the receiver.

First time experience with TMI?

We still talk about that call. It was epic.

"Calling Miss Khadija" is a classic Hard Bop track from drummer/bandleader Art Blakey's Indestructible LP. It was recorded in 1964 and composed by Blakey's trumpeter, Lee Morgan.

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I was unfamiliar with "Hard bop", so I looked it up. Wikipedia defines it thus:
Hard bop is a style of jazz that is an extension of bebop (or "bop") music. Journalists and record companies began using the term in the mid-1950s to describe a new current within jazz which incorporated influences from rhythm and blues, gospel music, and blues, especially in saxophone and piano playing.

The critic Whitney Balliet once dismissed Hard Bop as merely the "dull child" of Bop (the groundbreaking work of musicians like Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and Mary Lou Williams).

Balliet was kind of a yutz.

And Be-bop lead to rock-n-roll then to hard rock then to metal!!

On The Golden Girls, Sophia would often describe her ex-son-in-law as a yutz. I always thought it would have been more in keeping with the character to have used something Italian.

I do have one CD by Magnus Rosen (metal guitarist) and Biggi Vinkeloe (jazz wind player). It has some overtones of both genres. I wouldn't call it a favorite but it does have some interesting moments.

Scandium, titanium, vanadium and chromium are transition metals.

And Veridium, which is the name Doc Will Magnus took once upon a time when he was transformed into a Metal Man, is NOT a real element at all.

Seriously, as an (occasional) fan-writer, I need a comprehensive list of all the pretend metals. The RL Periodic Table by itself is not enough. How's a fan to go about inventing a fictitious element if she has to constantly worry that she's stealing one which somebody else already invented?

There's the List of fictional elements/ isotopes etc. if that helps

Ah, good ol' Wikipedia. Some of my librarian colleagues don't like it because it isn't "trustworthy", but, frankly, it's as trustworthy as anything else out there and has more coverage for popular culture topics than you'll find anywhere else.

thothkins, that's pretty cool! [bookmarks]

Rocky, I'm not above using wiki for casual research (and glorious photographic eye candy). However, I agree with whoever it was who said that it's kind of rude that they're always hitting people up for cash when millions of users already supply their content free of charge.

I find that it depends what I need to find. If you're treating it as your only source, then best of luck.

But it has been a fun jumping off point on any number of occasions, with plenty of linked information readily available for further reading.

Wikipedia would never be an appropriate source for scholarly research, but no encyclopedia would; on the other hand, for basic informational needs, it's a great resource.

The good things about (well written) wikipedia articles are they are properly sourced, so if you need more info you know where to look

One of the fun things about writing articles for the LMB Wiki is we don't have to cite sources because we are the sources!

I should have saved that groovy picture that Sketch Lad did of me in costume. It would be perfect for my personal "cleome" Wiki page, if I ever made one.

You are The Source? Don't tell me I joined just in time for Darkseid's attack!

No wonder he went after the Legion. He knew The Source was something to do with them, but didn't know about the forums.

Hang on, is Darkseid's attack related to that Red Shirt you guys sent me?

Not exactly, Thothy (You now have a Rocky Nickname®!). The LMB or LMBP (Legion of Message Board Posters) is the shared universe used in role-play and storytelling on this board. In that reality Rockhopper Lad is the Crown Prince on a planet where sentient life evolved from penguins.

I evoled from an octopus...or Zoidberg

There is a Dedman entry, but not one for Viridus Lament. (Hint, hint).