Let us compare mythologies and movies

[the guy who be short]

I have to attack the prevailing prejudice against verticals, without which such important things as cartography and mechanics could not exist.

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Would be just as good. But let us not forget diagonals, with which Esty could demonstrate the potential trajectory of anybody to be expelled from this thread.

........./.........\
......./.............\
...../.................\
.../.....................\
./.........................\

And who said a line has to be straight anyway?

./..........................___
|........................./......\
.\.......^...............\__
...\__/....\__^............\
....................\....____/
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Is not only just as good, but expresses an unpredictability that, coupled with a threat, would be sure to strike fear into the hearts of those who dare chat.

[Aiwendil]

And who said a line has to be straight anyway?

Euclid.

[Thenamir]

Originally Posted by The Ghosted Princess

the current subject is so far off-topic...

Hmmm...I guess to bring the thread back on topic, I'd have to respond as follows:

??

[Bêthberry]

Originally Posted by tgwbs

And who said a line has to be straight anyway?

Originally Posted by Aiwendil

Euclid.

Memory's a bit dim of my math days, but didn't he merely define a line rather than prove its nature?

Originally Posted by Thenamir

Hmmm...I guess to bring the thread back on topic, I'd have to respond as follows:

??

I suspect that the attempted Tolkien subtopic of bellybuttons was getting too close to the delicate condition of our Moddess's most famous Tolkien RPG character, MeriSue, who is, as some Downers may not know, in a certain condition. Perhaps we may combine both the original topic and my attempted Tolkien related topic (which is a very serious question, as it has concerned generations of historians of Western Art in their deliberations over the depictions of Adam and Eve).

I bet in her current condition MeriSue's bellybutton would look so:

(*)

[alatar]

Originally Posted by Thenamir

Hmmm...I guess to bring the thread back on topic, I'd have to respond as follows:

??

Don't you mean ?????, as, technically, there were five Istari - men with staves, or crooks.

But, as an update, maybe we should have ?¿¬¬¬ , as only Gandalf stayed true, Saruman's dead, and no one knows what happened to the two true blue or the brownie.

With that said, what would ! be?

[Fordim Hedgethistle]

~

[The Saucepan Man]

To take this thread off at a slight tangent, but on a point nevertheless referable to the original post, if one points one's mouse at the title of this thread on the Active Topics page (assuming the standard mouse pointer scheme), one can give one's link select pointer a nice cuff with a cufflink. Make it dressed up for dinner as 'twere.

Just thought that I'd mention it, in case anyone found it relevant to the topic ...

[Aiwendil]

Originally Posted by Bethberry

Memory's a bit dim of my math days, but didn't he merely define a line rather than prove its nature?

Exactly.