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Both The Chemical Wedding and The X Factor are better than Accident of Birth. Painkiller and Rust in Peace were also released in 90's.
 
1998: Bill Clinton has parents all over America blush when they watch the evening news with their kids, Pol Pot bites the dust and a thousand years of Helmut Kohl end with the election of Gerhard Schröder, the man who turns social democracy into a dirty word. Eurodance finally implodes after Barbie Girl by Aqua hits no 1. Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck save the world from a huge meteorite, the predominant emotion being confusion at the fact that Steve Tyler, the ugliest man alive, fathered his daughter Liv. Blaze Bayley gets a second turn with Iron Maiden, Bruce Dickinson blasts the space-time continuum, and Rob Halford does... this:

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...and I'm off for lunch.
 
I want to check out some death metal bands through Wikipedia/YouTube but I'm scared of the possible artworks. :D I'm a big fan of "audio horror" (creepy music and stuff) but a big hater of "visual horror".
 
For the lingo buffs: Which language was spoken in the ancient Troy?
Check this English article

http://www.kloekhorst.nl/KloekhorstLanguageOfTroy.pdf

by Alwin Kloekhorst, Assistent Professor at Leiden, University Center for Linguistics.
Area of Expertise:
  • Comparative Indo-European Linguistics
  • Hittitology (historical linguistics as well as philology)
  • Historical linguistics and philology of the other Anatolian languages (Luwian, Lycian, Carian, etc.)
 
Good morning!

Seems like we're ahead of schedule - we were supposed to reach 2,000 pages by the end of the year.

EDIT: Post number 30,000 was posted on 30 January 2011 - almost two years for 10,000 posts. I think we can do much better than that.
 
Did you know that 40% of people under the age of 35 are so hooked to the Internet that they take their smartphone, tablet or laptop with them, while using the bathroom?
I've taken my cellphone with me to shower a few times. Not because I need to access Internet while showering, but to use the stopwatch application for counting how long my showering takes. Why? So I could brag to people at IRC how I can shower in under a minute (properly!).
 
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