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Regeneration
Type: Power
Requirements: Novice, Vigor d8+, Tager
In addition to providing all those nifty powers, your Tager Symbiote also accelerates your rate of healing. You make a natural healing roll every day instead of every five days.

Improved Regeneration
Type: Power
Requirements: Heroic, Regeneration
Your symbiote can get you patched up in a hurry, allowing you to make a natural healing roll every four hours.

Unfortunately my trips to the grocery earlier this week have found them out of stock of my favorite varieties of Sam Adams. I'm instead settling for this stuff called Hornsby's Hard Cider (hard cider being an all-American kind of beverage).

Here's a quiz I came across which features questions from the citizenship test taken by legal immigrants.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25461301/

If the person who assembled this genuinely thinks these were the harder questions, then he/she/it must be among those citizenship dunces. I mean, they were easy (got them all right).

Next time some arrogant British snot declares that American independence should be revoked, remind them that they should prove capable of keeping their own backyard in line before making such asinine statements.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080621/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_britain_island_independence

According to some others I've directed to this, the guy's rationale is actually semi-legit.

Today is Dave Barry's birthday. He's 61.

The Big Read thinks the average adult has only read six of the top 100 books they've printed below.

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read only six and force books upon them.

( Literary wackiness awaits )

I got eleven, or twelve if you insist on counting the redundent 36. Not too bad.

Episode: A Plan for Gussie
Writer: Clive Exton
Season: 2
Adapted From: The Code of the Woosters
Ranking: 4 out of 5

Recently, Gussie has been displaying an uncharacteristic amount of confidence, even going so far as to tell off Spode. When Bertie asks about this, Gussie reveals that it's all thanks to Jeeves. Getting married to Madeline means that he'll be in regular contact with both Bassett and Spode, which is not suitable to someone with a meek temperament such as his. So Jeeves advises that, when encountering such intimidating persons, to fill his mind with thoughts of their character defects. This technique has worked like a dream. But rather foolishly, Gussie had also written these in a notebook so that he wouldn't forget them. And wouldn't you know, he's lost it. The last time he definitely remembers having it was when he played tennis with Stiffy earlier that day. She does indeed have the notebook but unfortunately is in a spiteful mood. This is because Stinker had balked at her request for him to prove his love to her by stealing the helmet of Constable Oates (whom Stiffy is on poor terms with). When Gussie attempts to take it from Stiffy forcefully, Madeline walks in the middle of it and gets the wrong impression. As a result, she breaks off the engagement and Bertie's single lifestyle is once again in jeopardy. In hopes of getting Stiffy to return the notebook, Jeeves offers a solution to the problem of Bassett's refusal to let her marry Stinker because he's a curate. The plan is for Bertie to go up to Bassett and say he wishes to marry Stiffy. Bassett is sure to be horrified by such an announcement and would likely find Stinker preferable in comparison.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bRa8M1-hqw

http://www.mutantreviewers.com/rdisney.html

Episode: Jeeves Saves the Cow-Creamer
Writer: Clive Exton
Season: 2
Adapted From: The Code of the Woosters
Ranking: 5 out of 5

Bertie gets a visit from his Aunt Dahlia who has a task for him. Recently, Uncle Tom had reserved an 18th Century silver cream jug in the shape of a cow at an antique shop in Bond Street for purchase to add to his silver collection. Aunt Dahlia wishes for Bertie to go down and make derisive remarks about its quality, so as to shame the proprietor into lowering the price. Jeeves further advises that he should imply that it looks to be modern Dutch work, which could cause the proprietor to practically give it away. But while at the shop, Bertie has the misfortune to run into Sir Watkin Basset (the judge who had fined Bertie five quid for stealing a constable's helmet on Boat Race Night) and his pal Sir Roderick Spode, who is the leader of a Fascist group called the Black Shorts (that is not a misspelling). Due to an unfortunate set of circumstances, Bassett comes to believe that Bertie was attempting to rob the shop. After Bertie makes his escape, Bassett takes notice of the cow creamer and falsely claims to be representing Uncle Tom and buys it. Naturally Aunt Dahlia is enraged and insists that Bertie go to the Bassett country estate of Totleigh Towers and steal it back. What with the unfortunate incident at the antique shop, he's not inclined to do any such thing. But events are conspiring against him. A telegram is received from Gussie Fink-Nottle, who is engaged to Bassett's daughter Madeline. Though it doesn't go into specifics, apparently something had happened which caused Madeline to break off the engagement. As she operates under the delusion that Bertie pines for her, his cherished bachelorhood is in peril if measures aren't taken. Once he arrives at Totleigh though, it's all blown over. Apparently Madeline had gotten the impression that Gussie had been making advances on her cousin Stephanie "Stiffy" Byng, but it was simple misunderstanding. It could still go wrong though. As it happens, Stiffy is in love with Harold "Stinker" Pinker, the curate at the local parish. However, Bassett (to whom Stiffy is ward to) refuses to permit the two to marry. So she gets the idea to have Bertie steal the cow creamer and Stinker will waylay him, thus earning Bassett's gratitude. Bertie is completely against it, as Spode has already threatened him with violence if the cow creamer disappears. However, Stiffy informs him that if he doesn't play along, she'll tell Madeline that Gussie really had been getting fresh with her. It's all very troubling.

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For those who haven't seen it, here is Much Ado About Nothing performed by Daleks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-p9I64E_1X4

What next? The Master as MacBeth? Romeo and Juliet with Cybermen? Omega as Othello? The mind boggles.

Edit: The spell check suggested that the proper spelling for Cybermen is semen.