#woe - scotsman be upon ye!!!

[wanlingnic]

A veteran medic, Dr Rian Knox (Rhinox) has the most years of combat experience. You don’t work for the Maximals as long as he has without blood on your hands - it’s why he’s content to be nothing more than Optimus’ advisor on this mission Dr Knox spends most of his free time tending to his bonsai and collecting horticultural samples from No-Man’s Land... that’s when he’s not patching up the younger Maximals in emergency surgery.

More humanformers here: Optimus Primal | Cheetor, Rattrap and Dinobot

[armadillodarling]

DND Original Bar Song

Bawdy Bar Song Original

"PRETTY MAID"

(to the tune of Scotsman's Kilt)

A Dwarf an Elf an A Human Man all came to the bar last night All three of them were jolly friends not lookin for a fight They drank and they made marry, and did sing and drink some more That is until the prettiest maid in town walked through the door

Ring die-diddle-eye-die-de-oh Ring die-diddle-eye do That is until the prettiest maid in town walked through the door.

This lass is fair, with golden hair, and she did catch their eye And so between the three of them they decided they would try And place a bet and wager, which the lass would fancy Best the Dwarf, the Elf, the Human Man, would put her to the test

Ring die-diddle-eye-die-de-oh Ring die-diddle-eye do the Dwarf, the Elf, the Human Man, would put her to the test

The Dwarf went first for he was bold as brass as he could be And said, "Sweet maid I thought that you could use some company For Darvish have a talent for finding hidden gems it's true and you'll be quite surprise at what these Darvish hands can do"

Ring die-diddle-eye-die-de-oh Ring die-diddle-eye do "you'll be quite surprise at what these Darvish hands can do"

Well shocked the maid did turn away, and she did turn bright red But before success could go much farther than the Dwarf-man's head She Said, "tis such a shame that dwarves are in such short supply I'd go with ye, but I'm afraid you'd not reach up that high"

Ring die-diddle-eye-die-de-oh Ring die-diddle-eye do "I'd go with ye, but I'm afraid you'd not reach up that high"

Turned away, the Dwarf returned to his friends to drink his woes And for the pretty maid, the other two would have their goes A final pint for courage and the Human man did rise And staggered over across the bar where he could see his prize

Ring die-diddle-eye-die-de-oh Ring die-diddle-eye do And staggered over across the bar where he could see his prize

"Oh, pretty maid," the man did say, with a slur upon his lips "I ne're seen a girl so fair, from yer hair to yer ample hips, A kiss from you, and I would be just such the Gentleman An' I'll be twice as mum if it was you an' your sweet twin"

Ring die-diddle-eye-die-de-oh Ring die-diddle-eye do "An' I'll be twice as mum if it was you an' your sweet twin"

The pretty maid did turn away, for she was quite unamused. Said "Sir you've had your drink so I suppose you are excused, No sisters I, but brothers. And each bigger than the last. An' if your seeing double, I doubt you'd even get half mast"

Ring die-diddle-eye-die-de-oh Ring die-diddle-eye do "If you're seeing double, I doubt you'd even get half mast"

The Man returned back to his friends, with tail between his legs Set to drown his sorrows with what remained of bitter dregs And only one was left of them, that hadn't tried their luck to charm the pretty maid that they had set their minds to … pluck

Ring die-diddle-eye-die-de-oh Ring die-diddle-eye do To charm the pretty maid that they had set their minds to … pluck

Finally, the Elvish man did stand to take his chance and gracefully moved cross the bar to ask her for a dance "For dancing is quite similar to something else indeed, and I've got years of experience to give you what you need"

Ring die-diddle-eye-die-de-oh Ring die-diddle-eye do "I've got years of experience to give you what you need"

The pretty maid looked up at him and her smile was not coy And said to him, "this better be not some silly foolish ploy, For I've heard what a wonder elvish stamina can be. And if not, well, in 100 years, you'll still remember me"

Ring die-diddle-eye-die-de-oh Ring die-diddle-eye do And if not, in 100 years, you'll still remember me!"

[jolie-guerrier]

British Prime Minister Gambling's Latest Antichrist? Oh Please

As a journalist with respected website Poker Pages and co-presenter of a display on Holdem Radio, Amy Calistri is virtually no mug however her current assessment of Gordon Brown's U-turn on supercasinos indicates that she is aware of Vegas rather higher than she does the shires of Britain  cach tinh lo de mien nam One of Prime Minister Brown's first acts upon succeeding Tony Blair ultimate month turned into to correctly consign to the scrapheap the Labour authorities's proposals for a wave of British supercasinos. In Ms Calistri's eyes, this places the Scotsman firmly alongside US Senator Bill Frist in the playing corridor of shame. Frist it turned into who drove the debatable Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act into life in 2006, correctly imposing a ban upon on-line poker.

"The UK has its very own gambling Dark Ages' poster boy..." Calistri rages in a Poker News article on July twenty fourth. "The UK's gaming reform experiment was seven years inside the making and became poised to be an interesting counterpoint to modern US policy. But what took seven years to plot took one guy only 4 months to resolve. And in that context, the United Kingdom's gaming policy revel in is beginning to replicate our own; the workout of 1 guy's will." At least Calistri sets out her own schedule early within the report, mentioning that, pre-Brown, "The global envy of US playing minded residents and loose market philosophers was heightened through the United Kingdom's apparent rational reaction to on line gaming; looking for to legislate and regulate the terrain." Okay, so in case you're a laissez-faire capitalist, Brown's intervention is heavy-passed and regrettable. People far greater qualified than me in economics, however, could debate both aspects of the unfastened market hot potato all night.

Where Calistri simply wanders from truth, however, is in lumping Brown together with Frist as the villains of the piece and painting a image of the British Premier as a dinosaur out of step with the Society around him.

Amy, you need to visit Britain for a while. If I inform you that protecting my u . S . A .'s present day Government comes as without problems to me as advocating the abolition of Christmas, you may get an idea of how extensive of the mark I think you have got strayed.

Far from Gordon Brown isolating himself with his decision to sideline the supercasinos, I doubt that there was any better way he should have ingratiated himself along with his electorate. The simplest humans captivated with the casino growth within the UK were people who stood to pocket maximum of the income. Even as online gambling booms this side of the Atlantic, the impetus for supercasinos right here has been generated solely by way of Labour politicians, disturbing to ingratiate their celebration with all people with money to spend, regardless of how it is able to be generated.

We have already got modest however successful casinos inside the UK, you notice, along side criminal sportsbooks ('bookmakers', we decide upon to name them in Britain) and felony online gaming. So properly catered for are we, indeed, that the most effective issue that comes close to irking your regular Brit gambler proper now is the prison minefield he enters with the aid of gambling poker in his local bar. Even there, compromise is being reached and development made.

So with their playing urges already sorted, there has in no way been any high-quality clamour for supercasinos amongst Britons. On the contrary, in fact. At coronary heart, most of the people this side of the Pond, I suspect, sense extra cozy with playing as a sideline activity in our cities than as one of the cornerstones of that buzz phrase 'urban regeneration'.

Forgive us if we're cynical in the direction of the perception of towns being revitalised with the aid of playing. It's just that we read about protest marches in Macau, whose own casino boom has supposed difficulty for the poorer sections of the populace, who locate rents and property costs spiralling beyond their way. Or is not 'regeneration' intended to use to them?

Then we read the censure of Louisiana's civic leaders inside the leader column of a neighborhood newspaper, when they too sought the 'regeneration' dollar:

"Louisiana officers frittered away the Nineteen Nineties by means of specializing in expansion of diverse styles of playing as a therapy for Louisiana's monetary woes. Alas, playing has now not delivered the promised pot of gold on the quit of the rainbow, and Louisiana keeps to lag tons of the united states in economic development. "Louisiana could be tons higher off today if we had spent the beyond decade taking note of more fundamental reforms to develop enterprise, which includes investing in training, reforming our tax laws, streamlining state government and dramatically tightening our ethics code."

We examine, we contemplate and we suppose "no thanks". In our Old Country gamblers' hearts, we realize that even as Las Vegas may call us like Mecca, it isn't dubbed 'Sin City' for nothing - "the flashiest, blackest hollow inside the universe," poker blogger Pauly calls it. When its promoters inform us that there is only one Vegas, we utter a subconscious 'Amen'. All Gordon Brown has performed is trap this temper and supply it voice; some thing of which his wretched predecessor (yes, America: you have him totally incorrect, too) become singularly incapable.

He has not piggy-backed sick-conceived rules on the shoulders of port security measures he knew were guaranteed safe passage. He has not ushered in his whims under the nostril of a snoozing nation within the dead of night time. He could no longer have us accept as true with that whilst a few varieties of online gambling are the paintings of Satan, others - which simply show up to be followed via lobbying muscle or the whiff of vested pursuits - are as natural as the pushed snow.