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Friday, 25 August, 2006 by Nameless
You carefully open  
the chestDantes rapidly cleared away the earth around the chest.  Soon
the center lock appeared, then the handles at each end, all
delicately wrought in the manner of that period when art made
precious even the basest of metals. He took the chest by the
two handles and tried to lift it, but it was impossible. He
tried to open it; it was locked. He inserted the sharp end
of his pickaxe between the chest and the lid and pushed down
on the handle. The lid creaked, then flew open.
Dantes was seized with a sort of giddy fever. He cocked his
gun and placed it beside him. The he closed his eyes like a
child, opened them and stood dumbfounded.
The chest was divided into three compartments. In the first
were shining gold coins. In the second, unpolished gold
ingots packed in orderly stacks. From the third compartment,
which was half full, Dantes picked up handfuls of diamonds,
pearls and rubies. As they fell through his fingers in a
glittering cascade, they gave forth the sound of hail beating
against the windowpanes.
        [ The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas ]

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Comments

Jack Simth August 25, 2006 03:04
First comment: 3 January, 2005 59 comments written
Well, checking the sink won't work.... can't lose them down sinks.
Dav August 25, 2006 04:58
First comment: 26 June, 2004 147 comments written
Losing.
L August 25, 2006 09:18
First comment: 10 February, 2005 285 comments written
Irony!
rose August 25, 2006 19:31
First comment: 30 June, 2006 10 comments written
<sigh> I suppose I'll never see 'losing' spelled correctly again... I've heard rumours the extra o version might even be added to the (american) english dictionary as an alternate spelling, its so widespread!

Entertaining comic, however
. August 25, 2006 22:40
First comment: 7 December, 2005 48 comments written
Technically, though, if one looses one's ring ofThree Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne,
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
        [ The Fellowship of the Ring, by J.R.R. Tolkien ]

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searching, one is likely to lose it, too. That is, taking it off might well lead to its being lost.
Nobody Special August 26, 2006 01:43
First comment: 8 June, 2005 118 comments written
Well, he tried to proofread the comic afterwards, y'see, but he couldn't find any typos.
[rimshot]
Kal Zekdor August 26, 2006 18:40
First comment: 28 October, 2004 16 comments written
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REST IN

PEACE


| English |

| killed by |

| the internet |

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I always assumed that the misspellings and slang of the internet would stay confined here, but if what you say is true, and dictionaries are adding this particular variation of "lose", that's fairly bad for English, I'd say.

I'm all for change, but English has enough homographs already.
Kal Zekdor August 26, 2006 18:41
First comment: 28 October, 2004 16 comments written
Aw, the formatting was all screwed up. That was supposed to be a gravestone, obviously. Maybe I should've previewed...
Fathead August 27, 2006 07:02
First comment: 1 April, 2006 1136 comments written
"Maybe"?
Fathead August 27, 2006 07:02
First comment: 1 April, 2006 1136 comments written
Hey, this is comic #666!
Mikoangelo August 28, 2006 09:54
First comment: 19 October, 2005 82 comments written
Left us in the cold again eh, chap?
Janos August 28, 2006 16:08
First comment: 18 August, 2005 40 comments written
What's going on??? I'm scared! Where's the comic?
scwizard August 29, 2006 01:41
First comment: 18 August, 2006 12 comments written
I totally don't get it...

Oh yaThe arrow of choice of the samurai, ya are made of very
straight bamboo, and are tipped with hardened steel.

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, and what everyone else said.
Janos August 29, 2006 06:15
First comment: 18 August, 2005 40 comments written
Is Dion dead???
freshme@ August 30, 2006 01:39
First comment: 4 January, 2005 67 comments written
I would assume on holiday until someone discovers otherwise. Give it a week or two.
I am not Dion... August 30, 2006 05:56
First comment: 30 August, 2006 1 comments written
... but somehow I doubt he's dead. >_>
The Bard of Blasphemy August 30, 2006 09:27
First comment: 13 May, 2005 46 comments written
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh!

come back dudley!
Fathead August 30, 2006 21:53
First comment: 1 April, 2006 1136 comments written
Hmm. Maybe now's the time to start submitting my own.
Jac September 1, 2006 01:31
First comment: 26 May, 2006 48 comments written
Come back Dion! All is forgiven!
Eskimo September 1, 2006 10:21
First comment: 14 April, 2004 166 comments written
Regardless of the reason, after two years he is entitled to a vacation. Hope it's not anything worse.
Mr. DOS September 1, 2006 21:43
First comment: 10 January, 2006 40 comments written
Maybe we should all get together and write him a bit of PHP to change the strip automatically?...

--- Mr. DOS
Keiseth September 2, 2006 01:27
First comment: 2 September, 2006 2 comments written
Uh oh! Somebody forgot to wear gloves when they picked up that cockatriceOnce in a great while, when the positions of the stars are
just right, a seven-year-old rooster will lay an egg. Then,
along will come a snake, to coil around the egg, or a toad,
to squat upon the egg, keeping it warm and helping it to
hatch. When it hatches, out comes a creature called basilisk,
or cockatrice, the most deadly of all creatures. A single
glance from its yellow, piercing toad's eyes will kill both
man and beast. Its power of destruction is said to be so
great that sometimes simply to hear its hiss can prove fatal.
Its breath is so venomous that it causes all vegetation
to wither.

There is, however, one creature which can withstand the
basilisk's deadly gaze, and this is the weasel. No one knows
why this is so, but although the fierce weasel can slay the
basilisk, it will itself be killed in the struggle. Perhaps
the weasel knows the basilisk's fatal weakness: if it ever
sees its own reflection in a mirror it will perish instantly.
But even a dead basilisk is dangerous, for it is said that
merely touching its lifeless body can cause a person to
sicken and die.
[ Mythical Beasts by Deirdre Headon (The Leprechaun Library)
and other sources ]

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corpse.
Grognor April 19, 2007 07:43
First comment: 4 April, 2007 1161 comments written
Yup, he's dead.
hpp3 April 4, 2008 01:36
First comment: 21 November, 2007 38 comments written
You all "loose" the game.

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