In an interesting case of life imitating art, Do Wa Diddy has become a popular cadence used by military units when marching. Thank goodness they haven’t adopted other aspects of military discipline as practice by John Winger in Stripes, although I’m sure he’d have Osama Bin Laden in custody by now if given use of an urban assault vehicle. If you want to be impressed, by the way, check out the acting resume of Warren Oates, Sergent Hulka in Stripes. From the Twilight Zone to The Wild Bunch, he was involved in many influential film and television projects up until he died in 1982.
As the expression goes, you set a thief to catch a thief. So when you’re faced with underhanded evil, who better to turn to than Ruby? Thankfully, Ruby doesn’t feel bound by the same professional courtesy that keeps sharks from eating shipwrecked lawyers.
The quoted price is only a little more ridiculous than the $5,000 per song that the RIAA has been demanding at trial. How is Pearl going to get out of this one? Well, she already knows at least one person good at dealing with overly litigious pinheads…
Our poor cast of characters can’t seem to get away from Intellectual Property issues, can they…?
And of course Gwen plays D&D. She’s a geek, it’s in her blood. Although, if she was a real geek, she’d play GURPS instead. GURPS is the only FRPG I’ve ever played where you can spend multiple evenings just setting up your character!
Or, put another way, Ruby is just fighting fire with fire. But the intellectual property wars aren’t over yet, a new front opens up next week.
Happy New Year, everyone. Let’s hope that 2008 bring peace, love, hope and a version of Quicken that runs natively on Linux!
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