Mines and mining

[Confidence Interval]

Special task: go to the Orcish Mines. Take a look around. How much mining do you see going on? How many miners? How much mining gear? How much mined stuff?

Answer:

Spoiler: show

None, none, none, and none. There are a bunch of orcs, all accoutred as they are for combat, and a lot of gold coins. But in relation to the latter there are, in my understanding, several steps between the mining of gold ore and having-in-one's-sticky-orcish-hands gold coins; "Gold extraction or recovery from its ores may require a combination of comminution, mineral processing, hydrometallurgical, and pyrometallurgical processes to be performed on the ore".

Why are there all these armoured orcs hanging about? How come there are all these gold coins lying around on the floor in the so-called "mines"? What gives?

I think something very suspicious is going on...

[Grimm]

It's a pronoun.

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It is explicitly "mines" rather than "mine", so it is either something else or part of a non-standard grammar.

[Grimm]

They're orcs, what do you expect.

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I expected them to speak Orcish, not merely incorrect English.

[Grimm]

It's Orclish. It's like when foreign movies are dubbed with people speaking English with foreign accents.

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I prefer subtitles to dubbing.

[varsovie]

I'm pretty sure all the orcs have less than 18 years old.

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Very droll. But it should be called the Orcish Playground or something like that, in that case.

[Grimm]

Orcish Kindergarten

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I've got it: instead of Orcish Mines it should be the Orcish Gardens, full of young orcs tending precious blooms, cultivating soft fruit, and manicuring the lawn. (And yes, they are probably growing orchids too.)

[Grimm]

Orcish Torture Garden

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The Story of Orcs.

[Grimm]

Beogh in Furs

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The 120 Days of Zotom

[Grimm]

Fanny Hell

[varsovie]

XOM, what have I done?

I shouldn't have revealed any hint about orcish education.

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Lady Ereshkigal's Lover

[Grimm]

The Way of a Minotaur with a Spriggan

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Changing the tone here slightly: Last Exit from the Abyss

[Grimm]

Catch-27

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To Kill a Mockingtengu

[Grimm]

The French Lieutenant's Ogre

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The Dragon with the Dragon Tattoo

[Grimm]

Nineteen Twenty-Seven

also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ6JLCMbWoU

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Twenty-Seven Thousand Leagues Under the Sea: A Novel of the Shoals

[Grimm]

Twenty Seven Flew Over the Tengu's Nest

[MDvedh]

The Number 27

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Twenty Se7en

[Sprucery]

27: A Dungeon Odyssey

[Grimm]

2027: A Dungeon Odyssey

ftfy

[Grimm]

The Magic Mountain Dwarf

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Der Zauberblork

ftfy. One of my favourite novels (the original that is. Though I also enjoyed the postmodern rethinking with Tintin in place of Castorp).

[Grimm]

I bought that the last time you mentioned it but I still haven't looked at it.

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That's funny, I have no memory of having mentioned it here before. I do, though, have a poor memory. It remains a good book. I would reread it but I don't know where my copy is.

[Grimm]

Starts here: viewtopic.php?p=77773#p77773

[Confidence Interval]

That was over a year ago. People were playing 0.10 or something, way back then. How could I be expected to remember that?!

[Grimm]

Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion.

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That's funny, I more often get "Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?"

[Grimm]

How do you respond?

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"Every living creature on this earth dies alone."

[Grimm]

But since we all do it, we're all doing it together.

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Shit, I know that. You just asked me how I responded.

[Grimm]

I really put my foot in it there.

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You'll probably have to leave the Tavern now, I'm afraid.

[Grimm]

Who bans the banman?

[varsovie]

The barmods?

[nicolae]

But since we all do it, we're all doing it together.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frAEmhqdLFs

[Grimm]

nicolae has won the secret Tavern prize for First Mention of Tom Lehrer

[Confidence Interval]

Are there other secret prizes?