2013 Random Threads — Your Help Needed

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Selenium the Quafflebird - Random Thread, May 2013 — One Issue to Rule Them All: You plead the pith?
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Jadestone - Rants and Plaints, v. 2012.4: oh, also, when you feed him do you do so in his tank or in a separate bin/do you know what his previous owner did? He may be...
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Midnight Fiddler - Random Thread, May 2013 — One Issue to Rule Them All: A-. Okay, I’ll admit that a 3.91 GPA for this semester isn’t bad and I...
Rebecca Lasley (Administrator) - Rants and Plaints, v. 2012.4: I can relate. As I’ve probably mentioned before, Alvin has always felt like part of the family;...
Choklit Orange - Random Thread, May 2013 — One Issue to Rule Them All: I plead the Fifth.
Luna the Lovely - Rants and Plaints, v. 2012.4: I know Lyme is extremely prevalent on the East Coast/New England (fairly uncommon where I go to school, although it is...
KaiYves - Rants and Plaints, v. 2012.4: Yesterday, I literally saw a fond childhood memory cut up into scraps. The very first underwater archaeology book I read out of...
bookgirl_me - Random Thread, May 2013 — One Issue to Rule Them All: The ghost of an old Go master who desperately wants to play again.
KaiYves - Random Thread, May 2013 — One Issue to Rule Them All: I think it’s about a guy who has help from a ghost in playing the game “Go”.
FantasyFan?!?! - Random Thread, May 2013 — One Issue to Rule Them All: We actually have an anime thread that you can search for. It’s got lots of...
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☼Catwings, Panther tribe leader☼(♦IrishGirl100♦) - Random Thread, May 2013 — One Issue to Rule Them All: I think i’ve heard about Hikaru no go! I forget,...
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bookgirl_me - Random Thread, May 2013 — One Issue to Rule Them All: Have you seen Death Note? It’s awesome. I also really liked Hikaru no Go.
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2013 Random Threads — Your Help Needed

With the New Year nipping at our heels, the GAPAs have been planning a theme for 2013′s random threads. We’ve decided to get back to our Muserly roots by devoting each month to a different memorable article or issue of Muse. Your comments on the blog make it clear that some of them linger in your minds and undoubtedly played a role in ~~warping~~ shaping your characters.

Of course, to do this effectively, we’ll need to know just which issues and/or articles those are. So… suggestions, anybody?

(That reminds us: the Muse Contents page needs updating. Any help from current subscribers will be most welcome.)

Date: December 30, 2012

Categories: Fan Page / MuseBlog business

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in December 30th, 2012 @ 16:07

Huh.
Maybe some blog-related month names? Like Giant Space Squidtember?

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Piggy

in December 30th, 2012 @ 16:31

I think my top three all-time favorite articles are as follows:
3. “Making Memories: Why You Can’t Remember Your First Birthday” by Jay Ingram, issue 10.4, April 2006
2. “Your Inner Copycat” by David Dobbs, issue 10.9, November/December 2006
1. “Learning to Speak” by Fiona Cowie, issue 10.5, May/June 2006

It seems likely that the third issue there, the language issue, is what set me going on the twisting linguistic road I’ve dedicated much of my life to. I honestly can’t begin to imagine how my life would’ve played out if I had never begun receiving Muse. Everything since then–the people I’ve met, the subjects I love, my hobbies, everything can be traced back to this magazine. It boggles the mind.

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Piggy

in December 30th, 2012 @ 16:48

Oh, I just remembered something: the first Q&A, the one about alphabetical order, in the September 2011 issue was my question, but that issue came out after my subscription lapsed and so I still have yet to read the response. Is there any way I could read it here? I don’t know of any libraries around here that carry the magazine.

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Tesseract

in December 30th, 2012 @ 19:21

The language issue is my all-time favorite issue as well. The “English as She is Spoke” one stands out in my mind, as does the one on cognitive linguistics.

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KaiYves- Curiosity Will Lead The Way!

in December 30th, 2012 @ 18:02

Does this mean we’ll have a mutual cats-and-dogs month so that nobody complains either one was done first?

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Lizzie

in December 30th, 2012 @ 18:21

My all-time favorite articles were the one about priest holes and the one about napolean’s wallpaper. Secondary favorites are anything by paul baker.

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oxlin

in January 1st, 2013 @ 03:09

Yesss Priest Holes.

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KaiYves

in January 28th, 2013 @ 13:01

Oh yes, Napoleon’s wallpaper, I remember that one…

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Agent Lightning

in December 30th, 2012 @ 20:10

Probably the article about lightning and music and the guy who heard music in his brain after being struck by lightning. I’ll look up what issue it was later.

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Vendaval

in December 30th, 2012 @ 21:31

Some of my favorites include Napoleon’s wallpaper, the Severn Bore, how to spot a fake Rembrandt, and I think in that same issue cochineal and Calder.

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Dodecahedron

in December 30th, 2012 @ 21:57

I liked the articles about Damascus steel and about guardrails — both were reprinted in the 10th anniversary January edition, as I recall.
I also recall fondly an article about fencing in movies, as someone who went on to be active in the historical reenactment fencing scene. (I’ve read through the archive linked, and it seems to be February 2003).
Also the article on Chihuly glass, which I can’t find in the archive — I’ve seen a couple of his chandeliers in real life, and they always make me think of Muse.
also, every math page.

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KaiYves- Curiosity Will Lead The Way!

in December 31st, 2012 @ 09:14

Oh, and the Chess article, definitely.

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Robert Coontz (Administrator)

in December 31st, 2012 @ 09:31

Which one?

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KaiYves

in December 31st, 2012 @ 12:15

Whoops, I meant the chess ISSUE, September 2002.

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Randomosity101

in December 31st, 2012 @ 11:32

“The Hue of Death” is one that readily comes to mind.

And the article about the Shakespeare forgeries. (That was Muse, right? Sometimes I get confused as to what was in Muse and what was in Odyssey.)

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Bibliophile

in December 31st, 2012 @ 14:24

It was Muse. I have the book that it was adapted from.

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Randomosity101

in December 31st, 2012 @ 14:59

Good, thanks for telling me!

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oxlin

in January 1st, 2013 @ 03:11

LotR! Priest Holes! Black Holes! I shall probably think of more tomorrow once I’ve slept.

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Cat's Meow

in January 1st, 2013 @ 15:18

I liked that article about carvings in old cathedrals. Also Paul Baker’s “A Surfeit of Coneys”.

Hmm, I think this gives me a good reason to read through all my old magazines.

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Groundhog

in January 1st, 2013 @ 15:49

First issue ever? (January 1997)
Tomorrowlands that never made it? (January 2001)
The one with the headless guy holding a jack-o-lantern? (October 200?)

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KaiYves

in January 2nd, 2013 @ 08:56

The photomanipulation issue?

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Groundhog

in January 2nd, 2013 @ 23:19

Yes, that one.

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oxlin

in January 4th, 2013 @ 23:50

Didn’t it also have urban legends?

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Groundhog

in February 2nd, 2013 @ 22:56

*checks*
Nope, the photomanipulation one was October of 2001, the urban legends one was October of 1999.

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Kai D.

in January 15th, 2013 @ 22:58

Hey guys! this truly is quite random!
http://www.musefanpage.com/blog/?p=1234
When I clicked it, there was an error and it showed all the html basic coding that went into the museblog home page! It’s really weird! Try it! you might see it too!

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Bibliophile

in March 8th, 2013 @ 14:05

I think you misunderstood the purpose of this thread. This isn’t the random thread (although the title does have ‘random thread’ in it, so it’s an understandable mistake); it’s a thread about random threads–specifically, suggestions for later ones this month that are consistent with the theme.

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the person that is very fond of guavas

in February 17th, 2013 @ 12:28

One of my favorite issues was the one about the cholera epidemic. (march 2008?)

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KaiYves

in March 4th, 2013 @ 12:02

What about the moon landing issue (April 2002) or the one about living forever (January 2004?)

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Dodecahedron

in March 8th, 2013 @ 08:03

What about the issue which introduced many of us to MuseBlog? It must have been February or March of 2006(?) . There was a contest thread for commentary on some event and the posts there were reprinted in Muse in that month.

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Cat's Meow

in March 8th, 2013 @ 19:20

Seconded! That issue brought me here.

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shadowfire

in March 9th, 2013 @ 16:31

Was that the one about the IAT?

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