Nightscrawlers

Originally posted by CurlyyHairGirl
Does AoA Kurt have a religion

He's put off by Christianity in particular - he resents meeting in an abandoned church due to something unspecified that happened to him as a child.

Originally posted by Nightcrawless
now i must mumble to fill up the post.

The fifty-character limit isn't there accidentally. If you're under the limit, think of something to say to contribute to the thread; don't pad.

Originally posted by TelegramSam Theres many many languages spoken in Africa, Id wager upwards of a thousand or more Youd win, too, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language estimates 1870 languages in Africa (excluding Madagascard), mostly divided into four families of related languages. Out of the o...

Originally posted by Maelstrom
It's only been since the Victorian era (late 1700s)

Queen Victoria reigned from 1839 to 1901. She was born in 1819.

In brief: We can change the timezone on the server clock, but not the clock setting itself. The time on the posts is based on the server clock setting (adjusted for time zone), plus an adjustment configured by the admins, and then displayed in whatever you have your local timezone set to. Recently o...

Originally posted by **Northstars Love**
Northstar

But I don't think they will let me marry him. Not yet anyway.

Northstar's from Quebec, n'est-ce pas? Marry him there!

Originally posted by thylacine I read that someone also did a version of the Bible written in slang so people can understand... There've been several versions of the Bible in contemporary English, notably the Good News translation in the 60s, the Contemporary English Version in the 80s, and The Mes...

Originally posted by Deadcell isn't it weird how Kurt seems to have kids in every universe except Earth 616? Not really - very few heroes in the 616 universe have kids. As the rec.arts.comics.marvel.xbooks FAQ says: Ken Arromdee reminded us to include here the folk legend of the Marvel edict agains...

Additionally, Der Jahrmarkt features: two clowns who [spoiler]have replaced their skeletons with flexible bones[/spoiler] (Marvel Comics Presents #105) a bearded lady with [spoiler]prehensile facial hair[/spoiler] (Marvel Comics Presents #105) a strongman who [spoiler]has tripled his muscle mass so ...

Originally posted by thylacine
Well... anyway... this was supposed to be a spiritual discussion with regard to Nightcrawler and all things spiritual... Anyway... anyone seen "Passion?"

It's already being discussed in another thread.

Originally posted by HumanDisease someone needs to tell Kurt about VDs. ;( it would be a sad sad sad odeal! Kurt At The Clinic "Doctor, ever since I got back from that alternate universe populated entirely by Amazon women I've had this ... problem ..." "Looks completely normal to me,...

Originally posted by Gaz
All my friend's who have gay parents have gotten married in the past couple months.

Nice trick, since as of today they've been issuing licenses to same-sex couples for nine days.

Originally posted by Shadow_Dancer If someone was looking for a story idea as to Nightcrawlers origin, this might have been a better choice of dimension. If you’ve never noticed, the race of blue beings have three fingered hands like Kurt. Not to mention all the swashbuckling stories that could hav...

Originally posted by TelegramSam And boohiss @ Anjulie for seducing poor Nighty (not that he put up much of a fight)! I wouldn't have. It's too bad Marvel never put these out as a trade. Alan Davis's art is gorgeous, Claremont's writing is at its peak, and issue #16 is one of the best Nightcrawler ...

Originally posted by Maelstrom Same-sex marriage liturgies have survived from the Middle Ages. See Boswell's Same-Sex Unions in Pre-Modern Europe. I've heard of that, but it's such a contentious debate that I was a little iffy on mentioning it here. I wish you'd qualified your statement: "Marr...

The Christian churches' position of marriage has changed over time. The early church didn't have a marriage rite at all; marriages were entirely secular. After the Reformation, many Protestants considered marriage a civil matter as well. But moving on to the present day - there are currently three c...

Originally posted by Maelstrom
I can't think of one currently active religion that has ratified a marriage between a same sex couple

I can - Christianity. Same-sex marriage liturgies have survived from the Middle Ages. See Boswell's Same-Sex Unions in Pre-Modern Europe.

Originally posted by CurlyyHairGirl Bush outlawed gay marriages? I should watch the news more. Bush has said that he supports amending the United States Constitution to ban same-sex marriage. Some people think that the wording of the proposed amendment would also ban civil unions. The Defense of Ma...

Originally posted by Gaz
she hates gays and is happy that Prez. Bush outlawed gay marriage.

Where's she from, Days of Future Past? Bush hasn't outlawed same-sex marriage yet.

Originally posted by Bamfette you and Bunny are the only ones to not replace the images being stolen. wouldn't it be OH so satisfying to completely break his page? :evil The bitter irony is that my ISP doesn't seem to allow .htaccess. I've even tried some .htaccess files that use methods other than...

Originally posted by Bamfette i set it to only protect jpg, since your bandwidth theft graphic is a gif. just to be aware that it leaves gifs on your site still up for grabs. gifs deserve protection too! If you name your bandwidth theft gif so that the last two letters are distinctive (for example,...

Originally posted by Siona I swear I saw an X-Men book [with] Cyclops in blue spandex and his old visor. Might have been the first Chaos Engine novel . There's a three-part series of paperback novels about the X-men; try searching amazon.com for "chaos engine". I haven't read them and don...

Originally posted by Bamfette actually Elwing. there is a much easier way to do that, automatically. This will work on most servers running Apache. If you don't know what webserver software your host is using, you can look it up using http://www.netcraft.com . By default, Apache servers limit what ...

Originally posted by sevati I think Bunny left it there for the time being so that a small number of users could come back and help him work out all the kinks and bugs. Actually neither C nor Jill were around this morning when I fixed the problem with MySQL, so I left it up until I could talk to th...

Originally posted by Maelstrom Ever wondered by "Easy Susie", the class party girl, is both popular with the boys and demeaned behind her back? Sexism? Mystique is a sociopath. She has no morals, conscience, or anything remotely resembling a sense of guilt. Not as Claremont used to write ...