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What would the average posh private school in the US have on their history curriculum? I'm writing a fic that features Bruce Wayne's school days and I am stuck. So far so good on most of the obvious Ameri-pick issues (he is studying math. Much though I want to know where the 's' got to.) but I cannot find any info on the great wide web.

1) Does anyone have time to read a 2200 word TNA gen fic? I've been writing it on and off for 7 years so I could do with someone who isn't me giving it a once over for coherence and stuff.

2) Has anyone travelled through Heathrow Terminal 5? Or picked someone up from there? I've never been, and all the photos I can find are shiny publicity photos which I suspect differ a lot from what it really looks like.

3) Unless a really stonking prompt gets submitted, I think I know what I plan to write for this year's lgbtfest (or why I still call it that despite everything).

Saw a Holmes I hadn't seen before (yes, yes, I have a problem), called "A Study In Terror" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059764/), with John Neville as Holmes and Donald Houston as Watson. Not particularly good, with the dialogue letting it down. It does however explain where Moffat/Gattis got the "Mummy" thing from. I knew it wasn't from the books, and quite often they've pinched things from films. Robert Morley played Mycroft in this and him vs Sherlock was brilliant in the film.

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Doctor Who

( Unexpected guest star squee )

Moto GP

It's been a been a bit of a weepie weekend. I foolishly watched the San Marino Grand Prix, and, well I, like everyone else, miss Marco Simoncelli. And I'm so pleased for Gresini and Alvaro Bautista, and I know he won't get the ride next year but please Gresini Honda, please consider Alvaro.

On lighter matters, I seriously become convinced that Jorge Lorenzo is a Bond villain. In between Spies's bad luck, and Pedrosa's terrible luck, there's only been one winner. And Spies's luck is apparently catching, and poor Karel Abrahms caught it. Two bike failures, and the kind of failure that leaves brake fluid on your tyres at that. He looked so down-hearted afterwards.

Pedrosa has also had bad luck but his pre-dates Ben Spies's. Honda are going to go spare, because even if Hector Barbera had yet another crash, it was their fault that he was anywhere in the Barbera zone to begin with.

Valentino Rossi is adorable. But that doesn't really need to be said.

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Question - I need a US equivalent for "jury-rigged". Any suggestions? Or will jury-rigged do?

Katy Perry's new (ish) music video, the one for 'Part of Me' looks and feels like it could have come straight out of the Federation propaganda in the film version of 'Starship Troopers'. This is not a compliment.

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Quick question, you know those things you see in old time medical films, where the person has their arm in a sling and then the arm is suspended up on a pulley system. What are they really called, because much though I can fudge the detail, and might well do so anyway, I'd like to know that I'm at least fudging by choice, not by necessity.

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Fic meme

1. Go to page 7 of your most recent WiP
2. Count seven lines down
3. Copy and paste the next seven lines of text

I tend to work on a lot of things at once so what I've done is arranged them by date, and then seen the most recent thing I've worked on that is at least 7 pages long. If nothing else, it's going to mean I'll get to do some editing.

(some time later)

I can't use one of them because the seven lines in question give away a huge spoiler for the film the fic is based on. And I can't use the other fic that's long enough because it's a surprise for someone. So I shall postpone this meme until I have something suitable.

nwhyte linked to a kerfuffle over a review of a book, and some interesting comments were made about it in his post here - http://nwhyte.livejournal.com/1880791.html

The part that I'm interested in goes like this - an author makes an absolute hash of early modern English in his book. Reviewer points it out. Defenders of the author say 'so what, it's not like it really is early modern English, it's an archaic language that the author is choosing to represent as early modern English'.

The original reviewer made the point that having chosen to do this, the author (or his editors) ought to at least make it accurate. nwhyte then illustrates the point with an analogy, saying that it'd be the same as having an astronaut walk on the surface of a Jupiter-esque planet. Anyone who knew anything about Jupiter or gas giants would find it hard to continue to suspend their disbelief.

One of the commentators on the post says that it's an unfair analogy as the writer of the review happens to be history specialist and a specialist is bound to pick up on things more than a lay-person.

I find it interesting because I've been complaining about the science in the last Sherlock ( Spoilers )

but I'll give it a pass because it's not actually wrong. It's the same with CSI and it's spin-offs, I'm more tolerant than my friend whose Dad is a SOCO (scene of crime officer), because I see it as merely over-stating the powers of the science rather than being flat-out wrong, but when it's actively wrong, such as getting AMF the wrong way round, I'll complain.

To me, it makes more sense to be as accurate as possible, where it is possible, because it won't harm your work, and then fudge the details that you absolutely need to because you can't know what your audience knows more about than you. It's probably better to assume that they know more about it than you do.

But first I need a bit of Ameri-picking, or rather Canadian-picking. Is 'froth-mouthed loony' something that's even possibly going to be said? Suggestions gratefully accepted as I'm aware it sounds more like Regal than anyone else.

With regards to matters Wrestlemania:

Okay fine, WWE, you win.

I still don't care about either title match, but I'll be damned if I don't care about HHH vs the Undertaker.

( Spoilers, the RAW before Wrestlemania )

( Wrestlemania Predictions )

Here - http://opera142.livejournal.com/410335.html

a different question.

You Character one speaks. Performs an action. Speaks again. Do you need a new paragraph for his second speech?

So I finally get the damn Gail and Petey (with the looming shadows of AMW and Coach D'Amore) finished and fixed, only to find I'm writing on the wrong timescale. Because of the way I watch TNA, there was only a week between the bottle incident and Storm telling Gail to choose a side. Unfortunately, in the real world, there were three weeks, one of which was Christmas. Bother, bother, bother.

I'm also in the middle of a word panic in another fic. The fic is in a manga fandom, and the characters are presently stuck in an alternate world where the clothing is reasonably similar to ye olde Japan. And one of the characters is wearing an uwagi. I can find no other way of describing the item in question (it's not a shirt, and top just seems too vague) but I fear pretension and random word-stealage.

1) Where would a character like Pepper Potts be most likely buy her underwear? A company that has stores would be awesome.
2) A quick guess as to whether I've got a Chinese name the right way around. ( Can you spoil for your own fic? )

It's going well so far, the plot that decided to take front stage at about 4500 words is nearly wrapped up and I gave myself a Chekov's McGuffin that will enable the ending. It should be about 7000 words when finished and it should be ready to go off and be betad by Sunday.

Do you call shop-lifting shop-lifting in the US?

Why I'm asking this for a smut fic is an entirely separate issue :)