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Bring it up to date a little - more in keeping with the modern world - and make Louis Wu female: Dominique Tipper?
Teela Brown? s a tricky one - I've always considered her as "young, blonde, and "cheerleader-ish", but I'm not au fait with actresses like that.
Speaker is voice only, so ... Samuel L Jackson?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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OriginalGriff wrote: Dominique Tipper
Wow she dresses down in Expanse.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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If you're switching genders on the characters:
Louisa Wu: Katie Sackhoff
Teller Brown: Tobey Maguire
OriginalGriff wrote: Speaker is voice only, so ... Samuel L Jackson?
Hmm. I was thinking a voice with a lower register, given Speaker's size. Idris Elba, perhaps. James Earl Jones would be good too.
Aha! Vin Diesel.
We also need a voice (if not an entire choir) for Nessus. Karen Carpenter would have been perfect, but she's long passed. The voice would probably have an effect with it, since Nessus speaks with both mouths at once in harmony.
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Nessus: Sharon den Adel, and Mariah Carey simultaneously. The two sets of vocal chords (or puppeteer equivelant) probably wouldn't be the same tone, so one low register and one high register female speaking / singing the same words at the same time, or "entwining" them to melody perhaps?
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BillWoodruff wrote: this: [^]
For those who don't speak Dutch, "Gevaarlijk Goed", in this context, means either "Perilously Pretentious" or something that ends with a p*.
* No, I don't mean a six-pack
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Maybe he just isn't a people person??? 
I, for one, like Roman Numerals.
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Sick 
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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That's...the darkest thing I've ever read coming from you, Bill. I did not expect this.
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William Blake, The Four Zoas: Night the Eighth:Quote: “All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.”
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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BillWoodruff wrote: William Blake, The Four Zoas: Night the Eighth:Quote: “All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.”
To which John Flaxman replied:Quote: Anyway, Bill, 'ow ya been keepin'?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I... had the exact same thought. Rather out of character for Bill.
@BillWoodruff ^
Cheers,
विक्रम
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dandy72 wrote: .the darkest thing I've ever read coming from you,
Hard to tell. Most of what he posts I don't understand anyway. It could all be dark for all I know. 
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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ZurdoDev wrote: could all be dark for all I know
You are very close to the light, there.
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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That's bad taste.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Except that John Cleese is funny.
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I love what they did to the urn that (aledgedly) contained his ashes at Robert Kleins interview in Aspen in '98:
Short version[^]
Longer version[^]
Completely hilarious!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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Sick
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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For people who are truly depressed in this season, suicide may seem a viable option. I don't see anything humorous in that!
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BillWoodruff wrote: New Year's eve might be a better choice, anyway
Aww, you optimist you.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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 Du Perron wrote (part of some forgotten Dutch poem): Because suicide, Lord, is difficult, does not always want to succeed,
Cleopatra and the adder were both strong,
the poison of Mithradates made him vomit anxiously,
a slave with a good sword completed the work.
A suicide is assured until the choice of the weapon.
Death is more friendly, perhaps, in the accidents
who grieve the good citizen daily:
the motorcyclist who broke into pieces,
the driver by two locomotives
crushed because he was just napping.
The bricklayer who fell from the ladder,
whose head struck the boulders into an omelet,
and the worker pulled into a machine,
who, before they had stopped one wheel,
had been ejected again as a careless mince.
The little girls who shot through the ice
whose cry of death froze into a stream of stream
and whose corpses no one dived to,
the child from the slum that carelessly
with boiling water, over and over again.
Certainly, death is more friendly to the poor people,
they die more easily, are more familiar with him.
He gives them smiles, winks and tips,
the fear of what is often seen diminishes.
Death seems almost a goal for those who work themselves dead.
Death is the companion of the long winter months,
dutifully, like them, for the poor on the land.
They calmly carry on, they scatter new seeds,
and calm, like a wildflower by a child's hand,
he plucks a toiler away from the plowed earth.
The drunken vagabond, laughing while drooling,
and drooling and laughing under a full train,
the blind beggar, too old to die,
who breaks his neck without pain on a heroic night,
it is worth not looking at such a death.
The really hard death descends into feather beds,
and is long and heavy against a soft chest,
and kiss a soft mouth to stop it,
and squeezes a soft throat that becomes tight and glowing,
and listens to the heart that continues to resist.
I disagree with the more famous Albert Hammond; I would prefer a freeway crash over a long sick-bed.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I was feeling down on Christmas Day and I called the Depression Hot Line. I got a call centre in Pakistan!
I told them I was suicidal...
They got all excited and asked if I knew how to drive a truck!
I, for one, like Roman Numerals.
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They didn't send you a nice vest full of marcipan for Christmas to cheer you up? 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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I can understand that this may seem funny for some, but as someone who spends time as voluntary firefighter I'm speaking to those who may think about committing suicide: Don't. Contact someone, be it someone you know or a suicide hotline. Throwing yourself under a train is a bad idea, you disrupt not only many commuters schedule but also but a strain on other peoples mental health: be it accidental witnesses, train drives, first responders and so on.
I'm not part of the group who recovers people from beneath trains, and quite frankly I'm glad about that.
I am, however, part of the lake search and rescue group, and trying to recover someone who went swimming without the intention to come back in icy january conditions is beyond a bad experience.
So, kids, here's the takeaway:
Don't commit suicide, talk to someone - friends, family, helplines, 112, 911 - they'll be happy to help you and work out a solution.
If you're suffering from a terminal illness, go with Exit, Dignitas or any other organization.
And last but not least:
Don't encourage suicide, online or in real life if the person hasn't a terminal condition - Studies have proven that after public coverage of suicides the rate tends to go up.
/Edit: some things became less clear in writing as they were in my head, see my answer to Eddy's post as there are somethings written out more clear.
I only have a signature in order to let @DalekDave follow my posts.
modified 29-Dec-19 10:48am.
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Marco Bertschi wrote: Throwing yourself under a train is a bad idea, you disrupt not only many commuters schedule
People will keep doing that, despite your warning; for one who wants to end their life, there is no clean alternative to that mess.
Marco Bertschi wrote: if the person hasn't a terminal condition
So, only allowed for the terminal eh?
Not for the incurably sick, or those whose life only consists of suffering or pain. I'm not encouraging it nor approving of it, but I will also not act as if these people are merely a bit confused and that a single phonecall will solve it all.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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