I'm a bit confused (as if I was in any other state of mind 24/7...) about something when I was playing through FF2...er..4...or whatever. I got my hands on a copy, and suffered through Palom and Porom, the most annoying RPG characters ever (next to Rafa and Malak and Edward and Gau..). Annnyway, as I was playing through, I thought of something. In Super Mario RPG, there was a hidden boss called Culex, with his four crystals and the FF2 (or 4, for the purists..) boss music. I've beaten FF2 already, but I didn't see any Culex. Have an answer for that?

Okay, I was playing Xenogears and at the beginning of the game I was wandering around the first town thinking 'everybody in this town is happy! That means that 95% of the people there are going to die!' When it hit me. what game started that cle...cel...damnit! Cle-sha? Also what game started the 'big strong guy one-on-one fight'? Are there any other cle-shas(so I can't spell) I've forgotten when it comes to RPGs?

I remember way back when we just started hearing about FFVIII and the first characters were released. People said what celebrity the characters looked like. Well, the other day I decided to take a second look at Cid in FFVIII. When I did it hit me like a ton of bricks (and I know how much those hurt). Cid in FFVIII looks like Elton John! I was wondering if it was just me that thought this, but then I asked my friend and he agreed. Will you put up one of your comparison pictures and see how many other people think the same thing...that is, if you think there's a resemblance?

"You rock my face off Thor!"

Peace out!

square's 1999 lineup was just officially announced consisting of ff8 (could've fooled me!), ff anthology (sans ff4? dammit), ehrgeiz (kick you in the nuts!), chocobo's dungeon 2 (how cute!) and chocobo's racing (where's mario?). coo! anyway, legend of mana was nowhere on the list. though with a release date of june in japan, 1999 is probably too early for north america. spring 2000 maybe? the thing is, we didn't get seiken densetsu 3, so if square doesn't release legend of mana, i'm going to have to storm into their office with fists flying! what do you think? does it have a good chance of reaching us? this game is just too good to pass up, and like coughing up $120 for mana 3, i'd do it for legend of mana without hesitation!

Take care!

Well anyways, have you ever played the classic BBS (bulletin board system, for those who live in closets, basements, or bomb shelters) RPG- Style doors games? They were more fun than lots of games i've played on PSX! (hard to believe, i know) there are hundreds of people playing at once, not many graphics, and in some cases, illegal activities, no questions asked. Like Usurper ( classic gaming at its best ), you can kill, steal, do drugs, pop steroids, visit whore houses and murder innocent people! and nobody gave a damn!

Cool, eh? ( yes, thats right, I'm CANADIAN, AND DAMN PROUD OF IT!!)

orgy

t noun (PL. -ies) 1 a wild party, especially one involving excessive drinking and indiscriminate sexual activity: he had a reputation for drunken orgies.

n excessive indulgence in a specified activity: an orgy of buying. 2 (usu. orgies) historical secret rites used in the worship of Bacchus, Dionysus, and other Greek and Roman deities, celebrated with dancing, drunkenness, and singing.

÷ORIGIN early 16th cent.: originally plural, from French orgies, via Latin from Greek orgia 'secret rites or revels'

From this point onward, would you please use the dictionary that is widely regarded as the best on Earth for your definitions? Merriam-Webster is generally regarded as a laughing-stock as far as English Dictionaries go. (It is second only to the fallible "Random House".) Above is a quote from its smaller companion, the New Oxford English Dictionary.

I believe you will find the Oxford English Dictionary very helpful. A visit to any university library, or the study of a Professor of the English Language, should put you within an arms length of this magnificent set of tomes. You can also own the entire work for roughly two thousand pounds sterling.

That is, if you have the funds to afford a twenty two volume dictionary.

Warmest regards to my least favourite letters column host: Thor Antrim.

p.s. For a person whose column is fraught with spelling errors, grammatical mistakes, and many a contextual faux pas, you might wish to avoid clarifying other people's English for them. You have been seen to throw a lot of stones for someone who lives in a house built entirely of fine-blown glass.

This especially so mentioned in a world with so many different definitions for words, not only regionally, but between dictionaries, pronounciations, and ethnic implified terms. One would think you should have more sense than to act as the "end-all, be-all" to all things English-Language... especially as an American(?), from what I have gathered.

Thus, in order to provide you with a view through another set of finely proportioned lenses, the Oxford English Dictionary is quoted above. Broaden your horizons a bit and learn that sometimes, there are two right answers to a question, and yours is not always one of them- whatever your ego may lead you to believe.

SalvetŽ!

- Shawners