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Good evening.  I'm IHCOYC, a handle I have been using on Usenet since around 1995, and on BBSs since maybe 1984.  The handle deserves an explanation.  There was a [[Commodore 64]] BBS back then that ran homebrewed software that displayed data in ALL CAPS.  When choosing a handle to use there, I was momentarily moved to call myself IHCOYC XPICTOC (that is, IHΣOYΣ XPIΣTOΣ) to see if anyone got the joke.  If you wonder what it stands for, think [[Greek_language|Greek]].  On a caprice back in August 2003, I changed my handle here to "[[Smerdis of Persia|Smerdis]] of [[Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius|Tlön]]." I was one of the operators of the '''Microdot [[Bulletin board system|BBS]]''' that operated in southern Indiana from [[1985]] to [[1999]].  I still miss the BBSes.

My real name is Steve Gustafson.  I practice law in [[New Albany, Indiana]].  My interests include [[Indo-European]], [[Germanic_peoples|Germanic]], and [[Latin]] [[linguistics]], [[nineteenth century]] [[French literature]], the [[English Civil War]], the [[Reformation]], the [[1600s]].  I am a proud member of the [[empty set]], and a thorough and methodical [[pessimist]].   I've got '''''friends''''' on the [[Great White Brotherhood]]. 

I am neither the ''[[Invictus|captain of my fate]]'', nor the ''master of my soul''.  And I have no interest in ''[[If—|filling the unforgiving minute]]'' with ''sixty seconds worth of distance run''.  I am a [[Pepsi Generation]] [[dropout]].  

[[File:Arthur Schopenhauer by J Schäfer, 1859b.jpg|left|thumb|200px|The party hasn't started until Schopenhauer gets there!]]

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== Favourite quotes from the Wikipedia ==

*''It is said of the [[Death (personification)|angel of death]] that he is full of eyes.''

* ''(''[[Thou]]'') is used in solemn ritual occasions, in readings from the [[King James Version of the Bible|King James Bible]], in [[Shakespeare]], in starchily formal literary compositions that seek to evoke the solemn emotions called forth by these antecedents, and otherwise to address lofty persons like [[God]], [[Achilles]], or [[Thor (comics)|the Mighty Thor]].''

* ''From'' [[Punch and Judy]]:  ''Featuring, as it does, a deformed, child-murdering, wife-beating psychopath, who performs appalling acts of violence and cruelty upon all those around him and escapes scot-free, it is greatly enjoyed by small children.''
[[Image:Ihcoyc-no-BS-please.jpg|thumb|320px|left|Even if [[WP:RS|academic sources]] can be found for [[bullshit|that sort of thing]], it's still [[WP:NONSENSE|patent nonsense]].]]

*'' Interest in the [[Holy Prepuce|Holy Foreskins]] has been specifically downplayed, with the observation in 1900 that these particular relics encouraged irreverent curiosity.''

*''Although most [[timpani]]sts only have two hands, it is possible to play more than two timpani at once.''

*''From'' [[B,C,K,W System]]: ''in the context to recover [GKL], leave '''I''' without defining it: so, beware!.''

*''Wenn Prinz Adam sein Zauberschwert in die Luft streckt und die Zauberformel: "Bei der Macht von Grayskull!" ausruft, verwandelt er sich in [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/He-Man He-Man], den stärksten Mann des Universums.''

*''The majority'' (of [[snakebite (bite)|snakebite]] victims in the United States) ''are inebriated men, frequently unemployed, and almost universally tattooed.''

*''Attempts at using vacuum cleaner base units for ([[penis enlargement]]) have resulted in severe damage when the fan of the vacuum cleaner is contacted.''

*''As the [[Always Look on the Bright Side of Life|song]] progresses, many of the other crucifixion victims . . . begin to dance in a very limited way''

*'' Galileo made [[heliocentrism|the same point]], but said very little on the matter, perhaps not wishing to be burned at the stake.''

*''. . . the [[Vombatiformes]] (which is the Latin for "[[wombat|wombat-shaped things]]").''

*''From'' [[Folklore of the United States]]: ''Though [[Christopher Columbus]] did not participate in the founding of the American government. . . ''

*''This term should not be confused with an act of war waged by [[smurf attack|Smurf]] cartoon characters.''

*''The [[Kenyan constitutional referendum, 2005|referendum]] divided Kenyans and spurred violence between Orange and Banana supporters. . .''

*''From'' [[omnipotence paradox]]: ''. . . (M)odern concepts of [[inertia]] and [[relativity]] have not affected the definition of a [[burrito]].''

*''Simon Johnson, former chief economist for the International Monetary Fund, says a [[Recession shapes|U-shaped recession]] is like a bathtub: "You go in. You stay in. The sides are slippery. You know, maybe there's some bumpy stuff in the bottom, but you don't come out of the bathtub for a long time."''

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*''. . . [[Saddam Hussein]] is very fond of [[Cheetos]].''

*''From'' [[Year 2038 problem]]: ''Using a 64-bit value introduces a new wrap around date in about 290 billion years, on Sunday, December 4, [[11th millennium and beyond|292,277,026,596]] 15:30:08 UTC.  This problem is not, however, widely regarded as a pressing issue.'' 

*''The subject of the song is the arrival of [[Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)|the mighty Quinn]], who changes despair into joy and chaos into rest, and attracts attention from the animals.''

*''May I submit UTOPIAN TURTLETOP? Do not trouble to answer unless you like it.'' -  Poet [[Marianne Moore]], suggesting a brand name for the Ford [[Edsel]] car. 

*''Singing '''[[Troll]]s''' relate their hate of humans, especially [[Christian]]s, which are for them a plague to eradicate - and to eat.''

*''. . . the only European leader that showed enthusiasm for [[The Night Attack|the crusade]] was [[Vlad III Dracula|Dracula]], whom the Pope held in high regard.''

*''Fortunately, two bystanders doused the flames by pouring beer on [[Arthur Brown (musician)|Brown]]’s head, preventing any serious injury.''

*From [[vampire pumpkins and watermelons]]: ''According to tradition, [[watermelon]]s or any kind of [[pumpkin]] kept more than ten days or after [[Christmas]] will become a vampire, rolling around on the ground and growling to pester the living. People have little fear of the vampire pumpkins and melons because of the creatures' lack of [[teeth]].''

*''The reproduction of a [[Northern River Otter|river otter]] is a very complicated process.''

*From [[endemic warfare]]: ''Among the Chimbu and the Dugum Dani, pig theft was the most common cause of conflict, even more frequent than abduction of women...''

*From [[Blackwater Worldwide|Xe]]: ''Spokeswoman Anne Tyrrell said there was no meaning in the new name, which the company spent over a year to arrive at in an internal search.''

*''[[Miriam Sakewitz|She]] later stole the rabbits back from police, and has since committed several parole violations after being caught with rabbits.''

*''The death of nearly half the population (largely by torture) during [[Ranavalona I|her reign]] is seen as a unique cultural quirk.''

*From [[Palembang]]: ''This inscription tells of a large army coming from Minanga Tamwan with ecstasy.''

*From [[David Wynn Miller]]: ''The judge refused to let Lindsay opt out of personhood.''

*From [[Oktoberfest]]: ''In Germany, goat hair is highly valued and prized, making it one of the most expensive objects for sale. ''

*''Marjatta is the young virgin of [[Kalevala]]. She becomes pregnant from eating a [[Vaccinium vitis-idaea|lingonberry]].''

*''There is a Temple of [[Hephaestus]] in Athens, the Hephaesteum (miscalled the "Theseum"), located near the agora, or marketplace. An Athenian founding myth tells that the city's patron goddess, Athena, refused a union with Hephaestus because of his unsightly appearance and crippled nature, and that when he became angry and forceful with her, she disappeared from the bed. His ejaculate fell on the earth, impregnating Gaia, who subsequently gave birth to Erichthonius of Athens....''

*On [[Surtsey]], ''(a)n improperly handled human defecation resulted in a tomato plant taking root which was also destroyed''.

*''During the time of their association, Livingstone urged [[Sechele I|Sechele]] to make peace with the uncle who ruled the other half of the Kwêna. Sechele sent his uncle a gift of gunpowder. The uncle was suspicious of the gift and set fire to it. His death in the resulting explosion enabled Sechele to reunite the tribe.''

*From [[Ptosis (breasts)]]: ''Motion studies have revealed that when a woman runs, more than 50% of the breast's total movement is vertical, 22% is side-to-side, and 27% is in-and-out.''

*''A point is a [[degeneracy (mathematics)|degenerate]] circle.....''

*According to [[Ovadia Yosef]], ''picking your nose is forbidden on the Sabbath.''

*'' After a worldwide search in 1943, a mouldy cantaloupe in a Peoria, Illinois market was found to contain the best strain of [[penicillin]]....''

*[[Liberty ship]]: '' In Portland, Oregon, the hulls of ''Richard Henry Dana'' and ''Jane Addams'' serve as the basis of floating docks.''

*''The people of the Yaohnanen area believe that [[Prince Philip Movement|Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh]], the consort to Queen Elizabeth II, is a divine being.''

*''On 13 September 2004, the [[Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands|Gay Kingdom]] declared war on Australia.''

==Stuff I done==
===Essays===
*[[Wikipedia:Plain English]]
*[[Wikipedia:Don't overuse shortcuts to policy and guidelines to win your argument]]
*[[User:Ihcoyc/The presumption of non-notability for Internet related, computing, and services businesses]]
*[[User:Ihcoyc/The problem of anti-supernatural bias]]
*[[User:Ihcoyc/My most shocking opinions about Wikipedia]]

=== Articles I am guilty of ===
====Language and peoples:====

[[Geats]] - [[Svear]] - [[Metathesis]] - [[Propertius]] - [[laryngeal theory]] - [[augment]] - [[vowel stem]]s - [[irregular verb]] - [[lorem ipsum]] - [[archaism]] - [[thou]] - [[period (rhetoric)]] - [[alliterative verse]] - [[skald]] - [[scop]] - [[standard language]] - [[Old French]] - [[indicative mood]] - [[ain't]] - [[subjunctive mood]] - [[negation|negation (grammar)]] - [[Wikipedia:English phonetic spelling]] - [[English verb]] - [[Larry Trask]] - [[athematic]] - [[ankh]] - [[monophthong]] - [[Vulgar Latin]] (much of it) - [[origin of language]] - [[ablative absolute]] - [[cadigan]] - [[oldest language]] - [[Latin profanity]] - [[Esperanto profanity]]

====[[Seventeenth century]] stuff:====

[[Geneva Bible]] - [[Great Bible]] - [[Bishops' Bible]] - [[King James Version of the Bible]] (large additions and edits) - ''[[Pilgrim's  Progress]]'' - [[Joseph Glanvill]] - ''[[Sadducismus Triumphatus]]'' - [[Demon drummer of Tedworth]] - [[Jeremy Taylor]] - ''[[Holy Living and Holy Dying]]'' -[[Covenanter]] - [[Conventicle Act]] - [[penal law]] - [[Melancholia]] (large addition) - [[Robert Burton]] - ''[[Anatomy of Melancholy]]'' - [[demonology]] - [[Thomas Browne]] - ''[[Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial]]'' - [[Divine right of kings]] (large addition) - ''[[Wonders of the Invisible World]]'' - [[Isobel Gowdie]] - [[Matthew Hopkins]] - [[Olaus Wormius]] - ''[[Eikon Basilike]]''

====[[French literature]]====
[[File:Buddhist-hell-Thailand-2.jpg|thumb|left|Thai Hell is awesome.  They have furries, and French ninjas!]]
[[Emile Nelligan]] - [[Remy de Gourmont|R&eacute;my de Gourmont]] - [[Albert Giraud]] -  [[Emile Verhaeren]] - [[Jean Moreas|Jean Moréas]] - [[Stuart Merrill]] - [[Renee Vivien|Ren&eacute;e Vivien]] - [[Jean Lorrain]] - [[Albert Samain]] - [[Nathalie Barney]] - [[Gustave Kahn]] - [[Symbolism (arts)]] (much of it) - [[chanson de geste]] - [[Ogier the Dane]] - [[Doon de Mayence]] - [[Bayard]] - [[Paul Adam]] - [[Reynard]] - [[Alexis-Vincent-Charles Berbiguier de Terre-Neuve du Thym]] - [[Léon Bloy]] - [[Moniot d'Arras]] - [[Henri Beauclair]]

====Other literature:====

[[prose poetry]] - [[Pamela Colman Smith]] - [[Jan Toorop]] - [[degenerate art]] (large addition) - [[Cesare Lombroso]] - [[Max Nordau]] - [[Spenserian stanza]] - [[Conrad Aiken]] - ''[[Silent Snow, Secret  Snow]]'' - [[Harry Crosby]] - Count Stanislaus [[Eric Stenbock]] - [[Grand Guignol]] (most of it) - [[Racter]] - [[Hammer Horror|Hammer horror]] - [[Russ Meyer]] - [[ribaldry]] - [[Homeric hymns]] - ''The [[Omen]]'' -  ''[[Hypnerotomachia Poliphili]]'' - [[Aubrey Beardsley]] - [[Austin Osman Spare]] - [[goliard]] - [[Archpoet]] - [[Peter of Blois]] - [[Walter of Chatillon|Walter of Ch&acirc;tillon]] - [[alliterative verse]] - [[Félicien Rops]] - [[Georgia O'Keeffe]] - [[Bram Dijkstra]] - ''[[Sir Orfeo]]'' - ''[[Invictus]]'' - [[Venantius Fortunatus]] - [[Schopenhauer's aesthetics]] - [[art for art's sake]] - [[Elizabeth Siddal]] - [[June and Jennifer Gibbons]] - [[Sotades]] - ''[[This Be The Verse]]'' - [[Carlos Schwabe]] - ''[[City of Dreadful Night|The City of Dreadful Night]]'' - [[airport novel]] - [[Julia A. Moore]] - [[Bernard of Cluny]] - ''[[Ysengrimus]]'' - ''[[Pirates and Pathfinders]]'' - ''[[Le Miracle de Théophile]]'' - ''[[The Vengeance of Nitocris]]'' - [[obituary poetry]] - [[Greer Gilman]] - ''[[Ecbasis captivi]]'' - [[Muddupalani]] - [[Worksop Bestiary]] - [[jangnama]]

====Music====
[[Psychedelic music]] (list) - [[Roky Erickson]] - ''[[In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida]]'' - [[riff]] - [[Guillaume de Machaut]] - [[motet]] (most of it) - [[Babatunde Olatunji]] - [[Llibre Vermell de Montserrat]] - ''[[Marquee Moon]]'' - [[Stagger Lee]] - [[Thomas of Celaeno|Thomas of Cel&aelig;no]] - ''[[Dies Irae|Dies Ir&aelig;]]'' -  [[Mass (music)]] - [[requiem]] - [[vespers]] - [[Magnificat]] - ''[[Lyke-Wake Dirge]]'' - [[Norman O'Neill]] - [[military cadence]] - ''[[Katie Cruel]]'' - ''[[Rosemary Lane (song)|Rosemary Lane]]'' - ''[[Riu Riu Chiu]]'' - [[Levy Dew]]

==== [[American folklore]] and [[popular culture]]====

[[Psychedelia]] - [[melodrama]] - ''[[The Little Engine That Could]]'' - [[Legendary Stardust Cowboy]] - ''[[Underdog]]'' - ''[[Jonny Quest]]'' - ''[[He-Man]]'' -  [[Poor Richard's Almanac]] - [[Hercules (comics)]] -  [[Ballantine]] - [[anti-intellectualism]] - [[peplum]] - [[legend tripping]] - [[La Llorona]] - [[Mike Fink]] -  [[Lydia Cabrera]] - [[faxlore]] - ''[[Billy Jack]]'' - ''[[Moment of Truth Movie]]'' - [[sword and sandal]] - ''[[The Sons of Hercules]]'' - [[John the Conqueror|John the Conqueroo]] - [[Prince Charming]] - ''[[Ilsa: She-Wolf of the SS]]'' - ''[[men's adventure|men's adventure magazine]]'' - [[Kirby dots]] - [[rabbit's foot]] - [[Bad Girl Art]] - [[Margaret Brundage]] - [[weather house]] - ''[[The Greening of America]]'' - [[Mark Eden bust developer]] - [[Pepsi Generation]] - [[folk process]] - ''[[Rain and Snow]]''

====Religious topics:====

[[vicar]] - [[priesthood of all believers]] - [[atonement]] (now at [[sin]]) - [[scapegoat]] - [[Sadducee]] - [[Bernadette Soubirous]] - [[Saint Christopher]] - [[civil religion]] - [[end times]] - [[dispensationalism]] - [[Hal Lindsey]] - [[Whore of Babylon]] - [[Great Apostasy]] (Calvinism, Lutheranism, Anglicanism) - [[Ten Commandments]] (Protestant section) - [[Cyrus I. Scofield]] - ''[[Scofield Reference Bible]]'' - [[imperial cult]] - [[pow-wow]] - [[John George Hohman]] - [[divine grace]] - [[Magi]] - [[Gog]] - ''[[Quanta Cura]]'' - ''[[Syllabus Errorum]]'' - [[Thérèse de Lisieux]] - [[megachurch]] - [[Maria Monk]] - [[righteousness]] - [[List of names for the Biblical nameless]] - [[prelate]] - ''[[Oahspe]]'' - [[Douay Bible]] - [[demigod]] - [[Vetus Latina]] - [[Port-Royal]] - [[Oholah]] - [[ecclesiology]] - [[St. Ides]] - [[metrical psalter]] - [[holy water]] - [[holy card]] - ''[[rex Nemorensis]]'' - ''[[suovitaurilia]]'' - ''[[regifugium]]'' - [[Christianity and politics]] - ''[[lapis manalis]]'' - ''[[Eko Eko Azarak]]'' - [[Thomas Gouge]] - [[Reitia]]

====My morbid tastes:====

[[mourning]] - [[decomposition]] - [[coffin]] - [[requiem]] - [[sarcophagus]] - [[funeral]] (large addition) - [[embalming]] - ''[[memento mori]]'' - ''[[Et in Arcadia ego]]'' -  [[Death (personification)]] (under that title) -  [[symbols of death]] - [[José Guadalupe Posada]] - [[shrunken head]] - [[obituary poetry]] - [[funerary cult]]

====Legal matters:====
[[Sherman Minton]] - [[escheat]] - [[intestacy]] - [[List of Uniform Acts (United States)]] - [[Uniform Commercial Code]] - [[Uniform Anatomical Gift Act]] - [[Twelve Tables]] - ''[[pater familias]]'' - [[mortgage]] - [[trial by combat]] - [[Assize of Clarendon]] - [[outlaw]] - Sir [[William Blackstone]] (most of it) - ''[[Commentaries on the Laws of England]]'' (most of it) - [[legal positivism]] - [[fee simple]] - [[fee tail]] - [[life estate]] - [[legal fiction]] - [[posse]] - [[small claims court]] - [[foreclosure]] - [[common scold]] - [[Jones Act]] ([[workers compensation]] for [[sailor|seamen]]) - [[doctrine of worthier title]] - [[testamentary capacity]] - [[attestation clause]] - [[statute of repose]] - [[paraphernalia]] - [[royal fish]] - [[bridge bank]] - [[certified question]] - [[Gathings committee]] - [[Fortune telling fraud]]

====Miscellaneous:====

[[Pool of Radiance]] - [[Forgotten Realms Unlimited Adventures]] - [[Parker-Hulme Murders]] - [[Sarah Blaffer Hrdy]] - [[atavism]] - Monsignor [[Jozef Tiso]] - ''[[Ara Pacis]]'' - [[toga]] - [[quest]] - [[Marie Laveau]] - [[List of occultists]] - [[Joe Hill]] - [[List of famous tuberculosis victims]] - [[Gogmagog]] - [[ouroboros]] - [[Gilles de Rais]] - [[Maciste]] - [[spork]] - [[Rexism]] - [[femme fatale]] - [[damsel in distress]] - [[patent medicine]] - [[Whig history]] - [[A. P. Herbert]] - [[here]] - [[testimonial]] - [[nonsense]] - [[chicken sexer]] -  [[artifact (fantasy)]] - [[Sotadic zone]] - [[Ring of Gyges]] - [[cad]] - [[Termagant]] - [[Shoe flinging]] (major changes) - [[Bartok (game)]] - [[Mithridates VI of Pontus]] - [[Tarot of Marseilles]] - ''[[Minchiate]]'' - [[Ka-Bala]] - [[striking clock]] - [[time discipline]] - [[Blemmyes]] - [[high modernism]] - [[Japanese clock]] - [[healthism]] - [[Crepitus (mythology)]] - [[Indian whisky]] - [[aspidochelone]] - [[gasoline pill]] - [[Queen of Elphame]] - [[Cyprianus]] - [[rasa shastra]] - [[Tetrabiblos]] - [[John E. Nail]] - [[Tycho Brahe days]]

====Projects / To do list:====

* The [[stock character]] pages: I want there to be a page on each one, with illustrations and examples.
* I mean to do an article for every word on [[Wikipedia:Common words, searching for which is not possible]].  It is my conviction that all of the [[grammatical particle]]s of English are interesting and [[idiom]]atic enough, and raise issues of usage, esp. for non-native speakers, to warrant articles for themselves that go beyond mere dictionary definitions.

[[File:Original_Barnstar.png|frame|{{{align|left}}}|I, [[User:FrancisTyers|FrancisTyers]] award this [[Wikipedia:Barnstars on Wikipedia|Barnstar]] to [[User:Ihcoyc|Ihcoyc]] for his heroic work citing sources on an [[Skull (symbolism)|obscure topic]] -- you made me smile :)]]

{{award2|image=Barnstar-stone2-noback.png|size=100px|topic=The Epic Barnstar|text=I hereby award you this Epic Barnstar for your brilliant work on [[Latin profanity]]. —[[User:Keenan Pepper|Keenan Pepper]] 02:01, 30 March 2006 (UTC)}}

{{award2|image=Original_Barnstar.png|size=100px|topic=The Original Barnstar|text=Awarded to '''Ihcoyc''' for [[thinking outside the box]]. - <b>[[User:Crzrussian/Userpage|CrazyRussian]]</b><small> [[User_talk:Crzrussian|talk]]/[[Special:Emailuser/Crzrussian|email]]</small> 17:01, 2 August 2006 (UTC)}}

{{award2|image=Rosetta Barnstar.png|size=75px|topic=The Rosetta Barnstar|text=For appearing out of nowhere to translate many magical mottoes with precision. Many thanks. [[User:SynergeticMaggot|SynergeticMaggot]] 16:09, 4 August 2006 (UTC) }}

{{award2|image=Celtic cross.svg|color=white|size=100px|topic=The Black Cross of St. Declan|text=You, [[User:Ihcoyc|Smerdis of Tlön]], are awarded the Black Cross of St. Declan for going medieval on our asses with your excellent work on articles of [[Dark Ages]] and [[Middle Ages]] interest. ''De réir a chéile a thógtar na caisleáin'' - "It takes time to build castles" [[User:Ciarán of Clonmacnoise|Ciarán of Clonmacnoise]] 06:22, 8 January 2007 (UTC) }}
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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | For your continued support and help with anti-vandalism, and your participation in AfD dicussions. [[User:Chengwes|Chengwes]] 19:34, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | To [[User:Ihcoyc|Smerdis of Tlön]], For all of the admin tasks that you do around the project which rarely come with recognition.  --[[User:Hu12|Hu12]] ([[User talk:Hu12|talk]]) 21:04, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | for eloquent statement: " Any policy that purports to require the deletion of encyclopedia material on such a slender hope is no policy at all...Let's not be afraid to say so" [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_review/Log/2011_May_21#:File:John_Coltrane_1960.jpg] [[User:Slowking4|Slowking4]] ([[User talk:Slowking4|talk]]) 15:34, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | Your recent endevours to bring sense into chaos were inspiring.  Wikipedia needs more editors like you. Just thought you should know  -- [[User:Zachariel|<span style="color:#933;font-family:Monotype Corsiva;cursor:help"><big>'''Zac''' </big></span>]] '''Δ''' <sup>[[User talk:Zachariel|<span style="color:black"> talk!</span>]]</sup> 00:40, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
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