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March 3

early webcomics gallery

In the webcomic Joe Average, the first anniversary strip has 37 characters from other webcomics. Can you help me name them? By rows:

Nukees, S.S.D.D. (Poisoned Minds), Look What I Brought Home (?), Superosity
Road Waffles, ____, Life at Bayside (?), Bobbins
____, Ashfield, When I Grow Up
Bruno the Bandit, Avalon High, Joe Average
____, Soap on a Rope (?), ____
____, ____, It's Walky
Elf Life, ____, ____
Help Desk, Clan of the Cats, GPF
Sinfest, ____, ____
Everything Jake, Real Life, ____
Alice, Funny Farm, The Class Menagerie
____, Suburban Jungle, ____

—Tamfang (talk) 15:32, 3 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure third row middle is Achewood. Last row left is oddly familiar but I can't place it. — Aᴋʀᴀʙʙıᴍ ^talk 16:00, 3 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Right, not Achewood – Ashfield (which has fallen off the web). —Tamfang (talk) 00:30, 4 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

March 4

Eric Easton (music manager)

I'm having problem finding a WP-useful source for the year of his death. It's probably 1995 per [1], but is there something better? Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 11:41, 4 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Found one. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 07:29, 5 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

March 6

In the land of Mordor where the shadows lie

What does "lie" mean to a native speaker? To me (not a native speaker, and not even a fluent speaker), it could mean three things, of which the most probable is that "the land of Mordor is full of shadows", but it could also mean "in Mordor, the shadows say untrue things", in other words, "shadows lie". Probably it could even mean "the shadows are reclined on the ground". I know it's not possible to know exactly what Tolkien meant here, I'm not really looking for an in-depth analysis here, just what does it mean to an ordinary English-speaker? Thanks. -- 193.37.212.126 (talk) 20:25, 6 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The use of lie here could mean "to be located in a place" (i.e. "the book lies on the shelf"), also "Where <blank> lie" is idiomatic in English to mean "where <blank> lives", however I would not put it past Tolkien to use the term as a double entendre, carrying the double meaning "to tell an untruth" as well as "to be located in a place". Such double entendre are a tradition in English, my favorite of which is the opening lines of Richard III (play) "Now is the winter of our discontent/Made glorious summer by this sun of York" where "sun of York" is a double entendre meaning both "The yellow orb that warms us in summer" and "son of York", as in Richard III was literally the son of the Duke of York. I could totally see Tolkien doing that with the word "lie". --Jayron 32 20:36, 6 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe, but I think he was just using archaic and poetic language. See Wiktionary:lie: 1. Verb (intransitive) To rest in a horizontal position on a surface. Examples:

"How heavily the shadows lie in the rock-close" (1838) [2]

"Deeper still, the shadows lie" (1866) [3]

"While soft on icy pool and stream their penciled shadows lie" (1833) [4]

"Oft when the moon looks from on high, And black around the shadows lie" (1790) [5]

"Life may glide into the great ocean where the shadows lie; and the spirit, without, guile, may be severed from its mansion" (1839) [6]

Alansplodge (talk) 23:43, 6 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, per Alansplodge, the literal usage is like "lie down on a bed", and also "lie in wait" (stay low and out of sight while waiting to ambush someone/something; the "lie" in this phrase is metaphorical). Think of a cat staying near the ground outside a mouse hole, waiting for the mouse to come out so it can pounce. So the line from the poem evokes a sense of a darkness in Mordor, waiting to do something bad when the right opportunity comes. 73.93.153.19 (talk) 07:53, 7 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

March 9

It's not "Trees Я Us"

I'm trying to find a video game by an independent developer, c. mid/late 2000s. If I remember correctly, it had a generic single-word title that (as far as I knew) had nothing to do with the scenario involved. The scenario: you colonize planets by planting trees. Starting on a home planet, trees are planted that are either offensive or defensive. The offensive trees produce seeds that fly off into space, and either find vacant planets or (more likely) do battle with other seeds of the defensive type and (hopefully) overpower them; surviving seed(s) being planted to produce trees; then send over seeds to plant defensive trees -- and so on -- until you colonize the entire (system? galaxy? universe?). Does this sound familiar to anybody? I think it won some sort of prestigious award. 107.15.157.44 (talk) 05:17, 9 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Eufloria (originally Dyson)? ---Sluzzelin talk 05:24, 9 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Yes! Thanks! (it was "Dyson" then ... isn't that a vacuum company?) —107.15.157.44 (talk) 05:30, 9 March 2020 (UTC) . . . P.s: I was unaware of the Dyson tree concept.[reply]

Ruby Ramirez

I am trying to find an adult size costume of Ruby Ramirez. She is from the Rusty Rivets TV show for children. We have a Rusty costume but our son wants his mother to be Ruby, I have search the internet but have had no luck. Thanks from the UK.