"If by that you mean to knock some sense and manners into those noisy....revelers..." he turns and spits on the floor. "then you can count me in. Uncouth, drunken, mumble, mumble"

Caracatus the Druid walks into the Inn, his face is ashen. Looking around, he spies Rathil serving some customers at the bar. He rushes over.

"Rathil, some brew I beg of you." As Rathil serves him, Caracatus downs in all at once, spilling a good deal of it in his beard. He slams the tankard onto the bar. "Another."
He is more conservative with this one.

"Why Caracatus, my friend," says Rathil, "What is wrong?"

"Too many people, too much noise." says the Druid, "In my solitary wanderings, I am afraid that I have lost my taste for crowds." he says, heaving a heavy sigh.
He looks around with a scowl as the others laugh. His lips draw into a tight line and he turns to stare furiously into his brew.

OMG! That perfectly describes my Boss!
Hi Hiker!

Don't forget good ole St. Judes.

I'm pretty sure that if you Google the name it'll come up with something, in case I didn't get it right. And you're welcome.

Aren't there already sites like that? A friend told me she belonged to Sober Circle, or something like that. Went on and on about how great it was and all of the resources it had...

That's what an off-world nanomite attractor to the sun would be for. Or you could have an orbiting device that rained hell from above...use your imagination.

Get dressed up in a belly dancer's outfit, lead him to the couch and prop him up with pillows like a reclining Sultan, then feed him morsels of his favorite food, y'know steak or whatever, so long as it's not something humdrum and "everyday", with your fingers. After you've eaten, well...just lean in and give him a long, lingering kiss. The rest I leave to your imagination.

Hey, it's not too late! I can teach you...

Jules Verne inspired rockets to the moon and modern submarines. I think it was Asimov who inspired the Laser, among other things. Many famous science fiction writers, who were known as "Hard" science fiction writers (Asimov, Clark, D1ck, Heinlein, et al) because they really researched the science behind their ideas and even the physics behind the feasibility of some of their space voyages are today credited as visionaries who inspired our scientists to make the author's work come to life for real, in one way or another.

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In creating the nanomites, scientists would be incredibly remiss not to build in some sort of failsafe that would enable someone in authority to either stop them or destroy them outright, in the event that they replicated and/or mutated in an undesirous manner.
It's almost a given that if you create something that has the potential to turn on you, that you equip either it or yourself with something that enables you to stop it unfailingly. While I will concede that there is always the potential that nanomites could conceivably mutate away from any built-in self destruct mechanism, I would suggest that such an scenario would be taken into consideration by the scientists involved in their creation and that an alternative control method would be designed.

Like a giant nanomite attractor that then plunged itself into the Sun, for example. (Tongue firmly planted in cheek here)

If life were fair, everyone who wanted to work would have a suitable job.

Oh you DOG, you!

Movie weekend with buddies...Iron Man, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, maybe a couple of others. Been jonesing for popcorn and soft pretzel all week at the thought of it.

"If you can imagine it, you can make it happen"

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Amen to that one!

If life were fair, Microsoft wouldn't exist!

If life were fair, everyone would have enough to eat and a safe, warm place to sleep.

If life were fair, we wouldn't need Lawyers...ever.