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Twenty-Sided Dice

Joel — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 06:21:46 +0000

Twenty-sided dice are an esoteric piece of gaming paraphernalia, but necessary for playing Dungeons & Dragons, a fantasy, role-playing game, popular with the unpopular. As such, the term is often used in a humorous way to refer to nerds, geeks, and others who are differently focused. ”The Onion‘s uncontested eminence in the satiric newspaper industry notwithstanding, you would not readily pick out its staffers from a crowd as elite wielders of media power. T-shirts and sneakers are de rigueur, and the dominant style is the unshaven, underexercised, Nazarene look of bookish people who probably suffered a steady program of jibes and wedgies in junior high school and carried pocketfuls of 20-sided dice.”—Wells Tower, “Onion Nation: If its absurdist twists and wicked parodies of conventional journalism are just a joke, thecountry’s leading satirical newspaper is having the last laugh,” The Washington Post, November 16, 2008, p. W08.

20 Questions

Joel — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 05:09:24 +0000

Le Petit Vingtième

Joel — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 04:41:28 +0000

“Le Petit Vingtième” (“The Little Twentieth”) was a newspaper published in Belgium from 1928 to 1940. It was the youth supplement for the Le Vingtième Siècle, a conservative, Catholic newspaper, and is best known for originally publishing the Tintin comic strip.

20-20-20 Rule

Joel — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 04:14:36 +0000

20/20 News Program

Joel — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 04:11:11 +0000

20/20 Vision

Joel — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 04:05:50 +0000

G-20

Joel — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:17:00 +0000