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Video Games => Video Game Chat => Topic started by: Tv_Themes on December 16, 2009, 06:19:34 PM
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I can't find this anywhere! No calender kiosks, no calender stores, nowhere!
Where did you find yours?
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It doesn't include Christmas, Easter or Good Friday. Don't but it. Boycott it.
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Come on. Do you really buy a calender to see what date Christmas is?
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My point is that it displays every secular holiday from Halloween to Thanksgiving to Independence Day, but omits any mention of more-important events of religous origin.
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Christmas and Easter aren't even of Christian origin in the first place so why are you complaining?
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I see this topic going fast into NatDT territory.
Unsurprisingly, I'm with Weegee on this one.
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You've gotta love how Chup always tries to debase others' statements without explaining himself.
My point is that it displays every secular holiday from Halloween to Thanksgiving to Independence Day, but omits any mention of more-important events of religous origin.
Let's try this again: My point is that my point is that Nintendo Power's calendar serves as just another example of how political correctness is worming its way ever deeper into culture.
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Christmas and Easter are just as fake as anything, I'd love a calendar that doesn't have the pretentious pricks. Halloween may be shallow and about dressing up and eating candy, but everyone knows it and doesn't pretend it's an essential religious thing.
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Granted, I wouldn't mind a calendar that had holidays from every religion, but I don't see that happening either. These days though, it only seems fair.
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Ah, this is why TMK Forums is so much fun! VERY little authority on Spam ^_^ (I'm being serious btw) I mean, 8 posts not even answering a simple question! (seriously, its awesome!)
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How is any of this spam? This is all discussion.
I have no idea where to get said calendar. Probably online. Or Wal*Mart?
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Hey, hey, I'm not complaining, didn't I make that clear?
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Further proof that Tv_Themes doesn't read.
It's at Borders and Barnes and Noble, you illiterate philistine.
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I picked mine up from Chapters. It's sold alongside gaming magazines, so moving your search away from calendar racks would help.
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A Calender store that doesn't sell Calenders is like a Burger King that doesn't sell Burgers. C'mon Wiggles, was that diss REALLY necessary?
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A Calender that doesn't sell Calenders is like a Burger King that doesn't sell Burgers.
Actually, a Calender that doesn't sell Calenders is like a Burgar that doesn't sell Burgars. Just sayin'.
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Frick! I was too late to realize I forgot to put the "Stores" part on "Calender Stores." >_<
Btw, Burger is spelt "Burger."
I'm not lying.
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>_> ..... Hmmmmmm (http://books.barnesandnoble.com/search/noresults.aspx?WRD=Nintendo%20power%202010%20Calender&ern=200)
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Btw, Calendar is spelled "Calendar."
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I dislike Nintendo Power and extreme political correctness, but this is certainly a tempting package... though I probably should focus on trying to get a copy of last year's poster book before anything else.
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This thread was really sort of the last straw for me. I'm off to go add another nomination for the WTD award in my Winter Awards votes.
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I went to Barnes & Noble and STILL didn't find it. >_>
Btw, Calendar is spelled "Calendar."
According to Safari Browser, both are okay.
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So is burgar if you right click on it and click Add to dictionary.
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Must be the island boy in me... we spell "Harbor" as "Harbour."
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No, just the misspeller in you.
Main Entry: cal·en·der
Pronunciation: \ˈka-lən-dər\
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Form(s): cal·en·dered; cal·en·der·ing \-d(ə-)riŋ\
Etymology: Middle French calandrer, from calandre machine for calendering, from Vulgar Latin *colendra cylinder, modification of Greek kylindros — more at cylinder
Date: 1513
: to press (as cloth, rubber, or paper) between rollers or plates in order to smooth and glaze or to thin into sheets
— cal·en·der·er \-dər-ər\ noun
The calender is a series of hard pressure rollers at the end of a papermaking process (on-line). Those that are used separate from the process (off-line) are also called "supercalenders". The purpose of a calender is to smooth out the paper for printing and writing on it, and to increase the gloss on the surface.
The word "calender" itself is a derivation of the word kylindros, the Greek word for "cylinder".
In the past, the paper sheets were worked on with a polished hammer or pressed between polished metal sheets in a press. With the continuously operating paper machine it became part of the process of rolling the paper (in this case also called web paper). The pressure between the rollers, the "nip pressure", can be reduced by heating the rolls and/or moistening the paper surface. This helps to keep the bulk and the stiffness of the web paper which is beneficial for its later use.
Modern calenders have "hard" heated rollers made from chilled cast iron or steel, and "soft" rollers coated with polymeric composites. This widens the working nip and distributes the specific pressure on the paper more evenly.
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The word "calender" itself is a derivation of the word kylindros, the Greek word for "cylinder".
What does a calender have to do with a cylinder? Honestly.
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Calendars have nothing to do with cylinders, but hard pressure rollers (calenders) do.
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I suspect the reason such holidays are missing has nothing to do with Nintendo being atheist, but rather not wanted to pen down a date when various regions in their market celebrate on different dates. Remember that this is not an American calendar, but rather from the UK and originally intended for Europe where many countries celebrate Christmas on January 7th. Should they have put Christmas on both December 25 and January 7th?
In other words, this is part of Nintendo's recent switch to producing guides, instruction manuals, and etc. for multiple regions and trying to satisfy each without offending the others. Think of the old games that had crosses, stars, or crescents that where dropped or changed to generic symbols when released/re-released in multiple regions. Would you be as offended if they had littered the calendar with holiday's from all the worlds other religions?
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It's an American magazine, so it really ought to have widely-accepted American holidays in its calendar. It did in the past.
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Well, I could be wrong, but isn't it the same calendar that originally came with an issue of the Nintendo Official Magazine from the United Kingdom?
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I get neither, so you'd have to tell me.
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STILL no straight answer? This is the most off-topic thread I have ever created...
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Wait, there was a question?
...Sorry. Well, to respond directly, probably because no one else could find one either.
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Where can I find the CalenDAR in the opening post?
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The "burgar" thing was intentional, and meant to be blatantly sarcastic.
Nintendo Power is only circulated in North America, so the dates must have been altered as such. Let's just blame the omission of religious holidays on Future US and be done with it.
As for straight answers, check the magazine rack at your local bookstore. That's where I bought mine.
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This is the most off-topic thread I have ever created...
http://themushroomkingdom.net/board/index.php?topic=12814.0
http://themushroomkingdom.net/board/index.php?topic=12672.0
http://themushroomkingdom.net/board/index.php?topic=12539.0
http://themushroomkingdom.net/board/index.php?topic=12707.0
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Where did you find yours?
I don't have one.
Where can I find the CalenDAR in the opening post?
Simply replying to check Ebay is frowned upon, but... http://shop.ebay.com/?_from=R40&_trksid=p3907.m38.l1311&_nkw=nintendo+calendar
I haven't seen if for sale anywhere else in real life or online.
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Quite frankly NP isn't just giving me one... I am a subscriber.
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I also subscribe to NP, and nor did I receive one through the mail. Therefore,
check the magazine rack at your local bookstore.
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Still haven't gotten it, but I've kinda stopped looking due to recent holidays. I'm hoping to go to Barnes & Noble maybe tomorrow.
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I know what you mean; Martin Luther King Jr Day always puts me out of the calendar-buying mood too*.
* - This would work better if it were two weeks from now
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Got it!
Too bad I almost ruined it by removing the staples and throwing them away... but nothing some tacs can't solve.
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I really want this. It looks awesome. *_*