> > Oh, and, BTW, Dave, you may have fun in
> >Valhalla for a while but then you're gonna get
> >jacked when the Giants invade Asgard and blast
> >the whole setup to oblivion. I forget what
> >happens to the Underworld ghosts, but I think
> >Hel basically absorbs your energy and *uses* you
> >to blast the whole setup to oblivion. Either way
> >it's not much of a long-term future.
>
> Ah, but out of the rubble of the old world will rise a new and better world. That is, after all, the whole point of Ragnarok. Well, that and the opportunity to kick some holy butt. So I have the satisfaction knowing that either way, I'll play my part in the grand rebirth of the Universe.
>
> -- Dave

Enh. Not sure if it's worth getting annihilated over. After all, who's gonna enjoy the new world when it comes? Two humans? Thor's kids? Baldur the Beautiful? And the ruins of the Ash Tree?

Now, in *my* old ways we're all gonna end up in Nirvana together. Which is a shame for those of us who never got into grunge... (Still looking forward to getting reincarnated as Sam first. Or maybe Dave. I bet I could get reincarnated as Dave if I worked at it.)

Oh, yeah, and thanks to wintermute for reminding me about the toenail clippings.

Wasn't the thing that Hel uses the toenail clippings to make *her* big Ship of Death while the Gods use pieces of leather left over from shoes to make *their* big Ship of Death? No, wait, the Gods' thing was a Chariot of Justice or something. The leather's suppose to make the reins for the horses, one of whom is Sleipnir. (Apologies if I'm mangling the mythology; Norse was never my forte. They made us learn primarily Greek in school. Norse is cooler, though.)

Whatever; the point is, with our new methods of footwear manufacture, the amount of leather scrap from making shoes has surely decreased (at the big factories, don't they just dump them for recycling, rather than consecrating them to the Gods like they're supposed to? The few that still *use* real leather rather than the cheap synthetic stuff, hardly fit for harnessing the big Chariot of Justice) while the number of dead bodies buried with untrimmed toenails has, if anything, probably increased. Of course, you probably don't need as much leather to make a harness as you'd need clippings to make a boat, but still... things aren't looking good for the Gods right now. Hel must have the whole hull done by now and is probably now just adding all those fancy designs on the figurehead.

Quick; everybody start buying real genuine leather shoes by the dozen! Do your part in the fight for right!

Ar"makes a point of keeping his toenails trimmed in case he gets in a car accident"thur