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Things I have attempted to look up recently, for fanfic reasons:

• what the hangy things that barristers wear are called (answer: "bands", usually, but also apparently "legal tabs")


• how someone might construct a letter bomb (few satisfactory answers found, although the easiest kind seem to be incendiary, using thermite)


• the Latin name, diet, and habitat of fishers


• the life of Archibald Lampman


• alternative explanations for Xavier's paralysis, besides that crazy-ass "alien dropped a stone block on him" comicverse reason


• the medical name for a lump in the throat (answer: globus hystericus)


• the context for a particular quote from Cyril of Jerusalem


• why Kai Winn and Kai Opaka wore different robes even though they held the same office (no answers found)

In short, Google is my boyfriend. Sometimes a weird, uncommunicative boyfriend.

Il est bel et bon comme mari

I was looking through some actor photos, in search of good images for fic manips, and damn, you know who's hot? Lothaire Bluteau.

( sexy 40-ish French guy! )

Kind of like a less-creepy Jeremy Irons, no? I only know him from Black Robe, which is a great movie if you like flicks that get called "bleak", "harsh", and (distressingly) "savage" -- not a great adjective to choose for a movie that stars Tantoo Cardinal and August Schellenberg. I haven't seen Jésus de Montréal, although I should. If only for some sweet sweet Lothaire Bluteau action.

Anyway, sexy as he is, he is still too young for what I'm after. I also thought of Yvon Ponton, but he has no pictures up that Google can find. If anyone knows of a good 50/60-ish actor, preferably French or Québécois, whose likeness could conceivably be misused for a stubborn but compassionate Jesuit in a fanfic, I'd love to hear your suggestions.