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hoping the board rolls soon... i have an ST question -- nm
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i'm not dead yet ! (aka pacrat)
Mar 10 '11, 10:30
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Another roll? You have a bit of a wait in front of you. -- nm
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Spawn
Mar 10, 10:32
tada !! okay, so ... ST... the word "foil", used in a literary sense, as in character B is a foil to Character A ...
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i'm not dead yet !
Mar 10, 10:31
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an excuse to provide a narritive or explaination of a proceedure -- nm
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zeitgeist
Mar 10, 10:59
Seems to me in comedy, the foil seems to be a stand-in for the audience -- nm
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con_carne
Mar 10, 10:40
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Bud Abbott to Costello, for example -- nm
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con_carne
Mar 10, 10:42
I'll be you hucklberry. Nemesis.
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Spawn
Mar 10, 10:32
usually the foil is the main antagonist, to me. -- nm
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Reagen
Mar 10, 10:32
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But it makes me think it has a comic element to it. One upmanship or something. -- nm
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Amy
Mar 10, 10:34
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It can take that connotation but doesn't have to, IMO. -- nm
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Reagen
Mar 10, 10:36
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Stop foiling me! -- nm
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Amy
Mar 10, 10:41
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Oh dammit. I mean "Curses, foiled again." -- nm
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Amy
Mar 10, 10:41
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