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Post by janggut on Feb 23, 2006 3:23:17 GMT
bola means ball in malay language. hmm.... i wonder if the word is originally lifted from spanish/portuguese?
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Post by Gray Lensman on Feb 23, 2006 3:28:11 GMT
The bola is indeed Spanish, Jang, yes.
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Post by Glance A'Lot on Feb 23, 2006 9:28:45 GMT
@ LaFille: Indeed 'bola' can be different things - see this disambiguation in Wikipedia
Bola From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search
A Bola can be one of a number of things:
* Bolas, a hunting weapon. It is mostly used in South America and consists of two or three heavy balls or stones tied to the ends of one or more lengths of cord or string. * A bola is a type of Western necktie. * Bola is also a volcano on the island of New Britain in Papua New Guinea * bola bola is a gambling game where a player has to guess the position of a small ball under one of three containers (cup, nutshell...), after the 'bank' has shuffled the containers around. See also Three card monte#Similar games. * Bola is the performing pseudonym of Darrell Fitton, a British electronic musician signed to Skam Records. * Bola is an abreviated form of some African names such as Abimbola, Adebola, Bolaji, Bolanle and much more... some bearers have adopted the umlaut on the o Böla to correctly emphasise the right pronounciation of the name. * bola found on food reference sites (1) as an alcoholic drink mixture of brandy and fruit, (2) beef shoulder (in a recipe for sausages, pork-free), and (3) a kind (not sure if it is a brand or a vintage) of wine. Also (4) the name of a restaurant. All references were found in Google Groups. Please add any information or corrections you find in addition.
This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an internal link referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.
{I love Wikipedia - and on top, it's multi-ligual!}
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Post by LaFille on Feb 23, 2006 16:48:22 GMT
Oh, Wiki! How come didn't I think of it!? ;D Thanks Glance. No wonder how come my search gave so much different stuff...
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Post by Shan on Feb 26, 2006 4:33:17 GMT
The bolas Scim made, how heavy would they be? Also how big are they? Would they normally be carried hooked to your belt, in a large bag, small pouch like Lor put the globes in or what? I'm trying to figure out how Ash should carry them since the club or globe will be in her hands a good bit of the time. Shan
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Post by Elliot Kane on Feb 26, 2006 5:00:04 GMT
They ARE quite heavy, being solid glass. Size-wise, they are basically three tennis balls and three strips of cloth - so no-one is carrying hundreds of them ;D
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Post by Shan on Feb 27, 2006 0:21:31 GMT
I got one and I think from what you just said I think that is enough. Shan
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Post by SilvaShado on Feb 27, 2006 7:06:31 GMT
E - a quick question about combat. Can a person move their full distance and do all their attacks in one round? (Coming froma D&D perspective, that would be quite cool.) ^_^
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Post by Elliot Kane on Feb 27, 2006 7:31:38 GMT
Provisionally yes, Silva. I hadn't actually thought about it, but I don't see why not. A round being a kind of unspecified period of much frantic activity, as it were
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Post by SilvaShado on Feb 27, 2006 7:38:03 GMT
Cool. Thanks. ^_~
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