Random Crap

[Kwick22a]

A couple of months ago I got a magazine with the picture of the Fantastic Four cast on the cover and I started thinking it would kind of funny if at some point in the movie someone were to challenge the teams methods and they responded "We're going to do this our way. The Fantastic Fourway!"

I've also been thinking that if aliens do eventually contact humanity it will be a complaint about noise and threats of legal action.

If someone were to take every grain of sand from every beach in the world and put it all in one place...Well that would be kind of silly and pointless. Like a broken pencil with a clown nose on it.

[BLING IS BACK AGAIN]

aliens have already come to earth silly

[D.K.HOOD]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Kwick22a:
"The Fantastic Fourway!"<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

I think you just came up with the new title for a porno spoof that will surely be made based on the FF.

[Kwick22a]

From the Producers of Speedo-Man and Baredevil: Man Without Pants! Comes a hot new adventure!

The Fantastic Fourway!

Ron Jeremy as The Big Thing!
Chasey Lain as Invisble Clothing Girl!
Some new guy as the stretchy dude!
And introducing Dilly the Lovebot! Wait till you see what Dilly does!


And don't forget next week! New on DVD! Esextra!


[This message has been edited by Kwick22a (edited 03-31-2005).]

[D.K.HOOD]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Kwick22a:
<B>Chasey Lain as Invisble Clothing Girl!
</B><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Oh yeah. Me likes the sound of that!

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Kwick22a:
<B>And don't forget next week! New on DVD! Esextra!
</B><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Esextra? Are you sure you don't mean Essextra? I mean, that would explain all those times he said he couldn't update the DCG. He was too busy earning that greasy--I mean easy money.

[Kwick22a]

That would definitely explain the DVD cover art.

[The Xenos]

Eh. Chasey's retired I think. Maybe Jenna Haze. Acutlaly, if you want a good blonde (as all blonde pornstars are natural), I'd suggest Sunrise Adams.

Ron Jeremy needs to be The Thing. He made a great Mario (http://img197.exs.cx/img197/3673/ron10988159349820md.jpg).

Not that I have ever seen these actors and actreses in their work.. um.. I just.. saw something on E!.. um.. maybe?

-Xenos

[This message has been edited by The Xenos (edited 03-31-2005).]

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[D.K.HOOD]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by The Xenos:
<B>Ron Jeremy needs to be The Thing. He made a great Mario (http://img197.exs.cx/img197/3673/ron10988159349820md.jpg).

Xenos

</B><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

That picture might be just as disturbing as anything I saw in Sin City.

BTW, kudos to Kwick22a for the title of the thread. It's crude, yet effective!

[Kwick22a]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by D.K.HOOD:
It's crude, yet effective! <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

You know, it's amazing how often those exact words are used to describe the things I do. Thanks.

[Kwick22a]

Well, I just had something kind of weird happen. Earlier today I was looking through the online personals on Yahoo (it's more or less self torture at this point because anytime I find a girl who seems interesting she can also do a lot better than me) and I found a profile for a really cute girl who seems to have some of the same interests as me. But as I said she can probably do a lot better than me.
Then just a short while ago I was listening to Loveline (I used to be a regular listener, but now I only listen on nights when I don't have to go to work the next day) and the first caller of the night is the girl whose profile I was looking at this morning!
I didn't realize it at first, but then they asked her what she did and she gave the exact same description that was on her profile.
Now that was weird.

[Marrow2000]

That IS weird, Kwick... you should try to respond to her profile, maybe she'll think you're a stalker.

I just found out I'll be working on the new Supergirl title. Wooo!

[D.K.HOOD]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Marrow2000:
I just found out I'll be working on the new Supergirl title. Wooo!<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Congrats!! Are you doing cover art, sequential, or both?

[Kwick22a]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Marrow2000:
<B>That IS weird, Kwick... you should try to respond to her profile, maybe she'll think you're a stalker.

I just found out I'll be working on the new Supergirl title. Wooo!</B><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

The way my luck with women tends to run that's exactly what would happen.
Congratulations!

[Marrow2000]

oh I can't draw to save my life. Just interior colors.

No worries, Kwick, I have no luck w/ women either. Actually, I DO have luck w/ women, but I'm not interested in them, lol.

[Kwick22a]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Marrow2000:
No worries, Kwick, I have no luck w/ women either. Actually, I DO have luck w/ women, but I'm not interested in them, lol.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

That seems to be the way things work a lot of the time. I've got a friend, a good looking guy, and girls always seem to be interested in him. But he has a steady girlfriend so technically he's off the market. Sometimes when we go places I think about having him wear a shirt that says "Sorry unavailable. But my friend is free." and maybe on the back have it say "If your willing to lower your standards a little." For awhile there I actually considered using the phrase "hey baby, you look like you have low standards," as a pickup line. But then I figured girls wouldn't get the joke and besides when would I ever get to use it? I don't really go anywhere.
Now I'm actually considering responding to her profile. My friend thinks I should, going with the what's the worst that can happen philosophy. Hopefully the worst that could happen is she isn't interested. There are, of course, many things that are far worse than that but why be overly negative? Other than that is my general outlook on the world.
Some days I really regret deciding never to drink alcohol. Maybe if I killed off a few brain cells I wouldn't over think things all the time. No, I'd probably just start thinking about all the brain cells I've killed off and get worked up again.
I really need to try and get some sleep.

[Kwick22a]

Just an update. I did respond to that girl's personal ad. Unfortunately she has decided to take a break from dating for awhile. I'm going to choose to believe that I had nothing to do with that decision.
I may not do well with women, but at least I'm consistent.

[Kwick22a]

I was just listening to the radio, and I heard a commercial for anming a star after your girlfriend. I started thinking, if all these stars are getting named after people how come they never went to the Stephanie system on Star Trek. Or, if they go with pet names, Cuddle Bunny 12. Not once did we hear Kirk tell Sulu to set course to Sex Poppet 8. At least not that we saw. I wouldn't be surprised if some days Kirk would walk on the bridge yell the words Sex Poppet, then leave. I mean Kirk "breached the warp cores" of a lot of alien girls, so if he had the chance to shout Sex Poppet, and have a good reason to, he would. I'm surprised he didn't try to mount the Horta when they found out it was female.

I have to believe the whole naming the stars thing is the reason why the aliens are going to invade. Some hyper advanced species is gonna drop by, do a little research, find out what we named their star, go home and get ready to kick a little human tail.
"They named our system WHAT! Oh, it's on now!"
So remember, when you go in to get a star named after your signifigant other, you could be bringing about the end of the world.

[DS]

Hmmm... I guess I shouldn't have named that one star "Earth's B**ch," after all.

Sorry, in advance of our future enslavement. http://www.comics2film.com/UBB/frown.gif

[D.K.HOOD]

No wonder abductees get anal probed so much.

[D.K.HOOD]

Man, the Superman and Batman Forums are getting a little frantic. I request Asylum in this thread, at least for the next couple of months.

[Kwick22a]

Request granted. Welcome, trash pick up is on Thursday and try to avoid the blue squirrels. They aren't dangerous, it's just once they start talking they just won't shut up.

[Kwick22a]

I just tried reading some of the posts in the Batman forum. It's like a political debate down there. Not because of issues being raised, but because when I could only get about halfway through before I started blanking out and not caring who wins.
I mean I like Batman, and I'm looking forward to, but come on. It's just a movie. Does it really warrant so much debate and animosity?
What really demands public discourse is the relationship between Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy. I mean why does he stay with that abusive pig. She's always beating him up and putting him down. Really, either he needs to leave her or she needs to get some anger counseling.
I was also going to make a crack about how Kermit isn't kosher because he eats pork. But I was worried that I might offend someone. There was also this thing about frog tongue...ATTENTION: For the sake of public sanity Kwick22a has been placed back in his box until his public decency sub routines can be reinstalled. Sorry for the inconvenience.

[D.K.HOOD]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Kwick22a:
What really demands public discourse is the relationship between Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy. I mean why does he stay with that abusive pig. She's always beating him up and putting him down. Really, either he needs to leave her or she needs to get some anger counseling. [/B]<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Didn't you know frogs are into S&M? Everyone always thinks they're saying "ribbit" when they are actually saying "rip it...rip it right off, oh yeah that's the ticket, just like that...hah oooh oh ahhhh". To hear what frogs are really saying you must lick them first, for that is the secret frog handshake.

[brokenstatue2001]

Hey, DK, do you mean frogs or you?
Sick little monkey.

Oh, and licking frogs, not the best idea, I did that once and I started seeing all sorts of freaky stuff. A lot of lights and sounds that sounded like car horns.

[D.K.HOOD]

Me, into S&M? Nah. Pain does not equal pleasure for me, and I really don't like being treated like someone's pet.

And on another note, since this is the Random Crap thread I thought I'd ask if anyone else noticed that 3 different Baseball teams scored 11 runs on Sunday(Yankees, Red Sox, and Nationals). It just seemed kind of strange to me, that's all.

[Znluvx]

I just read online that Universal is going to remake Hitchcock's The BIRDS!

What is the world coming to?!

My guess is just about every movie ever made will be remade.

I can't wait for the Ashton Kutcher, Lindsey Lohan CASABLANCA.

[D.K.HOOD]

Bump-digity, bump-doubt baby.

Just bumping this topic back up before it drops to page 2 in the forum. I've got no random crap to spew, except for the fact that I was asleep during "the end of the world drill" today in Washington DC. In case you haven't heard, somebody flew a tiny cessna aircraft into restricted airspace and hundreds of people(mainly political types) were evacuated from their buildings. As far as I know the guy was diverted, landed and taken into custody. Big whup.

[Kwick22a]

Heard about that plane thing and all I can think is it's nice to know that when the world comes to an end all our politicians will be perfectly safe while the rest of us are left to fight off the zombie hoard. On the brightside the politicians won't last very long either because, other than politics, politicians don't know how to do a damned thing. They'll be reduced to eating eachother within a few months. I say months instead of weeks because I figure they have some supplies. Suddenly I realize exactly where the Morlocks, in H.G. Wells' The Time Machine, came from.
Here's a bit of random crap. I am really sick of Donald Trump. Friday morning I go to Yahoo to check my horoscope and the first thing I see is Trump's sour, wrinkled, lemon sucking face staring at me. That was bad enough, but now he's in the Dominos commercials and it seems like I can't watch an hour of TV, on any station, without him popping up two or three times and babbling like a moron. I just want him to shut his freaking mouth and go away! But he just won't.
I've also decided that the golden rule, treat people like you want to be treated, shouldn't apply to everyone. Specifically masochists.

Kwick - Who ain't gonna be zombie chow.

[easy D]

Well, when The Apprentice ends this season, that would be the end of his overkill in TV. But, when Martha Stewart takes over, be prepared to see her face all over the place. Again.

[Kwick22a]

Any music group made up of zombies, corpses reanimated by scientific or mystical means, should be sued for false advertisement if they ever refer to their concerts as "live shows."

[Kwick22a]

Carrying on from another topic.

As for Paris Hilton, my problem isn't with her herself. She can live her life any way she wants, just like everyone else. It's the way the media and the entertainment industry are acting like she's the best thing to come along since solid gold toilets, and feel the need to saturate the mass consciousness with her existence. You turn on the TV there she is, you turn on the radio and someone's talking about her ( and I guess soon they'll be playing her too if what Norrin says about her recording an album is true.) You go online and there's her clueless, plastic face staring at you because she was the top internet search of the day. It's tiresome, it's boring, it's annoying, and it isn't the first time it's happened. It happens all the time. Britney Spears, Jessica Simpson, Hilary Duff, Lindsay Lohan and on and on. These people show up, draw an audience of some sort and then they get pushed on us constantly like a high powered feeding tube of pure cotton candy. Every move they make is treated like a world shaking event, and the worst part is how often they get reported alongside more important things. Britney's marriage goes side by side with the tsunami disaster or the pope's death. Paris Hilton's Carl's Jr commercial mixed with the war in Iraq.
I mean is this really the world we live in now, where people actually cry over Brad and Jen's divorce like it's something happening to their first cousins. It makes me so sad that I feel like crying, vomiting, or drowning myself in a bucket of water. Maybe all three.
And just in case anyone wants to make the point about not having to watch or changing a channel, something I regularly tell people who talk about censoring things, that's exactly what I do. I tune it all out the best I can, but it would be nice if I didn't have to do it so often.
My opinion.

[norrinraad]

My personal pet peeve is Brad Pitt. He averages three flops for every hit, and if you look at his career he has NEVER carried a hit film. He has been in a smattering of hits but they've always been ensemble pieces. Yet here he is, one of the most famour and successful actors in the world. The guy farts and it makes the cover of every magazine in the world. Imagine that...

As for Paris, the reason she's everywhere is because the public demands it. She appears on TV and people watch. They put her on a magazine cover and people buy it. She's a monster created by the public itself. Think of her as our generation's Za Za Gabor, a woman famous for being famous.

I can understand the hunger for celebrity. We need glamour to escape the druggery of everyday life. It's for this reason that you don't see your garbage man on the cover of a magazine or your plumber on Jay Leno's show. The thing that I find somewhat alarming is that these days, you can have very little talent and still become super famous. I look at people like Hilary Duff and Lindsay Lohan and see this talent vacuum. These people will not be remembered 100 years from now like Marilyn Monroe and James Dean will. Blame it on Reality TV, where you can be an everyday joe and suddenly find yourself on a hit TV show. It is kind of sad, actually.

Having said all that, I'd still like to get drunk with Paris someday... :lol:

[D.K.HOOD]

The biggest reason why James Dean and Marilyn Monroe will last forever as pop icons is because of how they died, not because of talent level. They had talent, certainly more than Paris Hilton has (outside the bedroom at least), but they weren't more talented than most real actors out there today.

[easy D]

My personal pet peeve is Brad Pitt. He averages three flops for every hit, and if you look at his career he has NEVER carried a hit film. He has been in a smattering of hits but they've always been ensemble pieces. Yet here he is, one of the most famour and successful actors in the world. The guy farts and it makes the cover of every magazine in the world. Imagine that...

Well, it's not exactly like the guy is talentless. He did help make a cult icon out of Tyler Durden from Fight Club, and I believe he was nominated for an Academy Award for 12 Monkeys. Now, I'm not one to defend him. He surely isn't one of the greatest actors around, not even one of the greatest under rated (that belongs to Bruce Willis!). The reason for Brad Pitt's popularity is his looks. Pure and simple. Just like Keanu Reeves. Only Brad Pitt has range, something Keanu Reeves doesn't have.

Also, while on the topic of Paris Hilton, I don't really give a flying monkey's ass what the hell she does, or who the hell she's doing it to. One thing I'm pretty sure about, someone as addicted to celebrity as she is, well, I'm pretty sure she's not going to fade away from the public's eye easily. It took something as drastic as releasing a home-made porno to get her in there, and in a couple of years, it would take something equally drastic to keep her there, a little while longer.
Remember Monica Lewinski? Or Kato Kaelin? Or Joey Buttafuco? All those people also had little to no talent, and they all became media darlings. If only for those little 15 minutes. I'm sure soon, Paris will get tired of her status and do whatever it is that little billionaire princesses do when they decide to grow up. And soon, her name will be right up there with those people, in some little pop culture encyclopedia, and no one will care. Thank you.

[D.K.HOOD]

A bit of Random Crap for Kwick22a:

I purchased the Buffy Season 7 Box Set not too long ago and there were two ads inside of Tru Calling on DVD, and Wonderfalls The Complete Series on DVD. Knowing how much of a fan of Wonderfalls that you are, I was just wondering if you bought the DVD's yet, or if you plan on buying them at all.

[Kwick22a]

I've been thinking about buying it, but everytime I see it at the store I'm not in the mood to pick it up. I'll probably get it before the end of the year though. Maybe as a Christmas present for myself.

[Soccerdude]

James Dean...great actor,one of my biggest icon/role models,but you're right,the people who know about him wouldn't know who he is if he hadn't had died like that.

But that brings up a question...would he still be an actor today if he hadn't died? Or at least an actor in the 80s or 90s. Don't try and say "Dean woulda been good as this character" because i'm sure if he had been alive then hollywood would have greenlighted films for him that in reality were turned down.

[norrinraad]

Well, Marilyn Monroe may not have been the best example of talent ensuring immortality, but I stand by my inclusion of James Dean in this rarified group. No true film student or historian could possibly overlook his influence on acting as an art form.

I had the pleasure of seeing both Giant and Rebel Without A Cause recently on DVD (it's great knowing people who get advanced copies of stuff) and I have to say that I finally "get" the whole James Dean thing. It's easy to look at him and see acting cliches abound. That whole bad boy/outsider/rebel thing has been done by everyone from Brando to DiNiro to Mitchum to even Depp and Pitt. However, it's easy to forget that Dean was one of the first mainstream actors to perfect that method of acting in American film. At the time the Matinee Idol thing was in full swing and it was rare to see someone in a mainstream film exude that air of menace and danger. I'm not going to suggest that the above mentioned actors were direct descendants of Dean, but what he did do was show studios that leading men could still be bankable without being generic and vacuous.

Would James be the legend he is today if he hadn't died so tragically young? What do you think? Brando died not too long ago and it wasn't as big a deal as you would imagine. Why? Because by the time he died, he had outlived his relevance. The reason people like Dean, Joplin, Morrison, Bonham, Scott, Monroe, Cobain became legends is because they died while they were still relevant. Why do you think Axle Rose can't put out another Guns N Roses record? He knows damn well that nothing he does at this point could possibly live up to expectations. He went into reclusive exile while his band was still one of the biggest in the world, and the longer he stays away, the more his legend grows. Not to sound harsh, but if he died tomorrow he would join the above list. However, if he puts out a record that flops he will lose much of his status, and don't assume for a second he's not aware of this.

[fadexero]

I recently watched a paris hilton...tape...disturbing...she make sex feel...like eating liver tastes. By the way...It was not my intention to watch it...a friend had it. The fact she gets so much media attention for it...while, if a guy did it...he'd be shunned. Hugh Grant...Tommy Lee...shunned, while That prostitute, and the one Hugh had sex with, (lol). Go t huge publicity.

Random Crap about fleeing politicians. Ever wonder about the government...and the politicians...like, they work for US...US! Yet they take OUR taxes...Hike up OUR gas prices, and SPEND OUR money for THEIR causes...NOw, I'm no Michael Moore lover, I hate that fat burger-eating-hotdog-swilling-pig. He should be banned from the good Ole USofA.
If he doesn't like it here...and take Jane Fonda with him. But, the fact that if we...as People demand that OUR G'ment do something to lower out gas prices...they will. If We Demand they Raise Minimum Wage...they will, etc etc. Remember they work for US...not other way around. We have to finally stand up and embrace OUR america...before it crumbles like th eproverbial Tower of Babel.

I thought Brad Pitt was Great in Se7en...and Interview With A Vampire, and I will hung for this...but He Carried Legends of the Fall...

[easy D]

But, the fact that if we...as People demand that OUR G'ment do something to lower out gas prices...they will. If We Demand they Raise Minimum Wage...they will, etc etc. Remember they work for US...not other way around. We have to finally stand up and embrace OUR america...before it crumbles like th eproverbial Tower of Babel.

But our government is doing something about it! They are making sure that football and baseball players aren't using drugs while playing. And seeing if they can keep that one brain dead woman in Florida alive for that little while longer. And seeing if they can get a foreign man the presidency. And making sure that they keep out a judge that would make abortion illegal. And making sure that gays can't marry.
Whether he knew it or not, Arnold Schwartzenegger (yep, The Governator) said it best. "They seem concerned about making the people in office happy, not making the people who put them there happy". Something like that.
Now I would consider myself a liberal (woohoo, Michael Moore rules!), but I'm upset at both parties. It seems like a tug of war, and no one is really winning, and while they concern themselves with items like who'll represent the US at the United Nations, or what pills baseball players take to warm up before a game, we got a things like an out of control gas price situation, or unemployment due to companies outsourcing (hell, McDonald's is even thinking about it!). Republicans are saying the Democrats are doing nothing about it, while the Republicans are doing nothing but patting there own backs.
I can't wait till we get a competent president again. Honestly, I thought Bill Clinton was a good president. I hope we get some one like that.

[kidcomix]

:shock: MUST GET SOME SLEEP......BUT....CANNOT.....DEMON MONKEYS WILL GET ME!!!

[D.K.HOOD]

Somebody pinch me because I think I'm dreaming. I met a girl who's pretty,physically fit (she was an athlete in college), smart (she's a scientist) and unless my senses are completely wrong she seems to be actually interested in me. I'm just not sure if its physical interest or if she might want something more, but it doesn't matter that much right now. Enter the awkward phase of getting to know somebody new in your life. Haven't felt this way in awhile, nervous and excited, feels weird. I'm 18 again.

[Kwick22a]

I don't like ET. I didn't like it when I was a kid, and I don't like it now.

These aliens, probably scientists, come to earth to do a little research or what not and they leave one of the crew behind. They can build ships that can travel who knows how far across the galaxy, build intersteller transmitters out of any old crap in the house, heal wounds, make things fly, come back from the dead! But they can't do a simple HEAD COUNT! Can't make a list of who left the ship and who didn't come back. And then they didn't notice he was missing until he called them. At no point were they in the lunch line and someone says "Hey, has anyone seen Joe?"
Pisses me off.

[The Xenos]

ET was kinda meh. Of course Mac and Me was just a McAbortion of the whole idea. Of course I don't think anything is as bad or stomach curning as the Turkish knock-off version of ET (http://www.thewavemag.com/pagegen.php?pagename=article&amp;articleid=22590).

Oh and as we are talking about random things about childhood, ever find that whole Charles in Charge show creepy? In charge of their wrongs and their rights? In charge of their days and their nights? Sounds like a cult. Reminds me of another Charles.. Charles Manson! Think about it! Think about it!

-Xenos

[Kwick22a]

They never did tell what Charles last name was, or who his father was. And if I remember correctly good old Chucky M did have a few kids.
Actually this makes the whole premise of the show even creepier. They let a college age guy, who they know jack all about, move into their basement, with full access to their sexually naïve teenage daughters and impressionable son, and they don't even know his last name. That's good planning!
There were some weird sitcoms floating around in the 80's. Anyone else remember Small Wonder. There was a certain creepiness to that one too.

[Kwick22a]

And speaking of ET here's one of my favorite pieces from the DCG.

Robbo's Jedi Catfight! (http://www.comics2film.com/DCG/DispArt.php3?f_id=1305&amp;f_ssn=&amp;f_fooble=17)

[D.K.HOOD]

There were some weird sitcoms floating around in the 80's. Anyone else remember Small Wonder. There was a certain creepiness to that one too.

Hey, back then I had a crush on that girl. Whatever happened to her?

[fadexero]

power cell went dead? Someone forgot to recharge?

[fadexero]

Here you go dude...all about V.I.C.I from Small Wonder

http://members.tripod.com/~former_child_star/brissette_tiffany.html

[The Xenos]

My complaint about Robbo

After reading this letter, you will never again be able to trust Robbo, and you will see with crystal clarity the way that we must not miss our chance to free people from the fetters of antipluralism's poisonous embrace. Although not without overlap and simplification, I plan to identify three primary positions on his bons mots. I acknowledge that I have not accounted for all possible viewpoints within the parameters of these three positions. Nevertheless, he thinks that the most dim-witted rapscallions you'll ever see are easily housebroken. However, there are some psychotic shysters out there who care nothing for you or your cherished mottos. Despite his evident lack of grounding in what he's talking about, one of the things I find quite interesting is listening to other people's takes on things. For instance, I recently overheard some folks remark that I'm not a psychiatrist. Sometimes, though, I wish I were, so that I could better understand what makes people like him want to give prodigal authoritarians far more credibility than they deserve.

You might think this is all pretty funny now, but I doubt I'll hear you laughing if, in the near future, Robbo is successfully able to humiliate, subjugate, and eventually, eliminate everyone who wants to prescribe a course of action. You may be picking up on something here in all of my responses to his bloody-minded conclusions. All of my responses presume that if we don't teach vindictive Luddites about tolerance right now, then Robbo's taradiddles will soon start to metastasize until they perpetuate the nonsense known technically as the analytic/synthetic dichotomy. The great irony is that if he gets his way, none of us will be able to bear witness to the plain, unvarnished truth. Therefore, we must not let him make conditions far worse than could ever have been the case without his oleaginous efforts. Robbo's maneuvers are some of the most mad, incoherent, and crazy I've ever encountered. The reason is simple: Like a verbal magician, Robbo knows how to lie without appearing to be lying, how to bury secrets in mountains of garbage-speak. Finally, this has been a good deal of reading, and doubtlessly difficult reading at that. Still, I hope you walk away from it with the new knowledge that Robbo drools at the thought of swilling port and sherry at taxpayer expense.

complaining, (http://www.pakin.org/complaint/)
-Xenos

[easy D]

Damn, dude. That's a lot of big words.

[Znluvx]

Just wondering...

I have the Daredevil DVD (bought used), which I liked OK, but should I invest in the "Special-Extended-Director's-etc Cut" version?

Thanks in advance for your input.

[Kwick22a]

Just wondering...

I have the Daredevil DVD (bought used), which I liked OK, but should I invest in the "Special-Extended-Director's-etc Cut" version?

Thanks in advance for your input.

of the two versions available, I think, the director's cut is the better one. The story seems to flow better. If you can find it used or at a reasonable price somewhere I'd recommend picking it up. Or you could just rent it, see if you like it before making a commitment to owning it.

[D.K.HOOD]

Good lord, now a guy can't even leave this place for a week or two without something else changing around here. Individual UIR's? When did that decision come about? :?

[The Xenos]

A friend pointed out how to ruin a song in his away message" "Listen to Linken Park's "In the end" and replace the word "trust" with "[certain male body part]".

The orginal lyrics.
"But in the end
It doesn’t even matter
I've put my trust in you
Pushed as far as I can go"

I leave the rest up to you.

-Xenos

[Kwick22a]

This morning I got to work, and everything was normal, then I went out front to unlock the door and what should I find sitting on the mailboxes in front of the store? A brand new audio cassette, a home made one, with a typed label reading "The Reality of Hell." For a moment I was tempted to bring it into the store and play it, but then I decided that it could just stay out there. Let someone else deal with it. A google search revealed that there is an audio cassette series where the first tape is entitled "The Reality of Hell" and that's probably what that is out there. But I'm not in the mood to find out. My luck, it's either a gateway to hell or a recording of someone being murdered. Either way I ain't touching it.

It doesn't help that I just watched Hellraiser 2 the night before last.

[The Xenos]

I belive I've read that crap. It's onme of those internet rumors. I found a link to a site with the audio clip. The site also claimed that deep sea tube worms were the souls of the damned reaching up from hell in the center of the Earth. As both a Scientist and a Christian, I am insulted at the ignorance. They insult both God and sceine. Anyway, the audio is supposedly the shrieks of the damned heard when a core drilling team in Russia hit an underground cavern that was supposedly Hell itself. There was so much bullcrap to it, it was hilarious. The sound itself sounded like an amusment park near a roller coaster. It was really crappy.

-Xenos

[Kwick22a]

I tracked down that audio clip. Gotta say, I wasn't impressed. For a bunch of people caught in the eternal torments of hell they sounded like they were doing pretty good. Not a whole lot of screaming and what screaming there was didn't sound pained or frightened. I swear at one point it sounded like someone was yelling about playing basketball. Compared to the crop circles it comes across as a really weak hoax.

[Wade_Wilson]

you have to listen to the tape while driving backward going at least 65 mph and drinking cappacino thru a straw.

yay

[easy D]

Ok, this is kinda a question here....

You probably know these commercials for men's body sprays right? Y'know ones where they have these guys going around, spray a little Tag on them, and suddenly they are mobbed by a group of beautiful women, or the one where a guy goes on a date, and wakes up next to a mermaid, a horse and all sorts of ladies. Well, strange thing is, that guys who do Bod body sprays go in the opposite direction, and show half-naked dudes in their ads, playing touch-football or whatever. Why do they feel have their commercials be more, well, homoerotic, while showing like a split-second of women lusting after them? Certainly doesn't make me want to buy them....

Don't know if you guys care, but it's late, and I'm bored.

[Kwick22a]

I was thinking the other day and considering all that's gone on, over the past few years, now would be a good time to offically change the abreviation of bullsh*t from BS to bush.

Kwick - Who would like to apologize to any republicans he offended, but won't because he really dosen't care.

[Kwick22a]

Screaming like a psychopathic monkey, running up and down a hallway, swinging a giant machete, being chased by a wild boar made of plants and mushrooms, while slamming my head against the desk over and over again.

[easy D]

You know, the other day, this girl I worked with recently came by work and introduced us to her newborn baby. For some reason, she introduced him to me and this other guy working next to me. We both looked at it and said "that's nice." Then she rolled her eyes and said "men." 30 seconds later, she brought along her female coworkers and showed off her new baby, and women just gathered around it, "Aww, that's so cute." Now, that got me thinking, "You know, guys don't really pay attention to babies (unless, it's our own)". So I started thinking of some ways that mothers can get excitement from guys about their babies.... Here's a list...

1. Have your baby wear a shirt that says "I kicked Steven Segal's big fat ass!"
2. Tape this picture of adult film superstar Jenna Haze to it's forehead.
http://www.eropleasure.com/dbimages/pornstars/38_jenna_haze.jpg
3. Give out coupons for a free meal at KFC next to the baby.
4. Give the baby a lighter and a fuse to some fireworks.
5. Teach the baby in the deadly art of ninjitsu.
6. Tell the guy the baby is his. Doesn't matter if you even met the guy. At least he'll look to see if it got his nose or not.
7. Have a PSP playing Sin City next to it.
8. Put it in a Dodge Charger with a "Dukes of Hazzard" paint job.
9. Find some way to give it a dose of gamma radiation, and wait and see if it'll turn into "Baby-Hulk".
10. Teach it how to mix drinks.
11. Teach it how to play drums.
12. Teach it how to flip people off.
13. Tell the guy that there is $100 hidden next to it.
14. Hire a hot girl to carry the baby around.
15. Tell them it'll be the next James Bond.
Yeah, I can't think of any more ways...

[Kwick22a]

I think there should be an agreed upon level of frustration where it becomes legally and socially acceptable to punch someone in the teeth.

[norrinraad]

It's only a crime if you get caught.
_____________
"I take what's said as my daily bread,
I turn the page and I turn my head,
I pick I choose on the evening news,
Cause by cause they fight, and one by one they lose."

[Kwick22a]

Oh I'd get caught. I'm not moving very fast these days and the people who are annoying enough to deserve a punch in the mouth tend to be screamers. And have wireless phones. In fact the wireless phone is probably why they got punched. They were standing around, yelling into the phone as loud as possible, not because they're mad but because they don't seem to realize that there is a microphone in there that transmits their voice to the other person, and blocking off the entire sidewalk so you have to actually step out into the street in order to get around them.
And of course none of them is self aware enough to understand why they got punched. They just get confused. If they would just take a minute to consider what they were doing,when it happened, they might get it. But the thing is if they were capable of understanding why they got punched, they probably wouldn't have been doing it in the first place. It's something of a catch-22.

[Kwick22a]

Well, it's almost Halloween and I think we all know what that means. Time to start digging the tiger pits, and filling them with scorpions. Teach those candy extorting bastards that when I say the peanut butter cups are mine, I mean it!

Kwick - It's a victimless crime, like punching someone in the dark. :twisted:

[Kwick22a]

I hate it when commercials describe chocolate as decadent.

[Pod]

Coffee commercials start bugging me. All the time you see a person drinking coffee like it's gold or something. Ugh. Soda is my caffiene provider. But while I do hate that Pepsi commercial with Kenya.

[easy D]

Kenya? Did Pepsi make a commercial featuring the African nation? Huh, that's new...

[Pod]

So...Facial hair. A need or something that looks like a living squirrel on your face :lol: :wink: ?

I'm just growing my mustache but with you guys out there shaving away, what do you think about the hair on your face? 8) Ok, I say yay to eyebrows but nay for the mustache. I saw my uncle once with this crazzy bushy mustache and he was drinking coffee and this thought kept going over my head "Is he accidently sipping his mustache hair? Ewwwww...." :lol:

I'm still wondering if that's possible... :?

[norrinraad]

I'm sure most people have seen this on the net by now but, if not, this was first printed in Spy Magazine serveral years ago. This is the first year I discovered it and found it kinda cute:

************************************************** ***********

The Physics of Santa and His Reindeer

No known species of reindeer can fly. BUT there are 300,000 species of living organisms yet to be classified, and while most of these are insects and germs, this does not COMPLETELY rule out flying reindeer which only Santa has ever seen.

There are two billion children (persons under 18) in the world. BUT since Santa doesn't appear to handle the Muslim, Hindu, Jewish and Buddhist children, that reduces the workload to 15% of the total — 378 million according to Population Reference Bureau. At an average (census) rate of 3.5 children per household, that's 91.8 million homes. One presumes there's at least one good child in each.

Santa has 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming he travels east to west (which seems logical). This works out to 822.6 visits per second.

This is to say that for each Christian household with good children, Santa has 1/1000th of a second to park, hop out of the sleigh, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left, get back up the chimney, get back into the sleigh and move on to the next house. Assuming that each of these 91.8 million stops are evenly distributed around the earth (which, of course, we know to be false but for the purposes of our calculations we will accept), we are now talking about .78 miles per household, a total trip of 75½ million miles, not counting stops to do what most of us must do at least once every 31 hours, plus feeding and etc.

This means that Santa's sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second, 3,000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man-made vehicle on earth, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second - a conventional reindeer can run, tops, 15 miles per hour.

If every one of the 91.8 million homes with good children were to put out a single chocolate chip cookie and an 8 ounce glass of 2% milk, the total calories (needless to say other vitamins and minerals) would be approximately 225 calories (100 for the cookie, give or take, and 125 for the milk, give or take). Multiplying the number of calories per house by the number of homes (225 x 91.8 x 1000000), we get the total number of calories Santa consumes that night, which is 20,655,000,000 calories. To break it down further, 1 pound is equal to 3500 calories. Dividing our total number of calories by the number of calories in a pound (20655000000/3500) and we get the number of pounds Santa gains, 5901428.6, which is 2950.7 tons.

The payload on the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium-sized lego set (two pounds), the sleigh is carrying 321,300 tons, not counting Santa, who is invariably described as overweight. On land, conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granting that "flying reindeer" (see above) could pull TEN TIMES the normal amount, we cannot do the job with eight, or even nine. We need 214,200 reindeer. This increases the payload (not even counting the weight of the sleigh) - to 353,430 tons. Again, for comparison - this is four times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth. 353,000 tons traveling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance - this will heat the reindeer up in the same fashion as spacecraft re-entering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer will absorb 14.3 QUINTILLION joules of energy. Per second. Each.

In short, they will burst into flame almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them, and create deafening sonic booms in their wake. The entire reindeer team will be vaporized within 4.26 thousandths of a second. Santa, meanwhile, will be subjected to centrifugal forces 17,500.06 times greater than gravity. A 250-pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim) would be pinned to the back of his sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force.

In conclusion: If Santa ever DID deliver presents on Christmas Eve, he's dead now.

[Pod]

Santa...Hehe trying to prove the story of santa in facts and details on how would work is the same as saying the way a chicken can give birth to....uh, let's put the actor's name for today as: Tom Cruise. Yeah. Trying to explain santa is like trying to explain how a chicken can give birth to Tom Cruise. :lol: :wink:

[easy D]

norrinraad,

To put it simply, SANTA'S A MAGICAL, JOLLY, OLD, ELF! YOU UNGRATEFUL F***ING BASTARD!!

He's not dead. :cry: :cry:

[FireStormTrooper]

Santa Claus is simply the embodiment of the secular commercialization of what used to be the Christian holy day commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ (which itself was grafted onto a pre-existing pagan feast day).

Still, the fatass serves a purpose of teaching punishment (lumps of coal for bad kids) and reward (toys for good kids), as well as endorsing sweatshop work ethic (do those elves even get paid for their year-round toiling?).

Santa Claus? Bah. Humbug.

Now, if you'll excuse, I still have Xmas gifts to buy for people on my list.

[Kwick22a]

Santa is not dead, but he must let the world go on thinking that he is, until he can find a way to control the raging spirit that dwells within him.

SANTA HULK!

[norrinraad]

norrinraad,

To put it simply, SANTA'S A MAGICAL, JOLLY, OLD, ELF! YOU UNGRATEFUL F***ING BASTARD!!

He's not dead. :cry: :cry:

He better not be! I sent him a HUGE list this year and I expect to see at least some of it under the tree. Though why he'd want to bring me anything is beyond me. I've been ever so naughty this year :P

I wonder if Santa's a mutant? It's really a very logical idea. It's not beyond the realm of possibility that he could be the recipient of multiple mutations. They could include immortality, manipulation of the time stream, matter manipulation (conjuring presents), and flight. Or, perhaps a group of mutants working together while the Big Man in the red suit takes the credit. Never mind Onslaught, maybe Xavier has been Santa all along, with a secret colony of mutants at the North Pole. Hmmm...

I wonder how copyright laws apply to Santa? I can almost buy the idea of a 19th century Santa, delivering wooden toys made by a factory full of elves. Kinda. However, I doubt most modern kids would be satisfied with a wooden choo choo or dolly under their tree. I would imagine most modern toys have labels like Sony and Apple. So, how does it work? I can't imagine a bunch of elves could copy these products right down to the packaging. And even if they could, would the companies allow it? Most likely, they probably secretly ship the items to the North Pole for Santa to deliver them, based on the number of requests. But, who pays for them? Is Santa secretly a trillionaire? Does he receive royalties for distributing them? Or does Santa send his elves out to the malls in disguise to buy them retail?

Santa's not dead. He's probably just rotting in a jail cell somewhere, or is possibly the victim of a massive civil law suit.
________________
"The wine may be cheap but damned if I don't feel great right about now."

[Pod]

How can you kill something that was never alive? 8)

[The Xenos]

Well, I still belive in Santa. Sure I don't belive in him in a physical sense anymore, but I do belive he is real in a spiritual sense and on a memetic level. By parents leaving Santa's girts, from the spirit of Saint Nicholas which has turned into this gift giving Santa, they are keeping the meme of Santa alive. I truely belive Santa Claus is alive today in a very real sense even if he's not a pysical person.

So you know what? Don't make Santa Claus too physical for kids. Tell the the whole thing with Rudolph and the elves and the toy shop is bullcrap made up by the media. it is. Make them belive in the real Santa not this corperate shill image for prodcut consumption the media keeps embeding into our heads and the minds of children. Give them a better idea of Santa than that.

Why am I reminded of Batman Begins?

Ducard: if you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal and if they can’t stop you, then you become something else entirely.
Bruce Wayne: Which is?
Ducard: A legend, Mr. Wayne.


Or V for Vedetta.
"Beneath this mask there is more than flesh, there is an idea....and ideas are bulletproof."

Though I don't remember Santa ever riding in an awesome tank like car or blowing up government buildings.

-Xenos

[norrinraad]

Well, I still belive in Santa. Sure I don't belive in him in a physical sense anymore, but I do belive he is real in a spiritual sense and on a memetic level. By parents leaving Santa's girts, from the spirit of Saint Nicholas which has turned into this gift giving Santa, they are keeping the meme of Santa alive. I truely belive Santa Claus is alive today in a very real sense even if he's not a pysical person.

I agree totally. I believe in Santa as I do in God. People may scoff all they want, but belief in a Higher Power has gotten me through some tough times in my life, and I don't know what I'd do without it.

The internet is an interesting phenomenon, on so many different levels. One, of course, is the creation of e-mail. If has allowed people we meet at various stages of our lives to remain with us in some capacity, even though their relevance to our lives has long since vanished. Letter writing is a long, slow, labourious process, so it makes sense to me that our parents would have only bothered keeping in touch with people who were truly special to them. Now, with the simplicity of a key stroke, we can send jokes and annual holiday greetings to numerous people, several at at time, if we so please.

The following article was sent to be recently by a girl I used to work with. She feels compelled to stay in touch with me even though we are both aware that we will never see each other again. Every once in awhile something deeply profound and stirring finds its way into my In Box, and this is one of those times. It touches implicitly on the theme Xenos was suggesting, about Santa being the last reminder of a time when magic governed the world, and about how we still, to this day, desperately need to believe in something, anything, to help us escape the drudgery of our everyday lives.

Enjoy, and Happy Holidays.

************************************************** ***********

This year, the tinsel illusion of Christmas collapsed early. A week beforehand, my 8-year-old daughter turned huge blue eyes on me and said, "Tell me the truth. Does Santa really bring the presents, or do you and mommy do it?"

How could this come as a surprise? Don't we remember asking our own parents? Haven't our friends with slightly older children warned us? Nothing avails. Having carried the small warm flame of Christmas magic from my generation to hers, only five or six short years ago, I thought my work was done. I gave no thought at all to this inevitable sequel.

Now my mind is racing. Where did she get this idea? From her older brother, of course. What to do about her twin brother, who still believes?

Time for emergency measures.

My first ploy is equivocation: How could there not be a Santa Claus, when the whole world is readying itself for his arrival? I glanced across the table, and saw the light dying in the blue eyes.

"That wasn't my question. I asked, do you and mommy put the presents under the tree?" Some of them. "All of them, daddy. Do you put all of them?"

The next emergency measure is to call my wife. Using an uncharacteristically soft tone of voice.

She arrives, and quickly sizes up the situation. And she says, "No, there isn't a Santa. We bring the presents." (Later she explains that the equivocations I invented on the spot are the ones she has been using for years; she knew the moment she arrived that the jig was up).

At this point, Clare is sitting on my lap. She hurls her head back against my arm and wails, "Why? Why? Why?"

And that is certainly the worst moment. What she's asking is, why did you do this to me?

There is nothing worse than the pain of disillusionment. She is certainly too young for it. As I look at her eyes, clenched shut, I suddenly seem to see her as a young woman.

She is generally agreed to be a pretty girl, in the still-prized Barbie doll style involving blond hair and cupid lips. Many perks come with these looks, and she has grown accustomed to them. Not too many years from now she will expect and receive a good deal of uncritical attention from boys.

And then one day a boy will hurt her deeply. And she will wail, "Why?" And that, awful as it is, will in the long run be a good thing, the necessary first step to adulthood.

But there is nothing necessary about Santa Claus, is there? She is asking a fair question. Why did we do this to her? What did it accomplish?

Most of us recognize the Santa Claus fable as the last surviving bit of folklore that has true force in this corner of the world. Not too many centuries ago, it was just one tale among many. Our direct ancestors also believed that local saints inhabited the well where they got their water, and that spirits dwelt in the deep forest. Apparently they kept these beliefs all their lives.

Many things can be said about folklore, not least concerning its coded message about the world of want and hunger in which most of humanity lived not too long ago (why else the goose that lays golden eggs, the milk jug that never empties?)

But there was also a wonderful sense of emancipation from causality, from the dreariness of a world running on laws from which we can't escape: the law of winter, the law of growing old, the law that says every generation will yield a new leavening of pride and cruelty to frustrate our hopes. These things could be overturned with the flick of a wand.

The sociologist Max Weber wrote that the belief in magic, so congenial to human nature that is was once universal, was deliberately destroyed in the modern era.

This was done by rulers who found that magical fears and holidays were a terrible drain on productivity. If the modern world of 9 to 5 were ever to be born, magic had to go. Weber called it the "disenchantment of the world".

That is truly one of the saddest phrases ever written. It is still sad even though the wisdom of those who destroyed magic is apparent all around us. It allowed a world of general prosperity to come into existence. It repaired some of the deprivations which had made magic necessary in the first place.

But it didn't destroy the need for magic. We miss the spirits that once kept us company. It really is terribly lonely being the only sentient creatures in the world.

And it is disturbing that we are the best that appeared.

Since we protect our children from cold and hunger, why would we not want to protect them from this other coldness?

The chief enemy of the Santa tale is there's no place left for him to hide in the physical world. I don't know about you, but I always wonder if there'll be enough exotic places left for the next issue of National Geographic.

The only unvisited lake on the planet is located four kilometres below the ice and snow of Antarctica, and we know exactly where it is. Where's an elf to hide a Kingdom of Ice and Snow?

And don't think your kids aren't thinking this too. That's probably why the Santa story has grown a self-protective carapace.

In the Chrismas flick Elf, a crowd of unbelieving New Yorkers find Santa's sleigh stranded in Central Park --- and discover that it's all their fault. They have to sing carols to get his aloft again.

A vintage film is this genre is The Santa Clause, where Santa is a neurotic divorced toy marketer and his chief elf, Bernie, seems to be Jewish --- perhaps a way of saying to kids, "Hey, we all got sucked into this story. Let yourself go."

It's hard to know how young kids receive these somewhat-frantic revisions to the tale. My guess is that they file them somewhere else. The comforting core of the belief is sustained in the home.

The next morning, Clare seems to be okay. With that frightening maturity that comes to young girls, she has decided on her own not to disturb her twin brother's belief. She has taken a couple of pieces of clear cedar board form the fireplace kindling and glued Christmas messages on them. She admires her Bathtub Angel, which sits atop the tree (last year she found a discarded bathtup faucet in the garbage, which with a little modification became an angel in a silver gown).

She is, in short, enjoying Christmas as we older non-believers do. A remarkable transformation.

That afternoon there was a heavy frost which crackled across the surface of the only single-pane window left in the house. Gradually the persistent heat of the furnace melted it away. It was only in the last moments before it vanished completely that I noticed the words that had been traced on it by a finger.

"Please Santa, be real."

[Kwick22a]

I recently saw a commercial for the Bloodrayne movie, and it's interesting to see when a movie studio knows they completely f***ed up on a movie. I mean they are advertising this thing like a guy who has to tell his girlfriend he gave her herpes.
&quot;Hey, baby. I...Uh, got something to tell you. You know that rash...&quot;
It's true! If I hadn't played the games I would have no idea what this movie is about from the commercials. All I saw in there was Ben Kingsley dressed up like french guy from the 1800's (a little side note here, he looks nothing like the character he's supposed to be playing. Kagan is supposed to look more like the guy who played Jane in Serenity), the title of the movie, and the tag line which was something like the adventure begins. What adventure asshole? You don't tell what the movie is about!
Here's what they should have done, just show the main character. Hot chick in leather. How easy is that. That is the selling point! Not Ben Kingsley. Did anyone go to see Species because of Ben Kingsley? Let me think a second....NO! They went to see it because a hot chick got naked!
If the only thing your movie has going for it is a hot chick in leather, don't act like she isn't even in it.
What really sucks (other than the movie apparently) is I'm a fan of these games. Sure they don't have the deep story lines of MGS or Silent Hill, but they were fun. So when I heard they were making a movie I was happy, and then I hear it's coming out on my birthday and that was a big bonus. Then I started to hear things, and I had my doubts but I was still going to see it. Now that I've seen the commercials I'm not going to waste my money.
Thanks Uwe Boll. I hope you get a severe bowel obstruction and prolapse your colon. You bastard.

[easy D]

Yeah, I've seen those. And you know that the studio f***ed up a movie when it's released in January (Look at last year's Alone in the Dark, Elektra and XXX: State of the Union). Sometimes known as a graveyard of unwanted movies. Which kinda worries me, cause Hostel also opens this month, and I really want to see that.

But Bloodrayne looks really bad, and I liked the games so much. So damn you, Uwe Boll. Damn you...

[Pod]

What is Bloodrayne anyway? I really was confused with the commercial...I just can't follow what's going on. :?

[Jakerman]

If it's following the 1st game (can't tell from the crappy trailor) then it's about a leather-clad red-headed vampire chick fighting the Nazis. At least I think that's what the game was about, never actually played it. :lol:

[Pod]

If it's following the 1st game (can't tell from the crappy trailor) then it's about a leather-clad red-headed vampire chick fighting the Nazis. At least I think that's what the game was about, never actually played it. :lol:

Sounds like Buffy but with a few different details...And it's based on a video game? Another game to film!?!?! :x :evil:

[Jakerman]

If it's following the 1st game (can't tell from the crappy trailor) then it's about a leather-clad red-headed vampire chick fighting the Nazis. At least I think that's what the game was about, never actually played it. :lol:

Sounds like Buffy but with a few different details...And it's based on a video game? Another game to film!?!?! :x :evil:
I guess they'll keep making them until they make a good one. :lol: But if Peter Jackson is really going to produce HALO, that could be pretty cool, and I think a Metal Gear Solid movie could be good.

[Kwick22a]

Sadly it's not using the storylines from either of the games. From the sound of things they've moved the story back about fifty years, no nazis, no super demons, just Rayne going after Kagan. At least that's what it looks like.

[The Xenos]

As for Silent Hill, there's a movie coming out of it by the direct of Brother Hood of the Wolf. (Which reminds me I need to finally see my DVD fo that.)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0384537/
It looks decent. THough I need to get the first couple of games and play them.

[easy D]

If it's following the 1st game (can't tell from the crappy trailor) then it's about a leather-clad red-headed vampire chick fighting the Nazis. At least I think that's what the game was about, never actually played it. :lol:

Sounds like Buffy but with a few different details...And it's based on a video game? Another game to film!?!?! :x :evil:

Actually, the game's stories are more similar to Blade.
It's about a half-human/half-vampire secret agent who fights demons on behalf of the Brimstone Society.

And somehow, Uwe Boll will take that, dumb it down, and make it so stupid and unrecognizable, that the fans (oh, believe me, there's quite a few) will call for his head on a pike. :roll: Oh, silly me, :evil: we already are.

[Pod]

So in conclusion this movie is going to be a box office bomb...

Meh, what else is on the roster for stupid movies of 2006? :P

[The Xenos]

Just wanted to let people know what the internet is for (http://www.youtube.com/player.swf?video_id=lr_HR-iIlYg). (PG-13 language btw)

[Jakerman]

According to Attack of the Show in the trailer for Mel Gibson's new film Apocolypto, Mel is in it. Now, Mel is directing the movie, not starring, (so he shouldn't be in the trailer) and it's about the Myan empire.(kinda like Aztecs) And the brief spot where you catch Mel with his big crazy beard he's in a plad shirt smokin a cig with a big grin on his face and has his hand on the shoulder of one of the Myan's. AOTS made sure to point out that this is real, you can see it for yourself.(I haven't tried yet) What is up with Mel Gibson? He used to be a very popular star, now he's a joke, Hollywood's local crazy man.

[norrinraad]

What is up with Mel Gibson? He used to be a very popular star, now he's a joke, Hollywood's local crazy man.

He can't let Tom Cruise have all the fun now, can he? :P

[easy D]

Oh, please. Mel Gibson has always been that way.

He ate dog food in one of the Lethal Weapon movies. He wore big red clown noses while filming Braveheart. He was known as a big practical joker, before Ashton Kutcher or George Clooney even made it big.

[Jakerman]

Oh, please. Mel Gibson has always been that way.

He ate dog food in one of the Lethal Weapon movies. He wore big red clown noses while filming Braveheart. He was known as a big practical joker, before Ashton Kutcher or George Clooney even made it big.
Hmm, never knew that stuff. :lol:

[Pod]

My favorite Mel Gibson joke was in Crocadile Dundee in LA. &quot;That Mal Gibson.&quot; :lol:

[The Xenos]

You can find the screen cap of the frame here:
http://www.cinemablend.com/new.php?id=1949

It really is just one frame in the trailer.

[The Xenos]

Here's some random advise for other guys out there.

http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/7126/tstickitin3oj.gif

And the scary thing is that one of likekly a few thousand crazy gif and jpegs I got.

[Pod]

I keep imagining some guy with super slow internet waiting to get the advice and once he see's it he'll be &quot;I waited 6 hours for this!?!?!&quot; :lol:

[Kwick22a]

That girl is way to exited by the pooper.

[Pod]

Here's some news....I'm totally snowed in here in queens. It's over 20 inches of snow and it keeps on coming!!! :shock: :shock: :shock: Worst part is that I was soppose to go to the doc today but now I can't even leave my place. There's only like 3 people walking outside, on the road! It's really an insane snow day. Which leaves one more thing...No school! No school! No schoool! :mrgreen:

[Jakerman]

So the US's VP shot somebody while bird hunting...I thought it was really funny until the guy had a heart attack...now it's kind of sad.

[Pod]

I still wonder if that was an accident. The guy was said to be shot in the face and then gets a heart attack...how does that qualify as a accident? Shot in the face? Well...that's the VP for ya.

[easy D]

Is it me, or does the guy look like the Penguin?

http://www.evote.com/evotepix/events/GOPConvention2000/dick_cheney4_rnc_day3.jpg


Reason #573, why Dick Cheney is evil...

[Pod]

All he needs is that small pipe to smoke on. &quot;ARR!! Arr!!!&quot; :shock:

[easy D]

Actually, he needs a cigarette holder (it's not a pipe), a purple top hat, and a monacle.

&quot;Waagh, waagh. I'll get you Batman!&quot;


Reason # 798 why Dick Cheney is evil. He shot a dude in the face...

[Pod]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=49IDp76kjPw

:D

[The Xenos]

There's downloadable versions of that Simpsons live action opening here:
link here (http://www.holymoly.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=58&amp;Itemi d=7)

[Jakerman]

Did anyone else see the cheerleader who fell on her head and kept cheering while be carted off the court? She's got spirit, how bout you? :lol:

[Pod]

Did anyone else see the cheerleader who fell on her head and kept cheering while be carted off the court? She's got spirit, how bout you? :lol:

When I saw that I thought she got some brain damage and didn't know she fell. :lol:

[Kwick22a]

WARNING. The following joke may be offensive to some cheerleaders. WARNING.



When I saw that I thought she got some brain damage and didn't know she fell. :lol:

You need to have a brain before you can damage it. :twisted:

Disclaimer: Kwick does not believe that all cheerleaders are stupid. In fact he believes most are reasonably intelligent individuals. But, let us face facts, there are some real air heads out there.

[babygirl72076]

In my English comp 1 class I'm writing a compare-contrast paper on x-men vs. fantastic four. I would like to compare how they were each accepted by &quot;mainstream&quot; society, their alter egos, and how each team helped all humanking in their own individual ways. Does anyone have any suggestions for me? It's been a while sice I've read any of these comics, ever since mine burnt up in the house fire....so I need a little help here. :lol:

[babygirl72076]

In my English comp 1 class I'm writing a compare-contrast paper on x-men vs. fantastic four. I would like to compare how they were each accepted by &quot;mainstream&quot; society, their alter egos, and how each team helped all humankind in their own individual ways. Does anyone have any suggestions for me? It's been a while sice I've read any of these comics, ever since mine burnt up in the house fire....so I need a little help here. :lol:

[easy D]

Well, the Fantastic Four are more widely accepted, and more public about who they are, what they do and why they do.

The X-Men are not so much trusted and tend to be more protective.

And while the Fantastic 4 tend to be more inclusive, (they even turned down Spider-Man's offer to join), X-Men would take people in if they are a mutant, and are able to fend for themselves and prove to be an asset. I've never really thought of the X-Men as a superhero group, more like a special ops team (like Navy SEALS, or Army Green Berets).

Anything else?

[Pod]

The FF don't really get new members because they're a &quot;family&quot; in a way. And the X-men are just trying to help out mutantkind and trying to make a friendship with humans. I think both of the groups don't have much secrets in their alter egos unlike the avengers. The x-men are known all over and I don't know if they were accepted as much as the FF.

[Zac]

The FF don't really get new members because they're a &quot;family&quot; in a way. And the X-men are just trying to help out mutantkind and trying to make a friendship with humans.

True, but rather than being just because the FF is a 'family', you have to keep in mind the foundations of both teams. The FF started BECAUSE the four of them were given the powers and they decided to fight for good. It wasn't a team they had an open audition for. However, the X-Men team is moreso founded on an idea. If all the X-Men characters were killed and new people filled their shoes, they would still be the X-Men, as long as they were fighting for Xavier's dream of mutants and humans living together in peace.

I think both of the groups don't have much secrets in their alter egos unlike the avengers. The x-men are known all over and I don't know if they were accepted as much as the FF.

On the contrary, I think the X-Men are (or were, I know things have changed a lot for them in recent years, and I haven't kept up with that) all about staying secretive because they have to. They are fighting a battle against society, similar to the 'battle' that Martin Luther King Jr. fought in the Civil Rights movement. They are going against what society thinks and are trying to change that. People have never been widely accepting of such a drastic change (look again at the Civil Rights movement) so generally, the X-Men are seen as a nuisance that should be gotten rid of. Because of that, they have to be secretive because they know otherwise, they'll be constantly lamblasted by society. Really what they're fighting for is to not have to be secretive about who they really are. Much like Mystique says in X-Men 2 when Nightcrawler asks her why she doesn't just make herself look normal all the time, she says, &quot;Because we shouldn't have to.&quot;

[easy D]

A couple of things:

1. Do you think that with the recent release of V for Vendetta, ToM might start a thread just simply bashing the film to no end?

2. I just made a myspace page, anyone wanna take a look at it?

[Znluvx]

I just read that some idiot Hollywood exec has given the ok for a remake of THE DIRTY DOZEN!

I can't wait to see the steaming pile of casting that gets picked to fill the boots of Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgine, Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, and Telly Savalas.

[norrinraad]

Once upon a time in a land far away, a beautiful, socially conscious princess was sitting by the shores of a clear, clean pond contemplating ecological issues when a frog jumped into her lap. &quot;Dear Princess&quot;, said the frog, &quot;an evil spell has been placed upon me that only you can undo. You see, I am really a handsome prince and your kiss will restore me to my true self. Then we can marry, take up residence in your castle and have my mother move in. You will spend your days cooking my meals, washing my clothes, bearing my children, catering to my every sexual whim and being eternally grateful for the privelege of being my wife. Kiss me my fair princess and let us begin our life together&quot;!

That night, as the princess dined alone in her castle on a sumptuous feast of roasted frog legs in a creamed onion sauce, she chuckled to herself and thought, &quot;not ****ing likely&quot;!
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&quot;The more we take, the less we become&quot;

[Kwick22a]

Once upon a time a girl named Becky Blue Bonnet was on her way to visit her uncle with a basket of goodies. It was a fairly long journey so she decided to take a short cut through the Big Scary Woods (actual name of the forest) even though she had heard stories about a Big Bad Wolf that lived in the woods.
&quot;Pish posh!&quot; She said &quot;Those are just silly stories! There aren't any wolves in the Big Scary Woods!&quot;
So she entered the woods, and she was right! There wasn't a Big Bad Wolf in there.
However she was promptly eaten by a very large bear, her remains were picked clean by a bunch of crows, and some beavers took her bones to use in a damn.

Moral: There's always something.

[WonderWomanGoddess]

amen, kwick.

[Kwick22a]

A movie credit I doubt we'll be seeing anytime soon, but might be interesting if we did.

Featuring Julia Roberts as the drooling, axe wielding maniac.

[easy D]

A movie credit? Or real life? :wink:

[Kwick22a]

Well we certainly won't see it in real life. She could murdering hobos in her basement on a daily basis and turning their skulls into soup bowls and we'd never hear about it. All her lawyers and publicists would keep it under wraps, and anyone who did find out about it would mysteriously disappear.
And if she ever did get caught doing it I doubt she'd get convicted of anything. Her lawyer would get up in front of the jury and say something like 'Sure she killed some hobos, and turned their skins into seat covers, but come on! It's Julia Roberts! Come on!' And they'd let her go. The following week on Martha Stewart she comes on and explains how to get the most use out of a hobo corpse.
Suddenly murdering people for their flesh becomes fashionable and all sorts of celebrities come out and admit to a little homocide in their spare time. Oprah, Tom Cruise, the entire cast of the broadway musical Cats, Jon Lovits. The list goes on. Suddenly the world gets turned upside down and everyone starts to think asparagus and spam make a good pizza topping. All is madness and disco shoes.

[The Xenos]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKs_GhYOuZU&amp;search=leno%20faye
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The &quot;World Famous&quot; Man-Faye makes an appearance on a recent episode of The Tonight Show (4/19/06) where they visit auditions for Sci-Fi Channel's &quot;Who Wants To Be A Super Hero&quot;
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Of all the cosplayers, in all the world, why'd it'd have have to be ManFaye on Leno?

[Jakerman]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKs_GhYOuZU&amp;search=leno%20faye
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The &quot;World Famous&quot; Man-Faye makes an appearance on a recent episode of The Tonight Show (4/19/06) where they visit auditions for Sci-Fi Channel's &quot;Who Wants To Be A Super Hero&quot;
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Of all the cosplayers, in all the world, why'd it'd have have to be ManFaye on Leno?
Woah. :shock: Didn't need to see that. :lol:

[Majik1387]

I actually submitted an application for that show but I decided not to go along if chosen.

[norrinraad]

This is the story of Emo Boy.

One day Emo Boy met Emo Girl. At first Emo Girl thought Emo Boy was the answer to her prayers. He was bright, attentive, sincere, and kind. He was sensitive to her needs, treated her like a lady, and wasn't opposed to spending hours discussing his feelings and dreams for the future. However, after awhile, Emo Boy started to irritate Emo Girl. What she originally thought was a sensitive soul was really just a wuss in disguise. Whenever they would argue, Emo Boy would cry like a girl and beg to be held. He would not pump his own gas or change his own oil because he hated getting his hands dirty. His idea of a good time was sitting by the fireplace and staring at Emo Girl, which at first she found kind of sweet but now found creepy as hell. However, the main problem, though she would never tell him this, was that Emo Boy's penis was just too small to really satisfy her needs.

One day in science glass, Jock Boy asked Emo Girl out on a date. Jock Boy only asked her out because his friends dared him to, but Emo Girl was unaware of this. At first she was reluctant, but she figured hey, part of being emo was being open-minded. Emo Girl accepted Jock Boy's proposal. On the night of their date, Jock Boy acted like a total jerk. He showed up late, told crude, inappropriate jokes, burped in her presence, and gave off a general air of bemused indifference. Naturally, having never been in the company of a 'real man' before, Emo Girl fell hopelessly in love. And, as she soon discovered, Jock Boy's arrogance was justified: his nickname in the locker room was &quot;Donkey Kong&quot;. Jock Boy was hung like a horse.

Emo Girl and Jock Boy proceeded to date, if you could really call it that. Jock Boy flirted with other girls while he was with Emo Girl, constantly cancelled dates when a better offer came along, and made her pay for everything the odd time he did grace her with his presence. Despite all this, Emo Girl posted images of Jock Boy on her myspace page with photo-shopped hearts around them. Eventually and inevitably, Jock Boy dumped Emo Girl once and for all, which drove her sobbing into the safety of her Death Cab For Cutie records, thus reinforcing the irony that Emo Girls become emo not because of Emo Boys, but because of Jock Boys.

But what of Emo Boy all this time? Well, Emo Girl was a decent sort and decided to let him down easy, of course telling him &quot;It's not you, it's me&quot;. One night, while Emo Boy was listening to Linkin Park with his best friend Brady, they started to kiss. Why not? Wasn't one of the trademarks of being emo that you were more enlightened than the other meatheads at school? Anyway, the boys dated for awhile until Brady met Closet Jock Boy at a party and promptly dumped Emo Boy. Though he would never actually tell him this, Emo Boy's penis was a little on the small side.

After all this, Emo Boy slipped into a familiar depression. He considered suicide but naturally fainted at the sight of blood. He spent his days strumming on his guitar but couldn't write any songs because he was as untalented as he was wussy. One night at a Dashboard Confessional concert, Emo Boy spotted Emo Girl #2 and thought she was kinda cute, with that &quot;Life Ain't Worth Living&quot; expression on her face. Emo boy smiled tentatively at Emo Girl #2 and she smiled back.

The cycle began anew.

[Kwick22a]

I propose that we take Emo Boy and Jock Boy, cut them to pieces and then reassemble them into two fully fuctional Jockemo Boys. Then we make them fight each other, with bats, film it, put it on DVD and sell it under the title, Jockemo Vs. Emojock: No matter who loses, we win!

Then we use the profits from the DVD sales to hire good lawyers to defend us when the producers of Alien Vs. Predator sue us for stealing their tag line.

With what money is left over we purchase toxic waste to dip Jockemo and Emojock in turning them into giant super mutants who then proceed to destroy the entire planet and feel really bad while doing it.

After that we don't do anything because, most likely, we'll all be dead.

It's important to have goals.