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Originally posted by: Yoda Is Your Father
I don't know who Eliza Doolittle is. Can you give another example?


You know, from Pygmalion or My Fair Lady. You're a Brit. You're supposed to know this kind of stuff. ^_~

But, anyway, I'm willing to bet Chaltab is referring to the Cockney dialect.

There is no lingerie in space…

C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.

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I like to think that I can differentiate between the different British dialects.
"I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings."
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For me there's regular british accent, and Liverpool-Beatles british accent. So either John Cleese or Paul McCartney.
“Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.” — Nazi Reich Marshal Hermann Goering
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Scouse.

There is no lingerie in space…

C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.

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Well, the thread for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest is gone, so having only just seen the film I'm gonna post my thoughts here in the Random Thought thread:

Sequels are a tricky business. It's so hard to live up to the first one, let alone surpass it. More often than not, sequels often just feel like vain imitations/remakes/rehashes of the films that spawned them as the same basic formula is usually just flogged to death (Rocky's 2-5 and Matrix's Reloaded/Revolution come to mind here). There are exceptions, such as "The Empire Strikes Back", but they are few and far between. For the most part I enjoyed "Dead Man's Chest" but I cannot deny that the original film was superior.

The biggest sin of "Dead Man's Chest" is that it runs too long and tries to over-stuff itself, cutting back & forth between Jack Sparrow's antics, the misfortunes of Will or the misfortunes of Elizabeth, which then leads us to the misfortunes of Norrington, with a lot of action thrown in, whereas the first film had a more focused, driven feel to it. I saw the film with my dad and he commented that it felt like they took a book, ripped out the most interesting/exciting parts and then pasted it together in no particular order. Most criminally, the storyline with Will catching up with the sea zombie version of his father Bootstrap Bill Turner (Stellan Skarsgard buried under tons of prosthetic makeup & CGI) is probably the most interesting storyline going in the movie, but it deserves more time than it ultimately gets. The decision to turn Norrington into a full blown evil bastard was unexpected - I know he wasn't exactly the hero of the first film, but he wasn't the villain either, just the romantic rival (I blame this on the fact that they cut scenes that were meant to establish him as a nicer guy). The thing with Elizabeth becoming infatuated with Jack, or at least appearing to become infatuated with him, was a relatively minor offense but still an annoying one. It felt like the writers were trying too hard to both play to the popularity of Depp/Jack and also to try and resurrect the opposites attract magic of Princess Leia & Han Solo, the primary difference being that Solo was taller, better looking, had better equipment and had better hygiene than Sparrow. That seemed to go against part of Elizabeth's realizations in the first film that pirates weren't all they were cracked up to be, and she struck me as being smarter than to fall for an obvious scoundrel like Jack. Or maybe I'm just over-reacting to their decision to put the young lovebirds fate in doubt. And there are some who will undoubtedly be annoyed by the cliff-hanger setting up "Pirates 3: The Pirate Version of the Search For Spock".

Okay, stuff I actually did like... there were some genuinely funny moments (some of which were overplayed), the action set pieces were well staged & well executed (if a little over the top), and the actors were generally good. Johnny Depp basically rehashes his performance from the first film, which works well enough since he still appears to be having fun as the drunken glam rocker pirate. Orlando Bloom is good in his usual low-key way (though he's basically got himself typecast as the earnest young hero and will probably spend the rest of his career being accused of just playing himself in every film he does).Nighy & Starsgard were good along with the rest of the undead crew, though they are basically a steroid fueled remake of the undead crew from "Curse". Keira Knightley was alright, though in a few scenes it felt like she was trying too hard (namely the ones where she's supposed to act like she's becoming infatuated with Jack). I guess I'm not being very positive here, am I? Well, if I make the film out to be worse than it actually is, I'm sorry. Just go in knowing that it's not as bad as the Star Wars prequel trilogy, Batman & Robin, Daredevil, Elektra, 2005 Fantastic Four and Catwoman.
I'd like a qui-gon jinn please with an Obi-Wan to go.

Red heads ROCK. Blondes do not rock. Nuff said.

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Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
Scouse.


you Sir, are a top man.

me too.


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Random thought for the day:
4 out of 5 foot fetishists agree that toe jam is not good on toast.
I am fluent in over six million forms of procrastination.
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I told that to my wife and she said "there is no such thing like toe jam"

Nothing about fanediting is easy.

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Random thought - Why do some proffessors give you As when you know the work you did was worth a B at most?

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Chaltab DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PEW PEW PEW PEW.
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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
Random thought - Why do some proffessors give you As when you know the work you did was worth a B at most?


Lowering standards.
I'd like a qui-gon jinn please with an Obi-Wan to go.

Red heads ROCK. Blondes do not rock. Nuff said.

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I was reading something about strange phobias.

Apparently there is a sizeable amount of people with Alektorophobia - an intense fear of chickens.

It would kill them to look at this:


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Harrison Ford Has Pretty Much Given Up on His Son. Here's Why

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Originally posted by: Stinky-Dinkins
I was reading something about strange phobias.

Apparently there is a sizeable amount of people with Alektorophobia - an intense fear of chickens.

It would kill them to look at this:


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v387/Dinkins/MS%20PAINT/rambo20transparent.gif


I didn't know it was possible to be scared of chickens.
I'd like a qui-gon jinn please with an Obi-Wan to go.

Red heads ROCK. Blondes do not rock. Nuff said.

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Wake me up when September ends.

Or not.

Dang, that's a big chicken.

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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
Wake me up when September ends.

Or not.

Dang, that's a big chicken.


"What's the matter, Colonel Sanders? Chicken?!"

I've realized that as you get older, the year goes by faster and faster. A whole years felt like an eternity back when we were kids. And this is due to us always looking up to some event in the future. The weekend. Some project deadline. Planned vacations. Something scheduled in two weeks or two moths. We are always living in the future, thinking about the time passing by faster and faster. And as we get older, we realize that all that time is not coming back. We are not getting older, we are getting closer to death.
“Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.” — Nazi Reich Marshal Hermann Goering
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Another cheery message from Ricarleite, albeit one I fully agree with...

War does not make one great.

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Being an unemployed layabout, Fridays have no menaing to me. Although soon they will once again hold some significance (unless I get a job which requires me to work saturdays, in which Fridays will be just another day and I will be unhappy).

War does not make one great.

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I don't have to get up at seven AM tomorrow. That makes me happy in and of itself.

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As you probably realize by now, I've been in somber mood lately.
“Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.” — Nazi Reich Marshal Hermann Goering
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Originally posted by: ricarleite
As you probably realize by now, I've been in somber mood lately.


Ric we are always here for you if you ever need anybody.