Roger Ebert R.I.P. — Page 2

Bingowings said:

I comment on how I don't like Return Of The Jedi that much or an acronym for a platitudinous epithet for the dead and suddenly the thread isn't about Roger Ebert anymore.

Not fun anymore.

You've been here long enough that I don't think I need to say "Welcome to Off-Topic."

Because Roger Ebert was dead.

I gave it a day and the Jedi comment gave me an excuse to state my position again.

Sorry.  Didn't mean to be too distracting.  Warbler, I think Bingo likes you.  I believe he just meant to make a point and used your comment to do so.  Truthfully, I prefer the written out 'Rest in Peace' over RIP as well.  I probably shouldn't have said anything.

Anyway, Roger Ebert--what a guy!  I admire his determination to keep going until the end.  And I too am grateful he defended ROTJ (Sorry Bing).

Bingowings said:

Because Roger Ebert was dead.

I gave it a day and the Jedi comment gave me an excuse to state my position again.

I don't care about your opinion of Jedi.

I don't care about your opinion of "R.I.P."

Even though I find it odd and ripe for mocking as soon as you give me the opening.

I do care that you went after Warb.

JEDIT: Stuff it _ender, we'll have no respectful discourse in here!

Yeah well, up your, poop head!

Up You're To!

Frink, where were you when I needed you most, when I needed a friend?

I just felt like Warbler may have been unfairly picked on.  I then tried to get it back on track.  I'm happy if we get back to the subject.

Sitting through this experience is like driving a tractor in low gear through a sullen sea of Brylcreem.

darth_ender said:

 Warbler, I think Bingo likes you.

Somehow, I doubt that.

darth_ender said:

 I believe he just meant to make a point and used your comment to do so.

then why wait until I made the comment to do so?  Why didn't he make this point as soon as he saw the thread title?   I think he finds it fun and amusing to annoy me by playing devil's advocate with my posts. 

darth_ender said:

 Truthfully, I prefer the written out 'Rest in Peace' over RIP as well.  I probably shouldn't have said anything.

R.I.P. is a very common way of abbreviating it, and it was common way before the internet.   I am willing to bet I could go to a grave yard is easily find a gravestone with the abbreviated version on it.  

darth_ender said:

Anyway, Roger Ebert--what a guy!  I admire his determination to keep going until the end.  And I too am grateful he defended ROTJ

truth. 

twister111 said:

 

TV's Frink said:

twister111 said: 

SilverWook said:
Truly the end of an era. Now all we have left are mostly anonymous internet based movie reviewers. I don't think anyone else will ever have his level of recognition or prominence.

True the current media climate pretty much insures his status for the years to come. Sure it may be possible for someone to achieve such notoriety but it's unlikely as the many screens available vie for our attention.

Rest in peace Mr. Ebert.

*ensures*

/petpeeve

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/insures?s=t

ensure or insure
— vb
1. ( may take a clause as object ) to make certain or sure; guarantee: this victory will ensure his happiness
2. to make safe or secure; protect

insure or insure
— vb

en'surer or insure
— n

insure
c.1440, variant of ensuren (see ensure). Took on its particular sense of "make safe against loss by payment of premiums" 1635 (replacing assure in that meaning).

You got a pet peeve over words that mean the same thing.

No worries tho. It's okay.

 

http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/assure-ensure-insure.aspx

The verbs assure, ensure, and insure all have the general meaning "to make sure," and even though some argue that they are interchangeable (1,2), many maintain that their usage is dependent on context (3,4,5,6):

Assure is something you do to a person, a group of people, or an animal to remove doubt or anxiety, as in Squiggly assured Aardvark that he'd come to the party early. You can remember that assure can only be used with things that are alive (and both assure and alive start with a). Only things that are alive can feel doubt or anxiety, so only they can be assured. 

Ensure is something you do to guarantee an event or condition, as in To ensure there'd be enough food, Aardvark ordered twice as much food as last year. You can remember that guarantee has those two e's on the end to help you remember that to ensure (with an e) is to guarantee something. 

Insure can be done to a person, place, or thing, but it's reserved for limiting financial liability, most commonly by obtaining an insurance policy, as in Aardvark wondered if the caterers were insured against loss. You can remember that we take out insurance to protect our income if we become unemployed, disabled, or injured in an accident. Both insure and income begin with -in. Finally, the related verb secure is used when you take possession of a thing or place, as in Aardvark secured a beautiful hall for his party, or when you make something stable or safe, as in Aardvark secured the welcome banner to the wall.

I'll define my own pet peeves, thank you very much.

I'll answer the same to your post as I did to Bingo's unrelated PM, both of which I happen to disagree with...

Okay then.

My comments about ROTJ and RIP are consistent with what I have said elsewhere on these boards and with the life of the man this thread was created to remember.

He was a free speaker.

He often had opinions about films that went against the grain of popularity (he liked Speed 2 and Dark City and didn't rate Blue Velvet or Full Metal Jacket) and he often had views on aspects of life outside the cinema that some people find difficult to agree with (he backed Al Gore's climate change views 100%).

I sent the PM Frink refers to in the hope it would remove this nonsense from this thread.

This is clearly not working so I will remove myself.

Damn, that means my favorite part of this thread just removed itself.

:(