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I hate people that close a torrent as soon as they complete it.
Why Anakin really turned to the dark side:
"Anakin, You're father I am" - Yoda
"No. No. That's not true! That's impossible!" - Anakin

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I hate it when midterms are half-way through January after you have already forgotten everything that you learned before Christmas break.
"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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I do, and the end of the semester is this Friday,.
Why the f*** they just didn't end it at Christmas no one knows.
"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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Originally posted by: Bossk
Originally posted by: PSYCHO_DAYV
CONSEQUENTLY, THE WOMAN DIDN'T COME BACK FOR IT.


"Ummm...yeah... I lost something here the other day..."
"Can you describe it?"
"Ummm... it's kinda long and hard and..."

[at this point I would be turning on a tape recorder to preserve the rest of the conversation in case nobody believed me later on]

Dayv, please tell me you guys did not actually keep that in the lost and found.



IT PROMPTLY WENT INTO THE TRASH AFTER WE SHOWED IT EVERYBODY WHO WORKED AT THE THEATER.

"I'VE GROWN TIRED OF ASKING, SO THIS WILL BE THE LAST TIME..."
The Mangler Bros. Psycho Dayv Armchaireviews Notes on Suicide

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I hate having to shave
Why Anakin really turned to the dark side:
"Anakin, You're father I am" - Yoda
"No. No. That's not true! That's impossible!" - Anakin

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I think you would get your face slapped if you went to a girl on the street and asked her "Hey? Do you often shave you private parts?"
“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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I really hate canned laughter. It just emphasizes a joke that isn't funny. It's like a cue: "You were supposed to laugh there!"

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Voices from nowhere: hahahahahahhahahahaahah *grow quieter* hahaha ha ha heh *stop entirely*

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Laugh tracks are terrible. It's an insult to an audience inteligence, an insult to the writers, and insult to the actors performing... If you can't sustain a joke by yourself, based only on your own timing and rythm delivering the joke, then you're not a true comediant. I also don't apreciate any other devices, like drums or someone laughing loud...
“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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I don't know.

Does anybody know why they invented laugh tracks? I mean they've been around almost as long as TV... but why?
Who started them? For what reason?

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They came from the radio shows that were performed in front of live audiences, and that came all the way back from vaudeville theater. After some time, it became too expensive to broadcast the comedy shows live at a theater, so they started to tape it, edit it, and add laughs to it, so that people would still think they were still live. Since TV comedy came from radio comedy, laugh tracks were incorporated to TV shows, the early ones still had the "theater" feel, like "I Love Lucy" and "Honeymooners".

And today, I can watch this piece of crap called "Friends", and see what has the laugh track evolved to. I watched 2 episodes of Friends, a long time ago, and I simply could not laugh, it was NOT funny, the actors were terrible, the writing was awful, and yet thanks to the laugh track that became the most successful sitcom in the world. I have NOTHING against sitcons, but if you have any talent, try it without the laugh track.

I did some stand ups experiences during college, and I had this tape recorder with me, on my right hand. After the first joke, which was the best one, I would stand my right hand and tape the laughs. People would laugh even more after I did it. After 2 or 3 minutes I would tell a bad joke on porpouse, and after 3 seconds with no laughs, I'd show the tape recorder, rewind it, put it on the microphone and press play, and the laughs would play. Then I'd say "See? I don't need you anymore. I've captured your laughs. They know what's funny."
“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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I assume all that took place in portugese...

Anywho, can you explain laugh tracks on Scooby Doo? There is no way you could fool a half-inteligent person that Scooby Doo was filmed in front of a live studio audience.

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I hate people who write on bathroom walls. Don't they have anything better to do?

And Ric, I think the Honeymooners was done live.
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I actually like writing the opposite of stuff ppl write on bathroom walls...

"Fuck Kerry!"
"...9"? 5" baby!"
"50 Cent SUCKS!"

etc etc etc...

then the ever favorite "writing of your friend's cell number on the bathroom door"...
Which is the more foolish, the fool (the OT) or the fool who follows (the PT)?

"Stay back, or Mr...Fett gets it!"
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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
I assume all that took place in portugese...

What do you mean by that?

Warbler: I did not know that. Never actually watched it.

Count Dushku: what about those cheap prostitute phone numbers written on some VERY public bathrooms?
“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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867-5309

Why Anakin really turned to the dark side:
"Anakin, You're father I am" - Yoda
"No. No. That's not true! That's impossible!" - Anakin

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Hence why all TV shows use phone numbers with a 555 prefix.
"You fell victim to one of the classic blunders, the most famous of which is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia'."
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Originally posted by: Bossk
Hence why all TV shows use phone numbers with a 555 prefix.


When Bruce Almighty was first released they didnt use a 555 number, when it was released on dvd they changed it to a 555 number because they were sued by people that had the number.

I also believe ive seen a few other movies/shows that didnt use 555. But yeah, typically they use a 555 prefix for all phone numbers in movies/shows

867-5309 was actually the phone number of a friend of the band that released the song.

-Darth Simon
Why Anakin really turned to the dark side:
"Anakin, You're father I am" - Yoda
"No. No. That's not true! That's impossible!" - Anakin

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The 867-5309 song also generated a few suyings, if I'm not mistaken. I also recall that there was another song that mentioned a non-555 phone number...
“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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867 5309 was Tommy Tutone's ex girlfriend as I recall or somebody he was obsessed with. I'm not sure.

Alicia Keys just released a song with a phone number in it that is real. However it is to a phone line that she owns. What she failed to specify in her song, however, was the area code. She only has the phone number in NYC. When you call it outside that area code, who knows what you'll get. There's been a pretty big beef lately over that. But not nearly as large a flap as with Tutone as his was a huge radio hit and everyone knew the number.

Yeah, sometimes a movie or TV show will have a real number accidentally and it will cause some problems initially. But for the most part, phone numbers with a 555 (or "KL5" as in the case of The Simpsons) prefix are used because they go straight to an operator when you call regardless of area code.
"You fell victim to one of the classic blunders, the most famous of which is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia'."
--Vizzini (Wallace Shawn), The Princess Bride
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