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#288523
Topic
New Clone Wars Trailer!
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/288523/action/topic#288523
Time
George Lucas, in his infinitely infantile way, says to Genndy Tartakovsky:

Anything you can do,
I can do better.
I can do anything
Better than you.

No, you can't.
Yes, I can. No, you can't.
Yes, I can. No, you can't.
Yes, I can,
Yes, I can!

Anything you can be
I can be greater.
Sooner or later,
I'm greater than you.

No, you're not. Yes, I am.
No, you're not. Yes, I am.
No, you're NOT!. Yes, I am.
Yes, I am!

I can shoot a partridge
With a single cartridge.
I can get a sparrow
With a bow and arrow.
I can live on bread and cheese.
And only on that?
Yes.
So can a rat!
Any note you can reach
I can go higher.
I can sing anything
Higher than you.
No, you can't. (High)
Yes, I can. (Higher) No, you can't. (Higher)
Yes, I can. (Higher) No, you can't. (Higher)
Yes, I can. (Higher) No, you can't. (Higher)
Yes, I can. (Higher) No, you can't. (Higher)
Yes, I CAN! (Highest)

Anything you can buy
I can buy cheaper.
I can buy anything
Cheaper than you.

Fifty cents?
Forty cents! Thirty cents?
Twenty cents! No, you can't!
Yes, I can,
Yes, I can!
Anything you can say
I can say softer.
I can say anything
Softer than you.
No, you can't. (Softly)
Yes, I can. (Softer) No, you can't. (Softer)
Yes, I can. (Softer) No, you can't. (Softer)
Yes, I can. (Softer)
YES, I CAN! (Full volume)
I can drink my liquor
Faster than a flicker.
I can drink it quicker
And get even sicker!
I can open any safe.
Without bein' caught?
Sure.
That's what I thought--
you crook!
Any note you can hold
I can hold longer.
I can hold any note
Longer than you.

No, you can't.
Yes, I can No, you can't.
Yes, I can No, you can't.
Yes, I can
Yes, I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I No, you C-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-N'T--
CA-A-A-A-N! (Cough, cough!)
Yes, you ca-a-a-an!

Anything you can wear
I can wear better.
In what you wear
I'd look better than you.
In my coat?
In your vest! In my shoes?
In your hat! No, you can't!
Yes, I can
Yes, I CAN!
Anything you say
I can say faster.
I can say anything
Faster than you.
No, you can't. (Fast)
Yes, I can. (Faster) No, you can't. (Faster)
Yes, I can. (Faster) Noyoucan't. (Faster)
YesIcan! (Fastest)
I can jump a hurdle.
I can wear a girdle.
I can knit a sweater.
I can fill it better!
I can do most anything!
Can you bake a pie? No.
Neither can I.
Anything you can sing
I can sing sweeter.
I can sing anything
Sweeter than you.
No, you can't. (Sweetly)
Yes, I can. (Sweeter) No, you can't. (Sweeter)
Yes, I can. (Sweeter) No, you can't. (Sweeter)
Yes, I can. (Sweeter) No, you can't, can't, can't (sweeter)
Yes, I can, can, can (Sugary)

Yes, I can! No, you can't!
Post
#288520
Topic
A Crime, but Not by the Man Doing It
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/288520/action/topic#288520
Time
Originally posted by: lordjedi
ADM, I'm not even going to respond to your comments.

And yet, you couldn't resist. Here I talk about great conservative topics like supply and demand, great liberal topics like recycling, and you latch on to the censorship comment and make a stink over it AND say you're not going to respond? If you're not gonna respond, then don't respond. But don't say you're not and then do so in the next breath. Jeeze.

Reality check, there are those who equate book burning with censorship. It's why I brought it up. It was indeed a preemptive statement, but in your desire to see everything I say as anti-everything-you-stand-for you just couldn't resist making out what I said to be more than it was.
Post
#288514
Topic
A Crime, but Not by the Man Doing It
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/288514/action/topic#288514
Time
Let's not equate what he is doing with Berlin in 1939. Even flags get burned when they're ceremonially retired, and there is nothing unpatriotic about it. It's not as though these books are being burned in protest of their content or that the government was saying they have ideas that shouldn't be put forth. Nope, that's actually the FCC's job when it comes to television programming. These books are simply a victim of supply and demand. For example, there is an abundant supply of Clancy in the English-speaking world but the demand for dogeared copy of Cardinal in the Kremlin just isn't all that high. Hence why he can't give them away. And given that he is a businessman trying to SELL books, not STORE books, he needs to manage the cost of his overhead. This doesn't take a Ph.D. in economics to figure out.

I just want to know why he's not recycling them. Burning them wastes the valuable resource of the paper. Recycling them, however, means more new books and new ideas can be generated from the material of the old. That is a model for efficiency and there is something poetic about it at the same time.

If he were prudent, he should, at a minimum, be listing these for a penny at Amazon, but I suspect nobody has shown him how. They'd move much more quickly and gross at least a tiny bit of income while not having to resort to the unpalatable tactic of book-burning.
Post
#287543
Topic
Darth Vader's Psyche: What Went Wrong
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/287543/action/topic#287543
Time
I originally saw some of this over at another board and tracked down the article. I am bringing it here to its proper home, where it can be discussed to death. According to Miranda Hitti of WebMD Medical News, Anakin Skywalker, Who Became Darth Vader, Had Borderline Personality Disorder. Fortunately our top psychiatrists are concerned with this instead of more pressing needs, like figuring out who the next Cho will be and helping him before he snaps.

But not to get too serious and to join in the fun, here is my contribution to the discussion:

According to further research, Borderline Personality Disorder has a strong correlation with elevated midichlorian levels. GalacticSmithKline has been racing Pfazer for the first patented pharmaceutical that will effectively lower midichlorian levels. In trial studies, side effects include dry mouth, fatigue, irritability, insomnia, and lowered telekinesis.
Post
#287345
Topic
The Now-Released Spider-Man 3 Thread
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/287345/action/topic#287345
Time
Dancing Pete was knee-jerk funny, but it won't hold up as time goes by. It's as if they edited Gag Reel footage into the narrative. I've got an idea for dealing with this bit especially, but I really don't want to touch this film until 3.1 comes out. Too many sacrificed plotlines that are clearly on the cutting room floor as opposed to being absent altogether. I've got some killer ideas for this film as a whole but I'd like to work with the whole enchilada.

Where the hell can you write Sony Pictures to petition for a simultaneous 3.1 release? They are very good at NOT putting links on their site.
Post
#287000
Topic
Don Imus and the race issue thread.
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/287000/action/topic#287000
Time
It's a double entendre. "Gray's Anatomy" is a defining textbook on human anatomy from the 1800s.

To answer the other questions:
Izzy apparently had a child when she was a teen and gave it up for adoption. Not aborted. Re-entered her life when a marrow donor was needed.
Dr. Webbers (the dude who was Skinner's boss on the X-files) is going through a divorce because of an affair. Now his 52-year-old soon-to-be-ex is pregnant.
Dr. Grey's dad abandoned her and her mother as a child for another woman. Grey has some serious long-term commitment issues because of this.
Izzy and George got drunk and had sex, causing him massive amounts of guilt for the affair. The plotline has been dragging on for weeks.
McSteamy (Multiple-Man from X3) and Addison tried to go on a sex-hiatus for two months. She challenged him to do this because he's some sort of man-ho. Then she ended up sleeping with somebody else. Thus spelled the end of that relationship.
And Cristina did NOT have an abortion. She wanted one, but then she had an ectopic pregnancy, bursting one of her fallopian tubes. Instant miscarriage, the ever-convenient answer to unwanted pregnancies on TV.

I agree, the people are stupid. Virtually all of their stupidity revolves around sex. But again, this continual game of Musical Bedsheets is FAR FAR FAR from consequence-free.
Post
#286849
Topic
Don Imus and the race issue thread.
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/286849/action/topic#286849
Time
We should rename this the "Sex on TV" thread.

Of course I know depictions of underage people having sex do exist, but I'm tying to get you guys to think past blind rhetoric. Not only are they a small minority of programming, they're certainly not being portrayed in an encouraging manner. The vast majority of the time, TV depicts teenagers who develop one problem or another as a result of sex, or are assholes to start with. And therein lies my point: It is a Hasty Generalization to say that the media is encouraging underaged kids to have sex. If it's a problem at all, it's an exaggerated one ... what any researcher would call a "statistical outlier."

In fact, the vast majority of sex-driven plots on TV, no matter what the age of the characters, revolve around the complications that arise as a result of casual sex. For example, arguably the raciest network show that's currently on the air is Grey's Anatomy. That show practically depicts Musical Bedsheets, yet virtually every one of those characters are screwed up because they keep sleeping around. The one well-adjusted character (Dr. Bailey, the "mom" figure) is the only one who isn't banging some other character.

(For the record, I pretty much hate Grey's Anatomy but because my wife watches it I know way too much about what's going on.)

I could probably come up with fifty examples of sex on TV screwing up the lives of the characters for every one example that can be given of sex being depicted in a healthy light, even among of-age participants. And I have yet to hear any examples of healthy sex being depicted in the lives of minors. If anybody thinks the shallow, vapid lives of the kids on The O.C., Dawson's, or the great-grandaddy of all Teen Steam programming 90210 are role models, then that beauty is certainly in the eye of the beholder ... and I ain't beholding it. These shows, the closest examples of what you're getting at (and thankfully cancelled and no longer polluting our airwaves), had very few characters worthy of emulation. I personally never watched the swill because it looked like crap, but that's no matter. They are called "guilty pleasures" for a reason: They are known to be crap and hold little to no redeeming value; people watch them in spite of that, not because of it. It's why people like Pamela Anderson continue to find work.

The great irony in all of this is that those who are most vocal about keeping the government out of private lives are the quickest to call for the government to clean up TV. AND these are the same people who bemoan PBS' existence and wish its death, failing to recognize it for providing the safest, cleanest, most child-friendly programming on TV. Compare PBS to what the commercial networks show during the daytime while toddlers are awake, sick kids are at home, and in the hours immediately after elementary children return home from school. PBS is showing content that is entertaining and educational to the developing mind while the others are showing soap operas, the lowest of casual-sex filled tripe polluting our airwaves.

I'm all for the freedom of choice, as I'm quite capable of choosing what gets watched by my kids and what doesn't. They get a rationing of PBS Sprout and the occasional binge on some classic cartoons with Daddy (Looney Tunes, Pink Panther, classic Disney, etc.) if it doesn't interfere with school or chores. They know Mom and Dad watch "grown-up shows" after bedtime and respect that. And I'll be quite capable of letting them choose what they watch when they help contribute to the household budget. In the mean time, I try to help instill some values in them that will allow them to distinguish between good content and bad content. But if the day arises they can't make appropriate viewing choices while living under my roof, I will have no problems disconnecting the TV altogether.
Post
#286845
Topic
***The "Darth Editous" Episode V DVD Info and Feedback Thread*** - a work in progress
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/286845/action/topic#286845
Time
Originally posted by: ThrowgnCpr
Originally posted by: Erikstormtrooper
Sluggo,
Can you please switch the colors for SW and ESB? I've always thought of ESB as a "blue" movie.

agreed. i think its all the snow and ice. also i think of sw as tan because of the sand. but anyway, cool covers

Or yellow because of the hot, hot sun.

Me, I hate sand. It's rough, and course. And it gets in everywhere.
Post
#286817
Topic
National Police Week
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/286817/action/topic#286817
Time
Bad boys, bad boys
Whatcha gonna do
Whatcha gonna do
When they come for you
Bad boys, bad boys
Whatcha gonna do
Whatcha gonna do
When they come for you

Bad boys
Whatcha want, watcha want
Whatcha gonna do
When sheriff John Brown come for you
Tell me
Whatcha gonna do, whatcha gonna dooo
Yeaheah

CHORUS

When you were eight
And you had bad traits
You go to school
And learn the golden rule
So why are you
Acting like a bloody fool
If you get hot
You must get cool

CHORUS

You chuck it on that one
You chuck it on this one
You chuck it on your mother and
You chuck it on your father
You chuck it on your brother and
You chuck it on your sister
You chuck it on that one and
You chuck it on me

CHORUS

Nobody naw give you no break
Police naw give you no break
Soldier naw give you no break
Not even you idren naw give you no break
Hehe

CHORUS

Why did you have to act so mean
Don'T you know you're human being
Born of a mother with the love of a father
Reflections come and reflections go
I know sometimes you want to let go
Hehehe
I know sometimes you want to let go

CHORUS
(Repeat)
-You're too bad, you're too cool-
-You're too bad, you're too cool-
(Repeat)

You chuck it on that one
You chuck it on this one
You chuck it on your mother and
You chuck it on your father
You chuck it on your brother and
You chuck it on your sister
You chuck it on that one and
You chuck it on me
Post
#286551
Topic
Don Imus and the race issue thread.
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/286551/action/topic#286551
Time
Originally posted by: C3PX
Sure they are encouraging it. Seen any teen dramas lately? Ever watch the WB? The media glorifies sex and rarely mentions the consequences. By making it so appealing and casual they encourage kids to have sex, which in turn is what causes 15 year old to become pregnant. My not be directly saying to a fifteen year old, "hey go get pregnant", but it is not all that far from it.
Please give me an example of where an underaged character had sex on the CW (WB is defunct, C3PX) and has had no consequences. Pretty much any time an underaged character has sex on any TV show, they're either wracked with guilt, wind up pregnant, are tearing their lives up with drugs, are prostitutes, are rape victims, or generally have a shitty life. Give me a specific example of where underaged characters are encouraged to have sex in a consequence-free environment.

Originally posted by: ferris209

I wouldn't say they are encouraging, but their is little discouragement from certain portions of the media.

Would you then agree that there is considerable discouragement from certain other portions of the media? If you say that certain portions of the media, while not encouraging it, are not going out of their way to discourage it, aren't other portions actively discouraging it? It seems to me that the only point of view, that of encouraging underage sex, the one that's being suggested is rampant, is actually absent.

You all are making some pretty damning accusations here, so you need to be sure of what you're saying.
Post
#286494
Topic
Farmers Branch, TX & other immigration issues thread.
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/286494/action/topic#286494
Time
If all localities nationwide would take up the responsibility of locating and detaining illegal immigrants, that would remove the burden from the incapable and overburdened INS. Then INS could then focus solely on deportation, and, especially in the case of the Mexican illegals, have more of the budget to allow them all to be flown to the FAR border of Mexico, near Belize. It would cut down on re-entry massively because the border would cease to be a revolving door for deportees. They'd have to re-trek across the very long country of Mexico to get back into the U.S. instead of swimming across the next night.

I don't buy the argument that nobody else wants the jobs they take. Tell that to the citizen who wants a job and can't find one.