Ziggy Stardust said:
About the Bowie on Extras thing, I demand that that song be on his next album. Not even joking.
I know, I find myself singing it all the time. Love his facial expressions in that video. Thought that is the full extent to which it features Bowie, Extras is a pretty cool show to check out in its entirety.
twister111 said:
Pickles + me = do not fucking blend!!!!
Could you change your title to the above quote?
HarryTasker2525 said:
Tonight I going to watch Twilight after Doctor Who. No, the 1998 movie film.
Dude, Doctor Who is in reruns and Twilight came out in 2008 not 1998, silly!
;)
I know! I was convinced it was the lid on a jar. Kind of disappointed now.
I still think you should use that pickle jar avatar, Twist. No pressure of course.
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PLEEEEEASSSSE!!!!! :-D
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Maybe the mysterious shadow outline of a pickle jar?
When I was eight I loved every episode of it I saw. I had a die-cast metal Enterprise D and I'd pretend it was the original Enterprise. The fact Kirk wasn't bald, liked to fight, said sarcastic comments, and didn't have gray hair made him so much cooler than Picard in my eight year old mind.
Of course who knows what amazing technological wonders your kid has already been exposed to. In those days my family had a 20 inch TV with a fuzzy picture (but unlike my cousins TV, it didn't make everything purple tinted, so I thought it was a great TV), we picked up a total of five TV stations including PBS (which was the majority of what I watched when I was eight), Saturday morning cartoons were a pretty miraculous thing more than worth the effort of waking yourself up at 6am for, and my sister's Nintendo Entertainment System was an amazing technological wonder that I really longed to take a part to see how it worked (and eventually in a very well planned out secret operation, I did).
In other words, your kid is probably already spoiled with technology to the point where the novelty of the original Star Trek, even at its finest moments, will be entirely lost on him. Daddy worship and a strong desire to like the things your dad likes are probably your best chances. Honestly, how can even TNG hold up to stuff like The Incredibles or Toy Story and whatever else they are weened on these days in the mind of an eight year old? Boring old classics like Moby Dick and War of the Worlds are among my favorite books (just to prove I am not a textbook case of ADHD or anything like that), and even I have a hard time sitting through an episode of TOS these days.
The Voyage Home is the first Star Trek film I have a memory of seeing (younger than eight), and my first introduction to the classic crew; as a kid I thought it was hilarious and really enjoyable. I didn't get why Spock was acting weird though, I figured he was just like that. Sometime later when my dad let me watch the much more violent Wrath of Khan, I couldn't believe they <SPOILERS> killed Spock at the end <END SPOILERS> and begged my dad to let me watch the next film, which he didn't own and had to track down for me. He hated V so I didn't see that until a long time after it came out, but I remember he took me to see VI two or three times in the theater some years later (I remember thinking "Oh no, not again!" the third time, but didn't want to disappoint him and was still excited about the idea of going to the movies with my dad. The Hunt for Red October was another film I went with him to see at least three times that kind of bored me after the first).
twister111 said:
The camp counsellor didn't believe me and, asked me to prove it to him. So I twisted and, he said "Cool it's like you're a twister!" I liked that nickname and, it stuck.
Eeewww! With a camp counselor too! That is a bit disgraceful.
Oh wait, I may have removed a few words from that post...
Darth Solo said:
Davnes007 just sounds like phone sex to me.
Hahaha! That is really funny! To me too. Though sometimes it is hard to shake the image of a burly mustached man delivering that sexy seductive voice.
DuracellEnergizer said:
I hear more-or-less every one with a generic male voice of ambiguous age.
Generally the same here, only the pitch changes depending on annoyance levels, whinyness levels, and their age or the age range I assume them to be in based on their posts maturity level (Zigfried incarnations invariably got whiny twelve year old voices from their first post I read before I even began to suspect them of being yet another Zigfried sock. Go figure).
Oddly, more often than not the ones I assume to be 12-year-old-shitheads sooner or later claim to be married and have a wife and kids, so I am usually way off on that, though I still continue to give them a 12 year old voice in my head (recent example was that Easterhoe feller, but many others have stumped me before).
Ziggy Stardust said:
BTW, I'm not short! I'm 5'10!
Well, since I am 6'2, I can still call you short. Though for thirteen that is some pretty good height. In a couple of years and you might be the one calling me short!
Heheh, Or you might just stop growing! Like my best friend who always bragged one day he'd be taller than me on the basis that his dad was taller than mine. He barely hit 6' (or 5'12'', which is more fun to say).
I agree with the eighteen thing. High school is pretty awful too. From my experience between fourteen and fifteen is where the transition takes place. I was such a dick when I turned fourteen, if I were to have to deal with my fourteen year old self, I am pretty sure I smack the carp out of him.
Ziggy Stardust said:
Very clever, short, and sarcastic.
Zig, read the OP please. This is about one sentence book reviews, not one sentence descriptions of ourselves.
Ziggy Stardust said:
I don't classify myself as a "kids these days". A "kids these days" would be one of those little fuckers that thinks The Hangover II is the greatest film ever made and that Katy Perry is the most talented musician of all time.
That made me laugh pretty hard.
Though I am generally okay with our nation's thirteen year old population as it is, it wouldn't hurt to have more of them like you.
Nanner Split said:
... but that was pretty commonplace by that point as every Disney movie including and after The Great Mouse Detective did that too.
I loved The Great Mouse Detective!
Kids these days!
The ever hot Christopher Hitchens
Seriously? Leonard Nemoy plays Jesus mother? That is nuts! And awesome...
Related to this
TV's Frink said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R2LEg1cEBI&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWg12gMW4Jw&feature=related
I LOVE this guy's attitude. I'd be so annoyed. Each video of this channel getting pranked links back to countless more. As funny as it might be the first few times, a lot of them are just really immature and excessive, especially the phone calls.
I also love the fact that this guy is named Pastor Yemi. It is like a TV reference in itself, only not. On Lost one of the castaways had a brother named Yemi who was an African Catholic priest.
You know that game where you chose ten people to be stranded on an island with? Well, pastor Yemi just earned a spot on my list.
Ziggy Stardust said:
Three baby Robins hatched in my backyard.
Here's a video of them, from today:
Hey! This thread is about "Youtube finds", not "Videos I made and put on Youtube". Seriously, Zig. Seriously.
xhonzi said:
What if Everything ran on Gas:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0sCCJFkEbE&feature=player_embedded
I really dig it. There's something kind of steampunky (gaspunky?) to this that really clicks. I'd really like to make a separate thread about it... but everyone would probably say "What about the youtube thread?"
And then I'd say: "But I never read that one. And I wanted people who don't follow that thread to be able to see it."
Maybe I'll just send some PMs.
I think the concept of "Gaspunk" deserved its own thread. I can't help but imagine what could have been with this one and all the greatness such a thread could have bestowed upon us. Good job totally doing the wring thing on this one Xhonzi. I was under the impression I could count on you to make good choices; boy was I wrong!
Hahaha! That is so amazingly perfect, it is hard to believe it is real!
I love this comment someone left:
"lmfao Will Smith is so black he is referred as "black guy" by other black people."
So Wall Drug is a place where there are animatronics all over the walls? If it is a place where you get to feel like you are tripping by watching dinosaurs pop out of the walls, it is a place I'd really like to go.
Though I do have an irrational fear of animatronic dinosaurs (and pirates).
Okay, so this thread is 8 pages of stuff I generally have no interest in, so I am not even going to bother to see if this was posted before, I just think Ziggy needs to see this on the very unlikely chance that he hasn't already.
David Bowie guest stars on Extras
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv6mEv_rDdE
One of my favorite parts from the entire series.
Leonardo said:
Nobody's boy (Sans Famille) 1878, by Hector Malot
Boo hoo.
I once had the pleasure of spending a great deal of time and effort hunting down a copy of this book in decent condition for someone I cared a lot about; one of the many efforts she wasn't worth. Always intended to read it, but not worth tracking down an English copy again to do so; the sequel Nobody's Girl (also by Malot) actually strikes me as a much more interesting premise, about a small girl who is shipwrecked and stranded on an island.
DuracellEnergizer said:
"Dark Bane Trilogy" by Drew Karpyshyn
Nothing but Bane going off to look for lost holocrons, with 1-dimensional characters and predictable storylines serving as padding.
Hehe, as soon as I read the name Bane, my mind jumped to Batman then I came across the word "holocrons" and this weird mental image came into my mind before my brain seized up and exploded at the thought of a Star Wars/Batman cross-over where Bane decides to look into the possibility of becoming a Sith.
Ziggy Stardust said:
Check your PMs. ;-)
I am afraid to.
Ziggy Stardust said:
The answer to that is simple.
My REAL favorite issue of National Geographic is the February 1985 issue.
Here's another picture of the mummified child, just in case you were more curious:
One more, a close up of the face:
Reading over it, it's a very interesting article, and I highly recommend checking it out, if you can find it...
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
Shit! What the hell?! I am never going to be able to sleep again! I've never seen anything so creepy!
I actually didn't like Toy Story 2 or The Incredibles either, though I still love the first Toy Story. I felt Toy Story 3 was ridiculously cliche and sappy. Nemo didn't do much for me either, I kind of enjoyed Monster Inc. though.
Never seen Wall-E, Cars, or any of the others. Wall-E has been the only one that has interested me.
greenpenguino said:
Yeah. Cos Star Trek: Elite Force TOTALLY ruined Trek. :rollseyes
Oh man! That game was so good it made me really want to like Voyager.
Dropped by one of my local used crap stores today and traded in a bunch of old junk I'd been meaning to get rid of and got some store credit and spent it on:
Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island for the SNES
Earthworm Jim 2 also for the SNES
and
Neutral Milk Hotel's In an Aeroplane Over the Sea on vinyl (even though I didn't realize it, my life was very empty without this gem, been listening to it repeatedly for the past few hours)
Earthworm Jim 2 was only $2 and Super Mario World 2 was only $10, which seemed weird because there was another copy of Super Mario World 2 on the next shelf down for almost $30. When I got home and was removing the labels I realized EWJ2 had the price sticker for some crappy billiards game on it and Super Mario World's sticker listed it as the Gameboy Advanced version. No wonder they were both so cheap, their employees must be on drugs or sleeping or something. You can't even find Super Mario World 2 on amazon for less than $15 + shipping. Too bad they didn't mess up the price on a copy of Super Mario RPG; that would complete my life even more than Neutral Milk Hotel on vinyl.
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Absolutely epic in the archaic non-watered-down-internet-sense of the word.
Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith by Matthew Stover
Fun enjoyable writing style; unbearable story.
Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire by Steve Perry
Fun enjoyable story; unbearable writing style.
