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Darth Enzo

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#193023
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What do you drive?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/193023/action/topic#193023
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Do whatever you want to the DeLorean, just please, for the love of God, don't paint it! Polish it to a mirror finish and clearcoat it if you like, but if you paint it somebody somewhere will beat you with a stick.

Nobody will complain if you actually make it fast enough to hit 88 mph in a mall parking lot, though.
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#192388
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F1
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/192388/action/topic#192388
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Woo-hoo! I'm glad to see a Ferrari on pole, even if I picked Alonso in my Pick8 entry. And Ric, Shumacher just tied Senna's record. There's still a late great Brazilian at least sharing that title for another week.

What do you think, will Yuji Ide manage to go ten laps without being lapped, or will he even keep the Super Hello Kitty on track that long?
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#191744
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The Things We Hate And Love Thread .
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/191744/action/topic#191744
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Didn't you know, Wookies (especially Wookie pimps) are prone to fecal lead syndrome. Therefore, since your particular box of poop actually absorbs the radar signal, it provides a smelly form of passive stealth by reducing your car's radar cross-section. You might do well to smear some on the nose of the car, it'll really help that way. Be sure to cover the headlights; they're super-reflective, and you've got terrific night vision anyway.
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#191709
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The Things We Hate And Love Thread .
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/191709/action/topic#191709
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But where's the fun in that?

The key is to not drive *too* fast in the wrong place at the wrong time. I'm a spirited motorer, and have never owned a radar detector (thought about picking up a Valentine a few times, but had better things to do with the $400 that I usually didn't have), yet have gone 18 years behind the wheel with only three speeding tickets, and went 12 years between #2 and #3. The main thing is to drive smart. Having a stealthy car doesn't hurt...
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#191703
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The Things We Hate And Love Thread .
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/191703/action/topic#191703
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Warbler,

GOOD radar detectors, and there are a very few of them, work extremely well. If you get anything less than a Valentine One or top-line unit from Escort or Bel, you might as well poop in a plastic box and tape it to your dashboard. But even the best detector is useless if you don't know how to interpret its warnings, and is no substitute for alertness and intelligence. Continuously watch traffic in all directions, anticipate trouble spots and patrol hidey-holes, and don't attract unwanted attention to yourself by driving like a crackhead chimpanzee in a brightly-colored car.
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#191617
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Zathura
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/191617/action/topic#191617
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Zathura was released in theaters in the US in November, right between Chicken Little and Harry Potter. Between the not-so-hot marketing and a release date sandwiched by two automatic kid's hits, it hardly stood a chance at the box office. Pity, it could have done pretty well.
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#191614
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Original Trilogy Usermap
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/191614/action/topic#191614
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He's seventeen. That's the age of legal consent for sexual conduct in most states, which means that someone of consenting age could be charged with statutory rape for even making threats or implications of a sexual nature against someone younger than consenting age. There are other offenses to consider, some of which could have federal status due to the interstate nature of the communications.

Dayv, I wouldn't wish what your family has been put through on anyone. Someone very close to me was in a similar terrible situation once and, well, I'll leave that at that. I truly hope this is the end of the situation, but if not please know that I'm in your corner if the time should come for a Cleansing of the Wicked.
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#191488
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Zathura
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/191488/action/topic#191488
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Originally posted by: Yoda Is Your FatherMan, if Favreau is doing films like Zathura, and doing it well by all accounts, that opens up a whole world of possibilities. People with an actual ove of a genre making movies in that genre? A crazy idea but it just might work.


In case you didn't know, Favreau's currently in pre-production on "John Carter of Mars" or whatever the title winds up being, based on books by Edgar Rice Burroughs about a Civil War vet who winds up on Mars, fights lizard-men and gets it on with the refreshingly human-looking Princess before being reincarnated as an old-money doctor in 1990s Chicago. Well, more or less.

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#191420
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Zathura
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/191420/action/topic#191420
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We rented it a couple of weeks ago, and I absolutely dug the hell out of it. It's a fun sci-fi adventure that's kid-friendly but scary when it needs to be.

It's easy to tell that Jon Favreau was a kid of my generation who fell irretrievably in love with movies because of Lucas and Spielberg's work in the 70s and early 80s. There are more miniatures and on-set practical effects in Zathura than most similar modern movies. I mean, rod puppets, man-in-suit robots and monsters, and exploding miniatures are vanishing arts that are expertly used here. CG was only used where it wasn't feasible to do convincing practical work or to add an extra level of enhancement to physical effects, and it shows on the screen because things just look real.

I don't know if I'll pick up the DVD on sale or wait for Blu-Ray, but I'm almost definitely gonna buy it at some point.
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#190847
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Original Trilogy Usermap
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/190847/action/topic#190847
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Originally posted by: sean wookie
He is cockroach. Nukes don't kill them.


That ain't all we got, check it out! Independently targeting particle beam phalanx. Whoa! Fry half a city with this puppy. We got tactical smart missiles, phase-plasma pulse rifles, RPGs, we got sonic electronic ball breakers! We got nukes(but never mind, they won't work), we got knives, sharp sticks...

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#190563
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What do you drive?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/190563/action/topic#190563
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MoveAlong: Not only do we share the same avatar, but my first car was a 1974 260Z. Spooky...

Rikter: My local club uses NASA's classing system. No, not the space program guys, the National Auto Sport Association. Their system is much simpler than SCCA's, and a bit more forgiving. You start out in a base class with cars of similar potential, and each of your modifications has a point value. When you accumulate enough mod points, you're bumped up to the next class. As she sits today, Sadie is still stockish enough that she's in G class, but when some parts that have been languishing in the garage floor get installed I'll be in F. In comparison, the simple fact that I have 300ZX front brakes would, IIRC, put me in Street Mod in SCCA, where I wouldn't be remotely competitive.