Leonardo

I found the key under the carpet, xnxhnhnzyyy... xhhhxnny.... xnnz... jimmy!

mmm... I... guess that's not going to work, now is it?... I suppose then you could go out and buy a copy of the book, learn how to mix drinks, become a bartender, earn two weeks' worth of salary plus tips, and spend the cash on a nice fan.

Either that or screw the book, save a little cash and buy a fan. But learning the art of mixing drinks is tempting..... Ok I'll buy the book, and you'll get the fan.

guys, have you seen the new youtube feature? it's a button with the picture of a soccer ball on it. guess what it does... |-/

youtube staff must have some time on their hands...

Not true. You could very well use it as a hand-held fan

Thanks, Frink! It's great to be back!  :D

I've seen the last Sherlock Holmes movie a while ago. I went with four friends, and while in the lobby, we tried to decide democratically what to see.

I wanted to see Jim Carrey's Christmas Carol, but we ended up seeing Holmes. The trailer had not impressed me, so I wasn't expecting to like it. But I did, I found it an enjoyable movie.

I've often realized how if I enter the cinema with the feeling that it's gonna suck, I end up liking it. Though at times I'm aware of this while I'm making the decision, and so I think "If I lower my expectations I'll like the movie, but then if I THINK I'm gonna like it, it means I'm probably not going to..." and so on endlessly.

You know what I think? I try to have NO expectations whatsoever. Empty my mind (which is not a hard task at all) before entering a cinema or opening a book or listening to a record for the first time.

auughhh I missed the Beatles thread, but surely I can compensate by posting laserdisc covers for Beatles movies, now can't I?

CAV "A HARD DAY'S NIGHT"

LASER SHOWS:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k48m8bs-2rM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVq7nUMXTvw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sK7J-VpByI

a little more on topic:

classic

I need to make a bazillion posts, to compensate for the abscence. but first let me enjoy the moment:

altogether now: 

holy shit it works!!!!!!

testinng... testing...

LOOK! GOLDENROD!!

A Goose!!

(click on the picture for more goosey goodness.)

Nothing is consuming Fantasia

Do superheroes ever need to take a dump?

mmmmm.... meat *drools*

vote_for_palpatine said:

... Well, it happened so fast I couldn't really call it "idle sipping", actually. It was more like, "the moment the foul toxin met my taste buds, I let loose an embarrasing torrent of spittle and alcohol, hitting about a dozen people with it". Including, naturally...FanFiltration.

To be sure, this wasn't going so well yet.

"Good grief, you really should be more careful, old boy!"

a voice said behind me. I turned around, the foul beverage still dripping from my chin, and saw a handkerchief. "Have my hanky, and take a sip of Jack Daniel's, it will wash that taste out of your mouth right away." said Leo, holding the white fabric in one hand. The look on his face was one of compassion and slight amusement. The guy looked a bit like Ray Dorset, the singer from Mungo Jerry. Only fatter.

oh sure I was well aware of it being a spoof with no book basis.

I was just asking for a choice, like that, no particular reason (or justified), between either of the two movies. That's why I said "pointless question", what I mean is, "Off the top of your head, choose one, no matter what"

I really hope my english is clear enough, I have no experience other than online boards...

quoting Hitchcock, and wikipedia:

"[We] have a name in the studio, and we call it the 'MacGuffin.' It is the mechanical element that usually crops up in any story. In crook stories it is almost always the necklace and in spy stories it is most always the papers."

Interviewed in 1966 by François Truffaut, Alfred Hitchcock illustrated the term "MacGuffin" with this story:^[2]

It might be a Scottish name, taken from a story about two men in a train. One man says, "What's that package up there in the baggage rack?" And the other answers, "Oh that's a McGuffin." The first one asks, "What's a McGuffin?" "Well," the other man says, "It's an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands." The first man says, "But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands," and the other one answers "Well, then that's no McGuffin!" So you see, a McGuffin is nothing at all.

Hitchcock related this anecdote in a television interview for Richard Schickel's documentary The Men Who Made the Movies. Hitchcock's verbal delivery made it clear that the second man has thought up the MacGuffin explanation as a roundabout method of telling the first man to mind his own business. According to author Ken Mogg, screenwriter Angus MacPhail, a friend of Hitchcock's, may have originally coined the term.^[3]

To summarize, I think a McGuffin should have a relevance on the plot, no matter how big a relevance, if we see the mcguffin or if we don't, if we understand what it is and how it works. I don't think it is something easy to define. For instance, I think the Dmc Delorean in the BTTF Trilogy, while being one of the protagonists, is also a McGuffin, because we have a vague idea of how it works, yet the stories center around the vehicle, and happen because of it. The plans in Star Wars could also be defined as McGuffin I think, for the same reasons.

I'm not a Bond fan, and haven't seen Casino Royale (2006).

But I've seen once Casino Royale (1967), and when the 2006 movie came about, I thought: this same-title business could be confusing. But then again I looked at a list of many american movies, and I realized that two or even more movies with the same title is not that uncommon of an event. For instance, three comedies like "Duck Soup" with Laurel and Hardy (1927, short), "Duck Soup" with the Marx Bros. (1933, feature), and "Duck Soup" with Edgar Kennedy (1942, short).

Anyway, the pointless question is: to the people who have seen both "Casino Royale" 's, if you had to choose between one of them, which one would you choose?

http://www.edwood.org/

C3PX said:

Leonardo said:

 let me just clarify here, we're not talking wimpy american coffee, the kind you drink in those big ass mugs, wich we call here "dirty hot water" (what's the deal with all the peppermint and spices and shit?)...

 

I've no idea what you're going on about "peppermints and spices and shit", I have never seen anyone in America put any of those three ingredients in their coffee before. I guess at places like Starbucks and other coffee shops you can find a wide variety of flavored coffee, but places like that are really more for caffeine junkies than real coffee aficionados, many of the people who drink that kind of stuff are more or less trying to hide the flavor of their coffee.

I use to feel the same way you do about American coffee (my favorite coffee is still the Turkish stuff, but I tend to drink it out of a "big ass" 'merikin coffee mug, and without sugar), but in recent years I have learned to appreciate the American stuff, given the right brand and the right strength of coffee, it can be quite enjoyable. I still, however, have a hard time understanding the appeal of putting cream and sugar in coffee, I just don't get it. 

of course C3PX, I was talking about Starbucks; I was trying to think of the name of the shop when I was posting that, but couldn't remember it and wrote it that way.. I know it sounds like I'm saying that absolutely everyone drinks at Starbucks, but we all know it ain't so, don't we?

Starbucks... I hope it doesn't catch on around these parts, like Mc Donalds did. Ughh Mc Donalds... speaking of ultra sweet coffee and sweet stuff, in one of the few occasions that I went into a Mc Donalds, I got one of those sundaes, well the thing had the power to make your teeth fall out at 10 feet of distance! yuck!

there's already a torrent of this, tis probably where the youtube video came from. gotta free some space on my hard drive!

Mehh... I wouldn't say I hate the taste of coffee... It's good, I guess. But I don't drink it usually. In my family, one that consumes gallons and gallons and gallons of coffee* 24hs a day (yes, even before going to sleep), I'm the only one that doesn't. I love CHOCOLATE!!

Coffee smells good, tastes good, but give me chocolate any day!

*[oh, and, I don't want to sound like an ass (or a racist one at that, cause I just hate italy anyway), but let me just clarify here, we're not talking wimpy american coffee, the kind you drink in those big ass mugs, wich we call here "dirty hot water" (what's the deal with all the peppermint and spices and shit?), this is the real deal, if there's one thing those greasers know how to do is coffee and pizza, but for the latter one you have to look real good] IMHO and with a big wink because I don't care about this shit anyway

er... I wasn't quoting, I was observing.

And now, I am also observing that I was observing. I also observe that I got a headache with all these observations. A headache just joined my cold.

Damn I'm too lazy/sick/stupid/tired to defend myself. Bring on the punishment...