Obi Jeewhyen

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Join date: 1-Aug-2006
Last activity: 1-Feb-2007
Posts: 440

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Post: #255345
Topic: The personal hygiene thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/255345/action/topic#255345
Time: 7-Nov-2006 4:00 PM

Brushing after every meal sounds like a really good idea, but I think most Americans don't want to carry a toothbrush around and don't want to do that kind of (to us) personal grooming in a public restroom.

How do Brazilians (men in particular) deal with carrying a toothbrush around? Especially a post-brushing, wet toothbrush? I can barely deal with carrying my cellphone. I don't know where I'd keep a toothbrush on my person!

On another hygene front (or rather, back) ... I wish Americans would take up the European (and perhaps other areas) practice of using the bidet. I have seen shocked horror at the unhygienic American practice of mere paper to clean up after doing one's business by those who use the far more cleansing bidet.

Last bit: Does anyone buy into the stereotype that sci-fi fans are, as a group, less hygienic than "regular" folks? Bathe less often? Brush their hair once a month, that kind of thing?

Post: #255343
Topic: Opinion Poll on Go-Mer-Tonic
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/255343/action/topic#255343
Time: 7-Nov-2006 3:52 PM

Originally posted by: Go-Mer-Tonic
No it's the people who constantly try and get me banned to no avail who are the problem.

Jesus, Go-Mer, you have a frelling river in Egypt named for you!

Post: #255314
Topic: Opinion Poll on Go-Mer-Tonic
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/255314/action/topic#255314
Time: 7-Nov-2006 1:17 PM

Originally posted by: Go-Mer-Tonic
I do respect the people I debate with, even the wonderful people who have made it a mission of their life to get me banned at every Star Wars board I have frequented.

You are frelling clueless, aren't you, Go-Mer? If they try to ban you at more than 4 message boards ... I have a news flash for you...

It's YOU that's the problem.

Post: #255185
Topic: Advice on Name Changing
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/255185/action/topic#255185
Time: 6-Nov-2006 9:03 PM

I grew up with a surname that everyone found difficult to spell and pronounce, and worse yet was bastardized on Ellis Island arrival from a much cooler name.

I changed it when I was 20 and have never regretted it for a moment. I love my singular, quite unusual, one-syllable, easy to pronounce, spell, and remember name. I wish I'd had children to pass it onto.

Yes, my parents were a little miffed ... but my annoyance with name mangling for all my childhood came to an end ... to my everlasting happiness.

Post: #255152
Topic: Opinion Poll on Go-Mer-Tonic
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/255152/action/topic#255152
Time: 6-Nov-2006 6:54 PM

My personal opinion has nothing to do with other members. It's based solely on my own read of your posting style, which is - imo - purposeful derailment of everything you touch, in an effort designed to antagonize and stir up trouble.

If it was not purposeful or designed, it is still the effect you are having ... and you have been put on notice about it many times ... so it is NOW purposeful and designed.

TROLL !

Post: #255144
Topic: Opinion Poll on Go-Mer-Tonic
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/255144/action/topic#255144
Time: 6-Nov-2006 6:17 PM

Defend yourself all you want, Go-Mer. I guess you're just fooling the naive. But you are a TROLL, not simply someone with a different opinion.

For those who can't see the difference, congratulations must go out to Go-Mer for successul wool pulling ... over the eyes.

Post: #254918
Topic: Opinion Poll on Go-Mer-Tonic
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/254918/action/topic#254918
Time: 5-Nov-2006 9:37 AM

Frankly, as a moderator on other boards, I can tell you that member shenanigans to get another member banned would likely result in anything but.

I'd already be well aware of the troublesome member, and would have two eyes on every post of theirs. But membership mob-torching would not be viewed favorably, and I would hate to do anything that reeked of cow-towing to a lynch mob.

Post: #254765
Topic: Opinion Poll on Go-Mer-Tonic
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/254765/action/topic#254765
Time: 3-Nov-2006 10:04 PM

Ya know, I'm actually very sorry for that remark ... and for others I've recently made in the same vein.

(Oi, you should have seen the one I deleted before posting!)

I'm letting Go-Mer get under my skin, and furthermore allowing myself to jump on the bandwagon of gay-themed allusions to Go-Mer's status of Georgelover, which I myself have found humorous ... but am quite aware that they are rude.

I'll try to refrain from repeats of such tactics. There's no need for Go-Mer to get to me so much; it's only the internet.

Peace love and all that jazz, everyone.

Post: #254763
Topic: Opinion Poll on Go-Mer-Tonic
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/254763/action/topic#254763
Time: 3-Nov-2006 9:45 PM

Suck on that for a change, Go-Mer.

Post: #254750
Topic: Opinion Poll on Go-Mer-Tonic
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/254750/action/topic#254750
Time: 3-Nov-2006 8:14 PM

The earlier quote says he has story treatments for all nine films. Nowhere does he say that all he's got is an ending of vanquishing the Sith.

It's laughable to think he had enough for nine films when he had to go back and purloin the destruction of the Death Star to even have a story for Return of the Jedi. He had nothing.

I've read the early (horrible) scripts for Star Wars ... and there was only one rousing conclusion. Since he used that for what he rightly thought was going to be the only movie, he had no conclusion for the trilogy that he did have a bunch of junk for ... but no other ending. So he recycled the Death Star destruction.

Considering that he made up all the father, sister, brother, son crap AFTER Star Wars, it would be quite a stretch to say he had any story outlines for 9 movies. But he said it. It's in Go-Mer's quotes of his Lord and Master. Then he goes on to say the exact opposite, albeit decades later.

Which story does he tell you while you blow him, Go-Mer?

Post: #254726
Topic: Opinion Poll on Go-Mer-Tonic
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/254726/action/topic#254726
Time: 3-Nov-2006 6:27 PM

Originally posted by: Go-Mer-Tonic
Wanna meet at a recreational rest stop somewhere?

Go for it, Rob. George L. tells me he gives a fabulous rim job.

Post: #254700
Topic: Interesting site about the inspirations for Star Wars
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/254700/action/topic#254700
Time: 3-Nov-2006 4:17 PM

That was an awesomely fun site. I knew most of that stuff, but learned quite a bit anyways ... and it was fun to have it all grouped together as Star Wars influences.

Nice find, Anchorhead. Thanks.

Post: #254674
Topic: Opinion Poll on Go-Mer-Tonic
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/254674/action/topic#254674
Time: 3-Nov-2006 1:21 PM

And you aren't good at keeping your mouth shut (er, fingers still).

Why must you inject your opinion, even if honestly and passionately held, in every thread, every third post?

SHUT THE FUCK UP a little, and maybe there won't be such a massive effort to get you banned.

By the way, support for your departure is currently running at 82%. Just how unwelcome do we need to make you feel?

And don't fucking DARE to tell us to keep better control of ourselves when you're the one DOMINATING this entire forum with your CONSTANT crap!

Post: #254671
Topic: Opinion Poll on Go-Mer-Tonic
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/254671/action/topic#254671
Time: 3-Nov-2006 1:09 PM

As the one who suggested yesterday that we take the pulse of the community on this topic, I am very glad for this thread.

Go-Mer refused to respond with what level of community disapproval of him would inspire him to leave, and thus I consider him a troll - - as I would anyone who professes they will stay somewhere no matter how much everyone else wants them to go.

Most successful trolls nowadays stick to just this side of the envelope. It's 2006, the internet has been around a long time. And just as guerilla warriors sharpen their tools and stay effective, so do internet trolls.

Go-Mer IS the modern definition of an internet troll. He derails EVERY THREAD to his purpose, and has completely contaminated this forum. He is a virus, he is a cancer.

Won't someone rid me of this meddlesome troll?

Post: #254582
Topic: Official Star Wars newsletter from 1978
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/254582/action/topic#254582
Time: 2-Nov-2006 8:53 PM

Originally posted by: Go-Mer-Tonic
Excerpt from Vanity Fair February 1999:

"That's really not part of the plan at this point, " he [Lucas] says. (emphasis added)

So how is it not being part of the plan in 1999 any indication of it also not being part of the plan in 1979, when he said it was part of the plan?

Post: #254551
Topic: Star Wars In 3D
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/254551/action/topic#254551
Time: 2-Nov-2006 5:29 PM

There were only a couple of instances of "ghosting" that's been typical with 3-D till now. I found it remarkably approaching perfection.

Post: #254508
Topic: Link to history of OT scripts
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/254508/action/topic#254508
Time: 2-Nov-2006 2:42 PM

Originally posted by: Go-Mer-Tonic
Well certianly, it wasn't written on any of these scripts until then.

But it was always meant to be called Episode IV, A New Hope because Lucas says so 30 years later? Other titles written endlessly, but never Episode IV, A New Hope, but it was always meant to be that way?

The truth is that I wrote the script for Star Wars, I had it in my head almost exactly as the final product turned out ... and it's been in my head that way since 1963.

I just never told anyone.

I thought about writing it down in 1972, but I forgot.

But trust me, ok?

Post: #254502
Topic: George Lucas interview - 29th October 1979
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/254502/action/topic#254502
Time: 2-Nov-2006 2:24 PM

Go-Mer, you are all over this forum like a wet blanket. Find it yourself. I'm not surprised you'd get confused about where things are, as it's all seeming the same thanks to your all-pervasive posts. We might as well just have one single thread here now ... titled "Go-Mer Sucks George's Dick ... and be done with it.

But even I can recall seeing both quotes. Maybe if you stop posting every few seconds, you will have better recall of what's been posted in the last few days.

Post: #254499
Topic: Star Wars In 3D
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/254499/action/topic#254499
Time: 2-Nov-2006 2:19 PM

Hmmm, I have heard good things about Over the Hedge which I expected to be terrible, and bad things about Monster House which I expected to be good.

Must Netflix both.

Doesn't change my feeling that 3-D works best with animation. I didn't manage to see the short version of Superman Returns in 3-D, so I don't really have any evidence to back that up. Just an impression I got from the Nightmare B4 Xmas screening.

Post: #254497
Topic: McCallum on Jar Jar & Kids before TPM came out
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/254497/action/topic#254497
Time: 2-Nov-2006 2:12 PM

Go-Mer ... if you are not a troll ... please state exactly what percentage of the active membership of this board expressing a wish for your permanent departure will result in your wanting to leave and never come back?

If you are not a troll, I would think being entirely unwelcome would inspire you to go away. Only a troll would purposefully stay someplace they aren't wanted.

State the percentage, and I will see about arranging to demonstrate whether that percentage exists.

Failure to do so will be considered ... by me, if not by others ... an outright admission that you are trolling.

Post: #254495
Topic: George Lucas interview - 29th October 1979
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/254495/action/topic#254495
Time: 2-Nov-2006 2:04 PM

Go-Mer, you post five times per hour in every single thread in this forum. It is not up to US to find the second quote that we all KNOW you've seen. I've seen it, and I post a tenth as much as you. If you can't recall it, or can't recall which thread it's in (I can't, for example), don't expect us to do your leg-work for you.

The Lucas quotes exist, they've been posted here, and recently. You are straying very close to calling people liars, and that is unacceptable behavior ... even for you.

Post: #254394
Topic: George Lucas interview - 29th October 1979
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/254394/action/topic#254394
Time: 1-Nov-2006 8:25 PM

Anything's possible, Go-Mer. But if you want to believe it's likely or probable that Lucas just kept the title in his head all through every stage of production, but never had it written down on anything anywhere, you just go ahead and do that, k?

Post: #254386
Topic: George Lucas interview - 29th October 1979
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/254386/action/topic#254386
Time: 1-Nov-2006 6:51 PM

Sorry, Go-Mer, but unless Lucas admits the number and subtitle was a secret he kept in his head, but was there nontheless .... his statements that it was the title of a major motion picture with absolutely no physical evidence EVER that it was the case can only be assumed to be a big fat fib.

Post: #254327
Topic: McCallum on Jar Jar & Kids before TPM came out
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/254327/action/topic#254327
Time: 1-Nov-2006 1:42 PM

Originally posted by: Darth_Evil
AOTC is enjoyable the first few times, as is the other two. After that, it starts sucking. Star Wars and Empire just get better with each viewing.

Oh, I quite agree. Except that Episodes I and III started sucking during the first presentation, and AotC lasted a good handful of viewings. Heheh, that makes it the best of the prequels in my book.

(My evaluations of when suckitude set in are based on the opening night, fan-filled, midnight shows in Hollywood, California ... Grauman's Chinese for Eps. 1 and 2; Cinerama Dome for Ep. 3.)

.

Post: #254326
Topic: Star Wars In 3D
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/254326/action/topic#254326
Time: 1-Nov-2006 1:37 PM

When I saw Nightmare yesterday (on Halloween), I too was impressed with the 3-D technology to not be garish. It just made it seem as if there was more "punch" to the image, and some of the stuff looked more "multi-planed." I think it made the film look better, even though I was apprehensive that the left eye would be seeing a digital scan of the original photography.

My caveat is that the multi-plane effect achieved looks fine with animation, but might look stupid with live photography. The multi-plane effect made things look layered, but the layered objects themselves still looked incredibly flat.

I think this technology is a boon to animation, but I don't think it will work as well with live films like Star Wars.

Though 99.7% animated films like the prequels should work fine!

Edited to add: The glasses were given away, there was no need to steal them. They are obviously cheap enough to include in the already-hefty theater admission.