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#105284
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Depressing but fairly intellligent blog...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/105284/action/topic#105284
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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
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"And now in our quest to bring you stories in gory detail..." and then shot herself in the head on live tv. If she had done it in her bedroom, nobody would have cared, but because she did it on tv it was huge. My wife and I are becoming more concerned about this and are making an effort to drastically reduce the time that the kids spend watching it. Very frightening.


Oh my flipping gosh... That's terrible. It almost sounds like a very bad joke from SCARY MOVIE.... That actually happened...

What nation/channel did it occur on?


United States, in a local station, in the mid 70s. I remember reading about it.
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#105254
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Depressing but fairly intellligent blog...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/105254/action/topic#105254
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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
You've had Cable for fifteen years and are already mindless drones? Everybody pray for Brazil.


This obviously started to happen back in the mid 70s, not since cable TV. I just mentioned it as an example of how TV was not embbeded in our culture, but now that it is, our society seemed to have dumbed down. Not "dumbed down" in the sense of people being ignorant or incompenent, dumbed down in the sense of people drooling in front of the TV, watching our horrible reality TV shows, worshipping celebreties like pseudo-gods, and letting themselves to think as TV tells them to. One day I'll tell you the story of a network called "Globo", not now because I'd take a long time to tell that story.
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#105210
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Depressing but fairly intellligent blog...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/105210/action/topic#105210
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Chaltab, I'm impressed that YOU decided to post a link to this:

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The entire purpose of all of television was to seduce millions of eyeballs to watch the screen so that corporations could sell their goods. Nothing much has changed, except that the commercials now consume about 60% of programming time instead of 40%, and we have become so dimwitted and brain?dead that we?ve agreed to PAY for cable service and STILL watch commercials. In fact, on Super Bowl Sunday, millions of Americans tune in for the SOLE PURPOSE of watching commercials.

Winky Dink and You was the beginning of the brainwashing that has now achieved its purpose. The new Americans do not read, do not WANT to read, choose Presidents on likeability, respond to imperialist warmongering by slapping cute ribbon magnets on their cars, badger doctors into prescribing unneeded drugs because the commercials are so effective, buy SUVs no matter what the price of gas, happily allow government to dictate what they may watch, think, and do, permit two or three (eventually it will be one) global conglomerates to manufacture and sell all of our medicine, food, and entertainment, cheerfully reduce several thousand years of complex religious ideas to a Disney?esque cartoon version of Faith, wave bye?bye to art and music programs in schools, and excitedly tune in to watch buff, silicone?enhanced twits sabotage each other for prizes. Talent?deprived nincompoops evoke orgasmic screams on the red carpet. We become as mindlessly excited about choosing the next American Idol as we do about choosing a new Pope (and there is no longer much difference). We are, at last, the willing, thrilled slaves of the oligarchs, the brain?dead consumers of whatever They want to sell us. We torture ourselves with every new diet, gobble up every new recipe, and reduce the English language?once the glory of the world?to an average working vocabulary of about 300 words. We can express no ideas. We have no ideas.


Perhaps there is still hope for you, eh?


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(...)in 1953 (...) TV was available from about 6:00 AM to about 11:00 PM


That's kinda funny, over here, until the early to mid 70s, TV was available only from 6pm to midnight, and usually unavailable on weekends. The mentality back then was that kids are in school all day, then they get back and do homework, and go play with their friends outside... Adults are either working, or, if they are at their homes, they are usually doing something like cleaning or doing laundry or cooking and not actually wasting their mornings and afternoons on TV. There was no crude, toilet humor, no reality TV, no sex, almost no violence, the programs did not insult people's inteligence... I must say that people back then had a very good vocabulary, there were absolutely no cases of obese children (only if they were born that way), children read a LOT back then... We simply did not have TV in our culture! Cable TV was not available here until 1990, because the concept of paying to watch TV was absolutely ridiculous to us, no one wanted it. Yet, slowly, TV became a major part of our way of life... And I must say, suddenly a whole generation of IDIOTS who cannot think for themselves appeared. And still, when I mention "TV turnoff", people look at me as if I'm some sort of a nut, or some sort of communist liberal wacko...
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#105171
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The Things We Hate And Love Thread .
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/105171/action/topic#105171
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Originally posted by: JediSage
I'd be wary of any product that claims to prevent all hair growth permanently...1. I would doubt it's effectiveness. 2. What's it doing to your body??

I don't doubt it works, on that infomertial they kept saying "Don't do it if you're not 100% sure, there's no way back, it's like a tatoo, you can't go back... We may not have the technology to make hair grow, but we sure do have the product to make it never grow back again.". But you're right about #2: this thing must make some major destruction on your skin...

Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
I would probably do something stupid like spill it all over my head.


LOL why would you do that? Well, I know this product would be great for pranksters, changing someone's shampoo for this...
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#105172
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Back to the Future & Time Travel
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/105172/action/topic#105172
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Originally posted by: GlopOfGrease
The reason for the time train at the end of BTTF3 is because the writers had basically written themselves into a corner. Marty helps save Doc from Buford Tannen, but Doc is still in the past(possibly in jail for stealing the train) and will still die in the past. If they didn't have Doc return, people would walk out of the theater angry because they just saw a pointless, depressing movie. This being a comedy, you want to end on a happy note. Now, the audience gets a resolution to the story and the friendship. Doc is still alive and involved in other adventures. People leave the theater with a warm feeling on a high note.


Therefore, as I said... a huge Deus Ex Machina
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#105109
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Back to the Future & Time Travel
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/105109/action/topic#105109
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Originally posted by: Yoda Is Your Father
Has anyone here heard of John Titor? He was a guy who was posting online around 2001 claiming to be from the future. Do a Google search and check it out - genuine or hoax, either way it's fascinating.

P.S Chaltab, I love BTTF and nice to see you fighting the cause so well.


There was this guy 2 or 3 years ago who unexplainably won a lot of money in the stock market, they had no record of that person, and he claimed to be from the future. I don't know what happened to him.
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#105038
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The Return of Six Degrees of Star Wars
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/105038/action/topic#105038
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Another "Lost" castmember? You must really love this series... It's about an airplane that falls in an island, right? Well, aparently they stole my idea: I've written a pilote episode for a show called "Alive - The Sitcom". You know, with the uruguaian rugby players...

Yoon-jin Kim (Swiri) Yong-woo Park (Say Yes) Joong-Hoon Park (The Truth About Charlie) Lisa Gay Hamilton (Jackie Brown) Samuel L Jackson

Yay, only 4... Not bad for a Korean actress who never acted with an american cast (besides "Lost").

OK, if you wanna use korean actors, try this one: Neung-kyeol No
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#105032
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Most Influential...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/105032/action/topic#105032
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Originally posted by: greencapt
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Originally posted by: ricarleite

I had this joke I'm gonna share with you:
You know what must be the most bizarre moment in the 20th century history? When some lonely horny fat chick with some technical knoledge came up with the first electric powered dildo. "World! Behold my invention! The electric penis!"


And here it very well may be: http://www.monicammartin.com/naughtyfactfiles.html


That's just... horrible..
I'll ignore this historical fact so I can still tell my joke.
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#105013
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Most Influential...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/105013/action/topic#105013
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Originally posted by: starkiller
1. People eventually die, drugs only delay it...that's the only I would rate it as high it probably should be.
2. Without electric manipulation, we wouldn't be talking this way.
3. Doesn't the internal combustion engine require electric manipulation (spark generation) to run?
4. Not possible without electricity.
5. People drank milk before pastuerization(sp?).

Given that, I'd have to say the harnessing of electricity is the most important.


1- Agree.
2- Agree.
3- Not necessarily.
4- One could talk to the telephone without eletricity, but it uses the principles of condutivity to work.
5- People did drink milk thousands of years before it, but it created a way for us to keep milk for a long time without going sour.

I had this joke I'm gonna share with you:
You know what must be the most bizarre moment in the 20th century history? When some lonely horny fat chick with some technical knoledge came up with the first electric powered dildo. "World! Behold my invention! The electric penis!"
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#104920
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Video Games - a general discussion thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/104920/action/topic#104920
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Mario Party is the kind of game you must play with a bunch of friends. Most of the fun from that game isn't from the game itself, but with the laughs and fun you'll have with your friends. Same goes for other games such as Goldeneye64 multiplayer, Bomberman 64, and other fun multiplayer games... The 3DO was the first system to have these sorts of "party" games, there were a bunch of them, like "Twister", in which each player was a game show contestant...