xhonzi

lolz everybody.

Akwat Kbrana said:

xhonzi said:

Are you suggesting that Phantom and Menace are both nouns?  Or perhaps it's just poor grammar and the title is meant to be "The Phatom [is] Menace[ing]" or "The Phantom Menace[s]".

Theoretically, they could both be nouns with "menace" standing in simple apposition to "phantom." But that construction is very uncommon in English. More likely, "menace" is the noun and "phantom" is the adjective qualitatively modifying the noun.

As in "The Car House" which is a story about what exacty?

Or "Cat Dog"  nvm.

"The Phantom and The Menace"

"The Phantom (feat. Menace)"

"The Taco Burrito"

"The Phantom.  Menace?"

"The Phantom: Menace"

"PHANTOM: Menace!"

"The Keyboard Mouse"

"The Cup Angel"

etc...

I think the constuction in English is actually very common, such as the wiki provided example of My Friend John.  But I don't think it works with the nouns Phantom and Menace.  I stand by "Phantom" being used as adjective (only) to Menace. 

I realize this discussion is mostly pointless at this time and it has very little to do with my argument in Post 118... but it's fun.

Frink:

Man, I liked grammar corrections back when they were just typo corrections. :p

That's why I misspelled Phatom just for you.

But these aren't fan editors, these are just idiots.

One's very sad and the other is very... odd.

Luke is shaping up to be something like Bill Murray in The Man Who Knew Too Little.

Apparently everyone knows what's going on but him.

Harmy said:

I voted for that too, we all should, even if it's not true ;-)

I didn't read carefully enough and voted for "I won't buy anything!" because I didn't realize that there were fanatasy options provided.

20th Century Mark said:

i voted "Not until Lucasfilm restores the original, unaltered versions of the first trilogy" currently 2nd place. Do you think this will have any impact what-so-ever?

No, not really.  But it's fun to vote.  Too bad the poll isn't on StarWars.com or Lucasfilm.com or fox.com.

Hmmm...

Maybe someone should challenge them to putting a similar poll on their pages.  Maybe someone in the media.

It's certainly the longest most in your face one.  It's ramifications on main characters is minimal, but it's very hard to sit through.

Are you suggesting that Phantom and Menace are both nouns?  Or perhaps it's just poor grammar and the title is meant to be "The Phatom [is] Menace[ing]" or "The Phantom Menace[s]".

TV's Frink said:

Alexrd said:

skyjedi2005 said:

Wow this thread has de-evolved into a TFN apologist piece.

What's a TFN apologist?

TheForce.net apologist.

Someone who excuses everything Lucas does.

I think it's much stronger than that.  An excuse admits that there is some wrong doing.

An apologist champions the thing, not merely, er... apologizes for it.  Regardless of the etymology.

I disagree.  Phantom is being used as an adjective, not a noun.

http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/star-wars-poll/

Rock the vote!

YOU JUST SAW THE MOVIE SO YOU COULD RESUME POSTING JOKES ABOUT IT!

I get it now.

I played Headhunters on Halo Reach last night for the first time.  What. A. Blast!

I usually don't get too phyiscally agitated during a match.  My facial expression is blank, my posture is relaxed...  But Headhunters- the tension was palpable, the wins were glorious, the losses were crushing.  It was a tonne of funne.

Bingowings said:

There is a Phantom Menace in the form of a ghostly holographic puppet master but the last two titles really don't work.

I've said it before and I will say it until I'm blue in the face- The "Phrantom Menace" doesn't refer to a person (Palpatine), it refers to the Invasion of Naboo.  It's the 'fake threat' or 'phantom menace' that enables the true threat, the Real Menace to take over the Galactic Republic.  It's the only thing that makes any sense.

Even so, it sounds like Scooby Doo.

That's fair...

Ziggy Stardust said:

Toy Story 3. Still sniffling.

 TELL ME WHY!?!?!?  I didn't get it, I guess.

Nice.  That's one of the "Noble" achievements, right?  I don't have it, but I only have 1 left to get out of the standard set.  It's the "Buy something as a Lt Col." one, which I'll probably never get.

Is that the "combination?"

Warbler,

I am sorry I said "Nah."

What I should have said was:

Meh?

The power I wield over Warbler...  I feel like the puppetmaster.

No, I'm pretty sure we die at the end of 2012.  So you're not getting out of it that easily... We've got one V-day more to go.

Nah.

Neeson did his lines as Quigonn, from what I read.

Donald Duck said:

I did Inception first, and better.

Wow, that was pretty good.  DuckTales, Star Trek TNG, X-Files... these guys really did do a lot of good SciFi stuff in either 20 or 40 minutes that could otherwise make excellent features.