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Wow... if you really want the killshot (TPM Review spoilers) - Dano Jan 12, 14:20 3
- What's all that footage from, anyway? The DVD? -- nm - Mop (229 lbs) Jan 12, 14:23
- I tried to entice David with that one... -- nm - Mel Profit Jan 12, 14:21 1
  - I'll watch it only if you people take up a charitable donation or something. - David Jan 12, 14:24
i don't have speakers here but . . . insanely vulgar outtakes from Better Off Ted -- (link) - fatsquatch Jan 12, 14:18 4
- Oh my. (nm) - musubi Jan 12, 14:22
- HA! -- nm - Remlik Jan 12, 14:22
- Is this episode on this week? I don't remember this one. "a mistyped inter-office memo encouraged employees to swear insults at each other" -- nm - JaxSean Jan 12, 14:20 1
  - crap. sorry if that's a spoiler. -- nm - JaxSean Jan 12, 14:20
Curse you people that's 70 mintues of sleep I'm not gonna get tonight. (nm) - musubi Jan 12, 14:17
And even though I'm not as big a fan of Avatar, watching the TPM review demonstrates how much better grasp of storytelling Cameron has. - Dano Jan 12, 14:15 3
- Not defending TPM at all, but your IM is a checklist for a boring movie -- nm - con_carne Jan 12, 14:23 2
  - Er, that's 99%of mainstream movies. -- nm - Reagen Jan 12, 14:24
  - or predictable -- nm - con_carne Jan 12, 14:24
To play devil's advocate about part 1 of the review, it takes just as long in New Hope for Luke to get into the action, and - Max Jan 12, 14:14 15
- I made this point last night that we haven't had 25 years to immerse with the characters, so it's not totally a fair fight. However - Reagen Jan 12, 14:21 3
  - TPM is ten years old already though - it's had enough time to decant -- nm - Roger More Jan 12, 14:25
  - Yeah, like who's going back to Qui-gon(??) to suss him out more? -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Jan 12, 14:22
  - it's not getting better with age -- nm - fatsquatch Jan 12, 14:21
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- like I posted below...I tried the character description exercise while I was watching it... - Mel Profit Jan 12, 14:17
- Like anything along these lines, baby steps are involved. - David Jan 12, 14:17 3
  - the originals are basic mythology. -- nm - Mel Profit Jan 12, 14:22 1
    - in that it's a myth that they're any good... -- nm - David Jan 12, 14:24
  - Oh, but there's a world of difference. - Reagen Jan 12, 14:20
- I disagree with your IM. nm - Dignan Jan 12, 14:16 4
  - Anakin is willful, bright, iquisitive, impulsive, fearless, and very close to his mother. That doesn't describe all children his age. -- nm - Max Jan 12, 14:18 3
    - It describes 95% of movie children, though. - Dignan Jan 12, 14:22 1
      - She believes in honor but is willing to use deception to that end, she's slow to act but decisive when she does, she's selfless, and she's better at - Max Jan 12, 14:25
    - (my point is "the characters suck so I'm not going to bother trying to describe them" is a weakness in his own argument. but he's still right.) -- nm - Max Jan 12, 14:20
"If they use all their force concentration, they might be able to understand a single word he says" -- nm - amoxy Jan 12, 14:11
For those interested, I just rechecked the flights to Orlando and realized I had put in the return date wrong. So, instead of flights in the $200-300 - pmb Jan 12, 14:07 2
- do you know how many lapdances you can get this weekend for 500 bucks???? nm -- nm - groiny Jan 12, 14:08
- *takes notes* -- nm - Remlik si Jan 12, 14:08
I'm done! - Mop (229 lbs) Jan 12, 14:05 2
- Just think if you'd actually *done* something. -- nm - Reagen Jan 12, 14:16
- that's all it took? -- nm - fatsquatch Jan 12, 14:07
hmm, I just remembered that I get monday off. - tRuMaN Jan 12, 14:04
Heard on the radio this morning: The last verified widow of a civil war veteran only died in 2004....(link) - Walt_Disney Jan 12, 14:00
Poll : In a job situation in which some (not all) staffers serve on committees, and some (not all) professionals serve as chairs, don't you think the - mara Jan 12, 13:57 3
- Unless the Supervisors discussed it. You're just a cog in their wheel, mara. -- nm - JaxSean Jan 12, 14:01
- Random jackholes tell me to do shit at my job from time to time. "I'll have to clear it with Bob (my boss)" has become a rote response for me. -- nm - con_carne Jan 12, 14:00 1
  - Bob's response is usually "Why did he tell you to do this? Let me talk to him." -- nm - con_carne Jan 12, 14:01
Cowgirl Expresso on the Travel channel. mmmmm bikini baristas -- nm - CQ Jan 12, 13:55 1
- utterly confusing choices, cream nonfat, soy, breast milk -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 12, 13:58
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LA STers: See "Up In The Air" tomorrow night for free at The Landmark in West LA -- (link) - con_carne Jan 12, 13:54
Geez! You talked about it so much you made me watch. Now I won't get any grant reports done in the next 70 minutes. - ceregon Jan 12, 13:49 15
- What's really amazing is that he barely touches on Jar Jar Binks. nm - Dignan Jan 12, 14:13 1
  - I fully expected him to take the easy shots and he never does...aside from cast off jokes. - Mel Profit Jan 12, 14:20
- "This shot is so genius that I think that George Lucas had nothing to do with it." -- nm - ceregon Jan 12, 14:09
- I hate you all. I'm three minutes in and this is hysterical. Only part 1 now, the rest after work. -- nm - MDH Jan 12, 13:53 1
  - "It's brighter than the sun." "They may as well have hung a neon sign.." -- nm - MDH Jan 12, 13:56
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  - This is a dissection of Star Wars: Episode One - The Phantom Menace. -- nm - David Jan 12, 13:56
  - I love when you come up for air from Jack-Land. -- nm - Mel Profit Jan 12, 13:54 1
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  - i was just going to post this - i need links. -- nm - Andie Jan 12, 13:54 2
    - Part 1 -- (link) - MDH Jan 12, 13:55 [youtube] 1
      - i hated PM, and i never even saw the next two, but i'll watch! -- nm - Andie Jan 12, 13:59
- I'll be watching Thursday night. I expect ST will still be talking about it then -- nm - Roger More Jan 12, 13:51
- I plan to watch it later tonight. -- nm - Diva Jan 12, 13:51
- Yeah, I am working late, prepping for a meeting and refusing to watch. - Spawn: Champion of ST Jan 12, 13:50
A Bubber LYC - Spawn: Champion of ST Jan 12, 13:49 4
- I love that shit. - groiny Jan 12, 14:11
- Superman would be proud of that fine young citizen -- nm - fatsquatch Jan 12, 13:50 2
  - Spawn has a GREAT photo of the kid on his phone. -- nm - Remlik Jan 12, 13:51 1
    - ducking into a phone booth? -- nm - fatsquatch Jan 12, 13:53
the real question in the whole NBC/Conan/Leno debacle is when does Jeff Zucker actually have to take responsibility for owning his messes - fatsquatch Jan 12, 13:48 1
- If I keep this up, maybe I can offload it to Obama -- nm - Jeff Zucker si Jan 12, 13:48
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Good for the MLBPA: they have reached an agreement with the Marlins to force them to increase their stupidly-low payroll. -- (link) - TFox Jan 12, 13:44 2
- that's cute... addressing one of the games biggest problems, but the wrong end of it -- nm - stewie Jan 12, 13:48 1
  - I am not so sure that is the wrong end of it. nm -- nm - groiny Jan 12, 14:12
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- I am confused: how can a review unmake a movie? You either thought it sucked or you didn't. A review *shouldn't* be able to make something suck. -- nm - TFox Jan 12, 13:45 13
  - It's an analysis, not a review. -- nm - mara Jan 12, 13:55 3
    - i just watched the first part and i feel way better. when i saw PH in the theatre i was totally lost. now i know why. -- nm - Andie Jan 12, 14:06 1
      - That's exactly how I felt. -- nm - mara Jan 12, 14:11
    - Totally. He peels away layers and opens my eyes. I'm angry at myself for not seeing all this for myself. I feel (more) like a retard. -- nm - Mop (229 lbs) Jan 12, 14:03
  - Just watch it. You can still like the movie, and think the guy has a great argument. -- nm - Inigo Jan 12, 13:48 1
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    - the comparison in characterization between the trilogies was the first kill shot. - Mel Profit Jan 12, 13:52 4
      - Like you said before the descriptions of the prequels characters by his friends crush the script. - Inigo Jan 12, 13:56 3
        
        that really was eye opening... - Mel Profit Jan 12, 13:57 2
        
        Were you trying to come up with characteristics too? -- nm - Inigo Jan 12, 14:10 1
        
        admittedly yes... - Mel Profit Jan 12, 14:13
  - You might have a jumble of thoughts about why you don't like a film (or a book or whatever) but you probably haven't gone through them systematically -- nm - Roger More Jan 12, 13:47
not to brag, but Mousehunt happiness to share .. just caught my first diamond mouse :) -- nm - i'm not dead yet ! Jan 12, 13:42 1
- Look again that is a Cubic Zerconia mouse -- nm - Redmond on a phone Jan 12, 13:45
L5: The dean was just in my office talking to me and he touched a screw in the door jamb. - nubby Jan 12, 13:41 3
- "Look at that. You broke my light." -- nm - Sister Aloysius Jan 12, 13:48
- He clearly wants to bed you. -- nm - Spawn: Champion of ST Jan 12, 13:44 1
  - and you don't? Do you have slut immunity too? -- nm - Redmond on a phone Jan 12, 13:47
Spawn is dumb for not wanting to see Avatar. -- (link) - Shaun Jan 12, 13:40 1
- First three words only needed -- nm - Redmond on a phone Jan 12, 13:41
We were having a perfectly nice time talking about the failures of George Lucas but then you people had to ruin it with relationship stuff. - David Jan 12, 13:35 4
- I am more impressed that no necl tapped Catherine Zeta Jones -- nm - Redmond on a phone Jan 12, 13:41
- technically, we are talking about *anti*-relationship stuff. -- nm - Andie Jan 12, 13:39 2
  - Why someone made the effort to double-knock you up with double-sex organ children, I'll never understand. -- nm - David Jan 12, 13:41
  - Indeed. -- nm - Darkseid Jan 12, 13:40
one big factor i think contributed to the prequel suckage was hiring Rick McCallum as the producer. as far as i can tell, he was just a yes man who - fatsquatch Jan 12, 13:34 5
- Because he didn't want to get fired?? Lucas seems like a guy that likes to hear NO. -- nm - Redmond on a phone Jan 12, 13:38 2
  - he likes suggestions but I don't get the vibe that he likes hearing no, especially if you're dumping on the central tenets of his story -- nm - zork Jan 12, 13:41
  - well if you know that you could have a cush gig for the next 10 years while George makes 3 movies, what's your incentive to be honest? -- nm - fatsquatch Jan 12, 13:39
- So you're watching the review too? -- nm - Dano Jan 12, 13:36 1
  - no. maybe tonight when i go home -- nm - fatsquatch Jan 12, 13:38
man, that TPM series *is* addictive. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 12, 13:32 10
- is TPM, the Tea Party Movie? -- nm - fedup Jan 12, 13:36
- Yeah. I thought I was stopping at Part 1, but now I'm on Part 4. -- nm - Dano Jan 12, 13:34 1
  - I curse you all - oblique Jan 12, 13:36
- but it's 70 minutes! that's more than an hour! can you sum it up with one sentence?? nm - uberwhiners Jan 12, 13:34 6
  - TPM may possibly be the worst movie ever made. -- nm - tRuMaN Jan 12, 13:34 5
    - And since I 100% disagree with the central premise, I can't imagine bothering to watch it. -- nm - TFox Jan 12, 13:36 4
      - Like I said, forget it's about Star Wars. If you have any interest in breaking down basic story structure it's worth your time. Even just part 1. -- nm - Dano Jan 12, 13:39
      - See also Avatar. -- nm - Spawn: Champion of ST Jan 12, 13:38 2
        
        you're rapidly becoming New David Coke with this schtick -- nm - fatsquatch Jan 12, 13:40 1
        
        Why is this schtick? -- nm - Spawn: Champion of ST Jan 12, 13:45
Ender I think you nailed it. Leno has what...5-8 years left...and Conan is a lifer. -- nm - Remlik Jan 12, 13:31 7
- what if they moved Conan to 10 -- nm - lone canadian leafs fan Jan 12, 13:49 1
  - Can't happen. The affiliates would balk. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Jan 12, 13:51
- I think the big mistake was setting Leno's retirement date five years out and offering the job to Conan at the same time. - zork Jan 12, 13:37 4
  - At the time, it was five years away and would be some other executive's problem by then -- nm - Roger More Jan 12, 13:39 3
    - you wouldn't be hoping to keep your job for at least that long? -- nm - zork Jan 12, 13:43 2
      - These are executives. They'd expect a better job by then -- nm - Roger More Jan 12, 13:46 1
        
        *ding* -- nm - znufrii Jan 12, 14:03
TEAM COCO!!! -- nm - nubby Jan 12, 13:31
anyone have any recommended for a digital TV antenna? - tRuMaN Jan 12, 13:31 2
- I don't think they make "digital TV antennas" per se. If it was a good traditional TV antenna, it will be a good digital TV antenna. - con_carne Jan 12, 13:50 1
  - the ones that look like a weather vane with lots of pointy antenna - lone canadian leafs fan Jan 12, 14:04
Take the square root of the number of days, since you broke up, cube the different of you and your ex's age, and that's logarithmic coefficient for - musubi Jan 12, 13:29 9
- I hate that ln shit. -- nm - David Jan 12, 13:33
- umm, is there supposed to be some sort of mathematical "equation" linking these two numbers -- nm - tRuMaN Jan 12, 13:32
- during the time use in calculating that equation, I think groiny and I just made a baby. -- nm - Hotkiss Jan 12, 13:31 6
  - Groiny's snipped wanger can't knock you up unless you are using fuzzy math. -- nm - Redmond on a phone Jan 12, 13:39 2
    - see, women see this is a positive. - groiny Jan 12, 14:05 1
      - *ding* - Spawn: *The* Blood Feud Champion Jan 12, 14:14
  - A baby that will fuck the first nurse it sees. nm - Dignan Jan 12, 13:32 1
    - chip off the old block. nm -- nm - groiny Jan 12, 14:04
  - *implodes* -- nm - ST Jan 12, 13:31
Let's have znufrii define words for us. -- nm - Hotkiss Jan 12, 13:28 6
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  - you mean they've been znufriied? - znufrii Jan 12, 13:33
- With words that will require subsequent definitions. nm - Dignan Jan 12, 13:29 1
  - you're already using three syllable words, aaaaaah! -- nm - TFox SI Jan 12, 13:31
- "We're gonna need a lot more paper!" -- nm - Merriam-Webster Jan 12, 13:29
- *sigh* - znufrii Jan 12, 13:28
erro -- nm - Andie Jan 12, 13:26 5
- (s) -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 12, 13:28
- ticca -- nm - con_carne Jan 12, 13:28
- Aero -- nm - zork Jan 12, 13:27 2
  - it's code. - Andie Jan 12, 13:29 1
    - see, here's your problem - zork Jan 12, 13:39

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