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i need to check this out when i get home... Gordon Pinsent does a straight, serious reading from Justin Beiber's memoirs. -- (link) - Andie Oct 21, 10:45 3
- I find it tough to mock young pop stars. I think of it as something that old people do, and I don't want to be "that guy" - Lon_cHaneY Oct 21, 10:48 2
  - I'll mock that piece of stupid hair wearing, tool bag yapping, piece of crap wanna be. -- nm - The Legend of CQ Hollow Oct 21, 10:49
  - Yeah, now that you mention it. I try to avoid criticizing young clothing styles, too (out loud). -- nm - mara Oct 21, 10:49
owning a mini-sub is one of the very few things I find attractive about dealing coke -- nm - crash davis Oct 21, 10:44
LYC: Nelly has 2 songs on the Billboard Hot 100 (inc. the #3 song) they both are horrible, but what decade is this? - MDH Oct 21, 10:44 2
- Not the 1970's.....cuz you've heard of these songs. (nm) - Will Hunting Oct 21, 10:48
- I've been thinking the same thing since Eminem was a hit again. -- nm - Max Oct 21, 10:45
So, if the news keeps telling me how unpopular Obama is, why has this week's news been all about traffic jams wherever he visits? - Lon_cHaneY Oct 21, 10:43 2
- because the secret service shuts down the roads for him. -- nm - loosilu Oct 21, 10:43 1
  - note: I have been stuck in numerous politican traffic jams in DC. trust me, it's not adoring crowds that muck it up. -- nm - loosilu Oct 21, 10:44
LYC: Muse is hard to listen to in the office. They go from low to high to low to high. Have to keep switching the volume. -- nm - lileve Oct 21, 10:34
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- dude just oozes charisma, donchathink? -- nm - crash davis Oct 21, 10:37
So, it's NOT mono. Surprised us all, my brother especially. - ty97 Oct 21, 10:28 5
- Lyme? That makes you ultra sleepy. -- nm - lileve Oct 21, 10:40
- pneumonia. nm -- nm - groiny Oct 21, 10:35 3
  - Now I'm being told maybe just strep? It goes from meningitis to mono to strep? - ty97 Oct 21, 10:37 2
    - many (maybe most) people with mono get a nasty strep throat, so that may be why they checked for mono. -- nm - loosilu Oct 21, 10:40
    - strep is really really painful. and a severe infection of any sort *can* be serious. be good if it's that easy to treat though. -- nm - Andie Oct 21, 10:39
Crocodile causes airplane crash that kills 20. -- (link) - mara Oct 21, 10:27 1
- thats incredibly sad (and another one for my list of why reptiles suck as pets) -- nm - crash davis Oct 21, 10:35
Help me with my project - I need fictional airships, blimps, submarines (and other submersibles) for a project. - Kim Pine Oct 21, 10:27 89 1
- Golden Compass -- nm - Spawn Oct 21, 10:55
- Tommy Lee Jones' stolen sub in Under Siege -- nm - Max Oct 21, 10:48
- The Jenny von Westphalen, the blimp from Southland Tales -- nm - nubby Oct 21, 10:48
- That drill thing in The Core? -- nm - Max Oct 21, 10:47
- The Sub on LOST that carried folks to and from The Island. (nm) - musubi Oct 21, 10:47 1
  - I'd just draw a picture of the words : BOOM - kilbooooo Oct 21, 10:47
- What about that sunken sub that sharks live in, in Finding Nemo? (nm) - musubi Oct 21, 10:43
- The Mummu Returns -- nm - zork Oct 21, 10:43 5
  - err, Mummu Returns -- nm - zork Oct 21, 10:43 4
    - Dropping the "The" makes all the difference -- nm - kilbooooo Oct 21, 10:45
    - lol -- nm - kilbooooo Oct 21, 10:44
    - what the ...? Mummy! -- nm - zork Oct 21, 10:44 1
      - crying to your mom won't help you now! -- nm - Beryllium Oct 21, 10:48
- based on real, but worth mentioning is Danny Deckchair. -- nm - Max Oct 21, 10:41 1
  - and not really an airship, but Explorers features a constructed flying device. -- nm - Max Oct 21, 10:44
- Micheal Weston uses a mini-sub on Burn Notice! (nm) - musubi Oct 21, 10:40
- DeepStar Six, Leviathan and Deep Blue Sea all had underwater bases -- nm - Beaker Oct 21, 10:40 7
  - *headdesk* -- nm - kilbooooo Oct 21, 10:41 5
    - real? -- nm - Beaker Oct 21, 10:42 4
      - I don't think an underwater base = a ship, submersible or not -- nm - kilbooooo Oct 21, 10:43 3
        
        they all had subs working around them -- nm - Beaker Oct 21, 10:45 2
        
        *head desk* - Name Withheld By Request Oct 21, 10:47
        
        "This is my drawing of Random Submarine #5 from Deep Blue Sea" -- nm - kilbooooo Oct 21, 10:46
  - Sphere as well -- nm - Beaker Oct 21, 10:41
- The Nebuchanezzer from The Matrix films. (nm) - musubi Oct 21, 10:40
- Yellow Submarine!! Plus Help! has a blimp too. -- nm - Don Homer Oct 21, 10:39
- santa's sleigh -- nm - The Legend of CQ Hollow Oct 21, 10:39
- alt-universe Fringe has blimps. -- nm - Reagen Oct 21, 10:38
- There was a submersible in License to Kill, but I don't remember details. -- nm - Max Oct 21, 10:38 1
  - a bunch of subs in The Spy Who Loved Me -- nm - crash davis Oct 21, 10:39
- blue thunder, airwolf -- nm - The Legend of CQ Hollow Oct 21, 10:38 2
  - you're mopping up this thread! -- nm - Max Oct 21, 10:39 1
    - crap! heh -- nm - The Legend of CQ Hollow Oct 21, 10:40
- The Space Battleship Yamato from Starblazers (nm) - musubi Oct 21, 10:38
- Seaview (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea) -- nm - zork Oct 21, 10:37
- Sea View. Voyage to the bottom of the sea -- nm - peglegpete Oct 21, 10:37 1
  - I would have been first but was checking for names from Land That Time Forgot, At the Earth's Core and People That Time Forgot -- nm - zork Oct 21, 10:39
- black sunday from the 70's has blimps....nm - x Oct 21, 10:37
- bond's Lotus in the spy who loved me -- nm - The Legend of CQ Hollow Oct 21, 10:35
- Here's a gallery of Jules Verne's fictional dirigibles. -- (link) - loosilu Oct 21, 10:35 1
  - oops, actually Frank Reade, but you can still use them. They also refer to Verne's airships. -- nm - loosilu Oct 21, 10:37
- unfortunately, so many of them are not named -- nm - zork Oct 21, 10:34 6
  - What was the one fro Doctor Who? I tried a cursory search but couldn't find it easily -- nm - JaxSean Oct 21, 10:39 1
    - valiant, hyperion, titanic, buccaneer, genesis ark, SS Madame de Pompadour -- nm - b. Oct 21, 10:49
  - They don't have to be named - just the work they came from is okay with me. -- nm - Kim Pine Oct 21, 10:36 2
    - Kiki's Delivery Service! -- nm - Don Homer Oct 21, 10:37 1
      - I'm having trouble deciding which Miyazaki film to use - most of them have airships, actually. - Kim Pine Oct 21, 10:38
  - The Zorkmobile! -- nm - lileve Oct 21, 10:35
- U-571, USS Alabama (Crimson Tide), USS Montana (Abyss), USS Stingray (Down Periscope) -- nm - Don Homer Oct 21, 10:34 2
  - I thought about the Alabama, but there is a real one -- nm - crash davis Oct 21, 10:35
  - Alabama is also real. -- nm - Max Oct 21, 10:35
- Macross -- nm - Lon_cHaneY Oct 21, 10:34
- U-571 -- nm - Beaker Oct 21, 10:33 3
  - *fictional* -- nm - kilbooooo Oct 21, 10:34 2
    - the movie wasn't a documentary... -- nm - Beaker Oct 21, 10:34 1
      - but it was a real sub -- nm - kilbooooo Oct 21, 10:35
- Orson Welles ... oh wait, he was real. - zork Oct 21, 10:33
- the nevercaseder whatever from the Matrix -- nm - lileve Oct 21, 10:33
- James Bond's Lotus -- nm - Max Oct 21, 10:33 1
  - crap, didn't see this :) -- nm - The Legend of CQ Hollow Oct 21, 10:36
- Didn't Oz have a balloon in the Wizard of Oz? -- nm - kilbooooo Oct 21, 10:33
- the USS Nerka from Run Silent, Run Deep - btw, here is a wiki list of sub films -- (link) - crash davis Oct 21, 10:33
- Around the World in 80 days - balloon? -- nm - MojaveMeg Oct 21, 10:32 3
  - Albatross? -- nm - loosilu Oct 21, 10:38
  - *Looks down, looks up* wow -- nm - MDH Oct 21, 10:37 1
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- Around the World in 80 Days, The Wizard of Oz -- nm - Max Oct 21, 10:32
- German Submarine U-96 (das boot) -- nm - decline Oct 21, 10:32
- The alien "craft" from The Abyss -- nm - kilbooooo Oct 21, 10:31
- Firefox (want jet fighters too?) -- nm - Beaker Oct 21, 10:31
- Yellow Submarine -- nm - Lon_cHaneY Oct 21, 10:31
- Red October -- nm - Beaker Oct 21, 10:30
- air wolfe, blue thunder -- nm - decline Oct 21, 10:29
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  - There's no air in space -- nm - kilbooooo Oct 21, 10:30 5
    - spoils - Beryllium Oct 21, 10:32 2
      - ocean = submersible - kilbooooo Oct 21, 10:33 1
        
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      - I think by airships she means the blimp-like things, not all flying craft. -- nm - mara Oct 21, 10:32
- what was the zeppelin called in The Rocketeer? -- nm - Reagen Oct 21, 10:29
- Innerspace -- nm - kilbooooo Oct 21, 10:29
- airships in that movie with Jude Law and Angelina Jolie from a few years ago, name escapes me -- nm - Beaker Oct 21, 10:29 1
  - Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow -- nm - Beaker Oct 21, 10:29
- Treasure Planet -- nm - kilbooooo Oct 21, 10:29
- The miniaturized sub in Asimov's "Fantastic Voyage" was called the Proteus. -- nm - mara Oct 21, 10:28 1
  - is that what the film "Inner Space" was based on? I'm thinking yes. - Beryllium Oct 21, 10:29
- there was an airship in one or more Indiana Jones films ... -- nm - Beryllium Oct 21, 10:28 1
  - Last Crusade -- nm - Beaker Oct 21, 10:38
Oh yeah, what is the difference between a gamete and a zygote? -- nm - crash davis Oct 21, 10:25 9
- sex -- nm - kilbooooo Oct 21, 10:27 3
  - That's your answer for everything. (nm) - musubi Oct 21, 10:29 2
    - I can't help it if it's the right answer! -- nm - kilbooooo Oct 21, 10:29 1
      - Eternal Flame! -- nm - JaxSean s.i. Oct 21, 10:33
- those are made-up words. - Beryllium Oct 21, 10:27 4
  - no no no, it's the opposite. Gametes are haploid sex cells (eggs and sperm). the zygote is the fertilized cells. -- nm - loosilu Oct 21, 10:36
  - I was proud of you until the IM. -- nm - crash davis Oct 21, 10:27 2
    - what, did I get it backwards? Damnit, I got shawshanked! -- nm - Beryllium Oct 21, 10:28 1
      - I meant you should just roll with it. - crash davis Oct 21, 10:29
znufrii: Superb usage of xkcd on B2 -- nm - Beryllium Oct 21, 10:24
Great American Shakeout! (nm) - musubi Oct 21, 10:24 1
- *gets under desk* -- nm - Lon_cHaneY Oct 21, 10:25
SITMOP ... Calgary man rescues baby from dumpster. Turns out to be his child. -- (link) - Andie Oct 21, 10:22 3
- um, um, I hate stories like this, but at least the baby is okay. -- nm - The Legend of CQ Hollow Oct 21, 10:26
- *dials frantically* -- nm - TLC Oct 21, 10:26
- Memento 2 -- nm - Max Oct 21, 10:23
nice. hyde gave himself an age self-shiv. -- nm - zork Oct 21, 10:21 2
- huh?...nm - x Oct 21, 10:30
- Did he then cuss himself out for it? -- nm - mara Oct 21, 10:21
I've become quite fond of slams/insults against the Halo playing community. Here is the best one I've encountered recently - crash davis Oct 21, 10:20
re: Leibniz. This discussion makes me think that some people are interested in how knowledge came about, while others prefer just to use it. -- nm - loosilu Oct 21, 10:20 6
- I was going to say that I'm a user but then remembered that Connections is one of my favourite shows ever. -- nm - zork Oct 21, 10:22 2
  - mine too. -- nm - loosilu Oct 21, 10:24 1
    - I d/l'ed the first series. I should do the others - zork Oct 21, 10:27
- I tend to think you need both for true understanding. -- nm - Reagen Oct 21, 10:21 2
  - history is the infrastructure of understanding....nm - x Oct 21, 10:34
  - I don't need to know how my tent poles were manufactured in order to find peace while camping -- nm - crash davis Oct 21, 10:25
books: Princess of Mars (Burroughs) and The Mote in God's Eye (Niven & Pournelle). Both As so far. - Dr.Vermin Oct 21, 10:19
Of course, *paying attention* in math class is a trick in itself -- nm - Lon_cHaneY Oct 21, 10:19 11
- Loved math class, hated most science classes. I enjoyed physics more than any other science class. -- nm - Krusty Oct 21, 10:24 10
  - Hey - Lon_cHaneY Oct 21, 10:26 1
    - Yeah, crappy schedule but going well otherwise. Thanks. :-) -- nm - Krusty Oct 21, 10:35
  - loved math until calculus -- that was my brick wall. -- nm - loosilu Oct 21, 10:25 7
    - Most people hit the math wall at calculus. - Krusty Oct 21, 10:31 4
      - i have found that there is often a geometry vs algebra/calculus split... - x Oct 21, 10:33 3
        
        I was a rockstar (ha!) at geometry, and was terrible at calc. -- nm - loosilu Oct 21, 10:42
        
        Apparently algebra is a grade 4 thing now (!). -- nm - Reagen Oct 21, 10:38
        
        I was weak at geometry too. -- nm - Krusty Oct 21, 10:36
    - I had a horrible first calculus prof which set me back a lot. -- nm - Reagen Oct 21, 10:26 1
      - my grade thirteen teacher was great, also was a biker-looking type who chose his snake over his live-in girlfriend. -- nm - zork Oct 21, 10:28
for concarne: Apparently Walt Disney enjoyed watching films of animals humping. -- nm - loosilu Oct 21, 10:18 2
- Who doesn't? :-) -- nm - Lon_cHaneY Oct 21, 10:19
- ...and I am terrified to google this at work. maybe later. -- nm - loosilu Oct 21, 10:19

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