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01-28-2006, 09:32 AM
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#5201
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: In Antarctica with the Penguins
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Originally Posted by The Minister Saint-Fond
Event Horizon is on TV. They're scanning for life forms.
How come I never get to scan for life forms?
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Because you're the type of life form they're scanning for. O_O
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01-28-2006, 09:49 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Right Here
Posts: 3,442
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Originally Posted by edible_eye
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Manimal got a big kick out of that the other day, when you first mentioned it..
We're uhhh..Err..umm..
HUGE Buffy Fans..
* sheepish grin*
And the show just wasn't the same when Oz left..
Plus Oz and Manimal both have the same Sardonic yet hardly ever Angry way of being..
I wonder if that replica is Anatomically correct?
* hopeful look*
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01-28-2006, 09:53 AM
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#5203
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Behind you ... (well, if your back's to London)
Posts: 1,001
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Buffy kicks ass. As does Firefly, the TV show that Serenity was taken from. I haven't seen Serenity but I really need to soon. Anyone seen the show? It fucken rocks!
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick ~ Toni Morrison
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01-28-2006, 10:10 AM
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#5204
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 1,111
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Well, granted I was in 5th grade when Buffy was still going with new episodes, but I LOVED it. I used to watch them and tape them and watch them and love them. My best friend and I would call each other every commercial break to talk about it- that was really fun. I miss her. Good memories. Everytime I see a Buffy re-run on UPN I can't help but watch- the sarcasm is HILARIOUS, especially in the early ones. I couldn't stand it when the plots started to get "silly", though, you know what I mean?
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01-28-2006, 10:14 AM
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#5205
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Behind you ... (well, if your back's to London)
Posts: 1,001
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No!!! No silly!! Monsters are real!!
The Master was such a cool baddie...
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The meek shall inherit the earth. Just as soon as the rest of us have finished with it.
A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick ~ Toni Morrison
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01-28-2006, 10:22 AM
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#5206
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: In Antarctica with the Penguins
Posts: 1,521
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I thought that Gargamel depicted a very real and ingenius villain.
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01-28-2006, 10:49 AM
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#5207
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Right Here
Posts: 3,442
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Wise Child
Buffy kicks ass. As does Firefly, the TV show that Serenity was taken from. I haven't seen Serenity but I really need to soon. Anyone seen the show? It fucken rocks!
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We just got our first THREE Firefly discs from Netflix last week.
We watched the pilot on Disc One last night.. I fucking love it!!!
Then Manimal informed me that there are only FOUR discs in TOTAL, because the show was canceled.
* sob*
So basically I will get to watch it long enough to really dig the fuck out of it, only to accept the sad reality that some Fucktard at the Sci Fi Channel decided to cancel it.
Somehow I blame Manimal for all of this.. O.o
Blargh..
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01-28-2006, 10:53 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Um, lower, oh yeah, uh, uh ... YES THERE!
Posts: 6,738
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Well, I wanted to start the day with a bang ... but this is not what I had in mind.
I'm standing outside my apartment watching the neighbors and cops interacting on my front stoop ... yellow crime tape has been put up ... shell casings on the ground 20 feet from my front door and a victim with three bullets to the abdomen wheeled out from next door.
We were sitting at the kitchen table making the weekly grocery list about 11:00 a.m. when we heard BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM ... and I had this sick feeling in my gut as the thought ran through my head "I pray those were fireworks ... but they didn't sound like fireworks, dammit."
And after waiting a minute I peeked through the blinds. I saw neighbors milling about, so I told the girls to stay inside and I went out. We found 4 .22 shell casings on the ground and I call 911. Then we kept everyone from touching anything and waited/waiting while the police sort things out.
You know, I actully would almost rather be grocery shopping! Grocery shopping is so terribly tedious, but of course I'm joking.
So we're silently hoping that the investigation somehow ensnares the drug dealers upstairs and cleans up the neighborhood. We'll see.
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As the poets have mournfully sung,
death takes the innocent young,
the rolling in money,
the screamingly funny,
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Your days are numbered - 26,280 per person on average - 2,000,000,000 heartbeats ... tick, tick, tick
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01-28-2006, 10:53 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Behind you ... (well, if your back's to London)
Posts: 1,001
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Tell me about it, EPS. I was fucking PISSED - not only is there no more, but Joss Whedon didn't even get to finish the series. We truly do live in a sad, sick and sorry world.
I hated Simon at first, taking him for a sappy little dandy (nearly pissed myself when Mal referred to him as Lord Fauntleroy), but he gets some quality sarcasm going on as the show progresses. And Mal is just plain fine.
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The meek shall inherit the earth. Just as soon as the rest of us have finished with it.
A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick ~ Toni Morrison
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01-28-2006, 11:22 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2004
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Ben..
That story right there is why I left H-town years ago. Fuck that shithole.
I was born and raised there, and spent the first 26 years of my life dodging bullets in that cesspool. I have a million stories just like the one you just related. After awhile it just wasn't worth it for me. Sadly, my dad had to move back to H-town last week to look after the family business, which has been mismanaged in the last year. I hate that he is back there again. I still have lots of family there, but I still try and avoid it like the Black Plague..
I'm sorry you and your family have to deal with that kind of shit. Sadly, I know the drill all too fucking well.
Meh.
Wise Child.. Do you know why Firefly was canceled by Sci-Fi? I have been wondering why this happened to ANOTHER one of Joss's series. Angel got canceled suddendly the same fucking way. Argh. Really irritating. I throroughly enjoy his work and think he is totally underated.
Oh and the chic that plays the ' Companion' is flargin' HAWT!!
Last edited by Empty_Purple_Stars; 01-28-2006 at 11:27 AM.
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01-28-2006, 11:31 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Behind you ... (well, if your back's to London)
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Apparently it was cancelled 'cause the channel put it on once a week at like two in the morning, so obviously the ratings were pretty bad. *sob* Fuckin' idiots...
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The meek shall inherit the earth. Just as soon as the rest of us have finished with it.
A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick ~ Toni Morrison
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01-28-2006, 11:34 AM
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#5212
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Tampa Bay
Posts: 491
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Originally Posted by Empty_Purple_Stars
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My GAWD! Umm... yes please?
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01-28-2006, 11:36 AM
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#5213
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Um, lower, oh yeah, uh, uh ... YES THERE!
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I took this with my cellphone cam 10 minutes ago.
E_P_S - Yes, not even my first time since moving here 5 years ago. Plus one car break-in, an apartment burglary and other near misses. For a guy who grew up in Wisconsin, it's all unnerving.
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Lead me not into temptation ... follow me, I know a shortcut!
As the poets have mournfully sung,
death takes the innocent young,
the rolling in money,
the screamingly funny,
and those who are very well hung.
Your days are numbered - 26,280 per person on average - 2,000,000,000 heartbeats ... tick, tick, tick
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01-28-2006, 11:53 AM
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#5214
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Um, lower, oh yeah, uh, uh ... YES THERE!
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Since I'm just a guy who heard 4 shots and didn't see anything (of significance), I've been told I can go. And the girls are very bored and "reeeeeaaaally" want to go shopping, so I guess we're headed off. That is, if we can get the car out around all the cop cars. Sheesh!
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Lead me not into temptation ... follow me, I know a shortcut!
As the poets have mournfully sung,
death takes the innocent young,
the rolling in money,
the screamingly funny,
and those who are very well hung.
Your days are numbered - 26,280 per person on average - 2,000,000,000 heartbeats ... tick, tick, tick
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01-28-2006, 11:54 AM
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#5215
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Right Here
Posts: 3,442
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Ben Lahnger
I took this with my cellphone cam 10 minutes ago.
E_P_S - Yes, not even my first time since moving here 5 years ago. Plus one car break-in, an apartment burglary and other near misses. For a guy who grew up in Wisconsin, it's all unnerving.
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Well, I certainly am not objective..
But I say get out while you can..
I had EVERY apartment/house I lived in but TWO, broken into while I lived there.
I had FOUR cars stolen.
I was robbed at gun point once.
I was chased at high speeds by psycho fuckheads on THREE separate occasions down the freeway.
I was shot AT twice. Once while hanging out with friends, once while chasing hookers off of the property of our family business on South Main.
My dad had his Pawn Shop on Antoine robbbed at Gun Point TWICE. ( Which is why he sold it.)
Not to mention the shit I saw when I went on ride-alongs with Paramedic friends.
* shudder*
The list goes on and on and on.
It wasn't as bad during the Seventies, but over the years it just got worse and worse. You can't have THAT many people in a metropolitan area that size, and expect to maintain any sense of tranquility. Plus the traffic in and of itself is enough to make anyone homicidal.
I say relocate if possible. Austin is still nice, and the only place left in Texas I still enjoy visiting. The Hill Country is beautiful. It is a bit spendier in Austin, but it's much smaller and the police have a much tighter chokehold on the crime there. Altogether it is a much more mellow environment. Austin is also where my Hellspawn was born, so it will always have a special place in my heart..
Just be careful okay? And give moving some serious thought..
* Big Hugs to You and Yours*
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01-28-2006, 03:17 PM
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#5216
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Portland, Oregon
Posts: 579
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr E Nigma
I thought that Gargamel depicted a very real and ingenius villain.
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I shaved my testicles.
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01-28-2006, 04:22 PM
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#5217
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: middle of nowhere - Wisconsin
Posts: 397
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This is for me and Xnguela: apparently Detroit isn't like Wisconsin.
I thought that was funny. It's from the movie "the Man".
Eugene Levy is making all of us wonderous Wisconsin dwellers look like idiots. Funny.
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01-28-2006, 04:31 PM
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#5218
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: middle of nowhere - Wisconsin
Posts: 397
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if i'm such a cheese head...eat me
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01-28-2006, 06:00 PM
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#5219
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Um, lower, oh yeah, uh, uh ... YES THERE!
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Originally Posted by sensuous0mar
Eugene Levy is making all of us wonderous Wisconsin dwellers look like idiots. Funny.
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It's not just him: think Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley and That 70's Show. As a chld of Wisconsin I learned a long time ago that our state's only friends in Hollywood were the Zucker brothers.
There is that bright Donna Moss character on 'West Wing,' but even in that case they write her a bit too naive...
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Lead me not into temptation ... follow me, I know a shortcut!
As the poets have mournfully sung,
death takes the innocent young,
the rolling in money,
the screamingly funny,
and those who are very well hung.
Your days are numbered - 26,280 per person on average - 2,000,000,000 heartbeats ... tick, tick, tick
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01-28-2006, 06:04 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Um, lower, oh yeah, uh, uh ... YES THERE!
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Hey Xng, I'm a cheesehead too. Whatcha gonna do about that? Huh? Huh?
*smirk*
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Lead me not into temptation ... follow me, I know a shortcut!
As the poets have mournfully sung,
death takes the innocent young,
the rolling in money,
the screamingly funny,
and those who are very well hung.
Your days are numbered - 26,280 per person on average - 2,000,000,000 heartbeats ... tick, tick, tick
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01-28-2006, 07:21 PM
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#5221
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Primative Macedonia
Posts: 683
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Rugby is my bag. Baseball - Red Sox, Football - Cleveland Browns, Rugby - New Zealand and Scotland and South Africa. But I am going for the Steelers.
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01-28-2006, 08:39 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: In some desolate wooded area with the rest of the trailer trash.
Posts: 105
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I'm sitting here relaxing in a hotel room, and my husband is sitting at the edge of the bed watching James Bond.
I'm doing my best to get over a cold, and drowing myself in Airborne. (I'll be incredibly happy when I'm able to breathe out of both nostrils again.)
It feels nice to be able to sit down and relax for awhile and not have to worry about anything - except for this damn cold!
Other than that, things have been going exceptionally well.
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01-28-2006, 09:05 PM
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#5223
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Right Here
Posts: 3,442
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WHOA!!
About an hour ago, I just experienced my first Earthquake..
Holy Enemas Batman!!
That has got to be the STRANGEST thing I have ever felt..
EEEEEEEP!!!!!!!
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01-28-2006, 09:17 PM
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#5224
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Right Here
Posts: 3,442
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Yeah, we're cool.. It was just a very strange experience for a Southern Girl. We were finishing dinner when the floor and the entire two story house started to shake.
My son was upstairs at the time, and it kinda freaked him out.
It was just such an odd sensation.
Manimal got all excited..
It was all over in a matter of seconds, and preliminary reports say it was a small quake, measured at a magnitude of 3.0.
I have been through Tornados and Hurricanes aplenty, but that was my first Quake.
A very odd experience indeed.
* pours drinks*
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01-28-2006, 09:56 PM
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#5225
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Primative Macedonia
Posts: 683
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I know it goes down the drain.
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Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.- Robert Burns
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