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Hey, this seems fun. I'm always up for a pointlessly biased and subjective list of apples and orange juice. 1. Wall-E 2. Finding Nemo 3. The Incredibles 4. Monster Inc. 5. Toy Story 2 6. A Bug's Life 7. Toy Story 8. Ratatouille 9. Cars Cars is the one I've always seen by far the least appeal in. It seems way less based on underlying human emotion that most Pixar movies rely on. In all the others, even though they're usually non-human characters involved in crazy shenanigans, the main characters always felt like they were real; they seemed like people you really knew, and you could identify with them. How does that work in Cars? That one seemed like it was built entirely out of cinematic cliches, with the Doc Hollywood plot and the generic small-town stereotypes. And maybe it's just me, but I thought the cars looked fairly soulless and creepy with their giant eyes and shit. Meanwhile, on the other end, Wall-E. I mean, motherFUCKING WALL-E. A movie so amazing that I have no problem coming right out and calling it the best film Pixar has ever produced, bar none, and think of what a fairly amazing statement that is considering many of the other masterpieces they've put out. That was damn near a perfect movie.

I really wish they would lay off the Ancient Vampyre Hierarchal Mythology shit in this show, since they're really bad at it. First of all it's just a really unoriginal and derivitave way to go about it; not just in general, but even in the details. Being punished by the vampire council by being imprisoned in a chain-wrapped coffin until your body wastes away and your mind goes insane? Direct steal from the Laurell K. Hamilton books. And I'm just sick and damn tired of eeeevil vampire secret societies where the dignified old white guy in a nice suit is the leader and preaches about how they're so superior and humans are just cattle, meanwhile all his followers are dressed in crazy goth bar outfits and are howling and overacting like they're henchmen in an Mad Max movie or some damn thing. I've seen that way too many times, and it still doesn't make sense. Apparently there's one vampire for every million human beings, and any ordinary mortal is apparently totally capable of killing a vampire pretty easily, but they act like the humans don't matter? This show's heart is in the interactions between the unique characters, which are truly fascinating to watch (well, except for Tara's mother, whom I always find just awful, but anyway). So it depresses me when they ignore that to go do standard slasher movie shit, like the bit where Sookie was somehow totally unable to get a look at the face of a man who was six inches in front of her. Yeah I know it was dark and everything, but if it was that dark then how was the killer able to see her? Less bullshit like that, more just Jason and Tara and Lafayette and the supporting cast all being themselves, pleez. And oh yeah could they have foreshadowed the crazy vet Terry any harder as the killer? It's so obvious that it makes me wonder if it's a red herring.

As soon as I saw this bumped, I figured it had to be bad news. There's already rumors going around about Fox not being happy with the episodes and ordering reshoots. But they're seriously putting Dollhouse in the exact same death timeslot where Firefly got its infamous assfucking?

Yeah there has, at least one. I wish I could remember exactly when it was, but I clearly recall going "wait, what?" and rewinding the DVD just to make sure. I think it might've even been in the closed captioning.

pix or it didnt happen

Some stations are easier about it than others. Comedy Central has been noticably free about slinging Shit around. Okay, that's not entirely what I meant, but you get the idea. Chocolate News, South Park, and the Daily Show/Colbert election night special all used it pretty casually here over the past week or so. And as mentioned, The Shield gets away with just about everything at some point or another, even if it's kind of muttered in the background.

Lopez, you always find some way to go "well yeah, that's the conventional wisdom, BUT..." and then follow it up with an exceedingly articulate and rather long essay detailing another side of the story. You're right, Joe was handled so well in his opening tenure there that he probably could never again measure up to what he did in the early days. It wasn't just the AJ/Daniels feud either, he could randomly take a momentum-less Chris Sabin or an extremely jet-lagged Jushin Liger or even a half-crippled Amazing Red and do fascinating stuff with them. His matches with different opponents were similar, but never the same. Then they blew their wad FAR too soon on the Joe/Angle dream matches, and it's been downhill ever since then. Also agree with dorian's statement that TNA is trying to shoehorn him into the role of a conventional wrestler, and that's a horrible fit for a guy like Joe. No way in hell should he be feuding with a guy like Nash, who both undermines him in promos and can't work to Joe's style in the ring. Aw damn. Hey Scroby, you and I are officially no longer the most experienced guys "in the business" on this board, and we certainly no longer have the coolest stories. Of course, Noah Fentz is still the greatest, since he's a promoter of that fed he always refused to name. And Honkydonkeyman, on his couch!

Why is he doing his gimmick even in more serious on-topic threads, like the Tom Waits one in Music? I usually hate dumbass gimmicks like this in general, but I could tolerate them as long as they stuck to forums like this one or WWE. But don't spill that shit onto the rest of the board, that's just rude. OMGWTFBBQBANPLZ

I kinda agree, although I did realize something: they've actually done this "someone discovers what Dexter is, and doesn't hate him" in every season so far. His brother in season 1, Lila in season 2, and now Prado. Hell, the even inverted it with the Doakes storyline. Admittedly, Prado is portrayed as otherwise being a much more normal human being than either the Ice Truck Killer or the Gross English Titty Vampire, but still it is the third time in a row they've done a rather similar storyline. Another recycling matter: I'm not a big fan of the "serial skinner" thing they've got going now. Unless they Mama Voorhees that shit and the killer turns out to be a complete stranger, that means we're getting One Of The Cast Turns Out To Be A Secret Killer, Shocking The Others... again.

There was no book of Twister, just the movie. And yeah, it was just your average disaster flick, although with an above-average cast. Although I think we can all agree that Cary Elwes really needs to never play an American villain ever again. Honest show of hands, how many people first noticed Phillip Seymour Hoffman in that movie? It was memorable that any actor could somehow take that laughable dialogue about "the Suck Zone" and make it, well, not suck. And mellow, Crichton actually directed half a dozen movies way back when, most notably a fun version of his book The Great Train Robbery with Sean Connery and Donald Sutherland. Plus also that goofy Tom Selleck Fights Robots flick Runaway.

That was the main one. "Holy SHIT, did you see how many of our troops that American guy killed?!" I still do have a fuckload of VHS tapes, mostly wrestling stuff but also a lot of movies. I do need to get myself a new VCR sometime before they stop selling the damn things, the ones I have are a bit old and tired.

Depends. What's your state's age of consent? If it's above 16, then this fellow from NBC might be soon asking you to take a seat. In public? That's, wow, such a horrible idea. A million things could easily go disasterously wrong there. Cops showing up, vigilante trying to kick your ass and/or kill you, nasty scrapes from fucking on rough concrete, etcetera.

Actually, the majority of it was dependent on who won. First of all you had all those scenes with Obama in the White House, with his wife, stuff which required him to have won the election. Then you had the Obamaniacs rioting in the street while the conservatives built an Ark. That stuff relied on the Democrats winning too, it wouldn't have made sense if you'd just switched the party labels and had the Republicans turning over police cars and the Democrats holing up in bunkers. Put all that together and it's already at least half the episode, easily.

God, ain't that the truth. I forgot it was that time of year again until someone mentioned it on 11/01, and I was caught with absolutely no ideas whatsoever.

Most people pronounce "plumber" more like "plummer", right? So it's all soft consonants, with no plosives. "Pumper" is a closer rhyme for "slumber" than "plummer".

Kinda, it's since the second world war. Except for Bush Sr, from Truman onward neither party has had the oval office for more than eight years in a row.

But, um, well, the thing is... the thing that didn't happen? It happened, let's see, it happened in Mongolia. Yeah, that's it, Mongolia. With whom I'm pretty sure we don't have any kind of extradition process. Plus, they're goddamn Mongorians, for all we know the age of consent is like 4 there.

I must admit I lol'd. Which is nice, since I'm a bit of a fan of his and felt down today because of it. Weird that his last book, the ironically titled Next, was kind of like a Greatest Hits compilation of various material he's used in other books before.

I could not admit to any such activities. Because if I had done anything like that, the statute of limitations still would not have expired. But if I were involved in this kind of thing (and I'm not saying I was), then I would still be angry at the stupid bitch for claiming she was 18 beforehand but only afterwards revealing that she really still had few weeks to go. But while I'm saying it officially never happened, tying into the other subject, I guess some hypothetical alarm bells should have gone off when the imaginary 17.9-year-old told me that she didn't require the use of a condom. I did still use a make-believe condom for this fantasy sex, thankfully even after having gotten wrecked on a whole lotta fairy-tale whiskey I still kept enough sense to bag it up while supposedly committing this act of fanciful illegal relations.

Yeah, but in this example, dial up is the only one that comes equipped with firewalls. I can understand if you're just so misanthropic that you genuinely don't care if you catch/spread a disease. Not agree, but understand. What I don't understand are many of the dumb fucks I've met who won't use condoms, but seem to have absolutely no answer when you ask them "what about STDs?". They really have that It Can't Happen To Me factor going. Worst of all are the tards who insist they can just look at a girl's puss and tell if she's infected or not. The first time I talked to a guy who said that, I thought he just must be the dumbest son of a bitch to ever shit between two legs, but I've met a few more since then who said the exact same thing.

Along the same lines, ayuh. Although Ann tends to sell more books than those folks.

Every few years I go back and try to read Ulysses again. Every time, pathetic failure. I mean, I can get through anything from Shakespeare to A Clockwork Orange to House of Leaves if I just make the effort, I can even force myself to finish Laurel K. Hamilton's ever-decaying series of degenerating "we used to be murder mysteries but now we're pr0n" vampire shit, but I keep bouncing off Ulysses like it's a brick wall. This time I reasoned that maybe I should ease myself into things, so I picked up Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man instead, someone told me that one's a much easier intro into Joyce's style. And hey, small world, I got Picture of Dorian Grey too. I read part of it like a decade ago and vaguely remember liking it, but never got around to finishing it. Something different to read in between my usual stacks of graphic novels, textbooks on abnormal psychology, and everything Terry Pratchett ever did.

You know what I'm looking forward to? Ann Coulter making her inevitable bunch of hyperbolic predictions of how doomsday is literally nigh, and being proven wrong over and over again.

1.) Hey, for all your bitching about my taste in horror movies, I did... welll... I don't wanna say that I enjoyed that one, but I did respect its intentions. 2.) Oh I can't wait. 3.) Who the hell signed up as "Pity" and "Bolshy Yarblockos"?

I don't care if it's fueled by the still-beating hearts of orphaned kittens, all I care about are the pornographic possibilities of this technology. It's quiet... too quiet. Well, except for KOAB being all like "HAHA, WE NIGGAS RAPED YALL". Mulattos motherfucker, Mulattos! I apologize deeply and sincerely if any of my remarks have offended any of you halfricans.