quote:Originally posted by Rawrain: Calling me a fool?
Yes? You just are completely being one and love to reinforce my openly patronizing attitude towards you. You are seriously saying here you would give trump a vote just because you're being chided for being politically silly.
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quote:Originally posted by TomDavidson: I mean, seriously, why would Trump have your vote if not for the whole birther crap? What about him suggests presidential material to you?
Let me make a list:
The Hair Approach to diplomacy (as demonstrated on his shows) Business acumen (If GWB was great and ran one business into the ground, Trump must be even Greatah!) Executive experience
What could possibly go wrong? Trump would bring us such glory as hasn't been seen since the Bush era!!!!
ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOHAIR
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(you know, by now, what makes it so rewarding for moi: the people who can't help but jump in and boyishly wrassle with me)
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I'm really not sure if you were intending to be ironic with that criticism or not, jebus, since you too go the cool Internet guy route in your style of posting. But you don't post nearly as often as Samprimary, so of course it doesn't happen as often either.
If it was ironic, well done I suppose? But very meta. If it was a serious complaint, it was quite silly.
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Oh my god Samp that CSI/Second Life clip was mind-bogglingly painful. I... I don't even... wow. I sort of doubted it was real, but... I guess it's real.
quote:Originally posted by Dan_Frank: Oh my god Samp that CSI/Second Life clip was mind-bogglingly painful. I... I don't even... wow. I sort of doubted it was real, but... I guess it's real.
That's just... sigh.
"This guy is a really good hacker, we better beat him by having two people type on the same keyboard"
if you keep magnifying we can eventually determine the killer is a carrier for sickle cell anemia i mean my godPosts: 15421 | Registered: Aug 2005
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The sad thing is that that classic CSI:NY moment is nowhere near the most ridiculous thing they've done. And that's not even getting close to the heights of crazy that CSI:Miami has reached in the last ten years.
Their episode with the ice-sculpture impaling identical killer triplets is up there with that episode of Voyager where Janeway and Paris become little geckos and have weird little gecko babies together in the true, must-see classics of bad TV.
Or, on that subject, you could just watch 'Spock's Brain'. Because 'Brain! What is brain?' is also all I can say after watching CSI:Miami. Or watching anyone saying that they would vote Trump.
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quote:Originally posted by Dan_Frank: Oh my god Samp that CSI/Second Life clip was mind-bogglingly painful. I... I don't even... wow. I sort of doubted it was real, but... I guess it's real.
That's just... sigh.
"This guy is a really good hacker, we better beat him by having two people type on the same keyboard"
if you keep magnifying we can eventually determine the killer is a carrier for sickle cell anemia i mean my god
These are amazing. If you know of any more, please share them. I just spent waaay too long poking around Youtube watching similar clips.
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I might be being unfair to the show, is this person depicted as a combination Scarlet Witch / The Flash for coding?
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quote:Originally posted by Rakeesh: I'm really not sure if you were intending to be ironic with that criticism or not, jebus, since you too go the cool Internet guy route in your style of posting. But you don't post nearly as often as Samprimary, so of course it doesn't happen as often either.
If it was ironic, well done I suppose? But very meta. If it was a serious complaint, it was quite silly.
Heh, that would indeed be very meta, and I'd hate to break the illusion of making posts that convoluted.
Samp's posts have an embarrassing way of showing the self-satisfied smirk he's wearing on the other-side of the computer screen. It's the value he derives from being cool on the internet I was mocking.
And that's about as much effort as I'm willing to devote to something so silly. So I leave the last word to Samp, which I have no doubt will be swift.
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the last word is actually "marginalia" \ mahr-juh-NEY-lee-uh \, noun; Notes in the margin of a book, manuscript, or letter.
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I might be being unfair to the show, is this person depicted as a combination Scarlet Witch / The Flash for coding?
Yeah I finally found the Cracked article that had all of these, and this one honestly seems the most ridiculous. I loved this comment in particular...
quote:Originally posted by Cracked: This line of dialogue is exactly like saying, "The suspect is getting away! I'll go build an internal combustion engine and mount it on a four-wheeled vehicle to see if I can converge on his location."
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I couldn't find a video of it but this is apparently also real:
quote:[INT. CSI - HALLWAY TO A/V LAB -- DAY]
(Grissom and Sara walk through the hallway.)
SARA: Acoustic archeology?
GRISSOM: In the '60s, experiments were done on clay pots and painted canvas. Scientists were able to ferret out sounds that were captured during the creative process in the clay and the paint.
(They step into the A/V Lab. Sofia Curtis is there with the pottery piece on a turntable.)
SARA: Trippy.
SOFIA CURTIS: It's actually not that out there. (As she talks, she flips the turntable on.) In the old days, the first gramophone recordings were made by taking the vibrations of sound and cutting them into wax cylinders while they were turning.
(Quick flash to: A woman plays the cello sitting next to an old fashioned gramophone.)
SOFIA CURTIS: (v.o.) Based on the frequency and intensity of the sound, the stylus cut into the wax, creating distinct variances of depth and width.
(Camera zooms in through the gramophone down to the stylus as it cuts through the wax on the cylinder.)
(End of flashback. Resume to pottery.)
SOFIA CURTIS: For playback, a mechanical transducer vibrated along a groove, generating a current which, when amplified, turned into sound.
GRISSOM: When the art therapist told me that there'd been an argument while Adam was on the wheel, I thought, well, maybe we can pull some sound off his pot.
(Sofia flips a switch and a red light appears on the side of the turning pottery.)
Samp's posts have an embarrassing way of showing the self-satisfied smirk he's wearing on the other-side of the computer screen. It's the value he derives from being cool on the internet I was mocking.
You know the one who usually hates the snarker the most? The second rate snarker.
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Samp's posts have an embarrassing way of showing the self-satisfied smirk he's wearing on the other-side of the computer screen. It's the value he derives from being cool on the internet I was mocking.
You know the one who usually hates the snarker the most? The second rate snarker.
Samp's posts have an embarrassing way of showing the self-satisfied smirk he's wearing on the other-side of the computer screen. It's the value he derives from being cool on the internet I was mocking.
You know the one who usually hates the snarker the most? The second rate snarker.
quote:Originally posted by Samprimary: I couldn't find a video of it but this is apparently also real:
quote:[INT. CSI - HALLWAY TO A/V LAB -- DAY]
(Grissom and Sara walk through the hallway.)
SARA: Acoustic archeology?
GRISSOM: In the '60s, experiments were done on clay pots and painted canvas. Scientists were able to ferret out sounds that were captured during the creative process in the clay and the paint.
(They step into the A/V Lab. Sofia Curtis is there with the pottery piece on a turntable.)
SARA: Trippy.
SOFIA CURTIS: It's actually not that out there. (As she talks, she flips the turntable on.) In the old days, the first gramophone recordings were made by taking the vibrations of sound and cutting them into wax cylinders while they were turning.
(Quick flash to: A woman plays the cello sitting next to an old fashioned gramophone.)
SOFIA CURTIS: (v.o.) Based on the frequency and intensity of the sound, the stylus cut into the wax, creating distinct variances of depth and width.
(Camera zooms in through the gramophone down to the stylus as it cuts through the wax on the cylinder.)
(End of flashback. Resume to pottery.)
SOFIA CURTIS: For playback, a mechanical transducer vibrated along a groove, generating a current which, when amplified, turned into sound.
GRISSOM: When the art therapist told me that there'd been an argument while Adam was on the wheel, I thought, well, maybe we can pull some sound off his pot.
(Sofia flips a switch and a red light appears on the side of the turning pottery.)
SARA: Doppler laser. Optical transducer.
SOFIA CURTIS: We've come a long way.
GRISSOM: Baby.
They also had something like this on the last season of Fringe, and as you know everything they talk about on Fringe is real science. Posts: 1937 | Registered: Nov 2006
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If Dr. Who used his magic screwdriver to do something like that you'ld think it was the coolest thing ever.
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I doubt that Donald Trump is a serious candidate. I think he just likes the attention. Having his own TV show just whetted his appetite. Now that people think he is going to run for president, he gets invited to all kinds of talk shows, and the news media is always ready to get sound bites from him. Let's see if his name is actually on the ballot in any primaries or caucuses.
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It seems to me that if even if Trump isn't a serious candidate and just likes the publicity, he would still apply to get on the ballot. Even Colbert applied IIRC.
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Mucus, Trump is a rich man. Rich men seldom are willing to waste their money, even the relatively small amount it would take to get on the ballot. Of course, you also have to get a minimum number of signatures on a petition to get your name placed on a ballot, so Trump would have to hire some people to gather them.
And even if he did put his name on the ballot, he would at some point have to put out a lot of money for advertising if he seriously wants to compete.
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quote:Originally posted by Ron Lambert: ... Trump is a rich man. Rich men seldom are willing to waste their money ...
Meanwhile ...
quote:Until recently he thought that Barack Obama was born in America too, but now he is not so sure. Mr Trump has sent a team of investigators to Hawaii to look into the issue.
quote:Until recently he thought that Barack Obama was born in America too, but now he is not so sure. Mr Trump has sent a team of investigators to Hawaii to look into the issue.
quote:Originally posted by Swampjedi: Sure, but you wouldn't talk about "Dark Vader's laser sword", right? You'd reference "Darth Vader's lightsaber."
The correct reference is "The Doctor's sonic screwdriver."
:-P
Actually I think I've heard Lucas refer to it precisely as "Darth Vader's laser sword", I'll have to do some digging.
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