1,301 Reply by Zarban

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"Even guys are like, 'If no one's around, I'm totally gonna put the bubble bath in.'"

W—What? WHAT?!

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1,302 Reply by Zarban

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I just finished the last of the Lord of the Rings commentaries, and damn, what great work. Always positive. Always informative. Thanks again.

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1,303 Reply by Zarban

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AshDigital wrote:

Computer => Tölva
The word Tölva is a composite of two words, Tala (Number) and Völva (shamanic seeress).

English would be so much better if the word for computer was "mathwitch".

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1,304 Reply by Zarban

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And Icelanders carefully constructed technology words out of old Icelandic words, right? So the Icelandic for television translates to reindeer-skin window or something.

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1,305 Reply by Zarban

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dbngaa wrote:

That's a good point, Zarban.  It does undercut the intended message a bit.  Everyone go watch Empire of the Sun instead.

wink  ...JUST to see Christian Bale get the shit slapped out of him.

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1,306 Reply by Zarban

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Crazy amazing. Now I want the story on who built those arches.

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1,307 Reply by Zarban

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Boys.... you're scaring the straights....  big_smile  Grave of the Fireflies is the feel-good movie of the year!  big_smile

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What's strange to me is the choice of letting the kids die. If they had lived, the audience would think "Gosh, Japanese people who lived thru WW2 had it hard," which I think is what the film maker wants. Instead, it sort of sets up the audience to think, "Gosh, only the complete bastards survived WW2, and they let helpless orphans starve!" And then they would go beat up an old person.

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1,308 Reply by Zarban

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I've been working at the eBay offices in San Jose lately, where the buildings have different themes, like fashion, business, sports, and food. And the decor and conference room names reflect the theme (pretty cool, actually). On one floor, one column is decorated with terms for currencies around the world. Except I noticed that one of them is "latinum"

It's NOT "platinum"; it appears several times on the column and did NOT have a P rubbed off by a prankster.

http://zarban.com/money-column.jpg

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1,309 Reply by Zarban

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Invid wrote:

No, no. He doesn't HAVE shoes. Obviously, he's a wereshoe.

That would suggest that Gabe is a wereleg. Are werelegs even real? What kind of hit dice do they have?

I always pictured Trey as a senmurv. When I first saw the Justin.tv videos, I was like, 'Who is that guy on the right talking with Trey's voice? Where is the rainbow-colored eagle wolf?'

Plus, when I heard that Trey had dated Eve Plumb, I was like, 'Yeah, totally. She would date a senmurv.' It all seemed to fit.

/never meet your heroes
//except Brian

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1,310 Reply by Zarban

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Slightly less effective....

http://www.zarban.com/down-in-front-bed.jpg

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1,311 Reply by Zarban

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http://static03.mediaite.com/themarysue/uploads/2012/04/mst3k-headboard-580x435.jpg

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1,312 Reply by Zarban

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I'm skeptical. We have loads of video evidence suggesting that Trey does not own shoes.

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1,313 Reply by Zarban

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Dave wrote:

tl;dr.

Everything is illuminated. And I'm not even Jewish.

I really thought I'd like that, but it really didn't do much of anything for me. It felt a bit like a Wes Anderson film but without his usual troupe of players. Elijah Wood was terrific, tho. I wish Liev Schreiber success in all things—even narrating car commercials—but this doesn't make my list.

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1,314 Reply by Zarban

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Well, that's a new take. Spider-Asshole.

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1,315 Reply by Zarban

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avatar wrote:

He likes meritocratic storylines where common people collaborate and solve their own problems without the legitimacy of birthright, aristocracies, predestination messiahs, etc.

brian

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1,316 Reply by Zarban

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Trey wrote:

I knew nothing about Rock of Ages going in, other than seeing the trailer (in front of several other movies that I did not enjoy).  And I was a little biased against it because I knew it was gonna be an actual musical....

Your mileage may vary, depending largely on how much you love/hate '80's rock. ...

I actually can't remember the last time I was in a theater where we, the audience, actually laughed at funny things in a movie.

My forbidden love for Tom Cruise is almost as embarrassing as my forbidden love for Matthew McConaughey, so: cool. My forbidden love for musicals is ALSO almost as embarrassing as my forbidden love for Matthew McConaughey, so: cool. AND my forbidden love of '80s hair band music is ALSO almost as embarrassing as my forbidden love for Matthew McConaughey.

Is Matthew McConaughey in this movie, by any chance?

I always surprise myself by how much I enjoy comedies in the theater even tho I have little interest in watching them at home. I cackled like a moron along with everybody else at There's Something About Mary, Wedding Crashers, Walk Hard, and even parts of Rat Race. But Walk Hard is the only one of those I own. (cf. Matthew McConaughey)

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1,317 Reply by Zarban

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Squiggly_P wrote:

Also, all of Pixar's films that I've seen have done the full frame widescreen thing in HD. There's no way those movies are screened like that in theaters.

I know Pixar recomposed some of their movies for 4:3 TVs for home video. They just went in and manually moved the objects closer together. I imagine they now compose for 16:9 from the start.

What's weird is that—I'm almost certain—they DON'T simply traverse the virtual camera a few inches and reexport the movie to create the "other eye" view for 3D, at least until Up.

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1,318 Reply by Zarban

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Invid wrote:

Just wait until it's impossible to find anything in its original 4:3 ratio...

I saw Hogan's Heroes in HD a while back. It looked fantastic (because it was shot on 35 mm [cry in your beers classic Doctor Who fans]) but it was widescreen, and I KNOW I was totally missing out on some sweet hats.

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1,319 Reply by Zarban

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This just in from 2112... "I loves me some Clarb Fnarbles, but his film scores sound a whole lot like the Beatles, James Taylor, and the Eagles."

That'll be weird.

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1,320 Reply by Zarban

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Dave wrote:

No way, it was totally a good idea
because now I have a mental image of Zarban getting a sexy back rub from Dorkman


That is not what I meant
and you know it.

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1,321 Reply by Zarban

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Dorkman wrote:
Zarban wrote:

It's not just you. It's the whole Twittle environment. Only Patton Oswalt makes sense at 140 characters or less.

He says in 112 characters...

Getting proven wrong by Michael is like getting a backrub from a hobo. You don't want it, but it kind of feels good.

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1,322 Reply by Zarban

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We could even have other colors for other feelings, like warmth. Trey Stokes' voice is like a hug from a golden retriever.

Or, as I have used here before, sad resignation. I don't think Dave really thinks I'm attractive.

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1,323 Reply by Zarban

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Trey wrote:

The contents of Trey's Tweety Feeder do not reflect the opinions of @downinfront or Twentieth Century Fox.

It's not just you, of course. It's the whole Twittle environment. Only Patton Oswalt makes sense at 140 characters or less.

EDIT. You know, sarcasm could just be a single different color. Or maybe that's too simple for you geniuses.

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1,324 Reply by Zarban

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Teague wrote:

Sorry, sir. You should probably follow us on Twitter or like us on Facebook.

I tried reading Trey's Tweety feeder—whatever they call it—the other day, and it's just a mess of nonsense with little "expand" links that show what other nonsense was being responded to.

It's like an alien world where everyone communicates in T-shirt slogans.

Also, I'm curious as to why anyone still uses Facebook when literally every single news story about it is how horrible they are.

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1,325 Reply by Zarban

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Faldor wrote:

and it's *finally* finished!

None of that made any sense.

AND IT WAS AWESOME!

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