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General => Reviews => Topic started by: Jester on February 16, 2006, 07:00:03 PM
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I don't know if this has been discussed her eor not. I didn't see it down the thread. I've seen this trailer quite a while ago and was just reminded of it today. Looks really cool. I especially like how they used rotoscoping to do it. Check it here
http://www.apple.com/trailers/warner_independent_pictures/a_scanner_darkly.html
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Ummmm... Wierd. So what exactly is that movie about???? Or will we just have to see it and decide for ourselves later like the original Matirx trailers???
Gabriel
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not exactly sure, buts looks interesting
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You think Keanue Reeves can pull off playing a confuse, slightly stupid character in this movie? I mena, I know it's a stretch for him and all, but I think he might be able to do it. ;) Of course, I'll probably still go see it.
Gabriel
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just as long as he sais "woa"
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Through A Scanner Darkly is a Phillip K. Dick book- one of the ones I looked at when I heard that Paycheck was just a short story (which I kind of wanted to read as a short story- A Scanner Darkly was another story in the book)
It's the story about a cop who goes undercover to do a drug sting- but in a future where mind readers are common, there's no real way to go undercover- so police create alternate personalities, ones that can be taken on and off at will, so they can hunt criminals anyways.
I think it's the story of a cop who is hunting this huge drug dealer, who keeps outsmarting him somehow.
I'm not going to give you any spoilers, but I really want to see it.
-kv
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damn, definatly sounds pretty good
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That does sound neet.
Gabriel
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neat, if you're picky about spelling ;)
also Clickie (http://www.themoviebox.net/movies/2005/STUVWXYZ/Scanner-Darkly,A/trailer.php)
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or Neat-o, if you're feeling retro
That trailer was awesome- I had already seen the teaser, but not the trailer. Very cool. I'm looking forward to summer movies this year!
Yay Pirates! Yay Scanner Darkly!
-kv
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Yeay for Ice-age 2!
Pirates 2!
X-Men 3
Fast n Furious 4
Big Mamma's house 2
dam... that's a lot of sequils... holywood needs to make some NEW movies.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Did you just cheer on Fast and the Furious 4 and Big Momma's House 2?
-kv
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Yeah, Ruski, what's up with that???? What the hell are they going to be driving now, boats??? Maybe hot air ballons??? The Fast and the Furious Does Dallas??? And as for Big Momma's House 2, well the less said about that, the better. :P
Gabriel
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fast and furious 4? so another hinda comercial
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I still like the boat idea. :P It could be produced by the same people who did Police Academy 4. ;D
Gabriel
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Fast and Furious 4? What happened to 3?
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*shrug* whatever number they are up to now.
takes place in tokyo... aparently sponcered by 'mustang'
*shrug*
they are filming it now.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Aren't crawling a tod off topic by now?
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movies... sequils... nah, not much off topic.
want me to tell you all the 'secret' to a scanner darkly?
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Not really. But thanks for the offer. ;)
Gabriel
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*shrug* whatever number they are up to now.
takes place in tokyo... aparently sponcered by 'mustang'
*shrug*
they are filming it now.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
so it's a mustang comercial this time around
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I hate those damn movies.
Gabriel
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yea, aparently in the storyline they have a mustang that they do an engine swap on and put in some rice-burning crap in there. word on the set is that they just left it as a nice stock 4.6 V8 go figure. LOL
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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ricer crap does NOT belong in a Mustang.
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well, japan has some strict horsepower limitation laws in regards to imports, so bringing some american mussle isn't something they could probibly advertise.
however, getting a shell and droping a rice-crate-enginge into it is legal... so there's a coulple of go-gangs over there that do that.
*shrug*
and for the sake of the storyline for the movie, that's what happened.
turns out the stock american musslecar had more power than the tuned up enginge swap, so they are just using it for all of the actuall driving sceanes.
LOL
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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lol I'm really not surprised.
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How about taking a nice efficient rice burner and sticking it in a Vaolkwagon Micro-Bus??? That might be the plot for The Fast and the Furious 5. ;)
Gabriel, who would really like to do that
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really, what it comes down to with thoes 'rice burners' is the power:weight ratio.
you put a big enginge in a heavy car... and it'll go fast, you put a little enginge in a light car, and it'll go probibly the same amount of fast.
to really 'get ahead' you need to shave weight off of the frame, and increase the enginge power.
so you get your built 502 big-block chevy, slap a blower on it for a nice round 500 horsepower, add 'genie in a bottle' to slap on another 200 horse, and throw it into the lighest car frame that can hold it... and you've got lightning on four-wheels.
you can bump it up further by going with an aluminum block (such as the new corvette motor) all alluminum frame, carbon-fiber hood, doors, everything... and have something with so much power it's tough to keep the wheels on the ground.
or, you can just go how I figured: and get a motorcycle.
for about $4K, you can get a used bike, bone stock, that will beat the dual-supercharged dodge viper.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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hehe. And it's more fun when there's no walls between you and the wind.
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Well, as far as bang-for-buck goes look at this:
a Hyabusa 1600 costs $12,000.00 if you get the 'limited edition'
it's got a govener on there, that'll top it off at 160 MPH. for the price of a screwdriver you can pull that off, and have your top end jump up to the neborhood of 240 MPH
Corvette, brand new Z06, with a top end of 210 MPH will run you closer to $95,000.00 (for the limited edition with the bells and whistles)
(about 8 times as expencive) and it's not as fast.
go exotic... get a mclarin F-1 or something, and you are looking at the neighborhood of $10 million for a car.
top speed jumps to almost 300 MPH, pretty amazing stuff.
but the 0-60-120 acceleration is still almost the same as that stock, $12k bike.
if you double the bike's price in aftermarket parts (bringing the total to $24K for thoes of you keeping track) you can push a better than 340 MPH topend
all for the price of a mic-sized sadan.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Yeah. I've got a pic of my bike here somewhere. Otherwise, it's at Photobucket.
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I saw it. pretty sweet.
no better way to go fast, specially in rush-hour traffic.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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You could always get a jet-pack.
Gabriel
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yea, go boba fett
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well, the VTOL rules are kinda foggey in that area.
plus the jetpacks have a really limited range, fuel consumption sucks on them.
motorcycle gets 60MPG at 200MPH, and if you run out of gas, you don't fall to your death.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Yeah, you just roll to a stop in the middle of the street
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now, granted that's not the safest place to be either... specially if you are being chaced by a go-gang; but at least you don't need to wear a parashoot 'just in case'
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Well, if you've got enough momentum, just kick it into neutral and coast to a place you can jump off and hide.
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Or fall off and deal with the road rash.
Gabriel
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Fear the squirrels, though!
After go-gangs and traffic on freeways, they're a biker's greatest danger!
-kv
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I hit a ground squirrel with my mountain bike. stupid thing ran right in front of me. Forunately I was going straight, so all that happened is my front tire skidded for several feet before shooting the squirrel out to one side. Dunno if it survived, because I was running late for work. It wasn't there when I went to lunch, though.
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stupid squirrel
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I once ran over a squirl in my Volkswagon Beetle. Personally, I'm surprised the car didn't explode on impact, but unless you've ever owned one of them, you wouldn't understand my concern. ;) ANYWAY, it was wierd because the squirrel did that thing when it ran out and when it got across the road (thus avoiding death) it switched and RAN BACK THE OTHER WAY!!!!! Well, what makes this instance unique was that the only thing I hit on the squirrel was it's head. SO imagine just running over a squirrel's head. It really looked cool in the rearview mirror with it's head about 1mm thick and the rest of the body twitching like hell.
Just thought I'd share that.
Gabriel
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thankyou, I'm sure we all apreciate your story of squirril carnage
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I'm sure PETA will be responding shortly with protestors. ;D
"Squirrels are people too! Little short people who live like hobos and have rabies!"
Specifically, I was referring to a story that my brother sent me after we bought the latest round of motorcycles. ;D It was tres' amusing.
-kv
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haha, so you guys still ride after the accident?
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Oh please, Jester, you know they probably just through away all of their pads and helmets after the accident. Remember which pair of brothers you are talking about. ;)
Gabriel
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LOL yea... took a year of bugging my wife to let me do it... and after I got my second one everyone else went something like:
"Wait... I wasn't getting one because they were dangerous... but the guy who broke bouth of his arms in seven places got another one... can I really use him as an excuse not to get one? "
and then I hooked them all up with $1,000 off the top at the local motorcycle shop, and so two of my brothers, one of my friends, and my dad all got bikes with me at the same time.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Ooh, nice.
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it's all about who you know.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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I think the fact that you and we all got bikes at the same time may have had something to do with the solemn pacts we made with your wives. (Both brother's wives... since I don't have one at the moment) Something about all of us being able to get bikes at the same time.
If not for that, I don't know that you or any of us would have ended up with one. And if not us, Dad wouldn't have come along to 'convince us better' and ended up getting one too. And Noah wouldn't have gotten one.
So... yeah. I don't know what I was trying to say, but I said it.
-kv
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If you say so. ;)
Gabriel
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Really, I was going to get one anyways. I put a whole year of begging into it. EvilDave's wife letting him have the 'okay' to get it just helped accelerate things a bit. (My wife is very competative on that sorta thing)
Dad was looking for a hobby anyways, and you needed a reliable form of transportation, on a limited budget (a bike would have been a good answer for you even if the rest of us didn't get them)
*shrug* mostly, it was coincidnece.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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lol, that's awesome
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That's gotta be one interesting gang you cobbers have. The Hell's Mormons???? ;)
Gabriel
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yup, we drive arround and throw bibles at people.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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We call it the 'square neck treatment'- shoving books down thier throats!
Oh, wait... that's someone else. ;D
-kv
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do you all ride around in white shirts and black ties?
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No... I've ridden with a tie, and let me tell you. It sucks.
There I was, riding along, minding my own business... when WHAM! the tie gets loose of my suitcoat and slaps me in the face repeatedly.
It was not fun.
-kv
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I let mine blow out behind me like superman's cape.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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"No Capes!"
-Edna from "Incredibles"
Or ties, for that matter.
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hahaha... the guy got sucked up by the rocket...
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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yup, we drive arround and throw bibles at people.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
LOL!!!!
Gabriel
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I like the girl that gets sucked into the jet engine :)
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Yeah. That's gotta SUCK! ;D
Gabriel, Arch-Duke of Puns
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Yeah, well, the saying among those of us who work(ed) helicopters is "If it doesn't hover, it sucks and blows"
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that dosn't really cover prop airplanes though...
-RuskiFace the pirate
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Yeah, but the Air Force has a lot more planes with jet propulsion than props.
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yes, but the few they do have don't hover...
I was just trying to dispell your absolute statement.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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*shrugs* Well, I didn't make it up. Besides, you could say props blow air back over the wings.
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but using that same methodology, the helocopters would be 'blowing' wind down over the canopy and everything else.
-RuskiFace the pirate
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Like I said, I didn't make it up.
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Great Ghost, that was sp[litting the hair pretty damn thin, Ruski.
Gabriel
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hahahaha yea it was.
i should have been a barber.
-RuskiFace the Barber
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or a knife-thrower.
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hmm... the idea had merrit... a knife throwing barber...
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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I wonder what the resulting haircut would look like?
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deffenitly a mullet.
short everywhere, but the back, because it's hard to arc the knives back that way.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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My thoughts exactly, but aren't we perhaps a tad off topic by now?
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*shrug* perhaps one of the charichters in the movie will have a mullet?
-Ruski
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No, this movie is going to be cool.
-kv
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and cool movies don't have mullets?
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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No. To date, there have only been two cool mullets.
Exhibit A) Mac Guyver
Exhibit B) Solid Snake
the end.
-kv
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Joe Dirt.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Have you seen Joe Dirt? Not cool. Even they gave him a rastafarian 'fro at the end.
-kv
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Hmmm...
there's gotta be another example of cool mullets...
(http://www.thedudeblog.com/mel.jpg)
THERE! I found one!
Lethal Weapon.
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another one!
(http://garfieldridge.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/mullet.jpg)
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Both not mullets.
As puck so eloquently put it, a mullet is "Business in the front, Party in the Back."
Those are both 70's 'big hair' and not incorporated into the mullet.
-kv
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they are bouth classifed as 'mullets'
I typed 'mullet' into google, and they came up.
google knows everything.
-Ruski
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Sorry, but I have to stand by my earlier statements, that mullets are not cool (except in the two previously mentioned examples of MacGuyver and Solid Snake) and that they are characterised by 'business in the front, party in the back'
-kv
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I have to agree with KV, those are not mullets
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Arrgh! everyone be teamin up on the pirate! this be mutiany!
-Ruski
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Trust me, Ruski, those ain't mullets. I had a mullet. And mine looked damn good, too, Kid_Vid. IT damn sure beat anything that punk-hoop McGuyver ever wore.
Gabriel
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I always wanted a mowhawk.
-Ruski
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pirates don't have mohawks
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how can you tell? some of them have hats.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Indeed. They could have very well-concealed mohawks.
I would suggest that perhaps pirates wear hats BECAUSE they have mohawks!
-kv
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all in favor?
(Say Arrrgh!)
Arrrgh!i!
-RuskiFace the
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ARRRGH!
-kv
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Arrrrgh!
BTW, a mohawk doesn't have to be a foot high, all it needs is for the sides to be shaved. Last fall, the entire boys' varsity soccer team at one of the local high schools got mohawks.
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I actually like the shaved sides, with a long stripe (1' is fine) but with it flung over on one side.
don't care for the spikes, but just on the side.
-Ruski
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no argh from me, I'm a ninja. I make not a sound!
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You know, you could have a mullet mohawk. I guess you would call that a mullet hawk. Short on the top and front with a long pony tail running down that back. Sure, you would look like a total bafoon, but you would certainly be memorable.
Gabriel
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'distinctive style' one point flaw.
LOL
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Yeah, you gotta love that one.
Gabriel
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Specially with the mullet-hawk.
-Ruski
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Would that be a -6 Flaw in and of itself??? ;) You get a -6 on ALL social tests for looking so damn stupid.
Gabriel
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*shrug*
perhaps that's the new nerps haircut?
-RuskiFace the Pirate
Scott always did have a flare for the dramatic...
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The scary thing is, I think I've seen that.
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*shrug*
I know that I have.
Horrah for living in the ghetto with punks!
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Or in Vegas.
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Well, yeah, in Vegas you can see ANYTHING.
Gabriel
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but you can't take it with you, because if it was in vegas, it stays in vegas.
-RuskiFace the Priate
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And good riddance!
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lol, never been
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Dumb add campaign since it works just as well for CSI
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who in CSI had a mullet-hawk?
they should draw it onto one of the 'scanner darkly' char.'s
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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No... CSI is in Las Vegas...
I don't know- the proliferation of mullet-hawks, which would make us cool to the french again, might have serious repercussions. Like... aggresive Go-Gurt advertising campaigns. Guerrilla Marketing at it's worst.
Just think about it.
-kv
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What are you on about, and how does it relate to topic?
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hey! finally an off-topic thread that's nto my fault! I totally tryed to get the mullet-hybrid topic back to darkly scanning things!
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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lol, I don't even rmember who de-railed this one. Might be my fault because it usually is if it isn't rooskie's
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yea, we make a good team.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
any departing thoughts on darkly scanning things?
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Miho on a computer?
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I don't know... I think I agree with Largo that Piro is a big fat whiner. there needs to be more zombies and less stupid feelings.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Well, not only is this derailed agin, but now I don't get the reference. :'(
Gabriel
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Miho is a Megatokyo character. She is refered to as 'darkly cute'.
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www.megatokyo.com (http://www.megatokyo.com)
it's a fairly decent webcomic. little heavy on the drama after year 1.5 or so.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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ah...
gabriel
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and if you scan it while sitting in the dark... it err... really... adds something to it.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Nice try Ruski, but you're gettig off topic again ;)
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*shrug* at least I made an effort.
perhaps I need to adjust the tint on my scanner... I think the contrast and brightness are off ...
-RuskiFace the PIrate
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Okay, this topic is done. Just let it go.
-kv
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Can someone lock this thing, please?
Gabriel
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*click* locked. pr. request.
-RuskiFace G.O.D.