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Started by Korea, March 10, 2009, 06:24:26 AM

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garbon

"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Zanza


Norgy

Who got the geography test my students failed so miserably 3 years ago?  :huh:

Grey Fox

Quote from: Tyr on March 12, 2016, 01:41:55 PM
I think my ipod is dead.
Whats a good alternative since they're not making them anymore?

They still make ipod. You need hdd space? Get a Touch.
Colonel Caliga is Awesome.

Eddie Teach

Just watched a clip from Bill Maher's show. I think it's rather inconsiderate to expect the guests to sit there for the monologue. Every once in a while, the camera pans to one of them unconvincingly trying to laugh politely.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Norgy

Maher isn't funny, I think.

celedhring

Paramount sues Star Trek fan film, lays copyright claim to the Klingon language (among other things).

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/paramount-claims-crowdfunded-star-trek-874985

Haven't they used it in several episodes of The Big Bang Theory too?




Grey Fox

Quote from: celedhring on March 14, 2016, 11:33:14 AM
Paramount sues Star Trek fan film, lays copyright claim to the Klingon language (among other things).

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/paramount-claims-crowdfunded-star-trek-874985

Haven't they used it in several episodes of The Big Bang Theory too?

Star Trek & Big Bang Theory are CBS shows.
Colonel Caliga is Awesome.

celedhring

#55073
Heh. I always get confused by who owns what in the Star Trek world. Still, IIRC they use it only very infrequently in the TV shows, compared to the movies (which is what Paramount owns if I'm getting this right).

Barrister

Wouldn't the Klingon language be copyrighted by Marc Okrand? :nerd:
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Savonarola

Alstom is giving out free pie for Pi day (it's 3/14 in American nomenclature.)  Will they be able to top this for May the Fourth?

(I think this would be an odd place to work if you weren't an engineer...)
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

Liep

Quote from: Savonarola on March 14, 2016, 12:56:11 PM
Alstom is giving out free pie for Pi day (it's 3/14 in American nomenclature.)  Will they be able to top this for May the Fourth?

(I think this would be an odd place to work if you weren't an engineer...)

April 20 would also work. Well, not much work would be done.
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Savonarola

Quote from: Liep on March 14, 2016, 02:54:53 PM
Quote from: Savonarola on March 14, 2016, 12:56:11 PM
Alstom is giving out free pie for Pi day (it's 3/14 in American nomenclature.)  Will they be able to top this for May the Fourth?

(I think this would be an odd place to work if you weren't an engineer...)

April 20 would also work. Well, not much work would be done.

Heh, if only our offices were in Colorado.

I once saw The Smashing Pumpkins at Hill Auditorium on the campus of the University of Michigan.  The show was on the 19th of April.  As I was leaving the theater I overheard a couple students talking:

Student 1:  Are you going to skip tomorrow?
Student 2:  Why would I skip tomorrow?
Student 1:  Everyone's skipping tomorrow, it's 4/20.

I remembered thinking that was quite different from my own college experience.
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

The Brain

Women want me. Men want to be with me.

celedhring

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/gif

How does Languish pronounce it then? I go with the hard "G".

Also, apparently I have been pronouncing "data" wrongly, although I swear I heard it pronounced "day-tuh".