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Started by Eddie Teach, March 06, 2011, 09:29:27 AM

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Viking

First Maxim - "There are only two amounts, too few and enough."
First Corollary - "You cannot have too many soldiers, only too few supplies."
Second Maxim - "Be willing to exchange a bad idea for a good one."
Second Corollary - "You can only be wrong or agree with me."

A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
The fact remains that the only person or group to applaud the Norway massacre are random Islamists.

The Larch

The Simpsons might get axed today, after 23 seasons, if the ongoing salary dispute with the voice actors is not resolved.

Josephus

Maybe after 23 seasons it has run its course.

To their credit the actors did submit a decent counter offer, a pay cut (less than what Fox wanted) and a take on the back end (which is where the lucrative money is). Fox balked.
Civis Romanus Sum<br /><br />"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world." Jack Layton 1950-2011

BuddhaRhubarb

finally watched Green Lantern. pretty crappy mostly. though the CGI wasn't quite as over the top as Thor. a few moments here and there that I liked... Sinsestro was a decent Sinestro, nice hints of the arch enemy to come. Too many threads in this story though. Mostly kind of flat. But I didn't hate it. just kind of depressed that it was so blah. Parallax is a crappy villain.

5.5 giant hot wheels tracks to nowheresville outta 10
:p

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.

dps

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Quote from: Josephus on October 07, 2011, 09:16:45 AM
Maybe after 23 seasons it has run its course.

Most of the critics seem to agree that it had run its course a decade or more ago.  Actually, it's not just critics--most people seem to agree that it's not as good as it used to be--but people still watch it, and ratings count a lot more than reviews to the network.

EDIT:  And apparantly, the actors and Fox reached an agreement and the show will be back for 2 more years.

Josquius

Gosh, I've not watched the Simpsons for eons. It really has completely lost it, for the past few years it has just been staggering along from special guest appearance to special guest appearance.
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Darth Wagtaros

Blues Brothers. Never gets old.
PDH!

11B4V

Somewhere Back in Time Live.
"there's a long tradition of insulting people we disagree with here, and I'll be damned if I listen to your entreaties otherwise."-OVB

"Obviously not a Berkut-commanded armored column.  They're not all brewing."- CdM

"We've reached one of our phase lines after the firefight and it smells bad—meaning it's a little bit suspicious... Could be an amb—".

Lettow77

 Lately i've been making good progress in the hyperbolic time chamber drastically increasing my power level- so far this week I have finished 19 episodes of animu, and the last two weeks had 51 total completions. I am well on my way to attaining the emperor's permission to reincarnate as a nihonjin in the next life.

Best gem since the school year started has been, by far, Kino no Tabi.
It can't be helped...We'll have to use 'that'

Tonitrus

Ken Burn's series on Prohibition - Not bad

Terra Nova premiere and recent episode - Not too deep, but entertaining.  Almost 20 years later and Jurassic Park's dinosaurs still look better.

Josephus

Ides of March.

Had a lot less to do with ancient Rome than I wished. Also not as taught as I taut it might be.
Good acting. Marissa Tormei has gotten older since I last saw her in My Cousin Vinnie. I guess so have I. She's kinda sexy in a "woman my age" sorta way. And...am I rambling now? Stop me if I am.
Civis Romanus Sum<br /><br />"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world." Jack Layton 1950-2011

Razgovory

Quote from: dps on October 07, 2011, 09:31:21 PM
Quote from: Josephus on October 07, 2011, 09:16:45 AM
Maybe after 23 seasons it has run its course.

Most of the critics seem to agree that it had run its course a decade or more ago.  Actually, it's not just critics--most people seem to agree that it's not as good as it used to be--but people still watch it, and ratings count a lot more than reviews to the network.

EDIT:  And apparantly, the actors and Fox reached an agreement and the show will be back for 2 more years.

Hell, I thought the show jumped the shark back in season 8 when we found out Skinner wasn't actually Skinner.  The show peaked in season 5.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Admiral Yi

Quote from: Josephus on October 08, 2011, 09:38:54 PM
Ides of March.

Had a lot less to do with ancient Rome than I wished. Also not as taught as I taut it might be.
Good acting. Marissa Tormei has gotten older since I last saw her in My Cousin Vinnie. I guess so have I. She's kinda sexy in a "woman my age" sorta way. And...am I rambling now? Stop me if I am.

She's even more sexy in a "woman my age wearing a gstring and nothing else" kind of way in The Wrestler.

Well, I assume.  Haven't seen your flick.

Razgovory

Quote from: Admiral Yi on October 08, 2011, 09:43:31 PM
Quote from: Josephus on October 08, 2011, 09:38:54 PM
Ides of March.

Had a lot less to do with ancient Rome than I wished. Also not as taught as I taut it might be.
Good acting. Marissa Tormei has gotten older since I last saw her in My Cousin Vinnie. I guess so have I. She's kinda sexy in a "woman my age" sorta way. And...am I rambling now? Stop me if I am.

She's even more sexy in a "woman my age wearing a gstring and nothing else" kind of way in The Wrestler.

Well, I assume.  Haven't seen your flick.

How old are you Yi?
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017