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Comment on Toy-yoda Winner (2007-08-07 18:42:49)
She was just annoyed because when she tried to ride him, he broke.
Comment on Home Computer (2007-08-06 16:30:09)

natakamus on August 6th, 2007 4:26 pm http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/computer.asp This is a shopped version of an engineering control panel from a nuclear sub.
Huh. Looks like I guessed right.
Comment on Home Computer (2007-08-06 16:26:13)
Bogus. The "monitor" is obviously shopped in. No one in the 1950s was thinking of CRT readouts for computers. The line printer is just as certainly a shopped artifact; the styling on it is closer to a ca. 1970s LPT than the kind of hardcopy output computers in that era were using (typically paper tape or cards; however text could be produced, IIRC, using a device that looked a lot like a retrofitted manual typewriter). I have half a hunch that what we're actually seeing here is part of a submarine control panel put into a museum. That would explain the wheels.
Comment on Nice Poppy (2007-07-31 11:48:10)
Ahh. At last I see why Captain Kirk spent so much time chasing green women.
Comment on Buddhism - Only Deity Whose Belly Can Be Rubbed For Luck (2007-07-10 13:43:17)
This cartoon actually comes from a larger set on a site called The Pain -- When Will It End? The series begins with this cartoon. Pretty good stuff.
Comment on man Vs bear (2007-07-03 13:46:34)
Short damn battle, too.
Comment on Pseudoscorpion (2007-07-02 15:03:52)
Got a citation to back up that claim, Hepathos? Sneaky -- it'd be more fun if he was just about to wake up.
Comment on Pseudoscorpion (2007-07-02 11:59:08)
Ahh, they do not crawl into your mouth, ya' big silly. Look at it this way. If you stumbled upon a sleeping giant a quarter mile tall, would YOU crawl into his mouth?
Comment on How Pi is Calculated (2007-06-29 17:20:06)
Duh. That's the point.
Comment on How Pi is Calculated (2007-06-29 16:28:54)
My phone number is the last 7 digits of pi. o_O
Comment on What the heck is electronic mail? (2007-06-28 13:03:07)
Tubes. It's all tubes, man.
Comment on Meat Cleaver (2007-06-28 12:34:06)
If you're hung over, it's dehydration, mostly. A combination of Gatorade and water -- maybe with some Alka-Seltzer -- should do the trick.
Comment on Gay Cowboys (2007-05-03 00:12:22)
There's basically no sex in this film. There's a little kissing and a lot of suggestion, but nothing overt. The movie is not about two men having sex. It's about two men who were born and raised in a narrow, restrictive culture and the impossibility of their feelings for one another — its time setting would have let them move to San Fancisco or Fire Island easily — and the fundamental way in which they were more or less literally trapped in their background and heritage. BBM is not a Gay Cowboy movie; it's slow, beautiful and thoughtful, and features — mostly — a lot of scenes of beautiful landscape, punctuated occasionally by emotional intensity brought about not by the Gay Cowboys, but rather the way they are trapped in what they didn't ask to be. Don't be nervous. You won't see anything in this film apart from what I just described. If you're really worried, read Anne Proulx's original novella. What she writes is almost exactly what you get on the screen.