The Shadow

One time my brother used a blow dryer thing at a fast food place. Little did he realize that someone had shoved feces into the vent so when he turned it on and put his hands under it, he got a handful of stuff.

Eew! I don't think I'll be using hand-dryers ever again now...

This Cheerios commercial aggravates me every time I see it. Lately I've take to switching channels when it comes on.

47) Guys who wear baseball caps. It's so ****ing redneck. This is 2009, brah.

Out of curiosity, what exactly do you consider as acceptable headgear for guys?

Mistaken identity with credit and debt collectors. Let me tell you that with 88 days and counting until the start of school, I'm not pleased with being hit with a $2,000 debt that shouldn't be mine in the first place.

 

If I don't end up in school because I have a hard time with loans, I'm going to be the biggest bastard on and off line. Fair warning to everyone.

Those loan companies don't care if they have the right person or not. Next ask for the companies name and contact info [politely] tell them again for the umpteenth time they they have the wrong guy you'll be providing your lawyer with their information. Hopefully that will get the calls to stop.

Guys above the age of 8 whose first names still end in a "y" Jeffrey? Oh really? Davy? Johnny? Just

"Wally" opens up communication with guests at work and allows some familiarity. I've also gotten plenty of tips since I changed over to it. But it's really only a work/Nightly thing.

Just curious, is your office space/cubicle/etc. adorned with Dilbertian Wally highlights? Like such...

Sometimes I purposely walk down the wrong aisle in the parking lot on purpose for that very reason.

:thumbsup: Hahahah, that's great! Someone was parking lot stalking me the other day when I was in the wrong aisle. I wasn't purposefully going down the wrong aisle though, I just happened to be walking straight back and was going to cut over an aisle when I was near my car.

This Bisquick Shake & Pour commercial annoys me:

Everytime I see it I can't help but add the dialogue "Hey kids! Look how much I care about you, I made pancakes in a detergent bottle!"

Pancakes aren't difficult just some self-rising flour, one egg, and some milk -- that's all there is too it.

What - no one has gone to dig up more SWHS videos yet?

How about Boba Fett's first appearance...

TOP!

 

Of course the sad thing is the awesome Star Wars Holiday Special in Five Minutes vid at Youtube is gone now thanks to Lucasfilm.

Surprisingly - there are still plenty of SWHS vids up on Youtube, take this one for instance...

Did some digging, and found some from the UK, US, and Canada. I wouldn't call any of them dumb, some are certainly funny and others are unusual/noteworthy. {obviously some are unusual now since they share a name with something that's become well known later}

Towns/cities in UK [Counties listed, all in England unless otherwise noted]

• Climpy (Strathclyde, Scotland)
  
• Little Snoring (Norfolk)
  
• Dollarbeg (Fife, Scotland)
  
• Ham and Sandwich (Kent)
  
• Giggleswick, North Yorkshire
  
• Kilmahog (Central Scotland)
  
• Little Sodbury (Avon)
  
• LLANFAIRPWLLGWYNGYLLGOGERYCHWYRNDROBWLLLLANTYSILIOGOGOGOCH, Anglesy, Wales
  
• Felldownhead (Devon)
  
• North Piddle (Worcs.)
  
• Sockburn (Co. Durham)
  
• Middle Wallop (exact location unknown)
  
• Eric Gotobed (exact location unknown)
  
• Cuckoo's Corner (Hampshire)
  
• Dunnose (Hampshire)
  
• Flash Bottom (Staffordshire)
  
• Lower Piddle on the Marsh (Gloucestershire)
  
• Offton (Suffolk)
  
• Yondertown of Knock (Banffshire, Scotland)
  
• Dunvegan (Inverness-shire, Scotland)
  
• Moneyacres (Ayrshire, Scotland) {I have it on good authority that this is where Oliver Wendell Douglas's family came from}
  

Towns/cities in US

• Monkey's Eyebrow, AZ
  
• Last Chance, CO
  
• Joes, CO
  
• Elfers, FL
  
• Mayo, FL
  
• Bacon, IN
  
• Tingley, IA
  
• Elvira, IA {everybody sing}
  
• Smileyberg, KS
  
• Duckers, KY
  
• Krypton, KY
  
• Ono, KY
  
• Hot Coffee, MS
  
• Skidmore, MO
  
• Truth Or Consequences, NM
  
• Flushing, NY
  
• Can do, ND
  
• Kremlin, OK
  
• Stalker, PA
  
• Burning Well, PA
  
• Notrees, TX
  
• Boston, TX
  
• Old Boston, TX
  
• New Boston, TX
  
• Chocolate Bayou, TX
  
• Onion Creek, WA
  

Towns/cites in Canada

• Come By Chance (New Foundland)
  
• Sea Cow Pond (Prince Edward Island)
  
• Moose Factory (Ontario)
  
• Salmon Arm (British Columbia)
  
• Jerry's Nose (New Foundland)
  
• St. Louis de Ha! Ha! (Quebec)
  
• Cankerville (Ontario)
  
• Lower Economy (Nova Scotia)
  
• Duff (Saskatchewan)
  
• Elbow (Saskatchewan)
  
• Head Smashed in Buffalo Jump (Alberta)
  
• Colgate (Saskatchewan)
  

I'm currently reading the Rex Stout's Black Orchids - another fine Nero Wolfe story, well pair of stories.

I'm also reading The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian - it has the first 12/13 stories [in the order they were written, and original versions] of Robert E. Howards most famous creation. This is pure REH - no pastiches to muddy the waters here, and its very impressive. Subsequent work by other writers [as well as Conan's presentation in other media], have largely diluted the character among the general public, making him blend in with the host of barbarian characters that followed him.

There are a some write-ups/essays in the collection as well that about how the story writing order was determined, and why Howard wrote some stories in a particular fashion, as well as other aspects Conan.

Piper's return to the show [even for just three episodes] strikes me as kind of scrambling to recapture lost viewer attention/hype - a ratings stunt.

It's not I'd expect in a show that's supposedly 'healthy' [TV business-wise]. And unfotunately with Rose's return - since Davies is persistent in his silly & tiresome "Female companion X loves the Doctor, but the Doctor may/may not know it" routine - the Doctor will undoubtedly be stuck into a Love Rectangle/Rhombus/pick a 4 sided shape.

Metallo - his origin story [silver Age] is a prime candidate for a movie. It just boggles the mind that no one wants to use it.

It's obvious what's happened: Superboy Prime flew by and punched Junior out of movie continuity...

Oh? Interesting - I've not noticed Doctor Who Confidential listed in the programming of my local Public TV station, but I've not really thought to look for it either. I'll have to keep an eye out for it this coming weekend.

I'm sure that was explained Master-Body point at some point in Doctor Who Confidential.

 

Something about him using the Eye of Harmony to take regenerations away from other Doctors. Or that was the plot for one of his last episodes in the very least.

The Sci-Fi Channel isn't running DWC, I'm not sure it's running anywhere outside the UK for that matter. In any case, DWC isn't the series itself so relying on it to provide necessary explanations really would be sloppy writing.

Not filling in viewers on how the Master obtained a new Time Lord/Gallifreian body seems like sloppy writing to me, but it's a two-parter episode so such an explanation of some sort could wait until the next episode.

 

Didn't this Master, when asked by the Doctor, say that the Time Lords regenerated him? As a weapon against the Daleks? (Retroactively suggesting that was the Doctor's role at the beginning of the 1996 film.)

Not in Utopia at least - the Doctor's and the Master's conversation is mostly limited to the Doctor pleading with the Master not to take the TARDIS, so it must happen in the second part [ The Sound of Drums ].

Now that I've had a chance to think about it a bit more, I suppose the 'sloppy writing' aspect in regards to Utopia is because it sort of "feels" like the story has been stretched out and filled with some fluff bits to make it into a multi-part story. If Utopia and The Sound of Drums were run back to back, or as one extra long episode, I don't think the stretching/filler would've been as noticeable.

I liked Blink too - it "felt" like a Classic Series Doctor Who episode; a Tom Baker era episode to be more specific - although it might not have been out of place when William Hartnell was still the Doctor.

In some respects I thought Utopia was a bit of let down, another hum-drum episode like 42. I thought the bit about the Time Lords never traveling "to the end of the universe" was a blundering, non-sensical, and almost painful to watch, case of sloppy story-telling. The end of the episode where Yana transforms back into the Master kept it from being a totally forgettable episode though.

The restored Master should've looked like the Master though instead of random guy #785649. The Master apparently maintained his "look" throughout all his regenerations rather than the more random regeneration favored by the Doctor - that "look" should have been used in the new series as well. It makes perfect sense for Yana not to look like the Master, but the re-awakened Master should have been clearly been the Master.

Strangest of all, is how did the Master survive and get a new Gallifreian/Time Lord body? We last see The Master in the 1996 TV Movie - but he had been tried for his crimes and seemingly executed. We soon found out that the Master survived as a gel type substance/snake-thing that quickly takes control of human host body. After many happenings, the Master finds himself sucked into the Eye of Harmony.

Before the TV movie though, the Master took the body of Tremas [see The Keeper of Traken] - which means the Master was two non-Time Lord bodies away from his original body. I could see leaving the Masters survival in the Eye of Harmony a mystery - it can make for interesting discussion. Not filling in viewers on how the Master obtained a new Time Lord/Gallifreian body seems like sloppy writing to me, but it's a two-parter episode so such an explanation of some sort could wait until the next episode.

Aww -- that's just silly, the BBC is going to kill part of the new series' momentum.

Not upto there yet, last Friday Sci-Fi ran Human Nature - but we don't get to see the second half, The Family of Blood until next week, Sci-Fi is doing a fan favorite SG-1 mini-marathon this evening.

It's an interesting story idea - but I'm dissappointed in Davies continued use/rewritting stories from the DW New Adventure books [even though the original author is writing the script]. Largely because there seems to be an unspoken 'order' for viewers to read the books to get the whole story. And the whole thing kinda feels like cheating - these writers are getting paid to contribute new stories but they're recycling previous work.

Human Nature seems to work well enough as it seemed fairly self contained - but Russell T Davies bringing in stuff from his books smacks more of a desperate cry to "buy my books" - the whole "Galifrey is destroyed and the Doctor is the last of his kind" angle in particular.

I read an advance review of the forthcoming Superman: Doomday DVD on Newsarama a few weeks ago - apparently Lois still doesn't doesn't know that Clark Kent and Superman are one and the same and yet she has her own towel in the Fortress of Solitude...

Did you notice on the cover with Jimmy apologizing to Superman that Jimmy continues to fill his pockets with the pay-off money?

Comic book covers back then tended to greatly exaggerate or distort the actual content of the issue. Some even blatantly portrayed the heroes uncharacteristically, just to grab the readers' attention.

Indeed, here's a few more examples of what Mercury was talking about. {These and many more can be found on the site that Torch posted...}

Batman is hugely dark and Superman is almost the polar opposite. How would they reconcile this?

 

(I'm basing this on the current movie franchises (Nolan's Batman vs. Singer's Supes).

There's a 40+ year history of the two working together.

That and despite the superficial appearances, if you really truly take a look at the Batman you'll find that he is the ultimate optimist - he believes that the villains that comprise his rogues gallery can be, to borrow a phrase, brought back from the darkside [they'd still need to pay for their crimes though]. There is no doubt that the Joker has earned the death sentence a hundred times over - and yet the Joker continually ends up in Arkham Asylum rather than on Death Row.

The two personas mesh perfectly well... they are the classic action buddy cop formula... before it turned into a stupid comedy first premise (I'm looking at you Rush Hour... and others).

You just reminded me of the Dragnet movie ...

What?! No mention of Plastic Man yet?

Bruce Campbell often gets mentioned to play Plastic Man [and I think he'd be a great match]. But at nearly 50 [he's 49 this year] Mr. Campbell may be a bit too old to reasonably take on the role, especially if the superheroes featured in a potential JLA movie get their own movies down the line.

Plus - with Hollywood's unfortunate penchant of trying to make a movie all things to all people, Plastic Man's inclusion would be one of the few reasonable ways to bring the many forms of comedy

I was disappointed to find in the previous, "Evolution of the Daleks", that the the production team included a scene from the War of the Worlds. The scene in Hooverville where Solomon is killed by the Daleks is a slightly tweaked version of the of the scene in War of the Worlds 1953 (the only movie version that's worth watching) where Pastor Collins approaches the Martians in peace but is disintergrated. It's almost as if they knew the episode ought to have been placed during Orson Welles WotW broadcast.

Tonight's episode, "The Lazarus Experiment", seems like it could be interesting...

You got me - it's not like they couldn't have spared a half-minute or so at the beginning of the episdoe with the Doctor saying something like "well just one more trip".

I think Rose has been a bit overrated as a companion - perhaps because for a lot of viewers she's the first companion they see the Doctor travel with. But I already like Martha Jones, she already seems like she'll be a much more interesting companion than Rose was.

I found the The Shakespeare Code to be enjoyable viewing - though in the overall scheme of things it felt like a reworking of The Daemons.

I think that the Doctor's adoration for Shakespeare was forced into the story [as the story would have worked just as well without]. If the Doctor was going to single out any human like that I believe Leonardo Da Vinci is a more reasonable choice [unless they go with a fictional character].