TwoBitWriter's Tubular Tracts of Thought-Talking Random Banter #111

[Alleine]

Spaceballs was not funny. It wasn't stupid. It was tedious.
There's parodies, and then there's going too far. That's what spaceballs was. Ye gods, the opening of that movie was enough to make me not care about the rest and watch something else. When I watch a movie with the expectation of funny, I want it to be funny, or at least mildly entertaining. Not boring right from the get-go.
/rant

In other news, I miss looney toons. The wackiness, the absurdity, the violence, the awesomeness. Cartoons today just don't have what it takes anymore. *lesigh*

[Rutskarn]

Spaceballs was not funny. It wasn't stupid. It was tedious.
There's parodies, and then there's going too far. That's what spaceballs was. Ye gods, the opening of that movie was enough to make me not care about the rest and watch something else. When I watch a movie with the expectation of funny, I want it to be funny, or at least mildly entertaining. Not boring right from the get-go.
/rant

I have to disagree. The opening was what is referred to in trope circles as Crossing the Line Twice: it was funny...then it was boring...then it was so absurd it was funny again. The rest of the movie was fresh and clever in almost every scene for me, and I'd call it one of my top comedies of all time.

It's just my opinion, of course.

[Alleine]

Perhaps I just watched it with the wrong crowd of people.
Or maybe my attention is too short to enjoy something such as that.
Or maybe, just maybe, we should have fast-forwarded before the beginning killed the funny.

[FoE]

"Now you see that Evil shall always triumph, because Good is Dumb."

And that's all I'll say on the subject.

[Inyssius Tor]

Well, Coid, that does maAEEARGH!

Who are you, and what the hell have you done with Coid...you damn dirty ape!!!

Don't call him an ape. That just makes him angry. Quick, call him a monkey a couple of times, see if you can correct your mistake.

[Killersquid]

Spaceballs was not funny. It wasn't stupid. It was tedious.
There's parodies, and then there's going too far. That's what spaceballs was. Ye gods, the opening of that movie was enough to make me not care about the rest and watch something else. When I watch a movie with the expectation of funny, I want it to be funny, or at least mildly entertaining. Not boring right from the get-go.
/rant

Spaceballs was awesome. That's all I'm saying.

"Now you see that Evil shall always triumph, because Good is Dumb."

Still my favorite line. The part before it was pretty funny too.

[Coidzor]

Well, Coid, that does maAEEARGH!

Who are you, and what the hell have you done with Coid...you damn dirty ape!!!

Ook? Ook! Ook. EEEEEEK!

*contemplates Rutskarn by sticking his hat in his prehensile and fondling it*

[Rutskarn]

In all seriousness, awesome Librarian-tar.

[Coidzor]

*places slightly gummy and sticky hat back upon Rusty's head and pats it down on his head*

OOK! *claps* *points to sig*

And for my next trick....

[Kneenibble]

Disgusting. I love it.

Whatever I want to say about animal consciousness, about evolution and Darwin, and all its procedent consequences in the spectra of thought, there are two wonderful things I will always hold commonly precious with the ape: bananas and autoeroticism.

[Coidzor]

Amusingly, most of us here are, in fact, apes. So....

I'm glad you approve, and I'm certain HerrDoktor does as well.

[Player_Zero]

Just realised that I haven't brought any socks with me to uni... Damn.

I will always hold commonly precious with the ape: bananas and autoeroticism.

Classy.

Oh, and I dreamt that I found Tescos. That was an exciting one.

[KnightDisciple]

"Now you see that Evil shall always triumph, because Good is Dumb."

And that's all I'll say on the subject.

Yeah, but who got zapped in the balls in that fight, huh?

[CurlyKitGirl]

They're Pinky and The Brain
Yes, Pinky and The Brain
One is a genius
The other's insane.
They're laboratory mice
Their genes have been spliced
They're dinky
They're Pinky and The Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain
Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain
Brain.

Before each night is done
Their plan will be unfurled
By the dawning of the sun
They'll take over the world.

They're Pinky and The Brain
Yes, Pinky and The Brain
Their twilight campaign
Is easy to explain.
To prove their mousey worth

They'll overthrow the Earth
They're dinky
They're Pinky and The Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain
Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain
Narf!

I love that song; can still sing it off by heart. Then again, prolly every Britlander teen can, just the same way they can sing the entire Fresh Prince of Bel Air theme song. And you know you can, so don't even bother trying to deny it.
It's like just after CLassics the other day: we were arguing which dub had the better opening song: Pokemon (original theme song) or Digimon.
We decided Pokemon.

[Player_Zero]

And I should've put more songs on my mp3 player before I left... Durnit...

With these I can barely even be chillin' out, maxin', relaxin' all cool, let alone shootin' some... Maths... Outside of the... Maths department.

[Quincunx]

Y'know, I had decided on a theme for the next Gender-Bender Week, but the temptation to replace it with "Mel Brooks Free-For-All" is rather strong.

[Archonic Energy]

Yeah, but who got zapped in the balls in that fight, huh?

only because he fought fair... he should have just blasted Lone-Star in the balls at the start.

then shooting him in the head.
followed by his good is dumb speech.

though that would have been... Anti-climatic.

[KnightDisciple]

only because he fought fair... he should have just blasted Lone-Star in the balls at the start.

then shooting him in the head.
followed by his good is dumb speech.

though that would have been... Anti-climatic.

Wouldn't that mean that Evil, too, was dumb?

[Phase]

*contemplates Rutskarn by sticking his hat in his prehensile and fondling it*

Your prehensile... what? Tail? Finger? Wang?

[Player_Zero]

Oh dear. That's just terrible.

This book on logic and language proof was coauthored by Jon Barwise and John Etchemendy.

Guess how they wrote this.

Jon Barwise ∧ John Etchemendy.

I bet someone was pissing themselves over that one.

(I guess I should include for those of you who don't know anything about logic or in fact anything that it is used in, such as computer programming and whatnot, that '∧' is the symbol for the Boolean operator AND.)

[randman22222]

Oh dear. That's just terrible.

This book on logic and language proof was coauthored by Jon Barwise and John Etchemendy.

Guess how they wrote this.

Jon Barwise ∧ John Etchemendy.

I bet someone was pissing themselves over that one.

They probably claimed it was intentional.

[Player_Zero]

They probably claimed it was intentional.

No, no, it's kind of a joke only probably not intended to be funny, see.

Funnily enough this module has been pretty much summed up in the foundations module previously AND in the Discrete maths module.

Even more funnily enough I had already learnt all of this material over the Summer before coming to university with a schoolmate's step dad. I've been taught the same thing four times.

Some might think that's tedious. I think of it as free 100% grades on my exams.

And it's an easy subject too.

Also it includes things I find amusing, like finding ambiguities. For instance:

"No one hates a man after he shoots him."

[randman22222]

No, no, it's kind of a joke only probably not intended to be funny, see.

Funnily enough this module has been pretty much summed up in the foundations module previously AND in the Discrete maths module.

Even more funnily enough I had already learnt all of this material over the Summer before coming to university with a schoolmate's step dad. I've been taught the same thing four times.

I haven't found much of the discrete maths we've been doing very hard. It's calculus and induction that trip me up.

[Thufir]

I love that song; can still sing it off by heart. Then again, prolly every Britlander teen can, just the same way they can sing the entire Fresh Prince of Bel Air theme song. And you know you can, so don't even bother trying to deny it.

I never knew the Pinky and the Brain theme by heart. And I've only seen, like, one episode of Fresh Prince of Bel Air, so that's a no on that theme too.

[Cristo Meyers]

I love that song; can still sing it off by heart. Then again, prolly every Britlander teen can, just the same way they can sing the entire Fresh Prince of Bel Air theme song. And you know you can, so don't even bother trying to deny it.
It's like just after CLassics the other day: we were arguing which dub had the better opening song: Pokemon (original theme song) or Digimon.
We decided Pokemon.

Dammit Koorli! Not before I get mp3 player going! That song's worse than Boom De Yada at getting stuck in my...I whistled for a cab and when it came near...CRAP!

[Dirk Kris]

...the license plate said "FRESH" and it had dice on the mirror...
tee hee
The Animaniacs song gets stuck in my head.

[Coidzor]

Your prehensile... what? Tail? Finger? Wang?

The world may never know, but I'm pretty sure it was lips.

[dish]

Just realised that I haven't brought any socks with me to uni... Damn.
...
Oh, and I dreamt that I found Tescos. That was an exciting one.

Did you dream of buying socks at Tescos? That could be prophetic.

[Tempest Fennac]

I don't know either of those songs. (I only bother to learn ones I like, and even then I struggle, hence the expression "how does Luca by Suzanne Vega go?")

[bosssmiley]

Dammit Koorli! Not before I get mp3 player going! That song's worse than Boom De Yada at getting stuck in my...I whistled for a cab and when it came near...CRAP!

I'd swap you for the repeating verse of "Pinky and the Brain" which is stuck in my head right now.

Did you dream of buying socks at Tescos? That could be prophetic.

Both Freud and Jung have much to say on the subject of dreams about socks. Of course, they were both Austrian and wholly brainfried on a Devil's Brew of opium, schnapps, sachertorte, flagellation, and leiderhosen. So, yeah, pinch of salt...

Odd factoid/question: I was just told that the "eat by" date on a packet of crisps always falls on a Saturday (at least in the UK). Is this true?

ION: exam answers to the question of why one should not rock it hardcore 24/7, repelling the Moon Man invasion, nuclear lighthouses ("What could possibly go wrong?"), LEGO + steampunk + Star Wars = ???, thoughts on the taxonomy of 'bots, and Bruce Sterling and his hippy mates put the world to rights.