Posts by BenWilson
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Hard News: The Public Address 2012 Word…, in reply to Hebe,
Because so many people are now saying “I refute that” when they mean “I deny that”
Confusing refute and dispute?
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Field Theory: The Force will be with…, in reply to Sacha,
O, by Toutatis! It better be good.
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Hard News: This is Your TV on Drugs, in reply to Bart Janssen,
At some point we will certainly shift to legalise and tax and regulate marijuana and probably other drugs.
One day, the Sheriff, he won't even be a white man.
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Hard News: The Public Address 2012 Word…, in reply to Bart Janssen,
When you are sober?????
When he's drunk, he adds "baby".
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And we're not going to learn much from that at all.
To be fair, I once learned that pies from servos can be dangerously hot.
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Field Theory: The Force will be with…, in reply to TracyMac,
Princess Leia is in there, but really, her big hero moment is when she strangles Jabba. Maybe she was actually an awesome politician and held the whole Rebel Alliance together - who knows?
She's always in the thick of it, you can't accuse her of not pulling her action weight. She's the last one to leave the rebel base when Hoth is invaded, still barking evacuation instructions. She's on board the fleeing ship custodian of the stolen plans, defiant in the face of torture by Vader. She's in the rearguard battle on Cloud City, she's riding a speeder on Endor, shooting at Storm Troopers. She totally chokes out Jabba, and that's after staunching out the whole throne room dressed as a bounty hunter carrying a suicide bomb. Not to mention she has some of the best lines. She's a really big part of what made the first franchise hold together. However, yeah, the story is for kids.
But I totally agree on Blade Runner. It really stands the test of time. I saw it only last week and thought it hadn't aged at all. I think the total absence of spin-offs is cool too, it could so easily have been wrecked. Similarly with 2001: A Space Odyssey (except for the fact that 2001 has been and gone, and I still can't book a Pan Am flight to the moon. I can, however make video call from a flight, now). The idea that space exploration is probably going to mostly be done by robots is proving more true every day. HAL was probably miffed to have to waste all the payload carrying meatsacks.
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Just for reference. For backstory, Jim's sudden interest in her is based on her not knowing why he is bumming out, which is probably the funniest bit of the movie. Well, that and the pie.
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Up Front: Whimsy Is an Extra 5 Cents a Word, in reply to Lucy Telfar Barnard,
Oops, I clearly just failed a pop culture test.
No, I don't think so. It's a phrase that took on its own dynamic, entirely due to the flute episode and that Michelle then gives Jim a very rude shag. It came to symbolize the sexual diamond in the rough, the cooling of nerdiness, which was after all what that movie was all about. So you had it right, Band Camp since that movie has come to mean that one story....
Edit: But yes, it's possible that she made it up. She was fucking desperate by that point in the story. I've seen the movie sequel actually titled "Band Camp", but I can't remember anything about it at all.
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From memory, Band Camp in that movie was synonymous with the story no one wanted to hear. The girl is plainly cracking on to Jim the entire movie, but every time she mentions Band Camp (bar one, the flute story) his eyes glaze over and he tries to escape.
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Hope
I'm finally feeling it. That feeling as the Clark Govt and the world economy sank at the same time, and incomprehension and denial that went with both events, have moved toward a more open attitude. Divisions are still tribal, but there seems to be less open war between the tribes.
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