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Quote:I bet that was the F1 that had front end damage and was hella expensive to fix (as in expensive even for a supercar to fix)Originally Posted by Hemily
It's been years since he crashed it the first time, he wrecked it back when it was new too. -
Quote:Your not helping, wouldn't want to ruin one of cherished childhood memories by reading the book and making the movie lame.Originally Posted by Tenzhi
I was even more disappointed by the Watership Down animated movie than I was by The Hobbit one. Sometimes it sucks to have read the book first.
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Oh you wacky north koreans and your crackpot despotic leader
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Quote:Heh, that reminds me of the time one of the mods over on the D&D boards swtiched the background to green and the text to red during the christmas holiday.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
My eyesight may never recover.
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Quote:Everybody thinks dodos were harmless birds, but mark my words, giving a chainsaw to a dodo is like giving a great white shark a set of feet and a pair of lungs!Originally Posted by Encharger
Ooh ooh, bring back the dodos and give them chainsaws.
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Quote:I seeOriginally Posted by Father Xmas
No I mean disconnect from the Mr. Bean character, I remember a bit with him getting out of a classic old Mini, and Atkinson being a very skilled driver on a race circuit.
While any fool with lots of money can own a F1, but his performance on Top Gear showed he is probably a lot more competent driving one than most. -
Quote:Y'know, I've never read that book, but the movie is forever seered into my brain right next to the word awesome.Originally Posted by SlickRiptide
Watership Down - This is hands down one of the best fantasies of any kind every written. Watership Down is so much more than just a "quest fantasy" with bunnies as protagonists. The proof of this is that so many imitators tried to duplicate its success and managed to fail completely. The mythology of the rabbits is every bit as compelling as that of the peoples in Tolkein's stories. I'd rank it as one of the best novels every written, frankly..
That'll probably backfire though when I get old; "Man that was totally... bzzzt... Watership Down!"
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Quote:Atkinson can be a great driver and still make a bad judgement or be unaware of some outside factor that could have suddenly altered the cars performance (a slick spot on the road perhaps?).Originally Posted by Father Xmas
But the other point that Rowan Atkinson is the fastest celeb on Top Gear seems to indicate he does have some driving chops. That's where my disconnect comes from.
Driving a car at 8/10 or 9/10 and certainly 10/10 on a public road is playing against the devil with so many more factors to consider than on a road course or track.
I dont behoove somebody for having fun in a car (christ that would land my face right next to the very definition of "the pot calling the kettle black" ) with the caveat as long as your doing boneheaded things all by your lonesome on a lonely road so utlimately I'm indifferent to his plight no matter how skilled Mr. Atkinson might be as a driver.
So wrecking a McLaren F1 = bad, escaping with minor injuries and not endangering or injuring anybody else = good -
Quote:Bah, you haven't lived till your secret corprate masters have twisted all the laws in your country purely for profit and evil!Originally Posted by Lucky666
oh why I think your american laws are moronic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_sharing_in_Canada<----how it should be
Honestly if they didn't want us doing this they shouldn't have made it so easy. Technology is a PANCAKEPANCAKEPANCAKEPANCAKEPANCAKE a guess at least it's harder to rob banks in todays day and age -
Quote:Well played sir.Originally Posted by TrueGentleman
I've failed either to see the resemblance or detect the sarcasm.
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Quote:Speaking of which, The Fast and the Furious was itself a remake of sorts.Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
Another in a long line of Hollywood remakes because they can't find anything original to do. Thanks but I'll wait for it to be tossed in a super market bargain bin. I don't care how good it is.
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All the other McLaren F1 owners want to thank you Mr. Atkinson... for substantially increasing the value of thier intact cars.
Oh well it happens when your messing around with a very powerful car like that. At least he wasn't completely blasted with a buddy in the car catapulting off the road at 130+ -
Quote:Tempting, although I think I'd return this planet to pristine condition as if whatever damage we have wrought never would have occured. Then tell everybody dont blow your second chance. Afterwhich I'd ditch this mudball and go do some cosmic exploration. Whatever aliens I ran into, I would tell them that I'm the herald of Galactus and my master is on the way to devour thier world.Originally Posted by Oathbound
I would probably topple human civilization, just out of spite.
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Quote:I'm sure, people either detest Bob Salvatore as a hack or cant stand his character but Drizzt's popularity is undeniable, especially after the "Dark Elf Trilogy. His popularity transcended D&D fans even, popular to the point that a travelogue more or less was printed for people who had never played D&D or messed around in the realms so that they could get a better idea of where the books were set.Originally Posted by Smersh
I had the exact opposite reaction.
Or not surprised that the Chronicles didn't make it? Honestly I would have expected them to show up before Drizzt and company. Dragonlance seemed to have as much appeal if not more than all the dark elf stuff.
Personally I never really read the core Dragonlance stuff other than Dragons of Spring Dawning, but I liked some of the other books like the trilogy focused on the twins as well as the book about Kaz. -
Huh, glad to see the "Legend of Drizzt" on there, and I may have over looked it, but I didn't see the Dragon Lance Chronicles on there which strikes me as odd that the chronicles didn't show up.
Most of my picks were fantasy in nature since I was a D&D junkie at the time I started reading novels -
always loved reading the "What If" stories, my absolute fav is
and he puts some major pain on Cap in that issue. -
Oh, I'm so checking that out!
---> edit, great a frigg'n competition to actually be the ultimate prize winner. This is where my pragmatism will do me in
Although some other prizes are pretty dern cool, the Zero-G experience <- I knew that was pricey since I first saw the ad in Forbes and they also have a Breitling watch as another prize <- I like watches, I really do. -
Quote:Agreed, thats some serious stuff, when you wreck a man's castle!Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Ouch.
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Quote:Ahhh.. the ol' BET argument.Originally Posted by Twisted Toon
Personally, I have an issue with Black History month, Asian History Month, Famous Women History month and a few others. Mainly because there isn't a corresponding White Male History month.
and the truth to the matter is that every month is white history month ergo you dont need a white history month, or a white anything for that matter. <---edit ----> caucasions of european descent are the dominant culture in the US at this time and I dont mean that in an inflamatory or denigrating way since that can certainly change with time. -
Quote:Easily my favorite as wellOriginally Posted by Arilou
Praetorian Nighstar is cool
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Quote:Just preface your actions with; "dont force me to defend myself if you accost me in any manner", well right as they throw thier face right into your fist.... I hate when people do thatOriginally Posted by Golden Girl
Or in RL, the tools at the ends of your arms and legs - it's sometimes the only language these people understand
Also hate people who try to pin your foot with thier groin.
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I see, personally, I would have used any number of domestic "bridge to nowhere" projects myself (although the entirety of some never to be named foreign efforts certainly come under that catagory), but your point stands.
I'm also in agreement with you, funding NASA certainly has better long term consequneces than say the Gravina Island Bridge project.
I think one of NASA's bigger problems is how the public see's them. I've read and heard on more than one occassion somebody replying simply; "Why do we waste money sending people into space when people are starving on earth". -
Quote:Indeed, in the old school cop drama "Bullitt", the Mustang's sound was borrowed from Ford's GT40 race cars. The Mustang used a synchronized transmission and the GT40 an unsynchronized unit (hence all the double clutching going on).Originally Posted by Captain_Photon
Well, to be fair, the sounds we hear cars making in the movies pretty much never came out of the actual cars we're seeing. (There's one of Jeremy Clarkson's videos where he demonstrates this by dubbing V8 sounds onto a Fiat 500 chase, with predictably amusing results.)
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Quote:Oh, I know that sound, and I know just the combination of parts it takes to get that sound too.Originally Posted by Tenzhi
In any case, those tumblers sounded very pathetically tractor-like.
In any event the original tumbler for Batman Begins sounds alot better, my guess is that these crappy sounding tumblers are just very cheap props more akin to a parade float.
Here is a link to the orginal tumbler development
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Quote:Yep, 1st Ed Unearthed Arcana - It had the barbarian, thief-acrobat, and cavalier (of which the paladin became a subclass instead of being a subclass of the fighter)Originally Posted by Nericus
Can't remember for sure but I think in first edition D&D, Acrobat was the title for a certain level of the thief class and Cavalier was a title for a certain level of the Paladin class.