I don't watch
24
usually (the Cougar Incident a couple of seasons back sort of put me off the show permanently), but I just tuned in today for some reason, then was promptly bludgeoned by
Not All Arab Americans Are Terrorists, See? Anvils.
Ow.
I did enjoy seeing my boyfriend
Jame Frain.
And oh! That cutie-pie African-American agent (Curtis?) in CTU is being played by the same actor who played the McHottie SWAT lieutenant in the classic X-Files episode, "Pusher". Man, first-fandom imprinting dies hard.
OK, OK, I'll stop after this, but this one made me laugh and laugh when it happened. I don't even think this was all of it.
PMM: Even the worst of the K*tten stuff seems sane and tame compared to the Green Lantern Wars.)
Allyson: Doesn't that lametard fight crime with yellow?
WTF?
"Behold! This is my banana of DOOM!"
"Back off, Osama! I'm driving a SCHOOL BUS!"
Polter-Cow: No, yellow is his weakness, which is even lamer.
"Aaaach, Big Bird, get away from me!"
"I ordered pink lemonade, dammit! Are you trying to kill me?"
Allyson: dies
So, this is the only superhero who can be killed by a golden shower? We all pee and he's DONE FOR.
I hate the Green Lantern. Doesn't a small boy ride on his back for no apparent reason?
In the spirit of procrastination, I'll contribute the entirety of the the Punctured Testicle Debate that occurred post Angel episode, "Release". (Techincally, not from BRQG since I'd saved the whole thing in my hard drive, but I know it has ben COMM'd in its entirety.)
Scene:
Angelus advances on the cowering occult shop keeper and either stabs or smooshes some parts of the poor fellow off the screen. The man screams.
Angelus
(conversationally): Now, don't make me puncture the other one, Reg. I just want to get some intel on this Beastmaster fella.
Trudy Booth: I have no testicles of my own, granted, but they never struck me as something one could "puncture".
Sophia Brooks: Until I came in here, I thought he punctured a lung.
connie neil: By the angle of the blow, it could be nothing else, but I confess I couldn't figure out what he'd hit. If Hubby had been there, I might have figured it out. There was no blood on his shirt, anyway.
Wolfram:
I have no testicles of my own, granted, but they never struck me as something one could "puncture".
shifts uncomfortably
Trudy Booth: I still think it was a lung.
ChiKat: My first reaction was testicles. My second reaction was, "Did he really just do that?" My third was that I need to rewatch.
ita: Testicles have struck me as puncturable.
Most things, indeed, do. But if we're talking pairs, we have lungs, kidneys, testicles and limbs. Limbs are no fun here. Kidneys it's easier to flip them over first.
Sophia Brooks: I'm still with Trudy. I have heard 'punctured lung' many times and never 'punctured testicle'. I thought he went under the ribcage and up, and it didn't bleed that much.
connie neil: Hard to talk reliably with a punctured lung. A punctured testicle would give you a nice undertone of whimpering pain.
P.M. Marcontell: I've heard of punctured bits. IJS.
Trudy Booth: Testicles aren't hollow though, are they? Isn't hollowness inherent to an object's puncturability?
hayden: Based on some horror stories I could tell based on my brief stint as an emergency room orderly, I can assure folks that testicles are, indeed, puncturable.
ita:
Isn't hollowness inherent to an object's puncturability?
Not at all. Lungs are only barely hollow. For my definition they just have to be encapsulated.
connie neil: Earlobes aren't hollow, and they can be pierced.
Trudy Booth: But testicles are so wee and close together (relative to a punching vampire fist). One and not the other seems tricky.
Were it more of a twisting or plucking motion...
Heather Alayne: I didn't see him punching (about to say fisting, then thought better of it), it was more of a two fingered jab.
Trudy Booth: I'll need to rewatch.
kat perez: In a true example of how it's all connected, recall the movie "While You Were Sleeping" referenced earlier in Natter wrt leaning. In that movie, Sandra Bullock's character "proves" that she is coma guy's fiancee by correctly identifying that coma guy (Peter Gallagher) had only one testicle. This had come to pass because one of his testicles had been punctured by a pencil in a tragic lawyers pick-up basketball game. The punctured testicle then had to be removed resulting in the one-balledness.
Dana: Oh, my god, I love you guys.
Jess PMoon: The nice thing about the threat "or I'll puncture the other one" is that it works no matter what body part you're talking about.
ita: Nuh-huh. Penis.
Jess PMoon: Well, any body part that there's more than one of.
(And even if not, I don't think it's very likely that the puncture victim would sit up and say "Aha! I've only got one penis! Your threats mean nothing to me!")
ita: No, but I might say "Moron! I have no penis! What the hell you gonna do now?"
And then lapse back into a pain laced half-consciousness.
Jess PMoon:
No, but I might say "Moron! I have no penis! What the hell you gonna do now?"
Would you really want to know, though?
Heather Alayne: Mr. Heather, after making (continued...)
( continues...) several uncomfortable faces, confirms that a testicle may be punctured.
Heh. Then he looked scared and said, "Why would you ask me something like that!?"
Jess PMoon: And did you smile mysteriously and say nothing?
Sean K: Also speaking as one with testicles, even without personal experience in this matter, I assure you that they can be punctured.
And they're definitely hollow. Or, at least, there's stuff and swimmer-factories in there, and not just a solid mass.
Lyra Jane: I assumed it was puncture the other lung, too. I mean, you can't die instantly from a punctured testicle, can you?
hayden: A guy would never ask this question.
Trudy Booth: Did you know a penis can get broken?
hayden: I'm sorry. I can't read the screen with my hands over my eyes like this.
Note the power of the punctured testicle discussion to make all men flee the thread two years after the fact.
I made my first real panini sandwich on the panini grill tonight: onion dill bread, zucchini, garlic spread, and applewood smoked cheddar with paprika. Definitely makes the word "sandwich" more appealing than spreading peanut butter on wonderbread.
Definitely makes the word "sandwich" more appealing than spreading peanut butter on wonderbread.
Ooh, peanut butter on wonderbread, great idea!
Puncturing? I've been struck in the nads with feet, sticks, multifarious sporting equipment and too many other objects to catalogue with no scrotal violation. But I do know a one-balled individual (from a motorcycle accident, iirc) whose halfmanning predates The OC by at least a decade.
Mmmm, peanut butter.
t /ignoring nads and puncturing talk
So, I hear the Rock is gay?
