And how many kids today even know what the horizontal and the vertical are, far less how to adjust them?
Well, it doesn't matter, does it? Because we control them!
Inara: You don't have to die alone. Mal: Everybody dies alone.
'Out Of Gas'
Natter 33 1/3
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Emily - Mar 16, 2005 9:55:04 am PST #8047 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Emily - Mar 16, 2005 9:55:23 am PST #8048 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Oh, damn. That was a good one, Aimee.
Aims - Mar 16, 2005 9:55:51 am PST #8049 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Sad that I know it by heart.
Frankenbuddha - Mar 16, 2005 9:55:55 am PST #8050 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
"And now for something completely different..." / "IT'S..."
-t - Mar 16, 2005 9:55:55 am PST #8051 of 10002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
How did Charlie's Angels go? "Once upon a time there were three girls..."
Betsy HP - Mar 16, 2005 9:56:33 am PST #8052 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Ah. Here we go.
DAMN, this one scared me:
"There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission. If we wish to make it louder, we will bring up the volume. If we wish to make it softer, we will tune it to a whisper. We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical. We can roll the image, make it flutter. We can change the focus to a soft blur or sharpen it to crystal clarity. For the next hour sit quietly and we will control all that you see and hear. We repeat: there is nothing wrong with your television set. You are about to participate in a great adventure. You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to... The Outer Limits."
§ ita § - Mar 16, 2005 9:59:04 am PST #8053 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
And how many kids today even know what the horizontal and the vertical are, far less how to adjust them?
Monitors have a horizontal and vertical of sorts, don't they?
"Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and Vanished...He woke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were not his own and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better. His only guide on this journey is Al, an observer from his own time, who appears in the form of a hologram that only Sam can see and hear. And so Dr. Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong and hoping each time that his next leap will be the leap home."
Emily - Mar 16, 2005 10:00:23 am PST #8054 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
500 years into the future, she will enter a world where machines rule the Earth. Mankind has been driven underground.
I know, I know. Also FAR from famous. But I'm having such a kick with these...
§ ita § - Mar 16, 2005 10:00:43 am PST #8055 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
"He was brought across in 1228. Preyed on humans for their blood. Now he wants to be mortal again. To repay society for his sins. To emerge from his world of darkness. From his endless ... forever night."
Kathy A - Mar 16, 2005 10:02:23 am PST #8056 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
What was the one with the phrase "There are 8 million stories in the naked city. This is one of them."?