Giles: Stop that, you two. Riley: He started it... Xander: He called me a bad name! I think it was bad; it might have been Latin.

'Selfless'


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Aims - Feb 10, 2006 2:48:01 pm PST #461 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.

I think Rides a Bike. He goes to the hospital becaus he breaks his leg.


tommyrot - Feb 10, 2006 2:55:18 pm PST #462 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Now I wanna see Curious George and the Furries.


DavidS - Feb 10, 2006 3:24:01 pm PST #463 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Which book was that? Curious George and the Crack Whores?

You used to be able to get a t-shirt of the scene where Curious George gets stoned on Ether. It's great!

Jeez, I read the Curious George books to Emmett more than any other thing in his childhood. I'm pretty sure I read each book at least 50 or 60 times.


Aims - Feb 10, 2006 3:25:33 pm PST #464 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.

So I am right in remembering this:

Correct me if I'm wrong on this, but in the books, doesn't TMITBYH BRING George home with him?


Kate P. - Feb 10, 2006 4:02:26 pm PST #465 of 10001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

I couldn't say for sure, Aimee. As opposed to stowing away in TMITYH's luggage, you mean, or however it happens in the trailer?

That "Hooked on a Feeling" video has filled my entire day with joy. In fact, now that I have experienced it, I feel a distinct sense of radiant peace suffusing my entire being.


JZ - Feb 10, 2006 4:07:12 pm PST #466 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

That "Hooked on a Feeling" video has filled my entire day with joy. In fact, now that I have experienced it, I feel a distinct sense of radiant peace suffusing my entire being.

Oh, thank God! I thought I was the only one. I don't think even DB and AD doing their spastic dances on the "Angel" outtakes were half so gleefully dorkalicious.


§ ita § - Feb 10, 2006 6:40:12 pm PST #467 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

X3 pictures. Why would you release this? It looks like ass!


Sean K - Feb 10, 2006 10:48:52 pm PST #468 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

Why would you release this? It looks like ass!

What, I wonder was wrong with how they did Colossus in X2? I fear the answer is as stupid as "too expensive."


tommyrot - Feb 11, 2006 7:30:55 am PST #469 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

OK, I received this via some "e-mail" thingie:

Dear Thomas,

As a member of MovieTickets.com who has expressed interest in entertainment market research, you are being offered the unique opportunity to join the Movie Advisory Board ("MAB"), a partnership between MovieTickets.com, Nielsen Entertainment and a select group of movie consumers. The Movie Advisory Board is the entertainment industry's first venture of its kind, joining an exclusive group of moviegoers with the leader in movie ticketing and the industry's preeminent entertainment research firm. As a member of the MAB, you will be invited to participate in a broad array of communication forums and provided the opportunity to attend, at your discretion, free movie screenings, to utilize instant feedback mechanisms on films you have just seen, and even to share your opinions about future films.

To join the MAB, we ask that you respond to an initial questionnaire linked to the end of this letter that should take less than five minutes of your time to complete. By completing and submitting the initial questionnaire, you are representing that you are at least 18 years old and are a legal resident of the United States as of the date you submit the initial questionnaire to us. Once completed, you will have the opportunity over the course of your membership on the MAB to share your insights and attitudes towards movies and the movie going experience. You will never, however, be obligated to share your views. Membership on the MAB will simply give you the opportunity to share your views voluntarily, at your sole discretion.

Here's their website: [link] From the website:

MAB members' insights and attitudes towards movies and the movie going experience are extremely valuable to executives in Hollywood and across the globe who make decisions about what films get funded, how they develop creatively, where they are distributed, and a host of related questions about DVDs, video games, soundtracks and sequels.

Is this just some marketing b.s.? Should I join, just to destroy the system from within help good movies get better released/promoted?


Steph L. - Feb 11, 2006 8:14:54 am PST #470 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

tommyrot, I got the same e-mail a month or two ago. I joined, because why not? Though I could be a patsy.