Thinks back to the year he ran a comparison tabulation of points, penalty minutes, and +/- statistics for 47 hockey players to make a written recommendation to management about rehiring two of them.
I'd say yes.
Jayne: Captain, can you stop her from bein' cheerful, please? Mal: I don't believe there is a power in the 'verse that can stop Kaylee from being cheerful. Sometimes you just wanna duct tape her mouth and dump her in the hold for a month.
'Serenity'
Natter 55: It's the 55th Natter
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.
Matt the Bruins fan - Nov 16, 2007 10:55:57 am PST #2708 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Jesse - Nov 16, 2007 10:57:59 am PST #2709 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh, that. But that's not craps! You don't shoot craps with three dice! Just two.
Well, yeah, OK. Is there anything with three dice?
Maybe the MTA really wanted to say, "Subways aren't for pooping!", but the sign designer misunderstood them.
The MTA SHOULD say that.
Trudy Booth - Nov 16, 2007 11:00:21 am PST #2710 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
And then there are Furries.
No there aren't.
There are no Furries.
I once tried to explain to a rabid hockey fan that being a Buffistas was just like his hobby but with a different inspiration. I cited instant bonding with strangers, fascination with minutae, and odd clothing among my other examples. He just kept staring at me like I was insane.
Gudanov - Nov 16, 2007 11:05:08 am PST #2711 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
Gudanov would you exclude movies like PotC from being considered blockbuster, even though the triolgy was mainstream people got fairly geeky over it, but it is a fantasy movie.
Hmmm.... That is a problem. I mean it was a blockbuster movie and talking about what happened in it wouldn't really be geeky, but if there was an Internet PotC board get together where everyone dressed as pirates (excluding Halloween) that would be hard to not classify as geeky. Good point that.
§ ita § - Nov 16, 2007 11:08:27 am PST #2712 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
"This is such a first world fetish!"
Hmm. Does the third world even have time for fetishes? I smell a project for my sister.
askye - Nov 16, 2007 11:13:21 am PST #2713 of 10001
Thrive to spite them
I don't know if there is one exclusive PotC board, but I know it's a fairly active, albeit small, fandom. There are people who write fanfic, make vids, debate minutia about the movies, dissect the relationships, etc.
Atropa - Nov 16, 2007 11:15:21 am PST #2714 of 10001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Iman (who is a super host and kind of scary) totally ripped them a new one for using goth as the trashy look. She was all like "Goth is a legitimate look!!"
See! Iman validates my subculture. And you know she has fantastic taste, because hello, MARRIED TO DAVID BOWIE.
shrift - Nov 16, 2007 11:15:23 am PST #2715 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
ita, make your sister write a book so I can read it! Oh! I wonder if there are any studies about sexual fetishes and the class system! Why do I have to be at work when I want to be Googling this shit!
Trudy Booth - Nov 16, 2007 11:15:31 am PST #2716 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Hmm. Does the third world even have time for fetishes? I smell a project for my sister.
Bringing kink to the underprivliged?
Gudanov - Nov 16, 2007 11:15:52 am PST #2717 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
I just realized I'm dissecting the minutia over what makes something geeky. I'm a metageek.