DarthTofu

I saw Rob Zombie's remake of Halloween today. I must confess, I've never seen the original, though my friend has, and he felt that it was rather similar to that original. It was a rather scary, gory movie. On a scale of 1-10 I'd give it a solid 8.5. The beginning is truly horrifying (Dear Zeus Michael Myers is a creepy-ass child!), but the rest is sort of downhill. There are three (Count 'em, THREE) boob scenes (I think that Zombie felt he had to top 300) and one with full nudity, though not full frontal. Spoilers: The movie opens with 10-year-old Michael Myers, who'd mother does her best to provide for him, but works as a stripper. Her husband is a crippled jerk, who thinks his own daughter is sexy, and that his son Michael will grow up to be a queer. His (older) sister is also a bitch. 10-year-old Michael first kills a bully, beating him to a bloody pulp with a tree branch (Very bloody killing), then gets his father (Duct tapes him to a chair and slits his throat, watches it while he's wearing his clown mask. The clown mask is scarier than the rubber one.), then bludgeons his sister's boyfriend with an aluminum baseball bat, then stabs his sister (She had a boob-shot scene) seventeen times (Apparently the number is significant.). Loomis (sp?) then shows up as Mikey's psychiatrist. Michael's mother shows up to visit him several times (He doesn't kill his baby sister, who grew up hot), but then he stabs a nurse with a fork (Not too too bloody, but bloody all the same) and gets her in the throat. Loomis gives up on Michael fifteen years later, and Michael then escapes. Dumbest scene in the movie: Michael breaks half-inch thick chains on both of his wrists with no help. Yeeaah. Well, no, not quite the dumbest thing ever (He also survives being stabbed straight down from the collarbone, being shot three times, once in the back of the head, and falling from a second story building to the lawn.) Michael kills five cops and a nurse and a kind janitor, then goes to a truck stop and kills another guy, then goes after his younger sister, who is now seventeen years old and in High School with two very good looking friends (Both of whom have boob shots, one of whom I know for sure dies, one of whom I just assume dies). He kills her parents, both of her friends and their boyfriends, and two cops (just for good measure I assume) before going after her. Loomis steps in to intervene and shoots Michael three times, once in the back of the head. Michael, needless to say, lives. He then strangles Loomis. I'm not sure if he dies or not, there was no crunching noise, and nobody really said anything about him dying. Anyway, he then goes after his sister, tackles her off of the second floor of his old house (The fights here were really dragged out too much) and his sister shoots him in the face. At least, I think she does. It sort of ends after that, with her very bloody and screaming.

It's nicer than my car, Def. Granted, I inherited mine across four separate people, but it's still nicer than my '94 Geo Prizm (Which I still passionately love, by the way). Now don't go racing with that car, Def. For starters it's dangerous, and for enders you'll look like a fool trying to race in that thing!

As I recall, he told me he'd had twelve drinks and was receiving beer as the night gained age. Though I do believe it took three tries on good ol' SOCL's part to get that info out. Conversations then moved on to the nature of Judas, whether his sacrifice was worth it, and merit of certain songs in Jesus Christ Superstar. All in all very interesting conversations.

I had a few thoughts on that, actually. When I go by the shop to get my car's stereo system fixed, I'll also have it outfitted for space flight. A quick jaunt up to the vacuum of space, a little space walk (Good thing I'm not human, or that could be fatal!) and I've got a lovely souvenir to share with the fans.

Either SOCL's under a lot of stress, his keyboard/computer is malfunctioning, or the BEAK is collapsing and has lost all of its divinity. Sounds like an interesting teacher, Rob. Right now the most interesting one I have is my Pre-Calc teacher, a man named Shannon. His class has thus far been categorized as the only one in which yelling "Touche!" at comments is not only acceptable, but normal. Pre-Calc will likely be more fun than Algebra II was.

Jeeze... Serving coffee is so dull by comparison...

Oh jeeze...

Come now, Def, you already posted the "Set Phasers to Rock!" link in the original Randomness thread. I had it in my signature for some time, in fact.

I kind of always opted that there be a "third party" area in those auction sites- IE a spot where money was electronically wired and the objects were shipped to be inspected and then sent on. Less rip-offs that way...

A most excellent alternate! Keep the lightsaber, set Jar Jar adrift. I won't complain Oh, man, if only... It says there that it hasn't been delivered, yet- I vote that we all get to Texas and steal it. Tex, as the oldest member of the forums and, more importantly, the one guy that we know for sure lives in Texas (JH might, too, I dunno) I vote that you head the mission and take the rap if we get caught to recover the saber. If we all band together we can take on whatever they have guarding that saber- a couple o' stormtroopers? Psh!

Good Luck Rob, may the Force be with you @Tofu: Your problem may not be a "connection" problem at all. The other (more plausible) alternative is the unit is overheating because the electronics have surpassed their useful life (been there, done that. Thank God it wasn't my pacemaker though Oh wait, I don't have one of those new fangle devices ). Anyway, your vehicle is way too old and companies are way too lazy & profit driven to even think about fixing those things, unless you fork out MAJOR dollars. You'd be better off buying a whole new stereo system for the car (and you'll save hundreds of dollars in repair money). Ironic that you can buy a new stereo & get it installed for $100, but they want $500 to fix the old one & then charge you to re-install it Good Luck! Thanks for the advice, Tex. Now, if only I had $100... Damn, I knew I should have actually applied for a job before summer was over... @Krytos: Gah! I hate spiders, too. Ever since Return of the King came out... *Shudder*

@Mad: Those are great. Now, then, my contribution: Asking for advice. Anybody here drive/ever driven a Geo Prizm? Possibly from 1994? Mine is having some audio system problems- in the middle of playing tapes/the radio, it turns itself off, then comes on once again, then off once again, etc. creating an annoying skipping every few seconds. My theory is that the physical connection with the power source has vibrated loose (The car vibrates excessively) and is connecting and disconnecting with the power terminal as the car shakes it. "Why don't you simply reconnect it, then?" you ask. I would, but I don't think that the radio/audio system is designed to come out of its slot; pretty much you're stuck with what you (AKA my grandmother) bought. Anybody know of a special method for removing the radio and fixing this issue/some magical cure I haven't thought of?

Loners are good in RPGs. Otherwise it's just a ton of escort missions!

Highlander referances? Come now, good people! Lately I've been getting around seven hours of sleep. My watch has three alarms, an occasion reminder, and a timer, thus five alarms, plus I have an alarm clock, and I wind up using them all on most days. I have an alarm go off at 6:30 to wake me up just so that I can shut it off, the theory being that, when I immediately roll over back to sleep, I won't enter REM again, and will wake up less tired. I dunno if it works or not, because I have a third alarm for 7:05, because I usually ignore the 7:00 alarm. EDIT: (Reply to Morindibus to avoid posting again so soon): Oh, yeah, my alarm clock is currently held together in part by Silly Putty. Yes, you read that correctly: Silly Putty. The front end fell off.

*Looks at picture of Rob from New York* Er, um- I wasn't doing anything! Nothing at all! That is odd, man. Granted, it was probably some guy with some friends who said, "Hey, let's go snap pictures of random people and run off!" Then again, maybe you were briefly on some prank show, with hidden cameras, where they weirded you out and then ran away.

I vote that, if we form a whole new branch of awesome for Eagle, Jahled should at the very least be included in it. The fellow's been making animated gifs since before Tex was eligable to be a member of the AARP!

I dunno, Def, Ivy looks pretty good in the other costumes... @Tex: Nice. Very nice.

I have been gone awhile, but I come back with a tale! As some know, I have been hunting DarthTex (Tofu made a comment once about what we did to the map)... well, I found him.. I finally found where he resides and after some surveillance I decided to go in for a closer look. I found him in his natural habitat where he sits all day, mainly logging on and off to SWR and giving his two cents about how things were back in the day and playing bridge. After he fell asleep for his "Late Morning Nap" at 9:30am exactly I moved in a little closer to get a good shot at him. Unfortunately the ways of the hunter were not with me that day and I made too much noise and startled him awake! Only for him to see me and I was confronted with That which is known as DarthTex! Very luckily for me, he let me go alive... provided I told you all this story shaming me and also told you all that the next attempt on his life would not be met with mercy, rather pure unadulterated hatred while he tortured you to death with.... A STORY FROM "BACK IN THE DAY"!!! ..... hehehehehehe just kidding everyone.. i just found these pictures and had to make a poke at Tex.. hahaha Dont kill me Tex.. Wow... You- I- just... Wow. You are so weird, JH.... So bloody weird...

Hmm... *Strokes invisible goatee* I'm gonna have to go with Dessan as my favorite boss, from Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast. He's a bitch to beat, but can be beaten... It just takes some skill and some cheap shots.

Eagle, do you just live in this thread? Come to think of it, we haven't seen GAT in some time... I wonder where our blue friend has gotten to in Canada that he's forgotten his Rebellion friends? Ah, well- Happy Birthday to him, regardless!

Maybe they were rather alemanni-girls than roman. Otherwise it´s very hot at the current here. I dunno, three of 'em looked just like men to me...

Could he be Bren Derlin? He shows up as the leader of the Strike Team (after Han, I assume). Or perhaps he's Greeve? The picture isn't the best, but he appears to have similar facial hair... Just not as much. Odd, you'd think that Lucas would've given everyone a name so that they could each have their own five dollar trading card...

Skyjacking I'd love to do something like that, but somehow I'm afraid that I'd be seen as a serious threat for doing as much and arrested, detained, etc.

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a169/DarthTofu/acting.jpg Jeez, I really hated the third movie, primarily because I loved the third book... http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a169/DarthTofu/beer.jpg Why do I think this will be Mad's wife in several years? ... And why do I think Mad will be right behind her carrying just as much beer? (Just messin' with ya, Mad!)

I just started the thread out of idle curiosity because, as I said, I think that famous is having your own Wikipedia article (that isn't deleted within two hours of posting) and was interested in what others might think. As you probably know, getting onto Wikipedia doesn't necessarily make you "famous," it just means that some people know your name. More than anything else, what I was asking is what's a sign that you're famous? (Sorry. I should've voiced the question better). And for the record, there are differant kinds of fame; very few people follow the daily affairs of Stephen Hawkings's life, yet most people (at least, I should hope most people) know his name and some of his achievements in terms of physics. ... Then we have people like Paris Hilton and Anna Nicole Smith, who make the side bars of the papers when they sneeze and are all over the front page when they crash a car or die.