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"It's a world much like our own, yet much unlike it. A twisted mirror of reality, in which a man can find himself cast out, made invisible by public acclamation, belonging no longer to society, but only to the gray reaches... of the Twilight Zone."

The Twilight Zone (1985): "To See the Invisible Man"

Smug Alert!

from Seinfeld

"And by the way. They're real, and they're spectacular!"

Actually Penn and Teller debunked Global Warming and show how it was politically motivated and not scientifically motivated. Pen and Teller expose a lot of people with political degrees and politicians posing as scientists that support global warming. No PHDs in Science at all and they consider themselves as scientists. Al Gore, for example, has an undergraduate degree in government and no master's or PHD in anything, yet claims to be a scientist and is the major force behind pushing global warming and is regarded as an expert and will be getting a Nobel Peace prize for his work. Even if his work is pseudo-science or "Junk Science" and he is not certified to do the work in the first place. Al Gore uses private jets to fly all over the world to promote global warming, and they spread more CO2 in the air than they should be spreading. As Vice-President Al Gore did nothing to try and stop global warming and reduce CO2 emissions despite him saying in 1992 that global warming and CO2 emissions are a serious threat. Just like Gore promised to fix healthcare, end poverty, fix social security, stop the export of jobs overseas, and other promises he made with Clinton to be elected. Al Gore has a long record of lying and making up false information as well as making empty promises.

I'd link to the video in Google, it was there a few weeks ago, but Google removed it because it disproved global warming, but kept the other Pen and Teller videos, and Youtube did the same thing for the video. Proving that global warming is a scam and they are trying to cover it up. I am sure that Showtime might be showing repeats of it on their channels.

There was a Grey's Anatomy episode about a patient who watched pornography to ease his pain.

A: Yes, the initial response to this was amazing, a measurable number of new Linux drivers will be created thanks to this program.

As per a Simpson's episode, I'm reminded that zero is a number. ;)

Get out your tin umbrella!

Royal Canadian Air Farce

Hockey Night In Canada

Planet Earth

Great X-files episode. Voice of Christ raising the dead recorded in ceramic.

This reminds me of the episode where Dell purchases "a satellite dish" :-)
http://www.tv.com/only-fools-and-horses/the-skys-t he-limit/episode/52299/summary.html

Next week on Pinks, IBM vs SCO. Winner takes all.

http://www.tv.com/pinks/show/62274/summary.html?q= pinks&tag=search_results;title;0

Timecube has already gotten TV coverage.

I can't believe nobody's made the obvious and obligatory Futurama reference.

This study is wrong - all of us know that's not how it works!

On the other hand, if you do wish to dislodge it, all you have to do is tickle the pelvic splanchnic ganglion and get ready for the ride of your lives.

*Side effects can include massive bone loss.

I'm not a physicist, and barely remember the difference between protons and neutrons. Really. Probably it's the way they choose the names, having nothing to do with the physical properties of the elements, and not even sounding cool. I mean, Uranium, Plutonium, Titanium have cool names. Krypton -- cool name. "Carbon" is at least descriptive, deriving from the Latin for burning. I've always thought "Gold", "Iron", and "Lead" were onomatopoeic. And everyone knows that "Sodium" is Greek for "soda pop". Good names, all, and they don't sound phake and made up.

But "Hassium"? "Bohrium"? Not cool, not descriptive. These are vanity names, like getting your name in a phony star registry, or some weak license plate, except it goes in the encyclopedia. Yes, I know there's this tradition for naming the radioactive ones after people, but that kind of thing ought to be left to the entomologists, hadn't it? I mean, what if there's a disaster, and Jonesium kills a bunch of people and gives the rest weird cancers? How will ol' Doc Jones feel about his legacy then, hmm? Better to be devoured by wasp larvae. So clearly, we need better, less risky names for these elements.

Let's see, an element that sticks around for 30 seconds and then goes away. I believe I can come up with a few right here, even without some fancy-shmancy degree:

• Postite
• BlogTrollium
• Wevedoneitohnowehaventium (or Heybosslookatuhnevermindium)
• Anaviagrium
• Blinddatium

It may have been unwatchable children's drek, but there was an animated Stargate: Infinity as well as the current two shows.

This concept is straight out of the worst episode of Farscape, and that's saying something.

I want to know what the hell the author was smoking when this was written, beause that's some really potent stuff!

Why the f**k is Darryl Hannah on this list? She not a f**king geek! She's a left-wing, activist actress! Oh, wow, she made two board games. So what? That does not qualify her to bear the category of "geek" in any way, shape, or form.

Lisa Simpson? Paris Hilton? Others have discussed the stupidity of these entries, so I'm not going to bother reiterating them.

Why the hell are two of the most prominent girl geeks around not on this list -- Aluria Petrucci (aka Cali Lewis) and Amber McArthur? Cali Lewis is one of the most famous tech geeks out there with her GeekBrief.TV video podcast that gets tens of thousands (if not hundreds of thousands) of downloads every day. Even if she's just a nice-on-the-eyes presenter, she still has far more qualifications than Hanna, Simpson, or Hilton. And Amber McArthur is just about every geek's wet dream - intelligent (holds several college degrees), co-host and producer of several tech podcasts and TVs shows, host of commandN video podcast, clearly has a love for tech, and is incredibly easy on the eyes.

I certainly can agree with Marie Curie, Ada Byron, and the others. I'll even give the nod to Mary Shelley. But some of the entires in this list completely destroy the credibility of whoever the person is who made this list.

Why am I reminded of this?

Futurama's prediction is coming coming true, it didn't work out so well for them..

http://www.tv.com/futurama/a-big-piece-of-garbage/ episode/1541/summary.html

EDIT: My image verification for this post is 'brothel'....

if they look hard enough they can find a law you have broken.

Yes. If they can't find anything else, they could probably charge you with illegally transporting litter.

This is not from the Minority Report that was released in 2002. This was shown in shuttle interface in Earth the Final Conflict which aired in 1997.

This type of interface was also in The first $20 millions is the hardest. But that came out in the same year as The Minority report.

Or might take things to the extreme.

Or might take things to the extreme.

The Boy Scouts are rapidly becoming obsolete, and thank god for that.

The whole organization has undergone a massive shift over the past thirty years, effectively becoming an arm of the Mormon church. All of this gay-bashing and atheist persecution is relatively new.

Not that it matters. Even ten years ago, only a few kids in my school were in Boy Scouts, and the rest of us just made fun of them. I'd be more worried about their crazy right-wing views if there were actually any Boy Scouts around anymore.

Google yields: http://www.tv.com/laguna-beach/show/29836/summary. html

It's one of the wealthiest, most beautiful beachside communities in the world and MTV has unlimited access to the tight-knit power clique of eight rich, beautiful teenagers that live there.

"Not that there's anything wrong with that!"

SO YEA IT IS FREAKING WRONG TO REPRESENT ANYONE AS SOMETHING THEY ARE NOT! IT IS ALSO FREAKING WRONG TO REPRESENTS ANYONES SEXUALITY WITH OUT THEIR PERMISSION!

Hmmm... That reminds me of a certain Futurama episode...

This sounds familiar ... almost like some TV show has done an episode with that premise before.

Yes. Yes it is.

You mean Fargate?

Good Vs Evil was a buddy-cop style show about, IIRC, a guy who died, and was then resurrected to work thwarting demons who tried to make deals for people's souls. Wasn't half bad, from what little I saw of it.

Sinking Titanic, Goldfish Memory, Trombone Explosion. Episode Number: 11 Season Num: 1M. Adam and Jamie had to train their goldfish to do race.

Wrong. I've seen the episode about five times; I recommend that you re-watch it. Or check the web:

http://kwc.org/mythbusters/2005/02/mythbusters_sal sa_escape_dynam.html
http://www.cxliv.org/television/mythbusters/index. php/2
http://www.tv.com/the-unit/show/33480/official-dis cussion-thread-episode-1-8-sere-april-25th/topic/1 4917-241386/msgs.html
(etc)

AC is no good for electrolysis, which is what was really going on. You need the electrons to flow in one direction.

"Because I'm a turtle too."


Great answer courtesy of Vala on Stargate SG1.

Fourteen garbage cans.

Roddenberry wanted to do that (he may have been inspired by someone else). This show was originally going to be about the fall of the Federation. Instead we got what was a decent show (excellent choices for some of the characters, not so good for others) but not a stellar one (pun intended).

The Apollo missions were fine, just to show the world that the US was first -- but there's nothing there.

Nothing there? Are you crazy? They have an entire theme park! They have the whalers of the moon, go carts and everything!

Clearly there is no need for explanation. Or perhaps you've never had to defend yourself from a man armed with a bowl of fresh fruit?

gadgets are not to blame for man bags friends is.

http://www.tv.com/the-simpsons/theres-no-disgrace- like-home/episode/1289/summary.html

Now i know that the Vikings landed on the America's before Colubus did, but I'm not quite sure about landing on Mars.

Actually, Gilligan did:

http://www.tv.com/gilligans-island/smile-youre-on- mars-camera/episode/10149/summary.html

That was fictional...

From "House, MD" one of my fav shows:

House: I assume "minimal at best" is your stiff upper lip British way of saying "no chance in hell"?
Dr. Chase: I'm Australian.
House: You put the Queen on your money. You're British.
(source)

Any way, the original post does sound like marketdroid speak as it seems to span the entire Mac line save for Nephew Jimmy's iPod.

AND THAT'S MY STORY!

[...] there are games like "Mega Man X" (right after MM6) and "Wizards and Warriors X" (sequel to W&W2, I believe) that just confuse people as to what game they are playing.

Butters (as Professor Chaos) and General Disarray start to launch "Evil Plot 4-B", which is to blot out the sun with an 80 foot high by 50 foot wide giant shade. General Disarray informs him that they already did that on The Simpsons.

At the home of General Disarray, Professor Chaos arrives with the results of his latest scheme. He has removed the head from the statue in the town's square. The local news coverage reminds him that this same event occurred in a classic episode of the The Simpsons.
...
Professor Chaos lies out "Plan #123-D" (monorail) for General Disarray, who informs him "The Simpsons already did it in episode 204(sic)". The Simpsons have also already done his plans #124-A (web site gossip) and #129-E (buried angel) as well.
...
Professor Chaos is informed that The Simpsons have already done plans #127-C (soccer riot) and #125-E (shaken beer can). Discouraged, Professor Chaos decides he might just run away and join the circus, until he is informed "The Simpsons did it."
...
Having watched all 132 episodes (sic) of the The Simpsons, Professor Chaos is hit upon a scheme that they haven't already done, that is to replace the contents of a cherry with "yukky, sticky mayonnaise." General Disarray comments that The Simpsons' scheme would have been more clever. When they are ready to leave to execute this evil scheme an ad comes on for tonight's episode of The Simpsons in which Bart is going to replace the contents of a chocolate covered cherry with mayonnaise.

A better question may be, do we need that many bottle caps? More steel is used in the US to make bottle caps than auto bodies. http://www.skygaze.com/content/facts/manufacturing .shtml
http://www.berro.com/entertainment/general_interes ting_facts.htm
http://www.tv.com/modern-marvels/heavy-metals/epis ode/780563/summary.html

credit where credit is due: http://www.tv.com/red-dwarf/backwards/episode/1095 7/summary.html

Ahh. It only lasted one season according to TV.com.