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New Wallace and Gromit Episodes Coming Online

chachi5000 noted that CNN is running a story about Aardman releasing Wallace and Gromit Shorts Online. There will be a dozen of the one minute clips featuring the awesome plasticine duo. Also bits about the feature film coming in (sigh) a few years. Anyone who hasn't seen the existing Wallace and Gromit trilogy is missing out.

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  1. Just Like Heaven by The+Lyrics+Guy · · Score: -1

    (As a personal note, almost every time I hear this song I get all teary
    eyed. Fucking Cure and their too-close-to-home lyrics....)

    The Cure - Just Like Heaven

    "Show me how you do that trick"
    "The one that makes me scream", she said
    "The one that makes me laugh", she said
    And threw her arms around my neck.
    "Show me how you do it
    And I promise you, I promise that
    I'll run away with you.
    I'll run away with you"

    Spinning on that dizzy edge
    I kissed her face and kissed her head
    And dreamed of all the different ways I had
    To make her glow
    "Why are you so far away?" she said
    "Why won't you ever know that I'm in love with you
    That I'm in love with you"

    You. Soft and only
    You. Lost and lonely
    You. Strange as angels
    Dancing in the deepest oceans
    Twisting in the water
    You're just like a dream

    Daylight licked me into shape
    I must have been asleep for days
    And moving lips to breathe her name
    I opened up my eyes
    And found myself alone alone
    Alone above a raging sea
    That stole the only girl I loved
    And drowned her deep inside of me

    You. Soft and only
    You. Lost and lonely
    You. Just like heaven

    1. Re:Just Like Heaven by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Good choice as an FP. The Cure rocks.

      As an aside, it seems we have been led on to believe that The Lyrics Guy is a real person with the personal note at the top? Oh me, oh my.

  2. No W&G! by Dancin_Santa · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    More Chicken Run!

    Maybe some claymation Dancing Santas in a cameo?

    Dancin Santa

    1. Re:No W&G! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    2. Re:No W&G! by Danious · · Score: 1

      >>Maybe some claymation Dancing Santas in a cameo?

      Try "Robbie the Reindeer in Hooves of Fire" for the clamation Santa...

    3. Re:No W&G! by doofusclam · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Nick Park (the guy who created and made these characters) is from my home town - Preston, Northern England. He did a talk at our college about 12 years ago. *very* tedious man (monotone as hell) but very clever. He would chat for a bit, rolling some plasticine around his fingers, then five minutes later he's done a little Gromit without even looking and tosses it into the audience. Mine might be worth something one day...

      seany

    4. Re:No W&G! by moominpapa · · Score: 1

      I was born in Fleetwood and lived in the Preston area for a long time. I remember the first time I saw "A Grand Day Out" I was blown away at how brilliantly he captured the ethos of a certain kind of Lancashire time/place/personality. Like many great comic artists, Parks is a rather shy man who seems awkward in the spotlight. Rather than being "on" in public, he expresses that part of his personality through his creations. I agree it can be a little disappointing when we meet someone face to face and they don't seem anything like we would expect them to be from their work - I guess we just have to be grateful that they are so wrapped up in their own worlds. The world would be a poorer place without Wallace and Gromit.

  3. Now I understand... by ShadeEagle · · Score: 1

    ...why people were commenting on Wallace and Gromitt in the Powered Suit thread.

    Yes, I do live under a rock today. Or rather, I live in a cubicle with limited Internet access. Same difference.

    1. Re:Now I understand... by LegendLength · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      Linux is ready for the desktop.

      But is the desktop ready for Linux?

      You're truly a sick bastard you know that?

      How many times does it have to be said: People (i.e. non programmers) want computers to work for them, not the other way around. Your attitude is part of the reason Linux is less mainstream.
    2. Re:Now I understand... by drsquare · · Score: 0

      Exactly. With Linux, you run your computer. With Windows, the computer's running you.

  4. Good old-fashioned animation, eh? by jwlidtnet · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It is nice to know that despite the preponderence of computers in animation today, something that's this "old-school" can still occur (albeit online-only, I guess).

    May clay-mation never die.

    -J

    1. Re:Good old-fashioned animation, eh? by Rashan · · Score: 1
      (albeit online-only, I guess).


      Not so. according to the site, they'll be available on video as well for those w/out internet access.

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    2. Re:Good old-fashioned animation, eh? by sph · · Score: 2, Informative

      Actually Aardman has been doing claymation all the time for more traditional medium as well, it's not just the net, and it's not dying anytime soon. Chicken Run starring the voice of Mel Gibson was a good example, which did very nicely at the box office a year or two ago, despite not being quite as good as Wallace & Gromit.

      The three Wallace & Gromit shorts are classics, frequently shown on TV in many countries. Two of them won the Oscar for animated short films. There's also a fine DVD with all three stories available, with Nick Park's early animation work as a bonus. R1 DVD even has a commentary tracks by Nick Park himself. Highly recommended stuff!

      Not too long ago I saw Aardman's pretty recent TV-show Rex the Runt. It's only something like 13 10-minute episodes, but it was completely hilarious, very trippy and psychedelic. There should be second series coming as well, and I can hardly wait for it being shown on TV here.

    3. Re:Good old-fashioned animation, eh? by Lewisham · · Score: 1

      Claymation actually demands some pretty high-tech stuff nowadays, at least at Aardman. During an Open Day visit to Bristol University's Computer Science course, they showed off some stuff they had built for Aardman (who are based in Bristol) to use. Instead of still cameras, for Chicken Run they needed cameras which panned across the landscape. Now, when you think about this, it would actually be very hard to do. The camera operator would have to calculate how far and in what direction the camera would need to move for every frame of the shot. So Bristol built a mobile arm holding a camera which runs on tracks, and software which could be used to show when and where the camera had to be in specific positions. The software would then interpolate aall the stuff inbetween.

      Pretty sweet really :)

    4. Re:Good old-fashioned animation, eh? by ayjay29 · · Score: 1

      Ever tried it?
      Just grab a web cam, or a digital camera, and start snapping.
      Once you have a numbered sequence of JPEGs, there are plenty of utilities to produce an MPEG (or whatever you use).
      Can't be too hard can it?

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    5. Re:Good old-fashioned animation, eh? by UberLame · · Score: 1

      In one of the animation rags I used to subscribe to, they had an article on claymation. The man had played with it as a kid, before he became a professional computer animator. So, his daughter wants to try claymation. He used an old video camera with a broken record mechanism (but it took changable lenses compatible w/ the old film camera he had used for claymation) and hooked it up to a snappy (the parrallel port frame grabber that was able to do an amazing job of up-scaling the resolution) on a 486. He and his daughter then did a short film with this setup and modelling clay.

      One interesting bit about it was that they used Elastic Reality (now from Avid, then a seperate company) to fix most of the dialog shots. Recently I've been playing with doing animation buy just keyframing the puppet, then morphing between the keyframes. I've noticed that you need more keyframes then one might expect or the motion is too linear. It seems to me that if I wrote my own software I might be able to add function curves to the morph to fix that. Some times the quality is really good. Other times the morph has problems with layered objects. I think the approach is worth more research though. But thats getting away from my point.

      Also, I'm not sure about the Ardman stuff, but most stop motion work is built on metal skelatons. There is an article on building such things at http://mag.awn.com/index.php3?ltype=cat&category1= Tutorials&article_no=565 This is a more labour intensive method that probably shouldn't be attempted until after you have done some pure clay work to make sure you really like doing this.

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  5. Hi by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I once had anal sex with a man named Wallace. It was quite enjoyable.

    Cheers.

  6. Woohoo!! by blkros · · Score: 1

    I can't wait, and neither can the kids.

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  7. The Wrong Powered Exoskeleton! by spun · · Score: 5, Funny
    Funny, this being right above the article on powered exoskeletons. I wonder if they will be remote controlled and able to walk up walls?

    Cracking good cheese, Gromit!

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    1. Re:The Wrong Powered Exoskeleton! by dead_penguin · · Score: 2

      Yes, and don't forget to watch out for those penguins!
      (also oddly appropriate for slashdot...)

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    2. Re:The Wrong Powered Exoskeleton! by fobbman · · Score: 4, Funny

      And not a day since measuring the distance from the Earth to the Moon was posted. You KNOW that Wallace is behind this one as well.

      There's some good cheese up there, you know.

  8. A few years? Sooner than that... by bravehamster · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ain't it Cool News had a story on this earlier. Looks like the title will be The Great Vegetable Plot and the director is shooting for a release 2 years from now. Here's to hoping it turns out better than Chicken Run, which just rubbed me the wrong way for some reason. *shrug*. I just can't make myself care about the well-being of chickens, which are so darn tasty. ;)

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  9. One Minute? by The+Great+Wakka · · Score: 3, Interesting

    How can anyone accomplish anything in one minute? The real episodes were a little squished into their 40 min frame, and one minute is really pushing it.

    But what I really want is Chicken Run 2!

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    1. Re:One Minute? by mattdm · · Score: 3, Informative

      Well, obviously they won't be telling whole stories -- they'll be individual gags. To save you the bother of actually reading the story: the idea is that each one is a demonstration (by Gromit) of one of Wallace's inventions.

    2. Re:One Minute? by tonywong · · Score: 1

      ummm...of course it's a little squished! It's made from plasticine!

    3. Re:One Minute? by Alan+Partridge · · Score: 1

      "How can anyone accomplish anything in one minute?" You've never seen a TV commercial then?

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    4. Re:One Minute? by Zocalo · · Score: 2
      I don't know about "one minute is really pushing it", Aardman did a pretty amusing set of TV animations for one of the UK's electricity companies some years back. They have also just been signed up to do a run of adverts for PG Tips tea bags, which have been very successfully marketed in the past (and for a *long* time) by a family of dressed up chimps, which is very popular in the UK.

      I've not seen any of the new adverts on TV yet, but the press has got hold of it and there are advertising hoardings starting to appear featuring the three bird characters. The general style of the characters is very reminiscent of "Chicken Run", although there are three different kinds of birds, rather than just chickens. No doubt DivX versions will be coming to a web site near you Real Soon Now if they are any good.

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  10. The Real Question is.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...will they bring back the penguin (I forgot his name) for the movie?

    Name him Tux and have him fight some big guy named "Bill" while Gromit and his damn owner get caught in the middle of it.

    1. Re:The Real Question is.... by Roto-Rooter+Man · · Score: 0

      That would be incredibly lame. That Wallace and Gromit penguin is the best thing to ever come out of England, and you've just ruined it. Congrats.

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    2. Re:The Real Question is.... by mccalli · · Score: 3, Informative
      ...will they bring back the penguin (I forgot his name) for the movie?

      Feathers McGraw, as far as I recall.

      Cheers,
      Ian

    3. Re:The Real Question is.... by rebug · · Score: 2

      have you seen this chicken?

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  11. huhuhv~!!�1 by Dada+Troll · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Kv1dn7'gu7 a F1zT P0ztA!!
    :(

  12. details, details, details by mattdm · · Score: 5, Insightful

    One thing I love about the Wallace and Gromit shorts is their attention to detail. Every scene has interesting little bits in the background -- stuff going on that you might catch on the fourth or fifth viewing. I'm afraid that in stretching things to a full-length feature, some of this will be lost. Chicken Run, while fun enough, disappointed me for exactly this reason. It was kinda funny, and had some amusing references to other movies -- and certainly they put a lot of work into it -- but it just doesn't have the *depth* that Wallace and Gromit do. I hope Nick Park will prove my fears unfounded.

  13. This isn't a live action version , is it? by pyrrho · · Score: 1

    If it is, the casting is great!

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  14. Slashdot censorship is at work by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Slashdot censorship is at work. Check this comment Now, every single comment is at -1. This entire post with some 100 replies was bitchslapped. Most comments about this post were between +2 and +5, until the censorship brigade come in!

    Slashdot censorship is at work. Check this comment Now, every single comment is at -1. This entire post with some 100 replies was bitchslapped. Most comments about this post were between +2 and +5, until the censorship brigade come in!

    1. Re:Slashdot censorship is at work by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      here are the mods at work again my brother.

    2. Re:Slashdot censorship is at work by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      On the comment you refer to:

      Moderation Totals:

      Offtopic=30,

      Troll=1,

      Redundant=2,

      Insightful=8,

      Interesting=18,

      Informative=7,

      Overrated=2,

      Total=68.

      This must be the most mod points used on one post in the history of Slashdot! Anyone else know posts that were modded heavily? Post them!

    3. Re:Slashdot censorship is at work by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Right on BROTHA!!

    4. Re:Slashdot censorship is at work by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

      FUCK YOU moderators, if you mod this down, you KNOW that you are just ADMITTING that the comment system SUCKS SHHHHHIIIIIITTTT

    5. Re:Slashdot censorship is at work by AngryYellingBastard · · Score: -1, Troll

      You know what, you JERKS? This isn't offtopic. Not anymore. Slashdot is a fucking BBS, more or less, not a news site, lets get that straight. And as a BBS, there should be a place to COMPLAIN about the SITE! But there isn't, is there? So the place has to be HERE! So get used to the trolling and crapflooding until the editors get their heads out of their asses, eh?

  15. Hello by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    My name is Wallace and I have had anal sex. As a side note: I was giving it, and not taking it.

  16. NetNanny and this Article ... by pgrote · · Score: 5, Funny

    Read the article and enjoyed. Will be funnier than anything to see the inventions.

    As I read the last part:

    "Park has now expanded the idea to make them into mini-movies where Gromit demonstrates the innovations, which include a high-powered cricket ball bowling gun and a toaster-cum-TV."

    I had an idea. I ran to my daughter's room where her PC is protected by Net Nanny and put the url in. No go :-) You gotta love the protection it provides. :-)

    1. Re:NetNanny and this Article ... by fobbman · · Score: 2

      Points like this right here are reason enough to get rid of Net Nanny.

    2. Re:NetNanny and this Article ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      You know, my parents used to annoy the living daylights out of me while I was growing up, but your post reminded me that I should be grateful to them for at least one aspect of the way I was raised.

      Even though I could read by the age of three, at no time did my mom and dad ever make any attempt to control or censor any form of media that I was exposed to. I'd read tracts from the Jehovah's Witnesses one day, and Peter Maas the next. Tom Swift in the morning, The Stand after school.

      I think I was seven or eight when I first encountered the word "motherfucker" in print. I remember that it freaked me out for oh, at least the rest of the day.

      So, major props go out to Mom and Dad for not insulting my nascent intelligence by "Net Nannying" the things I read, watched, and saw in my childhood. Technically, I guess it was enough for me to repay their trust by not gunning down my classmates, joining any Satanic cults, or knocking up anyone else's over-sheltered daughter in high school. Still, I feel I'm at least a little remiss in not thanking them for teaching me, by example, that because I'm a human being and not some sort of mindless but programmable automaton, words and pictures alone have no power to injure me.

      Dad's gone now, so it's too late for me to let him know how much I appreciate being allowed to come to terms with unfamiliar, uncomfortable-sounding words and images without the additional burden of constant parental oversight. But next time I talk to her, I think I'll let my mother know that, from my vantage point of the ripe old age of 30-something years, she and Dad got at least a few important things right.

    3. Re:NetNanny and this Article ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      tell someone who cares?

    4. Re:NetNanny and this Article ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
      I guess it was enough for me to repay their trust by not gunning down my classmates, joining any Satanic cults, or knocking up anyone else's over-sheltered daughter in high school.

      Does this imply that you did knock up their over-sheltered daughter in high school?

    5. Re:NetNanny and this Article ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

      toaster-cum-TV

      For those of you whose Latin is a little weak:

      cum is a Latin word meaning "with". This specific example means "toaster that additionally is a TV", or "toaster with TV features added on". It's usually shown in italics to emphasize that it is really a foreign word. The Latin word cum rhymes with "broom" or "doom".

      The common gutter slang word "cum", which rhymes with "come" or "dumb", refers to sexual climax. For details, see your friendly local porn web site; the word will likely be used heavily. Of course, if you have Net Nanny, you won't be able to look this up.

      (If you read a college story about some person who graduates summa cum laude, does Net Nanny block that? Silly censorware.)

      As a teenage lad, when I first encountered this word, I asked my dad what "cum" meant, and no I didn't just happen to guess that it was pronounced "coom". I did helpfully spell it, however. We happened to be in a crowded public place at the time. He instantly went spitting angry and told me to just shut up. I had to look it up for myself later.

    6. Re:NetNanny and this Article ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      What evidence do we have that the word "come", meaning orgasm, is anything other than another use of the ordinary word "come"? (You could compare "go", meaning to urinate.) I don't believe there's any reason to spell it in a Latin-looking way.

  17. Pat me down: Sexual Al Qaeda by Jingle+Returno · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Pat Robertson v. America, Round II
    Post date 01.14.02 | Issue date 01.21.02

    The last time we heard from Pat Robertson, it was shortly after September 11, and he was furiously distancing himself from his good friend Jerry Falwell. Falwell, appearing on Robertson's show, "The 700 Club," had said the terrorist attacks were "probably what we deserve" given "all the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians" living in the United States. And although Robertson had concurred with Falwell's comments when he originally uttered them ("Jerry, that's my feeling," were his exact words), a few days later--following a huge public outcry--Robertson deemed the comments "inappropriate." Except that now, on "The 700 Club," Robertson has done his friend Falwell one better.

    "America will survive what is coming," he declared ominously, "but it won't survive in its present form. The proud will be humbled and then the time will come that they will turn to the Lord.... And, there's one last thing that the Lord led me to in Isaiah.... `Destruction is certain for those who say evil is good and good is evil, that dark is light and light is dark, that bitter is sweet and sweet is bitter.' Those who say evil is good and good is evil, and that's what's happening in this country. Certain perversions, sexual perversions for an example, are being touted as a privileged activity, and those who oppose it are being called evil."

    And just to make sure no one missed the significance of his vision of "destruction" for those who tout "sexual perversions," Robertson added, "I do believe that San Francisco is going to be a target of these people"--i.e., the terrorists. And to think we'd foolishly imagined that the only people looking forward to the destruction of American cities were in Al Qaeda.

  18. nausiating by jrs+1 · · Score: 1, Troll

    nick park's animations make me sick just thinking about the amount of tiny movements that he has to make for each second of animation (being in the uk, i guess he's got the advantage that it's 25 rather than 30, but it's still a lot). surely he'd be better off using a 3d modeller, and just animating key frames and then going back and filling in the bits where the key frame interpolation wasn't what he wanted. it's not like there's any advantage of making everything out of plastercine!

    it'd also mean no film grain and these online versions would compress better. oh well, maybe ardman are just technologically impaired ;)

    oh, and the secret to why they're successful is the stories; not the animation technique[1], as pixar have always pointed out.

    [1] see comparisons between shrek and final fantasy

    1. Re:nausiating by SuzanneA · · Score: 3, Funny
      ... And then we move his hands, just a tiny amount, just a tiny amount, click-click, two frames, then his eye, just a tiny amount, just a tiny amount.

      (any Fast Show/Brilliant fan will understand :)

    2. Re:nausiating by stefanlasiewski · · Score: 5, Insightful

      it's not like there's any advantage of making everything out of plastercine!

      Apparently there is some advantage, otherwise Nick Park wouldn't spend so much time working in plastercine.

      I've seen "Wrong Trousers", I've seen "Final Fantasy". Both were created from a different medium (stop animation vs computer graphics). Both movies are great examples of what can be done with the medium.

      But Wrong Trousers had a depth to the animation-- There were things going on in the background... the expression on the characters faces... the Pengiun was evil, and you knew it. My 2 year old Nephew knew it.

      Final Fantasy was a fun and groundbreaking movie, but it lacked detail. Yes, their hair moved realistically, but the characters were cold, their expressions were hard to read, the background scenes were cluttered and hard to make out. The only reason I could tell that there was any attraction between the lead women & lead man was because of the dialogue. If the mute was on, I couldn't tell you *what* was going on. Not so with the Wallace & Gromit movies...

      Comparing those two movies, I would say that there isn't much advantage to using computer animation over plastercine ! (not yet, anyways).

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    3. Re:nausiating by Ars+Technica · · Score: 1

      It's a matter of style...

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    4. Re:nausiating by TACD · · Score: 1
      Yeah, but then why bother at all? Does nostalgia have no value?

      Some people prefer low-tech to high tech; I personally think it would be far more fun to do it frame-by-frame.

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    5. Re:nausiating by ashitaka · · Score: 1

      ... the Pengiun was evil, and you knew it.

      This is the proof Aaardman's genius. The penguin has no expression! No mouth! Nothing!

      But when he is standing in front of the window rubbing his flippers together as Grommit leaves...

      Or calmly whipping out the gun in response to Grommit's rolling pin.

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    6. Re:nausiating by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      People, come on. Don't feed the troll.

    7. Re:nausiating by stefanlasiewski · · Score: 1

      Turn head. Stare at Grommit. *blink* *blink*

      ***shudder*** evillllll......

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    8. Re:nausiating by NaturePhotog · · Score: 2

      Comparing those two movies, I would say that there isn't much advantage to using computer animation over plastercine ! (not yet, anyways).

      I haven't seen Final Fantasy (just short clips in the previews), but I think a more fair comparison would be comparing plastercine in Wallace & Gromit to the computer work in Shrek. They have different looks, being different media, but both "work". Probably because they have good artwork, good animation, and good stories to go with them.

      That said, Nick Park definitely has a gift in story-telling. I think if he were to work with computers, it would be equally compelling as his work in plastercine.

      Which suggests to me the problem lies in Final Fantasy, not the medium...

    9. Re:nausiating by Speare · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Scott McCloud discussed this phenomenon in his book, Understanding Comics.

      Essentially, the more realistic the images, the less likely the viewer can really identify with or feel for the character in precisely the way that the artist wants. Too many distractions, too many subtle cues being converted into too many interpretations.

      Whereas if the characters are rendered more abstractly, using simpler geometry, simpler facial expressions, fewer digressions from the message, then the viewer can empathize or identify with the characters very easily. The less it looks like someone else in particular, the more it could be you.

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    10. Re:nausiating by Alan+Partridge · · Score: 0, Redundant

      you really are a clueless fuck. You do NOT animate claymation at 25 or 30 fps - usually you do it at 12 and project at 24 (click click, two frames). Yeah, why not use a computer and make the world a duller place. Fucking geeks piss me off.

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    11. Re:nausiating by akruppa · · Score: 1

      The Wrong Trousers don't just hypothetically work well without dialogue, there hardly *is* any dialogue. The only character that talks is Wallace, and he talks only rubbish. "But.. this is the wrong trousers! Grooooomiiiiiiiiit....!"

      *Everything* is going on with subtle expressions, hints in the scenery, skillful editing.. which makes The Wrong Trousers, compared to Final Fantasy, the more skillfully crafted movie, ihmo.

      The Wrong Trousers is quite simply one of the best pieces of animation I have ever seen.

      Another impressive bit is "Next", from the Aardman Shorts collection, by Barry Purves. Simply incredible.

      Alex

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    12. Re:nausiating by squidfood · · Score: 1


      Well, the sudden switch from "happy wallpapering" to "quiet menace" mood music helped...

    13. Re:nausiating by lateral · · Score: 1

      Why use plastecine? For the same reason that people use watercolours when they could use oils or acrylics (or take a photograph... or sketch). Because they prefer it.

    14. Re:nausiating by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
      Typically, animation is NOT done at full video frame rates.


      No matter where you are in the world and what your final medium is, if you're doing professional animation, you're probably working at 24fps. And for most of your movements you 'shoot on twos' - that is, shoot a frame twice for an effective framerate of 12fps; you only go 'on ones' for very fast motions, or things you want to be silky smooth. Single-step through some features or some classic shorts; you'll be surprised at what you see.


      Mostly this is for economical and historical reasons. Nobody but someone with the tight eye for motion an animator develops can really pick up the extra printings added in to stretch the times out for video formats... and each drawing (or model pose, or 3d rendered frame) costs time, effort, and therefore money.


      Why 12/24? Because that's what film settled upon. Every animator learns to time with that particular time-slice; it's also right around the point where getting slower breaks down the illusion of continuous motion into a slide-show.


      As to why clay modelling? Because that's what Park likes; because that's what he happened to first do W&G in and going to any other media would screw up the franchise; because stop-motion animation in general is very much a hands-on, straight-ahead performance kind of animation... ALL animation is obsessive and time-consuming, and the only way you can spend less time (with very few exceptions) is to make bad animation.

  19. Ever wonder why... by cliffy2000 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Their American following has never been that great? I mean, humour is humour, and it's just a shame that "Gumby" and "Davey and Goliath" are the only true claymation options that they have...

    1. Re:Ever wonder why... by SuzanneA · · Score: 3, Interesting
      I think a lot of it is exposure. In the 6 years I've been over here, I've never yet seen any of the 3 'movies' shown on any channel.

      Americans generally seemed to like/love Chicken Run, I'm sure they'd have loved Wallace and Gromit if they'd have had a chance to see them. As it stands, it seems you have to buy them on VHS/DVD to get to see them, a few maybe took a look after Chicken Run, but probably most didn't.

    2. Re:Ever wonder why... by AngryYellingBastard · · Score: -1, Troll

      No, you JERK! In America, humour is HUMOR!

    3. Re:Ever wonder why... by Enry · · Score: 2

      Cartoon Network shows them every now and then, usually all three movies at once in place of "yet-another-scooby-do-movie" or "Land Before Time XXXIV"

      I first started watching them while working at Learningsmith (similar to Discovery Channel store and whatnot). They played them every day, and the strange thing was, I didn't get bored or want to strangle myself after two weeks.

    4. Re:Ever wonder why... by realdpk · · Score: 5, Funny

      "I mean, humour is humour"

      I think that's the problem right there. In America, humour is humor.

    5. Re:Ever wonder why... by Heironymus+Coward · · Score: 1
      "I mean, humour is humour" I think that's the problem right there. In America, humour is humor.

      so you're saying it loses something in the translation?

      hmmm. as for wallace and grommit, everyone I know in america knows who they are, and most people have seen either the cheese holiday or the wrong trousers. among the kind of americans that like animation, wallace and grommit are well-known.

      I think the problem is that animation is still frowned upon by the american mainstream. has the simpsons ever won an emmy for best comedy, even when it was the funniest show on TV? or do they just keep giving it emmies for "best voice characterization in an animated series"?

    6. Re:Ever wonder why... by alacqua · · Score: 2, Interesting
      In addition to the lack of exposure, I think that the intended audience can be reluctant to give it a chance here in the USA. "Claymation" is associated with children's fare, but I think adults are really the intended audience.

      I was lucky enough to catch "The Wrong Trousers" on PBS (public television) along with a documentary on claymation film-making and the making of the short many years ago (it feels like 10 but it must not have been since it was only released in '93). I loved it and I still think its the best of the three, but it has always been a struggle to convince fellow adults to even watch it. Almost everyone that gave it a chance loved it, however.

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      Move on. There's nothing to see here.
    7. Re:Ever wonder why... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Wow! Good call copying the post above yours

      Yer a funny guy! +4 Funny for you

      Re:Ever wonder why... (Score:-1, Troll)
      by AngryYellingBastard on Wednesday January 16, @09:40PM (#2852198)
      (User #551588 Info)
      No, you JERK! In America, humour is HUMOR!

    8. Re:Ever wonder why... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      To be fair he didn't copy the entire post. His got +4 while the other got -1.

    9. Re:Ever wonder why... by oojah · · Score: 2, Funny

      Well obviously American humour is lacking something then :)

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      Do you have any better hostages?
    10. Re:Ever wonder why... by overunderunderdone · · Score: 2

      Considering the limited exposure they get they have a pretty strong following. Few people have seen it over here but those that have love it.

      I wonder though if it would have the same appeal if it had wider exposure. Part of the appeal of "cult" movies (& animations, and operating systems) is the feeling of exclusiveness. There is a sense of geeky cultural superiority - to know of and appreciate something of which most people are ignorant.

    11. Re:Ever wonder why... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I don't know about everyone else...
      but to me humouir sounds funnier....

      Maybe that's because I'm french... that's why I have this outrageous accent

  20. Guidance for the Girls by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Mother's Dirty Secret IV: Guidance for the Girls


    DISCLAIMER: These are stories containing graphic descriptions of sex between adults, adults and minors, and incest. If this offends you, please do not read them. Please do not read them if you are underage for your community or if the laws of your community do not allow it.

    You have been warned!


    NOTE: The following is a short story based on characters created in the enovel, "Mother's Dirty Secret"


    "Oh damn!" Gretchen said out loud as she leaned against her locker.

    "What's wrong?" Karen asked, real concern in her voice.

    "I have to shit and it's only one o'clock!"

    "Ohhhh!" Karen nodded her head.

    Karen knew that her best friend Gretchen always waited until she got home to use the bathroom, preferring to use her mother's mouth for her toilet rather than the girls restroom at school. She grinned broadly at her friend.

    "Oh well." she said. "No point in letting it go to waste!"

    Gretchen turned to look at the younger girl, a smile crossing her face as well.

    "Don't be ridiculous. If we ever got caught we'd be expelled for sure!"

    "We won't get caught." Karen argued. "We'll wait till the bathroom is empty."

    "No way!" Gretchen laughed as she turned to walk down the school corridor.

    "Come on! It will be excitingly wicked!" she pleaded. "No! And that's final!"

    Both girls giggled as Gretchen hurried down the hallway with Karen at her side. Entering the girl's restroom and finding it vacant, they both dropped their books on the shelf. Gretchen headed for one of the toilet stalls and Karen, still giggling, followed her in.

    "No, Karen!" Gretchen hissed as she hiked up her skirt. "We'll get caught!"

    "No we won't," whined Karen as she closed the stall door behind them.

    "No!" Gretchen repeated.

    "At least let me watch," she begged.

    Gretchen thought for a moment and then said, "OK. But only watch! No funny stuff!"

    "I promised!" said Karen, raising her hand in an oath.

    Gretchen pulled her white cotton panties down, revealing her sparsely fur-covered pussy and bulging young clitoris. She went to sit on the toilet but Karen stopped her.

    "No! Turn around and squat so I can really see," she whispered.

    Gretchen rolled her eyes in mock aggravation but turned to face the wall and, holding her skirt up squatted over the porcelain bowl. Karen crouched behind her and stared up into her friend's ass and cunt.

    "You have such a beautiful asshole." she said as she placed a hand on each of Gretchen's cheeks and spread them apart.

    "You'd better lick it for me a few times to get me started, Karen. It feels awfully hard in there."

    Karen's moist tongue darted out and into the deep crack of Gretchen's ass. She pressed it flat against the wrinkled little shit hole and rolled it around, wetting the older girl's shitter and causing her to moan softly.

    "Oooh! That's good, Karen," Gretchen whispered. "Lick my asshole."

    Karen lapped noisily as she lathered Gretchen's ass crack thoroughly. She kissed it repeatedly and even plunged her tongue into it.

    "Jeez! You know how to eat out an asshole, Karen! My cunts about to turn somersaults!"

    "Mmmm! Your asshole is so sweet!" Karen replied as she enthusiastically primed her friend's anal pump.

    Gretchen pulled away from Karen and pointed her ass downwards. Within seconds a long thin brown turd slid from her asshole and splashed down into the toilet. Karen watched with erotic fascination as the five-inch tube of dark brown shit went to the bottom and then floated back up to the top.

    A stream of warm, yellow piss erupted from between the folds of Gretchen's young pussy and Karen reached in to let it splash on her palm. Then, without warning, a second smaller clump of shit plopped from Gretchen's rectum and landed directly in the center of Karen's hand.

    "Mmmm. Nice, Gretchen," Karen said as she eyed the luscious looking little shit morsel.

    "Drop it!" Gretchen ordered her. "If you walk out of here with shit on your face we'll both be in big trouble!" Reluctantly, Karen dropped the small turd into the toilet, not wanting to anger her friend.

    Several petite bits of scat shot from Gretchen and fell into the bowl in rapid-fire succession causing both girls to giggle loudly. When she no longer felt the urge, Gretchen reached towards the toilet paper roll.

    "Bend over. I'll take care of that." Karen offered excitedly.

    "Well, ok," Gretchen agreed as she bent over. "I DO love to have my ass wiped with a nice soft tongue rather than that rough toilet paper."

    Thrilled, Karen spread her friend's ass one more time and dove face first into her dirty crack. A wet layer of Gretchen's scat covered the pucker of her hole, spreading out past the sexy little wrinkles. Karen's tongue went for the thickest clump, lapping the small mass into her mouth. She licked, sucked and kissed at the filthy teen shit-hole, savoring the nasty taste of it.

    When the outer area of Gretchen's hole was thoroughly clean, Karen dipped her tongue inside and wormed it up into her friend's hot rectal passage.

    "Oooh! Yes, Karen," Gretchen grunted. "Suck the shit out of my asshole! It's so good! I love it when you..."

    Suddenly the girl's world came crashing in on them.

    The toilet stall door was flung open widely and Mrs. Norris, the art teacher was standing over them.

    "My God! What ARE you girls doing in here," she screamed.

    Gretchen stood upright and almost fell backwards onto Karen who was trying to stand at the same time. The younger girl's lips and tongue were coated with brown ass grease and she raised her arm to wipe it away. Mrs. Norris grabbed both of them by the wrist and pulled them from the stall.

    "What ARE you doing," she screamed, totally beside herself with revulsion.

    "Gretchen was just having some female problems and..." Karen lied.

    "Never mind lying! You have poop all over you mouth, young lady. Do you know how disgusting that is," Mrs. Norris shot back.

    Karen lowered her head, too embarrassed to look at the teacher. Gretchen struggled to yank her panties back up with pee still dribbling from her pussy. Mrs. Norris began shaking her finger rapidly at the girls.

    "THAT is disgusting! Don't you know THAT will make you SICK," the woman was screeching at the top of her lungs and her face was contorted in a grimace of anger and nausea.

    "Yes, 'mam," was all that either of them could say.

    "Come with me young ladies," the teacher hissed as she pulled them from the bathroom. "You need the guidance counselor. BADLY!"

    The walk down the hallway was agony for the two teenagers. When Karen tried to wipe the shit from her lips with her shirtsleeve, Mrs. Norris stopped her.

    "Don't you dare," she warned. "I want Mr. Jenkins to see exactly what you've been doing!"

    Karen felt as if she were going to pass out. Her legs wobbled unmercifully as she tried to walk. Gretchen was not doing much better with the situation. Tears had begun to swell in her eyes and her heart felt like it was going to burst out of her chest. Both of them silently thanked the stars that their mothers knew and approved of their fetishes. Still, it didn't ease the fear that they would be ridiculed, expelled or worse, maybe even arrested.

    When they abruptly entered the guidance counselor's office Mrs. Norris motioned them quickly into the chairs opposite the desk. Mr. Jenkins looked up at them and then at the teacher.

    "Can I help you Mrs. Norris," he asked softly.

    "I hope you can help these two FILTHY girls, Mr. Jenkins," she blurted.

    "What have they done," he asked, looking at the girls.

    Grabbing Karen by the sleeve, Mrs. Norris pulled her up to the desk.

    "Look at her mouth," she screeched as she pointed at Karen's shit covered lips.

    "Is that chocolate? Have they been eating candy in class," he asked, unsure of what all the fuss was about.

    "No! She was performing analingus on that girl," she hissed softly as she pointed at Gretchen. "In the bathroom! While SHE was POOPING!"

    Mr. Jenkins eyes flew wide in shock, his chin dropped open in complete disbelief and his cock filled quickly with blood. While he was surprised at what the girls had been presumably doing, he was not as alarmed as the art teacher was.

    Bill Jenkins was a forty-year-old pervert and sex hound. He'd tried about every type of fetish in the book and practiced most of them on a regular basis. His most favorite fetish was not one he had the opportunity to practice often. That fetish was young teenage girls!

    "Anal...?" he said.

    "There is the evidence! Right there! On her filthy, smelly face!"

    Jenkins looked grimly at Karen, trying to hide the smile that was threatening to cover his face.

    "What is your name, Miss," he said softly.

    "Karen Marsh, Sir."

    "And yours," he looked at Gretchen.

    "Gretchen Richards," the girl replied meekly.

    He looked back at Karen and the wet brown ring around her mouth.

    "Miss Marsh. Is what Mrs. Norris says true? Were you doing that?"

    Karen looked down and mumbled, "Yes."

    "Very well, Mrs. Norris," he said to the enraged teacher, "I'll handle this now. You can go."

    "I hope you'll call their parents," she demanded.

    "Yes. Of course I will. But these young ladies need counseling as well," he said.

    "Yes! VERY badly!"

    Mrs. Norris shot both of the girls a look of utter revulsion before stomping out of the room. Mr. Jenkins stuck his head out the door after her.

    "Ms. South? I'm going to be counseling for the next thirty minutes. I don't want to be disturbed," he told his secretary.

    Closing the door, Jenkins returned to his chair. Folding his fingers under his chin he stared at Karen and Cindy, appraising their attitudes. Finally he leaned into his desk, his voice soft and soothing but firm.

    "Tell me. Do you both enjoy this type of activity? This ass licking," he asked them bluntly.

    Karen put her face in her hands, too embarrassed to discuss this with anyone and especially not a good-looking forty-year-old guidance counselor. Gretchen stared into space as she answered numbly.

    "Yes."

    "I have heard of this particular sexual preference before. I believe it is called 'scat play' or 'brown showers'. Is that correct?"

    "Yes," Gretchen repeated.

    "So you enjoy consuming each others waste materials. Is that correct?"

    "Yes," they answered in unison.

    "Miss Marsh. Please look at me while I am speaking to you," he said.

    Karen looked up, her face bright red with embarrassment. She fought back her tears and tried to control her trembling body. Jenkins stood and walked around to the front of his desk. Sitting on the edge of it, he addressed the two girls calmly and straightforward.

    "I'm sure you realize how serious this is," he said sternly. "Doing something like this on school grounds results in immediate expulsion as well as a conference with your parents."

    He paused to let that sink in.

    "That will not be the worst of it though," he continued. "It will become a part of you school record and can be viewed by just about anyone. I am sure you know how the rumors will fly around school about this."

    "Please, Mr. Jenkins," Gretchen pleaded. "Please! We won't do it again! I promise! Never again!"

    Gretchen was terrified everyone in school would find out. She wouldn't have any friends and would be constantly teased and ridiculed. Karen was beginning to shake uncontrollably and was afraid she was going to pee at any second. Jenkins, seeing the girl's fear; placed his hand on hers to calm her.

    "There is a way..." he smiled at them.

    Karen looked up with hope in her eyes.

    "What? We'll do anything, Mr. Jenkins! I promise," Gretchen exclaimed.

    Jenkins face went dead serious as he stared at Gretchen. Then without a word he unzipped his fly and pulled his prick from it. Picking up Karen's small hand, he pressed it into his sex, rubbing it all over his swelling cock-flesh.

    "Are you girls really willing to do anything," he smiled.

    Karen was too startled to move. Her reaction, under normal circumstances, would have been to pull her hand away from him. But these weren't normal circumstances and she didn't pull her hand away. Instead she curled her fingers around the fat cock and moved her hand with his in an up and down motion. She marveled at the way the outer layer of cock-flesh moved with her hand and how the thing swelled and hardened with each stroke.

    "Ah! Very good, Miss Marsh," Jenkins said. "What about you Miss Richards?"

    Gretchen bit her lower lip, unsure of what she should do. Given the fact that she didn't have many choices, the teenager went to him.

    Jenkins unfastened his pants and let them drop to the floor. Removing Karen's hand from his stiff cock, he pulled his briefs down to his ankles. Both girls' jaws hung open as they received a full view of the man's cock and balls.

    "It's...it's so big," Gretchen exclaimed.

    Jenkins smiled as Karen's hand clutched his prick without prompting. The young girl stared in fascination and awe at the pulsing cock in her hand as she stroked it back and forth. A small bead of clear fluid appeared on his little pisshole and Karen's memory drifted back to the night she had sucked the sperm of five men from her mother's asshole. Her face went to Jenkins' crotch and she swiped the sperm away with her tongue.

    Jenkins was pleasantly startled at the young girls actions and let out a low groan. Karen licked her lips deliciously at the animal taste of the fresh man-cum.

    Gretchen was amazed that Karen was being so bold. She had always been so timid and shy but now she was acting like a little bitch in heat for this older man's penis. She was hesitant at first, but after seeing her younger friend's cock lust she went to her knees on the floor.

    "Very good girls," Jenkins moaned as her looked down at the tip of his cock hovering in front of Gretchen's face. He pulled Karen's eager hand from the shaft and lowered it to his full ball sack. The young girl massaged and kneaded the swollen testicles, her pussy going damp with excitement.

    "Take it into your mouth now, Miss Richards," he said to Gretchen.

    Gretchen opened her mouth and gingerly formed a small 'O' with her lips. She had never sucked a cock before and she wasn't exactly sure how to do it correctly. She looked up into the guidance counselor's face for approval.

    "You'll have to open wider than that," Jenkins laughed, seeing the teenager's inexperience. "Wet your lips first, Miss Richards."

    Gretchen swiped her moist tongue across her lips, wetting them thoroughly.

    "Now just take it into your sweet young mouth," Jenkins instructed her.

    Gretchen pushed her mouth over the drooling cock-head and closed her lips around it. Swirling her tongue around the tip, she lapped the leaking sperm from his pisshole.

    "How does it taste, Miss Richards," Jenkins asked the girl.

    "Mmmmmm" Gretchen answered. She was enjoying the musky taste of the man's flesh so much that she didn't want to pull her mouth away to answer.

    "That's it, Miss Richards!" Jenkins groaned. "Suck it. Slide your lovely little mouth up and down of my big fuck rod!"

    Jenkins cock and his dirty mouth were having a positive effect on both girls' hormones. Karen was beginning to squeeze the rubbery sperm-loaded balls she was holding and Gretchen's sucking became more and more intense. Soon she was pulling the man's aching prick from her mouth and bathing the entire length of it with her warm, wet tongue. Karen looked on, licking her own lips as her mouth began to water.

    "I want to try," Karen said to Jenkins. "Will you teach me too?"

    "All in good time, Miss Marsh," he answered with an evil grin. "Right now I have an assignment that I think you will be better suited to."

    Jenkins turned his ass to face Karen, pulling Gretchen's sucking mouth around with him. Bending over he reached behind himself and spread his tight, muscular ass cheeks apart.

    "See anything you like, Miss Marsh?"

    Karen was seeing plenty that she liked. Jenkins fur lined ass crack was spread widely, revealing a small dark indentation in the center. Within the deep crevice Karen could see the man's puckering shit hole. It looked rather dirty to the young girl, as if he had recently shit and hadn't wiped very well.

    "Yes, sir," she said softly as she pushed her nose in closer and sniffed. "Lick my asshole, Miss Marsh," Jenkins ordered her.

    Being a good girl, Karen did as she was told - with great enthusiasm. Her soft tongue went straight to the dried shit that coated the man's bunghole. Lapping wetly at it, Karen loosened the brown crust and sucked it into her mouth. She momentarily pulled her head back to experience the nasty flavor that was beginning to spread across her tongue. The taste of the man's stale, dried shit was utterly disgusting and foul and Karen hoped that he had more of the vile waste inside of him.

    Karen's face went back in to Jenkins' ass and her tongue dove deep into the man's shit passage. She squirmed it around, searching for even a small morsel of her guidance counselor's bowel waste.

    "Ugh! Very good, Miss Marsh," Jenkins grunted. "Ream my asshole out good with your tongue! Very good! Your a very good ass licker!"

    Jenkins was truly impressed with the young girls rimming technique. She had obviously either had a lot of experience or someone had trained her well. He wondered whom else these girls might be involved with. What he didn't realize was that Karen enjoyed sucking assholes so much that it just came naturally to her. He released his ass cheeks and raised himself into a more upright position, causing Karen's tongue to slip from his hole.

    "More? Please," Karen begged wantonly.

    "Yes, Miss Marsh! Plenty more," Jenkins hissed. "But I must get more comfortable.

    After checking the lock on his office door again, Jenkins disrobed completely and prompted the girls to do so as well, which they did quickly. Once naked, both teenagers lost their humility and inhibitions.

    Jenkins bent over the desk with his ass pushed outward obscenely, as if begging to be fucked.

    "Miss Richards. Kneel under me and suck my prick," he ordered Gretchen. "Miss Marsh, you continue sucking my shithole please!"

    Both teenagers dropped into position and began their assigned tasks. Gretchen was getting quite comfortable with having a fat, dripping fuck pole in her mouth and Karen was completely content with having the man's hairy shitter to eat.

    While Gretchen's head bobbed back and forth on her guidance counselor's thick shaft, Karen's tongue probed deliciously in search of her favorite sex food. Jenkins could tell what the girl was about and did his best to give it to her. He squeezed and grunted for several minutes, his asshole flexing in and out, while Karen's tongue wiggled and wormed inside of him. Then, when he finally felt movement, he pushed down hard and passed a small, rancid turd into the girl's waiting mouth.

    Karen moaned in sensuous delight. Her guidance counselor's shit was amazingly sweet, in a filthy sort of way. She savored the little chunk of bowel waste as she washed it throughout her mouth, allowing the entire nasty thing to dissolve before swallowing the thick, greasy slime.

    "Mmmmmm! God I love shit," she moaned.

    The pure perversity and decadence of the entire scene was sending hot jolts of lusty pleasure through Jenkins body. He couldn't believe his good fortune. He had found a couple of shit-eating, teenybopper whores that were at his complete disposal anytime he wanted. At least while they were still in school. His balls were brewing hot sperm at a fever pitch and he felt as if they would explode any minute. He looked down at young Gretchen fucking her face on his cock.

    "Ever been fucked in the ass, Miss Richards," he asked Gretchen.

    Gretchen pulled her mouth from the fat cock and said, "No. But I won't mind if you want to do it to me."

    Actually Gretchen wasn't sure if she would mind or not. She had never had anything in there larger that two fingers and at first that had been painful. She imagined that Jenkins thick manhood would probably be even more painful. But she also remembered the pleasure those two fingers had giving her after a few slow strokes and she found her desire to be sodomized by Jenkins increasing quickly.

    "Do you want to fuck my ass Mr. Jenkins," she asked him.

    "Get up on the desk, on your back, Miss Richards," he ordered her.

    Gretchen went to the desk and climbed up, lying with her soft ass at the edge. Jenkins pulled away from Karen's searching tongue and lifted the girl to her feet. He then raised Gretchen's legs, and, spreading them, pushed them up and back. This exposed the teenager's full sex crack, from her swelling clit, through her open, sloppy gash to the depths of her ass crack. Her budding asshole puckered wickedly upward as if begging to be stretched.

    "Eat her shithole out, Miss Marsh," Jenkins said as he pointed at Gretchen's flexing anus.

    Karen went to her friends spread ass crack and dove in tongue first. She loved sucking Gretchen's sweet ass and loved the flavor of the young girls scat. She licked and sucked all around the little shitter, working up a thick lather of spit before plunging deeply into the girl's shit passage.

    Gretchen's warm rectum was still coated with remnants of her earlier bowel movement and Karen worked her tongue deliciously inside to scoop up the little morsels of foul waste.

    Gretchen groaned loudly as she felt the erotic sensation of having her shit tube cleaned orally. She flexed her ass muscles in an attempt to suck Karen's soft tongue deeper into her bowels.

    "Gooooooood," Gretchen hissed in a low moan as she worked her ass.

    "That's very good Miss Marsh! Lick that hot little asshole! Suck her shit out of her! Get it nice and clean and wet for my hard cock," Jenkins coached her.

    Karen licked and sucked for all she was worth, depositing large gobs of brown spit all over Gretchen's ass crack. She couldn't wait to see her friend's virgin ass spread open with her guidance counselor's fat cock sliding in and out.

    "Let me see now, Miss Marsh," Jenkins said as he moved in close.

    Karen pulled away and allowed her guidance counselor between Gretchen's legs. Jenkins examined the teenager's wet, flexing asshole with his middle finger, sliding it in and out to test the amount of lubrication. He found it to be more than adequate. Karen had given her friend a thorough tongue reaming.

    "Very good, Miss Marsh! You are quite a good ass sucker," he commented.

    Karen beamed at the compliment.

    "Thank you sir," she said.

    "Now, if you'll move close, I'll let you see how a young teenager's asshole looks with big stiff man-cock inside of it.

    Karen moved in very close and peered between Jenkins and Gretchen.

    "Now, Miss Richards. Just try to relax and when you feel pressure on your little hole down there, push as if you are trying to do a number two. OK?"

    "OK," Gretchen replied, both excited and nervous as the same time.

    Jenkins pushed the dribbling tip of his cock against the teenager's shit hole and stroked it up and down several times, teasing Gretchen's sphincter into relaxing a bit. When he saw the girl's chest begin to rise and fall more quickly, he pressed gently into her.

    Gretchen felt the tip of her guidance counselor's prick head touch the entry to her scat tube and started to push down, causing her tight sphincter to swell outwards.

    As Jenkins pushed the head of his cock into her, the pressure increased dramatically. Gretchen held her breath and pushed as hard as she could, causing her hole to open but tightening her rectal passage.

    With one final push, Jenkins buried the head of his cock into Gretchen's ass.

    "Grrrrrrrrrrrr!" Gretchen ground her teeth as her asshole was pushed open a full two inches. Searing, hot tendrils of pain shot from her sphincter into her rectum and she felt as if she had been ripped open.

    The sensation of feeling the young teen's tight shit tube wrapped around his fuck meat sent perverse thrills through him. He paused only for a second before he plunged into her, burying the entire shaft of his cock into her, burning shit passage.

    "Arrrrrrrgh! It hurts! It hurts," Gretchen cried out.

    Jenkins quickly covered her mouth with his hand. He didn't need visitors right now.

    "Sshhhh," he whispered. "It will get better in a moment."

    He kept his hand over the teenager's mouth as he slowly fucked his cock in and out of her shit hole, his lust increasing as he went. Gretchen eventually stopped squealing and began to moan softly and he removed his hand from her mouth.

    "Better, Miss Richards?"

    "Mmmmm," Gretchen replied, nodding her head, a faint smile spreading on her lips. The fiery burning sensation in her ass was turning to a warm glow of exotic pleasure.

    "It's nice," she said softly as she eased her hips up and down slowly, in rhythm with Jenkins movements.

    Karen watched with wide eyes and a dripping cunt as her friend's asshole was spread and fucked. The pure perversity of the situation sent her pussy muscles flexing and her hand went between her own legs to play.

    Gretchen's pussy was oozing large amounts of fuck juice as it gaped open above the man's cock, dripping them down onto him and helping lubricate the tight, warm hole he was fucking.

    "Now, Miss Marsh. Suck MY ass for me while I fuck your girlfriend," Jenkins told her.

    Karen went to her knees again behind the man and used her hands to spread his moving ass. At first she had a difficult time getting her face to move in rhythm with his thrusting hips but she finally sunk her soft tongue into his hairy asshole.

    Jenkins let out at loud groan when he felt Karen's tongue squirm into his shit canal. He pushed his ass into her face in an attempt to get more of it inside of him. Gretchen was beginning to buck her ass up wildly at his cock and he increased the intensity and speed with which he fucked her.

    "Oh! Mr. Jenkins! Fuck my asshole! Yes! Fuck it hard," Gretchen cried softly.

    "Hmmmm! You sweet little teenage shit whores are something else! Such a tight fucking little asshole on you! Take it up your ass like a good little bitch," Jenkins hissed lewdly at her.

    Although Karen was nearly content just to suck his nasty shitter, she secretly wished she could feel his cock inside of her. She ate noisily at the man's shit hole, making loud, nasty slurping sounds as she drank back her scat-tainted spit. Numerous curly, dark hairs from around Jenkins asshole fell onto her tongue and she swallowed those as well.

    Karen heard the familiar sounds of her friends approaching climax and worked her mouth even harder on the guidance counselor's ass, causing Jenkins lust to rise along with Gretchen.

    "Yeah! Suck my ass you little shit-whore! Suck the shit from me bitch," he yelled as he slammed into young Gretchen's rectum.

    Gretchen fucked back with equally enthusiastic thrusts and soon her orgasm stormed through her.

    "Yes! Fuck my asshole," she yelped. "I'm coming Mr. Jenkins! I'm cumming!"

    Jenkins fucked Gretchen brutally, pounding his fat cock deep into the girl's young bowels. Soon, he too had reached the brink of orgasm, and with one last violent thrust he buried the entire length of his fuck meat into her.

    Gretchen felt the hot sperm shoot from Jenkins cock and splash against her rectal walls like molten lava. Wild jolts of pleasure shot through her with each pulse of his shaft. And the intensity of her own orgasm increased.

    "Oh! Cumming in my ass!" Gretchen grunted. "Karen! He's cumming in my asshole!"

    Karen felt Jenkins asshole tighten around her tongue as he came and she tried to wedge it deeper inside of him to increase his pleasure. Sweat was beginning to form in the man's crack and it ran down to coat the exposed surface of Karen's tongue and lips.

    Finally, as Gretchen's squirming ass milked the last bit of warm sperm from Jenkins' balls, he relaxed. Karen pulled her tongue from the gripping shit hole but continued to lap deliciously around it.

    Jenkins breathing was ragged as he recovered from his intense cum. He was truly fucked out, his once-hard cock shrinking inside the teen's well-fucked shitter. He leaned over Gretchen and pressed his lips to hers, pushing his tongue into her waiting mouth. Gretchen responded by sucking and nibbling at it with passionate desire.

    Gretchen jerked, suddenly feeling a gush of hot liquid fill her anal cavity. Jenkins was pissing into her asshole. The feeling was exquisitely sexy to her she began to giggle as she felt her bowels fill with warm pee.

    Jenkins seemed to urinate in her for several minutes and when he was finished Gretchen felt as if she had taken a huge enema. The urge to shit was uncontrollable and small amounts of the man's urine and sperm leaked out from the place of their filthy union.

    "Hold my hot piss inside you, Miss Richards," He whispered as he watched the mixture of fluids and loose, brown shit drool out of her. "Hold it tight!"

    Jenkins eased his deflated prick from the young girls gaping asshole and quickly stepped aside. Grabbing Karen by the hair, he pulled her in close to Gretchen's ass and pushed her face towards the leaking shit hole.

    Karen went to her friend's shitter with great enthusiasm and excitement, licking hungrily at the nasty mess that coated the swollen, bleeding hole.

    "Get your mouth around it, Miss Marsh," Jenkins ordered.

    Karen pressed her lips around Gretchen's disgusting shit hole and waited. She knew what was coming and waited for it with heated anticipation.

    "Now, Miss Richards. Give your girlfriend some of your sweet rectal waste," Jenkins told Gretchen. Then he added, "Careful not to spill any on my carpet!"

    Gretchen did her very best to release only a small dribble of sperm-piss into Karen's mouth but was unsuccessful at controlling it. Her asshole opened widely and a huge gush of filthy waste rushed out of her and into Karen's mouth.

    Karen tried to swallow quickly but the flood of piss, sperm and shit grease was far to fast and hard for her to get it all. Each time her mouth filled, she closed it and swallowed, drinking down the disgusting bodily wastes from her best friends ass. She could taste each of the unique flavors as they slid down her throat and into her belly.

    Gretchen vacated and Karen drank for several wonderful seconds. Then without any warning at all a rancid two-inch turd shot from Gretchen's shit hole into Karen's mouth, pleasantly surprising the young girl with its foul texture and taste.

    Karen devoured the wad of shit quickly, chewing it with great pleasure as the filthy grease from it slid down her throat. It was over all to soon for Karen and she did her best to clean Gretchen's filthy crotch with her tongue.

    When she was finished, Karen sat back on her legs, her face and chest wet with brownish piss and cum.

    "Now, Miss Richards. It's time to return the favor," Jenkins said as he began to dress.

    "Lie down, Miss Marsh, with your legs spread wide. That's right!"

    "Now clean her up with your mouth, Miss Richards, and make her cum good."

    Gretchen went to the floor and cleaned the nasty mixture of fluids from Karen's face, chest and belly. When she had finished cleaning her, she went to the girl's cunt and lapped hungrily at it, sending Karen into the throes of a delicious orgasm.

    Jenkins gave the girls a bit of time to recover and then told them to dress.

    "Now, ladies! I think you see the value of a good counseling session!"

    "Mmmmmm," said Karen.

    "Yes! It was wonderful," agreed Gretchen, giggling slightly. "I feel like a new person."

    "Good," said Jenkins. "You both responded very well. I think with a regular counseling session each week, we will eventually have your little problem worked out and there won't be the need to worry about your previous violation of the rules."

    "Yes sir," Karen said excitedly. "When is our next?"

    "Lets see...I can schedule you both for Tuesdays at twelve o'clock. We'll have an hour session then. And Miss Marsh, next week we will put you in Miss Richards place. How do you feel about that?"

    "I can't wait," Karen said with wide eyes.

    "Since your offense was so grievous, we may have to do some weekend counseling as well, at my house."

    "Yes sir," Gretchen agreed. "We just want help with our problem and you seem to be the one to help us best."

    "Yes, I am," he said as he unlocked and opened his office door. "Yes, I am!"


    THE END

  21. A modest proposal... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I have two scientific proposals, one basically low-tech, and one involving cutting edge technology. They have little in common except that each, if implemented, might be construed as social engineering - dangerous when done by politicians or sociologists, but perhaps of value when performed by the scientific/intellectual elite. I'll cover the low tech proposal first.

    To begin, we need to find a small group (20 - 30) of low income (white trailer trash would do nicely) expecting mothers who are (a) quite attractive and show past performance of producing attractive children and (b) would be willing, for a modest fee, to surrender their female child for the furtherance of science. Next, take these newborn infants away from their birth mothers and insure that they are fed formula only from "bottles" shaped like the adult human penis. As the children develop into the crawling stage, "penis feeders" would be mounted to the walls of their cages. Of course the formula would change to meet their developing nutritional needs, but no human contact, language development or socialization would be allowed. At an appropriate point, air bladders in their "penis feeders" would inflate to simulate erection, so that the children learn that a period of sucking is required before they are rewarded with food. No other source of food is allowed. At about 5 -6 years of age the girls would be taught to defecate in one corner of their cage, and at about 10 - 12 years of age would be slowly introduced to their human handlers, but again, no language or socialization skills are taught. At about 13 - 14 years of age the really interesting part of the experiment begins : the girls are lead on a leash out of their cage for "private feedings" with select staff members. These men take careful notes comparing the fellatio skills of the test subjects to a control adult female group (probably prostitutes). If the young girls' skills compare favorably, then they could be shipped to government research laboratories and housed in cages identical to the ones they were raised in. "Private feedings" would be used as a performance incentive for the best programmers, nuclear scientists, geneticists, engineers, etc. Such an incentive program might be just what's needed to restore the prestige of the scientific professions in this country and to lessen the flow of students into socially useless professions like law, sociology, and business administration. If nothing else, from a purely scientific point of view, I think it would be interesting to see whether the experiment could yield "fellatio superwomen."
    The second proposal is much broader in scope, and its feasibility depends, in part, on the successful completion of the Human Genome Project. The idea in a nutshell is this: All pregnant women would be required to report before the 3rd month of pregnancy to a public health clinic where an in utero examination of the fetus' genetic material is conducted. Any red flags raised by the test (likelihood of fatal disease, likelihood of mental retardation, etc) would mean destruction of the fetus. This would also be the perfect time to cross match the mother with information from previous IQ tests, criminal justice system files, demographic data, etc. Gradually, as not to arouse suspicions, mothers with low IQ scores , criminal histories, or even just the wrong demographics would be presented with bogus test results indicating that their fetus must be destroyed. This could only have a beneficial effect on society, with minimal inconvenience to the population. And last but not least, this would also be a logical point to implement population control, the one topic our spineless shit politicians won't face.
    Oh well, more about that later.

  22. Ich gratuliere dir by dead_puppy · · Score: -1

    On your F I R S T _ P O S T. And, BTW, all the editors at slashdot double as cocksucking, child molesting janitors at the retard school in Holland, MI. Really, what the fuck is this bullshit? Really, don't you faggots have anything better to do w/ your time other than jerk off to hentai and moderate people down? You assholes are the bullies, not the trolls/flamers/crapflooders like us.

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    1. Re:Ich gratuliere dir by Waldo+Jaquith · · Score: -1, Troll

      I are finding poodle head, but not to return to you because you are not popularity.

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  23. I just hope Feathers McGraw co-stars by vandelais · · Score: 2, Funny

    that's all...award Karma accordingly.

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  24. FIRST HETEROSEXUAL POST!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Suck it down like the jizz guzzling whore that you are !! BITCH!!

  25. Who the hell is Wallace and Gromit? by penguin_punk · · Score: -1

    Wallace and Gromit? I have never heard of them. I say the world needs more shorts from User Freindly. Forget animated clay, or $#1T or whatever this duo is made out of. Damn beer.

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  26. One Minute? by ImaLamer · · Score: 3, Funny

    One minute... why you can buy a 20 minute phone call for one min... ah shit.

    wrong thingy.

  27. I like Gromit. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Gromit is a very smart dog.

  28. "Everybody knows that the moon is made of cheese" by haggar · · Score: 1

    According to Wallace, anyway. That ought to be the funniest one-liner from the Wallace and Gromit series. It's from "A grand day out".

    These cartoons are perfect for my family: great for the kids, great for my wife, and able to please the geekish sense of humor in me.

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    Sigged!
  29. My 2-year-old and I rejoice by Euphonious+Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful
    The Wallace & Gromit trilogy are the only videos my two-year-old and I can both watch, and both enjoy equally. She'll find new things to like about them year after year.

    How many things made today can you say that about? (Not a rhetorical question: suggestions please!)

    1. Re:My 2-year-old and I rejoice by mccalli · · Score: 2
      Arthur. My girlfriend and I watch Arthur despite it being aimed at kids, because it's just so 'nice'. It's pleasant, funny - just straightforwardly enjoyable to watch.

      Besides, on a good day you get to play "Confuse the Goose"...

      Cheers,
      Ian

    2. Re:My 2-year-old and I rejoice by Angry+Toad · · Score: 1

      Wow. That's so close to my own experience it's almost spooky. My daughter's favourite videos were the W&G trilogy from ages 2-4. She has moved on now, but still flips them in from time to time.

      Ditto on the Arthur comment BTW - this is the only kid's show I find myself deliberately sitting down to watch when my daughter has it on. The story (as always) is the key - the writing is for kids, but it is never childish. Funny, insightfull, and pointed.

      I've been wracking my brains to think of something else that's almost as good, and the one thing I've come up with is Playmobil, which is one of the better (albeit pretty expensive) toy sets around. I honestly enjoy sitting down with my daughter and playing with this stuff. The quality and detail are amazing.

    3. Re:My 2-year-old and I rejoice by quarter · · Score: 1

      i also bought them so i would have something i could watch with my kid (1.5 then, 3 now). we've also got toy story 2, the aristocats, and chicken run.

      today we watched a spider special on "wild discovery" nature shows are always good

    4. Re:My 2-year-old and I rejoice by dglo · · Score: 1

      You might try My Neighbor Totoro. I think my daughter was watching this at around age 2. She's almost 10 now and still loves Totoro (as do I, at 42 :-)

      Don't let yourself be put off by the fact that it's Japanese anime. It's an excellent movie for small kids.

      One of the highlights of our family's vacation in Japan a few years ago was visiting the Studio Ghibli store in an otherwise awful Disneyland ripoff, where my daughter got a stuffed Totoro doll!

  30. Shorts may be nice, but when will we see... by Ignominious+Cow+Herd · · Score: 1

    the Full line of W&G clothing. I mean, people do wear more than just shorts. I think the fashion potential here is fantastic.

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    1. Re:Shorts may be nice, but when will we see... by captin+nod · · Score: 1

      w&g clothing has been availible in the UK and Australia for years and years already; I have a couple of t-shirts and a w&g beanie :)

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  31. Cool! by MathJMendl · · Score: 3, Informative

    They already have lots of other stuff here, at AtomFilms, but this is reallly cool! I love Aardman Animations, they are great! Some of my favorites are Creature Comforts (done by Nick Park) and Pib and Pog (two little kids playing around with sulfuric acid, lol, priceless).

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  32. Call this flamebait by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Because it is! How in God's name is this "news for nerds?" Have you actually *seen* W+G?

    Let's call a spade a spade, and let's call Slashdot "news for retard five-year-old Brits." I think that's the target audience for W+G.

    Thank you, you may go.

    1. Re:Call this flamebait by AngryYellingBastard · · Score: -1, Troll

      You JERKS! The FUCKING topic SAYS it's flamebait! Somehow, you DAMN rocket scientists manage to get it down as Offtopic? GARGH!

  33. The Title is a Nationality Test. by ashitaka · · Score: 5, Interesting

    "The Great Vegetable Plot" :-)

    Would Americans get it? They have vegetable patches and Great Schemes.

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    1. Re:The Title is a Nationality Test. by dhammabum · · Score: 1
      No, they will change the title - eg "Harry and the Philosopher's Stone" vs the American title "Harry and the Sorcerer's Stone" - not so good is it??.

      Now's a good chance to run a naming competition. Let's see, "United We Stand, Divided We're Cooked", if they concentrate on potatoes and carrots they could call it "Tales from the Underground".

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    2. Re:The Title is a Nationality Test. by mattdm · · Score: 1

      The test on me: I only read it as "scheme", totally missing the pun until you pointed it out. American, or just a tad slow? You decide. :)

    3. Re:The Title is a Nationality Test. by ashitaka · · Score: 1

      I never understood the Sorcerer substitution. Is philosophy too intellectual?

      <flamebait>We ARE talking about Americans here.</flamebait>

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    4. Re:The Title is a Nationality Test. by dhammabum · · Score: 1
      philosophers' stone, n. A substance that was believed to have the power of transmuting base metal into gold. - from www.dictionary.com



      The Philosopher's Stone is a legend most Americans (amongst others) apparently don't know about. But I think Scholastic (publishers) felt most people don't know about this and would be confused by the title (poor dears) and that would affect sales. I don't think it is an American problem so much as a commercial one - pitch sales to the lowest denominator - though Americans do seem to have invented this approach, certainly they excel at it.

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    5. Re:The Title is a Nationality Test. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Ok, I dont get it and I bite. What does it mean ?

    6. Re:The Title is a Nationality Test. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      vegetable plot = vegetable patch
      plot = scheme

      Double meaning. Most amusing :)

    7. Re:The Title is a Nationality Test. by Bill_Mische · · Score: 1

      Shusssssh...aw too late.

      btw I passed.

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    8. Re:The Title is a Nationality Test. by armb · · Score: 2

      > But I think Scholastic (publishers) felt most people don't know about this and would be confused by the title (poor dears) and that would affect sales

      cf. The Madness of King George, originally The Madness of King George III, but changed because of worries Americans would think they hadn't seen the first two movies, and Licence to Kill, originally Licence Revoked, changed because of worries that most Americans wouldn't know what "revoked" means.

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    9. Re:The Title is a Nationality Test. by RatFink100 · · Score: 2

      Somebody told me recently that that License Revoked story is an urban myth - the producers just preferred the other title.

    10. Re:The Title is a Nationality Test. by Smegma4U · · Score: 1

      I'm an American, I'm fairly young (22), and yes, I did pass. However, I'm not quite sure what percentage of Americans would get it. And as for the Harry Potter name/word changes, I think they're crap. But that's probably just me.

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  34. Cracking good news! by Codex+The+Sloth · · Score: 1

    The more CGI films come out, the more I appreciate claymation and Wallace and Gromit is the state of the Art in claymation.

    Maybe this will prod Vinton Studios into putting Mr. Resistor on the web again.

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  35. So let me get this right.... by Danious · · Score: 1

    The story seems to be saying that the animations will come on a free CD-ROM, which you stick in your PC. You then surf over to a specific web-site where you download a key to allow you to unlock this weeks episode.

    Hmmm, let me guess, get the CD-ROM on the cover of "PC Format", unlock the vac-o-matic episode by visiting dyson.com, bowl-o-matic at nike.com, TV-Toaster at sony.com, well you get the idea. I know they need to pay the bills, but it's a bit much to call them "freely available over the internet".

    And how much you want a bet it's Windows only???

  36. My how they have grown... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    The show has sure come a long way since the days of two kids playing in the garden with a steaming mound of dog feces.

    Keep up the good work.

    AC

    1. Re:My how they have grown... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Lololol. Thanks for the funniest post I've read in ages.

    2. Re:My how they have grown... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      who modded this down?

      i read they started with dog crap too!

      should have been m0dded informative!

      l4m3rz

  37. What about.. by duren686 · · Score: 1
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  38. Analysis by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Is this news for nerds?
    Not really. It could be, but it belongs in perhaps a subcategory. "News that really doesn't matter, but Taco wants to post something"

    Does this matter?
    Pretty much.. no.

    Be glad the USA has no truth-in-advertising laws! :P

  39. Phallus and vomit, you say? by Waldo+Jaquith · · Score: -1, Troll
    Please, chaps, I hardly know you! Perhaps you could at leasy take me out for drinks and vomiting before requesting such participation in homosexual orgies. Oh, Jeff, you're such a card! And Robby is a delightful little cocksucker! Oh, my!

    As for "cumming on mine," you're welcome to anytime!

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    Waldo Jaquith

  40. Almost got it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Cracking toast, Gromit.

  41. Nick Park is a genius... by kzinti · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I first saw Grand Day Out in 1990 at an animation festival in Boston. (Along with a Rug Rats short and something bizarre called Deadsy "You can no play with Deadsy unless you have them great big sex-o-thingies".) I'd never seen anything as funny as Wallace and Gromit, and that mechanical thing they ran into on the Moon had me in stitches. Electronics For Dogs, "Gromit! We've forgotten the crackers!", the "parking brake" on the rocket... just thinking about these moments makes me laugh.

    That animation festival also ran Creature Comforts, which isn't as funny, but is its own form of genius: interviews with real people, immigrants from other countries about how they compare London to their home country. Nick Park then made up animations of zoo animals speaking the voices instead of real people. Unique. Unusual. Unforgettable.

    For years after that, I looked for Grand Day Out on video tape, but it wasn't until the success of his later shorts that videos became available. Now there's little in my collection I treasure more.

    Rock on, Nick Park, rock on!

    --Jim

  42. What the?!?! by dustpuppy · · Score: 2

    So if we are drawing a picture, you are saying that there is no point in using crayons, pencils, pens, paints, collages etc etc and that we should just the one great medium whatever that may be?!?!?!?!

  43. Shit in my Oven! Help! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Ok, this is not a troll, this is an honest request for assistance.
    Let me begin by saying I'm an IT professional with a very busy life. Thus I don't cook alot. This evening I had some friends over who wanted to reheat some pizza. Shunning the microwave, they opted to use the oven instead. Thats when the grizzly discovery was made. Dannielle immediately caught my attention with her remark, "What is this shit in your oven?". After a few moments of investigation we relized it was in fact fecces. Further discussion allowed us to define the following facts:

    1) Someone did in fact shit in the oven. It was not thrown in. The point of "impact" was on the glass window of the door, which must have been down when the "incident" occured.
    2) The "incident" must have occured sometime between tonight and Aug 3, 2001. The oven has not been used since then.
    3) The number of people with access (keys)to the apartment in this time can be for the most part be considered innocent. However, there was a big drunken party during the timeframe, and I was also out of province for a month.

    Any help the slashdot crowd could suggest to discover the culprit of this indecency would be welcome.
    Also welcoming suggestions for the best "Shit in Your Oven" jokes.
    I'll be monitoring this thread if anyone needs any further information. Thanks.

    1. Re:Shit in my Oven! Help! by Waldo+Jaquith · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      Look on the bright side -- at least whoever shat in the oven didn't turn the oven on. Ignoring the possible fire hazard, your home would've stunk for days, forcing you and your homosexual compatriots to have sex in dark alleyways and under minivans for at least a week. Unless, of course, you're the kind of fags who enjoy the smell of shit.

      So did you use the oven? Did you take the shit out? How dry was it? After everyone left the room, did you lick it? How did you clean the oven? If you used the oven's auto-clean, did it stink up the kitchen?

      As for finding the poop-etrator, I'd suspect any heterosexual male friends that you may have. A heterosexual man doesn't understand the deep sensual feelings that you people have for shit, and probably thought he was being funny. "Ha, ha! It is poop! And it is in his oven! I am a genius!" OTOH, if any of your queer buddies are shit pigs, they may been intended to heat-up the shit to eat, and merely forgotten about it. You can't ignore any possibilities!

      It may have even been one of the fags who "found" it...

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      Waldo Jaquith

    2. Re:Shit in my Oven! Help! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Maybe you would like me to mail a sample to you. Please post you mailing address and I'll have a nice big crispy chuck in the post for tommorow morning.

      PS: It's crispy because we only discovered it when Dannielle was preheating it tonight.
      PPS: I'd love to have you let me know how the sample tastes when you get it, cause I haven't tried it myself yet.

  44. Pease please please by neurojab · · Score: 1

    A memo to the powers that be..

    Please don't use sorensen codec on these. Give us a good, industry standard, MPEG1 file... Please?

  45. toaster-cum-TV? by glh · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wow, I didn't know a toaster could do all that! I mean, is that the greatest thing since sliced bread or what??

    Sorry, couldn't help it. Seriously, is that some kind of British thing? Can someone translate?

    1. Re:toaster-cum-TV? by readc · · Score: 4, Informative

      For all ye to know cum is latin for "with."

      This could then translate as "toaster with TV," and all the sexually active minds would stop.

      What a notion!

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    2. Re:toaster-cum-TV? by Bill_Mische · · Score: 1

      Yes it is, but mostly spoken English not written. Possibly the best translation would be toaster/TV. The bloke who said it comes from the latin for "with" is probably right- but it's usually used where something is dual use.

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    3. Re:toaster-cum-TV? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      All over northern Missouri and the state of Iowa they have these convenience stores called "Cum N' Go". I never laughed so hard when I saw these for the first time.

  46. W&G Are A Riot... by Lethyos · · Score: 2

    They're even more funny if you watch with your language selection set to French. Try it sometime (particularly on the one with the penguin thief and the robotic trousers).

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    Why bother.
  47. Aardman and CGI by edo-01 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Aardman have produced a couple of CG shorts recently; the first I saw on last year's SIGGRAPH reel featured two posers in a nightclub trying to pick up the same girl, the second is three little plasticene-looking monsters explaining to the camera why they don't have their short film ready in time, and ends with them singing a song dressed as flowers in a desperate attempt to fill time. The later one is VERY hard to tell it's not claymation. They've also used it a fair bit in their TVC work as well as for certain effects in Chicken Run.

    I get where people come from when they decry the use of computers in animation these days - sometime I see the quality of 3D kids shows like Beast Wars or Max Steel and I feel like burning my computer in disgust - but the extreme crappiness of a lot of 3D animation is nothing to do with the tools, just a lack of creativity on the part of the production companies. CGI can be used to create stunning imagery and animations, it's just a shame that as yet most of the stuff the general public sees on TV is just so bad...

  48. Best thing I've read all day by nowt · · Score: 2
    This is great news!


    Blummy Days!

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  49. For the record by thegrommit · · Score: 1

    It's good to know my alter ego still has hordes of adoring fans ;)

  50. Reindeer movie by zank · · Score: 1

    This christmas I saw a funny animated movie about Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer's lazy son trying to earn a place pulling Santa's sledge. It had the same style as the Wallace & Gromit movies, but I can't find any references to it on the Aardman site.
    Was it made by the same team?

    1. Re:Reindeer movie by Danious · · Score: 2, Interesting

      That would be "Robbie the Reindeer in Hooves of Fire", done by BBC Animation for the Comic Relief charity in the UK. I think the animators were Aardman people donating their time, but using BBC facilities.

      Official web-site at http://www.comicrelief.com/other/robbiereindeer.sh tml

    2. Re:Reindeer movie by Danious · · Score: 1

      A little more searching elicits:

      "It was directed by Richard Goleszowski, known for his Aardman work on the 1987 Barefootin' promo and the Rex the Runt TV series."

    3. Re:Reindeer movie by Enry · · Score: 2

      You're thinking "Robbie the Reindeer in Hooves of Fire". Caught that last holiday season, but was available only as Region 2 DVD (Thank YOU MPAA!). I don't think it was Aardman.

      It's available this year on Region 1. Great movie.

    4. Re:Reindeer movie by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Looks like they've released a region 1 version:

      http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005LC1 K/ ref=pd_bxgy_text_2/102-9398892-4645753

    5. Re:Reindeer movie by cattlegrid · · Score: 1

      Richard Goleszowski was directing the other Aardman film, Tortoise and the Hare which has run into problems and production has been halted. There is meant to be a Robbie the Reindeer 2 in production too, again at the BBC but directed by Peter Peake - another ex Aardman director.

  51. CMdr Taco doesnt know calculus by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Can you believe this shit, this mo-fo commander
    tacos doesn't even know calc. and he's representing himself as a nerd! I smell a
    lawsuit.

  52. Wallace & Gromit, Computer Game by Alioth · · Score: 2
    Frontier Developments is apparently working on a Wallace and Grommit game. (Frontier Developments is headed by David Braben, one of the duo who wrote the genre-setting game 'Elite').

    Go to Marjacq.com and click on the "Developer" menu and then "Frontier Devlopments" to read about it. Not much information there except that they are working on it.

  53. Aardman DVD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    There is an Aardman DVD available that has Creature Comforts, the three Wallace and Grommit movies, and a large amount of behind the scenes video footage. I know it exists because I have it in my laptop at the moment. (I commute 2 hours to work, so it pays to have a DVD-ROM in your laptop)

    1. Re:Aardman DVD by SinceEBCDIC · · Score: 1

      For the exceedingly lazy among us :-) the DVD about which you're speaking is called The Incredible Adventures of Wallace and Gromit and may be ordered here.

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      I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there. -- Richard Feynman
  54. I did not shit in your oven but..... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I did not shit in your oven but.....

    Wow! I just took the most violent shit of my life! It even looks like the largest shit I ever took in one sitting!

    The shit consisted at first of a very gigantic piece of turd that was excruciating to pass and took several minutes. This was followed by a moderately sized shit that was easier to pass but was still painful. Then came at least 6 or 7 smaller turds, but still large compared to other shits I have taken.

    I was lucky to use a high-flow toilet because the first turd barely went down after a flush. The rest of the turds and the toilet paper each got a flush of their own. It should be noted that the second and third flushes barely went down, just like the first.

    The smell was difficult to handle, and needed a long and thorough spray of air freshener. I am considering purchasing a scented fragrance that will cleanse the air after each of my shits. This shit could have benefited greated with such an air freshener. The wipe was messy and used about half a roll. But it was cleaner than some of the other shits I have taken!

    My anus still hurts from passing massive amounts of excrement so I am sitting on a pillow resting on my left ass cheek. Through careful consideration I rate this turd a..... 10!!!

    Good-day to you sir and happy shitting!

  55. Man you one big sick puppy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Although I did find the "penis shaped feeders" funny, it got out of hand in relation to kids man.

  56. Re:Call this underrated by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Man thats the funniest example of moderators being unable to steer that thing on the screen into that box over there --

    I actually lost bowel control.
    (P.S. Moderators, I've left a hint in the subject for this one too, give you a chance to redeem yourselves).

  57. And a big happy "QED" to the moderator. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    'Nuff said.

  58. Today's porn count! by The+Porn+Count · · Score: -1

    Sorry I didnt let all you salivating Slashdot trolls know how much porn I had amassed as of last night; I was just too busy doing you-know-what with all those thousands of images! I found this one set of pics in alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.redheads that looks so much like my own sister I couldnt take my hands off my cock! (Yes, I find my older sister extraordinarily hot and fantasize about her all the time.) I almost broke my dick off after about 5 hours of near-nonstop masturbation to those pics, and I did pass out for several hours.

    Then I got up, wanked some more, downloaded a few hundred new pics, and then wanked some more!

    So! Todays total stands at 38,608 images, wasting 4,798,296,064 bytes of hard drive space. Note to self: Must get CD burner and start archiving all of this away!

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    THE PORN COUNT: Bringing Porn to Slashdot, Daily.

    1. Re:Today's porn count! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That's all? Pathetic.

      ZZZOT

  59. The Reason the /. crowd is interested in W&G by geekguy · · Score: 1
    Is because they had a Penguin, sure it was evil, but it showed that penguins are acutaly masterminds who should be feared. Slashdoters rejoyce, someone else understands the greatness of penguins


    any oppinions expressed here in are not mine, but the product of me mixed with some booze

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  60. suck my cock taco by ArchieBunker · · Score: -1

    Try and mod this -1 post down.

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  61. Re:Ever wonder why... Don't forget Mr. Bill by fishlet · · Score: 1

    Don't forget Mr. Bill, he's my favorite claymate.

  62. Chevron commercial? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Let us not forge they were also the ones behind the new claymation Chevron gasoline commercials:
    http://www.rushes.co.uk/flash/rcp/Chevron.html
    I'm only saying this because the chances are higher that John Doe out there may not have seen the W&G animations but would recognize the Chevron commercials. The mouth movement is a dead giveaway.

    1. Re:Chevron commercial? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Oops here you go if you want to see the Chevron Commericals:
      http://www.chevroncars.com/theater/commercials/

      Yep.. I'm an AC Karma Whore!

  63. more detail by oo7tushar · · Score: 2, Informative

    The amount of detail that the animators put into Wallace and Gromit is incredible. You can watch the video repeatedly and find something new. Like the news papers always fortell what the future may contain.

    A particularly advanced example of this is the news paper in "A Grand Day Out". If you read it you'll find out about Feathers McGraw who is in The Wrong Trousers which was completed a few years later.

    Also, in "A Close Shave" you can see Feathers Was Here written on the Jail cell that Gromit is in. It does seem that Feathers is perhaps one of the most exciting characters that was created.

    Consider that it's a bowling ball but from the two blank little eyes you can tell it's evil and it doesn't even have eyebrows but when it rubs the flippers together you can sense it like the evil from Sauron.

    Just a small other point, the hole in the eyes of the characters are so that the animators can put a needle in and move the direction that the eyes look.

    Hope this has been interesting, informative, insightful and funny ;)

  64. Ahh, so it isn't ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    ... dancing in the TV station

  65. Catch these Hidden Gems? by BTWR · · Score: 1, Informative

    The hidden gems in W&G are also wonderful. - Grommit reads a newspaper entitled "Dog Reads Paper" - Check out the name of W&G's wash service in "A Close Shave" for a cute pun (too clever to post here!) - Penguin replaces Grommit's framed picture of a bone with a framed picture of a sardine! So many more... if you haven't seen these before, you simply must purchase them!

  66. Re:Ever wonder why... Don't forget Mr. Bill by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotamy."

    Have you had a dextrohemispherotomy?

  67. I have the title of the Wallace and Grommit Movie! by BTWR · · Score: 0

    According to AICN, the title of the Wallace and Gromit is THE GREAT VEGETABLE PLOT.
    Will this rule or what??? :-)

  68. Chicken Run by frankie_guasch · · Score: 1

    For those who don't know them , Chicken Run is
    their most known feature. W&G are short movies, and are funnier IMHO.

  69. W&G digital by GdoL · · Score: 1

    It's ironic that a traditional style comics appear online. Is there any possible way of getting the same effect of the W&G films with digital tools?

    I love W&G and all the work from Aardman, almost bought is animal interviews, what's is name, yesterday.

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  70. one of the best things I ever saw... by hummer357 · · Score: 1, Informative

    A few years ago, I saw a screening of W&G's 'The Wrong Trousers' at a small arts festival over here in Belgium...

    The big thing there was that the movie was being 'scored' by a not-very-well-known post-rock-kinda band called de.portables...

    You should have seen it! It rocked like hell, timing was perfect for every scene, for every move... it was very emotional in the scene where Gromit was leaving, suspenseful when Wallace was stealing the diamond, and the train chase scene had to be seen and heard to be believed...

    aardman should get in touch with these guys and let them score the vegetable plot movie!!!


    But in the mean time, download some of their music (legally) from here and from the site mentioned above...

  71. Aardman Portfolio by cattlegrid · · Score: 2, Informative

    subtly hidded on the Aardman site under the banner 'Trade' are about 20 commercials plus some clips from movies. Its got some of their recent CG material too. http://www.aardman.com/trade nice flash intro...ahem

    1. Re:Aardman Portfolio by cattlegrid · · Score: 1

      plus you can see all of Aardmans shorts at Atomfilms. check out angry kid - its a killer. www.atomfilms.com

  72. HMMMmmmmm by Richard_at_work · · Score: 1

    I seems to remember a car race starring the wallace and gromit characters which came out before the 3 famous films. its never mentioned, but it was definatly them. Can anyone point me in any direction for this?

  73. Re:The Reason the /. crowd is interested in W& by Mr.+Fusion · · Score: 1
    Right. And the only reason we're interested in Monty Python is because of the Spam Sketch. Or the similarly named programming language.

    No, no, no, we love Wallace and Gromit alongside Monty Python because it hits a certain geeky funnybone in all of us. Encorperating everything from a dog rewiring remote control trousers to those infamous minute details of mice wearing sunglasses, it really cannot go unnoticed.

    Plus if you think about it, "A Close Shave" could indirectly depict some of the dotcom wars around here (think of Wendy as Microsoft's PR and her robot dog as the rest of the company).

  74. Here is why. by overunderunderdone · · Score: 2

    Here is why they change the names of British books and films for Americans. From a few posts down:

    toaster-cum-TV? (Score:2, Funny)

    Wow, I didn't know a toaster could do all that! I mean, is that the greatest thing since sliced bread or what??

    Sorry, couldn't help it. Seriously, is that some kind of British thing? Can someone translate?

    1. Re:Here is why. by ashitaka · · Score: 1

      cum prep. Latin: Combined, together with, plus.

      Something-cum-somethingelse = Something plus somethingelse

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      If you don't want to repeat the past, stop living in it.
    2. Re:Here is why. by overunderunderdone · · Score: 2

      *I* know tbat. My point was that even a presumably well educated geek on slashdot didn't

  75. Busy in the commerical industry by penguin_dance · · Score: 1

    They certainly haven't been lax in the commercial industry either. They did some animations for Burger King a few years ago. And I think some of the Shaun's friends from A Close Shave are starring in a mattress commercial (the counting sheep).

    As much effort as goes into making one of these animations, they can really put out quite a bit. Glad to see the dynamic duo is coming back.

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  76. Department of Redundancy Department by virg_mattes · · Score: 2

    Correct my British if needed, but doesn't "cracking" mean "good"?

    Just wondering.

    Virg

  77. A whole festival by Felipe+Hoffa · · Score: 1

    There is a whole festival of one minute films!

    You can browse their site in Portuguese, Spanish or English, and even watch some films.

    Fh

  78. Re:A few years? Sooner than that... by Snover · · Score: 1

    And hey! Everything tastes like them. Originals are always better than clones, right? So why are we stuck eating imitation chicken when we can eat the real thing?

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