You gave an example of "smart humor" that contained none. Unless your concept of "smart" is that the letter 'I' when pronounced sounds like "eye." Wow, move over Monty!
Personally, I wish Fox kept Futurama and left Family Guy dead and buried.
But when Peter mentions that "someone lost an eye at bingo" followed by a flashback of the bingo caller dropping "I-17" on the ground (which is funny by itself); and then followed by the bingo caller bending over to pick up the bingo ball and smashing his eye into the corner of the table. I'm sorry, but that's just some smart humor.
Guess you had to be there.
/Don't understand why people think Family Guy is funny //Stopped watching Family Guy after the second episode ///Plus the mom's voice is annoying
Why? Because my dad stop using them six months ago, and switched to USB drives. This, from a guy that wanted a 5 1/4" drive on his Pentium II last year! So, if not even my dad uses them anymore, they have to be dead.
"If I had to put money down, I'd Mr. Sinus are interested in dick/fart jokes and "racy" humor. But I haven't seen their show, so it's only speculation."
And I'd gladly take the money you'd put down. You are right on one thing - you're only speculating. Yes, the show does contain dick/fart jokes and "racy" humor, but the vast majority of the humor is inline with that of MST3k.
Did they rip off MST3k? Well, they most certainly used it as the foundation of their show. The cancelling of MST3k was the inspiration for putting on the first shows - which at the time wasn't very far off from your "college kids" analogy.
But dick and fart jokes? Well, if you knew about the drafthouse, you'd understand why the humor can be "racy." The drafthouse is more like a dinner theater than a movie theater. They removed every other row of seating, installed tables (more like a short bar) instead, and sell food, drinks and beer. You have to be at least 18 year old to be in the theater. (http://www.drafthouse.com/) So, it's an older audience than saturday morning on Sci-Fi. The humor can be, and in such a venue is even expected, to be dirtier and racier. However, the balance between blue and non-blue humor is very well done. The Mr. Sinus guys are much better than just "hacks."
Plus, Mr. Sinus takes on movies that MST3k wouldn't ever take on. MST3k basically stuck to B-movies in the Mystery or Sci-fi catagory. Dirty Dancing and Top Gun would fall into neither of those. And, as their theme song states: They can do shows with nudity.
The differences in venue and movie types is enough to give it a different feel than MST3k. It's half MST3k and half the local improv comedy club.
If you're ever in Austin, you need to catch a show. Also, they do shows in Houston from time to time (and San Antonio as well, I believe.)
Now maybe Avil Lavigne can afford the really massively big jacuzzi, instead of the just really big jacuzzi. Oh wait, it was just $2000 - sue the kid again!/sarcasm mode off
128K of RAM? Luxury! Oh how we use to dream of having a 128K of RAM! We only 64K of RAM, and we had to share it with 256 users - or the system admin would slash us to death with a bread knife!
Maybe you should reread my message. Yes there are only two mission types you can get from the mission terminals. But, there a *MORE* from NPCs. There are surveying missions, crafting mission, escort mission, and bounty missions. I had an arrest mission yesterday. Which was a mix of an escort and destroy mission. You had to take out the target's bodyguards, but if you killed the main target, you failed the mission.
So, let's do some math. That's 7 different mission types, so he only found 14% of the missions types I've found. I think that does fall under "*MUCH* more", especially since I don't claim to have found every type of mission.
There are more mission types, *MUCH* more. Even at the mission terminals you can do delivery mission. Which are basic pick this up here and drop it off there. But they are a good way for non-combat classes to get money. NPC also give out lots of missions with different goals. Some require you to look for certain materials, or craft different items.
Also, must of the economy is player driven, so when the characters start to get up in level and explore more of the world, the economy will get better and more impressive 'loot' will be had.
"Dr. Howard's conclusions are to be released today by the ETC Group, an opponent of rapid nanotechnology development that asked him to perform the research review."
From the ETC Group website: "ETC group is dedicated to the conservation and sustainable advancement of cultural and ecological diversity and human rights. To this end, ETC group supports socially responsible developments of technologies useful to the poor and marginalized and it addresses international governance issues and corporate power."
(http://www.etcgroup.org/about.asp)
Beware of any research backed by a political action group. Emotions tend to outweight and warp data.
I had something on my old Amiga 1200 that converted internal IDE port to SCSI, so I was able to use the old SCSI drive from my A500. It was actually pretty cheap, as in less than the price of larger IDE drive (but then, the A1200 used laptop IDE drives and not the normal one.)
The reason some people (especially before the movie was released) thought Keaton was a bad choice for Batman, was that they didn't see him as having the physical stature associated with Batman. However, the reason he was the best Batman, of the modern three, is not because he was the best match for Batman, but the best match for Bruce Wayne. Since the actor's physical appearance is almost completely hidden by the Batman costume, he doesn't really need to be that close of a match. But since there isn't a costume for Bruce, he needs to match well. Keaton made the most conviencing Bruce, and that's what really mattered. Because, if you buy into him as the dark and deeply disturbed multi-millionaire Wayne (Val was too young looking, and Clooney looks too well adjusted), then all you need to do is buy into the costume as Batman in order for Keaton to be a good pick.
Superman is a different story. The custome doesn't really hide the physical appearance, or at least not as much as Batman's. Although, he might be able to pull off Clark, if he stay's away from his catch phase!
So kids turned their backs on Star Wars? I guess that's why Episode II is number one two weeks running, and did almost twice the business Spidey did this past holiday weekend.
The said truth is that Katz is about three years behind the times, when Lucas bashing was at it's peak.
Also, did he even see the film? Or did he just go to alt.movies.reviews.i.hate.lucas and read reviews there?
"In his previous movies -- Dogma, Chasing Amy, Clerks -- Smith chronicles..."
Why does everyone always forget about Mallrats? Just because the critics panned it, doesn't mean it should be forgotten. It's a toss up between Mallrats and Dogma for Kevin Smith's best picture.
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Futurama, however, had lots of smart comedy, along with slap-stick and bathroom humor. One of those rare shows that's a great mix of humor styles.
You gave an example of "smart humor" that contained none. Unless your concept of "smart" is that the letter 'I' when pronounced sounds like "eye." Wow, move over Monty!
Personally, I wish Fox kept Futurama and left Family Guy dead and buried.
Guess you had to be there.
Did anyone else read that as "Three's Company Shutdown for Spyware Bundling"?
"If I tell you negative information, you'll know less."
This is great news for Call of Cthulhu player characters!
Must be hard to be taken as a serious music form when you're:
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A) Invented by Weird Al (http://musicmoz.org/Bands_and_Artists/Y/Yankovic
B) Have artist saying: "50 Cent has dance clubs and oral sex, we have awesome video cards."
Why? Because my dad stop using them six months ago, and switched to USB drives. This, from a guy that wanted a 5 1/4" drive on his Pentium II last year! So, if not even my dad uses them anymore, they have to be dead.
"The guys doing this show sound like hacks."
"If I had to put money down, I'd Mr. Sinus are interested in dick/fart jokes and "racy" humor. But I haven't seen their show, so it's only speculation."
And I'd gladly take the money you'd put down. You are right on one thing - you're only speculating. Yes, the show does contain dick/fart jokes and "racy" humor, but the vast majority of the humor is inline with that of MST3k.
Did they rip off MST3k? Well, they most certainly used it as the foundation of their show. The cancelling of MST3k was the inspiration for putting on the first shows - which at the time wasn't very far off from your "college kids" analogy.
But dick and fart jokes? Well, if you knew about the drafthouse, you'd understand why the humor can be "racy." The drafthouse is more like a dinner theater than a movie theater. They removed every other row of seating, installed tables (more like a short bar) instead, and sell food, drinks and beer. You have to be at least 18 year old to be in the theater. (http://www.drafthouse.com/) So, it's an older audience than saturday morning on Sci-Fi. The humor can be, and in such a venue is even expected, to be dirtier and racier. However, the balance between blue and non-blue humor is very well done. The Mr. Sinus guys are much better than just "hacks."
Plus, Mr. Sinus takes on movies that MST3k wouldn't ever take on. MST3k basically stuck to B-movies in the Mystery or Sci-fi catagory. Dirty Dancing and Top Gun would fall into neither of those. And, as their theme song states: They can do shows with nudity.
The differences in venue and movie types is enough to give it a different feel than MST3k. It's half MST3k and half the local improv comedy club.
If you're ever in Austin, you need to catch a show. Also, they do shows in Houston from time to time (and San Antonio as well, I believe.)
Now maybe Avil Lavigne can afford the really massively big jacuzzi, instead of the just really big jacuzzi. Oh wait, it was just $2000 - sue the kid again! /sarcasm mode off
Yes, you can always make jokes about Star Trek.
128K of RAM? Luxury! Oh how we use to dream of having a 128K of RAM! We only 64K of RAM, and we had to share it with 256 users - or the system admin would slash us to death with a bread knife!
My apologies to Monty Python.
Maybe you should reread my message. Yes there are only two mission types you can get from the mission terminals. But, there a *MORE* from NPCs. There are surveying missions, crafting mission, escort mission, and bounty missions. I had an arrest mission yesterday. Which was a mix of an escort and destroy mission. You had to take out the target's bodyguards, but if you killed the main target, you failed the mission.
So, let's do some math. That's 7 different mission types, so he only found 14% of the missions types I've found. I think that does fall under "*MUCH* more", especially since I don't claim to have found every type of mission.
There are more mission types, *MUCH* more. Even at the mission terminals you can do delivery mission. Which are basic pick this up here and drop it off there. But they are a good way for non-combat classes to get money. NPC also give out lots of missions with different goals. Some require you to look for certain materials, or craft different items.
Also, must of the economy is player driven, so when the characters start to get up in level and explore more of the world, the economy will get better and more impressive 'loot' will be had.
"What sort of innovations does the future hold?"
POrn on your color cell phone screen - it's much more discreet.
No, no, every man, woman, and child in the US (280,562,489 according to the CIA world fact book) bought 1.78 computers last year.
I know I did!
Something that size should only be used for hand-to-hand combat
And you have to rotate it clockwise a bit to even match the old rototary dail lay out! ;P
From the ETC Group website:
"ETC group is dedicated to the conservation and sustainable advancement of cultural and ecological diversity and human rights. To this end, ETC group supports socially responsible developments of technologies useful to the poor and marginalized and it addresses international governance issues and corporate power."
(http://www.etcgroup.org/about.asp)
Beware of any research backed by a political action group. Emotions tend to outweight and warp data.
68% of all satistics are wrong!
You don't use the flood of AOL discs as a renewable source of drink coasters?
I had something on my old Amiga 1200 that converted internal IDE port to SCSI, so I was able to use the old SCSI drive from my A500. It was actually pretty cheap, as in less than the price of larger IDE drive (but then, the A1200 used laptop IDE drives and not the normal one.)
Did this guy sprinkle cocaine on his corn flakes, before smoking crack this morning?
The reason some people (especially before the movie was released) thought Keaton was a bad choice for Batman, was that they didn't see him as having the physical stature associated with Batman. However, the reason he was the best Batman, of the modern three, is not because he was the best match for Batman, but the best match for Bruce Wayne. Since the actor's physical appearance is almost completely hidden by the Batman costume, he doesn't really need to be that close of a match. But since there isn't a costume for Bruce, he needs to match well. Keaton made the most conviencing Bruce, and that's what really mattered. Because, if you buy into him as the dark and deeply disturbed multi-millionaire Wayne (Val was too young looking, and Clooney looks too well adjusted), then all you need to do is buy into the costume as Batman in order for Keaton to be a good pick.
Superman is a different story. The custome doesn't really hide the physical appearance, or at least not as much as Batman's. Although, he might be able to pull off Clark, if he stay's away from his catch phase!
And dropped it, because it was too hard to set you meeting with foreigners.
France: "Let's meet to discuss trade at 50:75 tommorrow."
Germany: "Wha??? Can't we just make it 12:45?"
France: "Not that early!!! I'll still be in bed!"
So kids turned their backs on Star Wars? I guess that's why Episode II is number one two weeks running, and did almost twice the business Spidey did this past holiday weekend.
The said truth is that Katz is about three years behind the times, when Lucas bashing was at it's peak.
Also, did he even see the film? Or did he just go to alt.movies.reviews.i.hate.lucas and read reviews there?
"In his previous movies -- Dogma, Chasing Amy, Clerks -- Smith chronicles..."
Why does everyone always forget about Mallrats? Just because the critics panned it, doesn't mean it should be forgotten. It's a toss up between Mallrats and Dogma for Kevin Smith's best picture.