Day 179 - Nobody Was Actually Working For Reno's Weekend, Quentin Tarantino's "The Velveteen Rabbit", Good Thing He Doesn't Have Kidney Sprockets, Roleplaying Gamers Are Already Half Insane To Begin With, Pig Farms As A Metaphor For Santorum (The Man, The Campaign, & The Urban Dictionary Entry), and Failing To Miss Mr. Yellow

(Partially recreated)
Mr. Silver
I hate this song.

Mr. Green

?

Mr. Silver
“Working for the Weekend”
Just like anybody else, when it came on I used to be all “Yeah!  Workin’ for the weeeekennnnd!”
And then I paid attention to the lyrics and realized he was singing about how totally awesome he thought he was, everyone’s life revolving around him, and if the girl could properly serve him by putting out right away.
“A song celebrating his titanic ego?  Ewww.”

Mr. Gray

It’s good ta be da king.

Mr. Silver

My sister and her friends hung out with the band once; rode in the limo.

They came off as a-holes and she didn't like them after that.

7:51 AM Mr. Silver

No comments?  (This is where I find out Reno is your godfather and you hang out every chance you get."

7:52 AM Mr. Green

No.  I was never a huge Loverboy fan, but not a hater either.  I like a few of their tunes.  Reno got FAT.

7:54 AM Mr. Silver

"Ev’rybody's working on the buf-fet!  Everybody needs a second plate!"

Mr. Silver

I like the critiques of "John Carter" saying it's “nothing new, seen it before”. 

Well, yes...it’s a seminal sci-fi story that inspired hundreds of other works.  It was all new when it was written.

9:27 AM Mr. Gray

Yep

I want to see it.

9:33 AM Mr. Silver

Odd though...people still file in to see remakes of the "Who Goes There?" story.

(Alien, The Thing, 100 others)

9:40 AM Mr. Silver

They should have made "Jack Waggoner Of Venus".

That would have packed them in!

Mr. Brown

I’m reading through the wiki for “Immortals”.

It looks like they decided to make some of the people that were supposed to be titans, like Hyperion, just humans.

10:47 AM Mr. Gray

That’s dumb.

I understand telling the story as "this was the truth behind the myth", but it still was a pale comparison to the actual myth.

11:47 AM Mr. Silver

So what untapped classic hasn't been made yet?

"Velveteen Rabbit 2: Things Get Real"

Starring Christopher Walken as the skin horse and Bruce Willis as the rabbit with a grudge.

(Mr. Velvet) "Lock and load...we're going to get my boy."

11:54 AM Mr. Gray

LOL

Ya know....funny thing is, get Tim Burton to direct...or Tarantino....HIT!!

11:54 AM Mr. Silver

(Mr. Horse) "I told you.  That if you became real.  That you couldn't.  Ever.  Be not real again.  Well.  That doesn't mean.  That I can't make you.  Real dead, rabbit."

11:57 AM Mr. Silver

I can see this script

I can see this film

We can take the original story and translate it into an action film, and then this sequel is a natural.

Mr. Silver

The idea of taking elements from a children's story and turning it into an R explosion-fest

I love it.

It'd be the sort of film I'd try to make without letting anyone in on the gag, just to see how long it would take for someone to notice.

"Hey!  This is the plot to The Velveteen Rabbit!  Mr. Horse?  Mr. Velvet?  A bio-weapon virus codenamed ‘Scarlet’?  WTF???"

Mr. Green

LOL

Mr. Silver

Morning Mr. Yellow.

You’re a little tired, eh?

8:50 AM Mr. Yellow

Good morning gents zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Yes I hate the Daylight Savings Time time changes.

8:54 AM Mr. Silver

I don't get it myself.  It was just another day for me.

8:58 AM Mr. Yellow

I have all my routines and my body runs on a pretty tight schedule.  I am still working on the roll back time and it takes me a full week to shit gears to the new schedule.

9:18 AM Mr. Silver

Mr. Yellow's so out of it, he's sh-tting gears.

9:18 AM Mr. Gray

LOL

9:18 AM Mr. Gray

Man...I bet that hurts worse than kidney stones.

9:18 AM Mr. Yellow

Ouch

 

Mr. Silver

I have that special "You caught a cold" feeling in my throat.

11:00 AM Mr. Gray

You SOOO better not be sick Friday.

11:01 AM Mr. Silver

I SOOO don't want to be.

11:01 AM Mr. Gray

If you are you'll be sorry....and unconscious…and you'll have to HOPE that the others save you. LOL

I know I wouldn’t trust them.

11:02 AM Mr. Silver

Well, look at them...be honest...

11:03 AM Mr. Gray

LOL

Scumbags and mutants.

Commie Mutant Traitors.

11:17 AM Mr. Green

I may be a scumbag mutant, with socialist leanings, but I'm not a traitor...at least not to my friends.

11:21 AM Mr. Silver

Socialist...sociopath...  They both start with soci, anyway.

11:24 AM Mr. Green

I'll own up to sociopath as well.

11:25 AM Mr. Gray

LOL

11:25 AM Mr. Silver

"I'm faithful, true, loyal, could snap at any time, friendly, courteous..."

"Wait...go back a couple..."

11:33 AM Mr. Silver

Fike is mildly paranoid...it’s just how he works.

He's from a naturally secretive community. 

Of course, at the moment, he IS the naturally secretive community.

11:41 AM Mr. Gray

LOL

Good point.

11:42 AM Mr. Silver

As soon as someone hears you can do magic, people start asking you about changing lead to gold, eternal life and then start into uncomfortable questions about Satan.

11:43 AM Mr. Gray

LOL

11:46 AM Mr. Gray

I have a feeling everyone will be making more insanity checks soon

"We’re where?  The world is what?  I...we....it....AHHHHHH!!!!"

11:46 AM Mr. Silver

We just need to settle into a nice, calming, permanent psychosis and relax.

11:46 AM Mr. Gray

LOL

2:50 PM Mr. Silver

This title brightened my day and I haven't even read the article yet.

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/03/hog-manure-foam/

Now who doesn't love a headline like that?

2:50 PM Mr. Gray

LOL

2:50 PM Mr. Silver

Apart from the farmers and the hogs, I mean.

2:50 PM Mr. Gray

Now I just HAVE to read it. LOL

Mr. Gray

BOOM!

2:55 PM Mr. Silver

"Class P Explosive - Light pig and GET AWAY!"

2:55 PM Mr. Gray

LMAO

2:57 PM Mr. Silver

Explosive diarrhea has nothing on pig poo foam.

2:58 PM Mr. Gray

Could you imagine the mess?  Pig parts...pig crap....everywhere.

Mr. Yellow

Hey, I am going to bail.  I’ve been working on a van since my last post and still have a ways to go, so have a great evening all.

3:02 PM Mr. Green

You too Mr. Yellow.

3:10 PM Mr. Gray

I thought he already left!  lol

Confused me.

3:24 PM Mr. Silver

lol

3:26 PM Mr. Silver

One of my favorite slams from old Pogo comics, was the set of characters coming back from a long unintended absence (Blown up and flown to Australia by mistake, I think.  Gone for weeks.) and encountering some of the others.

"Hey!  We're back!  We're OK!  Boy we missed this place!  Don't worry we're all fine!  We have all sorts of stories to tell you!  It's great to be back!"

Quiet for a full frame.

"You was gone?"

3:27 PM Mr. Gray

LOL