Sunday, January 6, 2013

Day 219 - Stay-At-Home Male Seahorses, The Princess Does Not Know The Location Of The Hidden Treble Bass, Pantying In Anticipation, The Plight Of The 40%, Offering A Girl A Glass & Jasper Engagement Ring Will Bring On Your End Times, and Blasters Aren't Actually Clumsy Or Random

Mr. Blue
Weird.  I don't get it.  It sounds like something that some scientist just made up on a whim and everyone just stuck to.
Like with seahorses.
"That there's a male seahorse." 
"Uhh, it's having a baby." 
"…Yeah...uhh…well the male seahorse has the babies." 
"Oh."
(that's from a Jim Gaffigan routine)
3:13 PM Mr. Brown
Yeah, that kind of stuff is funny.
This sounds good, we will publish it.”
Oh shit, it’s wrong…just go with it.”
3:14 PM Mr. Blue
If it's a seahorse and it gives birth, just call it the female seahorse.
3:14 PM Mr. Brown
But what if it does have the mail parts?
3:15 PM Mr. Silver
Like the glue, flap, and “affix postage” box in the top right corner of the seahorse?
3:15 PM Mr. Brown
Male
LOL
Oops
3:17 PM Mr. Brown
Meaning it has a pouch to keep them in, and the male parts too.
Then it would just be better to call it a seahours
hores
arrrg
sea hores
lol
3:19 PM Mr. Silver
It’s “sea whores”, Mr. Brown.
3:19 PM Mr. Blue
Yeah, I’m sure there's some scientific reasoning for calling it a male seahorse even though it gives birth… It just *seems* like one of those things that a lazy scientist came up with and nobody has since questioned.  How do you differentiate one sex from the other?
      (At this point I decide to insert some basic biology – Mr. Silver)
3:21 PM Mr. Silver
The females lay the eggs.
The males collect and protect them until they hatch.
Although the image of a seahorse protecting anything, in any capacity, other than being relatively tough to chew and camouflaged, is hard to imagine.
3:23 PM Mr. Blue
Yeah, they're pretty dumb.
They *look* cooler than they really are.
3:24 PM Mr. Silver
They can swim a blistering .0001 MPH!
3:25 PM Mr. Blue
Seahorses just kind of bob around and bump into stuff.
I guess not unlike a real horse.



Mr. Gray
Mr. Silver and I were talking about the fact that Revenge of the Sith takes place over months of time.
1:33 PM Mr. Silver
Probably 6-7 maybe 8-9.
1:33 PM Mr. Gray
In the beginning Padme isn’t really showing....by the end she is giving birth.
1:34 PM Mr. Silver
(midwife bot) "She lacks the will to live..."
(Kenobi) "Fine...knock her out and throw her in a bacta tank for a few days.”
(midwife bot) "But she lacks the will."
(Kenobi) "Oh. (goes to bed, waves hand) You want to live."
(Padme) "I'm feeling better."
1:36 PM Mr. Gray
LOL
Yeah, that is kind of crappy. She had been this strong woman through most of the movie...then she just gives up? Unlikely.
1:38 PM Mr. Silver
There was not much reason to kill her.  Leia claimed to remember her and it's not like the emperor wouldn't lie about her being dead to use it to leash Vader anyway, plus she'd never want to see Anakin again even if she ever made the Vader connection.
1:38 PM Mr. Gray
Yeah, I was only able to assume that Bail's wife died early on and that’s who Leia claimed to remember.
1:39 PM Mr. Silver
Leia - "Just images really...she didn't look a thing like me...neither did dad, really...why?"
1:42 PM Mr. Gray
LOL
1:47 PM Mr. Silver
Luke - "Do you remember your dad?"
Leia - "Yeah...he looked like Jimmi Smits"
1:47 PM Mr. Gray
Unfit mother...married a mass murderer.
2:06 PM Mr. Yellow
Hey!  You’re talking about my character’s future wife there!
2:16 PM Mr. Silver
(Anakin in his new armor) "My wife...hoooo-ahhhh...what about my wife?...hooo-ahhhhh..."
(Palpatine) "I'm afraid that, in your rage...she left you for a senator..."
"NNNNOOOOOO!!!!!"  (equipment crashing)
"She lacked the will to deal with your child-murdering."
"NNnn- ... …Yeah...hoooo-ahhhhh...that was pretty sick...ok..."
"By the way, is there a voice control for this helmet?  My voice sounds totally weird in this thing."
"Ohh...I'm afraid the treble/bass controls are hidden.  I have no idea where they are."
3:42 PM Mr. Silver
Darth Vader never found the hidden Treble/Bass for the rest of his career.
"No!  Hidden Treble/Bass!  Treble!  …hoooo-ahhhh…How many times do I have to tell you… hoooo-ahhhh… rebel scum I don't CARE where your friends hang out!"



8:14 AM Mr. Silver
Oh Japan, how we love thee:  
8:24 AM Mr. Silver
(Figure in shadows on interview show...voice altered) "Oh, it all starts out innocently enough...lost gloves...abandoned shoes...browsing the thrift stores for scarves and hats for 'gifts for your niece'.  But those are all just gateway small-clothes.  Soon you're craving the harder stuff..."
8:25 AM Mr. Blue
Weird as heck.
If the guy simply asked, he'd probably find Japanese girls that would just hand their socks to him.
8:26 AM Mr. Silver
Yes.  He probably likes the chase though.
8:27 AM Mr. Blue
Yeah.
8:29 AM Mr. Green
It’s not the kill, but the thrill of the chase.
8:30 AM Mr. Silver
I can picture him suffering for days, jonesing for his next sock...maybe working up the nerve for a panty theft...



Mr. Blue
WTF?
Weather.com's headline is “SCARY SIGN OF APOCALYPSE?” 
Underneath - "Living Through The Apocalypse"
10:50 AM Mr. Silver
"A new study shows 4 in 10 U.S. residents say recent extreme weather events, like Superstorm Sandy, is evidence the world is coming to an end.  In a separate conclusion, 40% of the US population is not too bright."
10:50 AM Mr. Brown
LOL
10:51 AM Mr. Silver
"In the most bizarre turn, if asked a follow-up series of questions about mankind's role in climate change and the greenhouse effect, the exact same 40% deny that it is happening at all." 
10:53 AM Mr. Gray
LOL
10:53 AM Mr. Silver
"They also listed Fox News as their primary information source and were disappointed Romney lost the recent election because of, quote, bad polling."



Mr. Silver
Yesterday I was churning through the radio and heard the voice of a preacher I sometimes stop to listen to, because he always ends up saying stupid stuff.
2:53 PM Mr. Silver
He was describing the New Jerusalem in Revelations.
In addition to interpreting it as a wedding ring that we were all going to live in...
(me) "Seriously?"
2:59 PM Mr. Silver
He also interpreted the description that it was "pure gold, like transparent glass" as
"That means it’s made of diamond"
(me) "It doesn't sound like it."
And it says that the walls are made of jasper, and that means diamond."
(me) "WHAT?!?!?"
3:02 PM Mr. Silver
3:02 PM Mr. Silver
Diamonds, obviously.
3:02 PM Mr. Blue
I love listening to that kind of schlock.
Just when you think there couldn't possibly be anything more to say about an ancient book, they find another way to spin it or interpret something.
3:08 PM Mr. Silver
So he goes on to describe this wedding ring and then is "skipping down a few lines"...
Why skip, do you ask?
Because his “beautiful round band of the eternal wedding ring” is described in detail as a perfect square in the section he skipped.
3:13 PM Mr. Blue
Lost me.
3:15 PM Mr. Silver
I just get irritated with evangelists not looking stuff up, skipping inconvenient details, and pulling idiotic interpretations out of their butts.
3:16 PM Mr. Blue
Oh, of course.
3:16 PM Mr. Silver
On the other hand, I find the same irritation very entertaining.
3:16 PM Mr. Blue
Well, religion *is* a business, and his product is BS.



Mr. Silver
Hehe
Nice last line:
(wiki - Padme Amidala) Paul McDonald notes that there are "inevitable comparisons" between the two characters (Padme and Leia): "both develop soft spots for rogue pilots, and both have a knack for slipping into and out of stilted British accents.  Despite being diplomats, each is also the best marksman of her respective trilogy, rarely missing."
3:42 PM Mr. Yellow
LOL
3:42 PM Mr. Silver
(Anakin) "Is it a special Force power?"
(Padme) "Not really...one day I noticed this little V at the back of the gun and the bit sticking up at the end and started messing around with them...here...I'll show you."
(Anakin) "I thought those were manufacturing errors, or decorations like the little telescopes they put on some of them."
(Padme) "They are...those are just traditional decorations on all guns dating back…oh...thousands of years.  No one knows what they originally symbolized, but it turns out they are great for what I call a "gun-point"." 
3:44 PM Mr. Yellow
*chuckle*

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