Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Day 263 - "Holy Film-Casting Experts, Batman!", Epic Vocabulary Issues, Tick Me Off, "The Worldwide Leader In Fluff", and "Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Pecs"

Mr. Brown
I still don't know what to think about this Batfleck idea.
I love the new Superman actor, but Batfleck could go either way.
9:50 AM Mr. Silver
Relax and let it affect your existence the same way that Pluto being demoted did.
9:51 AM Mr. Brown
LOL
Pluto is a planet.
9:51 AM Mr. Blue
I think he's a fine choice for Batman; I just don't like Superman and Batman being in the same flick.
9:51 AM Mr. Brown
Ah.
Honestly, people say he did a bad Daredevil.
I think he did a good Daredevil in a bad movie.
9:52 AM Mr. Silver
I didn't think much of the movie, but I didn't have any trouble with his portrayal.
9:52 AM Mr. Blue
That was back in the day when Affleck acknowledged he was just kind of phoning it in.
He's putting more effort into stuff nowadays... with The Town, Gone Baby Gone and Argo.
9:53 AM Mr. Silver
Yes...but how dare he...somehow...get approval from the director and producer for his scenes in Daredevil!
9:53 AM Mr. Silver
How shameful of him to trick them so!
9:53 AM Mr. Blue
What do you mean?
9:54 AM Mr. Silver
What I mean is, there were more people involved with Daredevil's portrayal than just Affleck, so fan-dorks blaming him - a man who can clearly act - is the emotional equivalent to believing Daredevil is real and should be insulted. And for them to just assume Ben somehow can't pull off Batman as directed – a character who largely consists of a dark suit, gadgets, and three simple moods – is pretty presumptuous.
9:54 AM Mr. Brown
Right.



Mr. Blue
I'd like to never hear the word "epic" again.
Unless it's about Gilgamesh.
11:33 AM Mr. Silver
Yes...there are some fine epics, though.
Epic” was the new “legendary” because people didn't want to write out 50 point words.
11:35 AM Mr. Blue
But "bacon recipes" aren't epic.
11:35 AM Mr. Brown
Bacon by itself is epic.
11:36 AM Mr. Blue
Not literally, no.
Noting or pertaining to a long poetic composition, usually centered upon a hero, in which a series of great achievements or events is narrated in elevated style.”
When CNN is using "epic" in news headlines, the word is dead.
11:38 AM Mr. Silver
One could write an epic that includes bacon...but not as a main character.
Unless bacon is personified as a heroic being...sort of like a god named Bacon.
11:39 AM Mr. Brown
Well, literally has been dead for awhile now.
11:39 AM Mr. Blue
I’m using literally, literally.
11:41 AM Mr. Silver
It's pretty sad when the Oxford dictionary has to put an entry for in for Literally saying it means Figuratively.
11:41 AM Mr. Blue
Yes.
I hear it every day: "My VPN is LITERALLY as slow as molasses!"
11:45 AM Mr. Silver
Slow as molasses is a broken simile anyway.  Molasses isn't slow when it's hot.
Its "Slow as molasses in winter".
11:46 AM Mr. Brown
I’m going to start saying figuratively now.
Start a new trend.
LOL
11:46 AM Mr. Silver
Good.
12:27 PM Mr. Blue
Tell those 171 people that molasses is slow.



Mr. Silver
Augh!  Itch!
I obviously picked up and didn't notice a tick hiking last weekend. 
2:58 PM Mr. Blue
Nice.
2:58 PM Mr. Silver
The spot is still red and suddenly itches a lot sometimes.
2:58 PM Mr. Blue
My mom gets several a year.
I feel 'em crawling right away.
2:59 PM Mr. Silver
Currently, I feel like cutting the bite out of my leg with a knife so it will HEAL FASTER! 
It didn't bug me all day.
3:00 PM Mr. Brown
I always seem to feel any bug that is on me. Sometimes I feel bugs there that are not.
LOL
3:00 PM Mr. Blue
I wonder if it has something to do with her soap, because my mom uses that all-natural garbage, and I use that chemically stuff in the futuristic bottles.
She'd always get ticks when nobody else would.
3:03 PM Mr. Brown
It has to do with color too, I think.
It happened to us in Gettysburg.
People wearing light colored jeans: no ticks.
People wearing dark colored jeans: ticks all over you.
I wore shorts a few times and got none on me.
3:06 PM Mr. Silver
I was in shorts, sure, but my leg was sprayed with Off too. So it found a good spot by luck, I guess. Lucky me!
3:07 PM Mr. Brown
Yep. The instructions say wear light colored clothing.
3:09 PM Mr. Silver
Dark = delicious black bear!
3:10 PM Mr. Brown
LOL
3:12 PM Mr. Silver
A flea will leap at anything that moves.  But a tick...a tick is a gourmet!
3:13 PM Mr. Silver
"Would monsieur like the dark moving object or the light moving object this evening?"
"The dark, of course!"
"Excellent choice, sir!"
3:13 PM Mr. Brown
I want to know who came up with all the ways to try to remove a tick.
Like who thought burning it is a good idea or putting Vaseline on it.
3:13 PM Mr. Blue
I’m sure pretty much anything will remove a tick: alcohol, heat, cold, even just submerging it in water.
3:14 PM Mr. Silver
Blood will do it if you give it enough...drops right off.
3:21 PM Mr. Silver
A tick is a pretty miserable design for Intelligent Design and should be touted as an argument against.



8:08 AM Mr. Blue
Cool CNN headline: "Dentist offers to fix man's teeth."
8:08 AM Mr. Silver
Hot news day!
"Syria Is A Downer! - Dentist Fixes Teeth! - Squirrels Collect Nuts! - Bunnies Are Soft!"
8:12 AM Mr. Silver
Here's one...a video of the "Best Cat Video" awards. (Real...link lost. – Mr. Silver)
So....did you read the dentist story?
8:13 AM Mr. Blue
Nah, the headline didn't grab me.



Mr. Blue
Did Ricardo Montelban use some sort of prosthetic for his chest in Wrath of Khan?
9:50 AM Mr. Gray
Nope.
All him.
9:50 AM Mr. Silver
His manly chest was made of fine Corinthian leather.
9:51 AM Mr. Blue
It looks like he's lactating.
9:54 AM Mr. Silver
Kahn's pecs were the finest quality the eugenics program could produce.
10:04 AM Mr. Silver
I can't imagine the selection process for that. Wait...yes I can.
(Chief of program) "What's the pectoral muscle situation?  They still coming out like Miles O'Keefe's?"
10:05 AM Mr. Amethyst
LOL
10:05 AM Mr. Silver
(Eugenicist) "We think we have a breakthrough on that.  Take a look at the projections on line aa.5.G."
(Chief) "Kinda leathery..."
(Eugenicist) "Well, we took a poll on that and the ladies seem to like the hue and texture."
(Chief) "Eh...run it a few generations.  Oh, and kill the kids with the big noses from fa.5.B. The committee voted it as a failed line this morning."
(Eugenicist) "Yes, sir."
10:08 AM Mr. Amethyst
Mr. Silver, was that an underlying Holocaust joke?
If so...that was amazing.
10:08 AM Mr. Silver
Just a eugenics joke.  Oh...I see.  For shame!
And yeah, though the Nazis had a eugenics program, the Holocaust wasn't part of it.
Besides, that skit was from ... THE FUTURE!!!!
(Echo. Star Trek theme)
10:09 AM Mr. Amethyst
LOL
10:09 AM Mr. Blue
Khan is a superhuman.
He can bench press a Buick.
10:11 AM Mr. Silver
Nah, not that extreme...just homo superior.
10:11 AM Mr. Blue
Ah
10:11 AM Mr. Silver
Probably roll over a VW Beetle alone though.
An effortless Olympian with a 180 IQ.
And...as noted in the film...burdened with some anger issues and over-confident in his raw abilities versus training and experience.
I lost?”
To Kirk???”
TWICE????”
No wonder he blew everything up.

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