[9:57
AM] Mr. Blue:
Watched
"Sorcerer" last night
Seen
it before.. remake of “Wages of Fear”
It
bombed because everyone thought the title would be a
sword-and-sorcery film... and the first 10 minutes are all in French
so others thought it'd be a foreign film and left before getting to
the good parts
It's
a great movie and has a great Tangerine Dream soundtrack
They
have to drive a bunch of unstable nitroglycerin through the jungle to
an oil well fire
[9:59
AM]
Loved
“Wages of Fear”
[9:59
AM] Mr. Blue:
Me
too
[9:59
AM]
Never
saw “Sorcerer” though
[9:59
AM] Mr. Blue:
It's
a worthy remake
Directed
by William Friedkin who did “The Exorcist” and some other stuff
With
Roy Scheider... I don't recognize anyone else in the cast
It
flopped both commercially and critically at the time but now is
considered a cult classic, if not just a classic
[11:14
AM] Mr. Brown.:
Why
is this film so named?
[11:17
AM] Mr. Blue:
Sorcerer
is the name of one of the trucks
They
should've called it something else
The
truck name is never even mentioned, and there's another truck too
with a different name, why not pick that one?
But
"The Wages of Fear" sounds like some kind soviet propaganda
film title so i wouldn't have done that either
[11:30
AM] Mr. Brown.:
Yeah
“Nitro
Jungle?”
Nitro
Convoy
Big
Bang Road
[11:32
AM] Mr. Blue:
lol
Ride
of Death
[11:32
AM] Mr. Brown.:
Don't
Sneeze
Unstable
Package
[11:33
AM] Mr. Blue:
Speed
3
I
imagine Keanu running the trucks down and jumping onto the windshield
[11:34
AM] Mr. Brown.:
Slowly
[11:34
AM] Mr. Blue:
"There's
nitroglycerin on the truck! One wrong move, the truck will
explode!"
"We
know! Get off!"
[11:34
AM] Mr. Brown.:
So
a prequel to “Speed”
[11:38
AM] Mr. Blue:
They
should've had Scheider look at the nitroglycerin and go, "You're
gonna need a more stable truck!"
[11:38
AM] Mr. Brown.:
SMILE
YOU SON OF A BITCH
[11:38
AM] Mr. Blue:
lol
[11:38]
That
was a true LOL
I
had to hit mute
[11:38
AM] Mr. Blue:
Same
here
[11:48
AM] Mr. Brown.:
Riding
through the jungle suddenly they hear a sound as they get closer and
closer they can make out what it is, somebody is singing,
Farewell and adieu to you, Spanish ladies”
"Yea
see nitro truck shes got dull headlights like the foggy sea side on a
sunny day."
[11:54
AM] Mr. Blue:
Yeah
the USS Indianapolis monologue... would it then be about the Exxon
Valdez?
"2
Alaskan rocks slammed into her side chief."
[12:34
PM] Mr. Brown.:
“This
truck is named Sorcerer, this one is call Breakdown.”
[12:36
PM]
(dispatcher) "Well...you
can choose from Sorcerer...or good old No Suspension here."
(Bing
Crosby and Bob Hope in the cab, singing in the truck cab) "Oh
we're off on the road of detonation! We certainly will splash
a-rouuund!"
[12:38
PM] Mr. Brown.:
Smokey
and the Bandit - Nitro Run .
That
would have made Smokey and the Bandit more interesting
[12:42
PM]
(Big
Enos) "We're having a little Oil Drillin' party this weekend.
We want you to drive to Texarkana and pick up 200 cases of
nitroglycerine and get it back here. If you make it in time
we'll pay you $70."
[9:03
AM]
"Plus
people like to say 'Wankel Engine'."
[9:07
AM] Mr. Blue:
Looks
complicated
[9:09
AM]
A
Wankel? (wankel wankel wankel)
Less
going on it in than a "regular" engine
I
saw a see-through one running on YouTube a few weeks back. It
was interesting
[9:26
AM] Mr. Blue:
I
still can't understand the uhh, Archimedes spiral or whatever it's
called
screw
[9:27
AM]
What
about it?
[9:31
AM] Mr. Blue:
Just
hard to fathom how it works
[9:32
AM]
Well,
just looking at it you'd think the water would all rush back out.
And it would if it was vertical and not spinning very fast.
But
at an angle...it makes these basins for the fluid at the bottom of
each equal segment of the screw
[9:34
AM] Mr. Blue:
The
screw isn't actually moving though
[9:34
AM]
Yes
it is...you crank it.
[9:34
AM] Mr. Blue:
The
screw rotates but it doesn't move up. It just turns.
And
the water moves... yet it stays at the bottom?
[9:39
AM]
Ah...well
the pieces stay in place but the coil rotates around the axis
Like...hold
a screw in your hand...toss it around...nothing happens.
Put
it in a material and turn and it pulls in (or pushes out)
So...
you’re drilling a hole in water
Instead
of pulling the wood bits out of a board with a drill, you're pulling
bits of water out of a tub
[9:41
AM] Mr. Blue:
Oh,
I get it
So
like screwing into a board... only imagine the board is moving and
the screw is stationary
[9:42
AM]
Well
the difference is fluid vs solid
Wood
doesn't flow.
So
the screw, in motion, digs in.
Water
does flow, so the screw, in motion, stays in place and the water
"digs" out. A drill.
[9:43
AM] Mr. Blue:
Yes
[9:44
AM]
Air?
Basically, nothing really happens...Spin it really fast and you get a
terrible fan.
[9:44
AM] Mr. Blue:
[9:45
AM]
Heh
That
was fun...got another?
[9:46
AM] Mr. Blue:
uhh.
Bubbles in boiling water. But let's save that for another time
[2:23
PM] Mr. Blue:
I
didn't read the article but i'm just laughing at the pictures
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/6403361/pompeii-skeleton-volcanic-rock-discovery/
[2:23
PM] Mr. Brown.:
Legs
sticking out
[2:24
PM] Mr. Blue:
“Pompeii
Man Perishes In Wile E Coyote Style Death”
[2:44
PM]
That
poor Pompeii guy is sadly hilarious
[2:44
PM] Mr. Blue:
The
last thing that passed through his brain before that boulder was "at
least nobody will ever find out how i died."
[2:45
PM]
(Parents at oracle after birth) "The gods have decreed that your son will amuse thousands and his image will bring smiles across the whole world."
(Parents at oracle after birth) "The gods have decreed that your son will amuse thousands and his image will bring smiles across the whole world."
(Parents
in old age, looking at their super dull accountant son) "That
oracle was full of sh-t!
"We
paid a lot for that reading too. What's that rumbling noise?"
[2:48
PM] Mr. Blue:
It's
great that it has the appearance that his legs made an indentation
into the rocks under him
[2:48
PM]
Wile
E Coyote indeed
[2:49
PM] Mr. Brown.:
Hello
my baby! Hello my honey! Hello my rag time gal! THUD
[2:50
PM] "Geologists estimate the victim somehow ran off a
cliff trying to escape...stood in space surrounded by volcanic clouds
for several seconds dipping his foot down into the open air below
before falling at least 500'."
[2:50
PM] Mr. Blue:
lol
His
body started falling but his head stayed in place for several more
seconds, with his neck elongating
[2:51
PM] Mr. Brown.:
I
keep seeing a dancing skeleton then thud
[2:51
PM]
"A
modern person would have been shattered into a billion pieces...but
ancient people were tougher than us. If it wasn't for the rock
that came down after..."
"Found
with the body was a tiny parasol and a sign that said "Utinan
non!"
[2:52
PM] Mr. Blue:
lol
[10:14
AM] Mr. Blue:
Did
the Saxons/vikings possibly have neat little mustaches?
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ce/Sutton_Hoo_helmet_%28replica%29.jpg
[10:15
AM]
Never
thought about it in the hundred times I've seen that helmet, but it's
not really an impressive mustache, is it?
"Say
the secret rune and you get to sack the village foist!"
[10:19
AM] Mr. Blue:
It's
a Mike Ditka mustache
The
wiki article on the Sutton Hoo helmet is probably the most detailed
article on the site
Explicitly
detailing every fragment found and how it was made/forged
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