Bulldrek v3.0

Jestyr

Yeah, I've seen this quoted on my LiveJournal friends list quite a bit, and it's quite amusing.

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But going there just cause we can does sound like a bit of a waste. Wasn't "because we can" the original reason for going to the moon? :) What exactly is an astrobiologist anyway? I would assume that it's a biologist who specialises in... life in space. Presumably, since there are no litt...

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Frodo didn't necessarily have "grand plans", but he <i>did</i> think on a larger scale than Sam did. He was a lot more aware of the outside world, and a lot more interested in it, than Sam was - Sam's desires when it came to the outside world were pretty much that he wanted to meet Elves a...

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I think part of the point with Sam is that his desires are so simple that he doesn't need the Ring to make them happen. His ambitions, desires and hopes are all on a small scale, so the Ring doesn't look quite as indispensable to him as it does to people who think on a bigger scale.

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Nex, your userpic rocks.

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Good stuff. :) I'm about to start re-reading the Silmarillion, so as I go I may as well make notes about any references to Elvish appearances. Though I think the info we want is more likely to be in one of the supplemental books - Unfinished Tales, and the like - which often have more concentrated w...

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True... if you're looking for specific references, you may also find them in the Silmarillion and various Unfinished Tales. I just asked my father for more info; he reads the trilogy pretty much every year, and has done for decades. He said (with about 80% confidence) that most elves are dark-haired...

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But, IIRC, it's out of desperation rather than simple desire to possess.

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I just wish they had put as much effort in that kind of thing as they did in Elven styled weapons, armours and so on. I think they put just as much effort into the "person" side of the Elvish look, I think you just disagree with their style choices. Which is, you know, fair enough - but i...

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Happy birthday!

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There's also the possibility that he's right and Trivial Pursuit is wrong. I've caught a few errors on occasion.

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Friend of mine had the same gripe about that particular scene. After them doing the whole parade ("Merry!.... Pippin!... Gimli!... Legolas!!!!") he was expecting them to start throwing in chracters from other movies. ("Spiderman....!!!!") Hah. :lol Absolutely. That scene could d...

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Apart from Lando, were there <i>any</i> black people in Star Wars? Either ANH, or the whole trilogy?

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Also, I would have liked to see features and coloration on the elves that wasn't the same as all the other good races out there. ... elves could have done with some almond shaped eyes or a different skintone or that cool silver hair we read about in pulp fantasy books. Something. Except that's not ...

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I saw another Bulldrek clone yesterday! Instead of being one of the standard-model Dennis Clones, however, this was an Eva Clone. The soccer mom variant, to be precise.

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Not to mention the fact that Tolkien is on record as saying he didn't feel men and women could ever truly be good friends, because the issue of sex would always raise its head at some point. Only same-sex friendships could ever attain *true* friendship because there was no sexual tension getting in ...

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Presumably they like still paying the rent, and a bad job is better than no job?

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I'm trying to imagine just how big this snake is, and I can't wrap my mind around it. Snakes were not meant to be that big, dammit. Someone must have been putting growth hormone in the dogs' food.

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The problem with BSE is that it's absolutely pernicious, so once you've got it it takes a long time to get rid of it. Just ask the UK; it did horrific things to their beef industry.

The stock price of Australian beef exporters is climbing rapidly, of course.

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I certainly wasn't. Admittedly, I hadn't done any research, but he certainly hasn't been reported in the Australian media in any real way. The NoI gets some attention as a fringe group; they seem to be regarded as Muslims in the same way that Mormons are regarded as Christians. Farrakhan himself has...

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He sounds like a complete ass, and it's sad that his arrant racism still has a place in modern society, but I guess it's inevitable.

(Nonetheless, your reply doesn't invalidate mine; it just confirms the 'unless' part of it.)

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Well, yes and no. I mean, it's less... escapable, I guess. On the other hand, it also leaves - as I understand it - less problems. I mean, it just kills /people/. It doesn't destroy infrastructure (as much), and it doesn't leave nearly as much contamination. So, in some ways I think it's a bit less ...

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Bastard! Got here first... stupid summer time...

Happy New Year, everyone, and happy 2004.

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On the other hand, this link says Originally scheduled to be retired in the mid-1980s, the LANCE system was extended through 1990. DA subsequently decided in June 1985 to extend the nuclear-only LANCE shelf life to 1995. However, on 27 September 1991, President George Bush announced a unilateral cut...

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Just for the layperson: "Also called ENHANCED RADIATION WARHEAD, specialized type of small thermonuclear weapon that produces minimal blast and heat but which releases large amounts of lethal radiation. The neutron bomb delivers blast and heat effects that are confined to an area of only a few ...

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MooCow wrote:The NoI is run by Louis Farrakhan. Farrakhan is an extreme racist. That effectively makes the NoI the black version of the KKK.

That doesn't necessarily follow, unless Farrakhan is also using the NoI to promulgate his own views.

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Sweetie? Black text please? Fixed it. (I think. I'm using subSilver as a template, so I can't tell.) I just didn't think it was important since the whole /thread/ was marked as being spoileriffic. I haven't managed to turn up any news yet on a new BSG series, but here's hoping. (My /god/ the TOS fa...

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(Yay, thread resurrection.) I finally saw this last night, after managing to download it at my parents' place. I really, really enjoyed it - I never much liked the original BSG, but this just pushed all my buttons. Unlike some people, I actually liked the ending - I loved the fact that the guy Balta...

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All hail Connie, the first (official) non-human Bulldrekker.

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And I would think there'd be some doubt as to the validity of any conversion made under duress or false pretenses. Absolutely. Imagine you're (a) God and want everyone to love you... how valuable is that love if it's been coerced? That's the whole point of a God giving his/her creations free will i...

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crone wrote:soy milk in LSDs

LSDs?

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Somewhat lactose intolerant. On the rare occasions I have milk, small amounts of whole milk are the nicest.

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I thought Weaving was okay for Elrond - my Elrond Issues are with the directing side of things - but Cate Blanchett as Galadriel was not good. Not nearly enough charisma; far too remote and distant.

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I thought almost all of the acting was excellent, although some of the directorial preferences re acting left me cold. Sam cried /far/ too much, and Elrond was much too... agitated. And, as usual, Arwen was all wet-sock-y. Ho-hum. On the other hand, Viggo Mortenson did a stand-out job as Aragorn, an...

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RotK is released here in Aus today... kibitzing and whining to come when I've seen it.

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I got: * A new desk chair for my study (not actually acquired yet) * Books: Tolkien Through the Years; the Cambridge Encyclopaedia of the English Language; a guide to home improvement; Bill Bryson's "A Short History of Almost Everything" * A set of Mensa "brain puzzles" * Two Tol...

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The movie rights for LotR had been sold years ago - in the seventies to Saul Zaentz, I believe - so Christopher Tolkien no longer had any control over what movies were made of the books. The Tolkien estate was apparently not happy with Jackson's movies; I remember reading that one son was enthusiast...

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Is she the... Complete Dirty Whore?

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Christmas Eve is my daddy's birthday, so we went out to lunch and have been lazing the rest of the day away. Now for a game of mahjongg or two before bed.

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That was you?

My bad... I raced off to the other end of the house to find it, when I heard it ringing, but I got it too late. And the number just said "withheld", which means anything from an overseas call to a telemarketer with call ID blocking.

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Christmas Eve's not a holiday in Australia either. Although lots of us do take the day off. *lazes happily*

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][a, b, c or e?

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But there are just those people who cant learn things, their brains just cant take it, I can run 6 msn conversations at once, while browsing webpages and watching tv, but cannot for the life of me read sheet music. I highly doubt that people don't know about computers because they can't - rather, i...

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The trick would be working out a way to ship them that didn't cost a bomb, and left them not flat and ruined.

(Wow. Your sig file looks /weird/ on subSilver.

)

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I've got a better idea: how about I pay you to make them, ship them to me, and then I can claim I made them.

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I would like to note that the origami rose is vile torture that simply cannot be made.

Gah.

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Jesus. *snort* That's just embarrassing.

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Post removed because apparently I'm an idiot.

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It took you this long to work that out?

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It'd certainly arrest the encroaching normality, though.

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