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From the Onion...
Man Vows Never To Watch Another Sci-Fi Movie With Physicist Friend>/b>

DALLAS—After watching Starship Troopers with friend Jeff Oberst Monday, Adam Buck vowed never to watch another science-fiction film with the Rice University physics professor. "First, he spends 20 minutes telling me how bugs could never get that big because of the way they breathe," said Buck, 28. "Then he goes off on how faster-than-light-speed travel isn't physically possible." Buck said the evening was even less enjoyable than the time they watched Back To The Future together.
bitpusher
12:21:30 PM
2/05/03

Oops...
bitpusher
12:21:46 PM
2/05/03

did you see the one about "Man's Online Persona Is So Much Cooler He Is"? or something? LMAO!!
lyra
12:22:53 PM
2/05/03

Yah that was funny....hehhehhehhehhehheh
bitpusher
12:27:29 PM
2/05/03

The Onion is great isn't it?
Can't read it at work though, the potty mouth filters will get me into trouble.

I must admit I do the same thing. I couldn't watch that so called sci-fi movie that started John Revolta as a seven foot tall alien. First time on cable I turned it off. It came on again latter and I laughed thru it.

Yep, I'm a geek.
StoveStomper
12:29:08 PM
2/05/03

did you see the one about "Man's Online Persona Is So Much Cooler He Is"? or something? LMAO!!"
lyra
12:22:53 PM
02/05/03


Hey! I resemble that remark!
Pathman
12:29:35 PM
2/05/03

The Onion rocks da Casbah!
Artex
12:31:18 PM
2/05/03

i know, i almost posted that one here, Pathman. but i didn't want to hurt anyone's feelings. j/k! :-D it's sort of funny...in real life, i'm even cooler than on TT. LOLOLOL!
lyra
12:32:13 PM
2/05/03

I have a friend who is into Forensic Science. I will no longer go see slasher movies with her. We went to see Scream 2 and all through the movie she would give me a blow by blow of how there was no way that knife would not break ...they blood would not splatter that much... then she would count how many times someone would get stabbed etc.....
it kinda took all the fun out of it.
mapleleaf
12:34:18 PM
2/05/03

Lyra, a legend in her own mind. ;)
StoveStomper
12:34:36 PM
2/05/03

LOL! i'm even making myself gag.
lyra
12:37:41 PM
2/05/03

But in an "adorable" way. LOL
StoveStomper
12:42:40 PM
2/05/03

That’s nothing. You should try going to the movies with my wife.

Her laugh is a little… unusual and distinctive. We saw a comedy and she emitted plenty of goat on helium noises. A couple of days later, one of her clients asked her “Were you at the movies the other night?”
Violin
12:45:26 PM
2/05/03

For the record: I did not just offer to let TT'ers date my wife.
Violin
12:49:44 PM
2/05/03

goat on helium noises


you must record it so we all can enjoy it, becasue i have never heard of a goat on hellium.
mapleleaf
12:50:27 PM
2/05/03

I didn't read that as an offer, I read it as a challenge...
bitpusher
12:52:51 PM
2/05/03

My sophomore year of college I had two theatre majors for room mates. We loved to watch Startrek TNG together. We would actually wind up in arguments about the show though.

In one episode there was a planet that was cloaked. Picard was concerned about leaving it because they wouldn't be able to find it again. I said that was bogus. If they tracked it for a period of time they could determine the orbit. The math required to do that has been around since Newton. They said I didn't know what I was talking about. I was like, "Hell yeah I do, try 2 years of calculus and differential equations to go along with physics. That's baby stuff to guys who are seniors in physics." I quit explaining how things on star trek worked after that.
dayhiker
12:57:16 PM
2/05/03

I'm still stuck on Lyra gagging!
Limpy
12:59:27 PM
2/05/03

Violin, I hope your wife doesn't read TT. LOL
StoveStomper
1:06:13 PM
2/05/03

Limpy. you're sick, dude. :-)
lyra
1:06:41 PM
2/05/03

ME TOO!!!!
mapleleaf
1:07:54 PM
2/05/03

Finally, mapleleaf admits she's sick...
bitpusher
1:08:29 PM
2/05/03

no no no, hoping that violins wife does not read TT.

man oh man....
mapleleaf
1:11:19 PM
2/05/03

Hey dayhiker
Did you get to pick your roommates?
MS State tried to put same majors together.
Where did you go to school, UA? That would explain it, not a "real" engineering school. ;)
StoveStomper
1:18:26 PM
2/05/03

i roomed with 2 engineers at UA that would schedule meetings and projects around TNG...wow..these guys were horrible..if i would have killed them when i first thought about it, i'd be outta prison by now!
OPIE
1:26:53 PM
2/05/03

I needed to swap housing situations mid year and had a friend who was co-oping. I took his place there. UA is all about diversity and living with two theatre majors was eye opening, to say the least.

I didn't go that far OPIE. I just scheduled sex with the girlfriend around it, HA. Just kidding honey, if you're reading this.
dayhiker
1:47:27 PM
2/05/03

I went to Scream 2 with my older sons. I didn't find it entertaining.
Pathman
2:59:26 PM
2/05/03

Remember the espisode of Seinfied where he dates a girl with a laugh like, "Elmer Fudd sitting on an orange juicer". That's the one with the Bubble Boy.
stanlee
3:17:36 PM
2/05/03

Soooo...does anybody heckle the previews and then stand up at the end of the movie and announce loudly to everyone in the theater "Two hours of my life I'll never get back!"? Just wondering.

I also know somebody that sleeps through every movie he goes to. In the last 3 years he's managed to stay awake through 2 movies. His wife was impressed both time. We call it the Sean [lack of a] Snore of Approval.
skullcap
4:22:41 PM
2/05/03

I went to Scream 2 with my older sons. I didn't find it entertaining."
Pathman
02:59:26 PM
02/05/03


some how I knew you would say that j/k


maple
treebeard
4:25:35 PM
2/05/03

Man beats another in shushing incident

Milan man arrested following attack at Ann Arbor theater


Monday, March 22, 2004

BY AMALIE NASH
News Staff Reporter Ann Arbor News

A moviegoer was severely beaten after he shushed another man in the row behind him during a showing of "The Triplets of Belleville" at a downtown Ann Arbor theater Saturday evening, city police said.


The 51-year-old victim was hospitalized with multiple fractured ribs, a collapsed lung and several facial lacerations that required stitches, police said.

Paul Elrod, 38, of Milan, was arrested at his home that night and charged with assault with intent to do great bodily harm less than murder, police said.

The victim told police he and his wife were watching the movie at the State Theater at 8:30 p.m. when they were distracted by talking behind them. He said he turned and motioned for the man to quiet down, and then the man began coughing in his ear and kicking his chair, reports said.

The victim reported the man eventually spit on him and threw popcorn, so he got up, turned around and said, "Excuse me." The victim said he was punched in the face and thrown down the stairs and into a banister.

Police said the assailant then left the theater but was followed by a theater manager, who got his vehicle's license plate number, reports said. The manager said the man threatened him as he walked behind him.

Police said Elrod called a short time later and said he was attacked at the theater and defended himself, but he refused to return to the scene to speak to officers. After he was later arrested, he told police the victim came at him first, punched him and rushed at him, so he pushed the man and he accidentally fell down the stairs.

Elrod was arraigned Sunday on the felony charge and has a preliminary hearing March 31.
Violin
11:48:08 AM
3/23/04

SHUSH!
mapleleaf
11:54:12 AM
3/23/04

be vewy vewy quoiet! We're hunting wabbit!
Treebeard
11:56:30 AM
3/23/04

hey down in front!
mapleleaf
11:57:43 AM
3/23/04

Down in front?

I'm gonna kick yer ass!


(oof, punch, bop, bing, ouch...)
Treebeard
11:58:58 AM
3/23/04

Figures, I always end up sitting behind the tail guy with the big hat.
lumberzac
12:00:01 PM
3/23/04

You don't like my hat?


I'm gonna kick yer ass!
Treebeard
12:01:03 PM
3/23/04

Tell him to lower his tail and take off his hat then.
bitpusher
12:01:11 PM
3/23/04

When I had my freak hair, I used to hear people grumbling behind me all the time. I guess I shoulda kicked their asses.
Violin
12:17:43 PM
3/23/04

Tilt
12:37:37 PM
3/23/04

Naw, if you bearspray the guy behind you, you'll just clear out the theatre, and it really pisses off the other patrons.

Uh, at least I think that's what would happen.

<ahem>
bitpusher
12:38:36 PM
3/23/04

This might be better.
lumberzac
12:40:37 PM
3/23/04

Cool by me!
Tilt
12:41:07 PM
3/23/04

well Dang, Buck Rogers!
Tilt
12:42:10 PM
3/23/04

This is why I don't go to movies in the theatre anymore.
Wounded Knee
2:04:08 PM
3/23/04

You don't like movies?


I ought to kick yer ass!
Treebeard
2:05:29 PM
3/23/04

It sure doesn't take much to set off you downstaters does it?
lumberzac
2:09:39 PM
3/23/04

Violin, .....freak hair???

Now the glare from your chrome dome pisses 'em off, no?
MarkO
2:10:18 PM
3/23/04

Downstaters?


I'm gonna kick yer ass and everyone that looks like you!
Treebeard
2:11:36 PM
3/23/04

"You don't like movies?


I ought to kick yer ass!"
Treebeard
02:05:29 PM
03/23/04
ignore this user

Yeah! Bring it on pal!
Wounded Knee
2:16:54 PM
3/23/04

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