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AnotherFairportfan wrote:Mantis shrimp. One that size could break your arm. He's lucky he grabbed it the right way.

Anomalocaris lives!! Bwahahaha!!

Random seats in the theaters were rigged to give mild shocks in the lower back...

Aed wrote:

AnotherFairportfan wrote:Mantis shrimp. One that size could break your arm. He's lucky he grabbed it the right way.

Reminds me of the Tingler.]

A-Man for the Win!

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Aed wrote:

AnotherFairportfan wrote:Mantis shrimp. One that size could break your arm. He's lucky he grabbed it the right way.

Reminds me of the Tingler.]

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shadowinthelight wrote:The only question is which way to go. Fried or scampi?

Steaks.

We can also do clam steaks.



And if you think that clam bears a passing resemblance to ...ahem... a certain body part, perhaps somewhat exaggerated - let me assure you that many pictures of the species are MUCH more so.

Warrl wrote:And if you think that clam bears a passing resemblance to ...ahem... a certain body part, perhaps somewhat exaggerated - let me assure you that many pictures of the species are MUCH more so.

Semi-related: The Rocky Mountain oyster. (not to be confused with Prairie Oyster, of course)

MerchManDan wrote:(not to be confused with Prairie Oyster, of course)

Is that anything like a prairie squid?

shadowinthelight wrote:

MerchManDan wrote:(not to be confused with Prairie Oyster, of course)

Is that anything like a prairie squid?

*shudder*

That video of the "dancing" squid is one of the most disturbing things I've ever watched. Brain bleach ain't gonna be sufficient... where the hell did I put that neuralizer?

Shot with the cheapass dumb phone in poor light, but i just had to grab it:

Looks a bit like Bud after she "landed".

AnotherFairportfan wrote:Random seats in the theaters were rigged to give mild shocks in the lower back...

Hmmm, we need to start thinking of gimmicks for when Wapsi Square: The Movie comes out.

Perhaps we can have it filmed in 11D instead of boring ol' 3D, using patented TinaVision Camera Technology!

Catawampus wrote:

AnotherFairportfan wrote:Random seats in the theaters were rigged to give mild shocks in the lower back...

Hmmm, we need to start thinking of gimmicks for when Wapsi Square: The Movie comes out.

Perhaps we can have it filmed in 11D instead of boring ol' 3D, using patented TinaVision Camera Technology!

According to Shadowinthelight, we'll need 'Odorama' scratch-n-sniff cards...

But the traditional aroma of stale popcorn, spilled syrupy beverage, vomit, urine, and unwashed armpits is a vital part of the movie-going experience! You can't do something that will conflict with that special atmosphere!

I've actually wondered a few times why nobody has tried advertising their cinema as now showing movies in 4D format, to try and one-up the competition.

Something I finally cracked the formula for is taking videos on the computer and making them into DVDs with fully featured menus and such using only free software. So my current project had me looking for images of Genie for Disney's Aladdin. For some reason Wikipedia's image for Princess Jasmine popped up and I clicked on it. The article for the character said she was based on Princess Badroulbadour. That character's page gives the Arabic بدر البدور, badru l-budūr, "full moon of full moons". I thought, "Gee, that sounds familiar. I wonder where it is from? Oh yea..."

I like the thought Acacia's last name translates to "full moon".

shadowinthelight wrote:I thought, "Gee, that sounds familiar. I wonder where it is from? Oh yea..."
I like the thought Acacia's last name translates to "full moon".

Ah, it hadn't occurred to me that everybody here wasn't already aware of that. Oh well.

When I first read her name and then later that Lanthian society was originally matriarchal, it actually made a surprising amount of sense that her family name would be the strictly feminine form of "full moon". In many modern patriarchal societies, both men and women are often given strictly masculine versions of the family name (such as all the women named Anderson or Johnson). So her name does fit quite well culturally. I doubt that Paul Taylor actually sat and planned it out that way, but it is possible that he did.

Of course, that assumes that in this story the current Arabic word is directly lifted from ancient Lanthian. Seeing as how "budur" is also a word in Turkish (basically meaning something along the line that Acacia is Acacia), it could be that "Budur" meant something totally different in Lanthian times.

Afternoon gold

This should be done to every last one of them.

Cockroach Cremation

shadowinthelight wrote:This should be done to every last one of them.

Cockroach Cremation

"There's almost nothing left of the cockroach."

Except, I suspect, for a yummy odor of incinerated bug.

"After the Apocalypse, there will be nothing left but cockroaches and a faint, lingering odour of cat urine ... and Keith Richards."

AnotherFairportfan wrote:"After the Apocalypse, there will be nothing left but cockroaches and a faint, lingering odour of cat urine ... and Keith Richards."

yeah, it's too bad, but someone out in you-tube land did a time-lapse experiment about the death of the myth of Twinkies being one of the things left over at the end of the world...