Only A Test 2015-06-12

[GlytchMeister]

Wow.
I feel like I'm the only millennial here.

I suppose this explains why so many of your references and jokes whizz right over my head so often.

[ChattaStarhawk]

I hit 61 back at the beginning of the year, guess that puts me in the "ole fart's" club.

[Atomic]

Wow.
I feel like I'm the only millennial here.

I suppose this explains why so many of your references and jokes whizz right over my head so often.

Ok -- let's see:

Inception. Avatar. Recent stuff.

Jurassic Park. Alien. A while ago.

Star Wars. Blazing Saddles. Oldies, but goodies.

The Longest Day. The Man with No Name. Even older.

Cleopatra. Paint Your Wagon. Maybe you've heard of them.

The Day the Earth Stood Still. Ernie Kovacs. Cliche sources. Haven't see the "original."

Dracula. Frankenstein. Stereotypes -- wait -- just where did they come from again?


Feeling Old/Young now?

You really owe it to yourself to find somebody way older than you and ask them about stuff they enjoyed as a kid. Then go see/watch/read it. You may never otherwise learn/encounter/discover Trigger, Rin Tin Tin, and Francis the Talking Mule. Or Abbott and Costello, or Twelve O'Clock High, or Doctor Phibes, or....

[Sgt. Howard]

Wow.
I feel like I'm the only millennial here.

I suppose this explains why so many of your references and jokes whizz right over my head so often.

Not to worry, son- there are deep wells of wisdom here to draw from... most of it will get you in trouble, but it's still fun...

[tophoo]

Wow.
I feel like I'm the only millennial here.

I suppose this explains why so many of your references and jokes whizz right over my head so often.

Not to worry, son- there are deep wells of wisdom here to draw from... most of it will get you in trouble, but it's still fun...

Of course, that 'wisdom' might just be bullshit delivered with authority...

[ChattaStarhawk]

Wow.
I feel like I'm the only millennial here.

I suppose this explains why so many of your references and jokes whizz right over my head so often.

Not to worry, son- there are deep wells of wisdom here to draw from... most of it will get you in trouble, but it's still fun...

Of course, that 'wisdom' might just be bullshit delivered with authority...

But it's fun bullshit...

[AnotherFairportfan]

We've had YEARS to hone our delivery...

[Catawampus]

I have an LEM cutout model on my desk, and I still honestly can't believe we made to to the moon and back with that contraption.

But they did. And we have the visual proof of satellite photos of the Sea of Tranquility.

If you believe that there really was a satellite. Or a Sea of Tranquility. Or a moon (I know one woman who is convinced that the moon is an elaborate mock-up).

[AnotherFairportfan]

Evey time i look at this page i'm more amused by Jessie's reaction...

[oldmanmickey]

Sits back in the Buda position and delivers the numerous pearls of wisdom.... sorry cant do it with a straight face. We just had more time to screw up and maybe learn from it. Just what ever you do dont get them started talking about walking 5 miles to school, up hill both ways through hip deep snow in Florida fighting a dinosaur. Laugh all you want my 6 year old granddaughter wanted to know if i had one when i was little, of course i said yes.

[as363]

And right now - here on Reno Nevada - I'm watching the Science channel where people are still debating whether or not we landed on the Moon. And you can still see - with a good scope - the remains of the lander and the tracks of the driving vehicle and the foot-prints.

[Typeminer]

They left a laser reflector at Tranquility Base. Researchers have been pinging it since 1969. Lots of other researchers have received and analyzed the rocks they brought back.

I've spent a lot of my adult life drinking with geologists, and let me tell ya--you're not gonna maintain a silent global conspiracy for 46 years if geologists are involved.

Was it Harlan Ellison who observed that stupidity is more plentiful than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life?

[jwhouk]

They left a laser reflector at Tranquility Base. Researchers have been pinging it since 1969. Lots of other researchers have received and analyzed the rocks they brought back.

Actually, Apollo 11 was the only one that didn't have a reflector. The others, however, did - including 17, the last one.

[AmriloJim]

Was it Harlan Ellison who observed that stupidity is more plentiful than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life?

Case in point: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sent out a tweet applauding the movie "Jurassic World" for not using real animals in the film.

[shadowinthelight]

Was it Harlan Ellison who observed that stupidity is more plentiful than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life?

Case in point: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sent out a tweet applauding the movie "Jurassic World" for not using real animals in the film.

[AnotherFairportfan]

Was it Harlan Ellison who observed that stupidity is more plentiful than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life?

I think it was Asimov, and that the original observation was that the two most common things in the Univers are hydrogen and stupidity.

[Thor]

Wow.
I feel like I'm the only millennial here.

I suppose this explains why so many of your references and jokes whizz right over my head so often.

Could be worse. You could be GenX like me, having to choose references from their media or your media, with scant little of my media in between.

(Stupid demographic bulges trying to crowd out the chosen people...)

[Dave]

Could be worse. You could be GenX like me, having to choose references from their media or your media, with scant little of my media in between.

(Stupid demographic bulges trying to crowd out the chosen people...)

Do give us oldfarts some credit, Thor. We try to be very understanding and compassionate when interacting with those whose references sometimes include (shudder) Disco. A terrible thing it was, to have a young generation exposed to something like that during their impressionable, formative years.

[scantrontb]

Was it Harlan Ellison who observed that stupidity is more plentiful than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life?

Case in point: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sent out a tweet applauding the movie "Jurassic World" for not using real animals in the film.

what?, WHAT?!... NO Way... Blue wasn't a FAKE... i mean come on! you could TELL that the stupid pig was TOTALLY a Fake, since when have you ever seen a pig that ran that fast before? huh? yeah, those CGI guys REALLY screwed up on that pig by making it run so fast... but NO WAY was Blue a fake... the Moasaur, well, maybe... the Assistant assigned to watch the kids might have been a stunt double or CGI effect, but hmm, i don't know, I'd be asking for a whole lotta money if i had to do that scene... so yeah, that Dino MIGHT have been CGI, though it might have been easier to have the HUMAN as the CGI effect and just superimpose her onto the live film of the Moasaur, i mean they have the human form, from all these HD video games and such, down to a science now, right? it would be easier on the budget to just get a generic human from some video game engine and have it "eaten by dinosaur" than it would be otherwise, and for a big-budget movie like that where they had to build a theme park out in the boonies and transport all those people to the island, let alone all the R&D for the Hampster-Balls and the cost of installing that Mag-Lev train system... yeah, they'd want to save on any little bit they could in order to make ends meet money-wise...

[shadowinthelight]

Just history repeating itself. Some people thought the dinosaurs in The Lost World (1925) were real and demanded to know where they found the animals.