Genetic Mishap
Boomstick Coordinator
I am a South American fish. Surrender your urethra.
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Post by Genetic Mishap on Sept 29, 2003 17:40:31 GMT -5
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BDC
Ghostbuster
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Post by BDC on Sept 29, 2003 22:50:24 GMT -5
CRINGE.
That's really all I can say or do.
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Post by DarthToad on Sept 30, 2003 20:15:33 GMT -5
That's just...crazy...
I bet Disney might do some of these someday. Actually, the Lion King is supposed to be a weird version of Hamlet with a happy ending, though I don't really see much of the supposed connection.
Oh, and I can't wait to go to Being-and-Nothingness land. Wait, you could argue that we're already there. Of course, I refuse to get into a philisophical conversation with myself on here. Better do that in my head instead.
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Post by PoolMan on Oct 1, 2003 11:23:33 GMT -5
Actually, the Lion King is supposed to be a weird version of Hamlet with a happy ending Funny that, my fiancée was saying the same thing the other day. I see the resemblance (the king killed by his brother, I believe, the son seeing his father's ghost), but it's a pretty loose comparison. Lion King's got the whole exiled as a boy, grow up in the wild, come back to claim the throne story to it as well, and nowhere is it suggested that Simba might be insane. Although, perhaps Timon and Pumbaa are Rosencrantz and Guildenstern? Why I am even talking about this...?  |
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Post by artificial_person on Oct 1, 2003 11:46:00 GMT -5
My high school English teacher would always use the Hamlet connection as an excuse to show the Lion King in class.
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Post by jenfrazer on Oct 1, 2003 13:13:30 GMT -5
Your teacher should have shown Strange Brew instead.
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Post by PoolMan on Oct 1, 2003 14:43:12 GMT -5
Hahaha... I never thought of Strange Brew that way, but you're right!
Rosenbob and Guildendoug. Who'd have thought it?
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Post by SpankyLoo on Oct 21, 2003 21:08:00 GMT -5
I've always heard that the Lion King is an allegory for communism.
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Post by jenfrazer on Oct 21, 2003 22:15:39 GMT -5
To Poolman: If anything else, Elsinore Brewery is a dead giveaway.
What's this new Bob and Doug meets Disney thing?
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Post by PoolMan on Oct 21, 2003 22:50:09 GMT -5
To Poolman: If anything else, Elsinore Brewery is a dead giveaway, VERY correct. I forgot all about that. Boy, some Canadian I am. What's this new Bob and Doug meets Disney thing? Perhaps they mean the two mooses in Brother Bear, who are SO obviously geared to be Bob and Doug homages/ripoffs. |
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Post by jenfrazer on Oct 22, 2003 9:40:44 GMT -5
Especially since the voices are Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas. I guess it's like Randolph and Mortimer Duke showing up in Coming to America.
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Post by PoolMan on Oct 22, 2003 9:46:52 GMT -5
They ARE? (checks IMDb) Oh my goodness.
I don't know what to say about that.
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Uber
Boomstick Coordinator
Who Farted?
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Post by Uber on Oct 23, 2003 9:48:07 GMT -5
Pooly, you better watch your back. If the Canadian authorities get ahold of you for not recognizing the "Strange Brew" crew, you might get deported down here to join us classless boorish Americans. And doggone it, we might not want you, so you'd get NAFTA'd right on down to Mexico, where you will be forced to switch from beer to tequila. And goodness knows that such a switch might just be the final shock to your system to push you over the edge of madness.
I can just picture it now:
Pooly: "One beer"
Bartender: "We don't have beer. But we do have tequila"
Pooly: "Fine then, give me a pint!"
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Post by Head Mutant on Oct 23, 2003 9:53:01 GMT -5
I've been drinking with the boy; he can probably put away a pint of fermented cactus juice with ease, and then get up and do a jig just to prove his manly worth.
Ah, come to Detroit if you get deported. We accept anyone -- after all, we haven't put out a legal bounty on the Insane Clown Possy and all of its fans, unlike the other 49 states.
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Post by PoolMan on Oct 23, 2003 11:15:10 GMT -5
Pooly: "Fine then, give me a pint!" Uber, without exaggeration, I very nearly spit coffee all over my computer reading that line. Seriously, it was an exercise in lip strength. Damn, that's good funny. I would say in my defence of not recognizing Rick and Dave that you don't get to hear much of them, and it's overlayered with music in the trailer I saw. I just figured it was a good couple of impersonators. Believe me, the Mounties have already come looking for me! "Precrime, eh? Open up!" |
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