Wouter Valentijn wrote:
> Elvis Gump wrote:
>> Wouter Valentijn wrote:
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>>>> I'm only kidding about playing golf. I think they should allow the
>>>> game to be more interesting by letting the rest of us shoot
>>>> paintballs at golf players from the woods and rough. I think it
>>>> would make the game much more interesting. Granted not as much as
>>>> my other idea about unleashing wolverines onto the course, but
>>>> golfers are such a wussy bunch anyhow.
>>> The wolverines might get hit by golfballs!
>> Not all golfers are Tiger Woods!
>
> And sometimes Tiger Woods plays golf like he's not Tiger Woods.
Golf has to be one of the stupidest sports ever. The only reason it's
tolerable is the amount of rich asshole who drop dead of heart attacks
out on the fairways. You'd be surprised how many do. It's wonderful!
>>>> Really any moon base is going to be like a really bad camping trip
>>>> and you aren't going to enjoy riding down on a column of thrust
>>>> like the Apollo guys did. Remember if that rocket faults or cuts
>>>> out you're toast.
>>> Not a good thing indeed.
>> On the upside that smug stewardess with her condescending safety spiel
>> is going to be entertainingly terrified.
>
> Would she really have time for that?
Well I meant how smug they are at the beginning of the flight versus how
most would probably freak out if anything in their 'safety' lecture
actually had to be put into effect. It's like the 'water landing'. They
always act like this is possible when any airplane coming down on the
cusp of it's stall speed is going to come apart like tissue paper.
>>>> Getting to and from space much less going anywhere is still pure
>>>> daredevil and wickedly expensive with chemical rockets.
>>>>
>>>> If one of you nerds would put down the Playstation controller and
>>>> invent the anti-grav generator already the rest of us could finally
>>>> take that magic carpet ride.
>>> If we could only figure out dark energy. It might be a clue to such a
>>> device.
>> I thought it was dark matter and zero-point energy?
>
> Zero-point energy is connected to vaccuum.
> Dark matter is the not yet seen matter (with different physical properties
> from 'regular' matter) that seems to make up *most* of our universe.
> Dark energy refers to the force that expands our universe faster and faster.
I thought the Universe expanding and expanding had something to do with
Monty Python...
I had a long Monday so I'm not up to reading these though they all sound
like they'd make titles for summer sci-fi movies. Or really bad Sci-Fi
Channel produced movie.
>>>> BTW, anyone seen that commercial with the magic carpet factory? I
>>>> don't know what it advertises but it's funny as hell.
>> I guess no one watches tee-vee like me?
>
> Err... could be.
> I try to avoid as many commercials as possible. And most of them are shown
> on Dutch television.
> Sometimes I think we get to see American commercials. Mostly when I see
> international stations like CNN or NGC.
> And sometimes I think I recognize some of the voices... Does Kiefer
> Sutherland do something for some telecom company?
I think most actors are always doing some voice over. I can't say I've
noticed Kiefer though I have heard his dad do V.O. work in the past.
I got a kick a few years ago when a rather slutty, punk girl I knew from
my LA days turned up doing home loan commercials only now completely
remade as the girl next door. I'm not sure there really are any
girls-next-door anymore. I think they are all posers and the real thing
has been hunted to extinction.
> Another voice that I can't place is a female voice doing a AIG
> commercial (they're into insurance or something). I just *know* that
> voice! But what lady does it belong to?
Sorry, don't know that one. Probably you could Google it up though.
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"Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped."
-- Groucho Marx
