Vondy Posted July 2, 2004 Report Share Posted July 2, 2004 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Up until this moment I had never heard of it' date=' so I'm not too fussed one way or the other. I'm only vaguely aware the Red Sox are a baseball team. No idea which city/state.No, I was even more ignorant about this than the curse thing. If that's possible.[/quote'] Ancient trivia, honestly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Squirrel Posted July 2, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 2, 2004 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER He's just trolling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vondy Posted July 2, 2004 Report Share Posted July 2, 2004 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Was that what the crappy movie with Hoffman and Stone was based on? Yeah, basically. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vondy Posted July 2, 2004 Report Share Posted July 2, 2004 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER BTW, WHY would we want ANY thread to exceed the Catsuit thread. That was perhaps the best thread ever on this site. Hows that for a start on a large number of posts? Ego, I surmise. Its just another mechanism for intensive post padding. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanguard00 Posted July 2, 2004 Report Share Posted July 2, 2004 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Congo and Rising Sun were the only two Chrichton books I was able to finish. Like Steven King I tend to go for the older stuff. Andromeda Strain, West World, Coma, etc. Although I liked Eaters of the Dead, Timeline and Jurassic Park, too. Oh, and The Great Train Robbery. Okay, yeah, I tend to like his stuff. Better than Grishom, anyway, and usually more than King. And I try and read his books before they become movies. Or at least before I see them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vondy Posted July 2, 2004 Report Share Posted July 2, 2004 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER We (being everyone in my apartment) just read an aweful article written by Crichton. It was about how Environmentalism has turned into a religion. The problem with the article is that he sites at one point that people just don't do any research into things. He further claims that oil is not going to run out and there have been no real harm caused by DDT. He provides no sources or bibliography. Best we can figure' date=' this was his attempt to get people furious to go out and actually research this claim. But even if it was the case.... blah! Bad Crichton![/quote'] Well, he is an author of fiction more than he's a scientist. That wasn't so true with Aasimov, but with Chrichton... I think the reason there wasn't a bibliography was that the article was originally published in a newspaper - and they don't reference the sources in their publication. It would be nice, when it appeared elsewhere, however, if he'd bother to cite them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vondy Posted July 2, 2004 Report Share Posted July 2, 2004 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Yeah it was' date=' I hated the book, so didn't even try to watch the movie.[/quote'] I normallly blow through books - good or bad - at an alarming pace. I didn't make it past 100 pages on this one. I had better bad books to read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanguard00 Posted July 2, 2004 Report Share Posted July 2, 2004 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Almost halfway there, D! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vondy Posted July 2, 2004 Report Share Posted July 2, 2004 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER I watched that piece of crap all the way through' date=' waiting for something interesting to happen. [/quote'] 15 minutes - and this from the man who OWNS John Carpenter's: Vampires Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vondy Posted July 2, 2004 Report Share Posted July 2, 2004 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER There is one thing that Crichton and King have in common. Take a book and turn it into a movie and the movie is going to overly suck. I LOVE Jurassic Park. Don't get me wrong, but if you read the book, you can see that Speilberg totally destroyed a phenominal possibility at his fingertips. Is that the "Chrichton King Curse?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vondy Posted July 2, 2004 Report Share Posted July 2, 2004 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Cool. I know a lot of people that really enjoy King's work. I'm perfectly willing to accept that it is tea, just not my cuppa. I don't have any particular problem with his stuff, outside the fact that I'm not very fond of it. Just like country music. I can't stand it, and it is in fact about the only kind of music that I can't even tune out, it just annoys me the entire time I can hear it. But it doesn't surprise me that other people like it a great deal. I don't consider it to not be music, or that people that like it are somehow "wrong", I just don't have any interest in hearing it myself. Wow...rambling more than usual...must be about bedtime... I know a lot of these people, too. They scare me more than King's books do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vondy Posted July 2, 2004 Report Share Posted July 2, 2004 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Sounds like me when I watched Event Horizon... I think the problem with Event Horizon was that the end was the same as the middle. If it had actually ENDED it would have been a decent movie. As it was. Cool space ships, but nothing more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vondy Posted July 2, 2004 Report Share Posted July 2, 2004 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER What did you think of Kubrick's The Shining vs. Stephen King's The Shining? I thought going mad with an axe was a tad scarier than going mad with croquet mallet. Or going mad with stale crumpets for that matter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vondy Posted July 2, 2004 Report Share Posted July 2, 2004 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Aah! Those movies are soo similar! I was just about to post about that. Aah! Those posts are soo similar! I was just about to post about that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vondy Posted July 2, 2004 Report Share Posted July 2, 2004 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Axe = Cliche Cliche = Effective Weapon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vondy Posted July 2, 2004 Report Share Posted July 2, 2004 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER The one major government report that was done on DDT' date=' back before it was outlawed, a many-hundred-page thing, said [i']conclusively[/i] there was no evidence for any harmful environmental effects, but the guy in charge of the agency at the time went ahead and put it on the "ban" list because he'd made a lot of political deals based on this upcoming report, and had promised various people the research would find DDT harmful. As for the oil thing...there's been a growing number of scientists over the last decade who don't believe oil's going to run out (not completely) because they are coming to believe the term "fossil fuels" is a misnomer in the case of oil. More evidence is accumulating that oil is being produced now through the actions of deep-crustal bacteria called "extremeophiles" who die in the too-cold temps and low pressures of the surface. Another point of questioning is this: "Many other bodies in the solar system have the exact same petrochemical signatures as our so-called 'fossil fuels'. Does anyone seriously believe there was ever a thriving dinosaur-and-fern-forests biosphere on Titan, or some of the other moons in the outer solar system?" I'm not saying which way I'm leaning on this (oil) one; even if it's true that oil isn't going to run out completely, I'd dearly love to see some real, funded work on alternatives, like worthwhile fuel cells and ways to efficiently store hydrogen for them. In that, at least, I have no doubt the environment would be better off if we stopped mass combustion of 'fossil fuels', regardless of those fuels' true origins. ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mentor Posted July 2, 2004 Report Share Posted July 2, 2004 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER I first read The Andromeda Strain in Junior High School and I last read Jurassic Park 2. The problem with Crichton is that all of his books are the same story. Frankenstein. No matter how utterly fascinating the subject starts off, none of the protagonists can be considered heroes, just victims caught in the flood of his narrtive, and every breakthrough of technological innovation was more than man was meant to know or deal with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vondy Posted July 2, 2004 Report Share Posted July 2, 2004 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Even more reason to not see Sphere...and glad I've avoided it thus far. It would be more pleasant to have a rectal probe. And quicker. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vondy Posted July 2, 2004 Report Share Posted July 2, 2004 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER For harmful effects on DDT, look at the Bald Eagle. I don't care about Oil. Hybrids are dirt cheap and use little gasoline. My roommates have one and average 47 miles a gallon. It is only time before 47 miles a gallon goes to 80+ miles a gallon or gone altogether. I'm not sure what percentage of oil usage that is, but it has to be pretty significant. Eagle Shmeagle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vondy Posted July 2, 2004 Report Share Posted July 2, 2004 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER ditto facsimile Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vondy Posted July 2, 2004 Report Share Posted July 2, 2004 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Uh-huh. I commend to your attention this article: http://www.junkscience.com/ddtfaq.htm In particular: In peculiar, maybe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vondy Posted July 2, 2004 Report Share Posted July 2, 2004 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER I enjoy King, but he is very hit and miss for me. Most of his early work, and the Bachman stuff is great. After that, it depends on the book. And while his movies have much suckitude the TV series based on his work are very nice. I just finished ready F Paul Wilson's The Haunted Air (a Repairman Jack book). For those that like supernatural adventure Wilson is amazing; well actually he is amazing anyway. Baseball is boredom incarnate. What does the F stand for? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vondy Posted July 2, 2004 Report Share Posted July 2, 2004 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Now that was a good movie. REPENT YE FOUL RODENT!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vondy Posted July 2, 2004 Report Share Posted July 2, 2004 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER He's just trolling. I never like trolls. Ogres on the other hand... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vondy Posted July 2, 2004 Report Share Posted July 2, 2004 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER thanks. go back for the sequel Field of Dreams II Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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