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Rubies posted:Can someone explain this popsicle stick joke to me? It kinda makes sense if the person being told the joke is named Buck.
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when someone explains but I can't get it.
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Why is The Lord of the Rings basically The Wizard of Oz?
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FogHelmut posted:Why is The Lord of the Rings basically The Wizard of Oz? Um...there's a wizard and...a bad witch? I don't know, I have seriously never heard that comparison in my life and am kind of at a loss for a clue as to how one could be made. I mean, there's a journey. And then the hobbits go home. I don't know.
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Huntersoninski posted:Um...there's a wizard and...a bad witch? I don't know, I have seriously never heard that comparison in my life and am kind of at a loss for a clue as to how one could be made. Well Dorothy is Frodo and the slippers are the ring, and there's a crew of adventurers. The Tin Man has an axe like Gimli, and the Cowardly Lion is basically a king without any subjects like Aragorn. There's talking trees, a Good Witch, a dark forest. They climb up a mountain to get to the Wicked Witch's castle, not unlike the Morgul Pass. There's a big gate to the Witch's castle, along with marching guards. The Flying Monkeys are basically the Nazgul. Emerald City is Minas Tirith. I'm sure there's a few more things. edit- Munchkins are hobbits, clearly. FogHelmut fucked around with this message at 05:04 on Nov 5, 2011 |
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FogHelmut posted:Well Dorothy is Frodo and the slippers are the ring, and there's a crew of adventurers. The Tin Man has an axe like Gimli, and the Cowardly Lion is basically a king without any subjects like Aragorn. There's talking trees, a Good Witch, a dark forest. They climb up a mountain to get to the Wicked Witch's castle, not unlike the Morgul Pass. There's a big gate to the Witch's castle, along with marching guards. The Flying Monkeys are basically the Nazgul. Emerald City is Minas Tirith. I'm sure there's a few more things. Well sure but then I guess you could boil it down to "every adventure book featuring a long journey is The Wizard of Oz" which isn't right. It's just that adventure/journey stories, including Oz, all tend to kind of have a formula because that formula works.
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Joseph Campbell's Hero With A Thousand Faces is a good read if you want to find out more about the archetypes that infuse pretty much every movie/story we see now.
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TheAngryDrunk posted:Has anyone used Kava tea as a sleep aid? Does it work? Have you tried melatonin? I used that for a while when I was having trouble sleeping. You can get it as a supplement at any sort of grocery store.
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Can I pay bills through a wi-fi connection at my library without criminals easily stealing all my credit-card numbers? What are the major risks associated with doing this?
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Mediochre posted:Can I pay bills through a wi-fi connection at my library without criminals easily stealing all my credit-card numbers? What are the major risks associated with doing this? You can get a VPN service like this which will encrypt everything between your laptop and the service's servers if you're really worried. Since most payment sites encrypt data anyway I'd be more worried about people shoulder surfing than anything else though. Some banks have services that use a small device you carry with you that gives you a temporary password you need to get into your account. That way somebody would need the device and the password for it as well as some other information to make a payment.
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Teeter posted:Have you tried melatonin? I used that for a while when I was having trouble sleeping. You can get it as a supplement at any sort of grocery store. I've used melatonin in the past, but it seems to lose its effectiveness after a few days. I wonder if it would work again since I haven't used it in so long.
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Do any stores still sell USB floppy disc drives? I've had zero luck so far.
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OMG JC a Bomb! posted:Do any stores still sell USB floppy disc drives? I've had zero luck so far. Why not buy off Amazon?
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Can anyone identify this font for me and when you think this print originated? It looks like 40's or 50's because I've seen this style before. 
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Where can I get the fix for Chrome that enables me to click timgs to enlarge them on the forums? Just reinstalled windows and it's driving me nuts 
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The Royal Nonesuch posted:Where can I get the fix for Chrome that enables me to click timgs to enlarge them on the forums? Just reinstalled windows and it's driving me nuts http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3201527&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=378#post387668104
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actionjackson posted:Can anyone identify this font for me and when you think this print originated? I probably can identify the font if you can get a clearer picture. Just the title would be okay. As it is, I can't tell what's thick and what's blur/distortion.
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There's a pretty good website that can identify fonts from samples, http://new.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/ It will probably need a better quality photo though.
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actionjackson posted:Can anyone identify this font for me and when you think this print originated? It looks like 40's or 50's because I've seen this style before. I haven't seen the poster before, but I'm 90% sure that font is good old Bodoni: http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/bitstream/atf-bodoni/
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There is an extension for Chrome that turns allows you to click on an image to go from the thumbnail to the fullsize (and vise versa) that I used on the forums before I reformatted. Now they are just thumbnails that I can't click with a red boarder around them. Does anyone know which extension this is?
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Besesoth posted:I haven't seen the poster before, but I'm 90% sure that font is good old Bodoni: http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/bitstream/atf-bodoni/ Looks right, here's a closer picture
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iloverice posted:There is an extension for Chrome that turns allows you to click on an image to go from the thumbnail to the fullsize (and vise versa) that I used on the forums before I reformatted. Now they are just thumbnails that I can't click with a red boarder around them. 4 posts up?
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FCKGW posted:4 posts up? I'm a moron. Thanks.
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actionjackson posted:Looks right, here's a closer picture Yep, that's Bodoni. Here's a replica (as close as I can get it; this is Bodoni MT, with -85 tracking on the headline and -50 tracking on "Official Color"): 
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Definitely bodoni. Is there a stream for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on the internet somewhere? Like, an official one? I tried to find one last year and didn't have much luck for a really long while.
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Fluffy Bunnies posted:Definitely bodoni.
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Where can I buy a bunch of cheap A4 size cardboard? It's for packaging purposes and the best example of what I need is something like the brown/grey board on the back of a pad of paper. All office supply places I try don't have any and online it's mainly just 'craft' card that's too thin / expensive. I'm in the UK.
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Install Gentoo posted:Many places do this. Most of the freeways around NYC have names, and Philly as well. A few pages late, but first off, nobody in NYC would actually call them freeways, and secondly, at least in NYC, a large part of that is that the roads 1) predate the interstate highway system, and 2) in many cases don't actually have any alternate numerical designation (either state or interstate). For example, all of the Robert Moses parkways around downstate NY are named: The Belt/Southern State, the Grand Central/Northern State, the Cross Island, just to give a few examples from Brooklyn/Queens. The Parkway network has a number of other quirks as well though.
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Any advice on how to insulate a window with a broken seal? It's in my office and it has a chilling draft coming in and I can hear all of the outside noise, but the landlord says that since the window itself is intact they don't need to fix it. It's frigid in here and I need to feed my goony computer habit. Is there any sort of like, insulated curtain or something I can hang over the window? Yes I see a lot of results on Google but not sure what would actually work well and not look lovely.
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Is there a website that calculates changes in money's worth over time? Or something like inflation rates from some point in time till today? I wouldn't mind calculating it myself if I could just find some kind of appropiate exchange factor. For example: What is a dollar worth if you compare the years 1919 and 2011? Lollerich fucked around with this message at 21:52 on Nov 6, 2011 |
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Lollerich posted:Is there a website that calculates changes in money's worth over time? Or something like inflation rates from some point in time till today? That's one of the many features of Wolfram Alpha: see?
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helopticor posted:That's one of the many features of Wolfram Alpha: see?
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I apologize in advance for this question. I remember waaay back on german MTV around 1997 (which used to be surprisingly uncensored) watching a rap video which may or may not have been by sir mix a lot with lots of huge breasted women, both white and black and the singer of this particular song Does anybody happen to know which song that was and have a link to the video? I fondly remember me and my roomates in university laughing our asses off to this video and I would like to relive these moments.
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EVG posted:Any advice on how to insulate a window with a broken seal? It's in my office and it has a chilling draft coming in and I can hear all of the outside noise, but the landlord says that since the window itself is intact they don't need to fix it.
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EVG posted:Any advice on how to insulate a window with a broken seal? It's in my office and it has a chilling draft coming in and I can hear all of the outside noise, but the landlord says that since the window itself is intact they don't need to fix it. Get some window film like this. They should have it at the hardware store and shouldn't cost more than a couple dollars. That plus some heavy curtains should help quite a bit.
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On Top Chef: Just Desserts a few weeks ago, someone mentioned he was having Cap'n Crunch for breakfast. They then show him pouring it out of the box, and the box is blurred. Why? Because the box art is copyrighted and TV lawyers have never heard of fair use? Or some other stupid reason?
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Golbez posted:On Top Chef: Just Desserts a few weeks ago, someone mentioned he was having Cap'n Crunch for breakfast. They then show him pouring it out of the box, and the box is blurred. Why? Because the box art is copyrighted and TV lawyers have never heard of fair use? Or some other stupid reason? No one gets free product placement.
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What happened to the feature on facebook that let you list all the videos that have been posted by your friends in order of recentness? Now I have to go to individual profiles to see videos. There used to be a little video button under apps and it's gone.
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Golbez posted:On Top Chef: Just Desserts a few weeks ago, someone mentioned he was having Cap'n Crunch for breakfast. They then show him pouring it out of the box, and the box is blurred. Why? Because the box art is copyrighted and TV lawyers have never heard of fair use? Or some other stupid reason? They went and asked Cap'n Crunch to pay for the privilege of appearing on Top Chef, and were refused.
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When I was in grade school, I remember a handout from a teacher which began along the lines of, "Read the entire list, first," followed by a series of instructions-- the last one said to set down your pencil/not do anything/not follow any of the above instructions. A trollish lesson in following directions, I suppose. Does anyone know where/how I can find something like this? My (college post-grad certificate) students have a huge problem with this sort of thing, and to show a bit of dickishness on my part I'd like to pass this out to them.
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