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Leavemywife posted:Cube and The Cell are totally different movies. The novel I think about every time I think about Cube is William Sleator's House of Stairs. (It wasn't hard to Google I'd just never bothered to before  )
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Leavemywife posted:Cube and The Cell are totally different movies. Likewise, Cube and The Cube are different movies.
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Tasteful Dickpic posted:Likewise, Cube and The Cube are different movies. Likewise, Cell and The Cell are also different movies.
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Cube is good. The sequels are less so.
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Gleaming the Cube is the only cube movie worth watching.
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Also none of those films are the actor Cuba Gooding Jr., despite popular misconception.
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Wait, are you prepared to pitch “Cuba Gooding Jr.: The Movie”? because it might be okay. Especially if it was done artfully.
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Speaking of Cuba Gooding Jr., it took me far too long to realize that he and Donald Faison were different people.
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mods please Hypercuba Gooding Jr. TIA
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Leavemywife posted:Speaking of Cuba Gooding Jr., it took me far too long to realize that he and Donald Faison were different people. Short of not being able to tell black people apart I don't know how you could explain this.
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kazil posted:Short of not being able to tell black people apart I don't know how you could explain this. This is something awful so that's the explanation, congrats
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I once had that with Tim Meadows and Don Cheadle and to this day I still don’t know how that was possible.
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fruit on the bottom posted:I once had that with Tim Meadows and Don Cheadle and to this day I still don’t know how that was possible. Mean Girls was a very confusing movie for a lot of people in my life.
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ishikabibble posted:FOB means foreign born and raised and immigrated to a new country, ergo literally 'fresh off the boat' from when the majority of transcontinental travel was done by boat and if you were moving to a new country, you did it by boat. also would like to add that it's a mean thing to call someone (not saying that you're implying otherwise, just stating that)
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Barudak posted:Mean Girls was a very confusing movie for a lot of people in my life. Yeah, I dunno. At that time I’d seen Don Cheadle in like Hotel Rwanda and that was about it it but I knew the name, but I’d somehow seen Tim Meadows in like 10 different things without knowing his name so I guess my brain just put them together. If you’d shown me a picture side by side I would have figured it out right away, but for few years they were all Cheadle to me.
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Cheadle by the Dozen is my follow up to the Cuba Gooding movie btw.
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kazil posted:Short of not being able to tell black people apart I don't know how you could explain this. Honestly couldn't tell you. For whatever reason, those two became the same person in my mind.
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I was watching a documentary about the Romanoff monarchs of Russia with my wife the other day and they were talking about how Catherine the Great loved her gardens and tried to woo the great British designer Capability Brown over to create wonderful gardens for her. It was then that I finally got a 20+ year old joke from the Discworld novels, which is that the Ankh-Morpork designer Bloody Stupid Johnson was based on a real-world person and not just a random goof.
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"turns out there is such a thing as a free launch" is just about the finest wordplay I've ever encountered. Content wise, I wrote out "to give us some piece of mind" the other day and immediately realised it was wrong. Thankfully homonyms and all so I never embarrassed myself. Think my brain was mixing up "a piece of my mind" or something. Peace of mind. Obviously.
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Memento posted:I was watching a documentary about the Romanoff monarchs of Russia with my wife the other day and they were talking about how Catherine the Great loved her gardens and tried to woo the great British designer Capability Brown over to create wonderful gardens for her. Is it because of the name "Capability"? What's the connection? What went wrong with the gardens?
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syscall girl posted:Is it because of the name "Capability"? What's the connection? What went wrong with the gardens? Just the name, I think.
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syscall girl posted:Is it because of the name "Capability"? What's the connection? What went wrong with the gardens? Yes, "Bloody-Stupid" is a direct play against "Capability" Capability was renown for landscape design, creating some intricate and ingenious gardens. Bloody-Stupid was so bad at creating gardens it became a kind of greatness itself (some parts of his gardens were inadvertently lethal). Capability also dabbled in architecture, so also Bloody-Stupid fancied himself one as well, but he was worse at that than he was at landscaping. Ultimately it just a clever little joke that lends cohesion across the different books giving Discworld some narrative depth.
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Bloody-Stupid's initials are also the reverse of Johann Sebastian Bach.
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Tasteful Dickpic posted:Bloody-Stupid's initials are also the reverse of Johann Sebastian Bach. The wiki Tiggum linked mentioned that and a bunch of other interesting stuff. I just learned what a Ha-ha is, as well as why building one 50 feet deep is bloody stupid.
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Apparently the (edible) green substance in a lobster is called "tomalley", not "tamale". I always wondered what it had to do with corn husks.
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syscall girl posted:
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As a landscape architecture graduate, I find this turn of the conversation to be welcome yet strange. SA is the last place I would have expected Capability Brown or Ha-has to turn up. I love this place.
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NEWS is an acronym for Notables Events Weather and Sports
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Ein cooler Typ posted:NEWS is an acronym for Notables Events Weather and Sports nope
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I just bought a notable event weather computer.
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I once heard a rumor it stood for North East West South, but it was a pretty suspect rumor so I doubt it.
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Besesoth posted:Apparently the (edible) green substance in a lobster is called "tomalley", not "tamale". I always wondered what it had to do with corn husks. Actually it’s guacamole
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Choco1980 posted:I once heard a rumor it stood for North East West South, but it was a pretty suspect rumor so I doubt it. We must have had the same first-grade teacher.
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Choco1980 posted:I once heard a rumor it stood for North East West South, but it was a pretty suspect rumor so I doubt it. All these stupid false etymologies depend on both the spreader and the spreadee not knowing one of the other 40000 languages where the word for news is also derived from (their) word for new. Unless of course they considered it possible that English was the only language with a word for news that looks like it was simply derived from new but wasn't. I guess a lot of English-speakers would consider it possible, at least if Bill Bryson wrote it down as fact and I'm sure he may have.
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Phlegmish posted:I think it was a joke. Perhaps, if you go by Readers' Digest's definition of joke instead of the normal one that implies there's at least a smidgeon of humour involved.
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Jerry Cotton posted:Perhaps, if you go by Readers' Digest's definition of joke instead of the normal one that implies there's at least a smidgeon of humour involved. If you haven’t ever chuckled at any of the joke-y bits of Reader’s Digest, you haven’t been stranded at a rural garage for anywhere near long enough to break. You win.
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lemon-lyme disease posted:If you haven’t ever chuckled at any of the joke-y bits of Reader’s Digest, you haven’t been stranded at a rural garage for anywhere near long enough to break. Or a doctor's office with no phone reception and a 20 minute wait 
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syscall girl posted:The wiki Tiggum linked mentioned that and a bunch of other interesting stuff. Why is it stupid? It should be 500 feet right
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Intoluene posted:Or a doctor's office with no phone reception and a 20 minute wait You get it. Maybe. 20 minutes is nothing in the world of rural car repair.
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