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Amoeba102 posted:Emit Brown is just what you'd do if you discovered time travel for real. Heyooooooo
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Samovar posted:Fine, specifically it's a homophone for time spelled backwards *three page derail about how each dialect of English pronounces "emit" differently including one where it inexplicably rhymes with the word "cedar"*
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On a related note is there any truth to "Ewok" just being "Wookie" with the syllables reversed because they were originally supposed to be Wookies but Lucas has a hard on for dwarfs
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Didn't we literally just have this BttF conservation in this thread down to someone pointing out it's Emmitt (name) not emit(produce or discharge)? Edit: nope wasn't this thread
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garfield hentai posted:On a related note is there any truth to "Ewok" just being "Wookie" with the syllables reversed because they were originally supposed to be Wookies but Lucas has a hard on for dwarfs I remember hearing this on a like making-of feature on an actual star wars VHS I think. The reason I always heard was merchandising, little friendly teddy bears are easier to sell dolls of than 7 foot tall dog monsters.
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purple death ray posted:I remember hearing this on a like making-of feature on an actual star wars VHS I think. The reason I always heard was merchandising, little friendly teddy bears are easier to sell dolls of than 7 foot tall dog monsters. Sounds like they understood about as much about the toy market as they did about making good movies.
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Jerry Cotton posted:Sounds like they understood about as much about the toy market as they did about making good movies. Star wars literally created the toy market as it currently exists
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There's a great interview with Peter serafinowicz where he talks about auditioning for Darth maul. George Lucas sat right behind him in the sound booth while he was reading lines, and when Peter asked him for direction, Lucas just said: "you know, evil. make him sound really evil." lol
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Jul 23, 2019 23:50
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Today I learned that Mild Mannered Pate voiced Darth Maul.
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purple death ray posted:Star wars literally created the toy market as it currently exists No-one wanted the Ewoks.
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I don't think I've actually even seen an ewok doll except at a shop.
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HairyManling posted:Today I learned that Mild Mannered Pate voiced Darth Maul. He was also the guy who took notes during the first season of Look Around You!
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bony tony posted:He was also the guy who took notes during the first season of Look Around You! He also co-created and co-wrote the entirety of Look Around You with collaborator Robert Popper 
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bony tony posted:He was also the guy who took notes during the first season of Look Around You! That's David Mitchell
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bell jar posted:That's David Mitchell AV/post combo 
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That the word 'smart', as in the phrase 'that smarts!' is closely related to the german word 'schmerz', which means 'pain'. I was thinking about the loan words Weldschmerz and Mittelschmerz, (as of course you do) and it just came to me in a flash. thank you for reading.
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If you try to sprinkle powdered pepper on your dinner in Summer when you have a table fan going at full blast, your life will end in ruin.
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Pookah posted:That the word 'smart', as in the phrase 'that smarts!' is closely related to the german word 'schmerz', which means 'pain'. I was thinking about the loan words Weldschmerz and Mittelschmerz, (as of course you do) and it just came to me in a flash. This reminds me of how the word slim/schlimm exists in the three main West Germanic languages while meaning something different in each one. While googling just now I found out that the English slim is directly derived from Dutch, which I did not know.
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HairyManling posted:Today I learned that Mild Mannered Pate voiced Darth Maul. Don't you mean Not Patches
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Kaiser Mazoku posted:Don't you mean Not Patches Maybe, but I really mean Duane Benzie
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Phlegmish posted:This reminds me of how the word slim/schlimm exists in the three main West Germanic languages while meaning something different in each one. While googling just now I found out that the English slim is directly derived from Dutch, which I did not know.
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KHLAV KALASHNIKOV posted:Maybe, but I really mean Duane Benzie Did you mean Hywel Granger?
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I always thought Mark Hamill was gay and out, and that it was just a random piece of general knowledge. I just found out that's not true at all, he's been married to a lady since '78, and has grandkids. No idea where I got that idea from, then...
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Holy poo poo! I'm listening to a classical music station, and they're playing The Planets by Gustav Holst, and I've just recognised a bit because Frank Zappa quoted it in one of his pieces!wikipedia posted:The "Invocation & Ritual Dance of the Young Pumpkin", in the beginning of the saxophone solo (first cadence) quotes the trio directly from the fourth movement of Gustav Holst's The Planets, Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity.
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hawowanlawow posted:There's a great interview with Peter serafinowicz where he talks about auditioning for Darth maul. George Lucas sat right behind him in the sound booth while he was reading lines, and when Peter asked him for direction, Lucas just said: "you know, evil. make him sound really evil." That doesn't make sense because Maul doesn't sound evil. He's very soft spoken with a slight British accent. Serafinowicz is basically using his natural voice.
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ruddiger posted:That doesn't make sense because Maul doesn't sound evil. He's very soft spoken with a slight British accent. Serafinowicz is basically using his natural voice. yeah evil
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From the Funny Forum Quotes thread, me not believing I just learned this after 11 years on these forums:theflyingorc posted:go to the correct page and mark the top post as read Friend posted:Wait can you mark posts as unread in the browser? Ariong posted:Yeah, just click the button with the little white rectangle in it beneath the avatar. Arivia posted:I don't see this button at all, and I never have. Is this maybe an SALR thing or something? Krankenstyle posted:No it's standard on SA. The leftmost one. Korgan posted:
ToxicFrog posted:User Profile -> Edit Options -> Show an icon next to each post indicating if it has been seen or not: yes
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Make sure you have the video tag enabled too, videos have automatically embedded for me for years and I only recently learned that some people don't see it.
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Friend posted:From the Funny Forum Quotes thread, me not believing I just learned this after 11 years on these forums: 
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Here's a weird music one. I have managed to confuse four songs, in sort of a 4 shape. The meeting point is "The Grand Illusion" by Styx. I conflated it with "The Angry Young Man" also by Styx, and both of those I have confused at different times for "Baba O'Reiley" by The Who. I have separately confused "The Grand Illusion" with "Karn Evil 9 Movement 1 Part 2" (the part that gets radio play) by Emerson, Lake, and Palmer. Karn Evil also sounds like carnival and the song is themed sort of around a circus like performance.
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ruddiger posted:That doesn't make sense because Maul doesn't sound evil. He's very soft spoken with a slight British accent. Serafinowicz is basically using his natural voice. ‘Soft spoken with slight British accent’ is pretty synonymous with ‘evil’ in Hollywood. The British film Hellraiser was re-edited a few weeks before general release so that any of the cast that weren’t American were dubbed over with American accents, except for the antagonists, and anyone else in the movie who acted unfavourably (the guy cruising for prostitutes etc). In another British fantasy/horror film ‘Paperhouse’, Glenne Headly was supposed to play the mother character in her natural American accent, but the American studio made her re-dub all her lines with a British accent mere days before release because her character came across as too much of a bitch!
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Adalita and Ella Hooper are two separate people. I think I realise this every so often, but I still keep getting them mixed up.
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Maigius posted:Here's a weird music one. I have managed to confuse four songs, in sort of a 4 shape. The meeting point is "The Grand Illusion" by Styx. I conflated it with "The Angry Young Man" also by Styx, and both of those I have confused at different times for "Baba O'Reiley" by The Who. I have separately confused "The Grand Illusion" with "Karn Evil 9 Movement 1 Part 2" (the part that gets radio play) by Emerson, Lake, and Palmer.  You're not ready to step into the court of the Crimson King.
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Friend posted:From the Funny Forum Quotes thread, me not believing I just learned this after 11 years on these forums: I think plat is needed to use this, yeah?
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snoo posted:I think plat is needed to use this, yeah? nope
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Stuart Scott died in 2015. I can't believe I didn't see a headline or something about him passing away, but I have zero memory of it happening.
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oh dope posted:Stuart Scott died in 2015. I can't believe I didn't see a headline or something about him passing away, but I have zero memory of it happening. Ah man that was devastating when that happened. There's a video from that day of Rich Eisen trying to use all his catchphrases in a highlight video while trying not to break down. Also it's not like it was sudden. He got one of those ESPYs for courage five months earlier.
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Maigius posted:Here's a weird music one. I have managed to confuse four songs, in sort of a 4 shape. The meeting point is "The Grand Illusion" by Styx. I conflated it with "The Angry Young Man" also by Styx, and both of those I have confused at different times for "Baba O'Reiley" by The Who. I have separately confused "The Grand Illusion" with "Karn Evil 9 Movement 1 Part 2" (the part that gets radio play) by Emerson, Lake, and Palmer. I wish I still had the recording, but my high school matching band played Karn Evil as the first part and finale of our marching show my sophomore year. I was unlucky enough to be hit by a car a few weeks into the school year and got volunteered to sing the vocal part while dressed like an actual ring master in our circus themed show. We also played a piece later that year called Godzilla destroys Las Vegas, so it was pretty hit or miss with music selections at my school.
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Henchman of Santa posted:Ah man that was devastating when that happened. There's a video from that day of Rich Eisen trying to use all his catchphrases in a highlight video while trying not to break down. His ESPY’s speech is an all time great as well. “When you die, that does not mean that you lose to cancer. You beat cancer by how you live, why you live and in the manner in which you live.” Tears every time. Every drat time.
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