I learned that any species that has one male that fertilizes hundreds of eggs actually only has one male PERIOD! :^)
I learned that post-apocalyptic worlds are pretty depressing.
I learned that when the apocalypse comes and all the major cities are burned, TIME Magazine will still have the time and resources to publish and distribute it's "IS THIS THE END?" issue.
I learned that skydiving away from a dragon truly only gives you about 83% Pure Adrenaline. ;D
I learned that ash must somehow be nutri.....wait a minute.
How were they starving to death??? They eat ash! They could have burned anything down and it would have worked. Why are they eating each other at the end of the movie if they eat ash???!!
This movie makes no sense!
I learned that tanks and helicopters make their own fuel.
And, the biggest, most powerful beast on the planet can be taken down by two dopes and a clod with a Texas accent.
I learned that Christian Bale invented Star Wars...not George Lucas.
Quote from: gammer73 on December 29, 2006, 08:54:51 PM
I learned that Christian Bale invented Star Wars...not George Lucas.
He probably would've done a better job with the prequels. :-",
I learned that decades after the fall of civilization, it will still be very easy to find gasoline.
I learned that none of the thousands of pregnant dragons will ever give birth to another male.
I learned that no matter how may times I watch Matthew McConaughey leap off right into that dragon's mouth, it'll still be funny.
I also learned that Mike says "draygon" in that goofy Midwestern way.
That Northumberland is not a vacationers paradise.
Quote from: Sharktopus on December 31, 2006, 06:48:52 AM
I also learned that Mike says "draygon" in that goofy Midwestern way.
I've learned a lot about goofy, Midwestern speech from Mike. I swear, in one episode of mst3k he said "Ka-ROW-Key" for karaoke. That's the only one I remember laughing at but I can name other instances where I noticed...sorry Mike :) I still love ya'.
My friend from up North says sauna funny (or as she says, *I* say it funny). I'd like to hear Mike do a sauna riff.
I'm sure he could learn a lot about goofy Southern drawl if he ever bothered to listen to me, which, thank god, he won't, even though I'm sure he'd have a good laugh at my expense too!
Quote from: AmandaGal on December 31, 2006, 04:22:24 PM
My friend from up North says sauna funny (or as she says, *I* say it funny). I'd like to hear Mike do a sauna riff.
How hard is it to mispronounce sauna? Isn't it just SAW-NUH?
If anyone could do it though, Bush can. ;)
Nukyular.
I don't like it when people pronounce words like 'measure' or 'leisure' like: maysure or laysure
Quote from: SecretAgentSuperDragon on December 31, 2006, 06:13:40 PM
How hard is it to mispronounce sauna? Isn't it just SAW-NUH?
She would laugh mercilessly at you too :-)
She says that her state invented saunas and it's actually "SOW-NUH" and I'm an idiot for saying it my way. Ok, she's not that *quite* that cruel but you get the drift.
Quote from: AmandaGal on December 31, 2006, 07:51:33 PM
Quote from: SecretAgentSuperDragon on December 31, 2006, 06:13:40 PM
How hard is it to mispronounce sauna? Isn't it just SAW-NUH?
She would laugh mercilessly at you too :-)
She says that her state invented saunas and it's actually "SOW-NUH" and I'm an idiot for saying it my way. Ok, she's not that *quite* that cruel but you get the drift.
SOW-NUH is the correct pronunciation. Sauna's were invented by the Finish or one of the other Scandinavian countries, and thats how they pronounce it.
Is your friend from South Dakota?
Maybe she said the people who founded her state then? That doesn't make sense either. She's from MI and a mst3k fan so she could be reading this :D She had some big "and there can be no arguments" thing.
Quote from: AmandaGal on December 31, 2006, 07:59:16 PM
Maybe she said the people who founded her state then?
That's sort of what I thought :P
I figured there was allot of Scandinavian people in her state...anywho... ::)
My girlfriend makes fun of me because I say cahfee instead of cawfee, and chahcolate instead of chawcolate. We can't all be from New Jersey, sweetie. :-* But I do say dawg. No one can disguise the New York accent entirely.
If you set up a community after the apocalypse make sure you build a chopper pad in case someone in a chopper happens to drop by.
Quote from: gammer73 on December 31, 2006, 07:42:15 PM
I don't like it when people pronounce words like 'measure' or 'leisure' like: maysure or laysure
How could you not like Aunt Flavia? ;D
I've learned that Scotish people are natural comic reliefs because of a dominant gene.
Quote from: Goshzilla on January 01, 2007, 10:03:46 PM
I've learned that Scotish people are natural comic reliefs because of a dominant gene.
It's true.
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Just try not to laugh.
:D
Crap.
Now add a Darrell Hammond as Connery on SNL-style HAH! Gauranteed funny.
I learned that only by getting two guys to dive out of a helicopter (that somehow got up to about 50,000 feet) and then plowing them into the ground headfirst can you get a dragon to chase another guy along the ground by riding a horse. This third guy does NOT, apparently, need to dive out of a helicopter. Into the ground. Because the dragon will chase you anyway. While you're on the ground.
It's like a studio exec lost a bet or something, the fact that this movie got grunted out into the bowl.
-dale
I learned that Ash is a vastly underused part of a daily balanced diet.
I learned that nature, somehow, decided that a large reptile should overproduce, eat everything in sight, then die out. Then repeat that cycle every few thousand years. Who needs balanced eco-systems?
I learned that Christian Bale can carry any movie that he is in.
I learned that Matthew McCanna...(sp)'s great performance in "Dazed and Confused" is looking more and more like an accident.
I also learned that man on dragon hanky-panky is in no way as sexy as I thought it would be. :o
Quote from: SecretAgentSuperDragon on January 02, 2007, 12:32:54 PM
I also learned that man on dragon hanky-panky is in now way as sexy as I thought it would be. :o
I must have seriously missed that part of the movie.
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Quote from: SecretAgentSuperDragon on January 02, 2007, 12:32:54 PM
I also learned that man on dragon hanky-panky is in no way as sexy as I thought it would be. :o
I must have seriously missed that part of the movie.
When Christian Bale reaches his hand.... up THERE.
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Quote from: Tyrant on January 02, 2007, 03:08:39 PM
Quote from: SecretAgentSuperDragon on January 02, 2007, 12:32:54 PM
I also learned that man on dragon hanky-panky is in no way as sexy as I thought it would be. :o
I must have seriously missed that part of the movie.
When Christian Bale reaches his hand.... up THERE.
Judging from these reactions I guess I learned that post-apocalyptic OBGYN's have not caught on yet.
I learned that, despite having jets, missiles, huge ships, and state-of-the-art technology, mankind is ill-equipped to shoot down a few giant flying lizards.
Yeah, why couldn't they just get a sniper with a .50 cal rifle and pick the dragons off one by one. Just sitting and waiting. Surely it would have worked better than tossing a McConaughey at 'em.
Quote from: AmandaGal on December 31, 2006, 04:22:24 PM
Quote from: Sharktopus on December 31, 2006, 06:48:52 AM
I also learned that Mike says "draygon" in that goofy Midwestern way.
I've learned a lot about goofy, Midwestern speech from Mike. I swear, in one episode of mst3k he said "Ka-ROW-Key" for karaoke. That's the only one I remember laughing at but I can name other instances where I noticed...sorry Mike :) I still love ya'.
I'm also guessing Mike and Kevin calling McConaughey and Bale "bony" is a Midwestern usage, because they both looked pretty ripped to me. Where I come from, "bony" refers to this:
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I learned that ancient man thousands of years ago knew about mythical beasts last seen MILLIONS of years ago.
Also that little children are commonplace around chunnel-type construction sites and are often sent into unexplored caves.
Quote from: Sharktopus on January 08, 2007, 09:10:07 PM
Quote from: AmandaGal on December 31, 2006, 04:22:24 PM
Quote from: Sharktopus on December 31, 2006, 06:48:52 AM
I also learned that Mike says "draygon" in that goofy Midwestern way.
I've learned a lot about goofy, Midwestern speech from Mike. I swear, in one episode of mst3k he said "Ka-ROW-Key" for karaoke. That's the only one I remember laughing at but I can name other instances where I noticed...sorry Mike :) I still love ya'.
I'm also guessing Mike and Kevin calling McConaughey and Bale "bony" is a Midwestern usage, because they both looked pretty ripped to me. Where I come from, "bony" refers to this:
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Hey, shut up about the Midwest! YOU'RE the ones who are talking wrong! The game is called "Duck Duck Grey Duck," I'm telling you!!!!! DUCK DUCK GREY DUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (And be sure to overaccentuate the vowels, too - you language-bastardizing pigs!) >:(
Hailing from Redneckville MN, how do you use the term "bony," BBQ?
Quote from: Sharktopus on January 09, 2007, 02:21:31 PM
Hailing from Redneckville MN, how do you use the term "bony," BBQ?
Bend over and squeal like a pig and I'll show ya! :D
(I'm not kidding about Forest Lake, though. The school is right across the street from a trailer park...which is across the street from another trailer park. Hell, pretty much all of "downtown" Forest Lake consists of low-income housing, convenience stores, and fast foot restaurants. Thank God I don't live in town).
QuoteI learned that when the apocalypse comes and all the major cities are burned, TIME Magazine will still have the time and resources to publish and distribute it's "IS THIS THE END?" issue.
And distribute it
intercontinentally.
Quote from: LadyKenobi on February 03, 2007, 07:53:03 PM
QuoteI learned that when the apocalypse comes and all the major cities are burned, TIME Magazine will still have the time and resources to publish and distribute it's "IS THIS THE END?" issue.
And distribute it intercontinentally.
Now, now, I'm sure everyone took time out of their busy "fleeing and panicking" schedules to read some fine journalistic work.
It's also nice to hear the "military" leader McConnaghey talk about "Nucular" bombs....oh yeah...
That a bunch of farmers with most of the population being children managed to get a lot of these:
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And that mercenaries with an Abrams tank, alot of APCs, a Black Hawk, and a triangulation system that is even more advanced than what the US military has, could not even raid a firehouse.
That apparently there is time to make very nice tomato gardens, but not enough time to pick them before the dragons fry you
I learned that mankind's legends of dragons were based on reality, despite the fact that the dragons only wake up every couple of hundred million years.
I learned that the dragon apocolypse can be hell on your sinuses.
I learned that species of creatures which overtake other life-forms by gradually darkening the sky have poor eyesight during periods of time when the sky gets gradually dark.
Quote from: gammer on December 31, 2006, 07:55:06 PM
Quote from: AmandaGal on December 31, 2006, 07:51:33 PM
Quote from: SecretAgentSuperDragon on December 31, 2006, 06:13:40 PM
How hard is it to mispronounce sauna? Isn't it just SAW-NUH?
She would laugh mercilessly at you too :-)
She says that her state invented saunas and it's actually "SOW-NUH" and I'm an idiot for saying it my way. Ok, she's not that *quite* that cruel but you get the drift.
SOW-NUH is the correct pronunciation. Sauna's were invented by the Finish or one of the other Scandinavian countries, and thats how they pronounce it.
Yes, and technically, "skiing" is pronounced "SHEE-ing." (http://youtube.com/watch?v=a1h4IORStR0)
QuoteQuote from: gammer73 on December 31, 2006, 07:42:15 PM
I don't like it when people pronounce words like 'measure' or 'leisure' like: maysure or laysure
How could you not like Aunt Flavia?
you mean aunt flava flav? aunt flatula? aunt spatula?
one of my absolute fave episodes!