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    Good.  Now the younger members and those more easily offended can effortlessly screen what they don't want to read/see.

    What about curiosity ? I think we should have a bell going off when someone underage goes in. :lol: :wow:

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    I like this song too but whenever I see one her posts I allways think of her avatar I really like that pic and wonder where I can get some.

    My Avatar is of Dawn she used to be a comic strip character, but now you can find her in Fantasy Art. :lol:

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    There are now 6,322,922,647 people in the world :lol:

     

    20 years ago there were 4 billion people...

     

    Every second five people are born and two people die, a net gain of three people.

     

    It's absolutely frightening, we are running out of resources now. We are using water faster than it's being replenished. What will it be like in 20 years from now when countries are going to war over water, and arable land. :wow:

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    I'd be really ticked with somebody who messed up my crop before harvest.  Do any of these reports ever mention how damage these things do.  I've seen how people do this too.  Remember how one amazingly showed up in the US the week the movie Signs opened.

    The real crop circles aren't damaged, the wheat is just bent over with no breakage whatsoever.

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    Like I said at the beginning, don't take it too serious

     

    IQ tests are never enough to measure a persons intelligence.

     

    An autistic person, cannot function in real life, but may have a very high IQ level.

     

    Intelligence is gathered through all things in life, Living, reading, understanding and careing and interaction with others.

  9. Posted

    New Zealand is absent, I read that on movie mistakes.com. interesting site. Anyway, a better question is: is Southern California visible on the globe? If you recall in Future's End VOY, they state LA will be submerged in the Hermosa quake of 2047. I wonder if that is there?

    New Zealand is a minor country so we are ignored most of the time. :lol:

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    This has to be mine. Most horror films make me laugh but not this one  :lol:

    I shall have to have a look at that. I agree with your point though, it is the ones that try to shock that tend to lose me. The films that aim to built tension are the best. That is why I like well made films such as those made by Hitchcock or the older horrors.

     

    By the way, I have just thought, I have left The Wicker Man out of the list. Sorry.

    " The Wicker Man " was pretty creepy

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    The Late Show

     

    Jolene Blalock (T'Pol) Friday night appeared on The Late Show With David Letterman, but with the eponymous host absent, she was interviewed by actor Tom Green, whose knowledge of Star Trek was less than stellar.

     

    During the interview, which is available online at Bakula Games, the pair discussed Blalock's racy photo shoots for magazines such as Maxim and Playboy. Green then introduced the audience to the T'Pol "Away Team" action figure. "Oh, that's cute," the actress said, bursting into laughter. "Do these come off? Do the clothes come off on that, too?" Green asked, indicating T'Pol's bronze spacesuit. "No, it's my action figure," she replied.

     

    Blalock revealed that Scott Bakula's Captain Archer action figure has been through some tough times. "It's very fun, because Scott has his action figure, but we brutalise it. Every morning when he comes to work, there's a new brutal something done...it's hung or strung up somehow...maybe missing a foot or a head."

     

    "You're like a Spock, you're like a Spock, right?" said Green, interrupting Blalock's tales of action figure mutilation. "Yes," she said. "You're like a monster, like a space monster almost?" Green continued. "Yes, yes...no," Blalock replied, shaking her head.

     

    "[They're] not like an alien monster-type being, the Vulcans?" Green asked. "A little smaller," Blalock said. "But there are outrageous monsters on Star Trek, right?" the host continued, wildly gesticulating with his hands to indicate the appearance of a fearsome monster. "Yes," Blalock replied.

     

    "They must be a little intimidating sometimes, right?" Green asked. "Yeah, those are Klingons," Blalock said, deadpan, provoking laughter in the audience.

     

    Changing tack, Green asked why the actress was currently in New York. "I'm prepping for a film," she replied, "that I can't talk about. I'm very excited about it, and it's nice to be here in New York." Blalock said she was also taking an acting class, and Green replied, "I probably should have done that before I made my movies."

     

    The full 6-minute interview can be downloaded in three different formats from Bakula Games.

    --TrekToday http://www.trektoday.com/news/140603_02.shtml

     

     

    Were you able to see it?

     

     

    Master Q

    StarTrek_Master_Q@yahoo.com

    Oh ! My head hurts ... " What a Pratt "

  14. Posted

    Unnatural Selection

     

    Click for Spoiler:

    Unnatural Selection

     

    Planet: Hala

    Planet Description: Electrical storms, paved with Replicators

    Inhabitants: Humanoid Replicators

    Emulated Culture:

     

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    EPISODE NUMBER - 612

    ORIGINAL AIR DATE - 04.12.02

    WRITTEN BY - Brad Wright, Robert C. Cooper

    DIRECTED BY - Andy Mikita

    GUEST STARRING - Michael Shanks (Voice of Thor)

     

    Mission Information

     

    Still on the ship Prometheus, the SG-1 team is visited by Thor. He informs them that one of the Asgard planets has been overrun by Replicators, and the Asgard need their help to defeat the invaders.

    (Part 2 of 2).

     

    Analysis

     

    The episode is in fact a great episode with what is there, it is however what is not there that pulls the episode down in my estimation. It runs for 30 minutes absolutely fantastically, but then it all wraps very, very quickly. On second viewing I worked out why. The episode has no middle. It has a beginning up to the point they wake up on the ship and then it goes straight into the end with them getting Fifth's help, the 37 hours they were out was the middle of the episode! Of course this is down to the restraints of a 45 minute slot, however the writers knew what material they had and should have made this episode as a two parter in its own right. I would have had a 3 parter, Prometheus then Unnatural Selection I & II. Doing that this episode could have had a lot more material in it and thus been given much better pacing and a proper middle section. So what would I have liked too see? Well to make the episode really dark seeing all the characters personal hells would have been great, plus more psychological attacks by the human replicators, more building up of Fifth's humanity and a personally battle with himself to help or stay with his brethren, plus for the action man in me there could have been a gun battle as SG-1 ran back to the ship with Replicator bugs being made out of the ground!

     

    Memorable Remarks

     

    Jonas - It certainly defies conventional wisdom.

    O'Neill - Mine too.

     

    O'Neill - Yeah, don’t get me wrong, flattery goes a long way with me...

     

    O'Neill - He sends good luck, godspeed, and all those things he says when he thinks we’re going to die.

     

    Carter - Sir, we can’t call it the Enterprise.

    O'Neill - Why Not

     

     

     

  16. Posted

    This has to be mine. Most horror films make me laugh but not this one :laugh:

     

     

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    Night Of The Demon reviewed by Charlie M

     

    That's the last time I let a doctor near me with a rubber tube...

     

    This is basically an occult detective story with Dana Andrews as the sceptical American scientist visiting England for a conference on the paranormal in the 1950's who ends up investigating his own predicted death. Tuesday at 10pm to be precise. He tries to convince himself (and everyone else) that Niall MacGinnis playing the malign Aleister Crowley-lookalike "Julian Karswell" is just some old English bluffer with a wacky mother. When, in reality, the old-geezer with the (I'm trying to say a bad word but can't)cat is a right dodgy bloke with a dandy taste in smoking jackets and a rare skill for frightening several shades of (I'm trying to say a bad word but can't) out of all and sundry.

     

    Based on the original (and well-spooky) writings of Montague Rhodes James, a medieval scholar and provost of King's College Cambridge, it all involves a load of symbolic rune mumbo-jumbo which threatens our hero's life. But unlike the Dennis Wheatley stuff (i.e. "The Devil Rides Out") which was carelessly thrashed to film, Night Of The Demon is a bona-fide classic.

     

    The genius of the movie is the exceptional Tourneur direction and the suspense which is generated, ramped up and kept humming throughout. Solid British acting for once is in evidence and the whole tale of horror, intrigue and downright weirdness is managed with little or no recourse to cheap tricks. On a budget of about twelve shillings, this film manages to be frightening with consummate ease and skill. Even a simple scene with Karswell playing a magician at a windy party for young children manages to soften your trouser colour to a hued brown.

     

    The BBFC gave it an X certificate - removing some line about "blasphemy and desecration". Hey, we shall no doubt all sleep much safer in our beds knowing how well we are being looked after. Indeed, many have seen parts of the film as a sharp satirical allegory on the anti-Communist paranoia being generated and stoked by the Prong's old comrades, Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin, Roy Cohn and one Richard Milhous Nixon at HUAC in the States around that period.

     

    Hence, US version was retitled "Curse Of The Demon" and had a whole 12 minutes of nerve-wrenching (and probably too near the right-wing viscera) footage removed; the first encounter of Holden and Joanna Harrington on a transatlantic flight to Britain, a chunk of the bloody spooky séance was sliced out and Holden's visit to the Hobart farm.

     

    Anyway, the plastic and rubbery demon itself notwithstanding right at the end (straight from the BBC school of period horror), this film is an absolute blinder. Anyone who thinks that films from the 1950's can't be scary hasn't seen this gem. The Clifton Parker music, cast and screenplay are first-rate and guaranteed to make even the most staid of viewers involuntarily twitch a couple of times.

     

     

     

    RECOMMENDATION: A couple of gin and prozacs before settling in to watch this from behind the sofa.

  17. Posted

    My brother is left handed, and when he was at school they tried to force him to use his right hand. This caused him to develop a stammer. But as soon as they left him alone to use his left hand, he stopped stammering.

     

    He is now a successful architect. They say that most of the best architects are left handed