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August 12, 2007 at 12:51 am in reply to: For what it is worth — I’ve just joined the "Deviants" #56677
JimmyDimples
ParticipantSorry I missed this… I was in Wellington at the time.
Still, great to have you on board, Hunter! ;D
ParticipantSo if Canada is America's hat… what does that make Mexico? Its underpants?
ParticipantUh, HSC, that's not a pun. ^^;; That's a simile. A clever one, but still a non-pun.
I'm sorta stuck for some right here right now… can anyone spot me?
ParticipantHeard about it… made the front page above the fold down here in New Zealand. 🙁
All those folks are in my prayers and thoughts. The families, too.
ParticipantWhile I was watching the telly in my hotel room in Wellington, I saw this bit of machismo… Singing Down Under Blokes about Yamaha Grizzly ATVs. Thought it was a fair dinkum hoot! 😀
ParticipantDon't we all, nam, don't we all… 😉
*gets the potato chips, Cokes, and the illegal satellite TV un-scrambler*
ParticipantHey, figured this would be worth extending from the wilds of New Zealand.
Power Play got its musical score from a variety of sources, including but not limited to…
"Peter and the Wolf" by Sergi Prokofiev (as performed by Wendy Carlos, and narrated by "Weird Al" Yankovic in this case)
"There she is!" by SamBakZa, soundtrack by Witches http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/161181
"Back in Black" by AC/DC
"It's Tricky" by Run DMC
The Russian Roulette Soundtrack by Craig Stuart Garfinkle
"Another First Kiss" by They Might Be Giants
The sorta official Like a Weed Soundtrack will be coming later. Available in stores in September 200never. 🙂 🙁
ParticipantWow… 😮 now THAT'S hang time.
Usually I mute my PC's player so I won't be distracted. But often a good tune can percolate things.
Usually I go for video game BGM… there's a LOT of stuff that sets the mood. For Their Own Good usually has a splash of Weird Al, but mostly the soundtrack from Command & Conquer Generals: both the original and the expansion pack. Zero Hour. Also, the theme "Of Earth And Heaven" from the Left Behind: Eternal Forces soundtrack by Chance Thomas.
China Will Grow Larger? Take a wild guess. 😛
The Dyna story M15+4 H4X0R had Al's "It's All About the Pentiums," "You're Out of the Computer" by Bingo Gazingo and My Robot Friend, and Dr. Robotnick's base's theme from Sonic 3-D Blast for the Sega Saturn.
And Like a Weed and Power Play was a crazy trail mix bag of stuff that I can't properly categorize because I've got a bus for Hong Kong in a few hours. Maybe when I get back!
ParticipantSorry that I didn't join in right away on this chat, cpbell and stmercy. I was builidng up to my 900th post, and didn't want to disrupt the count right away.
I'm reading you guys loud and clear on that one. And I believe in letting a woman be capable to protect herself or her loved ones.
I think one of the reasons that we continue to portray "soft and helpless" as feminine is that we like being around someone who is gentle, sweet, kind, and the type that won't ram a tent peg through our skulls. Someone who represents the moral of Aesop's fable of the Sun and the Wind: warm persuasion is more powerful than bluster and force. Women have the edge in personality there.
Regrettably, we've equated gentleness with weakness. We think that a person who doesn't push and smack to get what he or she wants… can't. And thus, society has pretty much told women, don't be mean, nasty, or violent. It's wrong.
Of course it is in day-to-day life. But in a mugging, being a nice person usually isn't enough. 🙁
I remember WAY, way way back when I was in grad school, and I'd just had my head clubbed at an attempted robbery for five stitches worth. I remember cluing in a student mom that the Rush Limbaugh show was coming to TV, and she wanted to tune in. And we were together for the first ep. And we chatted about my mugging. She griped about how student housing wouldn't permit us to have firearms in storage.
That took me back. 😮 A sweet, classic, church-going MOM, endorsing packing heat?
She nodded, and said she considered it sinful not to do whatever it took to protect the family and home the good Lord gave her.
Hmm. If I had a time machine, I would've probably suggested she take some exercise and self defense classes instead. Pistols can be stolen or picked up by kids. Your biceps or training can't.
ParticipantSorry, I just saw the CBS Evening News report this morning. :-[ Didn't mean to make light of the floods in England or the people under duress there.
Those nearby, can we send something to the relief efforts there?
I just meant that we've got to see the bad guy take his scene so we'll have something for the heroine to overcome. And this would've been better than no more pics in the story, wouldn't it?
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