Guns Galore
 

Fair enough, then it sounds like the only thing we really disagree about (besides the stuff that both of us are too lazy to look up) is what constitutes "a whole bunch of guns."

Jim Carrey Almighty
 

I agree on the judgmental issue, with the caveat that anyone who doesn't like the Jackson Five is a joyless, miserable tool.

PJ

of guns and kayaks
 

I didn't know you needed a recipe for disaster. I thought they usually occured spontaneously and were easier to create than, say, a key lime pie.

Probably a lot greater than the chances that you will ever need, say, a title-insurance policy, but you still have one of those. Besides, widespread ownership of guns deters breakins. So the odds are low that you will ever need that gun, but the reason that the odds are low is because you (and everyone else has one). It is all very paradoxical in an one-hand-clapping kind of way.

Jim Carrey Almighty
 

Are you serious, or are just jumping on the bandwagon again?

Lowest common denominator? Does this apply to all slap stick humor? I suppose Daffy Duck and The Three Stooges appeal to only the lowest common denominator as well? Could be, but they're fun.

I like Jim Carrey. I think his movies have gone downhill from the days of Ace Ventura and Dumb and Dumber, but he still cracks me up. Stupid humor has its place too.

If you watched "In Living Color" way back, you would have seen that he is a gifted physical comedian. I'm sure you wouldn't have accused Chevy Chase or John Belushi of appealing only to the lowest common denominator, but their stuff on SNL was no more intellectual than Jim Carrey's.

Saying he annoys you because you don't like his style is one thing. Saying you don't like him because he relies on slap stick is ridiculous.

TM

of guns and kayaks
 

So true. I lived in Canada for 30 odd years and my house was broken into literally every other night.

incredibly important announcement
 

My perfect custom Tangerine Sparkle purse has arrived in all its nubby shimmering glory. Photos to come.

And I'd preemptively tell Thurgreed to shut the hell up to avoid the verbal abuse I might get for that, except that I agree with him on Jim Carrey on In Living Color. His Vanilla Ice parody,
"White White Baby," was priceless and will forever mitigate his most idiotic and annoying movies.

Jim Carrey Almighty
 

I saw it. It wasn't Jim Carrey in serious mode (too much). But the end was so overly preachy and religious that it made me want to tuaom.

Thurgreed(should have waited for rental)Marshall

of guns and kayaks
 

Yes, but when was the last time having needless title insurance resulted in another person's inadvertant (or intentional) injury or death?

Top Cult Movies -- the list 36-50
 

Dude, didn't I return that to you? I'll check at home.

BRC

Guns Galore
 

You mean it is ignorant to say that it's ok to own one gun and bad to own multiple guns?

I suspect your conclusion is faulty. I would hazard a guess that a city slicker who buys a gun for protection is the one who takes the safety class (at the behest of the spouse who did not want the gun in the first place) than some country bumpkin who has a few guns to go hunting with. Statistics please?

Guns Galore
 

Ooops. Never mind. I will go on record, however, as saying that those who call others stupid for jumping to conclusions while they themselves are jumping to conclusions are either stupid or judgmental. I am too ignorant and elitist to decide which one.

Guns Galore
 

Whoa. Full stop. Let's parse some words here - it's what we do isn't it? The conversation was about A LOT of guns. Not multiple guns. The hunter who has multiple guns probably hunts for different game. That's not the same as the guys in Idaho who are "protecting" their land from the government with 200-300 assorted guns and cases of ammunition. It's the same difference as washing your hands a lot and washing your hands every time you touch something - one's a compulsion/obsession.

Off the box and on to the story. My best friend in grade school had a father who was a hunter - every weekend during hunting season. He had multiple guns. He took us shooting one weekend (we were 14) with a pump action bb gun and a .22 rifle. I guess as girls, there wasn't the fascination to go looking for the guns after that. We knew they were there in the basement, but never went to go look for them or play with them. His beer stash however, that's a different story.

Jim Carrey Almighty
 

When Jim Carrey has a decent writer behind him who writes a character who either does no mugging at all, or gives him funny reasons for mugging, he's actually quite good. He's over the top or he's not; there's no halfway for him.

Thus, he was pretty funny in "Ace Ventura I" and "Liar Liar" (plausible over-the-top mugging) and "The Truman Show" (no mugging) but not so good in "The Cable Guy" or "Me, Myself and Irene."

Similarly, he will be great as Darren Stevens in the rumored "Bewitched" project --- a role he was born to play. He will not be as good as Count Olaf in "A Series of Unfortunate Events." The Walter Mitty remake is a toss-up.

Guns Galore
 

I will go on record as saying that people that don't read ahead in threads and bash other people for things they have already acknowledged and "parsed through" are the "lowest common denominator of society".

And if you are too lazy to find statistics, then don't jump on my ass for the same attribute. Until someone proves either of us wrong, all we have are opinions. Yours just sucks.

Guns Galore
 

My point was that it was rude to call someone stupid when the caller really thought their intended was ignorant. Therefore, I thought it apropo to suggest that perhaps the caller really meant to call their intended "ignorant". Either way, it was a truly condescending way to counter a point the caller disagreed with. The condescension on this board really pisses me off. Does that put me in the lowest common denominator?