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[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by dtb
What's not realistic, Sidd? The foxes in my backyard wear waistcoats - and their mates, while not always in ballgowns, do tend to dress up, even if it's just to pop out of the den for a moment.

Yes, but most of the people on this board would not be allowed in your ritzy-ass 'hood.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
I am lightened up, goddamn it.

Seriously, though -- the guys are hunting the fox that takes their stuff. They go nutsy over it -- shovels, bulldozers, etc. What's the big deal? That's fairly classic children's literature. And let's keep in mind, this is a story where the fox wears a waistcoat and his wife a ballroom gown. It's not realistic in any sense, and when they demolish a hilltop to chase him it's consistent with that un-realism.

Compared to Elmer Fudd -- my earlier example -- this is tame stuff. No cannons, bombs, or spear and magic helmet (Spear and magic helmet! Magic helmet? Ma-gic hel-met!!!!!)

Compared to real classic kids' stories, Mr. Fox isn't even G-rated. No grandmas being eaten by wolves (and then sliced up and place in the icebox for an unsuspecting Red to eat). No wives being transformed to goats.

I dunno - I just don't see the big deal. I read the book when I was five, I read it to Sidd Jr. when he was five. Then again, I'm not worried that Charlie and The Chocolate Factory will turn him into a choco-holic, so maybe I just underestimate the long-term effects of this stuff.

I just read him Nicholas without worrying about him turning French, so maybe I'm not being careful enough.



Big hit. Beeg, beeg hit.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by dtb
What's not realistic, Sidd? The foxes in my backyard wear waistcoats - and their mates, while not always in ballgowns, do tend to dress up, even if it's just to pop out of the den for a moment.

Yes, but that is your neighborhood. I think Sidd is referring to the prole foxes that most of us encounter.

Eta: Theme jinx with Sidd today.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Flinty_McFlint
Maybe you lisped through your braces and it did work, did you ever think about that? Huh, did you?

I admire your chutzpah. I was going to go there and thought better of it.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I just read him Nicholas without worrying about him turning French, so maybe I'm not being careful enough.



Big hit. Beeg, beeg hit.

So your kid is going to turn into a cheese-eating, fox-hunting freak?

At least the no-candy regime will keep his teeth solid.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by dtb
What's not realistic, Sidd? The foxes in my backyard wear waistcoats - and their mates, while not always in ballgowns, do tend to dress up, even if it's just to pop out of the den for a moment.

The foxes in my neighborhood tend to wear lots of makeup, brightly colored miniskirts, spike heels, scarves around their necks, and wigs.

Do you have any extra space in the servants' quarters?

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
So your kid is going to turn into a cheese-eating, fox-hunting freak?

At least the no-candy regime will keep his teeth solid.

Wine-swilling, potato-frying, soccer-playing, sure. Fox-hunting?

[Flinty_McFlint]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
So your kid is going to turn into a cheese-eating, fox-hunting freak?

Now, if you had said unsuccessful fox-hunting freak, I would have thought you were slyly challenging Ty's parentage.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
"So are snuff films, then?"


If you didn't recognize "circle of life" as a tongue-in-cheek comment, you are beyond help.


Twit.

Take this to the snuff film board.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Take this to the snuff film board.

You would be the one to know that there's a snuff film board. NTTAWWT.

[Alex_de_Large]

He really is the Juggernaut.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Alex_de_Large
He really is the Juggernaut.

This was not a movie that I would recommend, especially if you ever had any love for the comics and/or the Dark Phoenix Saga.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
This was not a movie that I would recommend, especially if you ever had any love for the comics and/or the Dark Phoenix Saga.

This Land of the Lost thing -- sleestacks (sp?) -- I never encountered the books or whatever. Should I be reading these as a sort of remedial activity?

PS people are being fucking stupid today and I want to whack all of them across the face.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
This was not a movie that I would recommend, especially if you ever had any love for the comics and/or the Dark Phoenix Saga.

2. The movie sucked, and basically pissed on the ouevre (pronounce oo-ver). Rebecca Romijn Stamos naked, without the blue paint, was worthwhile, but still.

A critical story element was just ridiculous -- "we have these guns that immediately disable any mutant. So, we gonna shoot the really bad and dangerous and evil mutants with the guns? Nah. We're gonna transport them, in a truck, to Alcatraz, where they will get injected with the same stuff that's in our guns.

"And we're gonna hope like hell none of their evil, super-powerful mutant friends will disrupt that brilliant plan.

"We're also gonna hope like hell that, once we get the truck to the Bay Area, someone's gonna help us figure out how we get the truck to Alcatraz, that being an island and all.")

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
This Land of the Lost thing -- sleestacks (sp?) -- I never encountered the books or whatever. Should I be reading these as a sort of remedial activity?

PS people are being fucking stupid today and I want to whack all of them across the face.

It was a TV show. I was reminded of it by something with "lost" in the title that RT posted about. I deliberately segued to a TV show to make the discussion sillier. Little did I know that soup sandwich would take it to such a lofty place.