[scifinoir2] My Online Reading Group Is Pretentious and Boring

2006-03-24 Thread Bosco Bosco
I am on a Dune discussion group and we've begun reading the series together and discussing it. I thought it would be fun but the list is peopled with socially painful goober people who want to endlessly argue about each other's opinions, worship frank Herbert sycophantically and obsess on small

RE: [scifinoir2] V For Vendetta Review

2006-03-24 Thread Martin Pratt
Sometimes, the man says. It's had me so down at times that I consider moving to Canada. Seriously. In another discussion group I'm in, I've had hate mail sent me because I refuse to refer to the guy at 1600 Penn Ave SW as the President. I call him Mister Bush, and I'd do it to his face,

Re: [scifinoir2] Dr. Who's Many Regenerations

2006-03-24 Thread Martin Pratt
Thanks. It's been parked in my head for all these years, and I guess I just can't keep it from leaping out. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dude, you're better than acutally *working* by looking up all this info myself! Thanks! -- Original message -- From: Martin Pratt

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: OT:Black People Love Us!

2006-03-24 Thread Martin Pratt
Forgot all about that one. I think they had an excerpt from it in that tribute they did to Pryor, I Ain't Dead Yet, Motherf**ker! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Funny! One of my favs was the infamous Eddie Murphy White like me skit, where he went undercover as a Caucasian, and found out how much

Re: [scifinoir2] My Online Reading Group Is Pretentious and Boring

2006-03-24 Thread Martin Pratt
Where you lead, I'll follow. As long as it costs as little as possible. Signed, One Poor Black Man Bosco Bosco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am on a Dune discussion group and we've begun reading the series together and discussing it. I thought it would be fun but the list is peopled with

Re: [scifinoir2] My Online Reading Group Is Pretentious and Boring

2006-03-24 Thread Bosco Bosco
We could always read a classic that is available at the library or from a used bookstore cheap. I'm easy, and usually way broke as well. I just want to read some of the best books out there and talk with people who actually read as well. Bosco --- Martin Pratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where

RE: [scifinoir2] V For Vendetta Review

2006-03-24 Thread Bosco Bosco
I wouldnt let him do anything, at all, ever. He needs to be a shortbus program for adults who have to wear helmets all the time and be monitored 24-7. His track record to this point is pretty much abysmal. He was an average student, a failed businessman with some seriously questionable ethics and

[scifinoir2] Re: Nigerian's Into Horror Movies

2006-03-24 Thread Amanda
http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,,1737425,00.html sorry forgot the link. Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of

[scifinoir2] Nigerian's Into Horror Movies

2006-03-24 Thread Amanda
Nigeria now has the world's third largest film industry after Hollywood and Bollywood. Most of the movies are dirt cheap, straight- to-video voodoo horror flicks - but millions of fans can't get enough of them. Jeevan Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to:

Re: B5 was [scifinoir2] Dr. Who

2006-03-24 Thread Cat Corley
I think the Corp is good and bad. It's sad that some people were hurt by it but on the other hand a person that could read your thoughts has an unfair advantage. Some secrets should stay secret. Remember that episode where that guy was going to destroy the whole station with his mind? I know

Re: [scifinoir2] V For Vendetta Review

2006-03-24 Thread Cat Corley
Beautiful review!!! Cat On 3/22/06, Bosco Bosco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My girlfriend forwarded this review to me: http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer132.html 'V for Vendetta' by Butler Shaffer I have always been a highly-critical moviegoer. I do not attend a film without

Re: [scifinoir2] Nigerian's Into Horror Movies

2006-03-24 Thread Cat Corley
Do you know any names of titles. Are they available in the U.S. yet? Cat On 3/24/06, Amanda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nigeria now has the world's third largest film industry after Hollywood and Bollywood. Most of the movies are dirt cheap, straight- to-video voodoo horror flicks - but millions

[scifinoir2] SpaceX Reports First Falcon 1 Rocket Lost

2006-03-24 Thread brent wodehouse
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/060324_spacex_failure.html SpaceX Reports First Falcon 1 Rocket Lost By Tariq Malik Staff Writer posted: 24 March 2006 After years of development and no less than three scrubbed attempts, a solitary rocket Falcon 1 rocket roared toward space Friday only to

Re: [scifinoir2] My Online Reading Group Is Pretentious and Boring

2006-03-24 Thread buky90
this could be good could we mix this up with comicsmy first ideal would be maybe the v movie and gn and a discourse of both. Also a little trashy stuff i'm a big l hamilton anita blake anyone . let's roll also by the books maybe especially dune etc acouple of chapters at a time easier than trying

Re: [scifinoir2] Bad websites and Doctor Who

2006-03-24 Thread Astromancer
MARTIN Martin Pratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, so I type with two fingers, and they get it wrong a lot! brent wodehouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As for my newest obsession, I've got a slight spoiler, for anyone who wants to know a bit of insight into the

RE: [scifinoir2] Re: Photo of Juggernaut

2006-03-24 Thread Astromancer
LMBAO...I think I have a new cath phraseI'm the Jugernaught B***h! I love it!!! Keith Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Damn, why didn't you warn me?! I started playing this at home while my wife and I were watching TV. A minute later, I was laughing so hard, tears running down my cheeks,

RE: [scifinoir2] Blade TV Show Begins Production

2006-03-24 Thread Astromancer
The last time I said it'll wear thin real quick was at the beginning of Buffy's long run...Before that, the X-Files...So I'll just keep my mouth shut... Keith Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Might have potential. Dare we hope for something on the level of Highlander? I found another site

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Photo of Juggernaut

2006-03-24 Thread Astromancer
So 'Juggy' likes football, eh? drcsaid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: nope. its real :-( --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No freakin' way! That is a joke, right? It looks like an extra from The Road Warrior, or maybe one of the dweebs from the Mortal Kombat films. And

[scifinoir2] dna nebula

2006-03-24 Thread JediMaster*Skywalker
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/03/0317_060317_dna_nebula.\ html?source=rss http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/03/0317_060317_dna_nebula.h\ tml?source=rss http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/03/0317_060317_dna_nebula.\ html?source=rss this is interesting.

RE: [scifinoir2] Blade TV Show Begins Production

2006-03-24 Thread Keith Johnson
You sound like me back in the day. Did you think those shows would fail because of the subject matter or the writing and overall presentation? As I've said before, I was so discouraged from years of bad TV scifi, I had trouble believing those shows could be quality. -Original Message-

[scifinoir2] RE: B5 [was Dr. Who]

2006-03-24 Thread Keith Johnson
Ah, but there's the rub. Do you have the right to force people to be all but branded just because they have special gifts? Sure, it seems practical to protect mundanes (as Bester calls us), but how *fair* is it to go as far as the Corps went? Unless telepaths agree to join the Corps--which means

RE: [scifinoir2] Re: [OT] Samuel L. Jackson in 'Snakes on a Plane' Trailer

2006-03-24 Thread Astromancer
I wonder if anyone has ever gone back and read the original story? If not, that's probably why there is no script... Martin Pratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just heard that the Six Million Dollar Man is dead in the water, because the script wasn't working. As for all the remake fever, it's just

[scifinoir2] Randy Quaid sues studio over Brokeback Mountain

2006-03-24 Thread Keith Johnson
I love life: it just writes itself! This is wild, Quaid suing because he thought this was a simple little indie flick that no one would see. I guess it's the subject matter that makes it funny here, as the statement he wanted to make a gay cowboy movie, not a love story shows. I imagine this

Re: [scifinoir2] Exoskeleton

2006-03-24 Thread Astromancer
Dude...True Science kicks Sci-Fi's butt! Bosco Bosco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A couple of weeks ago, I blew my knee out with a dislocation. The knee brace I got in the mail yesterday looks like a piece of wierd body armour exoskeleton. I feel very Earth2 when I wear it. It works good and I can

RE: [scifinoir2] Exoskeleton

2006-03-24 Thread Keith Johnson
How long before we're jetting around in E-frames a la Exo Squad? -Original Message- From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Astromancer Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2006 02:24 To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Exoskeleton Dude...True