Revolutionary said:
This podcast left me with the mental image of Marcus Fenix in a runway fashion contest.....why?
<img src="http://s91291220.onlinehome.us/formica/manlyguys.jpg" align=right>Your comment left me with mental images of Manly Guys Doing Manly Things [http://thepunchlineismachismo.com/archives/777].
Susan makes a Bionic Commando joke and no one starts talking to her arm and saying something like "Russ! What did they do to you?" I'm just a tiny bit disappointed. I
still haven't forgotten that plot twit. Er, twist.
PLEASE tell me I wasn't the only one thinking of
Blazing Saddles during the pony-punching discussion. And as someone who used to live one field over from some horses, let me tell you that some of those hateful bastards deserve to be punched.
Ponies are a different phenotype than horses but you have to know what to look for to differentiate them easily. Non-enthusiasts often mistake an adult pony for a youngish horse, and there's also small horses which people inaccurately call ponies. Like the Horses [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sable_Island_Pony].
If anyone reviewing claims originality in having their kids help them review games, I'm hitting someone. My collection of magazines is a full continent away, but I'm almost sure that one of the reviewers for either Compute!'s Gazette [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Computing] used the same gimmick when reviewing children's games.
I'm used to the idea of a cast of characters who don't change while the world does, as I read
Nero Wolfe novels. The main characters changed little while the world outside the brownstone went from the casual racism and economic desperation of the 1930s, to the homefront of the Second World War, and so on right to the cynicism of the Watergate era. Wikipedia calls it a floating timeline [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_timeline].
Darth Vader's seduction to the Dark Side COULD have been interesting. I doubt there's a Star Wars fan who snubs rewatching the original trilogy because they already know that Vader will redeem himself.
I can reread a good book even though I know the ending. It just requires a good writer.
A story of getting medical info on the Internet, from the Internet. (I vouch for the truthfulness of the patient who witnessed this, though. Of course, I'm on the Internet too.)
As they were leaving, the doctor turned to the trainee and said "I have another patient who says that testosterone levels are higher in single men than married men - he reads stuff on the Internet - " (Here she shot me a funny look that left me mildly nonplused.) "and now that he's divorced, he's expecting a change. There's actually some data to back this up. The thing is, single men tend to be younger than married men, so their higher level most likely comes from that."
I used the break in the conversation to say "Ah, the wonders of mistaking correlation for causation." My doctor stopped mid-stride, turned back, and looked straight at me.
The look reminded me of what I'd expect of an immigrant, living in a country where no one speaks their mother tongue, who just heard words in their original language.
All she said to me was "Yes, that's exactly it."
I bowed slightly. She bid me a good day and left.
