Archived comment by Daniel:
this is a quote from the "Stimutacs" episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force. Probably my favorite show it comes on sunday nights on cartoon network.

Archived comment by Mike:
...And trivial Google searches. Time for dessert and a football game.

Archived comment by Mike:
I meant that they were a kid's toys in the books and Disney specials. Christopher Robin owned them, didn't he? They weren't real animals, were they? Eh, maybe I'm just not remembering it right. And I never got into the A. A. Milne books, probably because of the insipid Disney influence.

It's really not fair to judge the pre-sanitized stories, now that I think about it: you can't blame the authors for some Illinois hick who came along and made ridiculous revisions to their books. I actually read Barrie's _Peter Pan_: did you know that Peter is a violent psychopath in the book and that all of the other Lost Boys were afraid of him? Not bad for a children's tale.

Still not reading _Bambi_ though, even if I do keep walking by it in the library.

It's just not a full day without a comment full of pointless tangents...

Archived comment by Paul:
No, they weren't toys- they were books and Disney specials that some of us grew up on. And Pooh didn't really have a whole lot of competition back then- the kids' market was pretty empty.

The ire that many of us feel toward those characters is memory of childhood frustration with the characters, and not liking how they reacted with each other. Thus my comment, for instance, that Tigger was a hyper and obnoxious peckerhead. He was. It's no wonder I started reading the Hardy Boys at such an early age- I was fleeing the Hundred Acre Woods as fast as my sanity could carry me.

Overall, I like Dorothy Parker's comment on Pooh et al: "Tonstant Weader fwowed up."

Archived comment by Mike:
Some people compete for specific numbers - such as the first post (FP), 69th, or 100th.

Yes-- some people. (*sidelong glance*)
All hail pointless meme-ery!

</pointless peeve-ery>

Now that I think about it, all of the "Cal wins the axe" comments would've fit in nicely here. And what's with all the Tigger bashing? They were toys. A kid's toys! "Gawd, I hate that one toy that's only interested in fun and games! Give ME the one who's always working in the garden, or the depressed one with near-suicidal tendencies!" Heh, what kind of childhoods did you guys have, anyway?

Archived comment by Monk:
After the overheard comment it says "Comments? Add or View (70)"

So the next comment will be 71. Some people compete for specific numbers - such as the first post (FP), 69th, or 100th. When that happens we sometimes have several posts claiming to be number 100. But if they are all typing while others are typing and pressing "Add Comment", they don't know that 100 has already been posted and their's is 101, or 102.

Archived comment by TheEileen:
I just KNEW that someone was going to make that comment. I just knew it. I only hoped that this thread had gone dormant so it would slide by unnoticed. Oh well.

BTW, how do y'all tell what number of post you are making?

Archived comment by Monk:
cockhead

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHa

69!!!

Archived comment by TheEileen:
That is a very good way of putting it. That was exactly what made me go "hunh?" /cock head.

Archived comment by Denise:
Oh.. I agree... the story was good. The way it was written was..odd.

If the whole bird-weirdness hadn't come in, I would have liked it more...

Archived comment by TheEileen:
Yup, read it. Didn't actually like it as much as I did the others by the same auther. The plotting seemed odder to me. But overall, I like him.

Archived comment by Denise:
Has anyone read the book, "Commitment Day"?

Paul's plant story reminds me of that book.. it's about a society of people that get to spend part of their time as a male and part as a female and when they turn 21 they have to "commit" to one or the other.

It's a great story.

Archived comment by ParU:
I'm not sure if that's a TMI point Paul or just a 'Very Odd' pt (VOP).

Archived comment by Paul:
Beats the hell out of me... the only reason I know anything about it is that last night I met a guy who can only be described as a hardcore eco-freak. He mentioned that the world's largest flower got to be 15 feet tall and smelled like rotting flesh and looked like a giant phallus, and had the full attention of everyone in the room for the next few minutes... I got that link from someone else who was present at the time and was able to find it online.

I look at that plant and think of the movie "Little Shop Of Horrors"- only in this case it doesn't eat people, it... ummmm.... nevermind...

Archived comment by Bryan:
Just how the heck did that plant evolve Paul?

Archived comment by Paul:
You mean like this, ParU?...

(namelink work safe, kinda...)

Archived comment by ParU:
perianth - a Loonie pt is a combination cool/geek pt., plus we were having a discussion on how cool Canada is and the Canadian contingent chimed in with the info that a 'loonie' was their nickname for their dollar coin. Which is, I guess, 63/100th of a US dollar. So maybe your ratio is correct.

Plus anyone can give out points to anyone else but cool pts are for something special. And you lose cool pts for bragging about your cool pts. You also lose 1 cool pt for each TMI (Too Much Info) pt you get (for providing really awful graphic images in our heads).

Confused now?

Archived comment by perianth:
What is a Loonie point? 63/100 of a cool point?

I'm an uncultured newbie, I am.

Archived comment by Denise:
You won't like me when I'm angry.

*hulks out*

Archived comment by steff:
adrenaline really is a wonder drug, isn't it? i've seen someone who normally can't walk and chew gum at the same time do a no-handed flip-tuck-and-roll, nail the landing, and come up with a big stick at the ready as a weapon. we, um... still arent' sure when he picked up the stick. *grin* it's nice to know that the human body CAN do these things when you don't have time to think about whether you can do them or not.

Archived comment by ParU:
Arlene - 1 Ursine pt. for a great Bear story.

Sorta related and true story about me. Growing up in So. Calif we used to go sailing out in the Pacific a lot. So one time we're just drifting (no wind) and we decide to go swimming (leaving the parents on board the boat, we're not stupid). So I'm swimming about 20 feet from the stern and someone yells 'Shark!'. I look and about 30 feet away is a shark's fin. I learned a few things about myself then.
1) I could've beat Mark Spitz swimming back to the boat.
2) Though the stern rail is (honest!) about 5 feet off the water and the stern was about 4 feet I was able to grab that rail on my first grasp. Which, trying to repeat that grasp (days later) I never got within 2 feet of it (too high).
3) I can too walk on water if there's sufficient motivation.

Archived comment by Denise:
Oh MAN, Arlene... that was funny.

Dopplar effect... hehehehe

Archived comment by Arlene:
This is kind of a long story, so you may want to skip it, if you're in a hurry.

My friend from high school was invited to go bear hunting. He had never been on such a hunt before so he agreed wholeheartedly. They're out there for 4 days. For all the sign they saw you'd think bears had gone extinct. Nothing, not even a paw print. On the last night, they gave up & cooked cheeseburgers & hamburgers for supper.

The next morning my friend was awakened by the dog licking his face. He slapped the dog away, except...when his hand got halfway he suddenly realized; they hadn't brought a dog. Of course, by that time, his hand had impacted fur.

He opened his eyes & learned 2 things. 1) Under sufficient duress, he can levitate & 2) some stains don't come out of longjohns. His friends said that the doppler effect as he circled the camp screaming was interesting.

What happened to the bear? Everybody was so busy laughing that all they could do was shoo it out of camp.

Archived comment by Paul:
"Dude, the Pope's not getting any!"

Archived comment by Apple:
Namelink is a really bad copy of a SNL bit with George Wendt. I'm looking for something better, but you can still get the general idea of a Chicago accent.

Archived comment by Barry:
Is the Bear Catholic?

Archived comment by ParU:
Denise - both with and without fingers (and boy does that sound Monkish.

Nice to know that I've got *something* others envy. Not being suave and sophisticated like the rest of you folks. I'm just a pur country boy from the hollers of Playa del Rey.

Archived comment by TheEileen:
Well, it's fairly typical for young women to have whistle envy of fatherly types. I think Freud did a whole monograph on the subject.

(giggle)

Archived comment by Denise:
I just don't think Loonie pts for Cool pts is an equitable swap - but since I was never eligible for the Cool pts in the first place... I take it!

ParU.. reeeally???.... you can?
With or without your fingers?
Really - I just find that so facinating when people can do that...

Great. Now I have whistle envy of ParU, too.

Archived comment by ParU:
As always you are correct Denise - you can't give yourself cool pts. Those cool pts have gone to data heaven.

But you get one Loonie pt. for just knowing all the obscure things that you know.

And I *can* whistle between my teeth and the regular way too.

Archived comment by Denise:
But..but.. but..

I can't give myself cool points!

Sigh.

It's from "That 70's Show". Kitty says it to Eric when he's bothering Red.

The only reason I don't like Gopher is that I can't do the whistle through my teeth thing. I have whistle envy. That and he makes me think of Love Boat.

Ok.. 2 things, then.

Archived comment by ParU:
steff - "We don't need no stinkin badgers"

Sorry, had to be said.

And Mistress Denise - don't just stand there with your hands on your hips (though you're awfully cute when you're mad), answer your own question!

Archived comment by steff:
yeah, gopher, who the hell ever. =D it's paul's fault... he's got this thing about badgers. heh. no, i must be honest, it's because i'm slumming in my wisconsin badgers sweats and i'm easily distracted.

Archived comment by Jon:
"Fear leads to anger...
anger leads to hatred...
hatred leads to *suffering*..."

0.0025 cool points.

Archived comment by penguinchick:
steff- he's actually a gopher...and I hate him too. But not as much as I hate Rabbit and Tigger.

Archived comment by steff:
eeyore's the best, goes without saying, but you know who i really hate? badger. for the love of PETE, can he get that speech impediment FIXED already?? dear sweet fancy moses, that whistle makes me homicidal within .78 minutes. stop it! stopitstopitstopit!!

Archived comment by Denise:
*hands on my hips*

No one wants my cool points?

Archived comment by Apple:
Smarmy Bastards would make a great band name.

I just wanted to chime in on the anti-Rabbit vote. Vote Eeyore!


Go Bears! I'll be watching da Bears dis fine ev'ning!

Archived comment by Keli:
I get perianth's 1/2 cool point for the Simpsons reference...

Best Cool Point Ever!

And...Rabbit is a smarmy bastard.

Archived comment by hypoxic:
Damn I couldn't get the darwin awards to link properly so I'll just cut and paste the bit here:

Eat the Young
2000 Personal Account
A friend of mine worked for the National Park Service as a ranger at Yellowstone Park. One day he joined a crowd of people, cars, trucks and motor homes that had congregated to watch a bear. One woman and her little boy caught his attention. She was smearing something unidentifiable all over the boy's face.
He asked the woman what she was doing. She answered, "Putting honey on him, of course!"

Stunned, the ranger asked the obvious question: Why? She answered matter-of-factly, "I want to take a picture of the bear licking it off his face!"

Fortunately or unfortunately, depending on your point of view, my friend prevented them from approaching the bear, but to this very day, he has nightmares about it. This event just goes to show why some animals will eat their own young in the wild.

DarwinAwards.com � 1994-2002

Go BEARS!

Archived comment by lurkereh?:
Way down, near the bottom some one was talking about the characters that remind me very much of the book "The Tao of Pooh" Great book! and this whole thread and how people relate to characters says a bit.

And by the way...Cebu - he is soooo cute!

Archived comment by Cebu:
I realize this has nothing to do with anything but I don't know where else to put it. Namelink is a picture slide that is so cuuuuute.

-proud auntie

Archived comment by penguinchick:
Tim- Have I mentioned that I was traumatized by Baloo at Disney World as a kid and havent been able to watch The Jungle Book since? The Bare Necessities song is possibly one of the scariest things (Disney related anyway) that I have every heard.

ParU- No. I hate Tigger. I always have and I always will. He was mean to Eeyore and had no regard for anyone else. I did however, feel somewhat sorry for him when I watched The Tigger Movie and he was sad because he had no family.

Archived comment by E!:
Hmmmm...or perhaps it was the Midnight Bomber...

"...and I said Yeah Baby, YEAH!"

Archived comment by E!:
My favorite non-recurring (read, regular) superhero on The Tick was Bi-Polar Bear...

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Yeah, down here, I'm definitely the Apotheosis of Cool.

Archived comment by Paul:
You know, Tigger always annoyed me as a kid, as did Rabbit. Tigger was just an irrepressable hyper little twit without the ability to see how his actions affected others (in other words, a total peckerhead), and Rabbit was an anal retentive control freak.

Then again, I always felt uncomfortable watching Charlie Brown too- he was always the butt of jokes, constantly insulted and taunted, and powerless to stop it. Having three older sisters, I completely empathized with him- watching those cartoons was a little too close to my own reality.

Archived comment by ma�lle:
u just did

Archived comment by ParU:
Penguinchick - you didn't like Tigger??? Tigger was the best!

Oh and as the 'Big Game' is coming up...

'Go Bears!'

(Actually my daughter does a great 'Fargo' impression of that saying.)

Archived comment by tim:
I can't believe no one's mentioned the " Bare Necessities" from " The Jungle Book"

Archived comment by Gitana:
Thanks for the laughs guys... umrguy hadn't heard that one :)

Reading all the bear related stuff reminded me of my favourite quote from an otherwise shocker of a movie, Lake Placid.

"You should have seen the look on your face... Forget me, did you see the look on the bear's face?"

It's from the scene where the huge croc grabs a grizzly from the shore. I thought the words were hilarious... but then that's me.