Archived comment by Paul:
I won't link it, but there is a Tourette's Syndrome Barbie out there that you can find with Google. The reason I won't link it is because I've gotten flamed before for it, so if you want to see it go take a look.

The thing that always kinda kills me on that one is that people don't quite get it. Tourette's Syndrome itself is not funny at all, and is a terrible disorder- but the idea of it happening to Barbie is funny. The same guy did Leprosy Barbie, in which she stood there and dismantled.

/tangent

Archived comment by daen:
I thought fecalphilia sounded wrong. Coprophilia is the correct term; related word is coprolalia, which is the uncontrollable urge to swear, often associated with Tourette's syndrome. Coprolalia is rather more rare than the popular depiction of Tourette's would have you believe.
/lecture mode.

Archived comment by Paul:
There was a lot in the Austin Powers movies that I found rather unfunny. Even the first one was a bit heavy handed. For instance- when the IRA terrorist guy with the bracelet mutters "They're always after me lucky charms" and everyone cracks up and he looks annoyed and yells "What? Why does everyone laugh when I say that?" they should have clipped the scene right there. The long explanation by the horrid German woman just killed the humor of it. It's like Mike Meyers thought that we were all too stupid to figure it out and had to be led through the joke.

Annoyed the hell out of me, it did...

Archived comment by steff:
i didn't say it was funny... i said i couldn't believe nobody had mentioned it.

Archived comment by Matt:
Which is the same book he's reading in the coffee shop restroom in the last scene in the film.

I think there should be more scenes like that in film. At least it'd up the realism factor.

And according to some guy who gave the illustrious Mike the smackdown about a year ago, fecalphiliac is a South Park (Mr. Hanky) term; the real word is corporophiliac. I have no basis by which to judge the veracity of that statement.

steff, smack me if you want, but the Austin Powers scene wasn't funny. It wasn't funny 30 seconds in and it wasn't funny five minutes later. The rebirth-from-the-goo bit was much better.

Archived comment by peegee:
"Pulp Fiction" has an unusal amount of toilet scenes. Though they're not peeing in all of them. Priceless : John Travolta sitting on the can reading "Modesty Blaise" - only to be shot when exiting the marble premises.

Archived comment by steff:
i can't believe nobody's mentioned the austin powers pee-scene, yet.

and, we CANNOT forget the 'real genius' scene. that would never do.

Archived comment by ParU:
Well as long as we're on micturation, the best 'peeing' scene, in any movie (IMHO) is Tom Hanks in A League of Their Own. Very funny and appropriate to the character.

Archived comment by daen:
I think it was those self-indulgent afterwords in a lot of Anthony's books that turned me off. That, and the last two Incarnations books.

Archived comment by hypoxic:
you didn't just say fec.... Oh well I guess you did. Errm now if someone passed a...you know... the size of jupiter then that'd be something else...

Archived comment by Apple:
"Silly fecalpheliac, peeverts aren't for kids!"

Archived comment by Paul:
Glad to hear that this is not something that is taken with enthusiasm. Although there are those people who seem to be into it... but that's just one of those fetishes that I will never, ever understand.

And yes, I remember that scene from Piers Anthony. That was one of the reasons I stopped reading his stuff, aside from the fact that he really began to suck.

Archived comment by daen:
All I have is my lunch break...

Archived comment by Apple:
I've long since learned not to eat or drink anything while reading IP.

*grin*

Archived comment by daen:
Squick point for Jon. I've read the Incarnations, but I'd managed to forget that little detail.
And I'm having lunch now, too.

Archived comment by Jon:
Heh. One of the "Incarnations of Immortality" series (about Chronos) has some of those private functions, all right... described as they happen in reverse. Not something you want to read around lunchtime.

Archived comment by Cebu:
Oh, no no. My 'yay' was an unenthusiastic one. Meaning there's too much of it in movies. "Oh, boy, he's PEEING now! Sexyyyy."

Yeah, not so much.

Archived comment by Paul:
Yeah... but Cube seems to be enjoying the thought of men peeing in movies.

Well, to quote one of the current mainstream philosophers (*snerk*), if it makes you happy, it can't be that bad...

Archived comment by steff:
*point* mia started it! hehehehe....

Archived comment by Paul:
First thing on a Monday morning, this particular topic was just a little bit squicky. Just so's ya know.

Archived comment by Cebu:
I do think it's pretty common to have a man peeing in a movie.

Yay.

Archived comment by steff:
oddly enough, i was just reading a scence in a book about peeing in a public urinal.

er. the scene was about that, not the entire book. right.

Archived comment by Mia:
Thank you, Matt. I'll add the book to my list and be sure not to rent the movie. As much as I squabble about it, I'd rather not see it happen.

[speech about people using the toilet while on the phone deleted]

Thanks, again.

Archived comment by Matt:
Ulysses by James Joyce is the first known novel--at least in English--to describe someone using the toilet. Defecating, no less. That scene--along with several others--caused such an uproar among Americans at the time, a petition to forbid the book from entering this country went before a court judge. Long story short he dismissed it, but it caused quite a stir in America in the 1940s.

I was remarking to myself about the bathroom scene just the other day, actually, when I found myself coerced into watching Enough, a film about spousal abuse starring Jennifer Lopez, wherein the only realistic, not-predictable scene in the entire film is when she is seen waking up in the morning and urinating.

Archived comment by Mia:
This goes back to book scenes being altered specifially for movies, but really just to books.

I have noticed (don't ask why, and no it is not something I am obsessed with) that people do a great number of things�eat, drink, sleep, dream, have sex and other illicit relations, drive, talk, and so on�in books, but whenever they go to the bathroom, they never use the tiolet. Occasionally they will shower or take a bath, but they never perform basic bodily functions. Granted, it would be a really gross thing to describe, but it is so common you would think someone would mention it sooner or later. Now and then they are cleaning wounds, or throwing up, or scrubbing the toilet, but no one ever pees.

This bothers me sometimes. The same as when I watch an animated movie and one character has his eyes open for at least thirty minutes. Does he only blink when the camera roves to others? Do textual characters only perform bodily functions when you aren't reading? In between one chapter and the next? Gracious.

Actually, I take back the "no one". I can list three authors who mention the characters going to the restroom, or waiting for another person to do their business on the other side of a tree.

Sorry, that was truly bizarre. Apologies from me. I just finished "Cinderella"...I have not been sleeping well enough for the past week and a half (oh, tech rehearsals, how I love thee). So, I think I'll just go to bed, now. Have another nightmare about costumes. Or maybe a dream about the�

Nevermind. 'Night, everyone. Sweet dreams. :)

Archived comment by Inuki:
Paul, wouldn't the proper response be gooses?

...Sheesh. The road trip's affected me or something.

Archived comment by Paul:
No, it revolves around me.

geese

Archived comment by ParU:
sorry Cebu - I'm kinda like steff - doesn't the world revolve around me?

ducks

Archived comment by Apple:
Namelink for the Schweaty Weiner.

*grin*

Archived comment by Cebu:
Umm... ParU, actually I was talking to Apple.

Hee. I got to say ummm. :D

Archived comment by ParU:
Actually Cebu - I don't know if I did or not, he was about 6 years older than me and while I may have bumped into him at my friends house, I don't remember it. Probably not.

Archived comment by Cebu:
Hmm. Sinbad.

Phil Hartman was awesome. You're lucky to have met him!

Archived comment by ParU:
Apple - Phil Hartman went to my High School! -- he also dated my best friend's older sister. -- Joys of growing up in LA.

Archived comment by Apple:
I got to meet Phil Hartman when I lived in Minneapolis. Good man, great loss to the world of comedy.

Met Sinbad, too.

*grin*

Archived comment by Cebu:
Hee! Those Schweaty ones are hilarious.

I started saying Good Times after an episode of NewsRadio. Phil Hartman said it. *sniff* *sob*

Archived comment by Matt:
There was a follow-up to the Christmas balls sketch, where Pete discussed his greatest passion outside of cooking: baseball. In fact, the Schweaty family recipe is so well-known, no one can resist his Schweaty wiener. Trust me, I'm playing nice here.

Archived comment by Apple:
Schweaty Balls!!!

I LOVE that sketch!

*grin*

Archived comment by Matt:
My sister and I say "Good times" to each other a lot. Apparently I infected her with the saying, which she then passed on to all of her friends. That phrase was the only funny thing about Delicious Dish, excepting of course, Pete Schweaty.

Archived comment by penguinchick:
I got stuck seeing Titanic three times in the theater. Surprisingly, two of those times I was dragged along by a guy, who automatically assumed that I would like it. He bought me the video too, when it came out. I didnt have the heart to tell him.

Archived comment by Apple:
I just bought that DVD for my sister. "Good times."

*grin*

Archived comment by Kris the Girl:
I've always loved the movie Earth Girls are Easy. That's some funny stuff, right there.

Archived comment by Matt:
I saw about 10 minutes of Titanic. It was on TV last Thanksgiving, I think, and I was flipping through. It was DiCaprio and Winslett clinging to pieces of wood in the water. I hope that wasn't supposed to be the best part of the movie, because it wasn't very good at all.

When it first came out, my brother was in college and lots of people were asking him, "So have you seen Titanic yet?" And he'd say, "No, because it's an awful, awful movie." So finally, after the umpteenth person said, "You're being prejudiced. You haven't even seen it!", he went.

And the second he walked out of the theater, he turned to the dozen or so people around him and said, "That was an awful, horrible piece of drek. I just wasted three hours of my life sitting in that theater."

My brother's nothing, if not diplomatic.

Archived comment by Apple:
It's the drugs. They give me all kinds of creepy powers.

*grin*

"There's some milk in the fridge about to go bad..... and there it goes."

Archived comment by Jon:
Apple was reading my mind, because that was the movie to which I was referring.
"Oh, wow. Like, I'm not sure that's even humanly possible..."

Archived comment by Apple:
Like Kung Pao.

*shudder*

Archived comment by Jon:
Can't say that I'm always that smart about what movies I go to see, I'm just ornery about refusing to see certain popular movies. I can well believe that ParU and the rest have good taste... I sometimes enjoy awful movies because they're so bad.

Archived comment by Inuki:
I saw maybe the second half of that movie, but I have a good excuse. It was a weekday, and I was home sick from school, and there was absolutely nothing on. I think I slept through bits of it, anyway... Couldn't tell you what happened to save my life. (Other than the fact that the ship sank.)

Just because I want to tell people... I have a pair of AAA batteries with Japanese text on them. They're Mitsubishi super heavy duty something-or-another that came out of the remote for the Mitsubishi projector we're using for the play I'm getting graded on.

Archived comment by hypoxic:
Oh speaking about randomly catching the scenes where actresses are naked. I saw halle berry naked in Monster's ball. Never saw another part of that movie either.

Archived comment by Paul:
Yeah, I tend to avoid war movies and re-enactments of tragedies and such as much as I avoid chick flicks. I just plain don't want to see it- there's enough tragic crap that happens in real life without having to see more of it on screen.

It's like when my ex used to watch "ER" every Thursday night. I finally asked her why she watched it- didn't she see enough of it at work in person?

She had no answer, of course.

Archived comment by ParU:
Welcome to first meeting of those who've never seen the movie 'Titanic'

I'm on the membership committee. Interesting, no. Most of the People of In Passing (PIP - inside computer joke too!) are smarter and far more interesting than the rest of the public.

And, of course, we all know about the WIP - especially their road trips - wild doesn't cover it.