September 08, 2006

• I really liked Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. That was a clever stupid show.
• Mary Mungo and Midge - It was OK to live in tower blocks, and sometimes a mouse could ride on a dog's nose.
• Penelope Pitstop - it was OK to fit 25 gangsters into a car. As long as they came from Ampthill.
• Without further adieu... OK, from any other source this would drive me hair-pulling crazy. But since it's from "Cracked" I'm prepared to give them the benefit of the doubt that they're being deliberatey tongue-in-cheek. That said, the "Trust No One" thing is very appropriate. I've always felt that "The X-Files" was more than loosely based on "Scooby-Doo." Right on down to the skinny, goofy guy and the hot redhead.
• I thought Scooby Doo taught us that we could have got away with it if it wasn't for the pesky kids.
• Scooby Doo really taught us that all paranormal activity is actually some old fart in a costume.
• Pidgeon Street - it was OK to finally find a use for those dreadful hexagonal electronic drums
• Scully was not that hot. She just seemed a bit more... amenable, to the geeking class, than your average be-scrunchied Heather. And that goes a long way. Apropos of nada, I was blessed, during the late 90s and early aughts, to have a crew of goofball technicals in my coterie to which I could throw arcana at, whom everyone referred to as "Fes' 'Lone Gunmen'." How I did enjoy that so.
• Scully was not that hot. Obviously a typo. Maybe it's a heat wave in Fesville and you're just not thinking right. Now I'll give you that she needed camera placement, and the hair & makeup van, but when she was fully assembled . . .
• Look, Gillian Anderson is not an unattractive woman. However, the makers of that show dowdied her up so much (to silently emphasize her "seriousness") that she became very (to my mind) desexualized. Toward the end, with her severe suits and doughy makeup? Very man-y. Only rarely did they allow Scully any opportunities to demonstrate any sort of sexuality - more often, she demonstrated that she was a woman via victimhood (resulting is Mulder having to go save her from baddies) than by any overt sexual cues. That's very old school. Geeks first impulse wasn't the desire to have sex with Scully, they envisioned themselves *saving* her from danger, with the added bonus of that she had demonstrated she had an inkling of and appreciation for the geek personality type, and thus they might be able to have sex with her later, after demonstrating their particular brand of hacker heroism. Also, this bonghit psychology hat is a little tight lately.
• Hmm. well, as I am not a serious student of the show, I will defer to your well-reasoned argument. Still, I get to go "Hot-cha!" when I google up images though right? Hey, lemme see that hat. I got some college kids to argue with.
• kit, your childhood scares me.
• more often, she demonstrated that she was a woman via victimhood (resulting is Mulder having to go save her from baddies) I really hated when they started pulling that. Grr! Anyway, didn't Me-Man® have a girlfriend?
• Yes: She-Ra, Princess of Power. Or was it Teela, the Captain of the Royal Guard with the girl-next-door hips? Romance in Eternia was always ambiguous. Personally I was always more partial to Evil-Lyn. Rowr! Incidentally, the length and scholarly rigor of the Wikipedia Masters of the Universe page is more than a little frightening.
• Methinks She-Ra was his sister. 'Twas the fair Teela of whom I spake. I always thought Duncan the Man-At-Arms was pretty dishy for a 'toon.
• I don't know Man-At-Arms had a mustache right out the Blue Oyster.
• I think geeks found Scully attractive because she was serious, and intelligent, and sarcastic. I've never seen geek boys lusting after bimbos, no matter how sexy. Even 7of9 is at least intelligent (though most geek boys I knew preferred Willow from Buffy).
• *has a oft spot for teh geek boys*
• "Soft," that is. It's far from "oft." Whn we getin a prvw buttin?
• scully appealed to more than geeks, iirc. i remember being surprised at one point when she won a "year's hottest female award" for one of the men's magazines.
• oh, a pretty girl is like a malady ...
• O, my love is like a red, red rose that's newly- sprung in June, O, my love is like the malady I caught this afternoon.
• O, my love is like a frying pan that gets too hot to hold. O, my love forgot to cleanse herself, and now she smells of mold.
• Oh, my love is like a coon tail on the head of Dan'l Boone, Oh, my love is like sheer pantyhose, or like the worms from Dune
• O, my love is like a bounteous cup, whose rim has runneth o'er. O, my love lies down with many a lad, she is a fooking ho'er.
• *wild applause, throws panties on stage*
• *plucks knickers from nose* Allright!! Who threw that?! C'mon! OWN UP! We will sit here all day if necessary! Jeremiah, fetch the cane. I will whip each and EVERY ONE of you until the owner of these filthy knickers comes forth and prostrates themselves appropriately. *taps foot, adjusts monocle*
• Well, I'm not pointing fingers or anything, but only one of us has the word underpants in his or her name.
• ..which would indicate he/she/it still had possession of said articles of under-clothing. I suspect Lara is trying to pull more than just panties over my eyes....
• A thong doesn't do much to cover your eyes, dave, but we'll all pretend you can't see.
• *sticks out hands, walks around "blindly"* Oh, sorry nunia.. can't see what I'm gropin'
• S'okay dave. With my delayed reactions, I won't feel it for days.