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the_taken · Post by **the_taken** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 1:36 am

zeruslord wrote:The very worst Leonard Nimoy music video for your viewing "pleasure."

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO0OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

My ears...
they bleed...

Talisman · Post by **Talisman** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 1:59 am

Koumei wrote:Now, I hear rattlesnakes aren't much of a worry, but do YOUR lizards have venom?

Yes. They're called Gila Monsters.
It's not rattlesnake-level venom, but I can't let you Aussies be talking too much smack.

Also bees are getting dangerously close.

I don't know how things are Down Under, but here in the States we have a severe bee shortage. Seriously. Honeybees are considered a good thing; we need more of them.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 2:20 am

Talisman wrote: I don't know how things are Down Under, but here in the States we have a severe bee shortage. Seriously. Honeybees are considered a good thing; we need more of them.

You can have ours. Seriously. You're welcome to them. In fact, take all of them, to the last.

Interesting note: the English bee actually died out in WWI. Apparently it was a disease, and not the 31st Battalion consisting entirely of bees, making a trench run. So they had to import all of their bees from elsewhere.

Beekeeper 1: how many bees do you have, then?
Beekeeper 2: a hundred thousand, not bad, eh?
Beekeeper 1: in how many hives?
Beekeeper 2: twenty seems to do about right. How many bees do you have then?
Beekeeper 1: a million
Beekeeper 2: a million??? Bloody Hell, how many hives?
Beekeeper 1: one
Beekeeper 2: a million bees, in just one hive?
Beekeeper 1: yeah, fuck 'em they're just bees.

zeruslord · Post by **zeruslord** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 2:37 am

C'mon, his singing's not that bad. It's the backup singers, the dancers, the costuming, and everything else that went into the making of that video that is so wonderfully terrible.

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 2:41 am

Found another Badass worth sharing.

http://www.badassoftheweek.com/voytek.html

JonSetanta · Post by **JonSetanta** » Tue Jan 06, 2009 12:25 am

zeruslord wrote:The very worst Leonard Nimoy music video for your viewing "pleasure."

Huh.

Mind bluescreen'd

I'll have to think about that a bit longer.

zeruslord · Post by **zeruslord** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 2:01 am

I found the source of this image, and I had to share.

It was an 80s cartoon and toy line with space aliens fighting on earth using dinosaurs as tanks and planes.

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 2:10 am

Holy fuck, I remember that!

I had a pterodactyl which had a hang-glider-like sling that fit under it.

Oy. I feel old now, and I'm only 22...

cthulhu · Post by **cthulhu** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 2:11 am

Dino riders is great. I think my parents still have all my toys at their place.

Talisman · Post by **Talisman** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 2:21 am

I loved Dino-Riders. I had the T-Rex and the triceatops, and the denonychus, and a couple of the pterodactyls. I was a huge dinosaur nut, so D-R was like crack to me.

I'm older'n you, Maxus. Not by much, though.

Hey, who's up for a Dino-Riders RPG?

TOZ · Post by **TOZ** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 2:24 am

I've forgotten most of those old cartoons I used to watch. Managed to torrent Exo-squad and Pirates of Dark Water tho.

zeruslord · Post by **zeruslord** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 2:28 am

I'm up for it, but missed the eighties by about ten months and didn't have a color TV until about 2000. Basically, I'd help with balance, but not much more.

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 2:30 am

Teenaged Mutant Ninja Turtles
Pirates of Dark Water
Garfield and Friends
Reboot
Sonic
Bump in the Night
Looney Tunes
Mario Brothers
Geeker
The animated Addams' Family
Captain Planet
Conan
Mighty Max
Superhuman Samurai Cyber Squad

...And the list goes on.

Damn. I was a TV junky when I was a kid.

Talisman · Post by **Talisman** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 3:08 am

Maxus wrote:Teenaged Mutant Ninja Turtles
Pirates of Dark Water
Garfield and Friends
Reboot
Sonic
Bump in the Night
Looney Tunes
Mario Brothers
Geeker
The animated Addams' Family
Captain Planet
Conan
Mighty Max
Superhuman Samurai Cyber Squad

To this I'll add...

X-Men
Thundercats
He-Man
She-Ra (shouldn't that be "She-Woman"?)
G. I. Joe
Widget the World Watcher
The Real Ghostbusters
Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors

...And others I can't recall.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 4:49 am

I had the triceratops (with a gun harness on it. Lots of las-cannons) as a kid. Dinoriders was totally awesome. Also had the pterodactyl and the pteranodon IIRC. Might have even had a deinonychus/velociraptor.

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 2:50 pm

Thinking back on it now...

Isn't it weird how many R-rated movies spawned successful toy lines? I kept the Terminator 2 and Aliens toys in business when I was a kid.

ckafrica · Post by **ckafrica** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 4:50 pm

This is scary.

What is the movie with the second highest on screen body count in the 90s more than Saving Private Ryan and Starship Troopers?

Neeeek · Post by **Neeeek** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 6:38 pm

ckafrica wrote:This is scary.

What is the movie with the second highest on screen body count in the 90s more than Saving Private Ryan and Starship Troopers?

Tied for first, actually.

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 8:39 pm

This made me laugh.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2008/11 ... e-spotted/

If you'll pardon a link from Fox News.

JonSetanta · Post by **JonSetanta** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 10:45 pm

Nothing to add to Maxus and Talisman's lists. They've stated my entire childhood. There might be more but I pretty much watched anything that didn't have ponies, rainbows, or pastries as main themes.

Transformers, Thundercats, and Silverhawks (briefly) were my favorites.
Something about the Mon-Star and Mum Ra voice actor performance just blew my mind back then, but even more impressioning were the assorted Transformer vocoder effects and anime sounds (Robotech as well?).

Damn, I was like a starling back then, mimicking cartoon noises without reason or context.

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 2:08 am

I still have my She-Ra castle and "action figures" (they really are dolls, damn it). And I just found the well-loved He-Man jammies that have been passed down through my siblings. I put them in the pile of still too big clothes for my son.

Maxus' Fox News Article wrote:Only the driver's window has a small slot that can slide open, which we assume is for paying tolls.

For some reason, I found this statement really incredulous. Seriously... A dude who has an entire convoy following him around with multiple plans on how to get safely from one destination to another is going to stop at a toll booth?

I don't see it.

Crissa · Post by **Crissa** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 1:19 am

But!

What about:
Jem
Droids
Kidd Video
...

-Crissa

Absentminded_Wizard · Post by **Absentminded_Wizard** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 1:42 am

Talisman wrote:Hey, who's up for a Dino-Riders RPG?

Somebody already tried it. Disclaimer: I've never actually seen the rules of this game, so I have no idea how good they are.

TOZ · Post by **TOZ** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 1:53 am

sigma999 wrote:Nothing to add to Maxus and Talisman's lists. They've stated my entire childhood. There might be more but I pretty much watched anything that didn't have ponies, rainbows, or pastries as main themes.

Chip 'n' Dale's Rescue Rangers? I mean, due, the shoestring tech they had was awesome!

Freakazoid? Animaniacs? Anyone?

And seriously, Exo-squad. Power suits, interstellar racial war, actual character death. Badass show.

Talisman · Post by **Talisman** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 4:02 am

JEM - Knew of it; never watched it.
Droids -

Kidd Video - Now I remember. Man, that was a strange show.
Rescue Rangers - Yeah! Gadget could make some awesome stuff. I loved that show at the time, although Dale was an idiot and Chip was a bossy dick.
Freakazoid - Nope.
Animaniacs - Loves parts of it; hated other parts. Pinky & the Brain was cool.

Oh, and who could forget Alvin and the Chipmunks? That show was so messed up (Why are the chipmunks 4' tall? Why is it "Alvin and the Chipmunks" if Alvin is a Chipmunk? Where the hell did the Chipettes come from? Are there normal chipmunks in this universe? If not, where are all the other giant chipmunks? If so, WTF is up with Alvin and the gang? Why was Alvin such a jerk?).

And let's not forget Flagrant Transformer Ripoff Go-Bots! One robot can become...wait for it...a scooter!

Wow, I just remembered the Hot Wheels cartoon. I totally loved it at the time for some bizarre reason known only to suger-hyped 8-year-olds.