h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Damn!

I'll get Dagon and throw it in. If it's that bad, it was only £1.50.

Apparently it has more to do with "The Shadow Over Innsmouth".

Both are good stories. I just keep reading all of these awful reviews. General concensus seems to be that fans of Lovecraft don't enjoy the films (maybe too much license taken with the stories?) and that people who aren't familiar with his works, don't enjoy them much, either. Meanwhile, I absolutely LOVE "The Re-Animator" and "The Beyond", so I guess I don't mind a little creative embellishment.

...bummer, I went in this afternoon and it was gone. Really wasn't expecting it to get snapped up like that. Hey ho, maybe it was a hint

I know that feeling. I didn't pick up "Grosse Pointe Blank" at least a half dozen times, passing it by each time and telling myself I didn't enjoy the film enough to warrant paying $5 for the DVD. Once I finally decided that it was worth $5, we went back, and it wasn't there. Instead, I found "The Fearless Vampire Killers" (which I had on video not DVD) and "Body Double" (which I'd recorded off cable some years previously), for $7 each. Some impulses are best restrained.

I could, theoretically, just Netflix it.

You're probably better off keeping it theoretical. Who knows, somewhen it'll show up on some ass cable channel in the middle of the night when you can't sleep, you'll watch it, it will have been watched.

It has motivated me to print out the complete works though, just as soon as we've put a new cartridge in the work printer.

Oh, I don't have cable TV. $60 a month for basic service? When I can get easily 15-20 movies out of Netflix per month for $25 and change? It's a no-brainer?

Ah, okay.

I'll admit, though, that ass cable channels have their merits!!

*starts counting down for arrival of Phantom Yikeser*

(A post of mine was yikesed- and edited!- for using the word "ass". Then when I yikesed someone else for using the word "d**k" in an offensive way, no one even bothered to refer it. )

I see you're testing the water in the covers thread... I wanted to include a cover of a GG Allin song by a band called Alan Cnut (sort of), but it wasn't happening.

Reminds me, the day before Tom went to NZ I went to see him and wish him bon voyage. He wanted to show me something on his flatmate's computer, so opened a video folder; but before he could direct me to a clip of Conchords, I'd commented on the other files.

"What... Ass Parade?" His flatmate said nothing.

If a legitimate band name winds up moderated, I'll just despair.

Five bucks says you regaled me with that story just so you could say "ass" in another posting.

I do enjoy the way you Americoids employ that word, like "This food tastes like ass."

Some of us can only speculate as to what that might taste like. But it is an amusing expression.

My favorite (and I use it as often as possible) is "it smells like ass in here". It's even more fun after hearing Cartman say it on South Park, with that goofy way he says "here" (sounds like "nyheah"). So I always say it that way.

So...

assimilate
assemble
assist
assign
assassinate

I really enjoyed The Butterfly Effect, Ashton Kutcher did a great job with it. There's a bit where he walks in on his giant goth college room-mate screwing, complaining the place smelt of "patchouli and ass." Yum!

I always wondered what it was with goths and patchouli.

I don't know. I've never known any goths; by the time it became fashionable here, I was already in my early twenties and much too old for that crowd. I've known lots of people who like patchouli, but none of them were goths.

I actually like the smell of patchouli, incense-wise, but don't wear patchouli oil. Makes me smell like wet bark. On some people, it smells like unwashed hippie. And on some people, it smells just lovely. But I ain't one of them.

Time was you couldn't move here for goths. This was the town that gave the world Cradle Of Filth, after all. Colchester's still a pretty gothful place, I'm told. Here it's all hoodies now.

What program did you use to convert the avi to mpeg?

ImTOO. They offer a limited-functionality download for free (I want to say the limit was 5 MB per file?) and a fully-functional version. The free version worked fine for me. While I paid gladly for Nero, AnyDVD and DVD Shrink, I don't expect to need to convert avi files often enough to necessitate anything beyond a reasonably functional free version.

Okey-coke.

A bit of random fun- this was linked to in one of the threads I lurk on Ask, and then Edward (Bonobo) left a link on my Uspace:

http://www.lolcatbible.com/index.php?title=Genesis_1