>> And hippie treehuggers...
>> /me thinks of the Futurama episode where the Omicronians demand
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> :)
> Oh, so true!
> I'm not very "culturally literate", so every once in a while, I'll pick
> something up that just adds another layer of awesomeness to Futurama.
> Ex: I just learned the other day that Elzar is based on a real chef with
> the Bam!
Didn't know that. :)
> and accent and all. And the brain slugs might be based on an
> old movie The Puppeteers, who latched onto the back of your neck and
> controlled you.
> Just little stuff like that makes it all that funnier.
> Oh, and the saddest episode EVAR. When Fry moved the stars to say I <3
> Leela. Man.
That may be a reference to the Red Dwarf books in which they made the
stars spell out "Coca Cola"
Hilarious. I think the book read something like "Tribes yet undiscovered
by man looked up to the night sky and saw Coca Cola written in the stars"
If you like the TV programs (and for the love of god I don't mean the
bastardized American pilot ones) then read the books. You will laugh in
public and people will think you're mad.
> Anywho, I'll stop my Futuramo-rave here.
> Acercanto
Don't stop on my account. Let's face it, we're not going to "block up
the newsgroup" are we?
There are quite a few reasons I like Futurama. I like Futurama because
it's "a Simpsons for geeks"
I love things like the Pac Man and Donkey Kong references. There are so
many more references which are far more obscure.
For me, the funniest, or one of the funniest is in the episode with the
robot rebellion (a parody of the socialist uprising in Russia) where the
birthday-card robot suggests to Bender that one day they'll operate on
synthetic fuel and not alcohol. Bad idea to say *that* to Bender.
To which Bender replies "Gazgadanya, comrade..." and then promptly tears
him in two.
I'm not sure of the exact translation but I think it's "Farewell, comrade"
I heard they're making a new series. I wait patiently with some small
amount of excitement.
Carl - 26 May 2007 10:09 GMT
re: Crazy and I'm not entirely sure if it's fair. People work hard all
their
lives. I'm sure for those people it would seem sickening for him to find
such a glaring loophole in land ownership.
I can't understand why they didn't lift him and drive him to Ben Nevis or
Rathlin Island or Stornoway, granted, more expensive than simply killing
him, but to let a f.cking waster like that become a millionaire is
disgraceful! You lot here can flame like f.ck, for all I care, but I would
like to say this: What the f.ck is wrong with this country (UK) that those
who make the least effort are most highly rewarded, but those that work are
punished financially for everything they do? Sorry folks, but that first
post struck a chord.
EvilBill - 26 May 2007 13:52 GMT
> re: Crazy and I'm not entirely sure if it's fair. People work hard all
> their
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> simply killing him, but to let a f.cking waster like that become a
> millionaire is disgraceful!
Wasters become millionaires twice every week playing the lottery. <g>
(Probably the only way I could ever get any money, either, there's no jobs
where I live...)

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