Yes I know that midichlorians were not a JC idea. I just hate them. But I do think that the whole JC thing is grossly exaggerated and stretched pretty thin.
“A critic might say, ‘Oh, Lucas combined Flash Gordon with Akira Kurosawa … and sewed it all up with Joseph Campbell’s ideas on the structure of myth.’ And luca did do all those thing, but that can’t be the final answer.”
I honestly thought it said "screwed it all up with Joseph Campbells ideas." Which is actually closer to the truth.
Don't you know that when they redesign the money, there is going to be a huge campaign to put Reagan on every piece of currency, from the penny to the one godzillion dollar note? There are people who think he was, and is a god, rather than the guy at the helm when the soviet union self-destructed.
Well they're obviously the Freemasons, the guys who really run the country :). Only they do it out in the open. Maybe they're the Stonecutters. "Who controls the British Crown, who keeps the metric system down...."
It is a Nyuck. A nyuck is a tool from the short lived but much demented sport of extreme stooging. The nyucker would put the knob of the nyuck between the two middle fingers of the right hand, spikes facing out, and approach the "curly" or "nyuck-ee" and say "Pick Two", and rapidly thrust the nyuck at the eyes of the nyuck-ee. If the nyuck-ee is properly prepared, they will "counter" with a ring and steel plate assembly attached to their left hand, holding it over their nose and blocking. If they do not do this in time, both of their eyes are pierced by the spikes of the nyuck. It's a wonder this sport never caught on.
Look at the photo. See those big empty areas in the middle? That's tissue loss. Lots of tissue loss. When Terry Schaivo was finally allowed to die, they measured her brain, which had atrophied to I think 39 percent of it's original size. Even if these people can be reached, which I doubt, what does that mean? Are we keeping them alive for the "benefit" of their families, but they are suffering?
it's an MDI, or a Modern Devilish Implement. Ol' Scratch has gotten way beyond pitchforks, folks, and down in the infernal regions, he just wasn't getting the screaming he wanted out of the televangelists he's surrounded by, so he commissioned DARPA, to create a new implement, that he could really wind up with and whack their sorry be-hinds. They came up with the MDI, ergonomically designed for maximum speed and penetration, with the ease of clean-up that today's Devil-on-the-go demands. When asked what he thought of the new tool, he commented that it works perfectly, and when the new crop of conservative television pundits gets down to him, he'll be ready. "I'm especially looking forward to taking the MDI to Glenn Beck's doughy hide."
If you find this interesting, track down the movie "King Of Masks", a wonderful Chinese film. The story revolves around a master of Mask Changing and the orphan he adopts to pass his skills on to.
Saw these years ago on a PBS nature show. Don't be fooled by the pictures, some of these are HUGE, and free-swimming. I seem to remember seeing one resembling a chandelier, perhaps filmed off of Hawaii. It swam by a diver, giving a sense of scale, and I think it was three or four feet long. Yikes!
Okay, I think enough time has passed that I can say what I really feel about the Crocodile Hunter. I'm sorry he was killed, I really am, but when he died I was just very, very surprised that he hadn't been killed by an animal any sooner. I had to say that I saw this coming, and that sooner or later he was going to be killed by an animal. He was extremely reckless in his approach to all animals, dangerous and otherwise, especially handling them, and invading their spaces. I was even told of a herpetologist who warned him not to go into a certain area, because it was home to an especially aggressive specimen of the fer-de-lance snake, which is a snake well known to be territorial and defensive. He went right in, actively looking for, finding, and catching it. This is one of the most deadly venomous snakes. I'm very sorry for his families loss, but it just goes to show you that when the cameras are on, people do stupid, stupid things. And popularity magnifies this effect, and he died because of it.
“A critic might say, ‘Oh, Lucas combined Flash Gordon with Akira Kurosawa … and sewed it all up with Joseph Campbell’s ideas on the structure of myth.’ And luca did do all those thing, but that can’t be the final answer.”
I honestly thought it said "screwed it all up with Joseph Campbells ideas." Which is actually closer to the truth.
MIDICHLORIANS!
Captain Tightpants
Which is how he is very commonly referred to, especially on the DVD commentaries.
HA!
I wonder how he'd react to that?
Matryoshka cups, please.
It's a Jar-Jar.
I'm so sorry, so very, very sorry.