Armed Polite Society
Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: Ben on July 14, 2023, 10:10:33 AM
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Amazon put this hand massager in my recommendations:
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71hbFqE87pL._AC_SL1500_.jpg)
Of course the first thing I thought of was...
https://youtu.be/G2atRWi1U4I
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I like the Elmo version better
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHK5fBm1YWk
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"Nope. Sorry, that's my gun hand. Any other stupid things you want, lady?"
Terry, 230RN
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"Uh, well, no, y' see, I need the other hand to reload... so why not just lie back, relax, and we can chat a little... attagirl... So you're the ruler here, huh? By what authority, if I may ask....?"
Terry, 230RN
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"Hahaha... the whole Senate, hah? That's quite a fete. Say, that fishnet veil is pretty sexy, you know... You wear it all the time?"
Terry, 230RN
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"Good one. Of course you'd lift it up a little for that. Let's see, lift it up a little so I can look at your lips."
<fade to black><music>
Terry, 230RN
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You're looking into the mind of someone who has never seen Dune. Scary.
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You're looking into the mind of someone who has never seen Dune. Scary.
Or he's turned on by Bene Gesserits
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Or he's turned on by Bene Gesserits
Isn't everyone?
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Isn't everyone?
Not that one.
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Not that one.
You will be if she tells you to be.
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I got your Gom Jabbar right here, lady.
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^ Heh. <lecherous grin> "C'mon, honey... the veil is just a symbolic denial of your base urges. You know you want to, don't you?"
I remember reading it in either the full book form or as the serial and not finishing it. About that time plus or minus 5 years or more, "hard-nosed" science fiction was blending too much with science fantasy, and I began to totally lose interest in the genre and incidentally, movies in general. I preferred S-F where there was at least some touching base with physical principles --even if stretched a bit --like in the seetee series. E.g. at least there was a glossy description of how contraterraine materials were handled. I loved the magnetized iron CT bar suspended in an oppositely-magnetized shell casing as an explosive projectile. Far-fetched (at least with the magnetic materials of the day), but at least some forehead-kissing basis in physical materials and principles.
I could "suspend reality" that far.
But pretty much beyond that, science fiction-fantasy became more like reading Jack and the Beanstalk and other fairy tales and nursery rhymes.
I know you pity me for "not having any imaginaiton," but I pity you for pitying me.
Movies? Well, except for teenaged necking, I never really liked the theatre experience and never paid much attention to the Hollywood "thing." I went to see "Sand Pebbles" because I loved the book so much and Wife1 and I saw the E.T. movie with my older son, but that was obligatory. Going to the theater in general? Meh. So I never paid attention to anything related to Dune.
Well, 'nuffa that. But this is not an apology.
Terry, 230RN
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We accept your apology.
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:rofl: :laugh:
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I remember reading it in either the full book form or as the serial and not finishing it. About that time plus or minus 5 years or more, "hard-nosed" science fiction was blending too much with science fantasy, and I began to totally lose interest in the genre and incidentally, movies in general. I preferred S-F where there was at least some touching base with physical principles --even if stretched a bit --like in the seetee series. E.g. at least there was a glossy description of how contraterraine materials were handled. I loved the magnetized iron CT bar suspended in an oppositely-magnetized shell casing as an explosive projectile. Far-fetched (at least with the magnetic materials of the day), but at least some forehead-kissing basis in physical materials and principles.
My favorite version of that is still a Hellbore Cannon from the Bolo books.
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I remember reading it in either the full book form or as the serial and not finishing it.
Dune is definitely not for everyone... you are right, it is more of a fantasy than SciFi. Herbert's writing is not best, but was an absolute master at world building. The theme is actually a political message: "Don't trust charismatic leaders!"
That is why the media calling Dune a "white savior" narrative was so stupid.
Herbert's political philosophy would fit quite well with most of us I think.
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Dune ? ? ?
Dunes are piles of sand, right?
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^ Windblown piles of sand. Like an ocean in slow motioin.
Well, it must be OK what with all the awards and movies, but it wasn't for me for the outlined reasons.
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Not that one.
That is Charlotte Rampling who, many years ago, was in the Jaws take-off movie called "Orca".
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My favorite version of that is still a Hellbore Cannon from the Bolo books.
I always liked the power gun from Hammer's Slammers.
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He was killed for other reasons.
(https://i.imgur.com/0XnQhvq.jpg)
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^
"Their on-board farming system has been invaded by an unknown parasite. They might have to start ordering take-out."
(https://cdn.dribbble.com/users/3907/screenshots/199035/galactic-pizza-delivery.jpg)
:rofl:
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^ Heh. <lecherous grin> "C'mon, honey... the veil is just a symbolic denial of your base urges. You know you want to, don't you?"
I remember reading it in either the full book form or as the serial and not finishing it.
Dune as a magazine serial was published in Analog, at least partly in a brief stretch of time when the magazine was experimenting with a larger format. I had a couple issues from that period, inc. one with Dune, with John Schoenherr illustrations.
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Put Your Hand in the Box
What's in the box?
Glue
https://twitter.com/plaxmanck/status/1679769266806046721
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Put Your Hand in the Box
What's in the box?
Glue
https://twitter.com/plaxmanck/status/1679769266806046721
anybody know what the Firefighter doing the chiseling on screaming, hat throwing boy is saying? I am hoping it is something along the lines of, if he keeps this crap up I will leaves him here for the bus to hit.
bob
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Tourniquet and a bone saw.
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Tourniquet and a bone saw.
Too much effort.
Leave them where they are, reopen the road, and let nature physics take its course.
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Too much effort.
Leave them where they are, reopen the road, and let nature physics take its course.
Applause !!
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Too much effort.
Leave them where they are, reopen the road, and let nature physics take its course.
Right... that's just a recipe to seriously screw up the front end alignment on some poor innocent person's car.
Clean the trash off the road before you reopen it.
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Right... that's just a recipe to seriously screw up the front end alignment on some poor innocent person's car.
Clean the trash off the road before you reopen it.
(https://st3.depositphotos.com/4556271/13683/v/1600/depositphotos_136833644-stock-illustration-classic-snow-plow-truck-front.jpg)
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Gets them further off the road.
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Right... that's just a recipe to seriously screw up the front end alignment on some poor innocent person's car.
Clean the trash off the road before you reopen it.
Make some Soylent Green ! >:D