Count As High As You Can...Before "The Man" Stops You. [02]

[shadowterm]

6. I know the movie, but none of the quotes. I remember that some chick had a spell book but some of the words were wrong, and eventually they find the author and he gives them the original book.

[VSMIT]

You skipped a stanza, Jairus.

Rare Alabaster? Genuine plaster!
A filigreed samovar owned by the czars.

7.

[Jairus]

8. In response to shadowterm, she goes to her teacher to get the last lesson (the Substitutiary Locomotion spell) that she needs in order to help England defeat the Nazis, but the book was A) ripped in half and B) didn't have the spell anyway. Cue hilarious consequences as they travel to find the Star of Astaroth that has the spell engraved on it. Treguma Macoity Trecorum Satis Di. Something like that

In response to VSMIT, it's been years since I watched this movie. My memory is a little fuzzy. Though I thought that the marching empty suits of armor were the most awesome things I'd ever seen. And then years later, when I was watching Beauty and the Beast, I had as "is that Ms. Price?" moment. Yep, it was.

How do I remember all that?

[VSMIT]

You've just got a good memory, I guess...

A pen used by Shelley? A new Boticelli?
The snipper that clipped old King Edward's cigars?

9.

[Jairus]

There's pure inspiration in every creation!

10.

[shadowterm]

11. I feel so out of the loop right now.

[Jairus]

12. Okay, we'll do something different.

Life is like a hurricane, here in Duckberg!

[shadowterm]

13. What? -_-;

[VSMIT]

Why'd you switch to something I don't know?!

14.

[shadowterm]

15. Wait! Ducktales! god, I can't remember the song, but Gizmoduck was one of the coolest super heroes EVER.

[Jairus]

16. Yay! Shadowterm got it before I had to post the answer.

Racecars, lasers, aeroplanes, it's a duckblur!

[shadowterm]

17. I also remember the one with the genie, but that was when it started getting flooded with morals to the story. I hate it when it happens to a cartoon but it happens to them all, eventually.

[Jairus]

18. I was more a fan of Tailspin as a kid, but I enjoyed Ducktales. The movie wasn't half bad either.

[VSMIT]

19.  I haven't seen Ducktales in such a long time...

[shadowterm]

20. Tailspin, the show with the bears that piloted a plain? I remember seeing an episode, but most of this was out when I was living with my mom and had no cable, just VHS. I've seen A LOT of movies.

[Jairus]

21. Yep, that's it. It was basically "take all of the animal characters from Jungle Book, make em Anthros, and stick em in 1920's mid-American depression, and see what happens." Kit was my favorite character.

[shadowterm]

22. the number that is a lie, and one below the one that I'm slightly insane about (The Number 23, watch it. now)

[Jairus]

23. How is 22 a lie?

And I'm not really a big fan of Carrey.

[shadowterm]

24. It wasn't carrey, it was the movie itself. I thought the plot was provoking, and it had some really interesting twists. Oh, and you spend the rest of your life seeing the number 23 everywhere. March, my birthday (that part's real) is 23, march was when Caesar was assassinated, and when Einstein, the father of the atomic bomb, was born. (actually, me and Einstien were born on the same day, pretty awesome.)

[Jairus]

25. Let's see what Wikipedia says happened on my birthday.

1829: Chester A. Arthur, 21st President of the United States
1882: Robert Goddard, American rocket scientist
1929: Richard F. Gordon, Jr., American astronaut
1964: Keiji Fujiwara, Japanese voice actor (look him up on Wikipedia, there's some nifty roles)
1975: Kate Winslet, English actress

Hm, any deaths...
1813: Tecumseh, Shawnee leader
2004: Rodney Dangerfield, American comedian

And a whole bunch of politicians and other singers and actors and some athletes, but they're not important.

[VSMIT]

26.

Births:
Roy Orbison (1936-1988)
George Lopez (1961- )

Deaths:
Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
William Wordsworth (1770-1850) (Man, my birthday hates writers)
César Chávez (1927-1993)
James Earl Ray (1928-1998)
Boris Yeltsin (1931-2007)

[shadowterm]

27.

Paul Ehrlich 1854, coined the term chemotherapy, first observation of blood brain barrier, developed first anti-bacterial.

Algernon Blackwood 1869, weird writer that wrote "The Wendigo"

Frank Borman 1928, Astronaught on Apollo 8 that was the first to go around the moon.

Michael Caine 1933, Alfred the butler from Batman Begins and Dark Night

Jerry Greenfield 1951, co-founder of ben&Jerry's ice cream

Deaths Pope Zachary 752, whats creepy is thats my name.

[Jairus]

28. I guess this is the new theme.

Oh, you guys have got some cool ones.

Michael Caine? That's just unfair. And your real name is Pope? That's interesting. Do you have problems with your parents?

[shadowterm]

29. Ha ha, no really. I find it kind of funny because there were a couple of female porn stars too. "Hey baby, what's your sign?" "yours. -_-"

[Jairus]

30. I'm just teasing you, I actually do know someone named Zachary. He's not my friend, but rather the friend of a friend. He's not a bad guy: he wants to be an english teacher once he gets out of college.

[shadowterm]

31. I thought about teaching, but the school systems aren't set up to teach everyone and give everyone A's. If everyone got A's, the kids who used to have to work to get them get upset because it's not special anymore, and the ones who never got them don't feel they earned it. The real goal of the school system is to teach you while also getting you to conform. In a way it's like they're trying to beat everyone into a competitive state where the successful people work hard, and the unsuccessful don't care.

[Jairus]

32. I thought about being a teacher (and I think my parents still think that I want to teach), but now I think I want to write. Which is why I've been posting my ideas to get commentary and constructive criticism.

[shadowterm]

33. Writing is fun, but I feel like I over write things. To me, a good story doesn't over describe or over explain things, if something needs to be explained in depth, it can be used in dialogue, which reinforces it's necessity. If you start asking, "why would (s)he explain all this?" you need to stop. I like to think the author should metaphorically sketch a picture of the world the book is in, and the readers imagination gets to ink it and color it.

[Jairus]

34. Well, true, you don't to have too much description, but sometimes it's necessary to fully paint the world... even if you only do it a little at a time.

[shadowterm]

35. Yeah, but you say "He was in a white room with surgical instruments and an IV line next to him going into his arm" not "He sat in a chair that was slighlty uncomfortable, the walls where a pale egg shell color that had a sponged texture to it. Beside him was a stainless steel table sanding on four legs with wheels and on it were surgical instruments. From left to right, A scalpel, with a dull blade, and scratches on the handle, a clamp, with what looked like slightly rotten flesh in the teeth that gave it a slightly dull appearance. A Dremel that had a diamond coated bit that was slightly tarnished. On his right was an IV line that was semi-translucent and ended in a stainless steel needle that was held in his inner arm by surgical tape the looked a pale yellow." For 2 reasons (In my opinion) First, The reader is now catatonic, and no longer gives a crap about how good the story is supposed to be, they can't take it any more. Second, writing the second into a novel and keeping the level of description would drive the Author so insane that they'd try to write the book by inserting a pen or pencil into there anus and moving their tush around a piece of paper. (Sorry if that was graphic, but sometimes parallels like that just hit me and need out.)