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Julesy Oct 1 2007, 10:16 PM Post #1
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I thought we could start a thread with Weird?crazy news. Sorta like the Celebrity thread but not.

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Julesy Oct 1 2007, 10:19 PM Post #2
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Ok, here goes

Flying is gonna suck for some!

The Parents Television Council wants legislation from Congress which would require all families and unaccompanied minors to sit in "child-safe" areas of a plane. The reason for this is to keep the kids from watching any programming on in flight consoles which show R and PG-13 films as well as any television show that is rated higher than Y-7. In addition to herding all families into one corner of the plane his ideal plan would be for airlines to just totally eliminate all movies and television shows that do not have a family friendly atmosphere.

The PTC is asking for this after recent flights in which the President of the PTC was forced to watch Las Vegas and Desperate Housewives on his personal screen and felt the language and sexuality was way too intense for a flight.

Domestic airlines already censor the crap out of films to remove anything objectionable which is why if you are ever going to fly overseas, make sure you fly an international carrier. They leave in everything. This is what is going to happen if this PTC proposal becomes law. There will be a family section on the plane in which Blues Clues runs in a never ending cycle and the strongest thing that is served is orange juice.



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Auntie Maine Oct 1 2007, 11:04 PM Post #3
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:michele Just keep them away from me.


I love the weird news idea. :highfive
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Julesy Oct 2 2007, 12:26 AM Post #4
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yeah, I agree. get them away from me.

I just hate how fucking uptight people can be.
I was watching Texas Chainsaw Massacre (the original) when I was like 9. My mum rented it for us. I came out ok. *cough*
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Heres some more weird stuff. kinda long but interesting.bout movies



Finding Nemo: Andrew Stanton pitched his idea and story to Pixar head John Lasseter in an hour long session, using elaborate visual aids and character voices. At the end of it, the exhausted Stanton asked Lasseter what he thought, to which Lasseter replied, "You had me at 'fish'".



The Italian Job: Directly after the explosion of the armored vehicle, Spider-Man can be seen running with a panicked crowd.



Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl: Industrial Light and Magic designers scanned turkey jerky to create the effect of decomposing skin when the pirates turn into their skeletal forms.



Midnight Cowboy: Before Dustin Hoffman auditioned for this film, he knew that his all-American image could easily cost him the job. To prove he could do it, he asked the auditioning film executive to meet him on a street corner in Manhattan, and in the meantime, dressed himself in filthy rags. The executive arrived at the appointed corner and waited, barely noticing the "beggar" less than ten feet away who was accosting people for spare change. At last, the beggar walked up to him and revealed his true identity.



Shattered Glass: According Charles Lane, the scene in which Lane confronts Glass in front of TNR magazine covers was virtually verbatim retelling of the actual events.



Bambi: Bambi was originally supposed to go back to his mother after she was shot and find her in a pool of blood. This idea was scrapped.



Superbad: Because Jonah Hill and Seth Rogen are such great friends, they were quoted as saying that when casting Evan, they weren't so much looking for a good actor as they were "casting for a new best friend."



Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?: During the kicking scene, Bette Davis kicked Joan Crawford in the head, and the resulting wound required stitches. In retaliation, Crawford put weights in her pockets so that when Davis had to drag Crawford's near-lifeless body, she strained her back.



The Truman Show: In an early scene on Truman and Meryl's kitchen table is a bottle of vitamin D - needed for those without exposure to the “real” sun.



Best in Show: The shot of the arena where the dog show is taking place is actually stock footage from the Jean-Claude Van Damme film Sudden Death (1995) which takes place at what is now the Mellon Arena where the Pittsburgh Penguins play, but at that point it was called the Civic Arena. This is why the arena is surrounded by police cars which would be necessary in a terrorist situation, but not for a dog show.



Courage Under Fire: In order to lose the required amount of weight for the present day scenes, Matt Damon went on a strict regimen of food deprivation and physical training. This caused his health to become so frail that he was put on medical supervision for several months after the shoot. However, his efforts didn't go unnoticed: director Francis Ford Coppola was so impressed by Damon's display of method acting, that he offered him the leading role in The Rainmaker (1997).



Saving Silverman: The Coach's motto to his students, "If you can dream it, you can do it" is actually a quote originally said by Walt Disney.



Pretty in Pink: When the ending was re-shot, all of the principal actors had to be called back. Andrew McCarthy had already lost a substantial amount of weight and shaved his head for a new role in a New York play called "The Boys of Winter". Although he wore an auburn wig, he's noticeably more gaunt in the re-shot scenes.



High School Musical 2: The coaster of people doing the wave, at the opening scene in "What time is it" was started by the HSM cast/dancers and Kenny Ortega. Since all the cast/dancers were sore from dance rehearsals, they sat in a line on the floor and began to massage each-other. When Kenny saw this, he told them lean to the right (one by one in a wave), and so they did. Then he decided for them to try it standing up, and when they did so, he used it in the movie in during the opening song.



Children of Men: Theo never gets to finish smoking an entire cigarette throughout the film.



The Red Shoes: When Ludovic Kennedy saw Moira Shearer in The Red Shoes (1948) he said that he knew instantly that she was going to be the girl he would marry. He actively sought her out and married her two years later, in February 1950 in the Chapel Royal in London's Hampton Court Palace.



Spider-Man 3: In a fight scene where Spider-Man punches through Sandman's chest, congenital amputee boxer Baxter Humby took Tobey Maguire’s place in filming the scene. Humby, who was born without his right hand, helped deliver the intended effect of punching through Sandman's chest.



Titanic: Jack has a line during the first class dinner scene in which he asks Molly Brown which utensils to use for what. Because of the enormous amount of time spent shooting the scene, having to provide different angles and coverage for all the cast members at the table, Leonardo DiCaprio was so worn out towards the end that he picked up a fork and asked Kathy Bates "Which one of these do I use to lobotomize myself?"



Shrek: The line "You're on your way to a smacked bottom." was not actually in the script. Mike Meyers was getting annoyed at one of the directors and improvised the line.

The Client: At the time of filming, author John Grisham had casting approval over all film adaptations of his work and specified that "no professional child actors in Hollywood" be cast as Mark Sway. He felt that the film wouldn't work with a well-known child actor (sporting a phony accent) in the role and that by casting an unknown in the part (preferably from the Memphis area where the story is set) the film's credibility wouldn't be compromised. Brad Renfro, a native of Knoxville, Tennessee beat out thousands of actors for the role including Macaulay Culkin.



Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King: Shelob's shriek is actually the sound of a Tasmanian devil.



Somebody Up There Likes Me: James Dean was signed to play Rocky Graziano but the part was given to Paul Newman after Dean was killed in an automobile accident on September 30, 1955.



Ratatouille: To find out how to animate the scene where the chef is wet, they actually dressed someone in a chef suit, and put him in a swimming pool to see which parts of the suit stuck to his body, and which parts you could see through.



The Bourne Ultimatum: The film crew was unable to shut down Waterloo station, so pedestrians in the station can be seen looking and pointing at the camera.



Full Metal Jacket: According to director John Boorman, Stanley Kubrick wanted to cast Bill McKinney in the role of Gunnery Sgt. Hartman. However Kubrick was so unsettled after viewing McKinney's performance in Deliverance (1972) that he declined to meet with him, saying he was simply too frightened at the idea of being in McKinney's presence.



Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: The scene where Joel and Clementine watch the circus go through the streets was made up on the spot, as the film crew and cast happened to be working nearby and Michel Gondry decided it could work well in the film. The part where Clementine disappears suddenly is one of Gondry's favorite moments of the film, as Jim Carrey didn't know Kate Winslet was going to disappear and Gondry likes it because Carrey's face appears so saddened. When the sound blanks out in the final film, Carrey is actually saying "Kate?"

Home Alone: Daniel Stern agreed to have the tarantula placed on his face for only one shot. His character's scream was dubbed in later to prevent it from scaring the spider.



The Road to El Dorado: Voice artists in animated movies usually record their parts alone, with no other actors in the studio with them. In a break with this tradition, Kevin Kline and Kenneth Branagh recorded their dialogue together.



Terminator 2: Judgment Day: According to a biographical documentary, Arnold Schwarzenegger only agreed to do the sequel if his role is more family-friendly, hence the "No killing" rule written for his character.



The Sound of Music: Christopher Plummer intensely disliked working on the film. He's been known to refer to it as "The Sound of Mucus" and likened working with Julie Andrews to "being hit over the head with a big Valentine's Day card, every day." Nonetheless, he and Andrews have remained close friends ever since.



A Little Princess: The characters of Sara's story, Prince Rama, his wife Sita, and the evil Ravana, all come from the ancient/epic Indian poem "Ramayana".


Goodfellas: After the premiere, Henry Hill was kicked out of the Witness Protection Program. Due to the movie's popularity, Hill went around telling everyone his true identity, causing the government to remove him from the program.

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events: When Aunt Josephine (Meryl Streep) and the orphans look through her scrapbook, there is a photograph of a younger Aunt Jo on safari in Africa. The photograph is actually a still of Meryl Streep from Out of Africa (1985), and the person next to her is her co-star, Klaus Maria Brandauer.



Picnic at Hanging Rock: Not much acting was required in the scenes with Mrs. Appleyard and her students, as their real-life relationship was rather tense. Rachel Roberts, who played Mrs. Appleyard, preferred acting to a piece of tape on the wall, instead of having the girl to be standing there.

Sophie's Choice: Meryl Streep did the final “choice” scene in one take and refused to do it again saying that, as a mother, she found it too painful and emotionally draining.



Beauty and the Beast: Glen Keane, the supervising animator on the Beast, created his own hybrid beast by combining the mane of a lion, the beard and head structure of a buffalo, the tusks and nose bridge of a wild boar, the heavily muscled brow of a gorilla, the legs and tail of a wolf, and the big and bulky body of a bear.

Dear Frankie: Jack McElhone (Frankie) is not deaf but worked with a speech coach so that his one spoken line would sound correct.

Star Wars: Return of the Jedi: Carrie Fisher complained about her costumes in the previous two movies. She said they were so long, you could not tell "she was a woman". Those complaints led to the skimpy outfit she wore as Jabba's prisoner. The costume became something of a running joke among the crew, because the metal framework that held the top together meant that the costume didn't move well with her. Since Fisher didn't like the industry standard solution of using double-sided tape, it became necessary before each take to have a wardrobe person check to ensure that her breasts were still snug inside the costume top (and several scenes had to be re-shot when "wardrobe malfunctions" occurred).



Annie Hall: The passerby Alvy refers to as "the winner of the Truman Capote look-alike contest" is in fact Truman Capote, who appears uncredited.

West Side Story: When filming "The Taunting Scene", Rita Moreno was reduced to tears when she was harassed and nearly raped by the Jets, considering it brought back memories of being raped as a child. When she started crying, the Jets immediately stopped what they were doing and tried to comfort her, while pointing out that the audience was going to hate them for what they were doing.

Babe: Because baby pigs grow so fast, 48 pigs were used during filming for the role of Babe.



The African Queen: Sources claimed that everyone in the cast and crew got sick - except for Humphrey Bogart and John Huston, which they attributed to the fact that they basically lived on imported Scotch. Bogart later said, "All I ate was baked beans, canned asparagus and Scotch whiskey. Whenever a fly bit Huston or me, it dropped dead."



The Pianist: During the shooting of the movie, while scouting locations in Krakow, Roman Polanski met a man who had helped Polanski's family survive the war.



Rush Hour: Elizabeth Peña played a prank on Brett Ratner in which she appeared on the set wearing nothing but her character's bomb squad vest. According to Peña, she thought Ratner would laugh and howl but instead he was extremely nervous and embarrassed.



Moulin Rouge: The necklace worn by Nicole Kidman was made of real diamonds and platinum and was the most expensive piece of jewelry ever specifically made for a film. The Stefano Canturi necklace was made with 1,308 diamonds, weighing a total of 134 carats and was worth an estimated US$1 million.

Jackie Chan's First Strike: Jackie Chan's stunt double was killed during the ski chase sequence when he flipped over the rock crevice.



Giant: Rock Hudson and Elizabeth Taylor went for get-to-know-you drinks one night at the very start of the production. They both got exceedingly drunk, finishing the evening at 3am. Their call-time was 5:30am. Fortunately the scene being shot that morning was a wedding scene with no dialog, so, instead of talking, all they had to do was look lovingly at each other. The two actors were concentrating so hard on not being sick that they were quite surprised when some of the people on-set started to cry, so convinced were they of their supposed looks of adoration at each other.



The Incredibles: Lily Tomlin was considered for the part of Edna Mode but turned it down when she heard Brad Bird's vocal performance, saying, "What do you need me for? You got it already."

The Prestige: Chung Ling Soo was a stage character created by a Caucasian American man, William Ellsworth Robinson, who disguised himself as a Chinese man to cash in on audiences' enthusiasm for the exotic. Robinson lived as Chung, never breaking character while in public. He died in March 1918 when a bullet catch trick went wrong. "My God, I've been shot" were both his last words and the first English he had spoken on stage in 19 years.



Big Fish: The joke with the elephant defecating while Edward daydreams was unscripted. The filming crew found it hilarious, and quickly zoomed out to get the whole thing.



Training Day: This film marks the first time LA street gangs allowed cameras to be brought into the Imperial Courts neighborhood.



Newsies: The dress that Ele Keats (Sarah Jacobs) wears in the "Off to the Races" number is an authentic 1899 dress. After every take, the costumer had to constantly sew up small holes because the dress was so old and delicate.

The Blob: The old man who discovers and becomes the first victim of the Blob was played by veteran character actor Olin Howland. This would be his final film in a career than spanned almost 200 films going back to the silent era.



Underworld: The “attack dogs” outside of the vampire mansion were actually very docile and playful canines, which were the only dogs available at the time. For the scene where they chase Scott Speedman, director Len Wiseman had to film short clips of the dogs running and later put in sounds of vicious barking. If you look closely you can see their tails happily wagging back and forth.



The Hunchback of Notre Dame: For the scene where Judge Frollo sings "Hellfire" and sees Esmeralda dancing in the fire before him, the MPAA insisted that the Disney animators make Esmeralda's clothing more well-defined, as she seemed nude.


Independence Day: James Brown's distinctive scream was used as a sound effect for the alien energy beam backfiring as Russell's plane crashes into the giant ray gun.

Cruel Intentions: The scene with Sebastian and Annette in the car was partially unscripted. During takes, with the camera still rolling, Reese Witherspoon (Annette) began making faces at Ryan Phillippe (Sebastian). He tells her, "Stop, it's distracting," and she replies, "Are you laughing? It's okay. I won't tell anyone." The director loved the chemistry in the scene and after realizing the conversation fit into the movie, he decided to keep it.

10 Things I Hate About You: In the scene where Kat is talking with her father on the porch about Sarah Lawrence, we can see that she is drawing a picture of two eyes with tears falling onto a rose. This is actually a drawing by Rachel Scott, one of the students who was shot in the Columbine massacre in the same year the movie was filmed.

Scream: The scene where the killer is sneaking up behind Randy is the only one where the person in the costume is actually one of the actors rather than a stunt man. Skeet Ulrich has specifically asked if he could wear the costume for once scene.



Top Gun: Riding on the back of this film's success, the US Navy set up recruiting booths in the major cinemas to try and catch some of the adrenaline charged guys leaving the screenings. They had the highest applications rate for years as a result.

Anastasia: The drawing the Empress holds when she and Anya are reminiscing (the same one we see little Anastasia give her at the beginning of the movie) is a picture the real Anastasia had drawn for her father in 1914.



Platoon: Prior to the scene where Elias' half of the platoon is smoking dope, the actors actually did smoke marijuana. Unfortunately for them, Willem Dafoe reported, by the time the stage was set and they actually filmed, everyone had come off their high and felt awful.

X2: Most of the actors from the scene in the museum where Professor X freezes everyone were actually mimes, who are used to not moving. Likewise, mimes were used for the final scene in the Oval Office.



Little Women: The set designer patterned the interiors after the layout of Orchard House, Louisa May Alcott’s family home in Concord, Massachusetts. This is the house she lived in while writing the book, and she imagined its events taking place there.



Grave of the Fireflies: The film is based on a true story. Akiyuki Nosaka lost his little sister during the war to malnutrition and blamed himself for her death. He wrote Hotaru no haka (A Grave of Fireflies) in 1967 to come to terms with it.


The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants: The actor who played Kostos was actually from Philadelphia, and had to work very hard to get his Greek accent just right.



My Man Godfrey: Although stars William Powell and Carole Lombard had been divorced for three years by the time they made this, when offered the part Powell declared that the only actress right for the part of Irene was Lombard.

Scrooged: When the Ghost of Christmas Present (Carol Kane) grabbed Bill Murray's lip she tore his lip so badly that filming was halted for several days

The Wizard of Oz: The horses in Emerald City palace were colored with Jell-O crystals. The relevant scenes had to be shot quickly, before the horses started to lick it off.

Fatal Attraction: When Glenn Close's agent first called to express her interest in playing Alex Forrest, he was told, "Please don't make her come in. She's completely wrong for the part." Director Adrian Lyne also thought that Glenn Close was "the last person on Earth" who should play Alex.



Oldboy: Four live octopi were eaten for the scene with Dae-su in the sushi bar, a scene which provoked some controversy abroad. Eating live octopus in Korea is commonplace although it is usually sliced first. When the film won the Grand Prix at Cannes, the director thanked the octopi along with the cast and crew.



Letters from Iwo Jima: The story of Lt. Ito strapping mines to himself and lying among corpses to attack a tank is based on the real-life story of Satoru Omagiri, as told in The Rising Sun by John Toland.


Cinderella: The transformation of Cinderella's torn dress to that of the white ball gown was considered to be Walt Disney's favorite piece of animation.



Ultraviolet: The film was taken out of director Kurt Wimmer’s hands and completely re-edited by the studio after they saw the original version which they apparently did not like; they saw it as “too emotional” for the action film they were expecting and reedited it so there would be more of an emphasis on the action and to cut it down to a PG-13 rating.



Pan’s Labyrinth: It has been said that, for the fairy eating scene, Doug Jones (Pale Man) had to bite condoms filled with fake blood.



Groundhog Day: In one scene, Connors throws himself from the bell tower of a high building. This building is actually an opera house in Woodstock, Illinois. Local legend has it that a young girl once committed suicide by throwing herself from the same bell tower. Her ghost is supposed to haunt the opera house.



Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: The tattoos on Sirius Black's body and hands are borrowed from Russian prison gangs. They are markings which identify the person as a man to be feared and respected and drooled over by fangirls.



The Big Sleep: The scene where Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall make suggestive talk about horses was added almost a year after filming was otherwise complete, in an attempt to inject the film with the kind of risqué innuendos that had made To Have and Have Not (1944), and Bacall, so popular a few years earlier.



Stepmom: Rejected titles include "Goodnight Moon," "Promises Kept," "See You in My Dreams" and "Always, Always."



X-Men: The Last Stand: When Bryan Singer was still set to direct, he intended the Dark Phoenix storyline as the sole focus of the film. He also intended to feature the villain Emma Frost/White Queen as a major character, with the role intended for Sigourney Weaver. With Singer's departure, the character of Emma Frost was dropped, and the Dark Phoenix story was relegated to a subplot in favor of the "cure" storyline. He also planned on introducing long time fan favorite Gambit into the film, to serve as both the new recruit as well as a romantic rival of Iceman's for Rogue's affection. For the part, Singer had planned on casting Channing Tatum. However, once he left, the script was changed, and Gambit was reduced to a minor cameo, then ultimately dropped from the script.



Equilibrium: The noises the puppy makes (barks, whines, yelps etc) weren't actually made by the dog at all, but by an actor who specializes in dog impersonations.



Ran: Akira Kurosawa’s wife of 39 years, Yoko Yaguchi, died during the production of this film. Kurosawa halted filming for just one day to mourn before resuming work on the picture.



A History of Violence: For the sex scene on the stairs, David Cronenberg was concerned about the two actors getting hurt on the hard wooden steps. He asked his stunt man whether or not he had any stunt pads to soften up the stairs. The stunt man laughed, saying that in the twenty years he had been working as a stunt man, no director had ever asked him for stunt pads for a sex scene. Pads were not used for most of the scene however, and in the shot when Edie is naked on the bed with bruises visible on her back, make-up was used to hide the amount of bruises that Maria Bello received from the scene.



Pocahontas: John Candy had provided a large amount of voice work into a character named "Redfeather", a turkey, and Pocahontas's sidekick. However after Candy's death in 1994, the concept was scrapped.



Gremlins: In Chris Columbus’s original script, Lynn Peltzer was killed by the gremlins and her head rolled down the stairs. This along with several other darker elements (ie, the family dog is eaten by the gremlins, the gremlins attack a McDonald's and eat the customers but refuse to touch the hamburgers) were never shot due to the fact that both, Joe Dante and Warner Bros. wanted the movie to be more family oriented.



Saving Private Ryan: All the principal actors underwent several days of grueling army training except for Matt Damon who was spared so that the other actors would resent him and would convey that resentment in their performances.



The Passion of the Christ: In an interview with Newsweek magazine, James Caviezel spoke about a few of the difficulties he experienced while filming. This included being accidentally whipped twice, which has left a 14 inch scar on his back. Caviezel also admitted he was struck by lightning while filming the Sermon on the Mount and during the crucifixion, experienced hypothermia during the dead of winter in Italy



Romeo and Juliet: Olivia Hussey wasn't legally allowed to attend the London premier of the movie as it contained nudity and she was under 18.



Planet of the Apes: In order to star in the film, Tim Roth declined the role of Professor Severus Snape in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001).



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The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants: The actor who played Kostos was actually from Philadelphia, and had to work very hard to get his Greek accent just right


this is freaky, I knew this because, the guy who played Kostos is the cousin of a friend of mine from middle school/highschool named Nicole. Nicole was one of my closest friends in middle school. I cant believe that is her cousin, cause they look nothing alike. She has orange hair and lots of freckles. He is not at all greek.
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lol is he cute?
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I guess you havent seen the movie? Yeah he is hot as shit!
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nope havent seen it.

NOW I WANT TO!

That Bambi shite was like..OMG
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I would have loved Bambi more if they showed that scene.

Then again i'm sadistic :evil
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lol @ Joel

EVEN BUGS ARE GAY..sorta

Bizarre Gender-Bender Bugs Baffle Scientists
By Charles Q. Choi, Special to LiveScience



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Email Scientists have discovered a real gender-bender of a bug, a species in which most females impersonate males.

Past research had already revealed the male bugs possessed fake female genitalia.

"We ended up uncovering a hotbed of deception," said evolutionary biologist Klaus Reinhardt at the University of Sheffield in England. "Nothing like this exists anywhere else in the animal kingdom."

Reinhardt and his colleagues investigated remote and dangerous bat caves in East Africa for the bloodsucking African bat bug (Afrocimex constrictus), a close relative of the bed bug. The bats were reportedly hosts for Ebola and other lethal viruses.

"We had to work in containment suits with full-faced respirators in sweltering temperatures for hours at end," Reinhardt said.

Sex among bat bugs (as with bed bugs) is violent. During copulation, males of these species pierce the abdomens of their mates with their genitals and ejaculate directly into their blood.

The researchers originally set out to investigate bat bugs in the hopes of shedding light on "one of nature's strangest phenomena — why males had female genitalia," Reinhardt said.

Unlike bed bugs, male African bat bugs have bogus female genitals—a fact the scientists freely call "bizarre." Past research found they mate with each other as well as with females. Although the sham genitals are convincingly intricate, they do not have a covering over them as real female genitals do.

Surprisingly, the scientists have now discovered that female African bat bugs practiced gender-bending also by impersonating males. Only one out of six females possessed conventional female genitals, while the rest had genitals resembling the fakes seen on males.

By masquerading as males, females enjoy less sexual attention. Given that sex leads to wounding in these bugs, Reinhardt and his colleagues suggest avoiding the trauma of sex makes sense. Indeed, the researchers discovered females that impersonated males had far less fewer than more conventional females.

As to why any females still retain conventional genitalia given the wounds they accrue—"no idea," Reinhardt told LiveScience. Normal females might lay more eggs, "but in order to address this question you would need controlled lab studies, and we have not yet succeeded in breeding these animals."

It also remains a mystery as to why males possess sham female genitals. Scientists think the males might genitally stab any adult bat bug, so one conjecture as to why males evolved bogus female genitals involves guiding stabs to relatively safe parts of the anatomy.

"Our results suggest that the battle of the sexes is a very powerful evolutionary force which can result in very bizarre adaptations," Reinhardt said.

Reinhardt and his colleagues will detail their findings in a forthcoming issue of the journal American Naturalist.

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Damn I wish Bryan Singer did X3 instead of that crap Superman Returns!
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Sex among bat bugs (as with bed bugs) is violent. During copulation, males of these species pierce the abdomens of their mates with their genitals and ejaculate directly into their blood.



Wow. It always shocks me that sex is so violent among animals and even bugs it seems. Like it was coded into us that you need to pass you genes even if it kills you and/or your "partner". And in many ways it has been.


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Bambi: Bambi was originally supposed to go back to his mother after she was shot and find her in a pool of blood. This idea was scrapped.


:rocks They should have shown the kids the truth. People shoot animals and that's it. In fact they should add a scene where they make a meal out of her as well. :;
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hahahaha!I love him on Stern! OH YEAH!!!

Asteroid belt is named for George Takei



NEW YORK - A piece of outer space named for George Takei is in kind of a rough neighborhood for somebody who steers a starship: an asteroid belt.

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An asteroid between Mars and Jupiter has been renamed 7307 Takei in honor of the actor, best known for his role as Hikaru Sulu in the original "Star Trek" series and movies.

"I am now a heavenly body," Takei, 70, said Tuesday, laughing. "I found out about it yesterday. ... I was blown away. It came out of the clear, blue sky — just like an asteroid."

The celestial rock, discovered by two Japanese astronomers in 1994, was formerly known as 1994 GT9. It joins the 4659 Roddenberry (named for the show's creator, Gene Roddenberry) and the 68410 Nichols (for co-star Nichelle Nichols, who played Lt. Uhura). Other main-belt asteroids have been named for science fiction luminaries Robert Heinlein and Isaac Asimov.

The renaming of 7307 Takei was approved by the International Astronomical Union's Committee on Small Body Nomenclature. About 14,000 asteroid names have been approved by the panel, while about 165,000 asteroids have been identified and numbered, union spokesman Lars Lindberg Christensen said.

Unlike the myriad Web sites that offer to sell naming rights to stars, the IAU committee-approved names are actually used by astronomers, said Tom Burbine, the Mount Holyoke College astronomy professor who proposed the name swap.

"This is the name that will be used for all eternity," he said.

Burbine said he suggested Takei's name in part out of appreciation for his work with the Japanese American Citizens League and with the gay rights group Human Rights Campaign. Takei, a spokesman for HRC's Coming Out Project, was cultural affairs chairman of the JACL, and he was appointed to the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission by former President Clinton.

Takei has appeared on NBC's "Heroes" and appears regularly on Howard Stern's satellite radio show.

Under the committee's policies, whoever discovers an asteroid has 10 years in which to propose a name. After that, the panel considers other suggestions, although it warns would-be namers to avoid anything "in questionable taste" and any names honoring political or military figures sooner than 100 years after their deaths.

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Tracy Wenn came home to find the pork dinner she had prepared the night before missing! She found out her boyfriend, Anthony Donkin, ate it and she quickly grabbed a fork and stabbed him in the leg while screaming, "Eat my pork! Eat my fork!" She was sort of joking, because I guess there's a commercial over there with that tagline.

The 45-year-old grandmother of EIGHT caused a 7-inch wound in his leg. She quickly realized what she had done and called the ambulance.

Tracy was given two-years probation for the attack. When she left court she said, "At least he won't do it again!"

And he won't...Anthony said, "I'm glad she didn't go to jail - I won't go near her pork chops ever again."

I'd do the same thing if someone touched my fucking ice cream. Some people are serious about their food.

I'm actually more shocked at the fact that she's a grandmother of EIGHT at the age of 45! SLUT! Crazy pork-obsessing slut!
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LMAO! thats crazy!
EAT MY PORK! EAT MY FORK! :ha
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I'm actually more shocked at the fact that she's a grandmother of EIGHT at the age of 45! SLUT! Crazy pork-obsessing slut! :ha

Crazy pork-obsessing slut! :ha :faint
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Spicy chili smell leads to evacuation

LONDON - Super spicy chili sauce being cooked at a London Thai restaurant sparked road closures and evacuations after passers-by complained that the smell was burning their throats, police said Wednesday.London Fire Brigade's chemical response team was called after reports that a strong smell was wafting from the restaurant in the heart of London's Soho district Monday afternoon, a Metropolitan police spokesman said, speaking anonymously in line with force policy.
Authorities sealed off several premises and closed roads. The Times of London described shoppers coughing and spluttering as firefighters wearing special breathing masks sought the source of the smell.
The paper said firefighters smashed down the door of the Thai Cottage restaurant and seized extra-hot bird's eye chilies which had been left dry-frying. It said they were being prepared as part of a batch of Nam Prik Pao, a spicy Thai dip.
"The smoke didn't go up into the sky because of the rain and the heavy air," The Times quoted Thai Cottage owner Sue Wasboonma as saying. "It's the hottest thing we make."
The police spokesman said no arrests were made in the case.
"As far as I'm aware it's not a criminal offense to cook very strong chili," he said.
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lol!
did they really have to fucking knock down the door though? talk about overzealous pigs!
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Uncultural fucks

Thai's do have some spicy shit when they get down to it
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