As if I couldn't love Costco more! My family started shopping there in the Price Club era. But that "condom" quote from Mr. Price almost sounds regretful.
This reminded me of one of my favorite episodes of The Tick, which featured this in-flight announcement: "May I remind you that, in the likely event of a water landing, the seat cushions beneath you are the property of Pineapple Air, and may not be removed from the cabin." (It's at around the 7:20 mark)
"...they have a nasty habit of changing. In Le Grand K’s case, it’s been losing weight. At its most recent weigh-in in 1988, it was found to be 0.05 milligrams—about the weight of a grain of sand—lighter than its underling replicas. Experts aren’t sure where this weight went..."
I love how the first assumption is that the original lost weight, rather than the replicas gaining it.
5.0 out of 5 stars I can finally get off this planet!, August 31, 2013 By lightman
The last piece of the jigsaw puzzle (actually, saucer)---so thank you, Almighty. Thank you, Jeff Bezos. Finally! A 944WH-M Magnet is the only friggin' component I haven't been able to recreate using spare parts from the various Sno-Cats, Helicopters, and Lafayette Comsat 25-B CB radios lying around. Finally! Been stuck under your g*ddam water-ice just 40 clicks from your "Amundsen-Scott Station" (what a craphole!) for over a hundred thousand "years." Finally! I can head home and go back to assimilating my own kind, as The Great Amorphous Lord intended! And don't bother to come looking for me--by the time you're reading this, your minor planet (and even your vaunted "Pioneer 10") will be just a speck of dust in my rear-view mirror. GOODBYE, SUCKERS! I never wanted dominion over you flimsy flesh-bags anyway! Good bye MacCready, Blair, Childs, Garry (friggin' Garry), Clark (sorry about your friggin' dogs; Hey--this just in...GET A LIFE! [oops--too late!], Palmer, Norris, Fuchs, Nauls, Copper, Windows, Bennings, as well as all you friggin' Norwegians. It was nice meeting you and being you. (friggin' Norwegians).
I've never felt the urge to claim Firsties, largely because whenever I arrive at a board that hasn't been posted to yet, by the time I compose and submit my post, there's usually one or more comments already (I'm a very slow typist), so I'd look pretty stupid to have claimed "First!"
I can hardly wait for his next visit with Craig Ferguson! They've been best friends since Craig was 17! There was a great YouTube clip of their last interview together, but sadly it's been taken down.
Hmmm, they've listed The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) AFTER Forbidden Planet (1956), and additionally they've given an erroneous 16-year interval between TDtESS and Star Wars (1977).
But that "condom" quote from Mr. Price almost sounds regretful.
(It's at around the 7:20 mark)
I love how the first assumption is that the original lost weight, rather than the replicas gaining it.
5.0 out of 5 stars I can finally get off this planet!, August 31, 2013
By lightman
The last piece of the jigsaw puzzle (actually, saucer)---so thank you, Almighty. Thank you, Jeff Bezos. Finally! A 944WH-M Magnet is the only friggin' component I haven't been able to recreate using spare parts from the various Sno-Cats, Helicopters, and Lafayette Comsat 25-B CB radios lying around. Finally! Been stuck under your g*ddam water-ice just 40 clicks from your "Amundsen-Scott Station" (what a craphole!) for over a hundred thousand "years." Finally! I can head home and go back to assimilating my own kind, as The Great Amorphous Lord intended! And don't bother to come looking for me--by the time you're reading this, your minor planet (and even your vaunted "Pioneer 10") will be just a speck of dust in my rear-view mirror. GOODBYE, SUCKERS! I never wanted dominion over you flimsy flesh-bags anyway! Good bye MacCready, Blair, Childs, Garry (friggin' Garry), Clark (sorry about your friggin' dogs; Hey--this just in...GET A LIFE! [oops--too late!], Palmer, Norris, Fuchs, Nauls, Copper, Windows, Bennings, as well as all you friggin' Norwegians. It was nice meeting you and being you. (friggin' Norwegians).
There was a great YouTube clip of their last interview together, but sadly it's been taken down.
They also forgot to include Douglas Trumbull's 1972 film Silent Running.
George Lucas based R2-D2 on the "Drones" in that film.
Star Wars Origins - The Droids
SILENT RUNNING - Mania.com
Seriously, this reminded of the Weeping Angels on Doctor Who.