I love good magic. This was well done, but unspectacular until he made the dove turn into a scarf at the end. Making birds appear is one thing. Making them disappear is quite another.
SO, PacRim Jim, doesn't want to play your game. Instead he insults the game itself.
I think that visual artists will be known in 10,000 years. Sculptors of stone, in particular, because their work survives without special preservation. Michelangelo, da Vinci, and Remington are my picks.
When I moved to Costa Mesa, my main phone number used to be owned by a world-class surfer. After jerking around a few less-than-well-intentioned callers, I called his new number (don't ask how I got it) and talked with his mother.
Once the understandably suspicious woman called me back, we had a nice chat and she told me to keep pissing off the idiot that were trying to get a piece of her son.
As rare as this is, I am not only agreeing with Vonskippy, I am providing a less trollmanating post.
As the world becomes more connected, language will become more similar. People that speak the same language tend not to go to war against each other. (Yes, there *are* specific examples to the contrary.)
Dialect will never be geographically homogeneous, but I, for one, welcome our single language future.
I have the California statutes at my fingertips, but you are correct. I should have dug for the Kansas statute. Here it is:
"8-2503: (a) Except as provided in K.S.A. 8-1344 and 8-1345, and amendments thereto, and in subsection (b) or (c), each front seat occupant of a passenger car manufactured with safety belts in compliance with federal motor vehicle safety standard no. 208, who is 18 years of age or older, shall have a safety belt properly fastened about such person's body at all times when the passenger car is in motion."
I call bullshit. "The Law" absolutely defines a seatbelt. The below is quoted from the California Seat Belt law.
"... a manual safety belt system that meets the performance standards applicable to automatic crash protection devices adopted by the United States Secretary of Transportation pursuant to Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 208 (49 C.F.R. 571.208) as in effect on January 1, 1985."
To emphasize Ruben's point: It is almost impossible to cut completely through a one gallon bottle of water without dislodging its bottom. The marital artist does it multiple times and then show us that the bottles are not attached at the base. He cuts through one bottle and leaves one inches away untouched. He has a bit more trouble with the half gallon ones.
I think that visual artists will be known in 10,000 years. Sculptors of stone, in particular, because their work survives without special preservation. Michelangelo, da Vinci, and Remington are my picks.
Once the understandably suspicious woman called me back, we had a nice chat and she told me to keep pissing off the idiot that were trying to get a piece of her son.
As the world becomes more connected, language will become more similar. People that speak the same language tend not to go to war against each other. (Yes, there *are* specific examples to the contrary.)
Dialect will never be geographically homogeneous, but I, for one, welcome our single language future.
"8-2503: (a) Except as provided in K.S.A. 8-1344 and 8-1345, and amendments thereto, and in subsection (b) or (c), each front seat occupant of a passenger car manufactured with safety belts in compliance with federal motor vehicle safety standard no. 208, who is 18 years of age or older, shall have a safety belt properly fastened about such person's body at all times when the passenger car is in motion."
"... a manual safety belt system that meets the performance standards applicable to automatic crash protection devices adopted by the United States Secretary of Transportation pursuant to Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 208 (49 C.F.R. 571.208) as in effect on January 1, 1985."