Jetée

This premiere edition: The Lost premiere edition!


Print our Lost bingo cards and play along with the premiere | SCI FI Wire

gather up some checkers pieces, and choose whichever card appeals to you most (in the link above)
and see if you can figure out the premise of Lost any better now than in seasons prior.


-- (my take: this still won't drag me in. I fell off on Lost after season 1, episode whatever - island hatch living room)

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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves.

—Mohandas K. Gandhi

BadNick

my wife is upstairs watching it right now...I should see if she wants to play this bingo card thing

Jetée

Name as many Seinfeld references / episodes you can as you encounter the items in the image.
(nearly all episodes follow this example: "The Robbery, The Wife, The Deal" in identifying themselves)

(click to make image larger)

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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves.

—Mohandas K. Gandhi

BadNick

This thread reminds me of a game that literally was played on television. I remember when I was a little kid playing Winky Dink and it felt so "interactive"

Winky Dink and You

uncle phil

we used to play college bowl on sunday afternoons back in high school - bunch of us would get together at somebody's house and regularly beat the "regulars..."

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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
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"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
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never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.

Baraka_Guru

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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot

snowy

A good friend of mine and I used to have a nightly date to watch Jeopardy! together. He would keep score and I would kick his butt every time. I still watch Jeopardy! every night but it isn't the same without J.

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If I am not better, at least I am different. --Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jetée

"Games you can play along with on Television" ... or in this case, a test of your intimate knowledge of film characters and pop culture.

This is the "Geek Alphabet", and what I'd like to see is if we can complete the entire alphabet in ten posts or less, without looking up any of the characters, their films, or any sort of instanteous research which aids in giving us the answer.

Premise is simple: name each character that corresponds with the letter of the alphabet. Once all 26 are named correctly = success!
I'll restrict it to each subsequent member can name upwards of, but no more than, 3 characters a go.
We'll leave this collaboratiive endeavor open for a week's time, and see if it was a failure on my part or not.

Let's begin:



Z - Steve Zissou, "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou"
Y - Yoda, "Star Wars" franchise, broadly, all episodes save for the first (I think).
V - Vincent Vega, "Pulp Fiction"


post-script:
if you think any of the guesses may be wrong, bring them up to see if there may be a better choice than what was originally stated, then, consensus rules.

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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves.

—Mohandas K. Gandhi

BadNick

W - Wayne Campbell (played by Mike Myers)
E - Edward Scissorhands

spindles

G - Gandalf (Lord of the Rings)
I - Indiana Jones

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who hid my keyboard's PANIC button?

Jetée

T - Tony Montana, "Scarface"
L - Leeloo, "The Fifth Element"
C ... I don't know the character's name here, but I thought I'd give a hint for anyone subsequently guessing: it's from a Coen Brothers movie, a recent one, starring Clooney, McDermott, and Brad Pitt, which I think the 'C' letter directly corresponds to whatever character Pitt played. That's all I have.

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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves.

—Mohandas K. Gandhi

Jetée

I can't supply all of the names here .. (exasperated and short, 'cause of the mugginess)

D - (The) Dude, "The Big Lebowski"
N - Nacho, "Nacho Libre"
R - Ron Burgundy, "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy"

updated board:


guesses still left: A, B, C, F, H, J, K, M, O, P, Q, S, U, X

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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves.

—Mohandas K. Gandhi