The Longest Thread Ever!

[BadNick]

Let's get physical

YouTube - Physics of Surfing Trailer

YouTube - Physics of Surfing Trailer

[Jetée]

I just want to drift; nay, sail.

[Zooksport2]

Page 535!


Only a few more to go, and we have done it!

Hey has anyone decided what we gonna do once we have been crowned the "longest"?

Are we gonna keep going, or just fade away?


.

[MexicanOnABike]

we will simply post enough to fall in the hall of fame and then fade away. i would say about 1000 posts more than any other thread for now.

[Ourcrazymodern?]

(2-13)+6=-5

[MexicanOnABike]

only 700ish to go!! let's aim for 10posts a day and make this a 2 month deal. By this summer, I want this thread to be #1!!

[Ourcrazymodern?]

& you shall have it,
with some cooperation.
I will do my part.

21367

[BadNick]

this is the sixth post of the day...I'll be back to do more later.

[Poppinjay]

So what thread is currently the longest?

[BadNick]

Depends. The most prominent target of our efforts is the "word association...again" thread on this forum. They are right now at 22091 and we're at 21370.

Although I haven't fully researched it, I suspect there might be an even longer one out there in the universe.

[MexicanOnABike]

Originally Posted by BadNick

Depends. The most prominent target of our efforts is the "word association...again" thread on this forum. They are right now at 22091 and we're at 21370.

Although I haven't fully researched it, I suspect there might be an even longer one out there in the universe.

on TFP: that word ass... is the longest. In the world or universe, there has been threads that expand to the 100,000s and more.

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you know, if we can get more than 10 a day, we will surely Destoy our goal and beat the record in a month or so.

I agree!!

[Poppinjay]

I hear Jupiter has a thread in the millions.

[MexicanOnABike]

damn! let's try to beat jupiter then.

[Zooksport2]

I feel for poor old Pluto

[Jetée]

It'd be easier if our endeavrs included one with super mod/admin powers, then one of us could merge threads into this one, and say it was here all along.

But then, that'd be unchivalrous.

I wonder: if we get nearer to the goal, say, with 300 posts, should I exploit the rabbit hole of continous, monotonous doubleposting pain-in-the-ass repeating, or should I not even try to sacrifice it?


mmm... sacrifice.

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Seven Blunders of the World

1. Wealth without work
2. Pleasure without conscience
3. Knowledge without character
4. Commerce without morality
5. Science without humanity
6. Worship without sacrifice
7. Politics without principle

— Mahatma Gandhi

[Jetée]

Originally Posted by Zooksport2

I feel for poor old Pluto

So, you, too, saw the most recent episode of NOVA, with astrophysicist / superhero extraordinaire, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, explaining and exalting the mysteries and reasons as to why Pluto is so unique as a "celestial object" in our heavens? Right on being informed, Senor Zooks.

I'll imagine this is the way.

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[MexicanOnABike]

wait: the dog or the planet?

[Jetée]

I recently heard a good random remark suggesting that the unfortunately known-title to current galaxial planet Uranus, and how it results in chortles abound, well, should be renamed to something more along the lines of "Bluto or somethin'".

I agree. I like updating and renaming things to fit a more modern society. Those in favor to recognize and petition a re-evulation towards Uranus (you chuckled, I know it) and see it re-adhered as Bluto, I'm all ears.

[Burma->Myanmar->Morning Star Island??]

[Zooksport2]

Quick!!!!! 1 more!!!!

[Jetée]

I try to be as quick, while providing something of (somewhat) interesting value:





(did the hotlinking work? I try not to accomplish this too often, but I had to be as quick as a hare)

[Zooksport2]

Originally Posted by Jetée

So, you, too, saw the most recent episode of NOVA, with astrophysicist / superhero extraordinaire, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, explaining and exalting the mysteries and reasons as to why Pluto is so unique as a "celestial object" in our heavens? Right on being informed, Senor Zooks.

Ummmm No, I simple saw a post (on this thread, a few pages back, I think) referring to Pluto's "castration" from the rest of the planets, and did a Google.

But, I'll go along with your suggestion, if you would prefer....

[Jetée]

Originally Posted by Zooksport2

Ummmm No, I simple saw a post (on this thread, a few pages back, I think) referring to Pluto's "castration" from the rest of the planets, and did a Google.

But, I'll go along with your suggestion, if you would prefer....

I wonder who made a commnt about it? I, perhaps, should endeavor on a search of my own.

(but also: this piece of new occurred some several years ago, right around the turn from 2006-07. I even have a rap song dedicated to the news.)

YouTube - Aesop Rock - Bring Back Pluto

YouTube - Aesop Rock - Bring Back Pluto

[Zooksport2]

Originally Posted by Jetée

I try to be as quick, while providing something of (somewhat) interesting value:

Thats gotta be from April 1st, surely....


Already did the search thing. It wasn't on TFP, about Pluto....

[MexicanOnABike]

seems like we didn't make it?! oh well.

[Ourcrazymodern?]

Note "# of views"
& compared to the nameless
this thread's way ahead.

[carrot glace]

Originally Posted by Ourcrazymodern?

Note "# of views"
& compared to the nameless
this thread's way ahead.

wonder what the conversion rate is

[BadNick]

so I wonder who's winning the Academy Awards?

[Jetée]

Originally Posted by BadNick

so I wonder who's winning the Academy Awards?

I've had this one website opened in my browser for more than 3 weeks, and only yesterday did I finally read the 4+ paragraphs that left me trembling.


Turns out, I could've watched all the Academy-Nominated live-action short films all this time (or maybe since March 2) and been caught-up in time to pick my favorite. I didn't though.

Here's the link within the site: Shorts International Present - The Oscar Nominated Short Film 2010

I already posted all of the animated short film nominees here (as well as a few of the shortlisted ones that perhaps should have nominated instead of Granny O'Grimm, among others).

My heart wants "Lady and The Reaper" to win, but this one paragraph really sums up what you could expect to happen:

The idea of releasing the ten Academy Award nominated animated and live-action short films in one package into theaters is such a great one that it's a wonder no one thought of it sooner than a few years ago. As with any collection of shorts, these are always a mixed bag, especially given the Academy's century-long penchant for awarding "important" films rather than good ones. But lo and behold, there are some wonderful things here, too, and one, The Lady and the Reaper, that is just flat-out excellent.

I will refrain from making any predictions here, as it's nearly impossible to guess whether the Academy is interested in quality or in the mood for messages. Not to mention that there is one X-factor: Nick Park. Up to now, Park has won every single Oscar he has been nominated for, except one, and that's only because Creature Comforts and A Grand Day Out competed against each other in 1989 and one of them had to lose. Will the Academy feel obligated to give Park a fifth Oscar? Or has Wallace & Gromit grown a little tired over the years? Personally, I found A Matter of Loaf and Death highly accomplished and enjoyable, but fairly minor; it's not much different from the last entry, A Close Shave.

and here's the live-action film summaries:

In the live-action category, there are three message movies and two comedies. One of the message movies, Miracle Fish, actually does a fine job of disguising its agenda until the final moments, which is a welcome approach. Directed by Luke Doolan and set in Australia, Miracle Fish tells the story of a lower-class boy who endures the cruel ridicule of his classmates for not getting anything more than a cellophane "miracle fish" toy for his 8th birthday. He sneaks off for a nap in the nurse's office and when he wakes up, everyone is gone. He begins to enjoy the solitude, until the other shoe drops. The treatment of the child actor is fairly shallow, but young Karl Beattie has a presence that grows on you.

Patrik Eklund's Instead of Abracadabra, a comedy from Sweden, is arguably my favorite of the live-action batch. A very geeky magician (with a scraggly little moustache and bad glasses) still lives at home with his parents and is on the verge of having to get a real job when he meets his pretty new neighbor. To impress her, he convinces his father to let him perform at his 60th birthday party, where he plans to try the old "saber-in-a-box" trick. Eklund keeps a quirky pace throughout, and there are some funny lines around the magician's favorite magic word: "Chimay," which he uses "instead of abracadabra."

The other comedy, The New Tenants, is from America, translated into English from a screenplay by Anders Thomas Jensen, though I'm not sure whether it's a "remake." Two men move into a new apartment. Unfortunately, the former tenant had some unresolved issues that brings several new visitors, including an angry husband (Vincent D'Onofrio) and a fast-talking drug dealer (Kevin Corrigan). Director Joachim Back keeps a steady, deadpan pace, and writer David Rakoff cooks up some terrific dialogue.

Then we have the message movies. Juanita Wilson's The Door takes place in Russia just after the Chernobyl incident, and it's a pretty typical Oscar contender, with heavy, self-conscious symbolism and weighty importance. A father must break into his own house to steal a door upon which to lay the body of his daughter (dead of radiation poisoning). Directed by Gregg Helvey and set in India, Kavi is probably the worst of the lot. It tells the story of a boy who must work making mud bricks for a tyrant to help pay his father's debt; he'd much rather play cricket. The film sets up some very awkward moments of violence and suspense (it feels too rushed) and pays off with a printed onscreen message about real-life slavery.

Being a glass-half full type of guy, I came away from this collection excited for the good stuff I had seen, and hopeful that the voters will see excellence in the same places. (It's always a bonus on Oscar night to have seen the short films. It's fun at parties!) Overall, this is a collection worth seeing.

[Zooksport2]

Sanda and Jeff

[BadNick]

get lost, Jeff

Sandra and Nick

[Jetée]

Who won?

(I'm never, ever, watching an awards ceremony again, and very sparsely going to stay tuned to one after a championship victory. Boring and awkward clique central.)

[MexicanOnABike]

the deminer.

[BadNick]

YouTube - World's Smallest Working Model Train Layout

YouTube - World's Smallest Working Model Train Layout

[Jetée]

Originally Posted by BadNick

YouTube - World's Smallest Working Model Train Layout

You know, BadNick, you have recently tapped into the theme of one of my newes ideas for a thread: the world of miniatures.

I've only delayed in creating it because I want a catchy title for it (I already have multiple dozen posts waiting to be queued).

Do you have a good title for the thread BadNick? (something like "It's a Small World After All")

PS

Logorama won.

watch here   click to show 

Originally Posted by Jetée

Logorama
Story and Direction by François Alaux, Hervé de Crécy & Ludovic Houplain
Produced By Nicolas Schmerkin
Music composed by Bryan Ray Turcotte
Released in mid-May of 2009 (Premiered at the Festival de Cannes: Semaine de la Critique)
Distributed by Autour de Minuit Productions (France),
in cooperation with H5, Mikros Image, Addict, & Arcadi
LOGORAMA, the movie [HQ] (click the title card to watch the film)

{If the above video should fail, a redirect link: H5's Logorama}

Spectacular car chases, an intense hostage crisis, wild animals rampaging through the city… and even more in Logorama!

"logorama presents us with an over-marketed world built only from logos and real trademarks (over 2500 of them!) that are destroyed by a series of natural disasters (beginning with a hurricane, cyclone, tidal wave...). logotypes are used to describe an alarming universe (similar to the one that we are living in) with all the graphic signs that accompany us everyday in our lives. this over-organized universe is violently transformed by the cataclysm becoming fantastic and absurd. it shows the victory of the creative against the rational, where nature and human fantasy triumph." -- synopsis via the creators (François Alaux, Herve de Crecy and Ludovic Houplain)

This short won the 2010 Academy Award for Animated Short Film.

[BadNick]

Jet, I really like your idea to start a thread about miniatures.

Your suggested title is cute with an upbeat positive connotation. An idea I had was "It's not how big it is...." relating to something I heard once about getting the most out of something even if it's a small something.

[Jetée]

and just to reinforce the notion that, indeed, "It's a Small World After All", and how I run across at least one 'Alice' reference every single day, we have this:

Watch 1903's Alice in Wonderland for free.

Alice in Wonderland (1903), the first-ever film version of Lewis Carroll’s tale, has recently been restored by the BFI National Archive and premiered at a celebration of the history of the classic story at the British Library.

Made just 37 years after the novel’s publication and eight years after the birth of cinema, the first film adaptation was directed by Cecil Hepworth and Percy Stow, and was based on Sir John Tenniel’s original illustrations. Hepworth cast his wife as the Red Queen, and he himself appears as the Frog Footman. His production secretary May Clark played Alice, and even the family cat and dog got in on the act. The cat played the Cheshire Cat, and the dog would go on to become the first authentic British film star (canine or otherwise) to have his name in the credit of a film when he headlined the pioneering chase film Rescued By Rover in 1905.

Although originally running just 12 minutes, Alice in Wonderland was the longest film produced in England at that time and represented a major investment for the pioneering Hepworth Studios. However, despite its historical importance, it was almost lost for good, and just one incomplete print is known to survive.

[Zooksport2]

[Ourcrazymodern?]

2x(13-9)=8

I couldn't help noticing
our growth rate has diminished today.
I'm wondering what's happened?

[BadNick]

plus 1

if it's broke, I can fix it

[Ourcrazymodern?]

It's known that you can,
& your good reputation,
Bad Nick, is well-earned.