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In the spirit of the Olympics currently being held in Beijing, here are some of my contributions: Getting Into the Olympics Three guys were trying to sneak into the Olympic Village to scoop souvenirs and autographs. The first says, "Let's watch the registration table to see if there's a crack in the security system that we can utilize to scam our way in." Immediately, a burly athlete walks up to the table and states, "Angus MacPherson. Scotland. Shotput." He opens his gym bag to display a shotput to the registration attendant. The attendant says, "Very good, Mr. MacPherson. Here is your packet of registration materials, complete with hotel keys, passes to all Olympic events, meal tickets, and other information." The first guy gets inspired and grabs a small tree sapling, strips off the limbs and roots, walks up the registration table and states: "Chuck Wagon. Canada. Javelin." The attendant says, "Very good, Mr. Wagon. Here is your packet of registration materials, hotel keys, passes, meal tickets, and so forth. Good luck!" The second guy grabs a street utility manhole cover, walks up to the registration table and states: "Dusty Rhodes. Australia. Discus." The attendant says, "Terrific, Mr. Rhodes. Here is your packet of registration materials, hotel keys, a full set of passes, and meal tickets. Enjoy yourself." They scamper in, but suddenly realize the third guy is missing. They groan, because he's a simpleton from the hills of Vermont. They forgot to make sure he doesn't do something stupid and blow their cover stories. Just then he walks proudly up to the table with a roll of barbed wire under his arm and states: "Foster Bean. Hardwick, Vermont. Fencing."

A SPANISH Teacher was explaining to herclass that, in Spanish, Unlike English, nouns are designated as either masculine or feminine. 'House' for instance, is feminine: 'la casa.' 'Pencil,' however, is masculine: 'el lapiz.' So, a student asked, 'What gender is 'computer'?' Instead of giving the answer, the teacher split the class into Two groups, male and female, and asked them to decide for themselves Whether 'computer' should be a masculine or a feminine noun. Each group was asked to give four reasons for its Recommendation. The men's group decided that 'computer' should Definitely be of the feminine gender ('la Computadora'), because: 1. No one but their creator understands their internal logic; 2. The native language they use to communicate with other Computers is incomprehensible to everyone else; 3. Even the smallest mistakes are stored in long term memory forPossible later retrieval; and 4. As soon as you make a commitment to one, you find yourself Spending half your paycheck on accessories for it. (THIS GETS BETTER!) The women's group, however, concluded that computers should be Masculine ('el computador'), because: 1. In order to do anything with them, you have to turn them on; 2. They have a lot of data but still can't think for themselves; 3. They are supposed to help you solve problems, but half the time they ARE the problem; and 4. As soon as you commit to one, you realize that if you had waited a little longer, you could have gotten a better model. The women won.

Lol at the darwinian theory of mans evolution. here's my contribution: An Old Chinese Proverb: If you want happiness for an hour - TAKE A NAP If you want happiness for a day - GO SHOPPING If you want happiness for a lifetime - DON'T GET MARRIED But if you want a lifetime of happiness despite a marriage - HAVE A PARTY.....A 3RD PARTY!

Kinda difficult to measure it in absolute dollar value. Would it be possible to measure it in number of tickets sold?

V Guyver, that was the Japanese names. I have this hatred of the americanized names with a passion. What's so wrong about Spiegel that they had to rename it to shadow? If you will notice, the wiki I wrote never mentioned anything about the americanized version. I get my source from the original japanese, since I own the original G Gundam Memorial Box DVD. I already had a bad feeling when I heard they were going to license it in the US. And BY GOD I was right. Also Ryuki, I could add more details if you want me to, but won't that be too much information? I even have pics for all of them. Still don't know how to upload pics or if its even allowed.

Could it be perhaps that you were expecting too much? You are right about one thing though, the joker overshadowed batman. They took the phrase "the villain that defines the hero" a little too much. With regards to the style, I don't think Frank Miller has anything to do with it. It's the directors call. They only took elements from the comic that Frank Miller wrote. Also, you have to take into consideration that batman is also bruce wayne, so flashy cars, expensive phone and trips abroad are to be expected. Why would a millionaire playboy want a cheap and dull car? And the way Batman kidnap the guy from Hong Kong, the start was pretty much ok, and I have to agree with you that extraction was a little far fetched. Maybe they can do a mythbuster segment on the movie.

Manage to see some photos of the second season from Newtype. I find the names a bit wierd. Exia obviously is 00 Gundam. For the Dynames, Keldim Gundam? For Kyrios, Alios Gundam, and for Virtue, Seravy (C'est la Vie?) Gundam? Wierd.

With regards to the 12 zoalords appearing on top of relics point, would it be so hard to believe that they flew really really fast and have Purugsthal make a lightning just to make an effect on their landing? Thunder and lightning do intimidate. Perhaps that's what they were trying to do. Or perhaps the lightning was the effect of the sonic boom created by their flight.

This is the discussion topic for the wiki article: Mobile Fighting Legend G Gundam Anyway, I hope you guys don't mind if I edit the said page. I've already got a comprehensive page for GGundam and i thought I'd wikify it. I'm still not finished yet as I'm thinking of creating a sub page for the other articles like list of episodes, complete voice cast, scale model list, etc. The problem is that I don't know how to do it. At any rate, any suggestions, questions or violent reactions are welcome.

I've just recently thought of editing the GGundam Page. But I have a predicament as I do not know how to edit the page. I know how to edit the page, but I'm not sure how to put line breaks, cross linking, and all those fancy stuff you see in the wiki page. You see, here's how I want to write it: I. Back ground II. Contents a. Cast of Characters / voice actors (Might want to do a separate page for this as the list is extensive) b. Story Arcs c. List of Mechs (Might want to do a separate page for this as the list is extensive) d. Terms and keywords III. Staff, OP/ED staff IV. Famous Speechs V. Merchandise Please do feel free to suggest order of contents for this, as I will be taking information from my website at http://ggundam.atspace.com I can also edit the other Gundam Series, but I want to finish GGundam first as this is my favorite Gundam to date.

I'm sure with the months long break would give them enough material to come up with a decent plot and better mech designs. They managed fine with the first season, I think they would surprise us with the second season. They might not let us expect anything, then blow us away with nice and shiny Gundams. Previews doesn't necessarily mean that's all were going to expect of the show. "Ooh, what does this button do?"

Let's just give them a chance first. Remember that the previous Gundam Series (Seed Destiny) was full of Gundam eye candy so the plot was kind crap. Hopefully the plot for the second season of 00 will make up for the designs of the mech. Besides, if it's a simplified version, maybe they have some attachments in mind for those mechs. We just won't know until we watch it now, won't we?

Ooh, a preview is out already? Gotta check this out. I didn't notice it, but it's only a few months away now.

Unknown_Guyver, with regards to the retelling of the joker's past, I don't think it's really that much relevant. The Joker is already synonymous to Batman, so I think it would be better off if they didn't retell his past. With Harvey Dent however, I think it's very appealing with the way they handled his character. Also, if we are to compare this to the comics, I would say they are pretty well done. The nolan Batman tells the begining years of Batman and it is only natural that they did it the way they are. They didn't use the continuity of the regular DC comics, but more of the Frank Miller Batman. If you've read Batman: Year One, Batman: The Long Holloween and Batman: The killing Joke, it's pretty much the same way it was told. I've been following the Batman comics for years and I would say that they pretty much nailed it. Of course there are other small nit picks, but you can't please everybody. Again, you are entitled to your own opinion and I will respect that.

Well, since this new Batman is in line with the Frank Miller Dark Knight continuity, there is still the other comic Dark Victory which they can protray. It's the continuation of Long Halloween which the Dark Knight movie was partly based of.

Yes, Two-face, but I don't think two-face alone would suffice. He needs another rogue which he can manipulate. Bane perhaps? The thing is, if they ever tried to include someone with powers (like Poison Ivy or some other mutant), it would defeat the settings which Batman Begins established. He should be dealing with the mob and not some super powered freaks. Perhaps a resurrection of Ra's Al Ghul. We never did saw the Lazarus Pit in Batman Begins. Good thing they are basing the movies off the comics. Like Batman year One for Batman Begins and The Long Holloween & The Killing Joke for the Dark Knight.

One thing that I liked about this movie is that That gives the movie more possibile stories in the future. I also like the events which led him into becoming the Dark Kngiht. if they did decide to make another movie, who do you think will be the next in line of the rogues gallery. Since the first and second movie the villains are still relatively human, would it be possible to have clayface or killer croc in? Perhaps he might start taking in a Dick Grayson, but not like in Batman Forever, but more like in the Jim Lee version.

I've seen this movie last night. And I have to agree that this is still the "Year One" for Batman as it seems that they continued with that continuity. Joker is very defined, I like the interaction of Batman and Joker, that's the way they should be. Joker trying to push the buttons of Batman trying to see if he will break. I also felt that Batman deserved the title Dark Knight only at the end of the movie, I can't get into any details for this without spoiling anything. There were some detective work involved but they didn't seem to highlight most of them, and it's just like they pushed them in the back to feature the tech. Cool sonar though. By the way, did anybody noticed the batcave?

It's in a in-between season break and would resume in September, I think. A new trend that they are testing to see wether the series is worth the whole 40+ episode. They've done this to Code Geass and seems to prolong the popularity of the series.

Those are detective work, but I was thinking more like Sherlock Holmes detective. One should be very observant around his surrounding noticing the smallest detail. Like how you can tell when someone is lying or hiding something. Linking random series of event into an overall master plan. And Mcguyver like resourcefulness. I know it's not fair to compare batman to other characters, but hey, that's what I would like to think. I would say that Batman Begins worked very well because it tells the starting point of Batman's career. It shows how green batman can be and eventually established himself as an urban legend. There is one quote that I would like to share with everyone as to why movies are made into a certain way: "The formula of failure is to try to please everyone"

No, I can't see into the future. But I do have a twisted sense of humour. Now I wonder how a g-unit would bond with an Apostle, or even a God Hand.

Uh.... Dune was originally a book by Frank Herbert published way back in 1965. The movie was based on the first book and left out many important elements. They remade the first book into a sci-fi mini-series. They also made a mini-series called "Children of Dune", which was based on the second and third book, "Dune Messiah" and "Children of Dune". Which, by the way, are good reading. But were not here to talk about Dune. Sorry to be out of topic. So, about Batman....

Oh poo! Everyone is in agreement that it's hard to do debates. One thing about the joker, its the villain that make the hero. Kill the villain and you kill the hero. Just look at the successful characters, Batman has joker and is still alive an kicking. And I find it funny that People find the joker so insane, no villain wants to work with him. And then there's Superman with his Lex Luthor. Captain America and his Red Skull, (well, in this case, it's a little different. I won't spoil anything, but it made news all over the world). Also, I like the way how Batman uses fear to his advantage. And although unrelated, I find this phrase from dune very appropriate: "I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."

We're not saying that it will be bad. It's more like based on the trailer that was being shown, we won't be expecting much. If the movie would be great, then there would be a greater impact to me. I can say that most of us are saying that batman should be like this and batman should be like that, but in the end, I think everyone will still watch the movie.

One thing about sequels, is that they owe it to the first movie. it is a rarity that the sequel do better than the first movie. With the first batman franchise, we see the first movie (Batman) being better and it's last sequel (Batman & Robin) as the worst. Hopefully with Nolan in the helm, this won't be a trend. If they want to showcase the gadgets of Batman, fine, they can do that, Batman's gadgets in the comics are way to unbelievable, but they are not to focus of the story. In the Dark Knight Movie, even though he has new gadgets, I don't want them to waste quality story time to feature a new bike riding through the highway showcasing it's thingamajig. Realsim isn't really much of an issue, it's the detective skills thats most important. One thing I regretted in Batman Begins, Ra's Al Ghul never called Batman "Detective". Or did he? I forget.