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Samantha: You can do that without posting. On the ADD COMMENT screen, click the link marked "Images."

Lynati: I've not read that far in Timedancer yet. I do plan to finish Season 2 after reading "The Once and Future King," however.

Taleweaver: I wonder what the deal was with all the alternate spellings.

And this is a shout-out to anyone in the CR who knows, because I've been searching for the last hour, and my eyes are killing me. Does anyone know the name of the trainyard where the gargoyles fought the Pack in "Upgrade"? I want to say Penn Station (because it was still being used by trains), but I don't know for certain and it's the only thing preventing me from submitting my synopsis.
Harvester of Eyes - [Minstrel75@gmail.com]
Sunday, July 10, 2005 10:31:36 PM
IP: 69.174.20.156

Samantha> You do realize that you can "look at the pictures" using the "image" link at the top of the "add comment" page, without cluttering up the board?
http://tgs.gargoyles-fans.org/cr/images/index.html

It will make people in here much happier if you do that.
Thanks.
Lain - [<-- CR images]
Sunday, July 10, 2005 10:28:25 PM
IP: 205.250.217.92

hey im just looking at the pictures dont mind me

samantha - [munchkinheadsam@yahoo.com]
alliance, ohio, united states
Sunday, July 10, 2005 10:15:44 PM
IP: 24.209.49.241

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samantha - [munchkinheadsam@yahoo.com]
alliance, ohio, united states
Sunday, July 10, 2005 10:15:27 PM
IP: 24.209.49.241

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samantha - [munchkinheadsam@yahoo.com]
alliance, ohio, united states
Sunday, July 10, 2005 10:14:57 PM
IP: 24.209.49.241

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samantha - [munchkinheadsam@yahoo.com]
alliance, ohio, united states
Sunday, July 10, 2005 10:14:28 PM
IP: 24.209.49.241

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samantha - [munchkinheadsam@yahoo.com]
alliance, ohio, united states
Sunday, July 10, 2005 10:14:09 PM
IP: 24.209.49.241

HARVESTER - Imogen's name is derived from the heroine of Shakespeare's "Cymbeline" (following the "Gargoyles" Shakespeare penchant).

There isn't any deep significance in Leo and Una's offspring (not just Caspian, but also Lucy and Aslan) being named after characters from the Chronicles of Narnia, as far as I know, but you'll have to ask Christi Smith Hayden about that; she was the one who came up with their names.
Todd Jensen
St. Louis, MO
Sunday, July 10, 2005 06:10:40 PM
IP: 4.244.18.35

I'm pretty sure Caspian *is* a Narnia reference, as is the name of his hatchling brother Aslan, his sister Lucy, and Peter, Susan and Edmund- the only three named London gargoyles we see in 1793, in Timedancer season 2's "Survival".
Lynati
Sunday, July 10, 2005 06:10:23 PM
IP: 69.150.72.57

Harvester : I don't think that Caspian has any connection to prince Caspian other then the name, but I could be wrong.
Spen
Sunday, July 10, 2005 04:36:08 PM
IP: 207.177.11.252

Actually, it Rosinante's name isn't too hard. Dulcinea is the name of Don Quixote's ideal damsel and Rosinante was his horse. Just read Don Quixote or listen to the soundtrack of "Man from La Manche".
Taleweaver
Sunday, July 10, 2005 03:32:18 PM
IP: 207.69.136.199

Todd: Thanks for correcting me. I've actually never read anything by Lovecraft, but I suppose I'll have to look into him.

By the way, I've been thinking about something that was discussed a few weeks ago (which I don't think is in the archives yet), and I've noticed that quite a few of the London gargoyles seem to be named after a derivative of the Latin word for the animal they resemble. You mentioned Aper, but two others that come readily to mind are Cervus and Drake. And I'm not sure about Imogen. Is she another one, or is her name derived from a dog breed? And I've never really read The Chronicles of Narnia, except for the first one. I'm assuming Caspian is a C.S. Lewis reference. If it is, is any of the character based upon the prince from Lewis's writing?

I was also wondering: where does the name for Dulcinea's horse come from? I know that Rosinante was the name of the spaceship in the Rush song "Cygnus X-1" (although in lyrics printed in the CD Jacket, it's spelled "Rocinante") but I have a feeling that Neal Peart probably got the name from some other literary work ("2112" is practically an Ayn Rand story). On a side note, anyone who's familiar with the Marathon trilogy (one of the earliest ancestors of the Halo series) might remember that when Durandal gets a new ship at the end of Marathon 2, he re-christens it "Rozinante," spelled with a Z. Still, I like to think that in Bungie's case, it was a reference to Rush, regardless of where Neal Peart originally got it from.
Harvester of Eyes - [Minstrel75@gmail.com]
Fredercksburg, VA, USA
Sunday, July 10, 2005 10:36:09 AM
IP: 69.174.20.156

Spen> Thank you for checking. As I added the missing pieces of Awakening 5 to the synopsis, we're set there. Additionally I added information about the new, upcoming comics from Slave Labour Comics to the comics review page - nothing major, as everything I learned should be already known around here. Those going to the Gathering might want to write down what Greg W. reveals about the comics and send those information my way.....
Guandalug la'Fay - [guandalug@gargoyles-fans.org]
Sunday, July 10, 2005 05:49:09 AM
IP: 80.145.2.247

Todd : With the number of times I've read "1984" I can't imagine how I missed that.
Spen
Sunday, July 10, 2005 02:24:16 AM
IP: 207.177.11.252

HARVESTER - Well, to be fair about this, the "Winston" element came from the outline, which was written by Greg Bishansky, and wasn't my idea at all (although I quickly guessed when I first read the outline what inspired that element). So you should really be directing those words to Bishansky rather than to myself.

The outline was Bishansky's, which I followed closely; there were only three significant additions or alterations that I made in it. The first was Winston's surname being "Exham". Christi Smith Hayden had included a character named "Winston" among Lucy's rookery siblings in "On Holiday" (although that Winston was most likely named after Churchill), whom Bishansky presumably was unaware of at the time that he was writing the outline. I didn't want to change the name of the character at the beginning of "Ripper" and lose the literary reference, but I didn't want people to get too confused over two Winstons in the same season (even if they were substantially different characters), so I added the surname of "Exham", inspired by H. P. Lovecraft's "The Rats in the Walls", to fit in with the rat imagery in that scene. (A blend of George Orwell and H. P. Lovecraft. Now there's an unusual combination!)

The second modification that I made from Bishansky's outline was the introduction of a modern-day Round Table; the third was in Merlin's Ripper-induced nightmare about Madoc stealing his son. In Bishansky's outline, Madoc was seizing Merlin's son from his (Merlin's) home in the future; in a rather dark moment, however, I changed the setting to a church with Madoc being disguised as the vicar. (It was inspired by a "Dr. Who" comic strip that I'd read some years ago, incidentally.) I don't know how permissible the religious element was in this scene, although there were one or two such elements in the series (such as Demona needing to cast the Fulfillment Spell on "holy ground", which aforesaid holy ground was in a Christian cathedral). Of course, Xanatos and Fox's wedding in "Vows" was handled by a Justice of the Peace rather than by a priest or minister - but that, I suspect, was due to Xanatos and Fox's characterization; I hardly see them as likely to have had their wedding handled by a man of the cloth. Merlin's more devout than they are, on the other hand.
Todd Jensen
St. Louis, MO
Saturday, July 9, 2005 06:46:09 PM
IP: 4.244.18.41

Guandalug : I just finished checking the synopsises, and I can tell you with certainty, that there are no other synopsises that are incomplete. "Thank you for the dates" You're welcome. "they've been missing since I don't know when" Well, they were missing when I first stumbled on to the site back in 2002, so probably they've never been here before.

Krista : You're welcome.

Harvester : Thanks.
Spen
Saturday, July 9, 2005 06:34:47 PM
IP: 207.177.11.252

HoE> Well, if there ARE any other summaries with missing parts, I don't know about them :) Yes, I put them all together, but I didn't really check them all in detail - when one has to do so many files in a short time, one doesn't read, just format.

So, the call is out to everybody: Are there more episodes with incomplete summaries? If so - which ones? And maybe you can supply me with the missing data as well? :)
Guandalug la'Fay - [guandalug@gargoyles-fans.org]
Saturday, July 9, 2005 10:12:17 AM
IP: 80.145.34.82

Guandalug: I'm halfway through "Upgrade". My Hell Week is ending today, so I'll probably be able to finish it when I get home from work. And if there's any incomplete synopses in the GFW (ie, missing acts like "Awakening, Part V") let me know.

Spen: I was referring to the real dark ages, which is a veritable textbook on torture. Today, people are spoiled by electricity.

Todd: An Orwell reference? I think I might just have a new best friend.
Harvester of Eyes - [Minstrel75@gmail.com]
Fredericksburg, VA, USA
Saturday, July 9, 2005 08:55:55 AM
IP: 69.174.20.156

Spen> Thank you for the dates - they've been missing since I don't know when - they weren't on the old page either. (They are added now, of course).

By the way: The same goes for the missing Act III of Awakening 5 - what we have there is identical to what we had on the old page - strange that nobody ever noticed :) I'll fill that gap as soon as I get to it (not too difficult, as that's covered by the DVD, and thus saves me from winding and rewinding my tapes :). Only problem with the DVD: splitting the episodes into 3 Acts (advertisement-divided) is hard - after all, there's no advertisement on the DVDs. Not that it matters.

And one more thing: D. Taina summed up "To Serve Mankind" - the number of episodes lacking a summary is dwindling. Now, if those who promised me a review would send 'em in, I could remove even more episodes from the list (or remove the list of missing episodes from the server when all is done)
Guandalug la'Fay - [guandalug@gargoyles-fans.org]
Saturday, July 9, 2005 06:07:59 AM
IP: 80.145.33.75

Thank You very much Spen!
Krista
Friday, July 8, 2005 11:15:29 PM
IP: 68.116.254.201

Krista : Gargoyles is now only on weekends on Toon Disney. I'm not sure exactly on what time.
Spen
Friday, July 8, 2005 11:05:32 PM
IP: 207.177.11.252

Hello all! I am in dire need of some pictures of Angela! Please help me!

And since when did they cancel the show, AGAIN?? It's not on Toon Disney anymore!

And... now that Greg Wiesman is working with Toon Disney, does anyone besides me think we have a chance of reviving the show?
Krista
Friday, July 8, 2005 10:58:46 PM
IP: 68.116.254.201

Did I kill the room again? I really have to stop doing that.

Guandalug : I found an error in the GFW episode list. The synopsis for "Awakening Part 5" is incompleate. It stop at the point where Elisa says "Police buisness". Also, I noticed that you do not have the air dates for "Seeing Isn't Believing" and "Angels In the Night". According to TVtome, the air dates are 02/08/97 for the former, and 02/15/97 for the latter.
Spen
Friday, July 8, 2005 08:34:06 PM
IP: 207.177.11.252

Sorry for the double post, but I dind't have time to respond to everything last time.

Todd : "I hope that you won't go as overboard with that "How Not to Be Seen" idea" I certainly wasn't planning on doing so. It was intended as a one-shot deal.

Harvester : "I'd definitely recommend renting Clerks." I'll think about it. "And I don't know why people keep badmouthing the Dark Ages." Do you mean the time, or the series? As I for one love Dark Ages, and certainly would never badmouth it.

Greg B. : If my memory serves me right, Harvester was already here when Doug made his little reapperance back in January, so he probably knows that story.

Guandalug : " the email didn't bounce right back" I'm surprised. I seem to remember someone saying that his E-mail address was no longer valid. "he might be able to fix it, if he got a copy of his story." Let's hope.

Ed : Good to know you're all right.

Gunjack, Lain, and Lynati : Just out of curiosity, how's "Hungry Shadows Part 3" coming along?


Spen
Friday, July 8, 2005 12:33:25 AM
IP: 207.177.11.252

Harvester : Yes, that is the same Doug. I may not be the biggest fan of Doug himself, but I do like his fics.
Spen
Thursday, July 7, 2005 07:39:22 PM
IP: 207.177.11.252

got up too late to catch the news reports before they were edited, didja?

*goes back to collecting cached originals*
V
Thursday, July 7, 2005 06:42:04 PM
IP: 205.250.217.92

Well, "Prior knowledge" is two words, not one. Allow me to illustrate: "crass sensationalism", "asinine gossip-mongering", "conspiracy maniac".
Ed
London
Thursday, July 7, 2005 06:23:03 PM
IP: 213.187.39.15

Lain has a cousin that works in london, I think. Today was her Gran's birthday, too... :(

I'm watching the news, and the authorities are already getting evasive on a few of the details. Bad times. Guess the UK won't be leaving Iraq after all...

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Gunjack "Like Clockwork" Valentine
Thursday, July 7, 2005 06:08:48 PM
IP: 205.250.217.92

Thankfully I wasn't near any of the blast sites today, and nor were any of my friends and family as far as I can tell. A lot of people are still trapped in the city for the time being, though, and it's eerie to see familiar places either deserted or crawling with emergency services (and not a little horribly familiar from the days of the IRA). My best wishes to anyone still out there.
Ed
London, England
Thursday, July 7, 2005 03:10:15 PM
IP: 213.187.39.15

Yo. Will post later, trying to get word of some people.
Ed
London
Thursday, July 7, 2005 11:19:43 AM
IP: 213.187.39.15

To anyone out there in London or who has family and friends in London, my utmost sympathies. Hope you're safe.
Greg Bishansky
Thursday, July 7, 2005 10:00:20 AM
IP: 69.118.108.212

Has anyone heard from Ed or Silverbolt?

:::Is worried:::
Spacebabie
Thursday, July 7, 2005 09:51:00 AM
IP: 69.161.157.101

HARVESTER - The "Gargoyles/Simpsons" crossover wasn't a true crossover but rather a Simpsons parody of "Gargoyles" using the Simpsons cast; the Simpsons were portrayed here as a race of gargoyle-like creatures from medieval Scotland awakened after Montgomery Burns moves their castle to the top of his headquarters in Springfield so that he can move his nuclear reactor into the castle and thereby get around zoning regulations. Burns and Smithers had the Xanatos and Owen roles, naturally, and Groundskeeper Willie had the Macbeth role (the writer even managed to incorporate a Birnam Wood reference into the flashbacks around him). It ended with Greg Weisman showing up and interviewing the "Simpgoyles" so that he could do an animated series based on their adventures, only for it to turn out to be the familiar "Gargoyles" series, followed by the bewildered Simpgoyles watching it and puzzling over how much of their story had changed by the time that it got to the small screen - then Marge catches Homer looking a little too interestedly at Demona, with the result that Homer finds himself outside the castle, and begging Marge to let him back in, crying out "The pigeons are looking at me in a funny way!"

I hadn't thought of Merlin's dealing with the "Ripper" as intentionally brutal - I saw it as a desperate self-defense measure more than anything else. Incidentally, I wonder if you caught the reference about one of the Ripper's first victims being a guy named Winston, and what his fear was that the Ripper used against him.
Todd Jensen
St. Louis, MO
Thursday, July 7, 2005 07:42:51 AM
IP: 4.244.12.226

Spen> Well, his email address is on his author page, and as the email didn't bounce right back, it seems to be still working. Yes, I just took the liberty of mailing him about this - he might be able to fix it, if he got a copy of his story. We'll see.

And I have to apologize for "loosing" fan fictions in the transition - unfortunately, the old archive's database was so horribly broken that I had to manually import the stories into the new database - I'm kinda glad there weren't tons of missing stories by now. Unfortunately, the full archive of the old GFW was lost to a harddrive outage (and I couldn't back it up beforehand - it was kinda large)

Lynati> Sorry, I'm not the one to talk to - at least not as long as this comment room runs on Station 8. (No, I don't want to steal it away, just mentioning facts). For Station 8, you have to contact Gorebash for any features. And yes, it's possible to do so, and not very complex, but it'll take some programming time, so I don't know if Gorebash can do it right now.
Guandalug la'Fay - [guandalug@gargoyles-fans.org]
Thursday, July 7, 2005 06:55:41 AM
IP: 134.147.82.247

HoE> The very same Doug, yes. Long story in case you haven't heard it, but I'm not really in the mood to go over it in here.

Feel free to buzz me on IM some time. AIM name is Xanatoz55
Greg Bishansky
Thursday, July 7, 2005 01:41:47 AM
IP: 69.118.108.212

*breaks the Spammer's arms and legs with a sledgehammer and starts threading the shattered appendages through the spokes of a big wagon wheel*

Nearly forgot about this method. Good thing I already called the eyes, 'cause once the dogs and birds start eating him alive, they'll probably be the first thing to go. *smirks* And I don't know why people keep badmouthing the Dark Ages.

*turns to face the CR*

Quick question: just out of curiousity, is the Doug that wrote "The Fall of Nightstone" the Doug that no one likes? Also, there's a Gargoyles/Simpsons crossover gone missing? This is a sad day, and I shall pray for its safe return. But if it has seen the face of its abductor, we're better off shopping for coffins now.

Spen: I'd definitely recommend renting Clerks. It's still the best thing he's done, least I think so. I just hope the sequel is him getting back to basics. The only one of his movies I haven't seen in Chasing Amy, but the concensus I've gotten from people is it's not one of his better ones.

Todd: I finished reading "Ripper" the other night. I'd forgotten just how haunted Merlin is by his lineage. I was also surprised at his seemingly brutal method of incapacitating Jack. It could be that he took that second nightmare rather personally. But whatever the reason, it was cool. It also might have answered a question from "Something Old, Something New." I guess when Xanatos took Tanya into custody, he handed her over to the Illuminati. At least, that would make sense. I don't think he'd want her in the castle, and Duval seems determined to keep Madoc's creations out of sight. And of course, the ending was a great way to reel the listener right into the next story. After what happened in the Gargoyles story "Sacrifices" (Maggie's revelation to her mother and her mother's sebsequent rejection), it should be interesting to see what happens between Mary and her father, especially after Mary's nightmare. I'll let you know in a week or two.

Well, I'm beat. Day Five of hell week (working eight straight days from last Saturday to this coming one) is over and done. Time for rest.

*Demona sneaks up behind Harvester with laser cannon drawn*

Demona: "Indeed it is, human! Your eternal rest."
Harvester: "Are you still mad about the 'sweet cakes' remark? That was almost two months ago. Get over it!"
Demona: "Two months or two thousand years, it matters not. The hunt doesn't end until you are destroyed!"
Harvester: "Have you forgotten what we once shared? Remember how we'd go to AOL chat rooms together and torture those stupid 'age/sex check' people with hot pokers? How I would stretch spammers on the rack and then you'd let the starving rats loose on their nether regions? Did all that mean nothing?"

*Demona lowers her laser cannon with a wistful look in her eyes, and Harvester uses the distraction to pull out Macbath's borrwed lightning gun and shoot her point blank*

My priest was right. I am an asshole. Well, gotta run. Wasn't looking forward to sleep, anyway.

*leaves the CR humming a certain Blue Oyster Cult song that shares his name*
Harvester of Eyes - [Minstrel75@gmail.com]
Thursday, July 7, 2005 01:24:39 AM
IP: 69.174.20.156

Greg> <<Ask and you shall receive>>: Yeah, it is rather long. The the jist of it could probably be given by a bit before the contractor joins in.

Na zdorov'ya.
Gside - [gside@comcast.net]
Fair Haven, NJ
Wednesday, July 6, 2005 11:30:37 PM
IP: 68.83.187.89

Guan, I can't remember if this has been brought up to you before, but a while ago we had a tgs staff discussion about having a separate admin page from the regular update page, and moving the staff/admin -related icons to being only accessible from there. Supposedly someone told you about it, but since we never heard back from you we assumed that the message never made it through. If you're the one who is currently working on updating the room- are you? - how do-able is this?
Lynati
Wednesday, July 6, 2005 09:37:24 PM
IP: 69.150.72.57

SPEN - I hope that you won't go as overboard with that "How Not to Be Seen" idea as they did in the original sketch and wind up blowing up entire communities, regardless of whether they're engaged in spamming or not.

"The Fall of Nightstone" isn't the first lost "Gargoyles" fanfic, of course; I recall a Simpsons parody of "Gargoyles" that has also gone missing.
Todd Jensen
St. Louis, MO
Wednesday, July 6, 2005 07:28:03 PM
IP: 4.245.16.156

*How not to be seen : Spen : "And here we have Online Poker, a proffessinal spammer from Liverpool England, demonstrating how not to be seen. Mr. Poker, will you stand up please?" The spammer does so and is shot in the head. Spen : "This shows the importence of not being seen."*

Guandalug la'Fay : Well, I guess we'll never be seeing that story since apparently, no one knows Doug's E-mail adress (or really cares to know for that matter).
Spen
Wednesday, July 6, 2005 07:09:00 PM
IP: 207.177.11.252

Spen> You're right, of course. Unfortunately, there's nothing I can do - there is no backup from before the GFA update any more - I simply can't reach the original story. Thus, only Doug himself can fix that problem.
Guandalug la'Fay - [guandalug@gargoyles-fans.org]
Wednesday, July 6, 2005 02:44:54 PM
IP: 80.145.28.34

*sighs*

I suppose there will always be a Spammer. And there will always be the Spammed. Ah, well. That just means we get to keep killing 'em. Excuse me while I go try to dig up a Judas Cradle for this guy.
Harvester of Eyes
Wednesday, July 6, 2005 10:47:59 AM
IP: 69.174.20.156

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Fredericksburg, VA, USA
Wednesday, July 6, 2005 10:42:02 AM
IP: 69.174.20.156

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IP: 66.250.69.6

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Wednesday, July 6, 2005 03:03:28 AM
IP: 66.239.253.66

Greg B. : "I was just kidding around." Even if you weren't, I really wouldn't have minded. "Now, if you don't know who Jon Stewart is, then you lose the cool points ;)" Well, I've heard of Jon Stewart, I've just never seen him. "Those are all movies btw, not TV shows." Ah, thanks for the clarification.

Todd : As you can see from last week's room, I *was* celebrating Independence Day on July 2nd. I'm rather surprised that I'm not the only person around here who knew about that.

Guandalug la'Fay : I found an error in the GFW fanfic archive. Doug Elder's story "The Fall of Nightstone" leads to another copy of "The Blackout".
Spen
Tuesday, July 5, 2005 09:18:39 PM
IP: 207.177.11.252

GSIDE> Ask and you shall receive.

Randal: So they build another Death Star, right?
Dante: Yeah.
Randal: Now the first one they built was completed and fully operational before the Rebels destroyed it.
Dante: Luke blew it up. Give credit where it's due.
Randal:And the second one was still being built when they blew it up.
Dante: Compliments of Lando Calrissian.
Randal: Something just never sat right with me the second time they destroyed it. I could never put my finger on it-something just wasn't right.
Dante: And you figured it out?
Randal: Well, the thing is, the first Death Star was manned by the Imperial army-storm troopers, dignitaries- the only people onboard were Imperials.
Dante: Basically.
Randal: So when they blew it up, no prob. Evil is punished.
Dante: And the second time around...?
Randal: The second time around, it wasn't even finished yet. They were still under construction.
Dante: So?
Randal: A construction job of that magnitude would require a helluva lot more manpower than the Imperial army had to offer. I'll bet there were independent contractors working on that thing: plumbers, aluminum siders, roofers.
Dante: Not just Imperials, is what you're getting at.
Randal: Exactly. In order to get it built quickly and quietly they'd hire anybody who could do the job. Do you think the average storm trooper knows how to install a toilet main? All they know is killing and white uniforms.
Dante: All right, so even if independent contractors are working on the Death Star, why are you uneasy with its destruction?
Randal: All those innocent contractors hired to do a job were killed- casualties of a war they had nothing to do with. (notices Dante's confusion) All right, look-you're a roofer, and some juicy government contract comes your way; you got the wife and kids and the two-story in suburbia-this is a government contract, which means all sorts of benefits. All of a sudden these left-wing militants blast you with lasers and wipe out everyone within a three-mile radius. You didn't ask for that. You have no personal politics. You're just trying to scrape out a living.
(The Blue-Collar Man (Thomas Burke) joins them.)
Blue-Collar Man: Excuse me. I don't mean to interrupt, but what were you talking about?
Randal: The ending of Return of the Jedi.
Dante: My friend is trying to convince me that any contractors working on the uncompleted Death Star were innocent victims when the space station was destroyed by the rebels.
Blue-Collar Man: Well, I'm a contractor myself. I'm a roofer... (digs into pocket and produces business card) Dunn and Reddy Home Improvements. And speaking as a roofer, I can say that a roofer's personal politics come heavily into play when choosing jobs.
Randal: Like when?
Blue-Collar Man: Three months ago I was offered a job up in the hills. A beautiful house with tons of property. It was a simple reshingling job, but I was told that if it was finished within a day, my price would be doubled. Then I realized whose house it was.
Dante: Whose house was it?
Blue-Collar Man: Dominick Bambino's.
Randal: "Babyface" Bambino? The gangster?
Blue-Collar Man: The same. The money was right, but the risk was too big. I knew who he was, and based on that, I passed the job on to a friend of mine.
Dante: Based on personal politics.
Blue-Collar Man: Right. And that week, the Foresci family put a hit on Babyface's house. My friend was shot and killed. He wasn't even finished shingling.
Randal: No way!
Blue-Collar Man: (paying for coffee) I'm alive because I knew there were risks involved taking on that particular client. My friend wasn't so lucky. (pauses to reflect) You know, any contractor willing to work on that Death Star knew the risks. If they were killed, it was their own fault. A roofer listens to this... (taps his heart) not his wallet.
Greg Bishansky
Tuesday, July 5, 2005 01:18:27 AM
IP: 69.118.108.212

Greg> <<Kevin Smith was the director and writer>>: Not to mention bit player/star. And he owns a comic shop, to boot.
<<Yes, Clerks rocks>>: I'm surprised you didn't pull out the Death Star morality debate.

Na zdorov'ya.
Gside - [gside@comcast.net]
Fair Haven, NJ
Monday, July 4, 2005 11:23:07 PM
IP: 68.83.187.89

You can't blow up a wal-mart you have to find its heart....

Silly South Park

But yes wal-mart is the opiate of the masses in the USA these days...

Bad for the nation but o-so-cheap

Of course quality is at best middling.
silvadel
Monday, July 4, 2005 09:11:19 PM
IP: 24.149.178.180

Actually, we should have been celebrating our independence two days ago, because that's when the Second Continental Congress voted for it (July 2, 1776, rather than July 4, 1776). The reason why we're celebrating on July 4 is for a reason that should be familiar to everyone here who works or has worked for TGS - they had to put the Declaration of Independence through the Edits process first. (Actually, most of the people here who've been on the TGS staff and were involved in Edits will probably be surprised that it only took Congress two days to put the Declaration completely through Edits.)
Todd Jensen
St. Louis, MO
Monday, July 4, 2005 09:05:31 PM
IP: 4.245.16.199

Celebrate our Independence.

Blow up a Wal-Mart!
Greg Bishansky
Monday, July 4, 2005 08:45:57 PM
IP: 69.118.108.212

Ooooooookkkkkk.

This is actually kinda funny.
Dezi - [<-Clickie! Clickie!]
Monday, July 4, 2005 03:11:54 PM
IP: 68.57.196.146

Ten, like the commandments.
gunjack "Decimation" Valentine
Monday, July 4, 2005 01:59:52 PM
IP: 205.250.217.92

(*sings*) Nine for the nine bright shiners...

Lynati
Monday, July 4, 2005 01:51:43 PM
IP: 69.150.72.57

I Eight a biscut and some bacon for breakfast.
Spacebabie
Monday, July 4, 2005 12:12:27 PM
IP: 69.161.157.101

Roll me a 7 in Vegas!
Revel
Monday, July 4, 2005 12:10:47 PM
IP: 68.116.218.47

Lucky six.
Harvester of Eyes
Monday, July 4, 2005 09:48:56 AM
IP: 69.174.20.156

I can do five.
Starsinger
Monday, July 4, 2005 08:40:32 AM
IP: 209.240.205.61

Woot! Fourth on the Fourth!
Dezi
Monday, July 4, 2005 06:11:05 AM
IP: 68.57.196.146

Third!
Leo
Monday, July 4, 2005 02:50:21 AM
IP: 68.231.241.236

I'll second that motion
silvadel
Monday, July 4, 2005 02:14:44 AM
IP: 24.149.178.180

First!
Spen
Monday, July 4, 2005 01:56:46 AM
IP: 207.177.11.252