ok gramps. I'll get off your lawn now.

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Gillian's a she. Not to be confused with Gilligan, who is in fact a he. Though I don't think they have an internet connection there on the isle.

Oh, Flash web pages are another trend that I find annoying. Food places and car manufacturers are the worst. My g/f sometimes stops and picks up food on her way home. If I'm not familiar with the place, I'll go online to view their menu. It's hard to find a food website for any even semi-major chain that doesn't require you to load a huge, animated, flash page, then sit through a few minutes of idiocy just to get to their menu (if you're lucky enough to find the link).

At work, I occasionally have to go to a car manufacturer's page to get information on, well, cars. They all also have large, animated websites. I don't need to see your line up in simulated "3d", I just need some information dang'it.

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I'm like one of those idiot savants...well, except for the savant part.
"In order to increase awareness of the homeless, security have been given binoculars."

How much you want to bet when they get around (inevitably, the way things are going) to re-making Gilligan's Island, the Professor makes an internet connection out of coconuts?

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Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.

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Mary Anne happened to bring a can of Pringles with her on the boat tour.

...which involves a rather more important invention, since Pringles didn't exist until after the show ended.

Delete your post before she sees it!

Neither did the internet.

Thinking back to that show, it would have been better if television hadn't existed at the time.

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Ach, mein Sinn, wo willst du endlich hin, wo soll ich mich erquicken? Bleib' ich hier, oder wünsch' ich mir Berg und Hügel auf den Rücken?
Bei der Welt ist gar kein Rat, und im Herzen steh'n die Schmerzen meiner Missetat, weil der Knecht den Herrn verleugnet hat.

I saw it, sighed, and moved on. As I so frequently do. I was more annoyed that it was a mild personal attack instead of a real rebuttal, frankly.

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

It was meant to be humorous, just like the video I linked! One click, and the history of lolcats would have been explained

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"Barbarism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is a whim of circumstance. And barbarism must always ultimately triumph" -- Conan

That doesn't mean that it was a nice thing to post. Gillian had a valid point in that post, and it wasn't worth dismissing like you did.

This entire thread reeks of "get off my lawn" so the fact that an innocent attempt at having fun with it is considered a personal attack should not be surprising.

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"Barbarism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is a whim of circumstance. And barbarism must always ultimately triumph" -- Conan

Dang kids, always coming up with new stuff. No respect for their elders. Why, I remember when you had to wait days for a video to download. Now they watch videos like it's nothing.

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Purposely writing "teh" instead of "the". It drives me crazy.

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I don't care which rocket you use, whichever one you pick, I'll like it, I swear.
"If you think the LHC will create black holes, you might as well believe Hobbits are at the bottom of your garden."- Dr. Mike Inglis
Rovers forever! - ToSeek

it's also a trend to point out things like other people using "teh" instead of "the"..
and i am following a trend by pointing out that it is a trend to point things like that out..

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Nah - would have been too Swiss Family Robinson. I liked the technology they threw in there.

If the Professor does tap into the Internet via high-speed coconut, he'll undoubtedly encounter chat rooms full of kids who'll disbelieve them, then flame them for being so stupid as to find themselves marooned on a desert isle...

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If I set the budget, we'd have Ares and more. Unfortunately, I don't set the budget, and Ares is just too expensive and too far out for us to accomplish our goals within the budget we were given.

If we halt the ISS, all versions of Ares, and transport Orion and Altair aboard DIRECTv3's Jupiter family of Shuttle-Derived Launch Vehicles, we just might make it back to the Moon by 2020.

so you are saying that the Professor and the rest of the SS Minnow crew would be considered an EPIC FAIL!! in the internet chat rooms?
but i'm sure there would be a lot of people asking for webcam pics of Ginger and Mary Ann- and maybe even a crowd that would want pics of Gilligan and the Skipper wearing their sailor hats..

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Considering that there were only seven of them on the island, it would interesting to see how a contemporary version would come up with a politically correct demographic spread.

Seven token whatevers?

They had a spread in the original, but it was painted very white. Rich, famous, country, intellectual, working class.

So, put a little ethniticity and sexual preference in there and you got a hit show!

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Bei der Welt ist gar kein Rat, und im Herzen steh'n die Schmerzen meiner Missetat, weil der Knecht den Herrn verleugnet hat.

Working on my screenplay

Seven means you could have somebody from every continent. (Well, the Professor could have lived in Antarctica for a long time, that would count.)

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I want to go back to the moon.
I don't care which rocket you use, whichever one you pick, I'll like it, I swear.
"If you think the LHC will create black holes, you might as well believe Hobbits are at the bottom of your garden."- Dr. Mike Inglis
Rovers forever! - ToSeek

Isn't that already done under the name Lost?

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It may not be intentional. I have done it a few time just by typing faster than my reflexes can handle it, and getting my hands crossed in the process. I have even mangled my name the same way.

What is happening here is that the computer lulls us into regressing to sloppy typing habits by dumping such easy error correction into our laps. When I have to fall back on a typewriter for something, I concentrate like crazy, slow down a bit, and type fairly accurately.

It may not be intentional. I have done it a few time just by typing faster than my reflexes can handle it, and getting my hands crossed in the process. I have even mangled my name the same way.

That's how it started (I assume), but many people who use "l33tspeak" (an annoyance in and of itself) intentionally use 'teh' or 't3h'.

Like all great hypocrites, as annoying as I find 'l33tspeak', I do occasionally use it. Woot / w00t is just too fun to ignore, for instance.

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I'm like one of those idiot savants...well, except for the savant part.
"In order to increase awareness of the homeless, security have been given binoculars."

Attempts to try and get a special post number. I just watched a feeding frenzy in an attempt to get the 147,000,000 post. You would think after the first 100 million post, it would get old.

But noooooo, people are already planning on getting post 148,000,000.

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Only 113 posts until I reach kilopi!

There! There! That is an annoying trend!! Kilopi!!!

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Robinson, I can't read your signature. I don't know if it's a trend, but it annoys me - makes me think you're plotting something. If you are, then all the better; if not, then you've make me look like a fool for the last time!! (probably not the last time..)

Babelfish says it's: "Laughter is the reason, - enjoy the day -- The reason bends in the joy, inspect the sun - it shines."

Nick

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Oh sure Nick, take all the mystery out of it!

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If you don't mind a moment's derailment, what font do I need to see it?