Re: Just...................whatever [3]

by halfwise Sun Mar 23, 2014 11:58 pm

Oh geez. Suzuki was killed by avalanche while searching for the Yeti. Crafty buggers, those Yeti.

(short article in Wikipedia)

by David H Mon Mar 24, 2014 12:15 am

That's sad. I hope he found his yeti. Sad

By the way Halfy, is there any chance they're kinfolk of yours? There's a certain resemblance.....

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by halfwise Mon Mar 24, 2014 1:52 am

{{{ hush! }}}

by Pettytyrant101 Mon Mar 24, 2014 12:44 pm

'headaches...sleepiness...nausea...permanent damage to the nervous system....'

Is buckie made from bananas!! Shocked

by Norc Mon Mar 24, 2014 1:43 pm

wow omg that story.

by Eldorion Mon Mar 24, 2014 6:49 pm

The Japanese holdouts are a fascinating story. Onoda actually wrote a book about the subject years later.

http://www.amazon.com/No-Surrender-Thirty-Year-Bluejacket-Books/dp/1557506639

by Mrs Figg Mon Mar 24, 2014 6:54 pm

BBC 2 9.00 The Plantagenets. quite fancy watchin it

by Bluebottle Tue Mar 25, 2014 7:28 pm

I find the Onada story somehow strangely reminiscent of Doctor Strangelove. Soldiers fighting their own war and all that.

All very interesting. Nod

by Pettytyrant101 Tue Mar 25, 2014 9:30 pm

Thats a great film Nod

by Bluebottle Tue Mar 25, 2014 10:15 pm

Yeah, it is. Nod

And what I love about it is that opposed to most black and white films that are mostly different shades of grey, it's pitch black.

Oh, and Peter Sellers. Need I say more. Laughing

by Mrs Figg Wed Mar 26, 2014 4:00 pm

ohmergerd! I may be able to get a copy of a film I was in, in the 80s. I contacted one of the actors and he said he had an old copy he will put on dvd for me. Razz

now I have to buy a dvd.

by Pettytyrant101 Wed Mar 26, 2014 4:17 pm

Youtube!!! bounce

by David H Wed Mar 26, 2014 10:12 pm

Very cool! I hope you'll figure out a way to share. Very Happy

by halfwise Wed Mar 26, 2014 10:32 pm

Yes, do share.

But these things can have psychological ramifications. In college I had a mad hopeless crush on an art/theatre major with the improbable name of Arabella Holzbog. Spent entire lunches halfway across the cafeteria at strategic angles gazing at her with puppy eyes over the shoulders of friends. She was remarkably sweet to me, letting me visit her dorm room and such, even after shooting me down when I finally screwed up the courage to make my move.

Years later her improbable name came in useful, for she is eminently googleable. I have followed her career with interest. She became a sort of C actress playing bit parts in B movies, though she did make it into the remake of the Bad News Bears and also Across the Universe. One of her major parts was in the straight to video Carnosaur 2.

I eagerly rented it, the first of her movies I found. Only to discover that about 45 minutes in, I had to watch as my crush, my all consuming love, my dream girl....I had to watch her guts get ripped out by a baby Tyranosaur. She uh, she didn't make it.

It's fair to say I was traumatized.

So dear Figgy, before you post any clips, please do let us know if you have a happy ending, hmm?

by Mrs Figg Wed Mar 26, 2014 11:31 pm

fraid not

by halfwise Thu Mar 27, 2014 12:27 am

You don't get drownded, do you? Sad

by Mrs Figg Thu Mar 27, 2014 2:02 pm

in B movies one gets karate chopped in the neck for having the cheek to be a gangsters moll. pale

by halfwise Thu Mar 27, 2014 3:05 pm

Better than a tyrannosaur ripping out your innards. I think you got off easy. Nod

by Lancebloke Thu Mar 27, 2014 3:41 pm

Bored at work.

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by **Amarië** Thu Mar 27, 2014 4:00 pm

Lancebloke wrote:Bored at work.

by Pettytyrant101 Thu Mar 27, 2014 4:10 pm

Lancebloke wrote:Bored at work.

Nice one Lance Nod

by Eldorion Thu Mar 27, 2014 5:54 pm

Great drawing, Lance! Very Happy

I used to collect model ships and they were mostly sailing ones like that. Nod

by Mrs Figg Thu Mar 27, 2014 6:13 pm

aaaaar Jim Lad ahoy! splice the main whatsit and avast you landlubbers! cheers

by David H Thu Mar 27, 2014 6:13 pm

Nice job! You got the relative proportions of of the sails right, including the split topsails, which many don't. The key structural lines, shrouds and stays and such, are there, and most of the sheets and braces make sense.

Since it's a good enough sketch to warrant it, I've got a criticism. My one quibble it that it appears that the staysails and mizzen spanker are filling from a port breeze, while all the squaresails are clearly filling from starboard. That's a head-scratcher in maritime art, like when shadows go in two different directions.

Since you clearly drew the hull healing to starboard, all the squaresails should naturally all be aback against the rig, a very bad situation, especially with that much sail set.

by Mrs Figg Thu Mar 27, 2014 6:15 pm

yep that what I was thinking too. But what Dave missed (and its easy for amatewers to do) is that you seem to have all the ships parrots sleeping on the starboard side thus making the wee ship keel over a bit in a sou'ester. Nod