We, first loosers for 100 years.

James Nicoll wrote:

If there is one thing people crave more than money that's prestige.



There's probably more prestige in appearing on AMERICAN IDOL
than 30 years in the plantary sciences. There's definitely more name
recognition.



Four words come to mind he "Paula Abdul On Mars".
What a movie like that would be like is a bit beyond me, but it sounds
like a natural for a monkey costar, possibly animated like M.C. Scat
Cat. :-)

Pat
Pat

Pat Flannery wrote:


Four words come to mind he "Paula Abdul On Mars".
What a movie like that would be like is a bit beyond me, but it sounds
like a natural for a monkey costar, possibly animated like M.C. Scat
Cat. :-)


I've put some more thought into this, and I think I've come up with a
winning concept.
As we all know, a cute, personality-filled monkey is a major asset to
any movie...picture "Robinson Crusoe On Mars" without Mona, or "Tarzan"
without Cheetah*; why, imagine "Planet Of The Apes " and its sequels
_without_ apes!
Even as skilled a director as Stanley Kubrick threw those whacky apes
into "2001" just to keep the audience happy as they caved each other's
heads in.. admit it....those apes and HAL were the only two interesting
things in the movie, and if there's one more sure-fire audience draw
than CPFMs, it's a killer robot or computer!
But here's the rub-after Jackson's "King Kong", the bar has been set
pretty high on monkey movies, just as LOTR has set it very high indeed
on fantasy movies. There's a real danger that audiences for "Paula Abdul
On Mars" will compare it to "King Kong" and find it sadly wanting.
But there's a way out of this dilemma... in "King Kong" the monkey gets
killed at the end and everyone feels sorry for it**
Okay, now if they feel sorry for a dead monkey, just imagine how sorry
they'll feel for a monkey that gets injured in landing on Mars, but
survives in a crippled condition! My God; who wouldn't feel sorry for
the poor little thing as it hobbles around for 3/4s of the movie!
And Paula Abdul's incredibly good nature and natural nurturing
instincts*** make her a natural for the person who will care for and
inspire this little creature until it can learn to use its powerful arms
in the low Martian gravity to compensate for its inability to walk
properly by hurling itself from point to point like a giant furry simian
frog!
But that's not all; for as the monkey learns to deal with its handicap,
it shall also take on a whole new attitude- a hip urban approach to life
that shall show any Martian Mantis Men that dare trifle with it or Paula
that they had better chill out if they don't want to get iced!
Ladies and gentlemen, it's time for the American public to meet ...F.U.
Gimp Chimp! :-)

* Leaving open the possibility that there's a cheetah somewhere in
Africa named "Chimp" due to confusion on Lord Greystoke's part.
** With the possible exception of the families of the blonde women who
the creature threw a couple of blocks downrange.
*** Both honed to an almost sickening degree by her work on "American
Idol".

Pat

"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
...
James Nicoll wrote:

Four words come to mind he "Paula Abdul On Mars".
What a movie like that would be like is a bit beyond me, but it sounds
like a natural for a monkey costar, possibly animated like M.C. Scat Cat.
:-)


Every new technology needs a "killer app" to get it off the ground and into
the mass market. Otherwise it's like ISDN (Ideas Subscribers Don't Need).
Let's take a look at the killer apps for some recent technological/market
phenomenons:

Killer app for cable TV: softcore porn
Killer app for the VCR: hardcore porn
Killer app for high-speed internet to the home: interactive porn
Killer app for space exploration: ???

Lou Adornato wrote:


Killer app for cable TV: softcore porn
Killer app for the VCR: hardcore porn
Killer app for high-speed internet to the home: interactive porn
Killer app for space exploration: ???



http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...la_Terenzi.jpg

Pat

On Sat, 10 Jun 2006 13:56:32 -0400, in a place far, far away, Pat
Flannery made the phosphor on my monitor glow in
such a way as to indicate that:

Killer app for cable TV: softcore porn
Killer app for the VCR: hardcore porn
Killer app for high-speed internet to the home: interactive porn
Killer app for space exploration: ???



http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...la_Terenzi.jpg

She actually looks much better in person, without all the makeup.

"Lou Adornato" not@home writes:

"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
...
James Nicoll wrote:

Four words come to mind he "Paula Abdul On Mars".
What a movie like that would be like is a bit beyond me, but it sounds
like a natural for a monkey costar, possibly animated like M.C. Scat Cat.
:-)


Every new technology needs a "killer app" to get it off the ground and into
the mass market. Otherwise it's like ISDN (Ideas Subscribers Don't Need).
Let's take a look at the killer apps for some recent technological/market
phenomenons:

Killer app for cable TV: softcore porn
Killer app for the VCR: hardcore porn
Killer app for high-speed internet to the home: interactive porn
Killer app for space exploration: ???

- zero-grav brothels,
- alien sexual tourism.

Alternatively, note that the biggest benefits of the discovery of the
Americas a

- the tomato,
- the potato,
- the tobaco,
- the coca.

I've got good hopes that we'll get equally tasty benefits from the
extra-solar planet exploration too ;-)

--
__Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/

"You can tell the Lisp programmers. They have pockets full of punch
cards with close parentheses on them." -- http://tinyurl.com/8ubpf

Rand Simberg wrote:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...la_Terenzi.jpg



She actually looks much better in person, without all the makeup.


http://www.piercecollege.edu/faculty/terenzif/
Jeeze, I thought that dressed up in leather (or whatever it is she's
wearing on the book cover) she'd appeal to your Ayn Rand
streak....maybe if we gave her a riding crop, ala' Patricia Neal in "The
Fountainhead"....
I've read her book...pretty she is, but she is also crazy.

Pat

Pascal Bourguignon wrote:

- the tomato,
- the potato,
- the tobaco,
- the coca.

I've got good hopes that we'll get equally tasty benefits from the
extra-solar planet exploration too ;-)



Seeing their Earth brethren had been converted into calamari rings, the
Europan Sono-Squids feared that their day might also soon come.... it
did not help their demeanor when the first spacecraft that descended on
their homeworld had a French, Italian, and Japanese crew.

Pat

On Sat, 10 Jun 2006 18:49:43 -0400, in a place far, far away, Pat
Flannery made the phosphor on my monitor glow in
such a way as to indicate that:

Rand Simberg wrote:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...la_Terenzi.jpg



She actually looks much better in person, without all the makeup.


http://www.piercecollege.edu/faculty/terenzif/
Jeeze, I thought that dressed up in leather (or whatever it is she's
wearing on the book cover) she'd appeal to your Ayn Rand
streak

You "thought" stupid, as is often the case. I don't have an "Ayn Rand
streak."

Rand Simberg wrote:

You "thought" stupid, as is often the case. I don't have an "Ayn Rand
streak."


If you did, it would probably be from that riding crop.
I've been reading up on her; that was one strange person.
Speaking of your streaks, you've devoted a great deal of writing to
telling us what you don't believe in, but never seem to get around to
actually telling us what exactly the political/economic philosophy you
do believe in is... you must have one, but us poor retarded mortals can
only guess at it from your inferences to what you don't believe in.
I've got a basically socialist streak in that I believe the rights of
the individual should have limits when it comes to doing things that may
damage society as a whole. If I had a time machine, the first thing I'd
do is travel back in time and shoot Adam Smith before he writes "The
Wealth Of Nations" and wreaks havoc upon the world and untold human
suffering by telling people that their base instinct of greed is not
only not evil, but indeed virtuous, and that the exploitation of other
weaker nations was for their own good in the long run.
I suspect there was a barbed tail rolled up in his pants and a pair of
horns lurking under that powdered wig.
Certainly, the thing popping out of the box in this Christmas card from
the Adam Smith Institute appears to be up to no good based on the look
in its eyes:
http://weizsaecker.bawue.spd.de/down...0Smith%20e.jpg

Pat