That actually helped a lot. Thanks!
it, what? On the two high tides?
The near side gets pulled away from the middle. (Check.)
Which in turn gets pulled away from the far side? Huh? The middle gets pulled meaning the earth pulls toward the moon but the water doesn't making the water seem higher?
This part of the explanation is not helping me! I can see why the water on the near side would pull more than the earth on the near side, but why would the earth on the far side pull more than the water on the far side? And wouldn't the water at the "top and bottom" also pull? Creating side tides?
This simplification has made me more confused!
Sorry, but neither is as bad as people who don't at least scan the comments before commenting and proceed to make the exact same most obvious comment in the entire world after 400 other people have already made it.
Hmm. I'm not sure I totally agree with the distinction you draw between the two.
As a kid the supermen stood out enough that I actually named an RPG character or two Boromir. (I always found the more imperfect characters more interesting.) Aragorn and the Ents both left a stronger mark on me than Merry and Pippin did. And, of course, the Silmarillion is all about Great Men, people who are greater than men, and epic tales. The hobbits were always trying not to get crushed! Figuratively and literally!
On the other hand, I thought the scenes in ROTK with Frodo and Samwise were infinitely more moving than any depictions of them that Tolkien pulled off.
Either way, as you say, books and movies are two different things. And as long as The Hobbit movies are awesome, it's all right with me.
"The small one seems to have been a spiritual leader. Similar to the figure known in texts as the Dalai Lama. Similar to a Lama, upon achieving some equivalent of Nirvana a "Jedi Master" would not reincarnate but would inhabit the world in a non-corporeal form. The grotesque was a night spirit. The figure was a reminder that even if one's own bad actions did not come back to you, that they would visit the dreams of your children. It specifically seemed to be a warning against mob violence and teenage sex."
Which makes me so excited! That battle scene in The Two Towers is breath-taking. My wife, who is neither a fantasy nor a war-movie fan, will "make me" stop any time Two Towers is on TNT so that we can watch that entire part. It is such a sacrifice that I make for her to do so!
I want to hug those so bad.
Since no one has commented on this yet, I'd just like to say that as someone who lives in New York, I'm most shocked that she went to Papa John's for her pizza! In New York! That is crazy! Who goes to Papa John's in New York!?! The independent pizza places here are so good! New York is known for it's pizza, guys! I can think of at least 47 awesome hole-in-the-wall pizza places that she could have gone to! And that is just in Manhattan! I have also spent some time in Brooklyn, where the pizza is world-famous! Also, Queens, once, because a friend had family out there or something! I mean, Papa John's for pizza?!? In New York!?
Kudos to Max Read for keeping that Bell, Summers, West email in there. Everybody knows that the best way to break-up a seemingly unending narrative with a single theme is with a little tangential but instructive side scene. Develop the character, mix up the pace. Truly excellent work.
Holy shit is that a blast from the past.
For what it's worth, I totally used this technique ... and now I'm married.*
*Ellipsis may or may not signify many, many years of failure, changes, development, and maturity.
Hearted long after the fact because I happened to stumble upon this post today, and I wish my future children could have you as their history teacher.
Ha. Just what I'd expect a technical adviser to say.
On the other hand, I was totally laughing at these guys, until I remembered how much I used to love Powerpuff Girls.
"How you like them apples!"
"They're blackberries."
"But how do you like them?!"
"As apples? Or as blackberries?"
"Well, as blackberries I guess."
"Then why did you call them apples?"
"Because they are as big as an apple!"
"Yeah, but they still aren't apples."
"It's just a saying. It was a joke."
"I like that joke as a joke about as much as I like those blackberries as apples."
"They're blackberries."
"But how do you like them?!"
"As apples? Or as blackberries?"
"Well, as blackberries I guess."
"Then why did you call them apples?"
"Because they are as big as an apple!"
"Yeah, but they still aren't apples."
"It's just a saying. It was a joke."
"I like that joke as a joke about as much as I like those blackberries as apples."
...and some of the details that haven't quite happened are ones that people continue to say probably should.
I'm most impressed by the the "C,X,Q" example actually. In the sense that it completely captures the reality and basis of text/twitter/email writing.
Oh, oops. Yeah, I knew that part. But it could have theoretically been both.
But why ruin the surprise! I, somehow, missed the Figwit phenomenon and just spent 15 minutes learning all about it. Now I've got an "Oh, internet" smile that will last me for at least a few hours!
I'm kind of surprised that Keith of all people doesn't know how to use the subjunctive.
I took a look because I think it's nice to check first. So far every thing I've seen listing that "acronym" is lifting text from Gawker. I definitely can't find it in Kanye's own tweets. Maybe it came from somewhere real, maybe not.
Either way, now it's out there. All over the place, people saying that DONDA is that acronym. So congratulations on spreading the n-word. Well done.
