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    Nimoy: I Am Not Spock, I Am A Fringe Blank Canvas

    Fringe Teases Explanations And Multiple Bishops In Season Finale

    Fringe's Behind-The-Scenes Bad Guy Looks Familiar, Logical
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    Image of alphanumeric1971 alphanumeric1971
    05/04/09

    In reply to Nimoy: I Am Not Spock, I Am A Fringe Blank Canvas
    for some reason, in that photo he looks like my aunt.
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    05/04/09

    @alphanumeric1971: Your aunt is awesome.
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    05/04/09

    @alphanumeric1971: Hmmm. I wonder, do all old people start to look alike, the same way all babies look alike?
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    05/04/09

    @TemporalSword: A lot of them do.
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    04/26/09

    In reply to Fringe Teases Explanations And Multiple Bishops In Season Finale
    Peter is either a clone, or from an alternate universe. Or, hell, both.
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    04/26/09

    In reply to Fringe Teases Explanations And Multiple Bishops In Season Finale
    I really like Joshua Jackson in this show. He's good for the role.
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    04/26/09

    In reply to Fringe Teases Explanations And Multiple Bishops In Season Finale
    peter is a clone and the cow is his mother.
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    Image of twophrasebark twophrasebark
    04/26/09

    @GreyHammer:


    Um, you need to your comments as SPOILER please. ;)

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    Image of Mathmos Mathmos
    04/26/09

    In reply to Fringe Teases Explanations And Multiple Bishops In Season Finale
    What do you use to bait your breath and when and how is the trap triggered?


    "The correct spelling is actually bated breath but it's so common these days to see it written as baited breath that there's every chance that it will soon become the usual form, to the disgust of conservative speakers and the confusion of dictionary writers."


    [www.worldwidewords.org]

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    Image of Multibocks Multibocks
    04/26/09

    @Mathmos:


    Like the word, nonplussed. It can now mean that you are unaffected or that you can't handle any more.... I use it all the time to confuse my friends!

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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    04/26/09

    @Multibocks: Nonplussed always means "unaffected". It's never used in modern english to mean anything else. So your effort to confuse your friends is silly.
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    04/26/09

    @Pope John Peeps II:

    Um... no it doesn't. It means what it means and nothing more. What's silly is that people continue to use words incorrectly, and think that it is okay to do so. If I hear the word used incorrectly, I think "this person should take a remedial English class so they don't sound like a dumbass".
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    04/26/09

    Heh, at least it wasn't 'bated breath. ;P
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    04/26/09

    @Shayne: Don't you dare fucking tell me what I know and don't know about language. I can PROMISE you that I'm a better writer than you'll ever be in every single way.


    In my part of North America, "nonplussed" has since the day I was born been used to mean totally indifferent to, or unperturbed about a situation.


    I understand it also means "totally confused about something" but nobody around here ever uses it in that fashion. Like it or not language is a dynamic and mobile thing. Words change, definitions change, all based on useage. You can try to fight it but it accomplishes nothing and just makes you look like some sort of fucking insecure language nazi who's using the fact that he owns a fucking reference book to cover up for his intellectual insecurities.


    Don't try to tell me I'm wrong about it when I'm just relating the fact that in my part of the world, this is how the word is used.

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    04/08/09

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    Holy Crap!


    I am loving this trend of Trek-vets on modern Sci-Fi shows. Quick, somebody cast Patrick Stewart!

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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    04/08/09

    @AshleyKeen: His voice and cartoon likeness is on American Dad all the time.
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