What is this "evolution" you speak of?
But seriously, one time I was at the zoo for a school thing, and this girl and I were looking at an emu, and I said something about how their giant dinosaur feet made their evolutionary history so obvious (I may have also said something about how much I love run-on sentences, but I can't quite recall). She looked at me like I was a crazy person; turns out she didn't believe in evolution.
Gabe, I find your comparison between "Annie" and "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" specious. Annie was an ORPHAN. Nobody loved her! The fictional Will Smith (and maybe the real one too; I'm not a professor of willsmithology) had a MOTHER who CARED about him! She cared so much that after ONE LITTLE FIGHT she got scared and sent him across the country to protect him.
Wow, I just totally went through this thread and upvoted every comment with a picture of JTT because of my prepubescent crush on him. But he was the first celebrity (or boy, really) I ever had a crush on, and that was when I was about seven. Bought every issue of Teen Beat and Tiger Beat and whatnot that featured him. Put up multiple posters of him on my bedroom walls. Was crushed when he cut his hair. The whole nine yards.
One time I was walking under a tree and a dead bird fell on me... well, *parts* of a dead bird. It didn't have a head or feet, and it was mostly a skeleton, but oddly, the wings were completely intact. Once I saw what had hit me, I uttered a short cry and ran for the next block. My point is, your fear is completely valid, you should stay up nights worrying about it, AND NOT EVEN THE SHELTER OF TREES WILL PROTECT YOU.
(Let's pretend that YouTube existed when I was a toddler. That's probably why she didn't... send my tantrums into "America's Funniest Home Videos", or something.)
True. My mom always said that one of the hardest part of being a parent is knowing that others are constantly judging you. But then again, that's probably why she didn't laugh at my tantrums and put them on YouTube for others to judge.
Aw, I love pet threads! Thinking about my deceased pets made me feel like this:
http://i51.tinypic.com/9zxd6s.jpg
But after scrolling through all the adorable pictures and .gifs, I feel like this:
http://i56.tinypic.com/wu4cwk.jpg
Yeah, I think I better jump off the dead pet train now, because I lost two cats and six rats this year, and just posting the picture of Jackie made me tear up.
I'm an old lady of twenty-three, so it's hard to remember back a score of years ago, but I knew at least to act grateful on camera. Of course, that may have been just because all my family lived across the country and my parents always mailed them the video of my brother and me on Christmas morning.
And three is not too young to teach kids manners. I'm a substitute teacher, and, at the risk of sounding even more ancient, I can't believe how rude children are these days. Even kindergarteners have no respect for adults. (Disclaimer to any offended parents: some children do, and I'm assuming those children have parents who care.) That "being a wise guy" may seem cute, but once a child learns that their parents approve of that behavior, they think "I'm so cute I can get away with anything and not get in trouble". Sorry to get all rantgum, but that type of behavior annoys me worse than any other when I'm teaching.
Upvote, but also I am *so excited* for the next Bookgum because I was finally able to find and read the book for next month. Yeah, yeah, I could have checked out the previous books from the library, but the libary in my town is only open about three days a week and it keeps ridiculous hours that don't accomodate working people. (My town was recently named the least brainy city in the United States by a national magazine.)
Exactly. My parents would not have laughed at me acting like a spoiled brat. It would have been "you can't play with your new toys until you can be grateful for the gifts others have thoughtfully chosen for you."
YES. I thoroughly enjoyed "Toy Story 3", but I would call it less "a pleasure" and more "alternately terrifying and tear-inducing". I mean, whenever I watch a children's movie I fully expect to cry at least once, but the scene in the trash pit was intense for me as an adult; I can't imagine how a child would react to it. But still, genuinely great movie.
I realized looking at these pictures that it sort of seems like they tried to make up Jamie Lee Curtis to resemble the actress who played Tim Allen's wife on "Home Improvement". But that hair does nothing for her.
Yay! Barkeep, a round of upvotes for all!
I'm pretty quiet in real life, but I always feel weird trying to jump into a site's comments, especially one that has so many in-jokes and so many prolific and hilarious commenters. It kind of feels like I'm trying to worm my way into a clique. But so far no monster has made me feel unwelcome, and that's why this site is the best.
Also, I'm on the west coast, and my workplace blocks Videogum and most of the other sites I comment on, so I'm always late to the party and I sometimes feel, "What's the point? No one will ever read my comments." So the upvotes are a nice way of seeing that someone out there has read what I have to say.
I just want to use this Monster's Ball as an opportunity to say how much I love this site and all y'all monsters.
Twice in the past week I've been on other websites (I know, websites other than Videogum... weird, right?) and saw great comments and thought, "I must upvote this!"
I've been reading a long time, although I'm a relatively new commenter, and (not to sound like I'm fishing for anything) every upvote I get feels like I'm high-fiving a million angels.
When I was four, I wanted to grow up to be a werewolf. But then I realized I'd probably have to kill people, so I decided to be a German Shepherd instead.
True story: I bought this movie a few years ago (when I was a stupid teenager) because Chris Parnell has a bit part in it. All the time that I've had it I've only watched the one scene with him, once. I keep it because I STILL LOVE CHRIS PARNELL SO MUCH YOU GUYS DON'T EVEN KNOW. Come on, y'all know Dr. Spaceman's the best.
Yikes. I have that hair color and I was thinking about getting Mena Suvari's character's haircut. Good thing nobody is going to see this movie; I'd hate to have people think I was inspired by it.
(Yay, first comment on Videogum! And I posted it so late no one will ever read it!)
Comments