|
miniatures.
Specifically chinese produced prepainted miniatures.
Many years ago minis were all made out of lead, becuase it was soft and cheap, and it worked well.
Then people discovered young children eat anything they can fit in their mouth, so everybody switched to lead-free pot metal, and now to plastic.
How ironic would it be for there to be a major recall of pre-painted minis made in china because of lead in the paint?
I sure hope not. I love snacking on those things.
...
I mean, uh, my DOG likes...ah, who am I kidding?
You just bit the heads off of marshmallow peeps as a child, didn't you James?
I had to stop...the SCREAMING.
RPG Superstar 2013 Top 32
|
But they never stopped, did they Keegan. The peeps continue to scream, at night when you're all alone you can hear them, the lambs....er...the peeps, screaming out in agony.You just bit the heads off of marshmallow peeps as a child, didn't you James?I had to stop...the SCREAMING.
This thread is going to give me nightmares now. Thanks a lot.
I love you guys.
Sometime around last Easter (I think it was at the spring equinox) some friends and I got some of those marshmellow peeps and burned them in various ways in a bonfire. It was fun. The peeps, when put on a metal surface and then put in the fire melted like into fried egg like puddles. The eyes never melted.
[/threadjack]
The eyes never melted.
Yes, yes. The eyes. Their screams are haunting enough, but it's the unblinking, accusing eyes that will steal you from the waiting arms of sleep to lie awake and list your sins once again. The cold, unblinking, accusing eyes.
They are delicious, though.
Yesss... Sometimes I lay in bed for hours, staring up at the darkened ceiling while the howling screams of a thousand unjustly burned and then partially devoured peeps echo in my uncaring ears. I watch as their identical forms melt into puddles of indistinguishable goo in the flames as their unblinking eyes stare back at me in rage and betrayl before eventually disappearing into the all-consuming flame.
I have some friends (Aramil Xiloscent and Irulan on these boards) who used to microwave peeps with toothpicks attached so that when the peeps expanded they'd pop each other. Peep wars.
Its something that I've wanted to do for a while. However a)Mom doesn't believe microwaves are safe so we don't have one and b) even if we did she wouldn't let me do stuff like that in it.
|
|
Its something that I've wanted to do for a while. However a)Mom doesn't believe microwaves are safe so we don't have one and b) even if we did she wouldn't let me do stuff like that in it.
She's right. You probably don't know this, but microwaves are really robotic spies that record everything you do and send it to the FBI. Big Brother is watching.
Its something that I've wanted to do for a while. However a)Mom doesn't believe microwaves are safe so we don't have one and b) even if we did she wouldn't let me do stuff like that in it.She's right. You probably don't know this, but microwaves are really robotic spies that record everything you do and send it to the FBI. Big Brother is watching.
And he always overcooks my burritos. I put it in exactly as the package says and they always come out over-cooked. It's the beef industry spies working for the government trying to passive-aggressively get me back to consuming animal flesh.
What pissed me off about that line was the fact that Hopkins pronounced 'Chianti' wrong. I am such a nerd.
I think the English pronunciation is kee-ahn-tee, and the Italian is kyahn-tee.
What did Hopkins pronounce it? I haven't seen that flick since it first hit cable.
|
|
Sometime around last Easter (I think it was at the spring equinox) some friends and I got some of those marshmellow peeps and burned them in various ways in a bonfire. It was fun. The peeps, when put on a metal surface and then put in the fire melted like into fried egg like puddles. The eyes never melted.
[/threadjack]
Why you gotta go and burn my peeps like that?
Sometime around last Easter (I think it was at the spring equinox) some friends and I got some of those marshmellow peeps and burned them in various ways in a bonfire. It was fun. The peeps, when put on a metal surface and then put in the fire melted like into fried egg like puddles. The eyes never melted.
[/threadjack]
I do the same thing with mannequins all the time. At least I like to call them mannequins. Funny, the eyes burn first on mine.
As for the OP, that was quite the clever scenario you conjured.
|
|
What pissed me off about that line was the fact that Hopkins pronounced 'Chianti' wrong. I am such a nerd.
I think the English pronunciation is kee-ahn-tee, and the Italian is kyahn-tee.
What did Hopkins pronounce it? I haven't seen that flick since it first hit cable.
It sounded to me like he said "kee yan tee," kinda nasally twangy, like he was saying it jokingly, to subtly add to the shock value of the statement for Clarisse. Does that make sense? I don't know.
Re: Peeps
http://www.hanttula.com/exhibits/bunnies/
That is all.
|
|
It sounded to me like he said "kee yan tee," kinda nasally twangy, like he was saying it jokingly, to subtly add to the shock value of the statement for Clarisse. Does that make sense? I don't know.
What pissed me off about that line was the fact that Hopkins pronounced 'Chianti' wrong. I am such a nerd.
I think the English pronunciation is kee-ahn-tee, and the Italian is kyahn-tee.
What did Hopkins pronounce it? I haven't seen that flick since it first hit cable.
The Lecter I know wouldn't do that merely for shock value. His culture is very important to him.
Oh, and there's lotsa Italian words that English speakers mangle all the time. I understand "ricotta" sounds more like "rigat." I'm sure I'm not describing it 100% right either; my Italian friend said it better....
People in the US are always lording over me how they pronounce mozzarella mutzahrell and manicotti man-ee-cott. I've heard that such pronunciations are ?Sicilian? and sound country (island) bumpkin to the Italians. Someone feel free to correct me. I gots ta learn sometime.
Fascinattin. It's awl Greek to me. Or. Meh....
It isn't that the pronunciations riveted me to my seat. It was that my non-Italian friend was telling me for ten years I was mispronouncing these words as if he had a degree in bada bing and apparently Italian has a good few dialects that are remarkably different, and the one he was using was considered rustic while he was acting quite cosmopolitan. It's a subtle thing. I'll never correct him. It brings him too much pleasure to correct me and I want my friends to be happy.
lol "It's not neee-yan-der-thal, it's nay-ahn-der-tall."
Exactly. I'm surprised no one has corrected me on the way I sound out my own name.
Well,English people often pnounce "pasta" with the same "a" sound as in "Shasta;" whereas, Americans tend to pronounce it with more of an "ah" sound. I suppose this could carry over into other Italian words for them. Which would make sense if Lecter were British, but wasn't he American?
Threadjack complete. You may resume.
|
Contributor
|
How ironic would it be for there to be a major recall of pre-painted minis made in china because of lead in the paint?
That would be quite humorous. And then, maybe someone would start a thread about how printing in China will spell the doom of America. ;)
She's right. You probably don't know this, but microwaves are really robotic spies that record everything you do and send it to the FBI. Big Brother is watching.
How DARE you insinuate that we robots would ever serve an "organization" run by you fleshies. How dare you, Sir!
http://www.hanttula.com/exhibits/bunnies/
That's pretty messed up, Man. In a totally awesome way, but still messed up. :D
lol my best friend has a German name I had to "teach" him how to pronounce; in jest of course. ;)
Wolfgang Baur tells the tale of how people like to "correct" the spelling of his last name to Bauer. ;)