quote:"Chewbacca" arrested for head-butting in Hollywood
LOS ANGELES, Feb 3 (Reuters Life!) - A Chewbacca impersonator was arrested after being accused of head-butting a Hollywood tour guide who warned the furry brown Wookiee about harassing two Japanese tourists, police said on Saturday.
"Nobody tells this Wookiee what to do," "Chewie" from the "Star Wars" movies said before slamming his head into the guide's forehead, the Los Angeles Times newspaper reported.
The 6-foot, 5-inch-(1.96-metre-) tall 44-year-old man was charged on Friday with misdemeanor battery and later released on $20,000 bail, the Los Angeles Police Department said.
"Superman" and other movie and cartoon impersonators were reported to be witnesses to the aggression in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater amid concern that such behavior could endanger their livelihoods.
Street performers at the world-famous cinema collect tips from tourists by posing for photos, but some are known to turn hostile if they don't get money.
Two years ago, Mr. Incredible, Elmo the Muppet and the dark-hooded character from the movie "Scream" were arrested for "aggressive begging," the L.A. Times reported."
It's the "Nobody tells this Wookiee what to do" that makes this funny. It makes you think he thought he was Chewbacca, although Chewbacca never talked intelligibly ...
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Ok, you know what's annoying? Laptop mouses. They click on things when you hold your finger in the same place for a long time, even if you don't press the click botton. Then, when you try to actually utilize this function when you want to click on something, it never works.
Also, if you're typing in a Word document, and you leave the mouse in one place in the text for too long, the cursor jumps up to where the mouse is. Wtf? If you're writing fast and not looking at the screen, you end up typing an entire sentence in a completely different place in on the page before you realize what happened...
How could such a thing possibily be useful to anyone?
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You're born, you have a headache, and then you die.
People who take the time to photoshop their faces into ads and film stills to use on facebook have too much time on their hands.
The school I went to is collecting old school uniforms for a history exhibit, and is asking alumni if they care to donate specific pieces they are missing. One of them is a swim suit. WTF.
Now I know what it feels like to be a Mexican watching the Colbert Report.
Still, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are clearly geniuses.
I've watched heaps of interviews and videos of Richard Dawkins recently.
We should have more shows like The Big Picture with Avi Lewis.
I shop at Kinokuniya partly, but only partly, out of a misguided sense of patriotism.
The girl who's bedroom is opposite my window used to be cute with her flashlight game, but not so much now.
Is it just me, or was the game art in NWN better than that of NWN2?
I thought a first person RPG like Oblivion would really get me back into the fantasy genre. It didn't, and now I'm poorer.
As usual, I should be working.
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I have a brand new nephew as of sometime this morning. He's got 10 fingers and 10 toes, the family hairline and eyebrows, and loooooon eye lashes. He's cute as a button! Posts: 8355 | Registered: Apr 2003
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I really prefer skinny straws. Wide straws send way too much liquid into my mouth per suctioning. Yeah... go skinny straws!
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I got a spam email today from "Skilful O. Evangelistic" trying to sell me discount pain pills. Odd.
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I would never have recognized Margot Kidder in last week's Brothers & Sisters if I hadn't noticed her name in the credits and checked IMDB. She's done several things lately -- I had not realized that was her. She looks good!
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I hope my Bell's palsy clears up quickly. As medical conditions go, this is one of the more minor ones a person could get. It's not life- or even lifestyle-threatening, so considering some of the things other Hatrackers and their relatives have gone through, I really have nothing to complain about. But this is only the second day of it, and my face is awfully tired. Chewing makes my jaw sore, my labial consonants sound funny, and one eye won't close properly. Blech.
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Just thought I'd share this random news clip (slightly edited for clarity)
quote:A 14-year-old Wauwatosa girl got on the wrong side of the law earlier this month for flipping the bird, and we're not talking about turtle doves here.
The girl was being escorted to the police station in a squad car from Wauwatosa East High School, 7500 Milwaukee Ave., Dec. 15 when she gave the finger to an officer driving in another squad that carried her sister.
She told the police she was flipping off her sister, not the officer.
Regardless, she was arrested on charges of disorderly conduct after making an obscene gesture to a police officer.
I hadn't realized you could be arrested for giving someone the finger. That may change some of my highway behavior.
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I can't post this in the Lost thread because I don't want to see any spoilers. But I just have to say that I've watched through episode 16 in the first season, and I am so addicted!!!
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Umm, Verily, I think that was important enough for its own thread -- are you recovered by now? Any idea what caused it?
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1. She didn't say ANYTHING bad about my husband. She didn't even ask when he was going to get a real job. (He's a music director at a church.)
2. She didn't say ANYTHING about me having a baby, or list any of my high school friends who have recently or are soon to have babies.
I'm still in shock.
I don't know if this makes me more or less likely to call her again next week. I mean, this was a good conversation! I enjoyed it! But doesn't that mean she's probably just saving up for the next time we talk????
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I really should be doing work. The next ten days are going to be crazy busy, so I really don't have time to sit and do nothing, and yet I really want the break.
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im kinda in the same boat midnight. i have 3 weeks left of classes and all the work now is stressing me out. i cant really keep taking breaks and just watching my days pass by, but i keep doing it.
on a different note, the talk about burgers reminded me of a time in highschool when i ate a 2 pound burrito for a t-shirt at one of my favorite tex-mex places. hehe, it reads, "I survived El Gigante!"
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quote:Originally posted by Uprooted: Umm, Verily, I think that was important enough for its own thread -- are you recovered by now? Any idea what caused it?
Was it? Well, I didn't think it was, because Bell's palsy isn't as serious a condition as it sounds. It's just a temporary paralysis of half the face. Inconvenient and no fun, but not exactly life-altering. No one knows what causes it, though the theory seems to be that it's connected to the same virus that causes chicken pox and shingles. I have mostly recovered, though my smile is still a bit lopsided and my left eyebrow still doesn't go up as far as the right. But for the most part, you can't really tell I have it any more. Thanks for asking. Posts: 1814 | Registered: Jul 2004
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quote:Originally posted by Liz B: I don't know if this makes me more or less likely to call her again next week. I mean, this was a good conversation! I enjoyed it! But doesn't that mean she's probably just saving up for the next time we talk????
Definitely call her. And within the first few minutes, mention how much you enjoyed today's talk.
Positive reinforcement, just on general principles.
And let's suppose she DID make a deliberate choice not to bring up the two topics she knows bug you. You do NOT want to give her any cause to say -- to even think -- "See, even when I do what she wants she doesn't talk to me!"
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My pee totally smells like Cheerios right now.
I don't know why, but this fact gives me a sense of satisfaction, if not accomplishment.
Aaah.
Has anyone noticed that I try to capitalize now? I don't know what made me change; I really do feel that it slows me down and isn't all that important. I still occasionally forget halfway through sentences, though. *sigh* I've become a comformist!
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Oh, I watched The Holiday last night (starring Kate, Cameron, Jude, and Jack) and it was an utterly fanTAStic movie! It had way more depth than the trailer lead on, but I actually enjoyed being surprised. The preview was truly just a preview, instead of a synopsis. Holy crap I love Kate Winslet.
The director was also the writer! I was left wanting to write her some fan mail. If you considered seeing it all I suggest you go rent it toute suite.
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quote:Originally posted by porcelain girl: My pee totally smells like Cheerios right now.
I don't know why, but this fact gives me a sense of satisfaction, if not accomplishment.
Aaah.
Has anyone noticed that I try to capitalize now? I don't know what made me change; I really do feel that it slows me down and isn't all that important. I still occasionally forget halfway through sentences, though. *sigh* I've become a comformist!
Sometimes my pee smells like Campbell's Chicken Noodle soup.
On another note, I think unicorns are disgusting.
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The research paper I've procrastinated on all week is due in six friggin hours. I'm at about 1500 of 2500 words minimum, I'm dosing off, I have to go to work in the morning...and why the heck am I even posting this?!?!
aarghhh.....
*slips noose around head, jumps off table*
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Woohoo! I'm done with all my major papers for this semester. I still have to critique two and likely do a major rewrite of one of those, but no more research and no more BSing! I turned in my 19 page paper for the History of Mexico this morning, entitled "A Counterfactual Approach to the Development of Central America Culture". Sounds impressive, eh? Whats impressive is that I wrote it all last night and this morning. Such a relief to have that done.
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that is very impressive. i wrote a 16 page short story once for a creative writing class in just about 3 hours before it was due, but that was all realistic fiction. yours, at least from the title, sounds way more complicated. wtg Dr.
3 more weeks of hell at school encounting...
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Random thought: So maybe using a VECTOR class to express pitch-yaw-roll angles as Euler x-y-z rotation angles was not such a good idea after all. Boo gimbal lock!
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I was just going to find this thread when I saw it pop to the top.
Did anyone see Crossing Jordan last night? I rarely watch anymore, but seriously that was possibly the scariest portrayal of Patriot Act type stuff that I have ever seen in my life.
Was that realistic at all?
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You should let children under the age of two sleep with you. Go have conjugal relations somewhere else. When they are older, let them fall asleep in your bed, then in the first fifteen minutes of falling asleep carry them to their own bed.
You will never have sleep issues!
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quote:Originally posted by Todoni: You should let children under the age of two sleep with you. Go have conjugal relations somewhere else. When they are older, let them fall asleep in your bed, then in the first fifteen minutes of falling asleep carry them to their own bed.
You will never have sleep issues!
I worry about the safety of co-sleeping with infants, especially if it is not done with care.
Also, sometimes sleep issues arise when they keep waking up and thus keep wanting to come back! (Toddlers, not the infants.)
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Also, if you're off having conjugal relations "somewhere else" the infant is no longer sleeping "with you," neh?
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There's something magical about entering the last week of your high school career. It makes even the most studious and ambitious of students turn in to the ultimate slacker. Exhibit A: The still unwritten paper on Dr. Strangelove due last Monday.
[EDIT] What a great 1000th post, no? [/EDIT]
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