The Official Author's Hangout 2015 April Fool's Day Contest Support Thread

[AMoveableBeast]

I'll take an completely unauthorized stab at translating the last paragraph:
"Other people's opinions are the same in that a fool will likely not take anything useful out of any of them (the opinions) while someone wiser can find a useful take-away from any opinion offered. When it comes to writing, I have more regard for the opinions of those who have written."

That's how I took it.
I rather liked the brass tack/ hammer metalepsis.
It was the implied insult to mashed potatoes }

This is exactly right.

And I apologize. I didn't mean to riddle-speak.

Since I'm on the subject of such things, however, allow me to paraphrase: Alas, three years is far too short a time to live among such excellent and admirable Litsters. I don't know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

 

[sr71plt]

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I didn't take the statement as meaning all opinions are equal, except in a very limited sense.

Since opinions irrevocably include an element of that person's knowledge on a specific topic, they are never equal to anyone else's opinion in validity--or usefulness. No where, no how.

Folks have an equal right to have an opinion and share it, but that doesn't make the opinions themselves equally valid--or useful. So, rather than "in a very limited sense," I'd say "in no sense."

And when the opinions are given in an anonymous comment, the only value they can have is in the author accepting (and/or believing they are valid--although they still might not be--upon reconsideration of the story) them as valid--which has nothing to do with equality at all.

 

[JKendallDane]

This is exactly right.

And I apologize. I didn't mean to riddle-speak.

Since I'm on the subject of such things, however, allow me to paraphrase: Alas, three years is far too short a time to live among such excellent and admirable Litsters. I don't know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

Why are you wasting your time here?

With lines like that and the prezzie primaries just getting ready to heat up, you need to be on someone's overpaid staff, writing campaign speeches...or better yet: running press conferences! There's BIG money in being a press secretary if you can consistently shovel it like you did in that comment ^up there^.

 

[JKendallDane]

Oh...and pilotplop...since you have decided to start foaming at the mouth worse than LJR and your hero/mentor, Freddy, I've decided to just laugh at your posts privately and not help you make every thread "all about you" by simply not responding to your junior high level attacks any longer.

Have a wunnnerful time fighting with yourself instead. Do let us know which one of you wins.

 

[sr71plt]

Laughing at my posts privately, Duane, is just hunky-dory with me. It's a lot better than your petty jealous attacks on me as Hatecraft's submissive. I'll certainly point out when you've stopped doing what you say you'll do, though--just laughing at me in private.

That certainly worked out well--for as long as Duane can keep his bile to himself. That's a win/win for the forum as a whole.

 

[Kethandra]

Why are you wasting your time here?

With lines like that and the prezzie primaries just getting ready to heat up, you need to be on someone's overpaid staff, writing campaign speeches...or better yet: running press conferences! There's BIG money in being a press secretary if you can consistently shovel it like you did in that comment ^up there^.

We could use more politicians quoting Bilbo Baggins. Or at least some book other than the one they usually thump.

 

[geronimo_appleby]

you people are tapped.

 

[Laurel]

Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue...

That made me smile hugely. Honestly, that is a perfect comedy. There are so many brilliantly funny bits in it. I laughed like crazy when I saw it as a kid, and I still chuckle when I replay them in my head.

But I hesitate renting Airplane (or Blazing Saddles, another genius movie), as I worry that it won't be as funny as I remember it.

http://i.imgur.com/PEsitOS.gif

 

[AMoveableBeast]

That made me smile hugely. Honestly, that is a perfect comedy. There are so many brilliantly funny bits in it. I laughed like crazy when I saw it as a kid, and I still chuckle when I replay them in my head.

But I hesitate renting Airplane (or Blazing Saddles, another genius movie), as I worry that it won't be as funny as I remember it.

http://i.imgur.com/PEsitOS.gif

They are both still just as funny.

In my opinion, the two greatest comedies ever made.

 

[geronimo_appleby]

They are both still just as funny.

In my opinion, the two greatest comedies ever made.

you suck-up.

 

[AMoveableBeast]

you suck-up.

The queen has good taste in irreverent comedies. Who knew?

If she had said Groundhog Day as well, I'd think she was sucking up to me.

 

[geronimo_appleby]

The queen has good taste in irreverent comedies. Who knew?

If she had said Groundhog Day as well, I'd think she was sucking up to me.

hmmmm, not bad on two counts - airplane, however? naw.

duchess and the dirtwater fox?

 

[AMoveableBeast]

hmmmm, not bad on two counts - airplane, however? naw.

duchess and the dirtwater fox?

Can't say as I've seen it.

A western? I do like westerns. A romance? I like those. Comedies? Check.

I'm imagining When Harry Met Sally with cowboy hats.

So you're saying a man can be friends with a horse he finds unattractive?

No, you pretty much want to ride 'em too.

 

[SandraMustard]

That made me smile hugely. Honestly, that is a perfect comedy. There are so many brilliantly funny bits in it. I laughed like crazy when I saw it as a kid, and I still chuckle when I replay them in my head.

But I hesitate renting Airplane (or Blazing Saddles, another genius movie), as I worry that it won't be as funny as I remember it.

http://i.imgur.com/PEsitOS.gif

Who would have guessed it would be you who caught my reference?

As to Blazing Saddles, we and our offspring all have copies of it - never need to rent. I've actually been around a campfire with husband and son when they started farting and laughing hysterically.

Goonies is another of their favorites. When posting on Facebook, movie lines are used to comment often and then it becomes a competition to carry on an entire dialogue in quotes.

 

[AMoveableBeast]

*Sunshine on my shoulder makes me happy*

 

[geronimo_appleby]

Can't say as I've seen it.

A western? I do like westerns. A romance? I like those. Comedies? Check.

I'm imagining When Harry Met Sally with cowboy hats.

So you're saying a man can be friends with a horse he finds unattractive?

No, you pretty much want to ride 'em too.

a comedy western, yup. i think saw it in the early days of VCR when i lived in karratha, western australia - no, there wasn't much tv, and that new-fangled video thing was a godsend!

i recall bobbie jo and the outlaw, too. which has nothing to do with comedy, it was another film that did the rounds back then. i thin the main attraction in that one was lynda carter

 

[lovecraft68]

That made me smile hugely. Honestly, that is a perfect comedy. There are so many brilliantly funny bits in it. I laughed like crazy when I saw it as a kid, and I still chuckle when I replay them in my head.

But I hesitate renting Airplane (or Blazing Saddles, another genius movie), as I worry that it won't be as funny as I remember it.

http://i.imgur.com/PEsitOS.gif

If you liked Airplane there is another movie with the same puns and sight gags, but much lesser known

Top Secret starring a young Val Kilmer.

 

[RejectReality]

That made me smile hugely. Honestly, that is a perfect comedy. There are so many brilliantly funny bits in it. I laughed like crazy when I saw it as a kid, and I still chuckle when I replay them in my head.

But I hesitate renting Airplane (or Blazing Saddles, another genius movie), as I worry that it won't be as funny as I remember it.

http://i.imgur.com/PEsitOS.gif

They're just as funny as they always were.

The latest DVD and Blu-Ray releases of Blazing Saddles even have all the extra Mongo scenes cut from the theatrical release in the special features, which were added back in on television to pad out the run time due to all the stuff they had to cut.

Having seen it the first dozen times on television, I was beginning to think I'd eaten lead paint chips as a child and imagined those scenes until the 25th anniversary DVD came out. I own this one on VHS, DVD, and Blu-Ray Mel Brooks movies are the only ones in my collection to have that distinction so far.

 

[Carnal_Flower]

My family was always partial to Its a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. It was a sacred event anytime it came on TV.

 

[lovecraft68]

The first Naked Gun movie was close to as funny as Airplane..

Now any time I see it I think that Nordberg's (OJ Simpson's) death in the beginning was more believable than his trial

 

[RejectReality]

You know, there's something I haven't watched since I saw it ( frequently ) on television as a kid that I think I'm going to have to dig up on Netflix or Amazon -- Any Which Way But Loose.

Right turn, Clyde

 

[SandraMustard]

Oh, lordy, what have I done? I made a subdued comment with a movie line and hijacked this contest thread into a film fan fest.

 

[lovecraft68]

You know, there's something I haven't watched since I saw it ( frequently ) on television as a kid that I think I'm going to have to dig up on Netflix or Amazon -- Any Which Way But Loose.

Right turn, Clyde

Want some good laughs? Dig up the only season of "Police Squad" with Leslie Nielson it eventually became the Naked Gun movies. Non stop puns, sight gags and slapstick humor.

 

[lovecraft68]

My wife doesn't share my love of 'silly movies' but watched Airplane with me and said that this is the scene she could see me in.

Damn religious nuts....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4CizzE-zZo

 

[RejectReality]

A funny film hijack is a million times better than the vitriol that tends to hijack these threads. I vote for this.