WKD 3 Day Est. RA 41.2m, LS 23.2m, NJ 20.5, JR 17.2, FRZ 11.9

[MrPink]

The last 40 minutes of Godfather Part III are actually really compelling, even if a bit too carbon copy from Part I in terms of style. Also, I randomly like this brief bit when Andy Garcia hunts down Joe Montegna and says 'Joey...' shoots him, and then finishes with 'Zaza...'

 

Line always stuck with me.

Edited January 18, 2014 by MrPink

[DeeCee]

Went to the movies tonight and it was shut down. Power outage.  But I wasn't going to see RA. I was gonna watch Jack Ryan.

I'd try again. I really enjoyed it. Probably the best film portrayal of Ryan as a character thus far.

[Dark 33Legend of the Sith]

Man, Godfather Part II is so great!

One of the most astounding blunders the academy has ever made was pacino not getting an Oscar for his portrayal of michael.He should have a supporting AND lead actor statue in the bag for I and II. Possibly the greatest acting I've seen.

[grim22]

Looks like iJack went and got himself banned permanently. Who will provide the continuous supply of walls of text posts now?

[Sam]

One of the most astounding blunders the academy has ever made was pacino not getting an Oscar for his portrayal of michael.He should have a supporting AND lead actor statue in the bag for I and II. Possibly the greatest acting I've seen.

Totally completely agree. Marlon Brando and Robert DeNiro both were amazing, but Al Pacino should have gotten one win at least.

[John Marston]

Looks like iJack went and got himself banned permanently. Who will provide the continuous supply of walls of text posts now?

 

 

holy shit really? What did he do? Even though I don't really like him he was kind of a character that you remember

[grim22]

holy shit really? What did he do? Even though I don't really like him he was kind of a character that you remember

 

Winter Soldier (iJack) - (1/17/14) - Permanently Banned for continuous attacks toward a Moderator/Staff Member.

[Dementeleus]

He got on Shawn's wrong side.

[Chewy]

He's drawing up legal documents now. Y'all better lawyer up ASAP

[Dementeleus]

Relative to my prior writings, this letter evinces an increased stridency in my commination of Mr. ShawnMR's biases. This is because nihilism is classically a hodgepodge of sermons crafted for mass appeal. The nitty-gritty of what I'm about to write is this: Some reputed—as opposed to reputable—members of ShawnMR's plunderbund quite adamantly avouch that it is ShawnMR's moral imperative to make his paroxysms a key dynamic in modern hucksterism by viscerally defining "protobasidiomycetous" through the experience of churlish gangsterism. I find it rather astonishing that anyone could profess such a thing, but then again, ShawnMR's lalochezia is downright annoying. The destruction of the Tower of Babel, be it a literal truth, an allegory, or a mere story based upon cultural archetypes, illustrates this truth plainly. ShawnMR's impolitic politics are a locomotive of emotionalism. We need to get off that train as quickly as possible; the tracks lead straight to Hell. Personally, I, not being one of the many malignant, intrusive stumblebums of this world, would much rather be on a train in which the passengers recognize that the most repugnant manifestation of anal-retentive sentiment among mingy zobs has been the way they borrow money and spend it on programs that lock people up for reading the "wrong" sorts of books or listening to the "wrong" kinds of music. If that fact hurts, get over it; it's called reality. And for another dose of reality, consider that ShawnMR will stop at nothing to subvert our country's legal system. This may sound outrageous, but if it were fiction I would have thought of something more credible. As it stands, ShawnMR has, on a number of occasions, expressed a desire to send the wrong message to children. On all of these occasions I submitted to the advice of my friends, who assured me that he does not merely silence any criticism of the brainwashing and double standards that he has increasingly been practicing. He does so consciously, deliberately, willfully, and methodically.

 

ShawnMR dreams of a time when he'll be free to rub salt into our wounds. That's the way he's planned it, and that's the way it'll happen—not may happen but will happen—if we don't interfere, if we don't shatter the adage that elected national governments are not accountable to their own people. If we're to effectively carry out our responsibilities and make a future for ourselves, we will first have to ask him to rephrase his criticisms in a more reasoned way. ShawnMR feels he has not only a right, but also a duty, to leach integrity and honor from our souls. End of story. Actually, I should add that he is trying hard to convince a substantial number of slatternly tin-pot tyrants to sue people at random. He presumably believes that the "hundredth-monkey phenomenon" will spontaneously incite unsavory, nasty hoodlums to behave likewise. The reality, however, is that ShawnMR once said that his perorations are intelligent, commonsensical, and entirely consonant with the views of ordinary people. His epigones and others capable of little more than rote psittacism are now saying that too. In contrast, I say that we have much to fear from ShawnMR. Personally, I'm afraid that as soon as our backs are turned, he'll impale us on a Morton's Fork: Either we let him turn peaceful gatherings into embarrassing scandals, or he'll condition the public to accept violence as normal and desirable. Regardless of which we choose, by promoting both warlordism and zabernism, ShawnMR's conclusions are doubly cuckoo. For the benefit of any doubting Thomases I will prove that point via an explanation of how many people think of ShawnMR's self-absorbed memoirs as a joke, as something only half-serious. In fact, they're deadly serious. They're the tool by which possession-obsessed grobians will treat anyone who doesn't agree with ShawnMR to a torrent of vitriol and vilification before the year is over. A second all-too-serious item is that if one believes statements like, "Everyone and everything discriminates against ShawnMR—including the writing on the bathroom stalls—one is, in effect, supporting insecure grafters.

 

ShawnMR has never been accused of objectivity. Of course, this sounds simple, but in reality, the real issue is simple: Without freedom of conscience and freedom of inquiry there's no way we can stand together and say "no" to his naive bruta fulmina. It seems that no one else is telling you that the agenda that he is attempting to advance is one of Titoism, repression, and Pyrrhonism. So, since the burden lies with me to tell you that, I suppose I should say a few words on the subject. To begin with, not only does ShawnMR talk about you and me in terms that are not fit to be repeated, but he then commands his understrappers, "Go, and do thou likewise."

 

If we do nothing, ShawnMR will keep on twisting the history, sociology, and anthropology disseminated by our mass media and in our children's textbooks. One cannot change this all in a moment, but one can stand by our principles and be true to them on all occasions, in all places, against all foes, and at whatever cost. From what I understand, we now know for certain that his lickspittles intend to hasten society's quiescence to moral pluralism and epistemological uncertainty. Still, I recommend you check out some of his teachings and draw your own conclusions on the matter.

 

If you were to try to tell ShawnMR's operatives that we must do away with the misconception that he has answers to everything, they'd close their eyes and put their hands over their ears. They are, as the psychologists say, in denial. They don't want to hear that ShawnMR's sense of humor runs the gamut from rude and crude to untrustworthy and juvenile. Well, that's a bit too general of a statement to have much meaning, I'm afraid. So let me instead explain my point as follows: I have an intense dislike of deplorable authoritarians. Fortunately, deplorable authoritarians don't normally defile the present and destroy the future. ShawnMR, in contrast, does little else, which leads me to believe that he's trapped in a vicious cycle. The more opposition to his editorials he faces, the more directionless he becomes. The more directionless he becomes, the more opposition to his editorials he faces.

 

In a vain effort to exculpate himself, ShawnMR has been proclaiming to the world that he has done no wrong. Rather, it was his satellites who have been squandering irreplaceable national treasures. I suppose the next thing he'll have us believe is that bad things "just happen" (i.e., they're not caused by ShawnMR himself).

 

To those few who disagree with some of the things I've written, I ask for your tolerance. Although brevity is the soul of wit I do need to say quite a bit more about how in order to convince us that the future of the entire world rests in his hands, ShawnMR often turns to the old propagandist trick of comparing results brought about by entirely dissimilar causes. Whether or not he should rot our minds with the hallucinatory drug of Satanism ought to be a simple question, far beyond the realm of debate. However, when people see counterproductive tatterdemalions behaving like counterproductive tatterdemalions they begin to realize that there are those who are informed and educated about the evils of absolutism, and there are those who are not. ShawnMR is one of the uninformed, naturally, and that's why he maintains that "the norm" shouldn't have to worry about how the exceptions feel. This is a complete fabrication without a scintilla of truth in it. What's more, ShawnMR's cringers criticize others for being fatuous but do absolutely nothing themselves to provide a trenchant analysis of ShawnMR's homilies. Although this discrepancy indubitably indicates that ShawnMR's cringers are all sharp-tongued but soft-toothed hypocrites, ShawnMR says he'll burn our fair cities to the ground if anyone dare threaten the existence of his flock. What's scary is that "threaten" can be defined in an almost unlimited number of ways. For instance, ShawnMR might consider it threatening if one were to claim that as the adherents of Randian objectivism believe, in times of economic, social, or political crisis, small groups that irritate an incredible number of people suddenly gain a mass following. Furthermore, as the adherents of empiricism observe, like a verbal magician, ShawnMR knows how to lie without appearing to be lying, how to bury secrets in mountains of garbage-speak.

 

If I seem a bit philopolemical, it's only because I'm trying to communicate with ShawnMR on his own level. I realize that some people may have trouble reading this letter. Granted, not everyone knows what "histomorphologically" means, but it's nevertheless easy to understand that I recently heard ShawnMR tell a bunch of people that the peak of fashion is to confuse, befuddle, and neutralize public opposition. I can't adequately describe my first reaction to this notion; I simply don't know how to represent uncontrollable laughter in text.

 

ShawnMR is a pretty good liar most of the time. However, he tells so many lies, he's bound to trip himself up someday. As you know, it has been a long-standing observation of mine that ShawnMR enjoys the sense of control that comes from forcing someone else to do things the way he wants them done. Oh, you didn't know that? That's because ShawnMR has been trying to keep that fact hidden from the public so as to prevent people from realizing that teenagers who want to shock their parents sometimes maintain—with a straight face—that ShawnMR's vices are the only true virtues. Fortunately, most parents don't fall for this fraud because they know that ShawnMR focuses on feelings rather than facts. Sure, he attempts to twist and distort facts to justify his feelings, but that just goes to show that ShawnMR's "brilliant" plan is to have acrasial wiseacres give advice to acrasial pipsqueaks on how to deal with acrasial slumlords. I fail to see how this will result in any sort of non-acrasial outcome, but perhaps I'm forgetting that you don't have to say anything specifically about ShawnMR for him to start attacking you. All you have to do is dare to imply that we should present another paradigm in opposition to his vengeful prognoses.

 

Even if we accepted ShawnMR's cock-and-bull stories, so what? Does that mean that he acts in the public interest? Of course not. My goal for this letter was to extricate as many people as possible from Mr. ShawnMR's grip. Know that I have done my best while trying always to maximize our individual potential for effectiveness and success in combatting him. Let an honest history judge.

[Sam]

Don't ever do that again. My finger got tired having to scroll past the post.

[BadAtGender]

WTF?

[Michael Gary Scott]

Im revoking voting for you for funniest poster now tele

[Dementeleus]

WTF?

 

It's a long story. Pun intended.

[BadAtGender]

It's a long story. Pun intended.

 

I think I'm glad I'm too new on the forum to understand. Jesus.

[DeeCee]

It's a long story. Pun intended.

And it's an absolute disgrace. Will a proper mod please ban this character? I think we've all had just about enough.

[Shawn Robbins]

He's drawing up legal documents now. Y'all better lawyer up ASAP

 

I'd love to see him try.

 

[Sam]

Im revoking voting for you for funniest poster now tele

The BOF Awards voting is closing in, and I noticed that Tele has been trying hard these past couple of days. At least give him points for effort. I know I will. 

[druv10]

The BOF Awards voting is closing in, and I noticed that Tele has been trying hard these past couple of days. At least give him points for effort. I know I will. 

 

Jim Shorts has it locked up. Tele can be the runner up.   

[druv10]

Shawn, any new numbers?