The second one (w/ the chickens) reminds me quite a bit of this Perry Bible Fellowship strip.

>> ^Mikus_Aurelius:

This scene was better in the book.



I do like this scene, mainly because it offers an improvement on the theatrical cut (which cannot be said of the majority of the extended scenes in ROTK, unlike the first two films) in that the Fellowship now believe Frodo to be dead, adding weight to their decision to fight on regardless. So in the films, it works. But like much of what merely "works" in the films (and don't misunderstand, I love these films), it would have been much better if they'd gone with how events played out in the book.

So as I remember it from the book, the Mouth of Sauron is a Númenorean (like Aragorn) and an officer in Sauron's army, not some hideously deformed monster. In fact he tried to bargain with the Fellowship, telling them that although Frodo was still alive, all of his posessions had been turned over to Sauron. He says that in exchange for the safe return of Frodo and Sam, the peoples of Middle-earth would be enslaved rather than destroyed, and would have to pay taxes to Mordor. But the reason I like this scene in the book is because of Gandalf's surprising response to the offer: that the two hobbits are not worth the price.

>> ^silvercord:

>> ^MrFisk:
The fact that rape in prison has so casually become a standard of our judicial system disgusts me.

This group is doing something about it. Don't dismiss it simply because they are religious. They are serious and proactive about stopping prison rape.


See also http://www.justdetention.org/

Also, Norway's prisons are way more humane than the USA. Prison rape is much less common there. Blame socialism.

More specifically (for those who wish to skip past the religious aspects of the site), this is their resource page on prison rape:

Justice Fellowship Prison Rape Resources Page

>> ^silvercord:

This group is doing something about it. Don't dismiss it simply because they are religious. They are serious and proactive about stopping prison rape.

>> ^MrFisk:

The fact that rape in prison has so casually become a standard of our judicial system disgusts me.


This group is doing something about it. Don't dismiss it simply because they are religious. They are serious and proactive about stopping prison rape.

Perry Bible Fellowship did this YEARS go:

http://www.pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF071-Weeaboo.gif

>> ^campionidelmondo:

dead


Fixed and thanks.

Beard-toting dudes of the world, unite! Let the sticky goo of ... uh ... marshmallow paste bind us together in fellowship.

But the eagles were too busy to deal with such a trifle matter at the time the fellowship set out

>> ^Throbbin:
Just thought I would also draw attention to my comment in the other thread...
"I'd prefer to leave it how it is. BUT, if it does have to be changed, you could require a quality invocation to be seconded by another (suitably qualified) member (like the dupe function), at the cost of a power point each. That spreads the burden around, and is more likely to ensure only real quality items are qualitied."
I thought it was rather ingenious.


Great idea-sounds good here as well! A bit of team work always makes for better fellowship-

Since you're so curious, Schmawy, it's called "free plate tuning", and it was developed by the recently departed Carleen Hutchins...

Carleen Maley Hutchins (May 24, 1911 – August 7, 2009) was an American former high school science teacher, violinmaker and researcher, best-known for her creation, in the 1950s/60s, of a family of eight proportionally-sized violins now known as the violin octet (e.g., the vertical viola) and for a considerable body of research into the acoustics of violins. She was born in Springfield, Massachusetts.

Hutchins’s greatest innovation, still used by many violinmakers, was a technique known as free-plate tuning. When not attached to a violin, the top and back are called free plates. Her technique gives makers a precise way to refine these plates before a violin is assembled.

From 2002 to 2003, Hutchins’s octet was the subject of an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Titled “The New Violin Family: Augmenting the String Section.” Hutchins was the founder of the New Violin Family Association[1], creator-in-chief of the Violin Octet, author of more than 100 technical publications, editor of two volumes of collected papers in violin acoustics, four grants from the Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund for Music, recipient of two Guggenheim Fellowships, an Honorary Fellowship from the Acoustical Society of America, and four honorary doctorates. In 1963, Hutchins co-founded the Catgut Acoustical Society, which develops scientific insights into the construction of new and conventional instruments of the violin family.

The Hutchins Consort, named after Hutchins, is a California ensemble featuring all eight instruments.[2]

In 1974, Hutchins and Daniel W. Haines, using materials supplied by the Hercules Materials Company, Inc. (Allegheny Ballistics Laboratory) of Cumberland, Maryland, developed a graphite-epoxy composite top that was determined to be a successful alternative to the traditional use of spruce for the violin belly.[3]

Here's a few of my favorite guy flicks.

Willy Wanker and the Fudge Packery
Hairy Porker and the prisoner of ass cabin
Gaylord of the Cockrings: The Fellowship of the Cringe
Dr. Strangelove or: How I learned to Stop Tensing and Love the Bum
Ass Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Brown Eye

Biblicism at its finest. The narrator failed to mention that the Trinitarian doctrine took a few hundred years to coalesce (something he was very eager to point out) because the Bible in its current form took a few hundreds years to be put together. During the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd centuries there were still just different collections of the Synoptics, Pauline epistles, and various other letters. No one could really come together and meet to decide what was canonical and what wasn't until Constantine legalized Christianity and they could come out into the open.

As for the trinity in Scripture how about the Great Commission "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit" or the words of Paul "The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all."

Henry's brilliant speech
http://www.videosift.com/video/HENRY-V-St-Crispins-Day-speech-Great-Moments-in-Cinema

or if you would rather read it

No, my fair cousin;
If we are marked to die, we are enough
To do our country loss; and if to live,
The fewer men, the greater share of honor.
God's will! I pray thee, wish not one man more.
Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host,
That he which hath no stomach to this fight,
Let him depart; his passport shall be made,
And crowns for convoy put into his purse;
We would not die in that man's company
That fears his fellowship to die with us.
This day is called the feast of Crispian.
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when this day is named,
And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
He that shall live this day, and see old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbors,
And say 'To-morrow is Saint Crispian.'
Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars,
And say 'These wounds I had on Crispian's day.'
Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot,
But he'll remember, with advantages,
What feats he did that day. Then shall our names,
Familiar in his mouth as household words-
Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter,
Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester-
Be in their flowing cups freshly remembered.
This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered-
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in England now-a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.

Wow, I love the Perry Bible Fellowship too.