I'll do my best, having skills in neither stone cutting nor engraving. Here's what it might look like:

http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j24/neptunetitan/RIP_peggedbea.png

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"everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt."
-kv

please make sure they put that on my tombstone.

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Hi Ho.

- Kurt Vonnegut, Slapstick

I think William Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank, though, that's not saying much.

- Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus

What is it, what can it possibly be about blowjobs and golf?

- Martian visitor to Earthling, from Kurt Vonnegut's A Man Without A Country, the great man's last book.

As you might have guessed by now, I have a thing for Vonnegut.

"everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt."
-kv

please make sure they put that on my tombstone.

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
Hi Ho.

- Kurt Vonnegut, Slapstick

I think William Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank, though, that's not saying much.

- Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus

What is it, what can it possibly be about blowjobs and golf?

- Martian visitor to Earthling, from Kurt Vonnegut's A Man Without A Country, the great man's last book.

As you might have guessed by now, I have a thing for Vonnegut.

Hi Ho.

- Kurt Vonnegut, Slapstick

I think William Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank, though, that's not saying much.

- Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus

What is it, what can it possibly be about blowjobs and golf?

- Martian visitor to Earthling, from Kurt Vonnegut's A Man Without A Country, the great man's last book.

As you might have guessed by now, I have a thing for Vonnegut.

My theory is "no laugh track". The humour is far too "cerebral" (which is saying a lot because there is enough blatant slapstick and "dick and fart" jokes in the show) for the average boob toober.

I think if they went off worldwide box sets (and amount of times downloaded from torrents), they'll see that this show was much loved world wide because it was humour done by American's that didn't resemble what we have come to know and hate as "American humour.. err, sry, humor". That is, it was actually fucking funny.

Is there any wonder it was canned.. \= |

* slapstick - kurt vonnegut
* bridge to terabithia - katherine peterson
* portrait of dorian gray - oscar wilde
* junkie - william s burroughs
* the captured - scott zesch
* mutant message downunder - marlo morgan
* all my friends are going to be strangers - larry mcmurtry
* beasts of no nation - uzodinma eweala
* a day in the life of ivan denisovich - alexander solzhenitsyn
* things fall apart - chinua achebe

Tags for this video have been changed from 'space potatoes, whitest kids u know, space, pilot, drink, spill, slapstick' to 'space potatoes, whitest kids u know, space, pilot, drink, spill, slap, wkukstick' - edited by Zonbie

Ep4-6 were NOWHERE near as bad as 1-3.

Take the wisecracking humour of Han Solo, take the interplay between C3PO and others, and take the wonderful setting and menacing bad guy.

Now... replace it with slapstick comedy, horrible child actors, possibly worse young adult actors, actual 3 stooges routines... and you're left with utter tripe.

The original ones are undoubtedly better if you saw them as children, but they are also great in and of themselves, and the reviews by ADULTS at the time bare this to be true.

The new ones are just horrendous.

LOL @ the complimentary slapstick at 2:00!

According to Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucia_di_Lammermoor#Trivia, it's been used in;

The "Lucia Sextet" (Chi mi frena in tal momento?) was recorded in 1908 by Enrico Caruso, Marcella Sembrich, Antonio Scotti, Marcel Journet, Barbara Severina, and Francesco Daddi, (Victor single-sided 70036) and released at the price of $7.00, earning it the title of "The Seven-Dollar Sextet". The film The Great Caruso incorporates a scene featuring a performance of this sextet.

The "Lucia Sextet" melody is best known to some from its use by the American slapstick comedy team the Three Stooges in their short films Micro-Phonies and Squareheads of the Round Table, sung in the latter with the lyrics "Oh, Elaine, can you come out tonight...." But the melody is used most dramatically in Howard Hawks' gangster classic "Scarface": Tony Camonte (Paul Muni) whistles "Chi mi frena?" in the film's opening sequence, as he guns down a ganglord boss he has been assigned to protect.

It has also been used in Warner Brothers cartoons: Long-Haired Hare, sung by the opera singer (Bugs Bunny's antagonist); Book Revue, sung by the wolf antagonist; and in Back Alley Oproar, sung by a choir full of Sylvesters, the cat.

The "Lucia Sextet" melody also figures in two scenes from the 2006 film The Departed, directed by Martin Scorsese. In one scene, Jack Nicholson's character is shown at a performance of "Lucia di Lammermoor", and the music on the soundtrack is from the sextet. Later in the film, Nicholson's cell phone ringtone is the sextet melody.

The Sextet is also featured during a scene from the 1986 comedy film, The Money Pit.

In the children's book "The Cricket in Times Square," Chester Cricket chirps the tenor part to the "Lucia Sextet" as the encore to his farewell concert, literally stopping traffic in the process.

An aria from the "mad scene," "Il dolce suono" (from the 3rd Act), was re-popularized when it was featured in the film The Fifth Element in a performance by the alien diva Plavalaguna (voiced by Albanian soprano Inva Mula-Tchako and played onscreen by French actress Maïwenn Le Besco). A loose remake of this film version of the song was covered by Russian pop singer Vitas.

The "mad scene" was also used in the first episode of the anime series Gankutsuou (in place of L'Italiana in Algeri which was the opera used in that scene in The Count of Monte Cristo).

The "mad scene" aria, as sung by Inva Mula-Tchako, was used in an episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent involving the murder of a young violinist by her opera singer mother (who performs the song right after the murder).

The "mad scene" was released as a music video by Russian male soprano Vitas in 2006.

Among other selections from the opera, the "mad scene", "Verranno a te sull'aure", and "Che facesti?" feature prominently in the 1983 Paul Cox film Man of Flowers, especially "Verranno a te sull'aure," which accompanies a striptease in the film's opening scene.

The opera is mentioned in the novels The Count of Monte Cristo, Madame Bovary and Where Angels Fear to Tread and was reputedly one of Tolstoy's favorites.

"Regnava nel silenzio" accompanies the scene in Beetlejuice in which Lydia (Winona Ryder) composes a suicide note.

A portion of the opera is also used in a key scene of the film The Fifth Element, written and directed by Luc Besson.

* "slapstick" kurt vonnegut

* "all my friends are going to be strangers" larry mcmurtry

* "american gods" neil gaimen

* "the monkey wrench gang" edward abbey

* "the captured : a true story of abduction by indians on the texas frontier" scott zesch

coincidentally, the first 4 should be read by any runaway, or aimless traveler. and it probably helps if youre from tx with #2 and #5.

Mitch fucking Hedberg.
Patton Oswalt, Rodney Carrington, Ron White.
Americans have the best animated comedy shows too, simpsons, futurama, south park, family guy, american dad, king of the hill.

British comedy is very different from American comedy. It usually much more satirical and/or quirky than just sit-com or slapstick - and that's not always better.

>> ^dannym3141:
>> ^volumptuous:
>> ^dannym3141:
The only comedy to rival the brits over the years has been black american comedians and bill hicks

And Mr.Show, and Office Space, and Big Lebowski, Idiocracy, Strangers With Candy, The State, George Carlin, Richard Pryor, Lenny Bruce, Daily Show/Colbert, Zack Galafinakis, The Simpsons, Ren&Stimpy.... we can go on and on and on.

You can list stuff back and forth all day and disagree with what each other person says for fun whether you think it's true or not. So what's the point? Watch:
Mr. Show - definitely not
Idiocracy - see above
Strangers with Candy - see above
George Carlin - HUGE no
Richard Pryor - black comedian, which i listed
Daily show - close but no
Colbert - HUGE no
Now you'll just disagree with me and say those things are fucking great, but some of those make me despair, especially colbert, i can't believe you listed him

lol I remember watching these old movies with the fam, Peter sellers just brilliantly brought something to the table that you just cant find in slapstick comedies anymore.

*dark
*actionpack
*slapstick

^ haha do you really think so? cool then To me it just seemed like it all got a bit serious, considering there is no way even a fake vid with this content (funny, silly, slapstick) should cause any controversy or have such vehement calling out. The tone of the fake cry was the issue here, not the calling it fake itself. But you know, yay for freedom of speech and all that!

The CGI in the prequels was atrocious, and often made me think I was watching a cartoon, which I suppose went well with some of the childish slapstick, and dragon ball Z ninja style fighting they threw in.

As for the additions, some of the opening sequence and background changes were okay, well they would be if they didn't have goofy little robots flying around. Some was just unnecessary, and other abhorrent. They should have been going for subtlety, instead they went for HEY HEY HEY LOOK AT ME HEY OVER HERE HEY HEY IM DIFFERENT NOW LOOK HEY LOOK!