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ALIEN ANAL 02.08.2007 09:36 AM

fuck yeh i go batman too.

truncated 02.08.2007 09:44 AM

In a vague vein of being a devil's advocate, I'd say Bill Gates belongs on the list of significant contributors. With his technological innovation and business savvy (he basically smoked Apple, and made PC technology available to the masses), he has literally changed the basic mechanics of modern society, and revolutionized the processing and dissemination of data. You corporate-bashing folk may knock him, but one must give credit where it's due.

Savage Clone 02.08.2007 10:09 AM

Buckminster Fuller

atari 2600 02.08.2007 11:19 AM

When Buckminster Fuller came to Canada, he kept asking the same question:
“Have you ever really considered how much your buildings weigh?”
The Canadians took this very seriously. (Hey, we never thought of that!)
He showed them plans for domed cities, cities with no basements, no foundations.
Cities that could be moved in a minute.
Portable cities.
Portable towns.

He said;
Think of it as camping out.
Think of it as one big tent.
He said:
Think of it as
The Big Top ... spinning ... lightweight ... portable.

He said: Think of it as
The Big Top.
Spinning ...
Lightweight ...
Flyaway ...

He said:
Think of it as the
Big Top.
__________
You people don't know too much about Einstein, do you? Or is that the part you do know about, you don't understand too terribly well? Or is it that your natural disposition is just that creepy? Yeah, that's probably it. It's monstrously pathetic, by the way, to live in this present day and age and not fully grasp the significance of Albert Einstein.

noumenal 02.08.2007 11:51 AM

I have déjà vu.

Daddylikes 02.08.2007 12:48 PM

 

Daddylikes 02.08.2007 01:08 PM

Bump!

LittlePuppetBoy 02.08.2007 01:09 PM

Da Vinci. Anyone who predicts the tank, and airplanes centuries beforehand is a genius.

Daddylikes 02.08.2007 01:10 PM

 

The Lung 02.08.2007 02:06 PM

William Blake

jon boy 02.08.2007 02:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Lung
William Blake


did you watch manhunter last night as well?

Rob Instigator 02.08.2007 02:17 PM

the greatest genius in history was and is Archimedes

Read about him. read about what he did WAYYYY before leonardo. he was so ahead of hsi time that we still ahve not caught up. archimedes is and was and will be THE SHIT

Trasher02 02.08.2007 02:20 PM

David Helfgott

compulsive diarrhea, jico 02.08.2007 02:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sonicl
Jose Mourinho, methinks.


haha.
i've met the guy in question.

Trasher02 02.08.2007 02:26 PM

Jamie Stewart

The Lung 02.08.2007 02:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jon boy
did you watch manhunter last night as well?


No? I rarely watch TV, what was it about?

jon boy 02.08.2007 02:37 PM

well its a film by michael mann about a serial killer known as the tooth fairy who worships the red dragon by blake. there was a remake with edward norton recently called red dragon. it wasnt as good.

atari 2600 02.08.2007 02:53 PM

Of course, Manhunter is the prequel to Silence of the Lambs.
The new Hannibal Rising movie I suppose would be a pre-prequel, then? haha

A friend and I were up in C-Ville a few years back (this was when I still lived in Athens) and, as a reporter for Flagpole magazine in Athens, he got to attend Anthony Hopkin's press conference at the Virginia Film Festival for Hannibal. So, my friend asked me beforehand what question(s) he should ask, and since the theme of the festival that year was "Animal Attractions," http://www.vafilm.com/2000/ I suggested he ask him about any pets (or livestock---thought that would get a laugh) he owned, and then follow it up with a serious question about what he thinks of Hollywood's practice of banking on sequels and what his thoughts were on motion picture sequels, in general. As predicted, the first question was a hit and Hopkins told about his dogs and bird, and then my friend aggressively was able to ask the follow-up as well and the mood turned in an instant. Sir Anthony was quite flummoxed, and, after a slight pause of momentary uncertainty and mumbling something about "not being Tom Cruise," he just flat-out ignored the question and turned his attention elsewhere to the next reporter.

SpectralJulianIsNotDead 02.08.2007 02:55 PM

I liked Red Dragon, but never saw the original version- Manhunter. Why's it better?

The Lung 02.08.2007 02:57 PM

oh yeh I've seen red dragon, I thought it was pretty good. Have you seen Dead Man with Johnny Depp? Some Indian guy thinks that he is William Blake, I thought it was really good.


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