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[Russell Nash]

Ew... Peanuts porn?  "Hey, Charlie Brown, I promise not to yank away the football this time...." 

Peppermint Patty/Marcy 

Linus and Charlie Brown always seemed to have a special relationship (though I think its probably more along the lines of their Boston Legal alteregos).

Why exactly was snoopy always under the covers when he was in Charlie Brown's bed and why was he there so often?

[Heradel]

Why exactly was snoopy always under the covers when he was in Charlie Brown's bed and why was he there so often?

Now you're just taking it too far man, Snoopy's just this dog, you know?

[Russell Nash]

Why exactly was snoopy always under the covers when he was in Charlie Brown's bed and why was he there so often?

Now you're just taking it too far man, Snoopy's just this dog, you know?

And what's his relationship with Woodstock anyway?  Cross-species stuff is just weird.

[Thaurismunths]

Wow... a whole thread that just nose-dived in to Peanuts Slash-Fic.
I think this is some kind of internet first.

[Russell Nash]

Wow... a whole thread that just nose-dived in to Peanuts Slash-Fic.
I think this is some kind of internet first.

Sadly it isn't.

[wintermute]

Wow... a whole thread that just nose-dived in to Peanuts Slash-Fic.
I think this is some kind of internet first.

Sadly it isn't.

You would know...

[Tango Alpha Delta]

Wow... a whole thread that just nose-dived in to Peanuts Slash-Fic.
I think this is some kind of internet first.

Sadly it isn't.

You would know...

  I was hoping to attain an Internet first.  Good grief.

[Thaurismunths]

Wow... a whole thread that just nose-dived in to Peanuts Slash-Fic.
I think this is some kind of internet first.

Sadly it isn't.

I'd like to see some documentation on that.
I couldn't find any, but maybe I wasn't looking hard enough.

[Ocicat]

Internet Rule 34: If it exists, there is porn of it. No exceptions.

[wintermute]

[Russell Nash]

::desperately trying to pull this thing back on topic::

So I added a few classics to my list today.  A few Jimmy Stewarts,  a little Alfred Hitchcock, maybe even a Cary Grant.  I'll do a full update later.

[Windup]

::desperately trying to pull this thing back on topic::

So I added a few classics to my list today.  A few Jimmy Stewarts,  a little Alfred Hitchcock, maybe even a Cary Grant.  I'll do a full update later.

I'll suggest Witness, police drama starring Harrison Ford as a detective who has to take refuge with an Amish family.  Features a good look at Amish culture, Ford at the top of his game, and some to-die-for scenes and direction by Peter Weir. (I'm a sucker for the shot of the policemen going down into the Amish settlement at dawn.) Kelly McGillis makes her super-fox thing work brilliantly, even in plain-dress.  And believably.

For series, you might want to try Dead Like Me, a two-season Showtime offering in which the heroine -- Georgia "George" Lass, played by Ellen Muth -- dies in the first episode, struck by the toilet seat of the Soyuz space station as it plunges to earth.  The rest of the series concerns her adventures in the afterlife, where she's assigned the role of "reaper" -- one of those who escort the souls of the dead from the site of their demise to the route that leads to their Ultimate Destination.

Reapers don't have it easy -- they need day jobs to support themselves, but have only limited interaction with the living. Mandy Patinkin does a great turn as the foreman of his crew, which includes George, along with a likable, mysteriously-displaced British drug addict and thief;  a no-nonsense meter maid; and a spoiled actress. 

Both touching and funny, it's one of my very favorite shows. It takes a somewhat darker turn in the second season, but the characters do continue to grow. There's supposed to be a direct to DVD movie in the works.  I'm hopeful...

[Russell Nash]

::desperately trying to pull this thing back on topic::

So I added a few classics to my list today.  A few Jimmy Stewarts,  a little Alfred Hitchcock, maybe even a Cary Grant.  I'll do a full update later.

I'll suggest Witness, police drama starring Harrison Ford as a detective who has to take refuge with an Amish family.  Features a good look at Amish culture, Ford at the top of his game, and some to-die-for scenes and direction by Peter Weir. (I'm a sucker for the dawn shot of the policemen going down into the Amish settlement at dawn.) Kelly McGillis makes her super-fox thing work brilliantly, even in plain-dress.  And believably.

For series, you might want to try Dead Like Me, a two-season Showtime offering in which the heroine -- Georgia "George" Lass, played by Ellen Muth -- dies in the first episode, struck by the toilet seat of the Soyuz space station as it plunges to earth.  The rest of the series concerns her adventures in the afterlife, where she's assigned the role of "reaper" -- one of those who escort the souls of the dead from the site of their demise to the route that leads to their Ultimate Destination.

Reapers don't have it easy -- they need day jobs to support themselves, but have only limited interaction with the living. Mandy Patinkin does a great turn as the foreman of his crew, which includes George, along with a likable, mysteriously-displaced British drug addict and thief;  a no-nonsense meter maid; and a spoiled actress. 

Both touching and funny, it's one of my very favorite shows. It takes a somewhat darker turn in the second season, but the characters do continue to grow. There's supposed to be a direct to DVD movie in the works.  I'm hopeful...

Witness is an old favorite of mine.  Saw it again just a few years ago.  Ironically my pseudo-german helped me understand the Amish-german better than my German wife could understand it.

I'll add Dead like me if it's available.

[Thaurismunths]

Both touching and funny, it's one of my very favorite shows. It takes a somewhat darker turn in the second season, but the characters do continue to grow. There's supposed to be a direct to DVD movie in the works.  I'm hopeful...

That's good to know. Shwankie and I couldn't make it through the first season for all of George's constant, incessant, inane, childish whining.

[Windup]

Both touching and funny, it's one of my very favorite shows. It takes a somewhat darker turn in the second season, but the characters do continue to grow. There's supposed to be a direct to DVD movie in the works.  I'm hopeful...

That's good to know. Shwankie and I couldn't make it through the first season for all of George's constant, incessant, inane, childish whining.

George actually does grow up a bit, under Rube's patient tutelage.  I liked the character of Rube a lot -- really cares for his charges, even when they exasperate him (for good reason), and tries to help them out. But, fundamentally, he's about getting work done.

[Windup]

Witness is an old favorite of mine.  Saw it again just a few years ago.  Ironically my pseudo-german helped me understand the Amish-german better than my German wife could understand it.

When I did research on the Amish a while back, I read that there is one tiny pocket of Germany where the local dialect is almost identical to the German spoken by the Amish.  Apparently, nobody is completely clear why that one came to predominate, because the Amish were drawn from a much wider area.

[DKT]

Why exactly was snoopy always under the covers when he was in Charlie Brown's bed and why was he there so often?

Now you're just taking it too far man, Snoopy's just this dog, you know?

And what's his relationship with Woodstock anyway?  Cross-species stuff is just weird.

I know I'm coming in late to this, and I'm taking the off-topic further off topic, but I've always been disturbed by the Peanuts Thanksgiving Special.  Namely the part where Woodstock carves the turkey and then starts eating it.  Cannibals come in all shapes and sizes. 

[Tango Alpha Delta]

Why exactly was snoopy always under the covers when he was in Charlie Brown's bed and why was he there so often?

Now you're just taking it too far man, Snoopy's just this dog, you know?

And what's his relationship with Woodstock anyway?  Cross-species stuff is just weird.

I know I'm coming in late to this, and I'm taking the off-topic further off topic, but I've always been disturbed by the Peanuts Thanksgiving Special.  Namely the part where Woodstock carves the turkey and then starts eating it.  Cannibals come in all shapes and sizes. 

Two birds, one... ew, nevermind; I just revolted myself.   

[Ocicat]

I know I'm coming in late to this, and I'm taking the off-topic further off topic, but I've always been disturbed by the Peanuts Thanksgiving Special.  Namely the part where Woodstock carves the turkey and then starts eating it.  Cannibals come in all shapes and sizes. 

Do you eat cows?  You're both mammals!  Just as much related as a canary (or whatever Woodstock is supposed to be) and a turkey...

[Darwinist]

I know I'm coming in late to this, and I'm taking the off-topic further off topic, but I've always been disturbed by the Peanuts Thanksgiving Special.  Namely the part where Woodstock carves the turkey and then starts eating it.  Cannibals come in all shapes and sizes. 

Do you eat cows?  You're both mammals!  Just as much related as a canary (or whatever Woodstock is supposed to be) and a turkey...

Wouldn't it be more like us eating a chimpanzee or a gorilla? 

[Tango Alpha Delta]

I know I'm coming in late to this, and I'm taking the off-topic further off topic, but I've always been disturbed by the Peanuts Thanksgiving Special.  Namely the part where Woodstock carves the turkey and then starts eating it.  Cannibals come in all shapes and sizes. 

Do you eat cows?  You're both mammals!  Just as much related as a canary (or whatever Woodstock is supposed to be) and a turkey...

Wouldn't it be more like us eating a chimpanzee or a gorilla? 

I wanted to say that, and accompany it with a Get Fuzzy example... but that's the best I could find. 

[wintermute]

I know I'm coming in late to this, and I'm taking the off-topic further off topic, but I've always been disturbed by the Peanuts Thanksgiving Special.  Namely the part where Woodstock carves the turkey and then starts eating it.  Cannibals come in all shapes and sizes. 

Do you eat cows?  You're both mammals!  Just as much related as a canary (or whatever Woodstock is supposed to be) and a turkey...

Wouldn't it be more like us eating a chimpanzee or a gorilla? 

Modern birds (Superorder Neognathae) split off from their common ancestor somewhere around 75 million years ago. Woodstock and a turkey share a common ancestor no older than that, and probably not younger than 25 million years. I don't know much about the history of birds, but I'd be confident with those error bars.

On the other hand, humans share a common ancestor with chimps some 5 million years ago, and with gorillas 8 million years ago. Cows are artiodactyls; their common ancestor with humans lived approximately 90 million years ago. All birds are more closely related to each other than we are to cows, but except for the very closest families (chickens and turkeys, for example), they're all less closely related than we are to the great apes.

About 40 million years ago, we shared an ancestor with rabbits which, while not as common a foodbeast as they used to be, are still very tasty. They might be the best analogy here.

Family tree of placental mammals
Family tree of modern birds (requires a bit of drilling-down)

[Russell Nash]

Finished Metropolis.  I posted my thoughts in the EPMC#1 thread. 

Iron Giant and FF2 have come in the mail today. 

We're halfway through season 1 of Bones.  I think we'll finish the season; but if it doesn't get better, we won't watch season 2.

[DKT]

Finished Metropolis.  I posted my thoughts in the EPMC#1 thread. 

Iron Giant and FF2 have come in the mail today. 

We're halfway through season 1 of Bones.  I think we'll finish the season; but if it doesn't get better, we won't watch season 2.

Did Bones get significantly better than the pilot episode, or did it stay on par with it?  Someone gave us the season 1 DVD to watch, but the pilot really put me off.

[Russell Nash]

Finished Metropolis.  I posted my thoughts in the EPMC#1 thread. 

Iron Giant and FF2 have come in the mail today. 

We're halfway through season 1 of Bones.  I think we'll finish the season; but if it doesn't get better, we won't watch season 2.

Did Bones get significantly better than the pilot episode, or did it stay on par with it?  Someone gave us the season 1 DVD to watch, but the pilot really put me off.

It's definately trying to hit its stride.  I would say the middle of the season is better than the pilot, but it has too many of the normal network TV conventions.  It wants to be different, but it can't seem to break free.