The Spectacular Professor

[FONT="Comic Sans MS"]Abraham Lincoln never won anything. Except that one time, I guess.[/FONT]

[FONT="Comic Sans MS"]Anyone remember that SNL sketch with Dan Aykroyd as Julia Child? Where he chopped his own thumb open? I just butterflied my ring finger. I had no idea your hand contained this much blood. DX[/FONT]

[FONT="Comic Sans MS"]Yay, Naruto sucks again! The status is once again quo![/FONT]

[quote name='Gavin'][SIZE=1]Well, the fact she has a flashback is generally indicative of death in manga.[/SIZE][/QUOTE] [FONT="Comic Sans MS"]Tell that to Kakashi. I'd sure as hell feel gypped if I were sitting at the Big Campfire in the Sky only to be dragged kicking and screaming back into the crapsack, revenge-centric, logic-barren world that is Naruto moments later. Also dammit why does the Unclean One continue to breathe?[/FONT]

[FONT="Comic Sans MS"]Well, I hate what just happened, but I can't deny that [spoiler]Ace[/spoiler] got a damn good sendoff. Now if I could only figure out a way to convince myself that losing him was somehow relevant to the story's grander scheme.[/FONT]

[FONT="Comic Sans MS"][B]Brave Story[/B] (The 2006 animated film, although the book is even better) never gets any love. It needs all the love.[/FONT]

[FONT="Comic Sans MS"]Yeah, I can't see it either. I'm assuming it won't show up for someone who isn't a Senior Moderator or higher.[/FONT]

[FONT="Comic Sans MS"]You know what? I'm gonna do y'all one further. Pattycake.[/FONT]

[FONT="Comic Sans MS"]The ones at the end of Arlong Park, mostly. Of course, it's a your mileage may vary kind of thing, but I really think they nailed the emotion of Luffy trashing Nami's room with extreme prejudice. Also, Vic Mignonga as Nezumi is just brilliant. Way to play against type, Edward Elric.[/FONT]

[FONT="Comic Sans MS"]I dunno if a subforum is necessary. The thread is designed to accommodate posts that wouldn't lend themselves to much discussion in the first place, so making an entire section of threads of that nature would kind of clutter. Besides, the Lounge is already kind of the "Everything Else" forum, having an everything else subforum would be like a message board version of those "Characters you love, BUT IN KINDERGARDEN" shows. You know what, if this does actually end up being what happens, I propose naming it "The Lil' Lounge". Though I'm up for anything that boosts Shy's ego a little more. I need a nominee if I'm gonna get that award I proposed approved.[/FONT]

[FONT="Comic Sans MS"]Ladies and gentlemen, this is my... [CENTER][SIZE="4"][COLOR="Red"]2[/COLOR][COLOR="DarkOrange"]0[/COLOR][COLOR="Yellow"]0[/COLOR][COLOR="Lime"]0[/COLOR][COLOR="Blue"]t[/COLOR][COLOR="Indigo"]h[/COLOR] [COLOR="Red"]P[/COLOR][COLOR="DarkOrange"]O[/COLOR][COLOR="Yellow"]S[/COLOR][COLOR="Lime"]T[/COLOR][/SIZE][/CENTER] Just thought you all should know. [spoiler]This is far less obnoxious than I intended it to be.[/spoiler][/FONT]

[FONT="Comic Sans MS"]I'm watching some of my favorite One Piece moments on Hulu now thanks to FUNimation's dub uploads. I'd never seen some of them in anime form before, and I gotta say, it's kind of impressive. You can tell the voice actors really put their hearts into the dub, and the final product is really impressive. Somehow, hearing the lines out loud just seems to make them carry more weight. I still hate fillers, though.[/FONT]

[quote name='Gavin'][SIZE=1]There is surprisingly little readily available information on the Guinness company.[/SIZE][/QUOTE] [FONT="Comic Sans MS"]Well, if you're planning corporate conquest, I would think that's for the better. It comes pre-shrouded in mystery, so you don't have to bother to purge all of its stock information and bookkeeping history from the public records like last time.[/FONT]

[FONT="Comic Sans MS"]Well, the Super Bowl halftime show is over. I'm disappointed, CBS. You had a perfectly good opportunity to start a live performance of [I]Won't Get Fooled Again[/I] by having David Caruso go up on stage and put on his sunglasses, and you let it slip away.[/FONT]

[FONT="Comic Sans MS"]Only if we can get an insufferable egotist award, too. :p[/FONT] [quote name='Delta'][COLOR=#35425e]Talk is cheap, and it doesn't get any cheaper than in PRP. I am crossing my fingers in hope that PRP will share the same fate as the posts in it: [B]If nobody gives a flying frock, maybe it will just go away.[/B] [/COLOR][/QUOTE] [FONT="Comic Sans MS"]Yep, PRP is the cancer that is killing (O)/b/.[/FONT]

[FONT="Comic Sans MS"]She did the crime, now she do the time. [spoiler]Yeah that's stupid. Waste of official resources.[/spoiler][/FONT]

[FONT="Comic Sans MS"]Personally, I think it's distilling activity. People still post, it's just that a lot of it has been concentrated into the single thread. I don't think that's necessarily bad, but the nature of the PRP does kind of discourage maintaining the same train of thought for any length of time. Personally, I think if we come across a subject in the PRP that we think can be discussed more in-depth, we should make a thread for it. Then we could have (gasp) topical discussions.[/FONT]

[quote name='Magus'][size=1][color=darkred]But I do feel that this chapter was a little on the weak side. (Bleach might've had the strongest chapter this week for me)[/size][/color][/QUOTE] [FONT="Comic Sans MS"]I have to agree there. I'm actually a little disappointed in Oda for the first time in a long while. Maybe the [spoiler]lava beats fire[/spoiler] thing made sense in his head, but to me it was never foreshadowed and just seems like a poor excuse to cause some more unnecessary drama. And yeah, I stand by what I said. If [spoiler]Whitebeard dies, the world is thrown into imbalance and the entire order of things gets thrown out the window. If Ace dies too, it's just a gratuitous loss with little to no meaning.[/spoiler] I hope he's not trying to pull a Rowling by starting to kill off characters randomly left and right to make up for hardly ever doing so in the past. He's a better writer than that.[/FONT]

[FONT="Comic Sans MS"]You know what? I've finally decided. Nothing bad came of that last chapter, in fact it was even improved upon in this one. Sasuke, being the revenge-centric dick he is, has murdered one of his friends. This will likely lose him some fans and more readers will realize that he needs to be run through with pointy things in several painful but not immediately fatal ways. It rallies people to our cause and the only casualty is someone I already wanted dead. Birthday+Christmas. Now if we could just re-kill Shizune and buff up Sakura to a non-useless level, we'd be good (she deserves a chance, at least she acknowledges that the dude ain't worth the time of day anymore.) Oh, and since I feel obligated to mention this every ten chapters or so, RESOLVE THE FRIGGIN' HINATA ISSUE. Seriously, I don't care how it's done, she could take a sideways glance at Shikamaru and forget all about Naruto for all I care (actually, I would prefer that.) Jeez, poor girl's gonna commit seppuku if he keeps ignoring her like that. What the hell.[/FONT]

[FONT="Comic Sans MS"]...No way. Dammit, that may have been pointless.[/FONT]

[FONT="Comic Sans MS"]I have that effect on people.[/FONT]

[quote name='Boo'][font=lucida fax]On a sidenote: PEOPLE HAVE GOT TO STOP CARING ABOUT WHAT SOME DUDE WITH GLASSES ON THE INTERNET IS SAYING.[/FONt][/QUOTE] [FONT="Comic Sans MS"]I totally would if he wasn't right 83% of the time (the other 17% being the time he made fun of Mako Iwamatsu in his CGI Ninja Turtles review.)[/FONT]

[FONT="Comic Sans MS"]Speaking of the Nostalgia Critic, apparently [B]Rock-A-Doodle[/B] actually kinda sucked. Which is sad because I used to watch it like twice a day. This phenomenon also works in reverse, by the way. For example, we'll use another Don Bluth film. I had never seen [B]The Secret of NIMH[/B] until about half a year ago, so I had no nostalgic expectations of it, but I was blown away by how completely frickin' awesome it was.[/FONT]

[FONT="Comic Sans MS"]You dislike Pedro? VERY NOOOOOO!!!![/FONT]

[quote name='Ikillion'][FONT="Trebuchet MS"][SIZE="1"][COLOR="Black"]So I totally didn't think that Gainax would be able to make anything over the top after the end of Gurren-Lagann. Then I saw Lagann-hen. I was wrong, very, very, very, wrong. Its like I was watching Needless and GL at the same time! Only [B][U]HUGE.[/U][/B][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/QUOTE] [FONT="Comic Sans MS"]Yes, yes, a thousand times yes. [spoiler]Between Super Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann being a giant green-blue Kamina made of fire and that epic fist brawl with Anti-Spiral, I was afraid that Gainax had themselves initiated the Spiral Nemesis by making something too awesome for the Universe to contain.[/spoiler][/FONT]