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passerby
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Seemed interesting enough when they reworked it as Fry's bit of War is the H-Word.
but then i never read it
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tire
Delivery Boy
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alrighty... i got one.
in the roswell, NM episode, there is a "crazy photographer". when he takes a picture of the planet express spaceship, it comes out as the loch ness monster forged photo that everyone has seen.
i just don't get how that is funny?
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Tongue Luck
Starship Captain
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« Reply #48 on: 02-12-2005 00:12 »
« Last Edit on: 02-12-2005 00:12 »
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I'll give it a whirl.
He's a "conspiracy nut who no one will believe." You know his ilk. Obsessed with proving the existence of bigfoot, aliens, insane supernatural government schemes... Pick your poison. Well, this conspiracy nut is not only totally correct, but right there to witness actual aliens and government coverups. But when he tries to get photographic evidence, he ends up with the usual forged-looking Weekly World News fodder that proves nothing.
First he tries to photograph the president's secret arrival at Roswell and ends up with blurry balls of light in a dark sky (like most of those unconvincing "UFO photos" whacko conspiracy theorists swear by). Then he tries to photograph an actual UFO, and he ends up with that loch ness monster thing (again, typical faked evidence embraced by conspiracy nuts). He's got the opportunity of a lifetime, but it's all for nothing, since the world will never believe him. He might as well have spent his time messing with Photoshop--or, you know, whatever 1947 equivalent would be--for all the good it did him. Plus, it's surreal-unexpected-funny that the photos, while looking just like existing conspiracy nut photos, in no way resemble what was actually there. It's not even forged-looking evidence of what was going on. It's evidence of that looks like forged evidence of other stuff.
Ugh, I made that way too confusing. Hope it helped.
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Nixorbo
UberMod
DOOP Secretary
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I can sum it up in one word.
Irony.
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Teral
Helpy McHelphelp
DOOP Secretary
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« Reply #55 on: 02-13-2005 17:33 »
« Last Edit on: 02-13-2005 17:33 »
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No, an 80s comercial for Post's Honeycomb cereal. The slogan song went: "Honeycomb's big, yeah yeah yeah! It's not small, no no no!". Read more here.Edit: URL fixed
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soylentOrange
Urban Legend
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a manwich is a kind of sloppy-joe. Basically, it's ground beef with special sauce on a hamburger bun. Soylent green is a reference to an old scifi movie of the same name where the Earth has become so overcrowded that there isn't enough food to feed everyone. The soylent corporation's solution? Soylent Green, which the main character in the movie discovers is made from the ground up bodies of dead people. Hence two other jokes in futurama you probably missed: Fry: "What if the secret ingredient is... people?!" Leela: "No, there's already a soda like that. Soylent Cola" Fry: "Oh... How is it?" Leela: "It varies from person to person" and... bubblegum tate: "Soylent green is my kind of people!"
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Teral
Helpy McHelphelp
DOOP Secretary
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Not sure if you're asking, but in case you are...
A sextant is maritime instrument used for navigation. The most common use is to measure the height of stars, the Moon or, most commonly, the Sun relevant to the horizon. If you have a sextant and a reliable clock a skilled navigator can determine his position pretty accurately.
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Ralph Snart
Agent Provocateur
Near Death Star Inhabitant
DOOP Secretary
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Teral, with Loran and GPS, most people don't know what a sextant is. My dad taught me the basics of how to use one over 30 years ago, but I was never that great with it.
Sextants have been around for centuries. They've actually been around longer than accurate timepieces.
Once again, you show us that you are indeed a wealth of knowledge and you are willing to share it with the less well informed.
However "...with pop-up sextant" is a great pun.
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Teral
Helpy McHelphelp
DOOP Secretary
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Originally posted by HipNoJoe: Well I "get" this joke in that it makes me laugh, but I'm trying to figure out the source. Zapp has a horse named "Felicity" and it is a male. I thought it referenced Niedermeyer's horse in Animal House, but I can't find the name of that horse. Is there a specific reference for this or is it just a non-specific Branniganism? Might be a reference to the show "Felicity" which aired on the WB Network around the time the episode was produced.
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