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Gorky
DOOP Secretary
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"What is Futurama?" was one of the answers questions on tonight's episode of Jeopardy. The clue involved Bender and his quote from AOI I about extortion and how the 'X' makes it sound cool.
Needless to say, that kind of, you know, reminded me of Futurama.
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Welshy
Crustacean
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I walked over a sewer grate the other day and wondered if there was a society of mutants below my feet.
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birdman
Crustacean
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Thats a really interesting article a society underground who knew. I'm reminded of Futurama every morning when I feed my chicken's. Fire, water, Chicken!
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Welshy
Crustacean
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I saw a guy in the phone book named Phillip Wong. Made me smile.
My dance teacher was named Phillip Wong- I doubt either Amy or Fry is a good dancer. And yesterday my teacher was talking about how we take technology for granted and how laundry used to be done by hand, so of course I said "Back in my day we didnt need a mechanical washing unit, we just used a washing machine!"
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Gorky
DOOP Secretary
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I am currently enrolled in a speech class, and one of our regular assignments involves analyzing a famous speech based on its content and rhetorical mastery and modern-day relevance and whatnot. This time around, I have decided to write on Nixon's "Checkers" speech, for the sole reason that its title reminds me of "A Head in the Polls" and how that dog could never just SHUT UP, DAMN IT. (I'm even mentioning Futurama and its use of Nixon in my paper. You know, 'cause I'm a serious academic.)
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Jezzem
Urban Legend
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I have two! 1. There's a national park near where I live called Morton National Park which always reminds me of the writer of the same name. 2. Whenever I see the Frenzal Rhomb album "Shut Your Mouth" in my iTunes library, I always read it in the Professor's voice from Bender's Game: Elevator Steward: Maintenance shaft 7 serving... Farnsworth: Shut your mouth! Elevator Steward: I'm just talking about the shaft!
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Tedward
Professor
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Heh, I've just come across the word "morbo" while translating text for Latin.
And how appropriate that word is, for in the context Cicero is declaring that Catiline is his Vermin of the Week, and saying that Rome is DOOOOMED if they don't do something about it now!
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Scrappylive
Liquid Emperor
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I watched The Adventures of Tintin over the weekend. Tintin's hair, though not as defined, definitely reminds me of Fry.
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DannyJC13
DOOP Secretary
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Maurice LaMarche does the voice of Mr. Freeze in Arkham City, which I'm currently playing through.
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DannyJC13
DOOP Secretary
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DiMaggio does a lot of work in video games, I swear he does some of the thugs in Arkham City.
He also does the voice of Louie McGraff, a playable character in the BioShock 2 multiplayer. And a billion other game characters. But I know him most for that.
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Welshy
Crustacean
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I had trivia team practice on Friday and one of the answers was Katey Sagal.
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PeskyOwl
Crustacean
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Ever hear about the ELO concept album, "Time"? It's about a guy from the 1980's that gets thrown 100 years into future by aleins or something. Most of the pain the hypothetical hero feels is from missing his 20th century lover but it goes over some other stuff, too.
*One of the first things the hero does is get a ticket to the moon. *The hero tries to date a robot that looks like and has the memories of his former lover. She's also a telephone. (Think "Rebirth" or that one episode with Lucy Lui; the telephone thing is like a Bender-Can-Do-Anything type of gag.) * "Ah, the ground at my feet, maybe it's just the old street / But everything that I know lies underneath." (Old New York?) * The Hero ends up having to send himself int othe future to stop evil brains.
...I made up that last bullet point. But yeah. It makes me think of Futurama.
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Tedward
Professor
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Just like Hermes mentioning to Fry "the Federation from your Star Trek program" as an analogy for the DOOP, today the professor in my business ethics class used Star Trek's United Federation of Planets as an example of an entity that is supposed to oversee the ethics of international affairs. Unlike in Futurama, though, he used that example first, and then the UN.
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meisterPOOP
Professor
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Meh, Star Trek was always searching for a M class planet. All they found was a crispy chocolate coating over caramel.
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Gorky
DOOP Secretary
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Someone rented a carpet cleaning machine at work the other day, a transaction for which one must provide a photo ID. While I ordinarily hate doing the paperwork for these rentals, I had a moment of dorky giddiness when the guy handed me his driver's license and I saw that his home address was in Nutley, New Jersey. I wonder if he's ever taken the 10:15 bus...
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