Shiny Metal Ass
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Originally posted by Nixorbo: <h2>NERD!</h2> indubitatly!
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Spanghewed
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Did anyone see that episode of "The Simpsons" where Lisa showed Bart that magazine saying that scientists predicted that in a few millennia (or millions of years, can't remember) humans would grow another finger, and Bart commented, "Whoa, five fingers!"
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MuscaDomestica
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If I remember in that episode, God had five at first then at the end when he met Homer again he had four.
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swarez
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Originally posted by JDHannan: The entire reason characters have 8 fingers is so Mickey Mouse could use his hands as little men.
No. It's just easier to draw.
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rikkibarnett
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the "actual" reason for the 8 fingers has something to with matt.G its just his style.heheheheh
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Sil
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If you look at the "You Gotta Do What You Gotta Do" poster behind Leela in SP3K, the miserable looking dude giving the thumbs up actually does have five fingers on that hand.
And I was also gonna bring up about the commentary too - it's the commentary for "Mars University" for anyone who cares - but my betters have already done so.
Sorry for that little interlude!
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Sil
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Matt Groening says in that commentary that it looked weird. I guess it would do after however many years of working with 4-fingered characters on the Simpsons.
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Cube_166
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My Two Cents: They draw four fingers because it saves time. Just accept it. Just because they are drawn with four fingers doesn't mean they have four fingers. I could draw a picture of someone with two heads, they wouldn't actually have two heads.
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Sil
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"This is not a pipe."
You'll get it in a minute!
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Sil
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It's a painting by Magritte of a pipe, which he insisted was not a pipe to his critics. When they gave up arguing he said "Ah, but it isn't a pipe - its paint arranged to look like a pipe. It's a picture of a pipe, not a pipe." Kind of similar to what Cube was saying.
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Sil
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Feel the insanity!
There's no need for vitriol, JD - we're just throwing ideas up into the air - and if you care to actually read the rest of the thread, you'll notice that there's more than one post stating what you just said. And in a civilised manner.
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Sil
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JD - *read* my posts! I'm sorry if I came off a bit aggressive - I was having a bad day. *is contrite*
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Sil
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Originally posted by JDHannan: What the hell is the matter with you people? How can you like Futurama and blatantly ignore and disregard Matt Groening's words that come out of his mouth. Futurama was going to be done in 5-finger format but it looked too weird to them and they changed it. No one from Korea said "we're not drawing an extra two fingers, boss" and no one said "lets imply that they have five fingers by drawing 80% of them" I guarantee that if the original cartoons from the Mickey Mouse era had five fingers, 99% of cartoons nowadays would have five. Walt Disney is the foundation of all cartoons. I'd already said that - and backed you up. But again, I'm sorry - I really was having a bad day. I'll try to be less aggressive next time. I'm a bit too sensitive!
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chickuaua
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I think that in a Simpsons episode Bart mentioned that people used to have 5 fingers on each hand... "Losers" :P
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Sil
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Yes - I got my head bitten off for bringing it up.
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