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Postby Gravity Defier » Mon Sep 05, 2011 12:18 pm

I guess I don't see those things as corn specifically but point taken. :)
and what about corn tortillas?
Sure, often enough but I'm thinking the literal cobs of corn or kernels (is that what it's called?) that would come directly off the cob.
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Postby Luet » Mon Sep 05, 2011 1:57 pm

It's very easy. The only corn I ever get is when it's hidden in something else...like, err, okay. I guess I don't eat corn.
Wow, I went really far down the chain because you said you didn't eat it even when it was hidden in something else. But you don't count CORN tortillas?! Come on! I call foul. That's made almost completely of CORN meal. How about corn bread, corn flakes, corn chex...need I go on?

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Postby Gravity Defier » Mon Sep 05, 2011 2:01 pm

I meant hidden in the same sense that I only eat carrots if they're hidden in a salad; I won't eat it in baby or adult carrot form otherwise. You know, obvious, original form. Though, for the record, I don't eat corn bread, corn flakes, or corn chex, though rice chex are yummy.
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Postby VelvetElvis » Mon Sep 05, 2011 2:05 pm

I don't eat corn either. It's like popping a zit with your teeth and I just won't do it.
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Postby neo-dragon » Mon Sep 05, 2011 2:13 pm

Thanks. I think you've just ruined corn for me.
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Postby Luet » Mon Sep 05, 2011 2:18 pm

Not me! Corn on the cob (plain, no butter or salt) is so delicious. In season, I could eat a few cobs for dinner.
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Postby Eaquae Legit » Mon Sep 05, 2011 3:35 pm

I have not seen Scarface, Fight Club, Citizen Kane, or any of the Godfather movies.
I had no idea who Jeremy Kyle is until someone decided I really ought to know.
I didn't know who Ruskin was until someone sat me down to watch Desperate Romantics. I still have only a vague idea of the history of art.
I haven't read Sandman.
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Postby Luet » Mon Sep 05, 2011 8:51 pm

I have not seen Scarface or any of the Godfather movies.
I have no idea who Jeremy Kyle is.
I don't know who Ruskin is or the Desperate Romantics. I still have only a vague idea of the history of art.
I haven't read Sandman.
Okay, I can repeat, in slightly altered form, the above.
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Postby Gravity Defier » Mon Sep 05, 2011 8:53 pm

I think some of you are using awfully strange definitions for "popular."
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Postby Luet » Mon Sep 05, 2011 9:00 pm

Well, I wasn't sure if everyone else knew those people/things she was talking about. There is always a chance that I don't know EVERYthing like I think I do. Even I can’t be a super smart, smarty-smart pants all the time.* :P

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Postby Gravity Defier » Mon Sep 05, 2011 9:17 pm

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Postby Platypi007 » Mon Sep 05, 2011 10:39 pm

Until tonight I had not seen Reservoir Dogs, but I'm watching it on Netflix right now.

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Postby CezeN » Mon Sep 05, 2011 11:05 pm

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Postby Eaquae Legit » Tue Sep 06, 2011 1:37 am

I think some of you are using awfully strange definitions for "popular."
In my defence on the Ruskin one, I thought that was a totally reasonable one to be ignorant of, until a roomful of my housemates gave me shocked and appalled looks. I also had to fess up that I had no idea the pre-Raphaelites came after Raphael, and that earned even more shocked looks.
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Postby starlooker » Tue Sep 06, 2011 8:12 am

Hm. But -- doesn't "pre" mean before?

Um.

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Postby Mich » Tue Sep 06, 2011 9:04 am

Ah, so it means they wanted to go back to how painting was before Raphael.

Makes sense.
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Postby starlooker » Tue Sep 06, 2011 9:07 am

Yeah. Mark Twain was kind of sarcastic about Raphael. I should go and look up his paintings.

ETA: Wikipedia has it! The Miraculous Draught of Fishes! It's mentioned in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. I believe the line was something about how his art was so "fresh and unconventional" and "'The Miraculous Draught of Fishes' in which Raphael puts in a miracle of his own -- three men in a boat that wouldn't hold a dog."
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Postby Jayelle » Tue Sep 06, 2011 10:33 am

...
three men in a boat that wouldn't hold a dog."
Whoa, my mind has just been blown or confused or something. There's a (fantastic) novel by Jerome K Jerome called "Three Men in a Boat (to say nothing of the dog)" and it came out in the same year as A Connecticut Yankee... Was that a coincidence? Was that kind of thing a saying at the time?
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Postby starlooker » Tue Sep 06, 2011 1:19 pm

Woah. Dude.

If it helps, the original quote actually said "three men in a canoe which wouldn't hold a dog without upsetting."

Still, though. Weird.
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Postby Gravity Defier » Tue Sep 06, 2011 7:04 pm

I think some of you are using awfully strange definitions for "popular."
In my defence on the Ruskin one, I thought that was a totally reasonable one to be ignorant of, until a roomful of my housemates gave me shocked and appalled looks. I also had to fess up that I had no idea the pre-Raphaelites came after Raphael, and that earned even more shocked looks.

All the same, I don't think using academics is the most accurate way of defining popular; not wrong by any means, just not the standards I would use. Then again, we're a bunch of nerds, so our idea of popular is also likely skewed more than I'd like to believe. :)
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Postby Petra456 » Mon Sep 12, 2011 9:38 am

I finally thought of some!

I've only seen episode four of Star Wars.

I've only seen the first Indiana Jones (I don't count that Crystal Skull one, it was pretty bad).

I've never seen Back to the Future.

I've never seen Avatar.
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Postby Luet » Mon Sep 12, 2011 10:15 am

I've never seen Back to the Future.
This is the worst. Gah! See it!
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Postby Gravity Defier » Mon Sep 12, 2011 11:48 am

I've never seen Back to the Future.

:shock: But...but...Twinny? It's like I don't know you anymore.
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Postby starlooker » Mon Sep 12, 2011 12:52 pm


I've only seen the first Indiana Jones (I don't count that Crystal Skull one, it was pretty bad).
Do yourself a favor and skip the second one. (Donny wouldn't let me skip it, he said that if everyone else had to suffer through it, I did too.) The third one is really good, though.
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Postby VelvetElvis » Mon Sep 12, 2011 4:01 pm

I've never seen Back to the Future.
This is the worst. Gah! See it!
I agree that is the worst. Movie that is. I thought it was mediocre.
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Postby Gravity Defier » Mon Sep 12, 2011 4:26 pm

I've never seen Back to the Future.
This is the worst. Gah! See it!
I agree that is the worst. Movie that is. I thought it was mediocre.

:shock: You are from Jersey to me!*



No, seriously, I'm a bit surprised by that but I'm wondering when it is you first saw it. Child or adult?




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Postby Petra456 » Mon Sep 12, 2011 4:40 pm

I've never seen Back to the Future.

:shock: But...but...Twinny? It's like I don't know you anymore.
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Postby Gravity Defier » Mon Sep 12, 2011 4:44 pm

Hey, don't make that face! You know I love you, all the same. It's just a silly movie that I'm sure you'll see eventually. If you don't on your own, it'll just be an excuse for me to try to visit you again later on. Because, while I don't think we will have the time this go-round, you owe me at least one night in bed with ice cream, Little Mermaid, and general girliness.
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Postby VelvetElvis » Mon Sep 12, 2011 5:11 pm

I was 12ish, I think. I found Christopher Lloyd to be loathsome (well, irritating at least) and it ruined the WHOLE thing, just like Zach Galifianakis ruined both Due Date and- to a lesser degree- The Hangover for me.


Alea, you know I'm from Tennessee and I can only look with disdain on anyone from any further north than DC. I wish I were dead.
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Postby Jayelle » Mon Sep 12, 2011 5:12 pm

I've never seen Avatar.

...but I think that's because it came out when I had a newborn.

and...that's it. I like knowing everything.
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Postby 3nder » Mon Sep 12, 2011 5:56 pm

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Postby Gravity Defier » Mon Sep 12, 2011 6:42 pm

I was 12ish, I think. I found Christopher Lloyd to be loathsome (well, irritating at least) and it ruined the WHOLE thing, just like Zach Galifianakis ruined both Due Date and- to a lesser degree- The Hangover for me.

But...Lone Wolf Speech! I actually disliked most of The Hangover but thought Zach AlphamabetisIcan'tspellhisname saved it from complete dislike with that speech.


Alea, you know I'm from Tennessee and I can only look with disdain on anyone from any further north than DC. I wish I were dead.
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Postby zeroguy » Mon Sep 12, 2011 9:27 pm

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Postby Petra456 » Mon Sep 12, 2011 10:52 pm

Hey, don't make that face! You know I love you, all the same. It's just a silly movie that I'm sure you'll see eventually. If you don't on your own, it'll just be an excuse for me to try to visit you again later on. Because, while I don't think we will have the time this go-round, you owe me at least one night in bed with ice cream, Little Mermaid, and general girliness.
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Is that face better? I don't even know why i've never seen it! It's even one of my older sister's favorite movies, that I know she's watched countless times!

Oh, I have also never seen The Karate Kid all the way though. I've seen parts, but I want to watch the whole thing!
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Postby Gravity Defier » Mon Sep 12, 2011 11:15 pm

Oh, I have also never seen The Karate Kid all the way though. I've seen parts, but I want to watch the whole thing!
Aye, Twinny-san!

Some people preferred the newer one but I think the original should be seen even so.
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