Posts by Dan Caugherty

Most Americans doubt Big Bang, not too sure about evolution, climate change – survey

You're an American, aren't you?

So, what IS the worst film ever made?

Re: So many...

Sorry, but Waking Life is quite good. One of my top 5 of all time.

It's just not for everyone. It's slow, ponderous, and takes effort to watch. But the ending, which does tie all of it together, makes it worth the effort.

Southland Tales is crap, however.

Re: Channel 4

That movie would be "Robot Monster".

Re: Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!

I wouldn't be so harsh with AofKT. I was a comedy that was really trying to be bad. Besides it had some funny moments (the sheet music scene).

And, any work that points out that Donny Osmond's work was mostly crap needs a thumbs-up.

Re: Manos: the Hands of Fate

Wait a minute.. you wouldn't be the Petrea Mitchell who contributed to the MST3K fan pages back in the day, would you? [Bows appropriately]

Re: Manos: the Hands of Fate

Actually, I thought it was one of MST's funniest episodes ever. My face hurt from laughing so much.

Manos, the Hands of Fate - or - Monster A Go Go

Another MST3K fan chiming in for Manos, the film that answers the question: "What kind of horror film would a west Texas fertilizer salesman make?"

The answer: A really really bad one.

What blew my mind about the film was not just that it was so awful (and such ripe MST3K material). It was that, yes, an entire hour of footage was deleted by the MST crew in order for it to be shown. (Yes, the consarned thing runs for over 2 hours.)

And Monster A Go Go is just pathetic tedium from start to finish. Also jaw-droppingly terrible.

Russian diplomat caught driving while 15 TIMES over booze limit

Just in time for the US holidays!

I'm making Thanksgiving dinner over here this week for 6 adults + 4 ravenous children. I'd like to borrow this guy's liver afterward to clean the pans.

(Choosing a pint, of course. Tho' a pic of Graham Chapman from 'Meaning of Life' would be more appropriate, but, what can ya do..)

Gay man offered lesbian neighbours slug pellet curry

Missing details

No word on whether or not the cat was gay. (It's about as relevant as all of the other gender-preference details in this story.)

Breakfast cereal freebie CD dishes up hard-core smut

I don't get it..

The contents were clearly promoting exercise. Didn't she get what she paid for?

(Paris because.. well, if you have to ask...)

Banned US shock-jock demands Clinton intervention

The only proper response from Sec'y Clinton would be:

"Want a little cheese with that whine?"

Conservative US shock-jock to sue Wacky Jacqui

Aw c'mon, let him in. Pretty please?

In the States, Mr. Savage is undesirable, though not necessarily *an* undesirable.

If you could please let him in, THEN put him on a terrorist watch list, we'd be most grateful.

Hey, the man is overworked. He needs a (perpetual) Caribbean holiday.

Posting as Paris, since Michael and Jacqui have just enough brains between them to match hers..

Today be talk like a pirate day

@Dangermouse

No, you're not.

(Paris, 'cuz she's an empty-headed celeb as well)

AT&T prices up PAYG 3G iPhones

Not made of money

The PAYG pricing is just obnoxious here in the US. I can put as many minutes as I like on my battered Sony Ericsson phone for (somewhat more) reasonable rates (via AT&T's Go Phone plan). But it looks like I'd have to pay a $600 premium for the same privilege with an iPhone.

Dumb dumb dumb.

Oh well. Let the fools and their money be parted.

British Columbia stray foot tally hits six

The truth is .. well, you know.

If only the "X-Files" production team never left Vancouver for Hollywood. Mulder and Scully could have cracked this case already.

SCO bags $100m to fight another day

@Tim Jenkins

And if you're associated with Steve Norris, I have some beachfront property in Oklahoma to talk about..

Wheels come off Paris Hilton movie vehicle

"In the not too distant future.."

God I miss Mystery Science Theater 3000.. so much fodder, nowhere to stick it these days..

Japanese to patent transparent frog

Had to do a double-take

It looked for a moment like someone was trying to patent "transparent fog".

I claim "air" to be prior art on that one.

Eye-O-Sauron™ spy towers still buggy

@Liberty

Okey dokey, try this one for welcomed migration..

"..Give us your tired, well-utilized, overfilled shipping containers from the Far East.. your cheap plastic crap yearning to be bought, by our huddled masses at Wal-Mart, yearning to achieve instant gratification.."

Chuck Norris has two speeds: Walk and Kill

Re: Stupid question but...

It was nice knowing you.

Restored Dam Busters fly again

The N-word: not all movies get "the treatment"

For what it's worth, the Ealing classic "Kind Hearts and Coronets" played on American cable not too long ago, in its entirety, complete with the use of the N-word intact.

And this was on a Sunday afternoon; no "after hours" showing for objectionable content and the like.

Kudos to Turner Classic Movies for airing the film as it was originally shown.

Travelocity accidentally books 1,458 trips between US and Cuba

It's the electorate, stupid

Two words: Florida voters.

Let me explain. There are a humongous number of (first- and second-generation) Cuban exiles in Florida. They'll do anything to subvert the Castro government, no matter how nefarious or tacky.

(Remember the sheer tastelessness of Elian Gonzales' relatives in Miami, when they battered the kid with gifts to show the media how wonderful they were? You couldn't miss it on US TV at the time. Sales of ipecac plummeted that week.)

These people, sadly, vote. And our politicians know it.

Yahoo!'s pink liberation army a threat to America's youth

Homophobia notwithstanding, original poster has other problems

Somebody has apparently not yet realized that the Internet was never even intended to be a democracy, let alone one with any central authority regarding content.

Ideally, the Net is just a metaphor for that big bad scary thing called The World: If you don't agree with something you might see somewhere, then [insert drum roll here]... don't go there!

Thunderous revelation, I know. If anyone else needs a whack with a cluestick, I accept MasterCard and Visa.