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Lee9900

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Just watched my The Force Awakens DVD for the ninth time. This time I got a couple of surprises.

Apparently, Kylo Ren's birth name was Ben solo. Because Han calls him Ben.

Secondly, during the vision Rey gets from luke's light saber, both Yoda and obi Wan kenobi speak to her, and the vision showed both the past and the future.

And i now firmly and vehemently believe she is NOT a Mary Sue. People who made that argument are just being jerks for there were many details they missed, either through honest mistakes or outright dismissal.
 

staropeace

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This sorta sums up the feelings of Canadians and Americans towards each other. Here is a Canadian musician at a memorial for 9/11 victims.
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I love fried okra, and tomatoes and okra.

Me too, man. Love some okra in minestrone. Everybody I know hates okra. And cilantro...nobody likes cilantro. I don't mind it...ain't crazy about it, but I don't despise it like most of these cats I know.

I'm really digging that new Sriracha Ranch dressing from the good people at Hidden Valley Ranch. I vow to find this 'hidden' valley someday, and discover their sacred dressing secrets.
 

Lee9900

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Me too, man. Love some okra in minestrone. Everybody I know hates okra. And cilantro...nobody likes cilantro. I don't mind it...ain't crazy about it, but I don't despise it like most of these cats I know.

I'm really digging that new Sriracha Ranch dressing from the good people at Hidden Valley Ranch. I vow to find this 'hidden' valley someday, and discover their sacred dressing secrets.

That would be the hidden valley in which the Romanian sphinx is found.
 

danie

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Me too, man. Love some okra in minestrone. Everybody I know hates okra. And cilantro...nobody likes cilantro. I don't mind it...ain't crazy about it, but I don't despise it like most of these cats I know.

I'm really digging that new Sriracha Ranch dressing from the good people at Hidden Valley Ranch. I vow to find this 'hidden' valley someday, and discover their sacred dressing secrets.
Mmmm, I love Sriracha sauce; I will have to try this Sriracha ranch dressing of which you speak.
BTW, I love cilantro, especially in my guacamole.
 

Lee9900

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I sometimes hear a movie or show get called cheesy. Most times, they seem to insinuate that it is a bad, or at least, annoying thing.

I really don't understand what they mean by calling a TV show or movie cheesy.

When I go to a store, I se Reese's Pieces and Salted Nut Rolls as the most pornographic snacks ever. And I can never buy a Snicker's bar because it is always laughing at me.
 

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"cheap, inferior," 1896, from Urdu chiz "a thing," from Persian chiz, from O.Pers. *ciš-ciy"something," from PIE pronomial stem *kwo- (see who). Picked up by British in India by 1818 and used in the sense of "a big thing" (especially in the phrase the real chiz). By 1858, cheesy had evolved a slang meaning of "showy," which led to the modern, ironic sense.
 

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"cheap, inferior," 1896, from Urdu chiz "a thing," from Persian chiz, from O.Pers. *ciš-ciy"something," from PIE pronomial stem *kwo- (see who). Picked up by British in India by 1818 and used in the sense of "a big thing" (especially in the phrase the real chiz). By 1858, cheesy had evolved a slang meaning of "showy," which led to the modern, ironic sense.

Thanks for that.

From now on though I will always wonder if they know about that when they say something is cheesy.

For example, one of my pet peeves is when people say a movie quote and think about they know the entire movie when they haven't seen the movie. They really didn't know the full context of the quote.

For example, "Soylent Green is people". and people make a joke about that, but they've never really seen the movie and can't know it is about cannibalism.
 
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Steffen

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I wanna see Shia LaBeouf and Joeseph Gordon Levitt fight to the death with rusty, jagged instruments. The winner gets a quick death.

Dude, that's no kind of battle. JGL would beat Shia with both hands tied behind his back and then breakdance over his corpse. You want a real fight? Toss Gaga and and Bieber in a ring and see which one is still standing. Winner gets to be a spokesperson for Auto-Tune ("Auto-Tune: what passes for music in the 21st century").
 

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I think people love to overreact to Justin Beiber and jar jar Binks.
Now, see. I'm one of the only people I know who liked Jar Jar. He seemed so vulnerable, I guess the mom in me came out. I didn't want anyone to be mean to him. I didn't want him to get hurt.

My son said he is a very racist character. I had no idea!
 

Lee9900

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Now, see. I'm one of the only people I know who liked Jar Jar. He seemed so vulnerable, I guess the mom in me came out. I didn't want anyone to be mean to him. I didn't want him to get hurt.

My son said he is a very racist character. I had no idea!

A black man played Jar jar. The reason they used to claim racism was entirely nonsensical and irrational.
 
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