NHL Mega-Mock Draft Reboot - Discussion / Draft Thread – DDU-DU DDU-DU PHASE TWENTY-TWO!
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DancingPanther
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Wouldn't be a loophole if it wasn't open.
So I can't choose anything from the legendarium that isn't in the movies, even though only the movies were picked?
@BernieParent what are your thoughts
No, can't pick anything from Tolkien. We made that ruling at the time. There was a good reason for it.
DancingPanther
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Magua
Entirely Palatable Product
I'm not going to take the lazy Studio Ghibli way out of this category, even if it's paralysis by analysis territory picking a single character in the history of movies and television.
The Honolulu Ghibli sashay up to the podium to name as our Team Movie/TV Character II......Virgil Tibbs
Mister. F*** me, yeah, that's my bad. Can you believe Sidney Poitier isn't in the Quackverse? Rectified.
The above quote is iconic, but this scene is an era defining doozy:
From In the Heat of the Night (1967) -- which holds up wonderfully, I might add -- Virgil Tibbs is a Philly homicide detective who, ironically, gets accused of a murder while waiting to get home from a shabby Mississippi train station in a podunk Mississippi town. The reason? He's a black out-of-towner with a fat wallet. Once that's sorted, he's forced by his captain to help investigate the case, which goes as smoothly as you'd expect.
Few can portray impassioned dignity like Sidney Poitier, and Tibbs doesn't take an ounce of shit while shit is hurled at him by the fistful. He knows he's smarter than everyone in town, and the tension arrives in everyone else knowing it too. Mix it all together, what do you get? An all-time great character.
*******
@CanadianFlyer88 -- *gesticulates vigorously*
The Honolulu Ghibli sashay up to the podium to name as our Team Movie/TV Character II......Virgil Tibbs
Mister. F*** me, yeah, that's my bad. Can you believe Sidney Poitier isn't in the Quackverse? Rectified.
The above quote is iconic, but this scene is an era defining doozy:
From In the Heat of the Night (1967) -- which holds up wonderfully, I might add -- Virgil Tibbs is a Philly homicide detective who, ironically, gets accused of a murder while waiting to get home from a shabby Mississippi train station in a podunk Mississippi town. The reason? He's a black out-of-towner with a fat wallet. Once that's sorted, he's forced by his captain to help investigate the case, which goes as smoothly as you'd expect.
Few can portray impassioned dignity like Sidney Poitier, and Tibbs doesn't take an ounce of shit while shit is hurled at him by the fistful. He knows he's smarter than everyone in town, and the tension arrives in everyone else knowing it too. Mix it all together, what do you get? An all-time great character.
*******
@CanadianFlyer88 -- *gesticulates vigorously*
CanadianFlyer88
Knublin' PPs
He's a complicated man and no one understands him but his woman.
Who's the black private dick that's a sex machine to all the chicks?
Who is the man that would risk his neck for his brother man?
Who's the cat that won't cop out when there's danger all about?
They say this cat is a bad mother and he is a proud member of the Seattle Sockeyes.
Team Movie/TV character II: John Shaft
@Lord Defect, you're damn right.
Who's the black private dick that's a sex machine to all the chicks?
Who is the man that would risk his neck for his brother man?
Who's the cat that won't cop out when there's danger all about?
They say this cat is a bad mother and he is a proud member of the Seattle Sockeyes.
Team Movie/TV character II: John Shaft
@Lord Defect, you're damn right.
You know who sucks? That Markstrom character. F*** that guy. What a sieve. Did you see that last goal? Bum.
We start the day with @Lord Defect on the clock with a pair (phrasing), @CanadianFlyer88 on deck, MacGruber on the lido deck, and pit who FELL INTO THE PIT on the lido afterdeck. @ajgoal has one pick to make up and one pick upcoming soon-ish.
You know how I was watching season three of "Yes I Do," and how I complained about the machine translation they used, and how it sucked almighty ass? Well, the final two episodes didn't even have those. These Chinese bastards made them "VIP" episodes or something, so you'd have to buy a package to get the subtitles, I guess. I had to watch with no words as everything was resolved, relying solely on their expressions and reactions. They even had the cast in the studio afterwards to share updates on how things are going. I figured out who got together, and it was all good news, but for f***'s sake.
OMG speaking of sucking, I just saw the commercial for "History of the World Part II" again. There's no one on Earth who wanted that film to be made more than I did, but it had to be done back in the day when Mel Brooks still had his superpowers. It's arguably his best film ever - I understand the pushback on that with other choices and have no problem with several options, particularly "Blazing Saddles," but I have always thought it was his best. This f***ing thing looks atrocious. Leave legacies alone, you lazy motherf***ers.
We start the day with @Lord Defect on the clock with a pair (phrasing), @CanadianFlyer88 on deck, MacGruber on the lido deck, and pit who FELL INTO THE PIT on the lido afterdeck. @ajgoal has one pick to make up and one pick upcoming soon-ish.
You know how I was watching season three of "Yes I Do," and how I complained about the machine translation they used, and how it sucked almighty ass? Well, the final two episodes didn't even have those. These Chinese bastards made them "VIP" episodes or something, so you'd have to buy a package to get the subtitles, I guess. I had to watch with no words as everything was resolved, relying solely on their expressions and reactions. They even had the cast in the studio afterwards to share updates on how things are going. I figured out who got together, and it was all good news, but for f***'s sake.
OMG speaking of sucking, I just saw the commercial for "History of the World Part II" again. There's no one on Earth who wanted that film to be made more than I did, but it had to be done back in the day when Mel Brooks still had his superpowers. It's arguably his best film ever - I understand the pushback on that with other choices and have no problem with several options, particularly "Blazing Saddles," but I have always thought it was his best. This f***ing thing looks atrocious. Leave legacies alone, you lazy motherf***ers.
BernieParent
In misery of redwings of suckage for a long time
We can chat.
A pick shared is an amplified admiration. My picks are your picks, DP.
Beef Invictus
Revolutionary Positivity
I think it's a noose
BernieParent
In misery of redwings of suckage for a long time
Not everyone has a child who is actively trying to kill them.
Hollywood Cannon
I'm Away From My Desk
BiggE
SELL THE DAMN TEAM
I'm not going to take the lazy Studio Ghibli way out of this category, even if it's paralysis by analysis territory picking a single character in the history of movies and television.
The Honolulu Ghibli sashay up to the podium to name as our Team Movie/TV Character II......Virgil Tibbs
Mister. F*** me, yeah, that's my bad. Can you believe Sidney Poitier isn't in the Quackverse? Rectified.
The above quote is iconic, but this scene is an era defining doozy:
From In the Heat of the Night (1967) -- which holds up wonderfully, I might add -- Virgil Tibbs is a Philly homicide detective who, ironically, gets accused of a murder while waiting to get home from a shabby Mississippi train station in a podunk Mississippi town. The reason? He's a black out-of-towner with a fat wallet. Once that's sorted, he's forced by his captain to help investigate the case, which goes as smoothly as you'd expect.
Few can portray impassioned dignity like Sidney Poitier, and Tibbs doesn't take an ounce of shit while shit is hurled at him by the fistful. He knows he's smarter than everyone in town, and the tension arrives in everyone else knowing it too. Mix it all together, what do you get? An all-time great character.
*******
@CanadianFlyer88 -- *gesticulates vigorously*
Technically he’s already in the Quackverse since I previously selected Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner, but a fine choice nonetheless.
Lord Defect
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Yeah but now he has legroom
Lord Defect
Secretary of Blowtorching
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I am aware that I am up, I thought I had at least another week to prep my next two picks.
Lord Defect
Secretary of Blowtorching
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- College Course - Dealing Tactfully With Difficult People
- The University of California, Irvine, has an online class all about dealing with, well, jerks. Ranging from “manipulators” to “chronic complainers,” difficult people are grouped into categories as students learn the best way to deal with them and boost their own confidence.
Lord Defect
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Thanks Defect, stupendous pick btw. That’s sure to be helpful in the q-verse.
For our next pick we will be taking our tv show, GI Joe.
@CanadianFlyer88 now you know, and knowing is half the battle!
For our next pick we will be taking our tv show, GI Joe.
@CanadianFlyer88 now you know, and knowing is half the battle!
ajgoal
Almost always never serious
- Jun 29, 2015
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ajgoal
Almost always never serious
- Jun 29, 2015
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Sorry about my tardiness.
For all those times we want the other Quackverse members to feel really bad about themselves. The rest of the time, she'll be talking to the members of our spite band.
Team TV/Movie Character II: Sophia Petrillo (Golden Girls)
For all those times we want the other Quackverse members to feel really bad about themselves. The rest of the time, she'll be talking to the members of our spite band.
Team TV/Movie Character II: Sophia Petrillo (Golden Girls)
CanadianFlyer88
Knublin' PPs
Team Actress II
There are plenty of suitable options here, but we'll right a wrong of Earth Prime. This actress is criminally underrated by her peers, as well as the rest of Hollywood during awards seasons. It's shameful she doesn't have an Emmy/Golden Globe for her portrayal of Nora Durst in one of the world's best gems... truthfully, a series few have even heard of let alone watched.
She's always worth the price of admission and usually steals the show. She certainly won't be underrated or unheralded in the Quackverse.
The Seattle Sockeyes are thrilled to select the alliteratively named, even with an unfortunate surname, Carrie Coon.
@Magua, an appropriate Nora Durst quote as it relates to the Quackverse vs Earth Prime: "Over here, we lost some of them. But over there, they lost all of us."
There are plenty of suitable options here, but we'll right a wrong of Earth Prime. This actress is criminally underrated by her peers, as well as the rest of Hollywood during awards seasons. It's shameful she doesn't have an Emmy/Golden Globe for her portrayal of Nora Durst in one of the world's best gems... truthfully, a series few have even heard of let alone watched.
She's always worth the price of admission and usually steals the show. She certainly won't be underrated or unheralded in the Quackverse.
The Seattle Sockeyes are thrilled to select the alliteratively named, even with an unfortunate surname, Carrie Coon.
@Magua, an appropriate Nora Durst quote as it relates to the Quackverse vs Earth Prime: "Over here, we lost some of them. But over there, they lost all of us."
Magua
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ajgoal
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This seems like a pick right here.
Don't forget that Lent starts today, so put your cookies away for the foreseeable.
We start the day with @pit on the clock, @Striiker on deck, Bigglesworth on the lido deck, and Young Pervscratch on the lido afterdeck. If @Magua were a Transformer, he would transform into an abandon cannon. You see what I did there?
Ever morning, I play this iPod game called Wordscapes - it's like a combination of Boggle and a crossword puzzle. I f***ing slay at Boggle almost as hard as I slay at miniature golf, so I am quite good at this f***ing thing. Playing this kind of game allegedly helps to keep your brain from atrophying any more than is necessary, but it's also easy to just get lost in for a few minutes. They have tournaments on the weekend, and I played in them for a while, but I can't compete because of the ads, which come up at least between every other game. I could pay to not have any ads, except for the complete lack of cash. Well, this morning the c*** launched an ad in the middle of the game. And as happens around 50% of the time, the ad didn't work, so it froze the game. I was like "Ok, that's cool then, f*** you."
So that's the story of my life this morning.
We start the day with @pit on the clock, @Striiker on deck, Bigglesworth on the lido deck, and Young Pervscratch on the lido afterdeck. If @Magua were a Transformer, he would transform into an abandon cannon. You see what I did there?
Ever morning, I play this iPod game called Wordscapes - it's like a combination of Boggle and a crossword puzzle. I f***ing slay at Boggle almost as hard as I slay at miniature golf, so I am quite good at this f***ing thing. Playing this kind of game allegedly helps to keep your brain from atrophying any more than is necessary, but it's also easy to just get lost in for a few minutes. They have tournaments on the weekend, and I played in them for a while, but I can't compete because of the ads, which come up at least between every other game. I could pay to not have any ads, except for the complete lack of cash. Well, this morning the c*** launched an ad in the middle of the game. And as happens around 50% of the time, the ad didn't work, so it froze the game. I was like "Ok, that's cool then, f*** you."
So that's the story of my life this morning.
I had no clue how to pick a single movie, especially once you factor in what has been taken through movie franchises and directors.
So I thought to myself: Who has only directed one movie that I like?
Michel Gondry.
And what did he direct?
Team Movie II - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
@Striiker , see you next pick.
So I thought to myself: Who has only directed one movie that I like?
Michel Gondry.
And what did he direct?
Team Movie II - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
@Striiker , see you next pick.
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Awesome pick. Love her.
