Off Topic!, For all our "general" off topic tendencies Options

[naydi]

Could be worse - he was hot by 80's standards. I had a huge crush on him back then.

HA - I had to look from home tonight because I couldn't see where the banana hammock comment was coming from on my work computer. THAT is just funny as h'ell, ADA!!!

Cvl - I'm glad to see that you received the proper interventional treatment to heal so well following your confessed 80's affliction. I, myself, needed two bad post-Purple Rain albums in a row to recover from mine. Family - It is just soooo vitally important to receive their support when times are tough... just soooo vitally important *sigh*

[naydi]

^^

Ah shite - having just read a comment somewhere else re: The X-Files, I'm remembering that didn't Mulder disappear at some point and Scully didn't know where he was??? crap

[Seraphina]

Yup Naydi, also known as the beginning of the end for me as an X-files fan, because it was all written around Duchovny leaving/doing less episodes. But that`s besides the point, sorry! I need to read back to read the X-files comment .

Did I mention I love the way this thread has turned out .

[CvlSrvnt]

Cvl - I'm glad to see that you received the proper interventional treatment to heal so well following your confessed 80's affliction. I, myself, needed two bad post-Purple Rain albums in a row to recover from mine.

Who says I recovered? When I'm not here or on the Reel, I'm on A-Team sites (yes, there is a twelve-step program, no I haven't gotten past step 1 ).

Family - It is just soooo vitally important to receive their support when times are tough... just soooo vitally important *sigh*

And failing that, there are always the other loonies on the boards

[CvlSrvnt]

Ah shite - having just read a comment somewhere else re: The X-Files, I'm remembering that didn't Mulder disappear at some point and Scully didn't know where he was??? crap

Not to mention the subject of at least 20 fanfics for [insert show name here].

[naydi]

Not to mention the subject of at least 20 fanfics for [insert show name here].

Who's got time for fanfics when they're busy dissecting the real thing for their own personal, life-escaping enjoyment??!

[naydi]

Yup Naydi, also known as the beginning of the end for me as an X-files fan, because it was all written around Duchovny leaving/doing less episodes. But that`s besides the point, sorry! I need to read back to read the X-files comment .

Did I mention I love the way this thread has turned out .

I'd stopped watching X-Files waaay before then, but you've gotta love the moves made for TV big fishes with dreams of movie stardom!!

One thing that's always bothered me with that whole ego phenomenon, and the failure that goes along with it, is that David Caruso was mocked visciously for leaving NYPD Blue to "become a movie star". It's amazing how every single entertainment reporting outlet across the US decided to come together in faux amnesia blatantly ignoring the fact that the man started out in movies in the first d'amn place!!! I saw him in King of New York yeeeeaaaarrs before NYPD Blue was even on the air.

'course, none of any of this has dook to do with Vincent or LOCI, but I just thought I'd take this opportunity to put forth the rare 'public' comment defending David Caruso! gotta love your fellow man...

[naydi]

Hi-dee;

I just got a lovely PM, but I can't reply to the person who sent it because that part of my board access was the last to go and, apparently, will be the last to come back. ('skampyyyyy - Help! ) A very important question was raised within this private note, though, which shuddered me to my soul to not try to address immediately via the only method currently available:

No, my friend. I am not a David Caruso fan.

Ha - haaaaaaaaaaaa!! I did feel really bad for the guy for getting unfairly beat up by the media like that, though; especially behind such a convenient historical lie......

na

[Seraphina]

Hi-dee;

I just got a lovely PM, but I can't reply to the person who sent it because that part of my board access was the last to go and, apparently, will be the last to come back. ('skampyyyyy - Help! ) A very important question was raised within this private note, though, which shuddered me to my soul to not try to address immediately via the only method currently available:

No, my friend. I am not a David Caruso fan.

Ha - haaaaaaaaaaaa!! I did feel really bad for the guy for getting unfairly beat up by the media like that, though; especially behind such a convenient historical lie......

na

Oops.

And I am very very sorry of course...

[naydi]

As much fun as I'm having, we've got to get this thread back on Vincent at some point...

Okay, one more: Cvl, I'm here for you. I thought kicking Hasselhoff was a major step in and of itself, but I didn't know you had it so bad. Dirk Benedict. That, that's just a h'ell of a thing... Just remember, the first step is recognizing that you have a problem. It's all step by step, day by day, my friend. And just know that, yes, I did let the purple elf go, but, it was just as hard for me to turn away from the MacGyver MasterCard commercial as it was to not turn to USA for the reruns back in the day... I did it, though - You can too!!!

[CvlSrvnt]

Okay, one more: Cvl, I'm here for you. I thought kicking Hasselhoff was a major step in and of itself, but I didn't know you had it so bad. Dirk Benedict. That, that's just a h'ell of a thing... Just remember, the first step is recognizing that you have a problem. It's all step by step, day by day, my friend. And just know that, yes, I did let the purple elf go, but, it was just as hard for me to turn away from the MacGyver MasterCard commercial as it was to not turn to USA for the reruns back in the day... I did it, though - You can too!!!

Yup, had the MacGyver thing goin' on too. But the A-Team issue is worse than you think. It wasn't Dirk Benedict...it was (and still is) Dwight Shultz.

Hey, at least he can act.

Okay, folks, we now return you to your regularly scheduled Vincent thread.

[Seraphina]

Since sometimes getting off topic is just impossible to prevent and I heard that we were allowed to start an off topic thread, I thought I`d kick off with this one .

Now, a major problem for an off topic thread is that the choice of subjects is only limited by the subject of the board, in this case LOCI, which leaves a rough estimation of 1000000000000000000 if not more subjects to talk about. Don`t get me wrong, I truly doubt it will be a problem for us here to fill up this precious part of the world wide web, but still, making a first post is really kind of hard . Sort of. A little. Not really acutally .

To just jump into an off topic discussion somewhere on this board about kicking the habit of Dirk Benedict/Dwight Shultz/David Hasselhoff....mine was David Duchovny/X-files. DD I was over pretty quickly, but the X-files, I still have to force myself to not watch when I find it`s on tv (which is always at the most impossible time of the evening, also known as my bed time ). And I miss the online community...

And, because I really don`t want this to be a coherent post, I thought it`d be interesting to do a little round of a/s/l (age/sex/location)? Obviously asking those questions makes me obligated to go first so: 21/female/the Netherlands.

Let`s get off topic people !

[naydi]

<heh heh>

35/female/Wincester, MA (suburb just outside of Boston)

What?!? Was the online community built not stronger than the faux life of the show? ****, there's another board I frequent where the band hasn't put out anything in over two years and the nuts couldn't care less... That's the bad thing about strictly limiting discussion just to the entertainment/er, it/themself. There's multiples of hundreds of posts per day in this board's general discussion section, some of it pretty interesting, pertinent, and/or breaking news. I'd been studying in silence so deeply that particular exam day, that it wasn't until taking a mental break to send an email to my boss (asking for the next day off, too, for a written assignment from the weekend's clinical time that there was no possible way of doing for the next class lest I learned to break the laws of time and space... waaaaaay too much going on this month... i'm convinced the school is trying to kill us) that I found out about the Corey Lidle plane crash in NYC. I'd just happened to swing by the board to be nosy for a second. Reading about the whole thing shocked the h'll out of me, because just what was happening was still unknown. But anyway, what the h'll is my point??? I'ono... I don't even think X-Files is replayed up here anymore, unless it's on Sci Fi. Loved that channel when it came out. Then it went from have "real" movies and TV shows to playing bad, made for sci fi junk and stuff like Stargate and such, so I just lost all interest. But, X-Files; I can't even remember when or why I got to the point of -oookay, I'm done... Might have had something to do with all the bees or something, or was that in the X-Files movie that I never actually saw? More than likely what killed it for me was the hype. I hate hype. I hate being told what I should and shouldn't enjoy. It's just so intrusively annoying to me. The Matrix got me because I saw it by accident during a period where I was consciously ignoring all media outlets. A cleansing period, if you will. A friend asked me to go to the movies, I said sure, she picked the movie, I left saying D'AMN! Had I actually been paying attention to the media at the time, I wouldn't have gone to see it. So, I think that's it. I more than likely got sick of hearing everybody and their mother talking about the X-Files to the point that it lost all appeal to me.

Do you remember American Gothic?? Gary Cole was the man for a hot second.



Even after he went and lost his **** mind....



But he has recovered quite nicely....



Read something about Vincent actually considering playing Fred Flinstone for a second. Glad the effect of the mind control drugs slipped into his Folgers before the death-defying escape from the guerillas or whatever massive blow to the head he must have suffered around that the time wore off when it did... There'd have been NO recovering from that sh't!!!! Just none

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[pinkpjs]

Do you remember American Gothic?? Gary Cole was the man for a hot second.

I LOVED that show AND Gary!
This was before TiVO and since I live in the "sticks", my brother would tape the shows for me. Just this past Christmas he gave me the DVD set.

Mo - 40/Female/Bois D'arc, Texas

[naydi]

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I haven't seen an episode in yeeeeaaaars.... hmmm, going to have to check out Netflix to see if they've got it... Now, THERE'S a show that should be playing on the Sci Fi... I'd watch it. Think it's related to NBC somehow maybe via the Universal or General Electric (or Westinghouse?) parent company thingie. Pass it on - if anyone reading is someone who might care!!!

You know, I really don't watch much TV beyond LOCI, Discovery, Animal Planet, Science Channel, Bravo and the like. Did just add TBS to the DVR mix though, after finding out one early that one of "my show"s is on the air over there. Anyone who can tell me what it is gets a nice, fresh-baked, warm and chocolately cookie...*






*fees, taxes, and fabrication of all prizes to be the be the sole responsibility of the winning contestant

[CvlSrvnt]

Anyone who can tell me what it is gets a nice, fresh-baked, warm and chocolately cookie...*

Scrubs? No wait, that's Comedy Central. Sex and the City's been on there for a while. I know they just added King of Queens...oh crap. How did I get to know so much about syndicated tv when I work 120 hours a week?

btw, so many of my posts are OT that my rare on-topic posts should probably be posted here. But anyone who's been here longer than 10 minutes knows that I always feel free to act as the peanut gallery.

31/f/South Suburbs, Chicago IL

[peachybc]

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. Anyone who can tell me what it is gets a nice, fresh-baked, warm and chocolately cookie...

This is easy. It's "NewsRadio." :-)

[Seraphina]

Ah d.amn! The picture didn`t work on my own computer! I would have known that! I love Newsradio! In high school some others and I were totally addicted...my nickname was Smaz for a while. Realizing now that Maura Tierney was my favorite actress for a long time and that I`ve totally lost touch with what she`s doing right now (don`t watch ER anymore). But that`s off topic...oh right....

I think I have a more 'on topic' reply in my head, but it`s dinnertime here.

Ah, Newsradio, good memories....

[naydi]

well, so much for the attempt at quoting....

For Peachy:



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as far as high school years....




..think again!!!

[naydi]

well, so much for the attempt at


....
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as far as high school years....


..think again!!!

^^^
Looking back, that last post wasn't exactly clear... Anyone have any guesses as to the show above?


(let your first guess go...)