A quibble
Saying “weather is not climate” or “the plural of anecdote is not data” is like saying “the plural of tree is not forest.”
Well, it might be. How many trees we talking about?
Posted: March 5th, 2008 under personal, science, words.
Comments: 11
Comments
Comment from Steamboat McGoo
Time: March 5, 2008, 10:41 am
What movie was it that had naked invisible brains that crawled around using their spinal cords and sucked people’s brains out? It was set in England. Naturally, atomic power was to blame.
You’re image reminded me of it.
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: March 5, 2008, 10:57 am
I wanted to say The Tingler, but that’s not right. That was the spine thingie that wrapped around your backbone and you had to scream or you died.
But I saw the movie you’re talking about.
Comment from Steamboat McGoo
Time: March 5, 2008, 11:01 am
…and I remember The Tingler. Vincent Price?
Yeah – the brains become visible at the end of the flick and the good guys shoot them and they make a cool putt-putt sound as the blood gushes out. If I recall correctly, GB banned the ending or made them modify it for British viewers. Too gory.
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: March 5, 2008, 11:09 am
Yep. I love Vincent Price. He’d act in ANYTHING if they paid him.
I remember the little free-range brain thingies, though. I’ve tried Googling all the word combinations I can think of, but I’m not turning it up. Maybe Uncle B can help.
He’s out digging at the moment.
Comment from Steamboat McGoo
Time: March 5, 2008, 11:09 am
fiend Without A Face!
ImDb comes through again.
Comment from Steamboat McGoo
Time: March 5, 2008, 11:29 am
I actually have it on …er…laserdisc.
http://aardvarks.wordpress.com/files/2008/03/fiendwithoutface.thumbnail.jpg
Comment from Steamboat McGoo
Time: March 5, 2008, 11:34 am
If you delete the dot-thumbnail its bigger.
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: March 5, 2008, 11:36 am
I HATE the dot thumbnail! Why does WordPress do that!? Who the hell EVER wants to default to a thumbnail?
It does it on the standalone version of the software, too. I keep thinking I’ll poke around in the .php files and see if I can disable that, but then I’d have to do it again if I ever upgraded. Stupid, stupid default.
But, no. I’m a lazy sack of crap, so I just go to a lot more trouble and manually delete all the stupid thumbnails once a month or so…
Comment from porknbean
Time: March 5, 2008, 3:04 pm
The locals of a town are being murdered by what appear to be “mental vampires”, as all of them have their brains sucked out through two holes in the back of their neck.
That’s gotta hurt.
Comment from porknbean
Time: March 5, 2008, 3:06 pm
Vincent Price was the best. Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee were my favorites too.
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