Topic: The stars have gone out

[Agent : Orange]

Ditto. 

I loved that movie, too.

Have you seen The Donner Cut?

Some of the changes are a bit controversial, and screen test footage was used to fill in "lost" scenes. Still, there's a lot of good stuff in there and if you're a fan of the original it'll give you a bit to chew on for a while.

[anagrammy]

I think you're reading into it a bit too much. It's a riff on Shepard Fairley's Obama Change portrait, with the subject replaced by the would-be global despot General Zod from the 1982 film Superman II, which is one of my all time favorite movies. The character is best known for the line "Kneel before Zod". That's all it means. It's a (potentially obscure?) pop culture reference.

I was planning on changing it a while back and still may, but I've kind of grown attached to it.
I really do think you have misinterpreted what it really is. It's not supposed to be some deeper personal message to you or a call for board-wide submission. It's a comic book villain. There's not really much more to say about it.
I can see your point here, I guess, but I don't really think that the quality of a users posts or contribution to the discussion should be biased by their choice of avatar, but maybe it is in general.

Ideally, my arguments shouldn't be judged on someones preconceived notions of what it is that I'm trying to say with my userpic. If my posts mean less to you because of what you think of my avatar that's your problem and not mine. 

It does bring up a number of interesting questions about life and social interaction on the net. A lot of people choose random and often meaningless funny stuff and memes to put up there, and it's not really meant to reflect some tragic character trait or personal philosophy or anything like that.

Agent Orange:  You have been summoned to explain.  Remain standing.  Your avatar has come under scrutiny at the highest levels and it has been determined that you are to be politically corrected.  Please report to your local correction center immediately.

Your avatar is perfect and an onion of cultural references which an ESL person would miss.  Would it help him if you actually used OBEY?  I think not.  I think he struggles with the humor here and thinks it is a cesspool of existential meaning whereas it is just a ... pool.

Anagrammy

[Agent : Orange]

Agent Orange:  You have been summoned to explain.  Remain standing.  Your avatar has come under scrutiny at the highest levels and it has been determined that you are to be politically corrected.  Please report to your local correction center immediately.

I am not a numbah! I AM A FREE MAN!

Your avatar is perfect and an onion of cultural references which an ESL person would miss.  Would it help him if you actually used OBEY?  I think not.  I think he struggles with the humor here and thinks it is a cesspool of existential meaning whereas it is just a ... pool.

Not a pit?

I get the impression that Roger takes these discussions very seriously. I don't mean that as a slight on the guy at all, just that maybe he shouldn't look for deeper significance in it. Especially not when it's posted on the net.

I think it's funny how far derailed this thread got. It languished for a little bit with just a few comments and then slowly went drunkenly meandering off.

[Agent : Orange]

Would it help him if you actually used OBEY?

Actually, now that you mention Obey.... hmmm.....

[Treading Water]

I think he struggles with the humor here and thinks it is a cesspool of existential meaning whereas it is just a ... pool.

Anagrammy

Oooooo, a pool................suits optional???     

[Treading Water]

Have you seen The Donner Cut?

Ak, no!  Now I'll have to waste time looking for this and obtaining it and watching it..........................

Thanks!     

[Agent : Orange]

Ak, no!  Now I'll have to waste time looking for this and obtaining it and watching it..........................

Thanks!     

It was released a few years ago with the Superman DVD box set which is where I got mine. I think it comes on it's own disk as well with a ton of interviews and other goodies.

To save you some trouble, here's a torrent: http://isohunt.com/torrent_details/139669081/superman+2+donner+cut?tab=summary

[Roger]

Yes. I took it VERY seriously, and for that reason I have, since I first
saw that avatar of oranges', I have not only not kneeled, but posted
everything to this site standing up!

What? Do I have to put a smiley face on every post so that my sense of
humor gets through? Who's taking themselves too seriously, again?

I just like poking a little fun at orange, who's IQ seems to have slipped
a little . . . do i NEED to say . . . jiss kidding?

Or, hows is it you Engis speeking peoples say, a little jok?

But thanks for that little insight to the transform of an Obama poster.

Yes, I recall.  And so, where you might be going with that one . . .
okay . . . drawing a blank. Spell it out for this ignoramus.

[Agent : Orange]

Yes. I took it VERY seriously, and for that reason I have, since I first
saw that avatar of oranges', I have not only not kneeled, but posted
everything to this site standing up!

What? Do I have to put a smiley face on every post so that my sense of
humor gets through? Who's taking themselves too seriously, again?

I just like poking a little fun at orange, who's IQ seems to have slipped
a little . . . do i NEED to say . . . jiss kidding?

Or, hows is it you Engis speeking peoples say, a little jok?

If the best sarcasm is indistinguishable from sincerity, you may just be that good Roger.

Apologies if I missed out

[Roger]

Hmmm!  Interesting, a compliment that might also be a slap!

Well, think I can still call mate! I sincerely complimented you elsewhere.

Mate.

[Roger]

Wait a minute hyar! Were you being sarcastic?! You BASTARD!

And. . . missed out on what?

Feels like a Stoppard play: Guildenstern and Rosencrantz are dead in
their verbal tennis.

Anagrammy! Referee this game!