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  • #16
    Dude, even if the boat was supposedly unsinkable, you should NEVER EVER SAY SO. That's just BEGGING God to strike your ass down.

    I can't comment on the kid's fear, though. I was scared shitless after I saw Ferngully for the first time...
    "Maybe the problem just went away...maybe it was the magical sniper fairy that comes and gives silenced hollow point rounds to people who don't eat their vegetables."

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    • #17
      Wait ? Ferngully ? As in, cartoon with cute fairies ? Well, fear is something irrational and those big mean machines were sorta scary, I guess...
      "I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."

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      • #18
        Quoth Samaliel View Post
        Wait ? Ferngully ? As in, cartoon with cute fairies ? Well, fear is something irrational and those big mean machines were sorta scary, I guess...
        It was the scene where Hexxus started turning into a creepy-ass skeleton rising up out of the brown goop and doing that freaky dancing. That was freaking terrifying for a 9-year-old with way too good an imagination who had a brown, scummy pond in the yard...
        "Maybe the problem just went away...maybe it was the magical sniper fairy that comes and gives silenced hollow point rounds to people who don't eat their vegetables."

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        • #19
          Understandable. And I'm no one to point and laugh : I found Explorers scary when I first saw it. I think I was 7 or 8 at the time.
          "I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."

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          • #20
            And I got freaked out by cardboard movie ads when I was a kid. Chuckie with the Jack-in-the-box did it for me. Even now some of them still scare me. Hmm...irrational fear?
            "Otherwise you are free to keep putting your hope in leprechauns, horseshoes and unicorn farts."-Gravekeeper

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            • #21
              "Nothing is foolproof to the sufficiently talented fool."

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              • #22
                Too true my friend...unfortunately, my father can say the same thing both before and after he left the ferry company. And so can the people who lose damn near everything when a ship sinks, including family members and loved ones.
                "Otherwise you are free to keep putting your hope in leprechauns, horseshoes and unicorn farts."-Gravekeeper

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                • #23
                  Quoth SpyOne View Post
                  "Nothing is foolproof to the sufficiently talented fool."
                  "Once you've devised something idiot-proof, Evolution comes up with a superior idiot."
                  "I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."

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                  • #24
                    Quoth LibraryLady View Post
                    Well, the kid was right in a way. At least visually the film "Titanic" was as accurate as possible.

                    We were on the maiden crossing of the Millennium in 2000 with a group from the World Ship Society. One of our fellow passengers was Ken Marschal who served as visual consultant for "Titanic". He gave several very interesting presentations on how things were done.
                    I'm sure there's quite a number of stories pertaining to the Titanic that we may never know about . . . so even though the romance between Jack and Rose may have been fictionalized (as they were fictional characters) the events surrounding the sinking of the Titanic were recreated as accurately as the could.

                    Now if you want to read some interesting stories from some of the passengers themselves, just point your browser in the direction of Encyclopedia Titanica.

                    But I do have to agree . . . it's good to see that history still interests the younger generation
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                    • #25
                      Also, people should keep that kid away from Elizabth AND The Other Boleyn Girl.
                      Unseen but seeing
                      oh dear, now they're masquerading as sane-KiaKat
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                      • #26
                        Quoth BeckySunshine View Post
                        Also, people should keep that kid away from Elizabth AND The Other Boleyn Girl.
                        So that's why I'm so warped in the head . . . Mom should have kept me away from those "historical dramas".
                        Human Resources - the adult version of "I'm telling Mom." - Agent Anthony "Tony" DiNozzo (NCIS)

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