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Estee 53134 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"	08-29-12, 08:21 AM (EST)
"Trope Of The Day III: Star Troping Across The Universe."
Boldly going forward 'cause we can't find reverse!
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#201 Estee 08-29-12 1

   RE: #201 newsomewayne 08-29-12 2

       RE: #201 Estee 08-29-12 3

           RE: #201 kingfish 08-29-12 4

               RE: #201 cahaya 08-29-12 5

                   RE: #201 kingfish 08-30-12 9

   RE: #201 qwertypie 08-30-12 6

#202 (reality TV) Estee 08-30-12 7

   RE: #202 (reality TV) dabo 08-30-12 8

#203 Estee 08-31-12 10

#204 Estee 09-01-12 11

   RE: #204 kingfish 09-01-12 12

   RE: #204 dabo 09-01-12 13

       RE: #204 kidflash212 09-02-12 15

#205 (stupid Random button) Estee 09-02-12 14

   RE: #205 (stupid Random button) kingfish 09-02-12 16

#206 (umm...) Estee 09-03-12 17

   RE: #206 (umm...) kingfish 09-03-12 18

       RE: #206 (umm...) Estee 09-03-12 19

           RE: #206 (umm...) kingfish 09-03-12 20

#207 Estee 09-04-12 21

   RE: #207 kidflash212 09-04-12 22

       RE: #207 Estee 09-04-12 23

#208 Estee 09-05-12 24

   RE: #208 kidflash212 09-05-12 25

       RE: #208 Estee 09-05-12 26

           RE: #208 kingfish 09-05-12 27

#209 Estee 09-06-12 28

   RE: #209 dabo 09-06-12 29

   RE: #209 kingfish 09-06-12 30

#210 (video games) Estee 09-07-12 31

   RE: #210 (video games) byoffer 09-07-12 32

       RE: #210 (video games) Estee 09-07-12 34

   RE: #210 (video games) kidflash212 09-07-12 33

#211 Estee 09-08-12 35

   RE: #211 kingfish 09-08-12 36

   RE: #211 byoffer 09-08-12 37

#212 (video games) Estee 09-09-12 38

   RE: #212 (video games) kingfish 09-09-12 39

#213 (AyaK, don't look.) Estee 09-10-12 40

   RE: #213 (AyaK, don't look.) qwertypie 09-10-12 41

   RE: #213 (AyaK, don't look.) byoffer 09-10-12 42

       RE: #213 (AyaK, don't look.) qwertypie 09-10-12 43

           RE: #213 (AyaK, don't look.) byoffer 09-10-12 44

   RE: #213 (AyaK, don't look.) dabo 09-11-12 47

#214 Estee 09-11-12 45

   RE: #214 byoffer 09-11-12 46

       RE: #214 qwertypie 09-11-12 49

   RE: #214 byoffer 09-11-12 48

   RE: #214 kingfish 09-11-12 50

#215 Estee 09-12-12 51

#216 (possibly your school) Estee 09-13-12 52

   RE: #216 (possibly your school) byoffer 09-13-12 53

   RE: #216 (possibly your school) SpotTheDiffference 09-13-12 54

       RE: #216 (possibly your school) kingfish 09-13-12 55

#217 (mostly video games) Estee 09-14-12 56

#218 (don't make me look) Estee 09-15-12 57

   Jessie. kingfish 09-15-12 58

#219 (every FOX drama) Estee 09-16-12 59

   RE: #219 (every FOX drama) kingfish 09-16-12 60

       RE: #219 (every FOX drama) newsomewayne 09-17-12 63

           RE: #219 (every FOX drama) kingfish 09-17-12 64

#220 Estee 09-17-12 61

   RE: #220 byoffer 09-17-12 62

       RE: #220 kingfish 09-17-12 65

           RE: #220 newsomewayne 09-18-12 67

#221 Estee 09-18-12 66

   RE: #221 byoffer 09-18-12 68

swoop Max Headroom 09-18-12 69

#222 Estee 09-19-12 70

   RE: #222 newsomewayne 09-20-12 72

#223 Estee 09-20-12 71

#224 Estee 09-21-12 73

   RE: #224 newsomewayne 09-21-12 74

       RE: #224 Estee 09-21-12 75

#225 (doesn't work on me) Estee 09-22-12 76

   RE: #225 (doesn't work on me) kingfish 09-22-12 77

       RE: #225 (doesn't work on me) Estee 09-22-12 78

#226 Estee 09-23-12 79

   RE: #226 kingfish 09-23-12 80

#227 (science fiction) Estee 09-24-12 81

   RE: #227 (science fiction) kingfish 09-24-12 82

       RE: #227 (science fiction) newsomewayne 09-25-12 84

#228 Estee 09-25-12 83

   RE: #228 newsomewayne 09-25-12 85

       RE: #228 Estee 09-25-12 86

           RE: #228 kingfish 09-25-12 87

#229 Estee 09-26-12 88

   RE: #229 kingfish 09-26-12 89

#230 Estee 09-27-12 90

   RE: #230 Snidget 09-27-12 91

       RE: #230 byoffer 09-28-12 92

#231 Estee 09-28-12 93

   Hello Newman kidflash212 09-28-12 94

#232 Estee 09-29-12 95

   RE: #232 kingfish 09-29-12 96

#233 Estee 09-30-12 97

   Not Exactly on Trope but... IceCat 09-30-12 98

       RE: Not Exactly on Trope but... kidflash212 09-30-12 99

           RE: Not Exactly on Trope but... kingfish 09-30-12 100

   RE: #233 byoffer 10-01-12 101

       RE: #233 Estee 10-01-12 103

#234 ('tis the season) Estee 10-01-12 102

#235 (locally irrelevant) Estee 10-02-12 104

   RE: #235 (locally irrelevant) kidflash212 10-02-12 105

   RE: #235 (locally irrelevant) byoffer 10-02-12 106

   RE: #235 (locally irrelevant) kingfish 10-02-12 107

#236 (video games & RPGs) Estee 10-03-12 108

   RE: #236 (video games & RPGs) newsomewayne 10-03-12 109

#237 Estee 10-04-12 110

   RE: #237 byoffer 10-04-12 111

#238 Estee 10-05-12 112

   RE: #238 newsomewayne 10-05-12 113

       RE: #238 kingfish 10-05-12 114

#239 Estee 10-06-12 115

   RE: #239 kingfish 10-06-12 116

#240 Estee 10-07-12 117

   RE: #240 kingfish 10-07-12 118

       RE: #240 Estee 10-07-12 120

   RE: #240 kidflash212 10-07-12 119

#241 Estee 10-08-12 121

   This is the very reason moonbaby 10-08-12 122

       RE: This is the very reason kingfish 10-08-12 123

       J.D. & Elliot. Estee 10-08-12 124

#242 Estee 10-09-12 125

   RE: #242 SpotTheDiffference 10-09-12 126

#243 Estee 10-10-12 127

   RE: #243 byoffer 10-10-12 128

   RE: #243 newsomewayne 10-10-12 129

   RE: #243 kingfish 10-10-12 130

#244 Estee 10-11-12 131

   RE: #244 kingfish 10-11-12 132

       RE: #244 Estee 10-12-12 133

#245 Estee 10-12-12 134

   RE: #245 Snidget 10-12-12 135

   RE: #245 kingfish 10-12-12 136

RE: Trope Of The Day III: Star Tro... Estee 10-13-12 137

   RE: Trope Of The Day III: Star Tro... kingfish 10-13-12 138

#246/247 Estee 10-14-12 139

   RE: #246/247 kingfish 10-14-12 140

       RE: #246/247 Estee 10-14-12 141

#248 Estee 10-15-12 142

   RE: #248 byoffer 10-15-12 143

#249 Estee 10-16-12 144

   RE: #249 kingfish 10-16-12 145

#250 Estee 10-17-12 146

   RE: #250 byoffer 10-17-12 147

   RE: #250 kidflash212 10-17-12 148

#251 (video games) Estee 10-18-12 149

   RE: #251 (video games) byoffer 10-18-12 150

       RE: #251 (video games) Estee 10-18-12 151

#252 Estee 10-19-12 152

#253 Estee 10-20-12 153

   RE: #253 kingfish 10-20-12 154

   RE: #253 Snidget 10-20-12 155

#254 Estee 10-21-12 156

   RE: #254 kidflash212 10-21-12 157

   RE: #254 kingfish 10-21-12 158

       RE: #254 Snidget 10-21-12 159

           RE: #254 kingfish 10-21-12 160

#255 (nearly everyone) Estee 10-22-12 161

   RE: #255 (nearly everyone) kingfish 10-22-12 162

#256 (religion) Estee 10-23-12 163

#257 Estee 10-24-12 164

   RE: #257 newsomewayne 10-24-12 165

       RE: #257 Estee 10-24-12 166

           RE: #257 newsomewayne 10-25-12 169

   RE: #257 kingfish 10-24-12 167

#258 Estee 10-25-12 168

   RE: #258 newsomewayne 10-25-12 170

       RE: #258 Estee 10-25-12 171

#259 Estee 10-26-12 172

   RE: #259 byoffer 10-26-12 173

#260 Estee 10-27-12 174

   RE: #260 kidflash212 10-27-12 175

       RE: #260 byoffer 10-28-12 177

#261 (CN 20th) Estee 10-28-12 176

#262 Estee 10-29-12 178

#264 The "I was washed away" excuse... kingfish 10-30-12 179

   RE: #264 The "I was washed away" ex... byoffer 10-31-12 180

       RE: #264 The "I was washed away" ex... kingfish 10-31-12 182

#263 - Scare 'Em Straight PepeLePew13 10-31-12 181

   RE: #263 - Scare 'Em Straight kingfish 10-31-12 183

#264 Estee 11-01-12 184

   RE: #264 kingfish 11-01-12 186

#265 Estee 11-01-12 185

   RE: #265 byoffer 11-02-12 188

#266 Estee 11-02-12 187

#267 (most of you) Estee 11-03-12 189

   RE: #267 (most of you) kidflash212 11-03-12 190

       This is a test of the Emergency Nat... kingfish 11-03-12 191

#268 (video games) Estee 11-04-12 192

   RE: #268 (video games) kingfish 11-04-12 193

       RE: #268 (video games) byoffer 11-04-12 194

#269 (e.g. Randy Jackson) Estee 11-05-12 195

#270 (Election Day perspective.) Estee 11-06-12 196

   RE: #270 (Election Day perspective... byoffer 11-06-12 197

#271 Estee 11-07-12 198

   RE: #271 BoinK! foonermints 11-07-12 199

#272 Estee 11-08-12 200

   RE: #272 Molaholic 11-08-12 201

       RE: #272 Estee 11-08-12 202

           RE: #272 kingfish 11-10-12 205

#273 (gaming) Estee 11-09-12 203

#274 (not your kids) Estee 11-10-12 204

   RE: #274 (not your kids) kingfish 11-10-12 206

#275 (not your paycheck (but your ... Estee 11-11-12 207

   RE: #275 (not your paycheck (but y... Snidget 11-11-12 208

#276 (adult) Estee 11-12-12 209

   RE: #276 (adult) kingfish 11-12-12 210

#277 Estee 11-13-12 211

#278 (older than the Bible) Estee 11-14-12 212

   RE: #278 (older than the Bible) kingfish 11-14-12 213

   RE: #278 (older than the Bible) byoffer 11-15-12 215

       Depends... Estee 11-15-12 216

           RE: Depends... byoffer 11-15-12 217

               RE: Depends... kingfish 11-15-12 218

#279 Estee 11-15-12 214

#280 (the entire UK plus most of t... Estee 11-16-12 219

#281 Estee 11-17-12 220

   RE: #281 kingfish 11-17-12 221

   RE: #281 byoffer 11-19-12 224

#282 Estee 11-18-12 222

#283 Estee 11-19-12 223

   RE: #283 kingfish 11-19-12 225

#284 (Most branches of Christianit... Estee 11-20-12 226

#285 Estee 11-21-12 227

   RE: #285 kidflash212 11-21-12 228

       RE: #285 Estee 11-21-12 229

       RE: #285 Snidget 11-21-12 230

           RE: #285 kingfish 11-21-12 231

#286 (comics) Estee 11-22-12 232

   RE: #286 (comics) kidflash212 11-22-12 233

       RE: #286 (comics) Estee 11-22-12 234

#287 (too close to home) Estee 11-23-12 235

#288 Estee 11-24-12 236

#289 (video games) Estee 11-25-12 237

#290 Estee 11-26-12 238

   RE: #290 dabo 11-26-12 239

       RE: #290 Estee 11-26-12 240

#291 (gawds help us, comics) Estee 11-27-12 241

   RE: #291 (gawds help us, comics) kingfish 11-27-12 242

   RE: #291 (gawds help us, comics) kidflash212 11-28-12 244

#292 Estee 11-28-12 243

#293 (horror -- sort of) Estee 11-29-12 245

#294 (last night) Estee 11-30-12 246

   RE: #294 (last night) kingfish 11-30-12 247

   RE: #294 (last night) byoffer 11-30-12 248

   RE: #294 (last night) Snidget 11-30-12 249

   RE: #294 (last night) Molaholic 11-30-12 250

#295 Estee 12-01-12 251

#296 Estee 12-02-12 252

   RE: #296 kidflash212 12-02-12 253

       RE: #296 Estee 12-02-12 254

#297 (video games) Estee 12-03-12 255

#298 Estee 12-04-12 256

   RE: #298 kingfish 12-04-12 257

#299 Estee 12-05-12 258

   RE: #299 kingfish 12-05-12 259

#300 Estee 12-06-12 260

   Beware, around the next bend.... kingfish 12-06-12 261

   RE: #300 byoffer 12-06-12 262

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Estee 53134 desperate attention whore postings
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08-29-12, 08:30 AM (EST)

1. "#201 "

In Japan, it's considered to be the relationship equivalent of training wheels: a perfectly normal and completely accepted stage of growing up which you had better not still be using upon reaching adulthood. It's expected from youth and immature afterwards.
In much of the United States, it's considered to be a perfectly valid reason to throw you out of your school, house, church, and leave you wandering the streets alone until a car hits you and sends you deservedly to your eternal torment. And this treatment is not only expected from the adults who enforce it, but lauded.
A few years of 'Isn't that cute' followed by a lifetime of 'Just grow up!' -- or immediate total rejection that is culturally and politically encouraged to never become anything else.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SchoolgirlLesbians
Sometimes the slow poison burns more.

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newsomewayne 9009 desperate attention whore postings
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08-29-12, 09:42 AM (EST)

2. "RE: #201 "

Normally, I'd be surprised Kingfish hasn't shown up yet. But he's probably still looking up each and every instance listed in the trope.
Just to make sure they actually fit, I'm sure.

Tebow Time is over. We prefer to win games in the 1st quarter.
Trade managed by GM Agman, 2012

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Estee 53134 desperate attention whore postings
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08-29-12, 10:02 AM (EST)

3. "RE: #201 "

So it's a race to see if he can find all of them before you ban every last one?
*considers*
I'm betting on you.

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kingfish 14764 desperate attention whore postings
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08-29-12, 06:06 PM (EST)

4. "RE: #201 "

You're just rrying to see if I'm paying attention.
I am.

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cahaya 18027 desperate attention whore postings
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08-29-12, 10:52 PM (EST)

5. "RE: #201 "

... rrying to see...
You attention seems to be distracted.
Along with the beauty of female nudity as an exquisite art form, the Japanese also get this right.

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kingfish 14764 desperate attention whore postings
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08-30-12, 07:52 PM (EST)

9. "RE: #201 "

Yeah. And it's hard to type left handed.

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qwertypie 9670 desperate attention whore postings
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08-30-12, 01:06 AM (EST)

6. "RE: #201 "

I am surprised Anne and Diana from Anne of Green Gables wasn't mentionned......... *smirk*

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Estee 53134 desperate attention whore postings
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08-30-12, 07:55 AM (EST)

7. "#202 (reality TV)"

I'm sorry to tell you that the stunt casting department has been
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EliminatedFromTheRace
Actually, that's a lie. I'm not sorry at all.

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dabo 24023 desperate attention whore postings
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08-30-12, 10:35 AM (EST)

8. "RE: #202 (reality TV)"

Because it never gets old.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp-H8e41fJI

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Estee 53134 desperate attention whore postings
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08-31-12, 07:59 AM (EST)

10. "#203"

How do you get the role of a teenager in a Hollywood production?
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DawsonCasting
By turning thirty.

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Estee 53134 desperate attention whore postings
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09-01-12, 03:38 AM (EST)

11. "#204"

The thing that's always annoyed me about this power: for 99%+ of the people who possess it, the thing comes with the unspoken guarantee that you will never ever land on anything you might regret. Not shattering your legs? Built in. We can let that go most of the time. But when you never wind up touching down on wet cement? Dog feces? The actual dog? Sidewalk art? The person drawing it? City sculpture? Glass? Spiked iron fences? Trash bags waiting for pickup? A baby carriage that just happened to be parked in exactly the wrong spot? Think of all the things you could step in or be knocked into during the course of a normal day, then ask yourself why these people never encounter any of them.
Apparently your feet also develop precognition.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/InASingleBound
And let's not even get into 'I have landed in the middle of an intersection. And the light just changed.'

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kingfish 14764 desperate attention whore postings
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09-01-12, 10:15 AM (EST)

12. "RE: #204"

LAST EDITED ON 09-01-12 AT 11:26 AM (EST)
Building social interactions around a leaping character that routinely lands in dog poop would be interesting.

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09-01-12, 12:36 PM (EST)

13. "RE: #204"

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kidflash212 3423 desperate attention whore postings
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09-02-12, 09:40 AM (EST)

15. "RE: #204"

That's just wrong

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Estee 53134 desperate attention whore postings
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09-02-12, 03:37 AM (EST)

14. "#205 (stupid Random button)"

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/YourCheatingHeart

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kingfish 14764 desperate attention whore postings
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09-02-12, 09:56 AM (EST)

16. "RE: #205 (stupid Random button)"

Dumb ole random button.
Dumb ole Chenbot.
Dumb ole Sunday.

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Estee 53134 desperate attention whore postings
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09-03-12, 07:07 AM (EST)

17. "#206 (umm...)"

no one ever complained
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MarshmallowHell
or maybe they did and i just couldn't understand them

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kingfish 14764 desperate attention whore postings
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09-03-12, 09:08 AM (EST)

18. "RE: #206 (umm...)"

Being enveloped in a pair of warm mammaries is like waking up in the morning still tangled up in sheets and a warm comforter, and deciding to just luxuriate in the softness.
Short guys have all the fun.
A cleavage cushion. A push-up pillow. A rack resting place. A maternal muffler. A funbag airbag. Thanks for the mammary.

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Estee 53134 desperate attention whore postings
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09-03-12, 09:22 AM (EST)

19. "RE: #206 (umm...)"

I suppose we're supposed to be thankful you didn't quote the entire page and-no-that-is-not-a-cue.

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kingfish 14764 desperate attention whore postings
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09-03-12, 11:29 AM (EST)

20. "RE: #206 (umm...)"

Be thankful that I didn't expound on the the envelopment really really short people get.

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Estee 53134 desperate attention whore postings
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09-04-12, 08:00 AM (EST)

21. "#207"

In real life, any barrier designed to slam down (or, very rarely, up or sideways) from the ceiling (or wall, or floor) has to move fast. Think blast doors and ward isolation: if you can't contain whatever you're locking in before it escapes, then there isn't much point to have a barrier at all. A split second from open to closed: that's the ideal and that's how it's designed to work.
In reel life...
...not so much.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/IndyHatRoll
And then some.

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09-04-12, 12:41 PM (EST)

22. "RE: #207"

Geez - the Estee Exercise program looks intense.

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Estee 53134 desperate attention whore postings
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09-04-12, 01:05 PM (EST)

23. "RE: #207"

Seriously: if you were the designer of the Enterprise, wouldn't you work barriers as 'drop blast doors at low warp, use the transporter to get everyone out of the area, and then activate the force fields as the actual primary defense'? But no, Rule Of Drama takes precedence over Common Sense Engineering...

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Estee 53134 desperate attention whore postings
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09-05-12, 07:41 AM (EST)

24. "#208"

People who write alternate histories and universes tend to ignore the immense mountains of probability it takes to get the same people born in every timeline. Sure, the planet has a different continental structure, every country has new borders and some don't exist, new forms of government arose, technology was and wasn't invented, plus aliens invaded -- but your parents still met. And so the same celebrities are born in just about every possible world, with all the old familiar names coming around again. Otherwise, how would you know who they were?
But they're not necessarily famous -- at least, not for the original reason.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RichardNixonTheUsedCarSalesman
This is the trick of taking a known person and twisting their life in a different direction. Sometimes they're ordinary people, or they got on the same ladder but wound up at a different height, or they could even be recognized for a completely new reason. But generally, whatever they wind up in is going to be ironic. Because the alternate universe works that way. Or at least the author does.
Yes, I read the one where Fidel Castro is a pitching coach. That launched a small bomb into the timeline...

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kidflash212 3423 desperate attention whore postings
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09-05-12, 10:56 AM (EST)

25. "RE: #208"

Great timing - a cable channel just started showing reruns of Sliders!

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Estee 53134 desperate attention whore postings
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09-05-12, 12:01 PM (EST)

26. "RE: #208"

*looks*
The Hub got it? *groan* How do I get an a-la-carte' cable package? First no initial-airing ponies, then they add about a dozen other original series, and now this? It's not my favorite show, but it had moments and some of them would be worth checking out at two in the morning. *sigh* I'll dump the 24-hour sermon channel of my choice to take it on...
By the way, did I mention the sheer improbability of every single chromosome pair combining in the exact same way every single time?

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kingfish 14764 desperate attention whore postings
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09-05-12, 08:07 PM (EST)

27. "RE: #208"

2 am. Having noticed over the years the time of a lot of your posts, Estee, get some sleep.
As to #208, I'd like to see Nixon or Adolph as persons in another reality with leaping ability who usually land in dog Poop or on baby carriages, or upside down with their head stuck in the sidewalk.

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Estee 53134 desperate attention whore postings
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09-06-12, 07:49 AM (EST)

28. "#209"

You are Hispanic.
You are female.
Therefore, you have a temper, you are overtly sexual, you are capable of ripping a man's throat out with your bare fingernails, you own no clothing that does not rest against your skin with absolutely zero space in between, and you are quite aware that you are in the middle of reading a total stereotype which isn't necessarily the least bit flattering or friendly.
But if you are Hispanic, and you are female, and you happen to be an actress --
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SpicyLatina
-- this is how you're getting cast.
Makes a bitch want to tear out an agent's throat, doesn't it?

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29. "RE: #209"

hothothot

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30. "RE: #209"

It's those latina eyes...

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31. "#210 (video games)"

...and over the guard, through that little arrow slot in the wall, rebound off the mirror, double-ricochet between the decorative suits of armor in the hallway, through the chandelier without touching a single light, skid off the curtain rod, and right into the king's throat.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TrickShotPuzzle
While blindfolded.

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32. "RE: #210 (video games)"

And nothing but net.

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34. "RE: #210 (video games)"

Actually, nothing but neck.

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33. "RE: #210 (video games)"

From the examples:
"The flash game "ricochet kills" is an entire flash game dedicated to this. As can be guessed, you try to kill people by reflecting bullets off surfaces."

What fun.

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35. "#211"

"It's all over and we're still alive! Let's --"
"-- kiss?"
"-- have sex?"
"-- blow this thing so we can all go home?"
"-- show the outtakes?"
"-- finally change out of these clothes?"
"-- kill the writer?"
"Close."
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DancePartyEnding
(Please note that this trope is banned in Utah.)

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36. "RE: #211"

I can't believe that those old Annette Funicello/Fankie Avalon "Beach Party" movies weren't listed.
I think that those movies might have been an originators of this trope, down to the Annette and Frankie singing bit.

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37. "RE: #211"

I guess all those James Bond movies could fit in, if the "vertical mambo" was classified a dance.

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38. "#212 (video games)"

"The infamous Desert Bus, part of the unreleased prank game compilation Penn & Teller's Smoke & Mirrors. Surviving the entire eight-hour drive earns you one point, at which point you turn around and drive back the other way for eight hours. There is no end to the game, or to the torture. Adding insult to misery is the fact that the bus veers slightly to the right while driving, meaning you must stay at the "wheel" the entire time, or risk running off the road, at which point you will be towed back to your starting point. In real time."
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MarathonLevel
In this case, the pointlessness was the point. Literally.

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39. "RE: #212 (video games)"

Sounds like great masochistic fun.

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40. "#213 (AyaK, don't look.)"

Two words:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HollywoodLaw
Any time legal procedure, written laws, common sense, every major document, and brain cells are thrown out the courtroom window in either the service of the story or because the writer was too bloody lazy to do any research on how things actually work. The example section starts at cringeworthy and rapidly moves into 'Is this considered treason?' No, just stupidity. This trope is embarrassing at best and assisting the dumbing down of America at worst. And there's a lot of 'worst'.
*sigh*
Maybe someone should sue.

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41. "RE: #213 (AyaK, don't look.)"

I notice your guy David E. Kelley gets mentionned. A Lot

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42. "RE: #213 (AyaK, don't look.)"

I was intrigued with the write-up about Double Jeopardy. The whole movie is based on the one premise that once convicted of a crime one couldn't be convicted again. And this is apparently not accurate based on the way it is shown in the movie. Huh. Still one of those movies I seem to watch if I ever stumble upon it on TV.

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43. "RE: #213 (AyaK, don't look.)"

Which of course has nothing to do with Ashley Judd.

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44. "RE: #213 (AyaK, don't look.)"

Now that you mention it, I guess Ashley is an attractive woman.

I watched Missing last season. Could that have been for the same reason??

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47. "RE: #213 (AyaK, don't look.)"

LAST EDITED ON 09-11-12 AT 12:26 PM (EST)
Yeah, My Cousin Vinny is a great movie, but even on the first viewing a lot of bending the law really stands out, they only scratched the surface. Trial lawyers almost never ask someone giving testimony a question unless they already know the answer, but even putting that aside, the judge answering the question for the nearsighted old dear lady??? Automatic mistrial.

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45. "#214"

Bullets.
Arrows.
Shells.
Sling stones.
Everything else.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AbnormalAmmo
And I mean everything.
The Real Life examples? Read slowly.

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46. "RE: #214"

Black Plague corpses as ammo? And I thought advertising spam was off-side.

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49. "RE: #214"

LAST EDITED ON 09-11-12 AT 05:55 PM (EST)
Yep, biological warfare at it's purest. Dump a dead horse in the watersupply, hurl some plaguey corspes over the wall. Good stuff.

Thanks, Ag-Dude!

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48. "RE: #214"

Surprisingly no reference to this. Maybe watermelons aren't considered abnormal.

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50. "RE: #214"

You could have passed on this one. Giving Fooner ideas cannot be a good idea.

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51. "#215 "

The following is not the condition experienced by One Million ~~Moms~~ Bigots every time a gay character appears in a work of fiction or their immediate section of reality.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Gayngst
This is the emotional trauma created from being gay and admitting it. Or being gay and hiding it. Or being gay and hiding it from yourself. Or, in most of these cases, just being. It is real, painful, happens in real life every day, will not go away as long as religion and politics keep legislating it as a near-mandatory sensation, and it still manages to be overplayed in half the cited works. Except that when you get to the Real Life examples, there is no overplay. There's just suicides. A lot of suicides.
But at least that makes a portion of the audience happy, right?

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52. "#216 (possibly your school)"

This could be done in one of my high schools, as we did have full-height lockers -- but only if you defined 'full height' as 5'6" or less and the victim wasn't wider than eighteen inches in any aspect of their person. Which generally turned it into more of a theoretical exercise than anything else, because it's rather difficult to find a victim of choice who lacks everything in the way of shoulders. However, we also had a number of determined bullies who didn't own measuring tapes, couldn't mentally work spacial dimensions, and figured all they had to do was shove harder.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StuffedIntoALocker
Imagine what this does to the collarbone.

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53. "RE: #216 (possibly your school)"

I was probably skinny enough in my HS days to fit into a locker, but too tall for any locker with a shelf.

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54. "RE: #216 (possibly your school)"

One of the many reasons why I'm glad I didn't go to school in America. You'd probably be able to fit two of me in a locker.

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55. "RE: #216 (possibly your school)"

That actually could have been fun. Provided the other was your pick.

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56. "#217 (mostly video games)"

LAST EDITED ON 09-14-12 AT 07:59 AM (EST)
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ShortRangeShotgun

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57. "#218 (don't make me look)"

*covers eyes*
*pastes link*
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NinetiesAntiHero
*gets away at best possible speed*

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58. "Jessie."

In his mind's eye, that is Jessie.
(I cover my eyes too).

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59. "#219 (every FOX drama)"

News coverage included.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TraitorShot
Especially the news coverage.

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60. "RE: #219 (every FOX drama)"

The Traitor shot. I'm glad there's a name for this.
Yoda states that "Always two there are: a master and an apprentice,..."
So, who is Darth Estee's apprentise? Darth Dabo? Darth Sambohoo? Darth Knockers?

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63. "RE: #219 (every FOX drama)"

Or is it the one least expected?

Paid for by AgPAC, a 2008 registered 527 organization.
"We will eventually pay for it, but we can argue about that later.” – Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA.)

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64. "RE: #219 (every FOX drama)"

OK, if you're bucking for the job, you have to come up with an evil name.
Newsomewayne is a really great name for most occasions, but it just isn't Darth worthy. Too many syllables. Not intrinsically evil enough. So, Darth Wayne? Ehhh. Darth Duane? Darth Gruesome?

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61. "#220"

Some settings slide on their timelines. Comics tend to form the most referenced example: if you check in on the mainstream Marvel universe, it's generally been about, say, ten years since the latest wave of heroes manifested -- and that start date just keeps moving along. So if it's 2012, the costumes started showing up again in 2002, and when we hit 2020, it'll have been 2010 for that first interrupted mugging, and so on up the line unless the Moral Guardians do everything cancel.
However, staying with Marvel for a moment, you have Captain America. Who has always fought in World War II. Who was always born in a given year, and that year does not change. He met people who have survived to the present -- even as that present keeps getting further away from his original combat days, making their continued existence increasingly implausible. And there is nothing that can be done about this, because Cap is forever
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FrozenInTime
and writing around it gets harder by the year...

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62. "RE: #220"

While I understand this as a trope, and understand why getting details like this is important for movies, I think it could happen a lot in real life. In some ways my wardrobe is frozen in time!! (does a guy ever actually throw out a t-shirt??)

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09-17-12, 09:04 PM (EST)

65. "RE: #220"

My father's jokes are frozen in time.

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09-18-12, 08:36 AM (EST)

67. "RE: #220"

Nobody had any jokes about the church for this trope?

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09-18-12, 06:44 AM (EST)

66. "#221"

Ever notice that even the heroes in fairy tales tend to be horrible people?
"... and then Jack chopped down the beanstalk, adding murder and ecological vandalism to the theft, enticement and trespass charges already mentioned, but he got away with it and lived happily ever after without so much as a guilty twinge about what he had done."
— Susan Sto Helit, "reading" the story Jack and the Beanstalk, Hogfather
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FracturedFairyTale
A lot of writers have.

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68. "RE: #221"

Any trope that leads to a Monty Python skit must be a good one.
I'd never seen that one before.

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69. "swoop"

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09-19-12, 08:40 AM (EST)

70. "#222"

Sometimes the trope name is so nearly perfect, no commentary is necessary.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PhotoshopFilterOfEvil
This is one of those times.
I turned it on and half of Congress disappeared.

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09-20-12, 09:56 AM (EST)

72. "RE: #222"

So the Pubs now not only have a super majority in both houses, but there's no one left to even dissent! Excellent!

Paid for by AgPAC, a 2008 registered 527 organization.
"We will eventually pay for it, but we can argue about that later.” – Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA.)

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09-20-12, 06:04 AM (EST)

71. "#223"

You're born alone.
You die alone.
Ultimately, life is a party of one --
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LonelyFuneral?from=Main.TragicFuneral
-- and that includes the wrap.

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09-21-12, 07:16 AM (EST)

73. "#224"

It wasn't supposed to be you.
It was never supposed to be you.
The chosen one? Was elsewhere. They were held up in traffic, or the crossing guard put up the sign at just the wrong moment, maybe the mysterious alley they wandered into had a fire escape ladder hanging down and they cracked their skull on it. The magic ring needed resizing, the person who was supposed to give it out turned to the left instead of the right, and the shaft of sunlight bounced off a passing mirror to illuminate the wrong features. Someone else was meant to get that destiny. Another person had been tapped to take all the pain, all the torture, all the death that went with being the hero. But somehow, they
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MissedTheCall
and destiny, instead of accepting the thwarting, randomly inflicted itself on someone else. You. And you will never get your life back, or that of anyone else who was lost because of this stupid mistake.
It wasn't supposed to be you. It still isn't. But it is...

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09-21-12, 10:33 AM (EST)

74. "RE: #224"

Hello, Five? This is Destiny. I'm hoping you can help me out. I'm looking for a Big. Fat. Panda. You guys seen him lately?

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75. "RE: #224"

LAST EDITED ON 09-21-12 AT 11:08 AM (EST)
Ultimately, Po would be more towards Jumped At The Call. Or maybe Put The Call In A Stranglehold And Demanded Its Number. And you could throw in Picked Up The Line By Mistake... Or Destiny. There are times when it gets really hard to tell the difference.
But as far as the Five are concerned, it's definitely a Missed The Call situation for them, and there is that point where Po becomes convinced they're right. Good spot.

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09-22-12, 09:19 AM (EST)

76. "#225 (doesn't work on me)"

Puppy-dog eyes, huh? Cute little voice? Not quite getting your words right on purpose? That little tremble of the lip? Do you know what that gets you from me? Laughter. Also comments on your rank amateur skills (as in 'you stink'), questions about how long you think that's good for and, if they're trying to work it past the prime, not-so-gentle inquiries as to how well it's working for your dating life.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DeliberatelyCuteChild
Now give me my keys back.

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09-22-12, 10:03 AM (EST)

77. "RE: #225 (doesn't work on me)"

I'm thinking Ian here.
And it's a half a brick that you'd be wanting back.

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09-22-12, 10:28 AM (EST)

78. "RE: #225 (doesn't work on me)"

If the other half is in a sock, someone's in trouble.

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09-23-12, 05:51 AM (EST)

79. "#226"

Parents have this trick of -- getting in the way. Particularly when you want to be the protagonist. They're just full of full-stop-worthy advice. Don't drink the glowing fluid. Don't talk to the stranger about magic. Don't step through the portal because those things keep you up past your bedtime. Don't save the world: you're too young to go on a time-hopping quest and these things will just have to save themselves. Interfering parents are a leading cause of universe death. How many milieu have you read where the parents got in the way, blocked the entire story from happening, and it all worked out anyway? None. Because by doing so, they ended their entire world. Way to go.
But if your parents are gone -- you can do whatever you want. Sure, you can try to live by whatever moral lessons they passed on in life (assuming you knew them at all and those lessons didn't begin with 'Don't get involved', but when it comes to universe-saving, you have no curfew, no groundings, no lockdown, and frankly no way you're better off with all of the above being an option. And who needs the love of a mother and father when you have the punches in the face from everyone who wants you to fail? For a lot of families, they're the same thing anyway!
Yes, if you're a fictional character, there's no argument that
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DeceasedParentsAreTheBest
Now, if we're talking about real life...
...maybe we'd better stop this one right here, hmmm?

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09-23-12, 09:54 AM (EST)

80. "RE: #226"

...especially considering most of the people here would fall into the missing or dead category.

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81. "#227 (science fiction)"

We're all leaving impressions of ourselves on the Internet: footprints which will last until someone gets around to erasing every last copy of them. Echoes which may wind up outlasting the being who made the original sounds.
This is the next step.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VirtualGhost
In this context, we're talking about the process of either directly uploading someone's mind into an electronic medium or creating a replica there. We're not looking at cyborgs: typically, there's no physical body. You exist in the datastream -- and that's it. Try not to think about the bandwidth required to move you anywhere in less than fifty years. 4G ain't gonna do it. And raw memory capacity? Ow.
I don't expect to see this one for a few decades. I do expect several religions to head for legal war over it -- on up.

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82. "RE: #227 (science fiction)"

So, like, how do you meet girls in the data stream? And what do you do once you meet them? Do you have to be smart, or something?

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09-25-12, 10:06 AM (EST)

84. "RE: #227 (science fiction)"

LAST EDITED ON 09-25-12 AT 10:06 AM (EST)
*nevermind*

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83. "#228"

It's all about you. Your needs, your desires, your wants -- and achieving every last one of them. You will get what you wish for, by your own hand or those of others -- in the later case, of course, they get nothing. No, that's not quite right. If they intend to keep what you want, they may get beaten. Killed. Whatever it takes. Because anything which stands between you and your goals is either going to get out of the way or be removed. And you really don't care about the means of removal. Blackmail, torture, murder -- all stages to reach the end plan. The opinion of the world? Who cares about that? They're not you. So why won't they stop complaining already?
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NeutralEvil
Maybe one day you'll want the world. Just to shut them up.

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09-25-12, 10:07 AM (EST)

85. "RE: #228"

I suppose it was too soon to expect an entry for Dan.

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09-25-12, 10:15 AM (EST)

86. "RE: #228"

I'm guessing the absolute prohibition against Real Life examples on this trope stretches to include reality shows.

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87. "RE: #228"

LAST EDITED ON 09-25-12 AT 10:06 PM (EST)
They should make a category just for BB examples.

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09-26-12, 07:54 AM (EST)

88. "#229"

Back in the original thread, we discussed how easy it is for a fictional character to lose their memory. You know what's almost as easy? Finding yourself in a dangerous situation which you could get out of with just about zero effort if you could just remember you knew how to beat it. Did you know you were the world's foremost expert in disarming bombs? No? Pity, because here's one now. Say, you know that guy in red and blue who climbs walls a lot? That's you. And here's a wall which you could climb to get away from the deathtrap -- but you're completely ignorant of your own powers. And just to make things really interesting, there's a door. Open it and walk away -- wait, you forgot how to do that too.
(It's in Comics under Don Rosa. Ouch.)
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AmnesiaDanger
Better get away from this thread before things get any worse --
-- and now you no longer remember how to operate a mouse.

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09-26-12, 08:16 PM (EST)

89. "RE: #229"

To realize that it's a literary (or cinematic or whatever) trope is comforting. It's not just me afterall.
Who knows what kind of superpowers I forgot I have.

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90. "#230"

I never understood this one.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GoToYourRoom
Yeah, go ahead and punish by sending me to where I keep all the good stuff. I'm sure that'll work out for you...

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91. "RE: #230"

*nods* A friend of mine went to a kindergarten where the "punishment" was ~~being forced to~~ getting to play by oneself in a part of the classroom away from all the other kids.
Birth of a troublemaker.
Sure, solitude is something that some people can't tolerate, but sometimes, for some of us, it is blessed relief.

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09-28-12, 08:40 AM (EST)

92. "RE: #230"

Sure, but sometime this treatment works. Take an RTVW example - let's say that rather than banning Shakes for his abusive RTVW posts he was just banished to the Starting Over forum. Actually, that might have lead to him getting banned from the internet.

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93. "#231"

NORM!
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PhraseCatcher
Alcoholic!

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09-28-12, 09:27 AM (EST)

94. "Hello Newman"

Found this under the examples, I'm thinking maybe Starshine could interpret.

Plunk your magic twanger, Froggy!

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95. "#232"

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OurActsAreDifferent
In red states, this trope may be banned as unnatural.
Prepare for letdown, perverts.

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09-29-12, 09:03 AM (EST)

96. "RE: #232"

Yeah, I'll bet all you perverts were really let down after that buildup.
Serves all of y'all right too. Perverts.

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97. "#233"

"...and the post has been opened! We've got an exclamation point! And another! Haven't seen a comma yet, folks -- wait, there's one, right to the jaw! And now use of a conjunction to lead into the shoulder, followed by keeping the gag running -- OH NO! IT'S THE SHIFT KEY! HOW MUCH MORE CAN THIS KEYBOARD TAKE?"
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SuperDetailedFightNarration
(And this? Is one of the many reasons I hate Jack Reacher.)

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98. "Not Exactly on Trope but..."

... I immediately thought of this classic:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us-bsCv1RUI

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99. "RE: Not Exactly on Trope but..."

That guy must have had too much coffee that morning.

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100. "RE: Not Exactly on Trope but..."

If he had a cup of coffee with him, it ended up sprayed all around the driver's seat.

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101. "RE: #233"

Does Princess Bride count?
Prince Humperdinck: First things first, to the death.
Westley: No. To the pain.
Prince Humperdinck: I don't think I'm quite familiar with that phrase.
Westley: I'll explain and I'll use small words so that you'll be sure to understand, you warthog faced buffoon.
Prince Humperdinck: That may be the first time in my life a man has dared insult me.
Westley: It won't be the last. To the pain means the first thing you will lose will be your feet below the ankles. Then your hands at the wrists. Next your nose.
Prince Humperdinck: And then my tongue I suppose, I killed you too quickly the last time. A mistake I don't mean to duplicate tonight.
Westley: I wasn't finished. The next thing you will lose will be your left eye followed by your right.
Prince Humperdinck: And then my ears, I understand let's get on with it.
Westley: WRONG. Your ears you keep and I'll tell you why. So that every shriek of every child at seeing your hideousness will be yours to cherish. Every babe that weeps at your approach, every woman who cries out, "Dear God! What is that thing," will echo in your perfect ears. That is what to the pain means. It means I leave you in anguish, wallowing in freakish misery forever.

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10-01-12, 11:14 AM (EST)

103. "RE: #233"

I'm inclined to say no since the described fight didn't actually take place. It's more of a very detailed threat -- one which codified a trope.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ToThePain
Detailed description of torture to the victim, either before it happens or while it's in progress. Not a particularly friendly process. And note that in the codifier, both protagonist and antagonist get to do it.

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10-01-12, 11:09 AM (EST)

102. "#234 ('tis the season)"

The birds never fall for it.
The children who pass by it can have nightmares for the rest of their lives.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ScaryScarecrows
For Gotham children, that's about ten minutes.

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10-02-12, 08:12 AM (EST)

104. "#235 (locally irrelevant)"

So you have one somewhat odd word as your entire name?
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MisterStrangenoun
Not really seeing it.

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10-02-12, 08:48 AM (EST)

105. "RE: #235 (locally irrelevant)"

My IRL name could fit this trope.
True story:
When I worked at Radio City, there was another guy named Small. One night we were working together at the main merchandise shop. There were no phones, so anyone needing to reach us would call the box office and a security guard would walk over and get us. This night this conversation happened:
Guard: Is your name Small?
Me: No, it's Little.
(Guard looks at me like I'm crazy)
Me: That guy's named Small, my name is Little.

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10-02-12, 10:00 AM (EST)

106. "RE: #235 (locally irrelevant)"

This made me think of McLovin from Superbad, but apparently that is another trope.

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107. "RE: #235 (locally irrelevant)"

Reservoir Dogs?
With Mr Orange, Mr. Blonde, Mr Pink, etc. aliases.
Buscemi was pretty funny in his protests about being Mr. Pink.

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108. "#236 (video games & RPGs)"

You are the warrior.
You are destined to wander the threatened world alone until you and only you finally manage to save it.
And as long as you're wandering, would you mind carrying this letter? You're covering the entire planet, so when you go by this address, just drop it off and arrange the flowers near the mailbox just as a special thank-you message to the recipient. You know, because it's on your way and you have nothing else better to do. Thanks ever so much.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/IrrelevantSidequest
By the way, if any of those flowers look like they're sick? There's a swamp with a rare plant cure seven hundred miles over that way. It's guarded by a dragon. You need exercise, right?

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10-03-12, 08:44 AM (EST)

109. "RE: #236 (video games & RPGs)"

Zelda, thy name is Trope.

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110. "#237"

This really shouldn't be Romney's greatest fear.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EatTheRich
I bet he tastes horrible.

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10-04-12, 01:39 PM (EST)

111. "RE: #237"

Somehow this needs a cross-thread reference with the road kill thread, and we should all use AyaK's Soylent Green siggie.

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10-05-12, 08:02 AM (EST)

112. "#238"

I witness an event.
You witness the same event.
A neutral party who wasn't there at the time asks us what happened. Both of us give our best descriptions of the timeline.
And nowhere in the middle is the truth to be found.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RashomonStyle
Any resemblance to the presidential debates is purely coincidental.

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10-05-12, 09:32 AM (EST)

113. "RE: #238"

For other examples, pick 1 out of any 4 threads from any forum on this site.

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10-05-12, 06:34 PM (EST)

114. "RE: #238"

I definately see 2 out of 4.

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115. "#239"

If you have a scar on your face, there's a good chance you're the villain.
If you have two and they intersect, guess what?
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/XMarksTheHero
The motto: to make a good guy, hit them twice.

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10-06-12, 08:44 AM (EST)

116. "RE: #239"

That's just good advice in general.
And if three times turns them back into villains, hit them four times.

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10-07-12, 02:00 AM (EST)

117. "#240"

In this case, the page quote comes from my favorite example of the trope in Western animation. Yes, Darkwing, go ahead and track Negaduck to his hideout through meticulous scientific analysis of that one tiny crumb you found on the bridge. A single speck of food is all it takes to isolate one building in St. Canard, as long as the person examining it is you.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GPSEvidence
Of course, most people would have just spotted the enormous flag of Negaduck's face hoisted on the roof.

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10-07-12, 08:48 AM (EST)

118. "RE: #240"

Or, one could just look up Negaduck's address in the phone book...

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10-07-12, 11:00 PM (EST)

120. "RE: #240"

Darkwing was constitutionally incapable of making breakfast without first turning his kitchen into an obstacle death course. I'm not sure what he would have put himself through to consult a phone book.
...no, really. Bad things happened when he forgot the milk.

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10-07-12, 10:47 AM (EST)

119. "RE: #240"

Having charted the syntax and word usage of each OT poster, I can say with absolute certainty where each ate dinner last night.

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121. "#241"

First act of the romantic comedy: meet, fall in love, plan the marriage, happily ever after approaches on the horizon. The audience is bored. And there's still forty-five minutes to go. So...
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SecondActBreakUp
And because it happens every single time, the audience? Is still bored.
For a local definition of 'audience'.

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10-08-12, 09:21 AM (EST)

122. "This is the very reason"

I stopped watching Friends way back when it was THE show to watch. Ross and Rachel? Retch. Finchel? I hope they don't go there-be done with it or get on with it.
Every single time this trope is trotted out I have the same reaction.

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10-08-12, 10:04 AM (EST)

123. "RE: This is the very reason"

I have a reaction whenever I see a trope trotting.

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10-08-12, 10:20 AM (EST)

124. "J.D. & Elliot."

LAST EDITED ON 10-08-12 AT 10:21 AM (EST)
Oh gawds of annoying once-a-season hookups, can we please stop the annual ritual in favor anything which makes me not want to break one disc in each set? It got to the point where the show itself hung a lampshade on the trope and then started an electrical fire.

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10-09-12, 07:00 AM (EST)

125. "#242"

So you want to go out with me.
You. Want to go out. With. Me.
*desperately tries to think of excuse*
Um...
*any excuse*
Well...
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/INeedToGoIronMyDog

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10-09-12, 08:01 PM (EST)

126. "RE: #242"

Did you use this for the arcade date?

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10-10-12, 07:07 AM (EST)

127. "#243"

The purpose of a real life swordfight is to kill your opponent as quickly as possible.
The purpose of a reel life swordfight is to hit the other guy's sword while running around, dodging, parrying, swinging from the ceiling, jumping out windows, kissing any nearby females, and quipping constantly throughout.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Flynning
Reel life swordfights are a lot more fun.

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10-10-12, 10:05 AM (EST)

128. "RE: #243"

This happens very often with my 7 year old son, his friends, and their Nerf swords. Except for the female kissing.

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10-10-12, 10:44 AM (EST)

129. "RE: #243"

"I'm going to duel him left-handed."
"You know what a hurry we're in!"
"Well, is only way I can be satisfied. If I use my right... over too quickly."
"Oh, have it your way."

Fear the reaper.
"The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money." - Margaret Thatcher

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10-10-12, 06:53 PM (EST)

130. "RE: #243"

Errol Flynn would agree with you. As would D'Artagnan.

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10-11-12, 08:15 AM (EST)

131. "#244"

It's hard to be evil all the time. Most antagonists do not have their entire existence revolve around the planning and committing of dirty deeds. You know that massive death ray you've been building? It draws a lot of power and ConEd would like to know when you're going to pay for it. You've been so busy building it that you've neglected to stock the fridge, so maybe you should eat out tonight. And really, you could use a break from all the construction, so how about catching a ballgame? And then you have to call your mother, it's been a week and if you make it two you will never hear the end of it...
The bad guys generally happen to have lives. And that leads to the phenomenon known as
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VillainsOutShopping
Because you can't eat out every night. Now let's see -- what's on sale near the warehouse where you've got to steal those next parts from?

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10-11-12, 06:51 PM (EST)

132. "RE: #244"

I like this trope.
I always wondered how the "Joker" (et.al) managed everyday errands. Even his evil henchmen wouldn't be able to get thru any metal detector without alarms going off, or just stop and pick up stuff without a civilian calling the cops.

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10-12-12, 08:07 AM (EST)

133. "RE: #244"

And he's running out of people willing to be henchmen. When supervillains in the DCU want to scare each other, they tell Joker stories...
(Seriously: what kind of mindset does it take to be a stooge in Gotham? 'I was going to commit suicide anyway and at least this way, it's an interesting way to go'? What are the interviews like? Do you just grab anyone who can tell one end of a gun from the other because they're not going to be around long enough for any alternate skills to matter?)
I always thought there was an underground network of specialty businesses dedicated to providing the aspiring bad guy with the basics of life. Think about it: all those elaborate (and themed) headquarters? Someone is building them. Presumably there's a department dedicated to food deliveries too.
Don't ask me how they collect.

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10-12-12, 08:42 AM (EST)

134. "#245"

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PunchPunchPunchUhOh

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135. "RE: #245"

I just listened to this yesterday, Real Life example.
http://www.npr.org/2012/09/01/160404787/director-barry-sonnenfeld-plays-not-my-job
About a punching game he played with Will Smith, starts about 5:25.

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136. "RE: #245"

LAST EDITED ON 10-12-12 AT 07:06 PM (EST)
Even when I was a kid, very young - pre-grade school, I could tell that the wrestler hitting the other guy was simultaneously stomping on the floor of the ring and faking the hit.
The only fake wrestling I ever enjoyed was when Andy Kaufman was doing his thing. Kaufman's act was brilliant, and I actually could not tell that he was putting everyone on. It even fooled his opponent (name not in memory) who got so mad that he gave Kaufman a thrashing for real. Sent him to the hospital (or was that fake too?).
Then just to really PO people, be began his nethanderthal chest beating thing about there not being a woman alive who he could not lick, and everyone (including myself) still thought he was serious (and of course, seriously demented).

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10-13-12, 04:18 AM (EST)

137. "RE: Trope Of The Day III: Star Troping Across The Universe."

Four of a kind. Beat that.
...
...straight flush.
Of course you have a straight flush. Gawdsdamned son of a...
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StripPoker
Never play cards with a bloody magician.

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10-13-12, 08:29 AM (EST)

138. "RE: Trope Of The Day III: Star Troping Across The Universe."

Good one, Orochimaru!
Strip poker is one game that can't be converted into a computer game.
Unless...do you Skype?

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10-14-12, 05:33 AM (EST)

139. "#246/247"

The enemy has not attacked your base.
This is a shame. You see, if the enemy happened to attack your base (which you have deliberately left understaffed, undertrained, and underarmed), you would have the excuse you needed to declare war. There's a hundred laws all set to pass with the excuse of that attack behind them. A mere thousand deaths among your own troops (which are completely justified and they would thank you if they knew) and you would seize total control. But the enemy has not attacked your base.
Fortunately, you have a few dozen enemy uniforms in the closet.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FalseFlagOperation
And now to kill your own people in the name of what will soon be your country. For the common good.

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10-14-12, 09:56 AM (EST)

140. "RE: #246/247"

Is that bad? That sounds vaguely bad. I think that could be bad.

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10-14-12, 10:17 AM (EST)

141. "RE: #246/247"

As the Real Life section notes, there is some evidence that the U.S. military has done this before, could do it again, and may be doing it right now. So clearly that means it's the best thing ever.

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142. "#248"

And the number one reason I'm putting this trope up today: because the Random button said so!
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TopTenList
Also the other nine reasons.

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10-15-12, 09:24 AM (EST)

143. "RE: #248"

LAST EDITED ON 10-15-12 AT 09:40 AM (EST)
Reference to the Ten Commandments with Moses, Paul Shaffer, and the Kodak Theatre made me chuckle.
eta - I am surprised there isn't an indication that Top Ten Lists are supposed to be presented in reverse order. The Twn Commandments seems to be an exception to this rule, always given in 1-10 order.

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144. "#249"

How to create a sprinkler system in animation:
1. Shoot character one hundred times.
2. Place them in middle of lawn.
3. Provide them with glass of water to drink.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/InvisibleHoles
4. Outsource grass to India.

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145. "RE: #249"

Moe: Should we call a doctor?
Shemp: No, call a plumber.

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146. "#250"

If you torture the numbers, they will confess. But if there are no numbers to torture, make something up and call it a fact. Or a series of facts. Or a total proof while not providing any. Because people want to believe -- and those who tune in for your concept of truth already chose to put their faith in it sight unseen.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DocumentaryOfLies
It had to be faith. No thought was involved at any point.
(And yes, this one is not random.)

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147. "RE: #250"

But Michael Moore and Geraldo Rivera verified all the data themselves!!

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148. "RE: #250"

Mean the mermaids weren't real?

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10-18-12, 08:43 AM (EST)

149. "#251 (video games)"

Completing the game in story mode requires forty-seven hours of game play.
If thirty-nine of those are used for the last fight, you have this.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MarathonBoss
Oh dear gawds, this trope is annoying. Your opponent has seventy zillion times more health than you. Immune to your best attacks, your medium attacks, and in fact every attack but spitting at him, which does 0.00001 damage and must be repeated approximately eighty quadrillion times in order to beat him. Oh, and if he hits you once, you die. And if you don't hit him once a second every second for fifteen hours with perfect timing and miss just once, he will regenerate his health. All of it. And then you have to start over, except that since you let him heal up, he now has even more health and you just added four hours to the battle. Incidentally, there's no saves allowed. Have fun. For a value of 'fun' that equals zero, the destruction of the game, the system, and if no one stops you in time, the headquarters of the programming company along with most of the staff. Which, jail sentence included, involves less time and effort than beating that one boss.
So who wants to play?

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10-18-12, 09:07 AM (EST)

150. "RE: #251 (video games)"

What, no Real Life examples??

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151. "RE: #251 (video games)"

I'm not comfortable with asking Snidget to talk about her work life.

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10-19-12, 06:10 AM (EST)

152. "#252"

So you decided not to take your wimpy little brother to the park and play catch for half an hour. You blew that off to hit the mall. So what? It was one game of catch in a dirty field which frankly stinks of grease, keeping it mind that 'catch' means thirty minutes of watching him miss the ball followed by sort of throwing it nearly a third of the way in your not very general direction. Ultimately, he won't care and certainly you never did. What sort of possible consequence could it have?
Twenty years of time travel forward later...
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FutureBadass
...oops?

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10-20-12, 07:15 AM (EST)

153. "#253"

There are a large number of plots which can be resolved immediately if the characters just -- leave. Open the door. Walk away. Never look back, not a second thought, and they never get within a hundred miles of the place again. It's a haunted house? Leave. Radioactive wasteland? See ya. Political convention? Exit's that way.
So naturally...
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ClosedCircle
...you've got to lock them in.
This trope is for any setting where departure is not an option: the location itself traps you in some way -- human agency, supernatural, character stupidity -- doesn't matter, you're not leaving. Once the whole thing is over, you get to go. Or at least someone may finally cart your body away. But until it ends, you are stuck.
Most reality shows qualify. As do most incarnations.

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154. "RE: #253"

LAST EDITED ON 10-20-12 AT 09:05 AM (EST)
Here we are, locked in a reality show forum, and we can't get out.
The wide wide world of cultures, places, books, intellectual discussion, all that is out there but we can't undo the locks and chains that anchor us here.
And Shakes has finished eating all the newbies and is now going after YOU!!! He's already devoured the Kid, the JuneBug is half way down his gullet, and he has just caught sight of you trying to hide behind Max. Max is frantically throwing chipmonks at the monster, but that won't slow him down for long.

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10-20-12, 09:28 AM (EST)

155. "RE: #253"

I thought we weren't going to discuss my work life.

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10-21-12, 05:29 AM (EST)

156. "#254"

...and that's the end of the story. Let's write down everyone's names for the credits and hit the wrap party --
-- hang on. The network thinks we're doing really well and they don't want to lose the viewers just yet. *sigh* Sixteen-episode order. Okay, make that a false finish and we'll pick up from the teaser. Wrap party is rescheduled for next year.
...seems the novelizations are selling really well -- another false finish, that's the last one, I swear...
...okay, there's fifteen new characters from all the extensions and each one needs a resolution, or they would if we hadn't been picked up again...
...hey, where did everybody go?
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EndingFatigue
(The music example list shouldn't be that long, should it? -- yeah, it should.)

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10-21-12, 10:19 AM (EST)

157. "RE: #254"

I knew The Return of the King would be first on the film example list. My friends and I got up to leave several times only to have to sit back down.

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10-21-12, 10:47 AM (EST)

158. "RE: #254"

I'd like to hammer fit "elections years" into this trope, but I guess that's another kind of fatigue. And another kind of endless. And another kind of fiction.

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159. "RE: #254"

17 days until the 2016 Presidential Campaign begins!

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10-21-12, 12:31 PM (EST)

160. "RE: #254"

You just crushed my will to live.

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10-22-12, 08:13 AM (EST)

161. "#255 (nearly everyone)"

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Muggles
Which probably includes me.
That you know of.

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162. "RE: #255 (nearly everyone)"

LAST EDITED ON 10-22-12 AT 06:48 PM (EST)
Someone should alert Skye.
Or maybe that's why she doesn't post here anymore. Too many muggles.

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10-23-12, 08:46 AM (EST)

163. "#256 (religion)"

As noted with the Miko trope, Japan understands Christianity about as well as America understands Buddhism. On our end, we've turned the central figure of the religion into a good luck charm and offense? Who cares? It's not as if there's enough of them locally to care and besides, offense is what you take when someone takes your religion's central symbol and doesn't quite know what to do with it.
Well...
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CreepyCoolCrosses
...have fun, kids!

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10-24-12, 07:08 AM (EST)

164. "#257"

It would have been so easy -- for things to be different.
The ball rolls left instead of right. It didn't even have to be that far to the left. A slightly changed angle, a bounce instead of a skip. Off the tree instead of into the road -- what's that, ten degrees at most? You put a pebble in the path and the world changes. So little to alter so much -- but all unchangeable, frozen in the stream of memory.
Until you stole the time machine.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong
And now you're going to fix everything.

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10-24-12, 08:47 AM (EST)

165. "RE: #257"

I was disappointed not to find Red vs. Blue listed. Then I thought it might fall under Set Wrong What Once Went Right. It wasn't there, either.

Tebow Time is over. We prefer to win games in the 1st quarter.
Trade managed by GM Agman, 2012

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10-24-12, 09:05 AM (EST)

166. "RE: #257"

So edit the trope listings, McComplainerson. If you don't, who will? Here's a hint: not me, 'cause I haven't seen the series. (I've thought about it, but I'd need a large compilation set.)
I checked the series page for Red vs. Blue. Neither trope appears -- but the Stable Time Loop page has an entry for Church's actions. Would that be a more accurate description of events?

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169. "RE: #257"

McComplainerson
How were you able to hack my profile? I've got to be more careful with my personal information.
But no, I don't think I'll edit the entry, either. Not now, anyway. Perhaps in the future. Or, if technology allows, in the past.

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167. "RE: #257"

Just remember, when the ball rolls a bit that way, that in a infinite number of other dimensions, it rolled a bit this way. And in another infinite number of dimensions, it hopped up and sang "Goodbye my Baby, Goodbye my Honey, Goodbye my Ragtime Gal!!".

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10-25-12, 06:06 AM (EST)

168. "#258"

Oh, what a happy world we've found! It's full of happy people and bright colors, where the sun shines every day and each night is filled with stars, and no one is ever mean or discourteous or rude or shows any other signs that might indicate humanity. It's a lovely place that has lovely sights, and the rain tastes like juice and the food is all perfectly cooked, plus that stuff just appears magically out of nowhere so no one ever has to make anything suffer to get fed, and there hasn't been an unpleasant thought in decades because the last person who had one exploded.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SugarBowl
...get me out of here before I kill something.

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10-25-12, 08:30 AM (EST)

170. "RE: #258"

So you think you could've replaced Reese Witherspoon in Pleasantville?

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171. "RE: #258"

Let us now imagine someone of racially mixed ancestry living in Plesantville.
Now let us adjourn to the home of Paul Ryan and offer him comfort, for he just threw up.

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10-26-12, 06:38 AM (EST)

172. "#259"

You don't look so good.
No, really. You know that bug that's been going around? No, you don't... well, the symptoms include not looking so good. And sitting with that exact posture. Plus everything else you've been doing for the last half-hour. And that look of disbelief? That's the final confirmation.
Seriously. You'd better go lie down.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/InducedHypochondria
*steals chips*

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10-26-12, 12:29 PM (EST)

173. "RE: #259"

jbug's been going around? Trollop!

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10-27-12, 06:33 AM (EST)

174. "#260"

It's in the credits.
It's in every press conference you've ever given.
It's inscribed on your awards.
It's shouted out at you by all your fans.
It is not on your birth certificate.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StageNames
Eventually, it's in your dreams.

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10-27-12, 09:15 AM (EST)

175. "RE: #260"

Doesn't everyone here have one?
Checks birth certificate - what do you know, my name is kidflash212

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10-28-12, 11:21 PM (EST)

177. "RE: #260"

and my real name is byoffuschanskayasky.

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10-28-12, 06:28 AM (EST)

176. "#261 (CN 20th)"

No fingers.
No thumbs.
No problem!
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PowerpuffGirlHands

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10-29-12, 07:13 AM (EST)

178. "#262"

The usual pattern during a haunting:
The family pet starts behaving oddly, reacting to things that aren't there.
The kids get scared by something they can't understand.
The mother is freaked out by the gathering of ghostly forces in the house.
The father -- blames the new pet food, the imagination of the kids, the mother's hormones, and then peacefully puts his feet up on the floating Ottoman and makes a casual remark about how advanced comfort technology is becoming.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SupernaturalProofFather
And look! Self-lighting cigars!

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10-30-12, 07:54 PM (EST)

179. "#264 The "I was washed away" excuse trope"

Not random this time, not random at all.
Have you ever awakend from a deep sleep haunted by liquid dreams of swimming, swimming, never reaching the top of the water, wondering how long you can hold your breath, then sat up, stretched, yawned, put your feet on the floor and discovered 6" of water in your apartment? And you're on the third floor?
And used that flimsy excuse as a reason not to post in your daily trope thread? You have? well, for all you slackers, here's your trope.
http://faketvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/they-are-trying-to-wash-us-away

(you better be OK, I'm out on a limb here).

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10-31-12, 09:48 AM (EST)

180. "RE: #264 The "I was washed away" excuse trope"

Thanks for the chuckle, KF.
I agree, I hope Estee and the other North-Easters are doing well and just without connectivity.
Be dry!

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182. "RE: #264 The "I was washed away" excuse trope"

LAST EDITED ON 10-31-12 AT 06:50 PM (EST)
I can sense her frustration with not being able to post.

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10-31-12, 10:07 AM (EST)

181. "#263 - Scare 'Em Straight"

Just thought I'd help keep this going while (hopefully that's all) the power issues are being resolved for Estee.
Fitting the Hallowe'en theme, here we go...
Scare 'Em Straight

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10-31-12, 05:48 PM (EST)

183. "RE: #263 - Scare 'Em Straight"

Hopefully Estee won't be scared straight.
(Hey, I can say that. She isn't reading it.)
Thanks for pointing out my inability to count.

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11-01-12, 06:39 AM (EST)

184. "#264"

In the Law & Order script offices:
"So what have we got for the next episode?"
"If you can believe this, I just heard about this animated kids show with talking ponies."
"...and?"
"Adults watch it."
"Perfect! How many innocent victims do we want the perverts to kill?"
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SickSadSubcultureOfTheWeek
"Um... it says here their motto is love and tolerance..."
"We can ignore that. It's not as if any of those freaks are going to watch."
Thanks to Pepe for the half-fill-in. Kingfish? Buck you.

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11-01-12, 06:07 PM (EST)

186. "RE: #264"

Yee haw. A rodeo.
(Please note the absence of any attempt at cowgirl humor. I'm thinking it, you're thinking it, but we're not sayin' it. We respect the cowboy code. Appreciate the setup, though).
Glad you and circle made it thru. Hope you don’t have far to go to get back to normal.
(You’re probably mad that I borrowed your sig. I can explain. And you can have it back, I wiped it off as best I could.)

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11-01-12, 06:50 AM (EST)

185. "#265"

You were male.
The key word here is 'were'.
Something happened. Magic, superscience, plot -- no matter how it took place, it hit you hard, and you? Are now female. Drop the Y and pick up an extra X. Plumbing has been rearranged. Hormones are flying. The screams of agony from your pelvis altering itself have died away. You are just now beginning to take sane stock of your new situation. What's the first thing you're going to do?
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ManIFeelLikeAWoman
...of course.

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11-02-12, 09:25 AM (EST)

188. "RE: #265"

•Australian comedy series Full Frontal did a skit where a man who'd changed sex complained of suffering sexual harassment — from himself.

*snicker*

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11-02-12, 07:08 AM (EST)

187. "#266"

Because sanity can only be restored from the reclined position.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FreudianCouch
Also because once you realize you are being charged three hundred dollars an hour for a total waste of your time, it takes you vital extra seconds to get into a kill position, allowing the shrink time to dive through the escape hatch.
They all have an escape hatch.

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11-03-12, 03:27 AM (EST)

189. "#267 (most of you)"

And there's (insert name of male OTer here), looking at that picture of Sam Witwer again. Any second now -- yep, there's the comment about the eyes. And the chin. Plus he just works so well with his shirt off, most actors can't pull those scenes out half as well. And you know, the writers wouldn't be pandering if they implied a little more --
-- wait for it --
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday
-- every single time.

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11-03-12, 09:09 AM (EST)

190. "RE: #267 (most of you)"

I have looked at Sam Witwer and I have not felt the least bit heterosexual. Quite the opposite in fact

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11-03-12, 10:39 AM (EST)

191. "This is a test of the Emergency National Sexual Preference system"

LAST EDITED ON 11-03-12 AT 10:55 AM (EST)
THIS IS A TEST FOR MEN. AND ANY WOMEN WHO WISH TO PARTICIPATE.

(Nothing?)

(This is a test control)

(Something for everyone. Except gay guys).
You may return to your regularly scheduled programming.

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11-04-12, 08:07 PM (EST)

192. "#268 (video games)"

You beat the levels.
You beat the puzzles.
You beat the bosses.
You beat the very last boss.
And now it's time for --
-- not so fast.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TrueFinalBoss
'Restart' button is on your left.

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11-04-12, 09:14 PM (EST)

193. "RE: #268 (video games)"

Didn't we just do this one? Has has the random button randomly hit twice in the same trope?

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11-04-12, 11:54 PM (EST)

194. "RE: #268 (video games)"

I think you are thinking of trope #212 above. Similar, but different.

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11-05-12, 10:30 AM (EST)

195. "#269 (e.g. Randy Jackson)"

You have no earthly idea how to do your job.
You prove this every time you are asked to do so. In public.
You are utterly unaware of how incompetent you truly are.
People laugh at you behind your back over how little skill you have. When they're not doing it to your face.
And you will never be fired.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/UltimateJobSecurity
A month ago, I would have put Andy Reid in the title, but here's hoping... he stays on forever.
Also applies when you're so hyper-competent that you can get away with anything, but that's generally not the Real Life example.

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11-06-12, 08:23 AM (EST)

196. "#270 (Election Day perspective.)"

Either we already have one --
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PresidentEvil
-- or we're gonna get one.

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11-06-12, 12:34 PM (EST)

197. "RE: #270 (Election Day perspective.)"

I suspect there is more chance that this was random on election day than the site allowing real life examples.

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11-07-12, 06:27 AM (EST)

198. "#271"

Planes are not horses. When in combat, do not aim them directly at each other.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AirJousting
Similarly, pegasi are not made of dark matter. And they resent head-on collisions. A lot.

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11-07-12, 09:24 AM (EST)

199. "RE: #271 BoinK!"

»And they resent head-on collisions. A lot. «

Handcrafted by RollDdice

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