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This is scary for anyone who travels frequently by plane!!!!
Actual crack in a US Airways DC-9 window frame! Fliers beware of the sub standard maintenance on the airplanes that you fly on. You won’t believe this when you see it, this is an actual crack that was found in the window frame on a DC-9. This could have caused a major in-flight problem! I sent this to a friend in aircraft certification to see what action the FAA could take on this problem.
I’m sure many of you have seen this before, but for those who havn’t, it’s the Angry Halo Kid!!! Now, I’m not saying that playing Halo doesnt bring out some pretty hardcore emotional outbursts from yours truly, but this is just priceless.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4535339736414711626&q=angry+at+halo&hl=en
What is it about angry people that we find hilarious??
This is a veritable milestone of my career on the Bloon. Even if the website bellies up and turns into a strange, strange porn site involving garden gnomes and fire, I will always be able to look back and be proud. I will always be able to look back and say,
“Yeah, that’s right. I reviewed Snakes on a Plane.”
Hee, garden gnomes on fire.
Title: Snakes on a Plane
Genre (Movie): You’re kidding, right? It’s snakes. On a plane. The genre of this movie is SNAKES ON A PLANE.
Description: Honestly, it’s all you could ever have hoped for–and more.
Quickrating: My rating system has been rendered useless for this movie. You’ll have to read the review; sorry.
This is easily the hardest review I will ever write. And unless you’ve seen the film, it’s very difficult to explain why. I suppose it’s because Snakes on a Plane isn’t simply another film–it’s an experience. It will boggle your senses and blow your mind. It will destroy every last shred of logic in your pitiful head, then replace those shreds with snakes.
It has Samuel L. Motherf***ing Jackson.
If you’re a strange, hairy hermit living in an abandoned mine, using your dead comrades’ corpses for heat and their facial hair for scraps of clothing (and if you are, I totally respect that), let me tell you the history of S.o.a.P.
I heard about this movie near the end of last school year. The title of the movie was Snakes on a Plane. It had Samuel L. Jackson starring as the main character. This was enough to literally fill the internet with all sorts of SoaP-related tidbits, such as faked movie trailers, radio ads, and vibrant hopes for Samuel L. Jackson to kill snakes with a purple lightsaber. (Unfortunately, the latter one there didn’t happen. Pity.)
You see, when Samuel L. Jackson chose to star in this movie, he didn’t read a script. He didn’t get convinced by a producer or anything else. All he saw was the title: Snakes on a Plane. In that moment, he called up his agent and told him to get him onto that movie.
However, Snakes on a Plane was simply a production title, and the movie producers tried to change the name of the film to Air Pacific Flight 121. But Mistah Jackson told them that they damn well better keep the name of the film or else he’d leave.
Because he’s a BADASS.
So onto the actual film, yes?
Yes.
116 years ago, Howard Phillips Lovecraft was born in Providence, Rhode Island. Howard was a sickly young man, but he loved to read. He voraciously read nearly anything that his grandfather gave him. Through a series of unfortunate events, he was never able to attend university, but this did not stop him from becoming a writer, even when he was young. Over the course of the rest of his life, he wrote multitudes of stories. Though he died as a mediocre author, his legacy lived on. His writing has become the basis for modern horror. Now, I know that things like that are often thrown around lightly, but in Lovecraft’s case, it is the truth. His works have influenced pretty much all modern psychological horror. He also has one of the world’s most distinctive writing styles. Today, his name is often forgotten, and is often replaced by more contemporary names, but his writing still towers over all of theirs. See for yourself.
My suggestion is to start with The Call of Cthulhu, as it is his most famous. I also highly recommend with Shadow Over Innsmouth and Rats in the Walls. Rats in the Walls is the original The Shining, and remains one of the creepiest stories of all time.
http://dagonbytes.com/thelibrary/lovecraft/index.html
has all of his stories. I believe that wikisource has them too.
By the way, Lovecraft was also one of the worlds most famous racists. He was a serious racist. Not only did he hate minorities, he hated anybody who wasn’t descended directly from England. Hardcore.