Moments when a piece of entertainment completely rocked you.

RobbyPants · Post by **RobbyPants** » Wed Sep 01, 2010 1:21 pm

Count Arioch the 28th wrote:Re; Family Guy

Just saw Quagmire's rant on why he doesn't like Brian. That was awesome.

Is this a new episode? I stopped watching several seasons ago.

Count Arioch the 28th · Wed Sep 01, 2010 4:39 pm

It's a newer episode, I believe.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Wed Sep 01, 2010 6:46 pm

It's the one where Brian sleeps with Quagmire's dad, isn't it?

RobbyPants · Post by **RobbyPants** » Wed Sep 01, 2010 7:04 pm

Wow. I learned something new about Brian today.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Thu Sep 02, 2010 5:31 pm

heh, Quagmire's dad actually had a sex change, and I don't think Brian knew she was Quagmire's dad when he picked her up.

Anyway. Mad Jack Churchill. This man needs a movie made about him.

wikipedia wrote:an English soldier who fought throughout World War II armed with a longbow, arrows, and a claybeg. He once said "any officer who goes into action without his sword is improperly dressed."

Wikipedia wrote:Churchill resumed his commission after Poland was invaded, volunteering for the Commandos after fighting at Dunkirk. Churchill was unsure what Commando Duty entailed, but he signed up because it sounded dangerous. In May 1940, Churchill and his unit, the Manchester Regiment, ambushed a German patrol near L'Epinette, France. Churchill gave the signal to attack by cutting down the enemy Feldwebel (sergeant) with his barbed arrows, becoming the only known British soldier to have felled an enemy with a longbow in the course of the war.

Churchill was second in command of No. 3 Commando in Operation Archery, a raid on the German garrison at Vågsøy, Norway on December 27, 1941.[2] As the ramps fell on the first landing craft, Churchill leapt forward from his position playing The March of the Cameron Men on bagpipes,[1] threw a grenade, and began running towards the bay. For his actions at Dunkirk and Vaasgo, Churchill received the Military Cross and Bar.

clearly the man was pure, unleaded, unadultered fucking awesome.

Count Arioch the 28th · Fri Sep 03, 2010 1:13 am

I just saw Futurama, Season 4 episode 12.

I was honestly impressed. And slightly freaked out.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Wed Sep 08, 2010 6:09 am

Book of Gears rules, obviously. Though apparently irishmen will ask you for one of your magical hats.

virgil · Post by **virgil** » Wed Sep 08, 2010 6:47 am

That totally reminds me of Cugel's three-tiered hat. I only wish I could find a drawing of it, as I've only seen it in writing.

Count Arioch the 28th · Fri Sep 10, 2010 9:02 am

I remember back when the book of VD was released, people (mostly planescape jagoffs) were bitching about the Hag Countess being the ruler of the Sixth layer of hell.

I'm looking at an old Planescape supplement from 2E. The Ruler of the 6th layer of Hell is named Malagard, and is described as a night hag. Dumbasses.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Fri Sep 10, 2010 9:25 am

Some person on Devart with too much time on their hands has done up the eggs for every pokemon that breeds in the games.

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Fri Sep 10, 2010 1:49 pm

As a promotion for the Tiffany Aching books, Terry Pratchett is letting The Wee Free Men be displayed online, in it's entirety. For a while, anyway.

http://browseinside.harpercollinschildr ... 010custom1

PoliteNewb · Post by **PoliteNewb** » Fri Sep 10, 2010 2:34 pm

Count Arioch the 28th wrote:I remember back when the book of VD was released, people (mostly planescape jagoffs) were bitching about the Hag Countess being the ruler of the Sixth layer of hell.

I'm looking at an old Planescape supplement from 2E. The Ruler of the 6th layer of Hell is named Malagard, and is described as a night hag. Dumbasses.

*shrug* Maybe they were grognards instead of planescape jagoffs...in 1E, the 6th was ruled by Moloch, as a regent/seneschal/whatever for Baalzebul (who had the 6th and the 7th). Moloch was a fairly generic dude with shark's teeth.

virgil · Post by **virgil** » Fri Sep 10, 2010 6:00 pm

They'd definitely have to be grognards. They went out of their way to not even give a face or a name to the Lord of the Sixth in the earlier Planescape material on Baator (Hellbound and Planes of Law). Hellbound, a later work, went so far as to say that the Lord was rumoured to be female. It wasn't until the Faces of Evil that they finally revealed it was the Hag Countess.

CatharzGodfoot · Post by **CatharzGodfoot** » Sat Sep 11, 2010 3:43 am

http://www.somethingawful.com/d/news/sa ... ountry.php

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Sat Sep 11, 2010 7:22 am

I am so gonna send that to my dad. That's awesome.

Parthenon · Post by **Parthenon** » Mon Sep 13, 2010 12:42 am

Makes more sense than anything else I've heard: Why homosexuals aren't allowed in the military

Wesley Street · Post by **Wesley Street** » Mon Sep 13, 2010 12:42 pm

Parthenon wrote:Makes more sense than anything else I've heard: Why homosexuals aren't allowed in the military

Repeal Of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Paves Way For Gay Sex Right On Battlefield, Opponents Fantasize

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Fri Sep 17, 2010 9:03 am

Just got back from a midnight showing of Devil, the new M Night flick.

No, I'm not saying it rocked me (though the trailers shown before the feature kind of did...), but, I'm giving M Night some props, because the movie was actually not bad, and my predictions of "whodunnit" were wrong (at least the ones made from the trailer of the movie, the one I made when it started was actually right. To bad I discounted it.)

Avoraciopoctules · Post by **Avoraciopoctules** » Sat Sep 18, 2010 3:43 am

http://www.viruscomix.com/page373.html

I was linked to something else here a while ago and found this strip funny enough to put into my bookmarks and rediscover today. I think most of it comes from the way the featured character is drawn. That face alone is enough to elicit startled amusement from me.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Sat Sep 18, 2010 6:14 am

http://www.viruscomix.com/page433.html
I rather liked this one

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Mon Sep 20, 2010 12:46 am

I really have to recommend this again.

http://www.diggercomic.com/?p=3

Digger, by Ursula Vernon.

I went on a re-read and I was reminded of how strange and epic it can be in places.

If you want a sample of the sort of weird mix of art and weird ideas and anthropology, start here http://www.diggercomic.com/?p=365 and read to page 383 (in the URL at the top).

By the way, the Dark Lady is based on what street children believe about Bloody Mary. There's a five-part article on this, titled "Myths over Miami". Google it if you want.

Edit: Ah, dug it up. One of Ursula's friends had a way to describe her.

Past the town of Strange, you come to the hamlet of Marked Odd, and then the ville and parish of Peculiar. If you keep going -- the road is thinning, now, a rough and narrowing track -- you will rise up, following the heaving flanks of the Written Downs, and find the village of Weird, where the trees giggle and the fish will rise up singing hymns to rosy-fingered dawn in languages that make the elves go mad if they hear but six words of them spoken together.

Climb higher; there's still a track, howsoever infested with disputatious goats, the Giant Flying Vampire Toad, and those few of Coleridge's opium dreams yet living. Be cautious not to turn aside; salacious annelids litter the forest, and the Birds of Brave Sayings might set a saint to screaming.

Right near the top of the next long hill -- you will know when you are there; wombats will mug you for carrots -- there is a little house. If the air is clear, and shining, and the angle of the sun is low, for half an hour of the evening you will see, far below, a long day's journey behind you, the village lights of Weird, twinkling in the deepening dusk.

Now you are at Ursula's House.

-- Graydon

virgil · Post by **virgil** » Mon Sep 20, 2010 9:15 am

A friend showed me this, which I find just plain awesome...

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Tue Sep 21, 2010 6:16 pm

I love that image. It just messes up my screen.

As for entertainment rockage: The union skit {OK, Comedy, Errors} on last night's Daily Show was a real winner.

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Wed Sep 22, 2010 2:30 am

http://gizmodo.com/5643189/sir-terry-pr ... -excaliber

Well played, Sir Pratchett.

Count Arioch the 28th · Wed Sep 22, 2010 8:22 am

the 9/21/10 Goblins update made me go "Aww!"