Comments on: Frickafrak

By: alecho

Sat, 01 Aug 2009 18:33:00 +0000

hahahahahaha, I love the last pic with Megan Fox. Yeah… its tough being a nerd… got my heart broken so many times

By: Adam_Y

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 09:43:38 +0000

By: sitting pugs

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 02:53:38 +0000

notice how many of them feature aliens, alternate universes, genetic experiments or comic book characters? E.T. was also a "family film" and directed by Steven Spielberg (whose films Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and Raiders of the Lost Ark) had made him a bankable name. Jurassic Park, another Spielberg film, can be cross-listed as action-adventure, and even nature-revenge. Independence Day = Will Smith already had Bad Boys and The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air under his belt. Another question could be how many of these top grossing films of a sci-fi nature are also action-adventure or packaged/marketed as a (franchise) blockbuster? Moreover, once you control for or even remove the director/cast members as selling points, how many top grossing films of a sci-fi nature would remain?

By: Ben

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 10:22:07 +0000

The footballers here like group sex, scrums, etc. By group sex, I mean, 12 guys and one woman. So, I stand by my closet statement.

By: Adam

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 09:30:35 +0000

As a Brit, ‘Jay Leno’ and ‘Carson Daly’ are nothing but strange sounding words to me.

By: The Great Joe Bivins

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 01:56:40 +0000

The only time I've talked about it was when I ranted on my Twitter about how NBC Universal is ruining television (because I was angry that they cancelled My Name is Earl). I gave many examples, including the stupidity of SciFi Channel's name change, but the chief of my arguments was that giving Jay Leno the ten o'clock slot would rip a hole in the spacetime continuum, as that slot belongs to hour dramas, unless the network is Fox, and Fox is the LAST channel NBC needs to emulate. Also I hate Jay Leno, but I hate Carson Daly too but he's on late enough that it doesn't matter. The Great Joe Bivinss last post..COMIC: BAADD: Blobs All About Drunk Driving

By: Adam

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 15:45:17 +0000

Publicity? I mean I’m talking about it…

But mostly, I think, through the misguided need to re-brand.

By: Adam

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 15:43:27 +0000

Yes, the scifi… I mean SyFy, channel will be showing a ‘documentary’ about my amazing re-appearing abilities this Autumn.

By: Adam

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 15:39:48 +0000

Auctioneer! As in, ‘going, going, gone’?

A great way to annoy the dead there.

I quite like the term ‘mediums’ too… it makes therm sound a little more impressive than ‘smalls’, but not quite as impressive as ‘larges’.

By: Adam

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 15:36:37 +0000

Closet?

By: Adam

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 15:29:52 +0000

Ha. You’re right there,unless ‘stuff like that’ is an academic term I am unaware of…

Actually, TV historian is a bit of a ropey academic subject anyway. How do you differentiate between one of those and a couch-bound stoner watching re-runs in the middle of the day?

By: Adam

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 15:25:25 +0000

It’s OK, we all know you are a dysfunctional geek of the highest order…

I resent the idea that mainstream sci-fi is any less valid than the sorts that hide behind terms such as ‘speculative fiction’… it’s like the same distinction between ‘comics’ and ‘graphic novels’. The value, or merit doesn’t vary, only the level of pretension.

By: Ben

Sat, 13 Jun 2009 06:22:36 +0000

I hate football. It is a game for closet homosexuals.
That aside, I also agree with everything else you said.

By: Urban Rob

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 23:19:07 +0000

I thought the name change was a total waste. Is there some legal reason they had to change it? Why would you give up “SciFi” which is instantly recognizable for that garbage name?

By: beemoh

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:56:16 +0000

Surrounding, and indeed emanating from, yes.

By: Roo

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:51:03 +0000

Fih is such a difficult vowel to end a word with, at least in English. It’s the sort of thing Jack’s giant would say, were he perverted more than mean: “Feh fih foh fum, I like the look of that English bum!”

By: Roo

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:48:20 +0000

Beemoh, are there toxic gases surrounding Uranus?

By: beemoh

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:49:17 +0000

See also: creative pronounciation of “Uranus”

By: The Great Joe Bivins

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:38:17 +0000

I wonder if anyone pronounces it Sy Fih? That's the way the two syllables are pronounced in their origin words. This reminds me of an argument I used to have with a pianist friend of mine about his mispronouncing "pianist" to make it not sound like "penis". Maybe if he was using some accepted regional pronunciation I could let it slide, but he's just shifting the emphasis to avoid puns! My other friend who used to mispronounce words never bothered to justify himself, he just insisted that it didn't matter and that he was still smarter than me (I was in the Gifted program and we all acted intellectually superior as a matter of course). The Great Joe Bivinss last post..COMIC: BAADD: Blobs All About Drunk Driving

By: Seraphine

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:30:59 +0000

skiffy sounds too much like underpants.
i say sci-fi the “eye” way.

By: Katie mfa writing

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 07:14:58 +0000

Sci-Fi indeed remains a powerful source for the marketers even today! How true you’re when you say that those geeky basement boys rolling dice and reading about aliens still persists in the minds of marketing departments

By: Roo

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:48:59 +0000

I'm with you guys: this is sort of dumb. I'd like to open the discussion up to pronunciation though. Who pronounces "Sci Fi" as "s-eye f-eye" (sy fy) and who says "skiffy"? I'm told 'skiffy' is actually the more common pronunciation, but I've never heard anyone say it that way. Also: my favourite sci-fi slang word is GROK. Amazing addition to the language, that one. Do y'all read 365 Tomorrows, speaking of Skiffy?

By: Seraphine

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:40:23 +0000

you’re back! for a while, you disappeared.
and i’m in the mood for romance, not battlescar bullactica.
that’s the true definition of geek.
missed you.

By: McClackers

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:00:41 +0000

‘associated with geeks and dysfunctional, antisocial boys in their basements with video games and stuff like that’

‘and the female audience in particular’

Hey no fair! thats just sexist, are they saying that Sci Fi is just for boys, if thats the case then i have an angry mob of girls who can correct Mr Brooks. However we won’t as we are ‘anti-social’ and to busy with our ‘video games and stuff like that’

..and yet here we are, socialising.

By: The Great Joe Bivins

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:59:13 +0000

The Enterprise theme song aside, the show itself is just standard dry boring Trek. Still I wish they'd done a fifth season. The Great Joe Bivinss last post..Comic Comments WOO BACK YES.