No god, no jobs, no do over's

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I'd also give KAWDUP a part, just to make him hate me less. He can be the more reasonable scientist guy, brought in to advise President Shatner how to fix the mess Red & Byco created.

he kinda looks like a NASA scientist, circa-1960. Crewcut, sensible glasses, short sleeved shirt with a tie & pocket protector. think Ed Harris in Apollo 13, or Michael Douglas in Falling Down.

this movie is going to be fantastic.

If you give KAWDUP a part, then you have to give Victors a part as well, he can be the chief of staff who tells president Shatner to ignore KAWDUP, and blame everything on the Russians.

 

[byco42]

If you give KAWDUP a part, then you have to give Victors a part as well, he can be the chief of staff who tells president Shatner to ignore KAWDUP, and blame everything on the Russians.

You can be the guy who tries to give the dinosaur a cookie. And he takes your arm with it.

 

[redandguilty]

And, of course, you are the lawyer who gets bitten in two by the Rex as you are taking a crap in the woods.

I think the lawyer was eaten whole (but he was on the crapper.) The engineer was ripped in 2 by 2 T-Rexes in JP3.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ2kxdQf3t0

 

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You can be the guy who tries to give the dinosaur a cookie. And he takes your arm with it.

They already offered me the part of "Jesus".

I declined because I don't care for wearing sandals.

 

[tinselwolverine]

I don't understand why you're wedded to the idea that the dinosaurs skateboard and surf... I'm not prepared to concede that part of the plot.

OK, it's NOT the central theme; we're not talking about making an Elvis movie with dinsosaurs here.


When the dinosaurs ski (or board) and surf, it represents freedom, and a sudden embracement of the awareness if their conscious being, and and the wonderment as to why it occurred.

One thing I don't want to concede is, I want Jessie Clarke to play the Dinosaur Queen, just like she plays the Vampire Queen in True Blood. - I can't post an image of her from True Blood because she's always naked in that TV show.

I'm thinking we make her silver, and naked, a la Rebecca Romin Stamos and that other chick in those X-Men movies (she was more of a blue, but that's kind of the idea).

Harold Ramis as Red, I'm fine with that.

As I'm considering this, byco's character seems to be the one the show might revolve around, most interestingly.

The Red character gets into this, because, like Red, the Red character is into the enhancement of food production through science - Red is already into hydroponics, and making his own beer, and stuff like that; it's good fit.

The byco character - now - he's drawn in for the discovery, and the intrigue, and the intellectual challenge - and all the while, he struggles with the responsibility of "playing God" - a la Shelly's Frankenstein (hey, there really are no new stories, just new variations of old ones) - and his worst imaginations come true when, indeed, the dinosaurs take on the unforseen anthropomorphic (see what I did there?) characteristics...

And the dilemma of what to do next occurs, as it is obvious that it is too late to "put the genie back in the bottle..."

Sam Elliott would be pretty good, actually.

Or Sam Waterson.

Maybe Sam Malone.

 

[redandguilty]

OK, it's NOT the central theme; we're not talking about making an Elvis movie with dinsosaurs here.


When the dinosaurs ski (or board) and surf, it represents freedom, and a sudden embracement of the awareness if their conscious being, and and the wonderment as to why it occurred.

One thing I don't want to concede is, I want Jessie Clarke to play the Dinosaur Queen, just like she plays the Vampire Queen in True Blood. - I can't post an image of her from True Blood because she's always naked in that TV show.

I'm thinking we make her silver, and naked, a la Rebecca Romin Stamos and that other chick in those X-Men movies (she was more of a blue, but that's kind of the idea).

Harold Ramis as Red, I'm fine with that.

As I'm considering this, byco's character seems to be the one the show might revolve around, most interestingly.

The Red character gets into this, because, like Red, the Red character is into the enhancement of food production through science - Red is already into hydroponics, and making his own beer, and stuff like that; it's good fit.

The byco character - now - he's drawn in for the discovery, and the intrigue, and the intellectual challenge - and all the while, he struggles with the responsibility of "playing God" - a la Shelly's Frankenstein (hey, there really are no new stories, just new variations of old ones) - and his worst imaginations come true when, indeed, the dinosaurs take on the unforseen anthropomorphic (see what I did there?) characteristics...

And the dilemma of what to do next occurs, as it is obvious that it is too late to "put the genie back in the bottle..."

Sam Elliott would be pretty good, actually.

Or Sam Waterson.

Maybe Sam Malone.

I've been hung up on the whole skiing dino theme...struggling with it. But if I don't worry about that right now, maybe I can think about other plot points.

...if the dinos are anthropomorphic, could it be that Egon/I needed some stem cells and found some on BYCO's hairbrush or where he skinned his knee? ...or what if BYCO becomes half dino though some accident? Can we do Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde with BCTO and his dino rival?

I don't know about anthropomorphic dinos in a food plot...unless BYCO gets to yell "Soylent Green is Dinos!!!" at the end.

Do you think we can get Steve Buscemi in this production?

 

[redandguilty]

TW, would you be content if the dinos weren't anthropomorphic, but they communicated crudely similar to Koko the gorilla using sign language and they skied like that bulldog that skateboards?

 

[tinselwolverine]

TW, would you be content if the dinos weren't anthropomorphic, but they communicated crudely similar to Koko the gorilla using sign language and they skied like that bulldog that skateboards?

I'd have to see a video of the skateboarding bulldog; does he (or she) do it at Venice Beach?

If that's the case, if you get me the skateboarding bulldog's skateboarding schedule, I can get over there and check it out for myself.

 

[redandguilty]

I'm sure you already know it's Venice Beach!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQzUsTFqtW0
So spill the beans...do you know the owner or what?


MI brings up a good point that meat eaters are inefficient as a food source. Per acre, eating grains is most efficient. Eating things that eat grains is less efficient because the amount of grain you have to feed an animal until it grows to harvesting size is enough to feed you directly for months. Eating meat eaters is terribly inefficient. The only case I can think of where people make money is seafood.

So maybe, since chicken is the most efficient meat (in terms of lbs of grain input per pounds of meat output...I think) we could argue that some dino (related to chicken) was even more efficient and therefore an intelligent crop to grow at some point in the future. Then maybe, the dinos cause economic trouble the same way wild hogs do in the South, so we re-introduce T-rexes and such to control the population.

...or someone figures out that the food crop is intelligent and shouldn't be harvested.

 

[tinselwolverine]

I've been hung up on the whole skiing dino theme...struggling with it. But if I don't worry about that right now, maybe I can think about other plot points. ...if the dinos are anthropomorphic, could it be that Egon/I needed some stem cells and found some on BYCO's hairbrush or where he skinned his knee? ...

Oh, Gosh, that is brilliant...

The dinosaurs are conscious, and cognitive...because...

because they are partially constructed of human (byco's) DNA...

See how that plays into the conundrum (did I spell that right?) the the main character (it's developing to be byco) faces?

Byco, unintionally, is actually the "Father" of the new species - talk about a Frankenstein complex, or what?

I'm thinking, this is a reveal that doesn't happen, obviously, until the dinosaurs establish themselves as an entity in society...

 

[redandguilty]

I'm thinking, this is a reveal that doesn't happen, obviously, until the dinosaurs establish themselves as an entity in society...

Hell, that could be the sequel. "Luke, I am your father." (Not an actual quote.)

 

[redandguilty]

...BYCO's stem cells acquired in an attempt to stop the research. He sees the research, he's disturbed by it, he tries to destroy the lab, but cuts himself as he's running around smashing lab glass. The breakthrough isn't a stroke of genius, just random irony as his blood drips in the right place at the right time.

 

[tinselwolverine]

So spill the beans...do you know the owner or what?

No, but I'm gonna check the dog out.

MI brings up a good point that meat eaters are inefficient as a food source.

Yeah, yeah, it's a TV show; it doesn't have to make a lot of sense; freakin' we're bringing dinosaurs to life, as it stands...

The breakthrough isn't a stroke of genius, just random irony as his blood drips in the right place at the right time.

No, it's not the breakthrough that's the stroke of genius, it's the literary mechanic that it took the unintentional use of byco's DNA to make that happen that is so brilliant...that is YOUR idea....nicely done...Vic and I voted you the smartest poster to this board once, you know...

 

[redandguilty]

I've sort of assumed/guessed the "smartest poster" vote is a gag and a comment about my ego more than anything (and I'm happy to deserve it..."Michigan Arrogance" and all.)

BYCO's attack on my research ends our friendship, also, I'm very arrogant about how I created dinos after I rebuilt my lab...that helps you to not see the twist. I hope I repent in BYCO's presence after my creations deal me a mortal wound.

 

[tinselwolverine]

I've sort of assumed/guessed the "smartest poster" vote is a gag and a comment about my ego more than anything (and I'm happy to deserve it..."Michigan Arrogance" and all.)

Nope, we both concurred that you were all around the smartest poster to the board at the time, no gag or sarcasm at all...that said (and Vic and haven't had a formal meeting about it, but my expectation is that soon we will) I've come to the conclusion that there are so many smart posters to this board that there really isn't one single smartest poster, all the smart posters have their own unique capabilities.

On a Michigan Wolverines board thread, I recently stated that a test score of mine would automatically qualify me for MENSA (it was the GRE I took for my admission to grad school. at USC); and as I thought that over, it occurred to me that I would be surprised if there aren't right around eight other posters to the Michigan Wolverines board that probably have some or other test score (MENSA accepts scores from over 200 tests, I recently read) that would yield the same result.

BYCO's attack on my research ends our friendship, also, I'm very arrogant about how I created dinos after I rebuilt my lab...that helps you to not see the twist. I hope I repent in BYCO's presence after my creations deal me a mortal wound.

I don't think we want to kill you off...unless it's our plan to bring you back (obviously, you didn't really die).

As I'm thinking of it...

byco, unaware of the completeness of his role in the animation of the dinosaurs, wrestles with the result of the experiment, and after much consternation, comes to the conclusion, with much regret, the best option is their extermination...and devises a plan to do so...

And at the 11th hour...

You show up...

And reveal to him what only you have known all along....

The dinosaurs are not just his co-creation...

They're actually his own biological offspring...

 

[redandguilty]

And at the 11th hour...

You show up...

And reveal to him what only you have known all along....

The dinosaurs are not just his co-creation...

They're actually his own biological offspring...

OOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooOOOOOO..... I liiike it. So does BYCO decide to let them live or decide he needs to off himself along with the rest of them?

 

[redandguilty]

On a Michigan Wolverines board thread, I recently stated that a test score of mine would automatically qualify me for MENSA (it was the GRE I took for my admission to grad school. at USC); and as I thought that over, it occurred to me that I would be surprised if there aren't right around eight other posters to the Michigan Wolverines board that probably have some or other test score (MENSA accepts scores from over 200 tests, I recently read) that would yield the same result.

http://www.us.mensa.org/join/testscores/qualifyingscores/
What's with MENSA not correlating scores after 94 or 01 for the SAT or GRE?

...also, no Wonderlic? (ha!)

 

[tinselwolverine]

http://www.us.mensa.org/join/testscores/qualifyingscores/
What's with MENSA not correlating scores after 94 or 01 for the SAT or GRE?

...also, no Wonderlic? (ha!)

The most relevant statistic I'm aware of about MENSA (last time I checked; and it was a while ago) is that more than 90% of the people who could join MENSA based on the qualifictions don't bother with it...

Suggesting that people like you, and me...and I as I think it over, every poster to this board who came over from the ESPN Wolverine board (or including, and especially byco, because I think byco may have originally been a Detroit Tigers board poster, who contributed to the M board, back in those ESPN days)...has better things to do than to fart around with MENSA.

 

[redandguilty]

The most relevant statistic I'm aware of about MENSA (last time I checked; and it was a while ago) is that more than 90% of the people who could join MENSA based on the qualifictions don't bother with it...

Suggesting that people like you, and me...and I as I think it over, every poster to this board who came over from the ESPN Wolverine board (or including, and especially byco, because I think byco may have originally been a Detroit Tigers board poster, who contributed to the M board, back in those ESPN days)...has better things to do than to fart around with MENSA.

There's really no reason to join Mensa except to satisfy your own ego, is there? (That being the case...why haven't I tried to join yet?!)

 

[redandguilty]

The most relevant statistic I'm aware of about MENSA (last time I checked; and it was a while ago) is that more than 90% of the people who could join MENSA based on the qualifictions don't bother with it...

Suggesting that people like you, and me...and I as I think it over, every poster to this board who came over from the ESPN Wolverine board (or including, and especially byco, because I think byco may have originally been a Detroit Tigers board poster, who contributed to the M board, back in those ESPN days)...has better things to do than to fart around with MENSA.

That's only because so few people take standardized tests. According to Wikipedia, Mensa is open to people that score in the 98th percentile on a standardized test and there are 110,000 members. If everyone in the world was taking standardized tests, then 100%*0.02*7B/110,000=0.079% of the eligible people would be joining. If people taking tests were representative of the global population and the 90% stat is right, that would imply that only 1 out of every 127 people actually take the standardized tests Mensa looks at. That 90% stat is muddled by self-selection. If everyone took standardized tests, that number would be somewhere between 90 and 99.92% depending on how big a role self-selection plays.