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Post by Hooky on Aug 12, 2005 15:52:32 GMT -5
I find Mr. Poe's general unhelpfulness annoying, as well as Nero's favouritism and personality in general. Hector could have been helpful, being in VFD, but his character flaw prevented him from being any real use. I don't find Carmelita too annoying. Widdershins' catchphrase was irriating. I would have to choose Nero. And just my luck, he appears to be coming back. Yzay. What are you talking about? Did you accidentally post in the wrong thread? Anyway, I voted for pulling the log with gum. That wouldn't work, as gum will keep stretching as it is pulled.
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Post by SF on Aug 14, 2005 15:47:42 GMT -5
Probably pulling 100 lbs. with gum. The sword-fight with Doctor Orwell was pretty implausible/fictional.
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Post by LargeManFeOrMale on Aug 15, 2005 8:03:12 GMT -5
i voted for the gum, i never noticed how strange it was until now
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Post by Sugary Snicket on Aug 16, 2005 10:24:08 GMT -5
The gum thing WAS very unbeleavible. But bread usually gets mushy when you put water on it, so the jail thing, too.
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Post by Jacques the Environmentalist on Aug 16, 2005 20:48:42 GMT -5
All have their own degree of impossibility I'd say. But for me, the most impossible thing is always Sunny climbing up the elevator shaft.
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Post by Sugary Snicket on Aug 20, 2005 16:21:19 GMT -5
That does seem like a bit of a stretch/it would be quite painful.....
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Post by LargeManFeOrMale on Aug 21, 2005 6:50:07 GMT -5
But sunny had supa sharp teeth.
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Post by Sugary Snicket on Aug 21, 2005 12:49:57 GMT -5
Still, gravity pulls down. I doubt that it wasn't painful for her.
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Post by Jacques the Environmentalist on Aug 21, 2005 20:05:47 GMT -5
Oh come on, climbing 330 feet with nothing but your teeth? Besides that, Sunny is a baby who in our real world would have barely any idea what was going on and would probably cry uncontrollably after such a fall, not be able to do that impossible feat and follow her siblings' instructions.
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Post by Sugary Snicket on Aug 26, 2005 9:57:10 GMT -5
This is a strange world. In this world, babies have IQs of about, oh, I'd say 300-500-ish, and most adults have IQs of about, oh, I'd say 0.
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Post by Jacques the Environmentalist on Aug 27, 2005 20:42:02 GMT -5
Exactly. In the real world it would be impossible for a baby to even understand what was happening, let alone know what to do and it's impossible even if she knew exactly what she was doing. Impossibility on top of impossibility.
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Ceara
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Regarding that curious feeling of falling . . .
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Post by Ceara on Aug 28, 2005 12:01:35 GMT -5
Wow. I had never really realized how far-fetched ASOUE was until now. That's really quite odd isn't it? I guess we were all just really caught up with all the mysteries that we never noticed that.
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Post by Dante on Aug 28, 2005 12:06:01 GMT -5
The books are so over-the-top that the extraordinary becomes rather ordinary, and so we don't notice it, I think.
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