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Ghost of Mars (2001)
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Ahhh, I apologize, I was not familiar with that as a colloquialism. Thank you for explaining.
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Ghost of Mars (2001)
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Ahhh, I apologize, I was not familiar with that as a colloquialism. Thank you for explaining.
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Ghost of Mars (2001)
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It's not out? Maybe I'm missing something?
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I vaguely remember liking it, but I was pretty young when I saw it and, as I said, don't really remember much about it. It's entirely possible I'd feel differently if I watched it today.
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What is the magic sysreq combination?
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I've always heard it in a different order as "Raising Skinny Elephants Is Utterly Boring."
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Ghost of Mars (2001)
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Sounds like lots of fun! I think I was thinking of Mission to Mars.
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Michael Jackson and Bob Marley in Jamaica, 1975
I honeymooned in Jamaica. At one point they took us on a boat tour. During that tour they pointed out a house that apparently had previously belonged to Bob Marley. I don't remember exactly how they phrased this, but they said something roundabout like "whenever he was in town with his friends you'd see lots of smoke coming out of that house."
I genuinely thought they were talking about smoking meat until my wife told me I was dumb.
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Pulling a rule out of a hat
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The Unabomber's cabin in FBI storage. Sacramento, California. 1998.
Reminds me of The Cabin Factory.
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Tearless not Tearless
Back when reddit was ... Less offensive, I read a story related to this on /r/nosleep.
I was, at least comparatively, pretty young and impressionable at the time. As the result, I was nervous during every shower for a while.
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2026-06-24
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Cool, clear water.
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Sometimes they quack a lot, sometimes not
The important question is, when they do, does it echo?
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Granted the cartoons were low-effort and stupid but freaking out about it just proved their point
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Thanks! Some of my friends are fans of it but I haven't had time to give it a shot yet.
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If they're lost, I wasn't meant to have them.
When troubleshooting a problem I'll often end up with 10-20 tabs open. I realize many people end up with hundreds or more and, if that works for them, fine; however, I find even what I open stressful. As a result, I've occasionally found it helpful to fully close my browser and relaunch without any of the old stuff.
I also do a lot of searching in private mode, but that's mostly because I'm embarrassed about some of the simple things I have to look up. Supposedly the company doesn't actively track what sites we visit and now there's no local evidence of how stupid I am. Well, at least not via my web searches.
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Captain Kirk is an exception to the proverb "Cheaters never prosper".
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OP says "an," not "the."
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Granted the cartoons were low-effort and stupid but freaking out about it just proved their point
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All right. Thank you again.
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Ghost of Mars (2001)
I must be misremembering but the movie I remember with this title didn't feature this character.
I mostly remember the protagonist discovering oxygenated water and choosing not to leave Mars. Also, I think something about using M&Ms as DNA and frozen fuel falling into a rocket engine. That second sentence might be from a separate movie, I'm not sure.
There was a lot of debate on nitpickers.com (no longer a valid site, apparently) about whether the fuel thing was realistic.
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Cursed knowledge
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According to reddit - back when I used to go there - and my dentist - back when I last visited him - the tongue will autonomously follow dentistry implements, generally without your awareness.
Maybe it knows more than you think.
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Excellent name
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When I was seven, I broke my arm. For reasons I still don't understand, it looked like a normal arm with a lower case "u" in the middle of it. My doctor referred to it as a "swan neck" break. (He also called me a cry baby, which I don't think was fair.)
No actual swan was involved, but your sentiment often makes me think of that.
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He's *so* slow
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Not on Lemmy.
I've actually never seen it but I assure you a large part of Lemmy's audience is of an appropriate age group for it and likely familiar with it.
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Granted the cartoons were low-effort and stupid but freaking out about it just proved their point
What is the source of the gif?