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| 02-05-09 11:16am - 5798 days | #30 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User  Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Heh, indeed that would fit the bill. Site seems to be running fine for me - maybe they've got it back in order. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo | |
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| 02-04-09 11:29pm - 5799 days | #28 | |
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Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
I've been all about the T-Shirts ever since it was suggested in a poll. I would recommend Zazzle.com over CafePress.com - their product quality is much better. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo | |
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| 02-04-09 03:09pm - 5799 days | #6 | |
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Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
This has nothing to do with your browsers and everything to do with the photos you are downloading. There are many ways to encode a JPEG file, some allow for progressive downloads, others do not. You can read up on JPEG Compression methods here: Wikipedia: JPEG Compression Anyway, you could always just save time by downloading the zip files so you can look at every photo instantly. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo | |
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| 01-29-09 10:15am - 5806 days | #52 | |
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Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Thanks for the info! Well it sounds like I might skip that network for a while - let it grow a bit, maybe they'll get their work more consistent by then. I had seen that Rip Her Up site and thought the same thing - it seems silly that they aren't explicitly labeling that as a rape fantasy site. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo | |
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| 01-28-09 03:42pm - 5806 days | #125 | |
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Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
That's one of the bad guys from Abe's Odyssey, right? That was a fun but frustratingly difficult game :-P "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo | |
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| 01-26-09 12:14pm - 5808 days | #5 | |
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Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
CyberToad disabled his account too - anybody know what spurned that action? We are losing too many good posters! "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo | |
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| 01-25-09 11:58am - 5809 days | #2 | |
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Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
I did a quick look and couldn't find anything about them related to porn on Google. You could just have your card company do a charge back on them and if they are a legitimate company they will try to get in contact with you very quickly. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo | |
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| 01-24-09 11:50pm - 5810 days | #6 | |
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Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Haha - thanks for the nomination, I am here a frequently, no doubt about that :-P Of course, in a sense, we all moderate the forum to a degree with the little report button. I'm pretty sure that button sends an email to Khan (and perhaps others) and usually gets Spam cleaned up pretty quickly. Spam reporting also has been helping my writing skills as I've been writing the reports in Limerick form :-P All things considered I think the forum is quite clean of Spam for the most part and everybody has remained quite civil and pleasant. Adding extra moderators might be a fine preventative measure, but so far I wouldn't say action must be taken. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo | |
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| 01-23-09 09:06pm - 5811 days | #8 | |
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Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Yeah, I don't think it was VideoBox who posted this. The link in question had an affiliate marker tied in - no point VideoBox themselves putting that in. I'm actually surprised this thread wasn't deleted in its entirety. Probably it is due to responses being made to it. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo | |
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| 01-23-09 01:07pm - 5811 days | #34 | |
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Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
hehe, for me that would be Dvorak to QWERTY. I really love the change the mouse orientation prank so it moving up is translated as going down and slightly to the left (or some other random direction you choose) - drives people nuts if they don't know keyboard shortcuts. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo | |
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| 01-21-09 08:00pm - 5813 days | #3 | |
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Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
The usual answer I've heard from the medical community is that as long as you can't crack a joint over and over immediately, you are fine to do it. It is simply moving vacuums out of your joint lubrication fluid - also known as Synovial fluid cavitation. However, if you can do it again and again, as fast as you like - you might have bone rubbing against bone - and generally that is bad, so don't do it. I too can crack most joints, but I can also continuously get cracking noises from one of my shoulders, so that one I try not to do. Wikipedia, as always, gets into this more thoroughly: Wikipedia: Cracking Joints "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo | |
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| 01-21-09 07:35pm - 5813 days | #121 | |
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Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Problems with your avatar? Did you make sure the file size was below the 15 KB limit? It also must be between 50x50 and 100x100 pixels - pretty small but enough to get the idea across I think. If it doesn't seem to be uploading right, try switching to a different browser and trying again. I've had it successfully upload in both Firefox and Google Chrome. If you still have problems I'd be happy to prepare an image file for you. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo | |
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| 01-20-09 01:01pm - 5814 days | #19 | |
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Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
I often browse websites while watching videos on the second monitor. In a work setting it can be even more useful as you don't have to Alt+Tab between two programs you are using. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo | |
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| 01-15-09 09:37am - 5820 days | #113 | |
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Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
I saw that they are listing a movie for 2010 but I'm curious if that is really going to happen since they are pushing this 2009 TV Series through. I dunno, I'm not 100% opposed to remakes, there have been some good ones, it just seems that more often than not they fail to capture the style that made the original memorable. The latest Hitchhiker movie failed in part I think because they changed the story so damned much. I liked a good bit of the casting, in comparison to the original Radio Drama. Sam Rockwell captured the spirit of Zaphod quite well and Bill Nighy did an excellent job as Slartibartfast. I don't know why they picked Zooey Deschanel for Trillian, she was competent enough, but why wasn't she British? Hell, they could have had her do a British accent, enough British, Australian and New Zealand actors come over to the US for roles as American characters. I'd never run across Martin Freeman before, but he did a respectable Aurther Dent and Mos Def did Ford Prefect fine as well. They rather butchered the rendering of Marvin, even considering that I'm always happy to see Warwick Davis get work. Alan Rickman was perfect for his voice, but who thought Marvin was related to the iPod? How would that creation ever rust? Let alone complain about the diodes causing him pain. Stephen Fry was good as the Guide's voice and the Narrator. The problem was this movie should have simply been the Primary Phase and instead they made it this really bizarre combination of both the Primary Phase and the Secondary Phase - with new characters, different story lines and so on. At least they got the Whale and the bowl of Petunias right. Oh well, we just have look back to the good ol' days of the radio drama - the days when small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri. I haven't gotten copies of the Tertiary Phase or the Quandary Phase yet - I know it is mostly the original cast, but you never know how well that works out. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo Edited on Jan 15, 2009, 12:20pm (Toadsith: Forgot the word "not" before 100%.) | |
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| 01-14-09 09:59pm - 5820 days | #111 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
I didn't realize they were making a remake of the Prisoner, and with an American in the lead no less? Blast. That seems kind of wrong. I might have approved had they had cast someone like James Nesbitt in the lead. I recently watched "Jekyll", the 2007 BBC series and he was epically awesome in that. I hope they do a second season at some point - apparently it is already written. Anyway, I'll check out The Prisoner when it is released, but I worry they'll focus on the wrong themes in the original and lose what made it is so good. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo | |
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| 01-14-09 06:31pm - 5820 days | #108 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Haha, I would have suggested Patrick Macnee but I thought he'd been dead for years - but it appears he'll be 87 next month :-P And Natalie Wood, well she did have some appeal. Yessir, no doubt. Sadly she ended reminding us why one doesn't go swimming in November (even in Southern Cali). While drunk. And in a down-filled coat. And a wool sweater. And with only other drunken folk to help rescue you. One must note that treading water for 15 minutes in a winter coat and sweater is impressive. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo | |
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| 01-14-09 06:01pm - 5820 days | #4 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Cony Ferrara certainly has similar breasts and facial features, but she seems to have a stomach tattoo and be missing a tattoo on her left upper arm. The model in the photos (assuming I'm right about the previous photo) has tattoos on both upper arms, no stomach tattoo (as of 2007 at least) and seems to have less pronounced nipples. She also has perhaps a slightly rounder head. Maybe they are sisters? lol "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo | |
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| 01-14-09 05:53pm - 5820 days | #3 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
If it helps, I think this previous photo is of the same model: http://www.machomedia.hu/old/070907/mm_erotikaparade2k7_291.jpg "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo | |
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| 01-14-09 04:11pm - 5820 days | #106 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
I genuinely thought about remaining silent for a few weeks to see if people would start wondering, but alas, I like talking too much. (Or typing I suppose.) Alas the Patrick McGoohan era is officially over, still, he can still contact us and provide useful porn advice in his ethereal form. So McGoohan, Montalban, who's next? Robert Wagner? "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo | |
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| 01-13-09 01:37pm - 5821 days | #7 | |
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Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
lol - and that is why we love the Czech Republic :-D Prague is right up there near the top of my list of places to visit. I just wish the air fare weren't so bloody expensive. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo | |
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| 01-13-09 11:03am - 5821 days | #3 | |
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Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Sweet! Looking forward to the new format :-) "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo | |
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| 01-13-09 11:02am - 5821 days | #2 | |
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Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
I've used XRentDVD many times over the years - they always been very fair with me, not charging me for DVDs lost by USPS and immediately shipping out a new DVD if one arrived damaged. As for not shipping within 24 hours, that is a little odd, you are sure you've activated your XRentDVD Preferred account? Even with the free membership they'll let you queue up an infinite amount of DVDs, they just won't ship them until you've setup the preferred account. To make sure your account is working, Login, go to "My Account", and then go to "Account Maintenance". The first item should relate to your XRentDVD Preferred account. If your account is all setup just fine, I also do remember a few times that it took the website a little while longer than expected to update the "shipped" status. The DVD had shipped, but they hadn't said anything. Anyway, you are paying them (assuming the preferred account is active) so give them a ring 888-973-6838 (8am - 5pm PST, M-F). Also, do note that they are a much smaller operation than Netflix - they only have one warehouse which is located in California, so shipping takes sometimes 3 or 4 days if you are way out in New York like me. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo | |
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| 01-10-09 02:13am - 5825 days | #28 | |
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Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
For no particular added value to this thread, I pick the following: Pepsi, Cars, Neither, Western Digital, Windows, Brunettes, Hairy, Summer, Briefs, Tea, and Both :-D "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo | |
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| 01-07-09 07:32pm - 5827 days | #9 | |
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Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Or maybe its Latin for "smells fuzzy and tangy with a hint of purple", or even Yiddish slang for "I thought I left that next that refrigerator that is painted to look like a Giraffe." Then again, it could be a simple descriptor used by Mongolian tribesman that means "Needs Velcro". "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo | |
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| 01-07-09 06:40pm - 5827 days | #7 | |
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Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
You'll notice most European girls are fine in Stilettos - damn American fashion for doing away with traditional heels and Stilettos for platform sandals - damn damn damn them! An a different point - what the hell is Erotic Sensitivity anyway? (Assuming he didn't really mean "erptic" of course.) "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo | |
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| 01-07-09 01:42pm - 5827 days | #9 | |
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Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
I know with the older dell monitors with that swivel capability, you had to tell the video card to adjust the orientation each time you changed it. My guess is that remains the case unless the monitor has some sort of USB connection to talk to the computer or something similar. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo | |
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| 01-07-09 10:04am - 5828 days | #4 | |
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Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
I definitely agree that the Decor & Surroundings seen in many sets has become tired and overdone. Outdoor sets and distressed sets are extremely common amongst the pros, and bathrooms or kitchens are equally common with the amateurs (largely because these are some of the few rooms in a normal residence with bright overhead lighting). Some studios spend the money to use interesting sets (DDF is a good example) but sadly they tend to be few and far between. Shooting Angles, poses and lighting for that matter, so much depend on the style of the photographer. Push given shove I usually prefer a well lit set - but I've seen some photographers make excellent use of shadows while remaining erotic and staying away from annoying levels of tease. Same goes for shooting angles - most photographers find poses and camera angles that work for them and have to actively fight themselves to keep from repeating them. Often repetitive and unoriginal posing is the fault of the photographer rather than the model. Yes - some models have a natural talent for trying unusual and candid looking poses, but the photographer can do direct the models toward a look - whatever that look may be. Some photographers really perfect the artificial and others revel in the natural. While many photographers haven't found a style that works for them, I don't feel there is any one correct way to do it. I find the "Tease & Excitement" appeal and the "Not Too Long" to be bordering on mutually exclusive. I've seen many a photo set remain interesting a 100 photos in with the model still wearing their underwear. I agree that jumping strait to the pink is a good way to kill a photoset unless the model is absolutely entrancing - but I also stand by the motto of more the merrier as medium sized photo sets in that 100 to 150 range often means the photographer will be leaving a lot of photos out. Sometimes spending so much time with a photo set, looking at the subtle differences between one photo and the next, has a way of immersing you in the fantasy. On the other hand, an extremely careful set of say 20 photos can be plenty if each photo is so perfect it can be framed. I guess my suggestion would be that while it may be better that a set be too short than too long, a set the feels too long likely has much more wrong with it than simply too many photos. One bit I'm rather surprised about is the remark that Stilettos ruin a model's posture. The whole point of high heels is to adjust the model's posture - it tightens up the buttocks and calves, accentuates the curve in the back and pushes the bust forward, et cetera. I'll grant you that platform heels have some models obviously teetering on the edge of their balance, but that is more a comment on the model's lack of experience rather than the footwear. I personally am usually not a fan of the ever present platform heels because they consume so much space visually - they don't accent the leg rather than dominate it. Stilettos I do like though as they can be rather elegant and graceful in design acting as an accessory like well placed earrings, bracelets and so on. The advantage of Stilettos in my opinion is they can keep the models legs looking good in nearly any pose. A model standing completely flat footed may completely render her legs bland as the muscles relax and the leg widens. Of course, Stilettos can be avoided by simply having the model stand on tippy-toe. Lastly, more an aside than anything else - point number 3, the "Point of Satisfaction", that was simply defined and then not much was said about it - was the idea that it should come at the end of the set as implied in the video analogy? "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo | |
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| 12-24-08 12:22am - 5842 days | #9 | |
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Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
lol, hyperbole? But I saw the reflections of the torches in my window! Honestly, though, I don't know if it is the holiday fervor, or whatnot, but people have been jumping on people a bit the past few days and I didn't want to scare off a new user just because they were a bit vague. You are right, I don't have any method of knowing for sure (yet) if this post is spam or not - but I can point out there isn't any affiliate data in the URL - it is a just a basic auto created URL that Porn Users does to whatever you add a dot com to. Even if it is canadianmarsupialseatingplaybillsfrom1985.com (I wonder if that site really exists...). I just don't think there is any reason to force a new user to defend their actions - if they never reply to this thread, then it would become apparent that it was probably spam. We don't need to suggest that they are posting spam for that idea to be floating around. If it is real obvious that it is spam, we can report it and Khan removes it in a flash. Granted there has been a lot of that going around. I've reported so many that I've moved on from writing references to the Monty Python Spam skit to writing Spam oriented limericks in the Report text. I'm not sure what will be next, maybe an epic ballad. So long story short, I understand the need to defend our turf from Spam. I too help in that crusade, but I think we should minimize collateral damage as much as possible. It could be spam, it could not be spam, but outright stating that it is possibly a sneaky, subversive spam attack and it turns out it isn't will simply start bad blood and possibly send a user running away. If it really is spam, reporting it as such would have been the only effective thing to do to it - stating it is rather unnecessary because I'm sure it crosses everyone's mind when we see any link to a freebie porn site. So sure, it isn't paranoia, we all know I like to write in a bit of drama in my little quips. Everybody has doubts about these links and my point is that there is little benefit in expressing them and possible harm; especially in the event of a potential new member. I like to think this is friendly, welcoming community of porn users, but we've got people being weirdly grumpy to an upstart webmaster over in another thread (especially considering he came to us for advice) and now we are suspicious of a user after one harmless post. I'm not saying you had ill intentions, I just want make sure newbies get at least a little bit of a grace period - unless it is freakishly obvious they are spamelicious shill. Of course it is your right to express thy doubts - freedom of speech and so on, its your choice. I just think we should try to give newbies some slack. In truth, I might not have come to the user's defense so quickly had people not been being a bit rough on that new webmaster so recently - I know you've always done a bit of the tough love style on the forums in the past, but I felt like you could have at least given a suggestion as to whom the mystery porn star might have been. Given that we know the guy is from Jersey and is big, I'm currently betting on Gandhi. I don't know why though... "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo Edited on Dec 24, 2008, 12:26am (Toadsith: Typo.) | |
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| 12-23-08 09:26pm - 5842 days | #7 | |
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Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
I was thinking maybe Caramel and Sprinkles, or perhaps Oreo Cookie crumbs... decisions, decisions... What would Topper Harley do? "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo | |
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| 12-23-08 09:18pm - 5842 days | #5 | |
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Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
The site isn't listed on TBP because it is a freebie site - let's not go scaring off new users with pitch forks and torches calling them spammers :-P Anyway, spammers are never subtle, so we shouldn't go feeding our paranoia. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo | |
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| 12-23-08 09:15pm - 5842 days | #4 | |
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Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Can you give any more specifics? By big do you mean fat, tall, muscled? Does he have any tattoos? Any peculiarities? For example: Is he a late 30's white guy with short hair, a crooked dick, pierced ears, assorted tribal tattoos and a musculature that reminds you of a werewolf? That would be Lee Stone. Early 40's, long hair, the longest limp dick ever seen on a white dude, the most cleft chin ever seen, a physique common to Chippendales dancers, a cheesy grin and is always cracking stupid but funny jokes? That is Evan Stone. Or you could just link to the video in question. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo | |
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| 12-23-08 12:48pm - 5842 days | #17 | |
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Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Jeffrey99 has a very good point there - I second that. Adjustable viewing of the number of thumbnails per page is really useful. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo | |
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| 12-23-08 11:27am - 5842 days | #15 | |
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Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
First as an answer to your initial question - I'm a bit more lenient on content quantities assuming the quality is there. So if they are unique, high quality photos - I'd say at least 10 girls and at least 20 sets. As for commentary on the above data I quoted: Everyone has already pointed out that the full resolution photos should be made available, so I'll just add a hear-hear to that. I did want to point out that unless you are exceptionally good at Photoshop, I'd recommend doing minimal work on the photos - just color correction and cropping really. Bad clone brush work can ruin otherwise good photos and any porn freak will expect imperfections in the models. "There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion." (I bet Francis Bacon didn't think that would be used regularly to describe porn.) Also - you mentioned that the photos sets have around 55 photos each - is that all the photos you took or just all those that remained after editorial perusal? ALS Scan made the error when they were starting out of limiting their sets to only the photos they thought were the absolute best. Obviously you want to cut out the shots with the really unattractive facial expressions - but some of the candid shots can really be very telling about the model and be quite endearing. Even shots that are exceptionally similar to each other, the subtle differences can provide a story. Long story short, I'd try to get that average photos per set up to about at least 100. 200 or more would be preferred. I'm guessing that since you are hiring and photographing these models that you take at least 300 photos of them - maybe 500. So 55 is being a seriously tough critic. More is better and will make joy joy feelings in your customers. As for pricing - $14.95 seems very fair, but do note that if you want to get publicity you need to setup an affiliate system for review sites and thumbnail gallery posts to use as this seems to be how the porn industry funds its advertising. I personally loathe in site advertising and would highly recommend not doing it as it always seems to indicate a lack of faith in one's own product. None-the-less, if you do, make sure to avoid any sort of animated banner ads, we will know they are ads and if you make an effort to point out these are also sites that you recommend, not just any ol' random site that will send you money for a link, then we may follow through the link and join. The absolute worst in site advertising is for those adult dating sites - they are exceptionally intrusive. As for the video comments people have been making - video is seriously a two edged sword. On one hand, it can really draw customers in, as people love video - but it also eats up server space and bandwidth like no tomorrow. Anyway, good luck with your project - I always like to hear about new porn sites being created! "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo | |
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| 12-23-08 10:52am - 5842 days | #4 | |
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Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Yes, three Cheers for exotics4me - that is a damned serious commitment to the site! (and one small cheer for me for passing 400 posts, lol) "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo | |
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| 12-20-08 11:55pm - 5845 days | #5 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
My guess for the number 1 reason why so many sites resort to outdoor shoots is it is one less cost in the production of the content. As Drooler pointed out, weather can be an issue, but lighting is actually more workable than you might expect. For example, the best weather condition for accurate colors and soft shadows is solid cloud cover. Bright sunny days will require at least one assistant to hold a diffusing umbrella over the model. Professional photographers like those used by Sports Illustrated will often have upwards of 5 assistants helping with the lighting by holding reflectors, light diffusing umbrellas, external flash units and so on. Sunsets will probably require at least two flash units. Still, renting a studio, or a fancy room (let alone a full building) for your set can be quite expensive, even if it is only for a few hours - and in Europe there are tons of good outside locations where you won't get arrested for having a naked model running about. Abby Winters gets around this problem by frequently shooting at the model's own flat - providing both diversity of set and comfort for the model (especially important due to their extensive use of amateur models). I must give props to DDF Productions with their sites like Hands on Hardcore as they seem to frequently rent nice locations for their productions. I generally prefer indoor to outdoor, but like sites to explore with both. The only thing I'd really like to see producers take a break on is the use of distressed sets like dilapidated builds, broken cars, drift wood, et cetera. That has been done so much that it has lost all of the edginess that it once had. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo | |
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| 12-19-08 05:51pm - 5846 days | #94 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Haha, awesome! I must say yours has always been one of the more memorable avatars. Now you should pop on a Santa or elf hat and snap an updated holiday avatar :-P "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo | |
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| 12-19-08 03:43pm - 5846 days | #37 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Sweet! I look forward to reading your reviews :-D "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo | |
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| 12-18-08 09:28pm - 5847 days | #12 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Haha, true, a few more naked bits won't solve the world's problems - but it might help :-D Ah, why aren't we one nation under porn? "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo | |
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| 12-18-08 09:05pm - 5847 days | #10 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
The nude beaches and nude colonies are all responses to the modern society's universal use clothing and modesty. Yes, warm climate cultures are the only cultures that used constant nudity, but my previous point was that until recently occasional nudity was unavoidable for all but the richest of people. You mentioned Eskimos, the women would wash their hair in urine as a cleaning ritual - I imagine others would see something while the women were adding the urine to that bowl. So older societies didn't need nudist colonies because the rich were segregating themselves from the commoners with their modesty and the commoners had plenty of nudism in their daily life (again due to general close quarters and lack of secluded bathing facilities). "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo | |
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| 12-18-08 07:30pm - 5847 days | #29 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
lol - Clarkson is always a big ass towards Americans but I love it. One one of his DVDs he is talking about Pick-up trucks and says something like: "It can carries a Barbecue, a Washing Machine, and a lawn mower - then, you can tie ribbons to the door handles for when you marry your sister [now in hick voice] I know she comes from good stock. Sure she's short and skinny, but she's strooong!!" My brother is always referencing Clarkon's comment about the two outboard motors he put on the Toyboata - "...the two motors weigh a total of 800 lbs, or one American." Though I gotta say the first American episode episode is quite embarrassing - both the fact that I live in a country that has folk that will throw rocks at people for writing goofy shit on the side of the cars and secondly that we consider ourselves a powerful nation and yet still haven't finished rebuilding New Orleans. I dunno, I listened to the interviews with both May and Clarkson on Simon Mayo on BBC 5 and they both talked about the silly murder a prostitute comment. Clarkson simply likes to be ridiculous. Why do people care when he says things like that? He also calls every other car astonishing and the best car [insert 4 hour pause] in the world. If I want a real car opinion, I'd go ask May. Clarkson will definitely point you in the direction of some fun cars though, there is no doubt about that. I know the show toes the line as for what is considered acceptable, especially considering they are on the BBC, but still - they are the most popular car show in the history of television - that has got to give them some leeway. And anyway, how else would we know if a Fiesta can take part in a beach assault? "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo | |
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| 12-18-08 06:10pm - 5847 days | #26 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Haha, indeed I watched the last episode just a few nights ago and am waiting impatiently for the Vietnam special being released on the 28th! I doubly like the Caterham because it was indeed a Lotus 7 that McGoohan was driving at the beginning of the Prisoner - though I think this new Caterham would leave that car in the dust. Anyway, yes - I'm a HUGE Top Gear fan - I've watched every episode of the 12 seasons of the new Top Gear, never watched 70's to 80's Top Gear. In fact, I've got Season 2 through 12 on my computer and frequently re-watch them. I didn't keep Season 1 because it doesn't feel like Top Gear without James May. I was actually curious if that new user named "Jezza" was making a reference to Jeremy Clarkson - really need to ask him. Anyway, Season 12 has been pretty good, I've watched the Ford Fiesta test like 10 times now - never gets old. I've actually converted my entire family to Top Gear now - apparently that Fiesta test had my brother's wife laughing so hard he thought she was going to hyperventilate. ("Is it green? Yes. Very.") The Stig intro are quite awesome, some say his right nipple is shaped like the nuremberg ring, lol I love that fact that it was the Stig that turned on those lights :-P Though, about that race, I know Jeremy hates hybrids and such, but a Prius driven by a proper Hypermiler can trounce those figures by double - there is this dude in Texas that can pull 125+ Miles Per Gallon out of a Prius. Even a diesel has trouble touching that. Still, that new hydrogen car looks pretty good - now if they can just get that range up to 300 miles and make it do 0-60 in 4 seconds... "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo | |
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| 12-18-08 05:53pm - 5847 days | #24 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Oh-ho, be careful! He might hire the esteemed American law firm: "Dewey, Cheatem & Howe" "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo | |
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| 12-18-08 05:52pm - 5847 days | #8 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
With regards to how a bit of extra nudity might help people with their own body issues: I think the problem is that people aren't reminded that most everybody have various imperfections, be it wrinkles, stretch marks, some extra fat, a birth mark, whatever. The problem is that the only time they see unclothed or mostly unclothed humans are the perfect beings that get hired by the media. Yes the Greeks and Romans had their statues and paintings, every culture has those - but until recently, no culture has had the ability to so thoroughly clothe its people as our culture has. I think that cultures that are more open about what people really look like, tend to generate a populace that is less stressed about their bodies. (Though this could be a bit of a Chicken or the Egg situation.) I think the American body obsession has had some pluses - for example, our dental care. Most Americans have healthy, clean and straight choppers and that early dental work will keep those choppers healthy and pain-free for a lifetime. On the other hand, how many fat male kids have you seen in the swimming pool wearing a shirt? Everybody knows they are fat, nobody cares - they should just take off the damn shirt and be comfy. Granted everybody running around butt naked the whole damn might be overkill, but some extra nudity at the beach might work. People should be relaxed about their body, and if they want to improve it, they should work out - but they shouldn't stress about it. There are enough stresses in today's society, one's body shouldn't be an added one. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo | |
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| 12-18-08 03:07pm - 5847 days | #6 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Modesty used to be a luxury of the rich, and has become what people, especially Americans, believe to be the norm. The aristocratic classes developed modesty and many many other traditions to differentiate them from the commoners. Their homes were large enough to house dedicated bathing facilities and individual bedrooms. They changed clothing frequently, and did so in privacy. They shielded themselves from the sun and from dirt. As Monty Python pointed out: "How do you know he's the King?" "Well he's not all covered in shite is he?" The poorer the people, the more likely for them to be comfortable and surrounded by nudity. Tenement Housing often gave privacy by a sheet draped over a line - providing less coverage than a common cubicle. Bathrooms were shared - often are shared even today. So as the collective society has become wealthier, the lower classes tried to adopt as much of the traditions of the wealth as possible - including modesty. In modern America one is expected to shield their children from nudity, though this expectation is quite young. However, this expectation is also not universal. My brother used to date a girl who grew up in East Germany - and she was shocked that he'd never seen his mother naked. It was her firm belief that families should be comfortable seeing each other nude and her family frequented steam rooms together. All nude beaches are still very common in Eastern Europe and the old Soviet block. So while I understand that many of you may feel that children should be shielded from nudity, do understand that not every culture agrees with you, and most likely your great grandparents also wouldn't agree with you - unless you come from a very wealthy background. As for sex - farm children would certainly see and aid animals in performing that feat quite regularly; and most kids 125 years ago would have been farm children. While I doubt fellow humans were often flaunting it in public, my guess is it would be more used as fodder to gibe the performers rather than something that would upset the children or their parents. Still, children were shielded from performing sex by a simple method - they would stop calling them children once they were old enough to have sex. Modern diets are so high in protein and nutrients that children are maturing much earlier, starting puberty at 8 or 9 rather than 13 or 14. And 14, if you recall older stories like Romeo & Juliet, was a rather standard marrying age - and in some countries still is. Still, you should also note that most public nudity sites are more careful about where they perform actual sex rather than simple nudity. Sex itself tends to be a bit of a hot topic anywhere these days. As for my own opinion, I think children tend to be far too sheltered from everything except violence these days. Granted the olden-timey days especially didn't shelter kids from violence, but in our society where you don't need to go kill a pig or cow to eat, there isn't any need for children to witness the massive amounts of violence on television. However, children are growing up to hate their bodies for not looking like what is on the magazines and TVs and they spend all of their time indoors playing video games or watching TV - so their bodies are weak both in strength and in immunity to basic diseases found in good ol' dirt. A scraped knee at age three is better than a hospital stay when you are fort...ay. (My apologies for the Tom Lehrer method of finishing a rhyme.) If parents would turn off the TV and send kids out to play, maybe the kids would burn off some extra energy and fat and be a bit healthier. Also, if we didn't punish kids for nudity so heavily, maybe they'd be more comfortable with the body genetics gave them. The media will always present the prettiest people and cars and houses and everything, that doesn't mean people can't dream while being satisfied with what they've got. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo | |
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| 12-17-08 03:45pm - 5848 days | #22 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Aw, don't go giving up on the British car industry just yet! The Caterham Superlight R500 is proof there is still life in the little British car companies yet. Not to mention Lotus, who seems to be the secret adviser to every car company as to how to properly build car suspension. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo | |
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| 12-17-08 03:39pm - 5848 days | #14 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Haha - that is a nightmare indeed! I think McGoohan would die and then immediately start spinning in his grave if that were to occur! "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo | |
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| 12-17-08 03:36pm - 5848 days | #35 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
I think you might find what you are looking for at The Pussy Licker. It is part of a network of sites I've actually been contemplating joining myself. Also, as an aside, I wanted to mention that if you click on any of our user names it will go to a profile page that lists the user's age and gender as they reported it to the website. 'Course, we probably would have assumed you were a guy anyway - sadly very few women join this site. Interesting abbreviation there with N.B. - "nota bene", a Latin expression meaning "note well". I hadn't run across that before. Learn something new every day, eh? "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo | |
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| 12-08-08 10:39pm - 5857 days | #26 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Just as an aside, you can click on the user name of any of us and find not only the gender but also the age of almost all of us. In Cybertoad's case that would be reported as "Male, 46 yrs old". In my case that would be "Male, 25 yrs old", which is accurate in my case - I'm one of the young'uns on the board. Btw, glad to hear we'll all be able to try out the much famed Porn Commander in the near future :-) Sounds quite nifty! "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo | |
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| 12-07-08 07:05pm - 5858 days | #16 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Hey Pinche, if you want assistance creating an avatar that complies with forum policies, just send me an email and I'll be happy to make one up. I can make one with a transparent background like my own avatars so they look good no matter where on the site they appear. I personally have to agree with Khan and the rest of the PU staff that the animated avatars are a bit evil, as the forum would soon end-up looking like times square. I hope that the avatars start showing up elsewhere throughout the site, it has been hinted that this will be a feature added to Porn Users in the future. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo | |
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| 12-07-08 05:52pm - 5858 days | #24 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Yeah, if you approach the Jim Carrey movie as a remake of "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" you'll definitely be very disappointed - as I was the first time I saw it. If you pretend you never heard of the earlier and superior short film, you can actually enjoy it if you like Jim Carrey, as I do. He isn't the Grinch by any means, but he is an all-together new and amusing creation. It certainly isn't his best movie (that would be "The Mask"), but it has its moments. The good moments probably aren't worth the bad moments, yet if you are stuck on an airplane with little else to watch, it is an acceptable choice. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo | |
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