BS or NO BS (a game)

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No BS and it's too bad.

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No BS

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yeah...no BS...

You never go broke underestimating the public's tastes...

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BS

Breaking the mold Smile

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Jon
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No BS. :b

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Next up:

In early 1964, Clint Eastwood was cast in a recurring role as an inept monster hunter (based very loosely on Professor Abraham Van Helsing from Bram Stoker’s Dracula) on The Munsters, but he had to back out of the role (which was subsequently eliminated from the show) when he signed on for 1964’s A Fistful of Dollars...

...which he had to go to Italy to film.

BS or NO BS!

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I'll say BS but it's a heck of an idea and I'd have watched more if they had implemented it.

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I'll go with No BS
Of course, if it is BS I'll admit that it is the elements of truth that sell it.

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There's two kinds of people in this world - those that BS and those that don't.

This time, you don't. No BS.

-Rob

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No BS.

Didn't Clint have some uncredited(?) role as a college student in some old Creature (Gill Man) movie?

And I seem to recall that they initially wanted James Coburn to star in Dollars. His later role in "Fistful of Dynamite" was obviously a pale imitation.

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It’s total BS. I got the idea when I was talking with a friend about how Clint possibly would’ve played Two-Face in the ‘60s Batman television show had it not been cancelled when it was. :b

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Didn't Clint have some uncredited(?) role as a college student in some old Creature (Gill Man) movie?

Yep – Revenge of the Creature, his first film role.

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And I seem to recall that they initially wanted James Coburn to star in Dollars. His later role in "Fistful of Dynamite" was obviously a pale imitation

According to Wikipedia, Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, James Coburn, Richard Harrison, Henry Silva, Rory Calhoun, Tony Russel, Steve Reeves, and Ty Hardin all declined the lead in A Fistful of Dollars. Harrison reportedly said: "Maybe my greatest contribution to cinema was not doing A Fistful of Dollars and recommending Clint for the part." =)

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Next!

Officially, the fastest rapper in the world is Ricky Brown, aka NoClue.

According to Guinness World Records, in January, 2005, for his song “New West,” NoClue rapped 723 syllables in 51.27 seconds - that's a mind-boggling 14.1 syllables per second.

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I'll guess no BS here.

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I'm guessing BS
But in my mind I'm trying to syllable count Moschitta, and compare it to the claim.
Antidisestablishmentarianism is 10 syllables, so I figure he'd need to be able to say that in less than a second.

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Er...you finally found an area I know even less about that sports. kudos...

I'll guess No BS...?

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A guess - BS
I'm a poet, don't you know it...

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It’s no BS. =)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NoClue

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIK7ffpdRdY

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When the first President of Israel, Chaim Weizmann…

…passed away in 1952, Israel's Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion offered the country's presidency to Albert Einstein...

…who declined because, in Einstein's own words, he lacked "both the natural aptitude and the experience to deal properly with people and to exercise official function."

BS or no BS!

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Guessing No BS...

I recall that Einstein was offered the job (his refusal was consistent with his legendary genius, IMO), but don't recall the exact reason or timeline.

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Sounds too incredible to be true so Ill guess no BS.

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E = no BS

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No BS,
And regarding the last one, apparently there is a Korean named Outsider who is supposedly faster, but Guinness doesn't recognize it because they require it be done in English. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outsider_%28rapper%29

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It's no BS. =)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein#U.S._citizenship

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And regarding the last one, apparently there is a Korean named Outsider who is supposedly faster, but Guinness doesn't recognize it because they require it be done in English.

I'm assuming Guinness requires it to be in English because of the difference in languages, but that seems somewhat bogus. I may email 'em about it and see if I can get a better explanation. :b

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Next:

In Forbes.com's list of "The Fastest Fictional Cars," the Batmobile from Batman Begins ranked third (220 MPH), the Mach 5 from Speed Racer ranked second (258 MPH), and first place went to:

Spoiler: Highlight to view
Blurr, from Transformers: The Movie (800 MPH).

BS or no BS.

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I'll call BS this time.

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I'm going to go BS because I vaguely remember the list, and I don't think he got 1st place. But, like I said it is a vague recall.

Rob
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I will call BS on this.

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No BS. =)

http://www.forbes.com/2008/05/07/fastest-fictional-cars-forbeslife-cx_mn...

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16:

The board game Scrabble originally didn't include any "S" tiles, because the game's creators thought that the letter made the game far too easy (mainly because it allowed so many plural words to be made). "S" tiles weren't included with Scrabble 'til 1972, when the Selchow and Righter game company purchased the trademark to the game.

BS or no BS.

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Never cared for this game...

No S tiles? BS

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I can't imagine how this is anything but bs.

I say we keep playing til we find a question that elicits a totally positive response from Rann. Smile

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I call BS.

Even I include an 'S'.

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B "S"

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Scrabble is a WONDERFUL game! Tongue

It gives everyone a chance to "show off their vocabulary" and use all those 2 & 3 & 4 letter words containing Q, X, Z with few vowels, as these are unlikely to come up in many day-to-day conversations.

Scrabble also offers unlimited opportunities to get in quarrels with friends about whether "qyzl" is really a word, even though it doesn't seem to be in any dictionary at hand.

If it's any consolation, I am totally clueless regarding the latest Random Trivia Contest question...
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Complete and total BS. :b

Rann wrote:
Scrabble is a WONDERFUL game! Tongue

It gives everyone a chance to "show off their vocabulary" and use all those 2 & 3 & 4 letter words containing Q, X, Z with few vowels, as these are unlikely to come up in many day-to-day conversations.

Scrabble also offers unlimited opportunities to get in quarrels with friends about whether "qyzl" is really a word, even though it doesn't seem to be in any dictionary at hand.

Quoted for truth (typed the guy who once had a mostly-filled Scrabble board thrown in his face, much to his surprise). XD

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The very first Transformers: Masterpiece figure (MP-01) that Takara/Takara Tomy designed and intended to put into production wasn’t Optimus Prime…

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…but rather – a super-articulated Bumblebee, strongly based on the character’s original design.

Spoiler: Highlight to view

Takara/Takara Tomy decided to release Optimus first, though (mostly based on test polling), and the designs for MP-01 Bumblebee have yet to be shown to the public, despite numerous Takara/Takara Tomy employees' declarations that MP Bumblebee's far and away the best Transformers figure ever designed.

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Seems improbable so I'll call BS.

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I have no earthly idea.

I'm still trying to understand how Jetscream (Jetfire?) was really a Robotech Valk...or why advanced robotic beings from a galaxy far far away would want (to come to Earth in the first place) or need to transform into dumptrucks, taxicabs...and a giant flying Luger!

I'll follow Sentinel's lead and say BS...

Rob
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No BS.

But what do I know?

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B(ee)S

Jon
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Total BS.

That one was kinda lame. I just love that G1 Bumblebee art and wanted an excuse to post it. :b

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While working as a journalist in Oregon in the late '80s, well before he wrote Fight Club, Invisible Monsters, Survivor, Choke, Lullaby, and any other of his famous works, Chuck Palahniuk...

...penned two Choose Your Own Adventure books - "South Pole Sabotage" (89) and "Alien Go Home" (101) - under the pseudonym "Seddon Johnson."

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What the heck, I'll say no BS.

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The first rule of BS club is that this is BS.
The second rule of BS club IS THIS IS BS.

-Rob

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I'll give it a guess of no BS.
It seems quite random, and somewhat odd, so if it is BS, I'm curious how you thought it up.

Gorga, the Space Monster was one of my favorite Choose your own adventure books.

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BS?

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It's BS. Got the idea when I read that Clive Barker had written some children's books. :b

I'd never read "Gorga, the Space Monster," but the cover's awesome. XD

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When John Romita and Stan Lee first created the Spider-Man villain the Shocker...

...they called him "the Vibrator" (note his powers and the "V" on his costume). He was renamed "the Shocker" when Herb Trimpe pointed out to them that he was, y'know, called "the Vibrator."

BS or no BS!

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Nnnnnnnooooooo BbbbbbbbSssssssssss....

Rrrrrroooooobbbbbb

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Either way, it's hilarious.

I'll say no BS bit if I'm right I'm moving my Shocker figure to the back of my display. I'm not sure I can look at him the same again.

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No BS
I've heard the story before, and if it isn't true, it should be.

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And here all along I thought his original monicker was "The Facial Massager"

NoBS

Funny...I was such a huge Ditko fan back in the 60s. (The only artist in Marvel's silver age stable that impressed me almost as much as Kirby...) I really didn't care for Romita's style...but it's grown on me over the years.

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According to John Romita, it’s BS.

I saw this one a few days ago on Brian Cronin’s “Comic Book Legends Revealed”:

http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2012/08/17/comic-book-legends-r...

“When I did the Shocker, I did a Spider-Man-like v-shape in the front of his costume. The quilted part came to a point just about at the belt. What I did to try and make it clever is I put a v-shape belt on it to go around the shape of that v-shape cloth. From that moment on, everybody has accused me I originally intended it to be called the Vibrator instead of the Shocker. [laughter] I said, ‘No, what do you mean? There’s a v on his belt. No, that was completely done for another reason.’ [laughs] But they didn’t buy it, they thought he was supposed to be the Vibrator.’” – John Romita

I’m not sure that I buy that, but that’s the official story. ;b

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The original film distributor of George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead

… didn’t place a copyright indication on the film’s prints, which, at the time of the movie’s original release in 1968, was required to maintain a copyright on a film. As a result, Night of the Living Dead’s public domain. Because of its public domain status, according to Wikipedia, as of 2012, Amazon.com lists 51 different copies of the film on VHS, 168 different copies of it on DVD, and six different copies on Blu-ray, and Wikipedia also states that since the film’s available to view or download free on the internet, as of July 28th, 2012, it was the Internet Archive's second-most downloaded film, with over 1,000,000 downloads.

BS or no BS!

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No BS
Fairly certain that is true.

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Someone PLEASE explain the public's evident obsession with Zombies that this movie initiated...?

"Just shoot 'em in the head...they move pretty slow...they're dead you know..."

Oh well...I recall that copyright error story, but I have no idea about the second most downloaded part, much less the stats...

My average is flagging, but I'll bite again and guess NO BS...

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Rann wrote:
Someone PLEASE explain the public's evident obsession with Zombies that this movie initiated...?

I think it's because a zombie is a monster that an average person can stand a chance against. To take on a vampire or a werewolf, you have to have some serious skills (or win the cosmic lottery like Buffy). But anyone with a gun or a sledgehammer can take on a zombie. So it's easier to imagine yourself in those movies than it is to imagine that you are Buffy or Blade or Van Helsing.

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Fair enough, Bobbi.

Now explain the fascination with teenaged, love-sick vampires & werewolves? Big smile

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That's a tough one... maybe because Titanic was over ten years ago and there's only so much High School Musical kind of stuff that they can pump out in a year? It's the tween and teen girl market.