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This is one of the ones that I was thinking of, and I have had similar questions.
The conclusion I have come to is that it should be on the list. Yes, it's positively anachronistic now, but it deals directly with Christmas. That said, for some reason, I still don't feel one hundred percent about it; I'm trying to figure out why. But I guess the fact that I couldn't come up with a defensible argument for excluding it says enough.
There's another anachronistic song that hasn't been mentioned yet that I have my questions about, but I want to see if anyone's going to mention it.
I got my first snowboard in 1992. I still have it, and it's still my favorite board.
Ten years ago, when I started on Ski Patrol, I discovered that the equipment that you use when on Patrol takes a beating. Not wanting to injure my precious board, I bought a cheap board at the end of the season. I happened to find one that was plain red in my price range, it seemed like the perfect Ski Patrol board.
I didn't like the way it rode as much as the original board, but that was to be expected.
Four years ago, when I started instructing, I started using the original board because I'd use any excuse to ride it. I do a program called Mountain Mites, which is like Day Camp on snowboards. The kids run into your board. A lot. It was time to find another "Work Board".
The original board is made by a company called GNU. The specific board is called The Dukester (148). There's another version of the same board, it's just longer, and it's called The Pharoah. I have a saved search on eBay for both boards. A Pharoah showed up two seasons ago. It was pretty beat up already, and it was cheap. It was plain yellow.
Before we go out to teach, we're supposed to stop in front of this mirror in the Ski School office and ensure that we look right for guests. I wear black pants and a back North Face that I put my Patrol vest over when I'm on Patrol because that's the uniform we have to wear. The first time I stopped, I looked at the same outfit with the Ski School vest on instead, I thought, "Dear God, I look just like Bumblebee." So, when I got the Pharoah, it was just asking for an Autobot symbol on the nose.
Last year, two little boys were looking over the Ski School counter while their parents signed them up. They could see the ski/snowboard rack back by the lockers and the one boy told his brother, "Oh, see that snowboard; that's Bumblebee!" I smiled inwardly. Screw the fact that I loved the way the board rode; it was now worth every penny and so much more.
One problem remained. All day long, I rode a GNU/Mervin board while teaching, and then when I went on Patrol, I was on a Ride board that didn't perform the way I wanted it to.
So, the search began for a GNU board that I could ride while on Patrol; a cheap, second hand board. I found a couple of white ones but they were made by GNU several years after the ones I liked and they did not work for me. I finally found the red one and yesterday was my first day of Ski School/Patrol where I rode GNU Dukesters all day long.
But I'm certain you see the new problem. I now have no "Work Boards" that I DON'T care about. Eh, it could be worse.
I hadn't noticed a couple of posts expressing ignorance of this, so here it is:
Merry Christmas yer arse.
Not really a Pogues fan. That's one of those groups that's ruined for me by the lead singer. The guy always seems to sound like he's in gastric distress.
If I should Fall From Grace was featured in one of the best hockey-related commercials ever, but that's the only thing they have in their corner in my book.
Two originals are Christmas Weekend and Christmas in Las Vegas
Let me just say that instrumental surf guitar is the *best* Christmas music. Mexican wrestling masks are icing.
I'm REALLY digging these guys! Thanks, Ignatz!! I've been checking them out on Youtube and they MUST, for the love of everything holy, do a Johnny Quest intro remake.
I own two albums called Merry Axemas with the likes of Joe Satriani, Brian Setzer, Hotei, Joe Perry, Ted Nugent, etc. It's all instrumental, but The Girl says it isn't "real" Christmas music because it's electric guitar.
Scale's much less of an issue for me than mechanics. It takes something like Star Trek ships being the same size as regular dudes to really jar me, and even that could be hand-waved away my saying they were Toyman's toys or something like that. (I personally wouldn't use ships with dudes, but I'm not gonna make a big deal of it if someone else does, though.)
I think the way Armada is handling it is probably the best option, because making it true to scale would eliminate some ships from ever being made (or at least being playable.) A sliding scale like what they're doing theoretically allows everything from starfighter squadrons all the way up to Super Star Destroyers and potentially even the Death Star itself.
And I think including fighters as squadrons rather than individual ships was a great (and probably necessary) move.
What did the racism comment come from? A discussion about how canon has alternated betweeen stormtroopers being not-clones, then clone, then not-clones again?
Does instrumental stuff like Trans-Siberian Orchestra's christmassy music count? Because while most Christmas music makes me grimace, I actually look forward to hearing them at this time of year.
Cool! I hope you like the game.
I was talking about Star Wars Rebels and I pointed out that Ezra IS Aladdin. Some guy said something like, "Not all vaguely Arabian characters are Aladdin" and then he went on to call me a racist in a not-very-round-about way. But seriously, if Aladdin was CGI, he'd look just like Ezra. And then they went so far as to have him doing Parkour in a market. I totally expected him to break into One Jump Ahead.
All that being said, I'm really liking Rebels so far. I can pick it apart just as much as the next enraged geek, but I just LIKE it in spite of all that.
Not really a Pogues fan. That's one of those groups that's ruined for me by the lead singer. The guy always seems to sound like he's in gastric distress.
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I was talking about Star Wars Rebels and I pointed out that Ezra IS Aladdin. Some guy said something like, "Not all vaguely Arabian characters are Aladdin" and then he went on to call me a racist in a not-very-round-about way. But seriously, if Aladdin was CGI, he'd look just like Ezra. And then they went so far as to have him doing Parkour in a market. I totally expected him to break into One Jump Ahead.
All that being said, I'm really liking Rebels so far. I can pick it apart just as much as the next enraged geek, but I just LIKE it in spite of all that.
I still haven't seen Rebels...I don't get dinny xd😟