Teacup Cafe Part XI - Page 44

Spock · 07-08-2006, 10:08 AM

I didn't know that they had a MONK book series. For me, it would probably not work as while I love the show, the time to read a book on him would drive me nuts....it's a short drive.
I cannot see how he functions in the real world and an hr. show is my tolerance level.

Taped the premier of MONK and will watch next week; too many things going on now.
Psych, just looked too damned dumb from the previews. They are def. trying to cash in on "MONK" and "The Dead Zone" popularity.

jammi567 · 07-08-2006, 10:11 AM

What is this MONK show that you americans are talking about?

Spock · 07-08-2006, 10:15 AM

Try a search for it, it's a show about a detective no longer on the police force, who has 1000 things he's afraid of and yet has a mind sharper than or equal to Holmes in deduction power. It's on the USA network on Fridays at 9pm (new) and at other days and times for re-runs.

jammi567 · 07-08-2006, 10:17 AM

ohhhhhhhhhh. never herd of it.

Spock · 07-08-2006, 10:21 AM

http://www.usanetwork.com/series/monk/

go read up on it........the BBC should import it.

jammi567 · 07-08-2006, 10:23 AM

i hope i don't offend anyone who likes it, but it sounds and looks crap, to me at least.

Spock · 07-08-2006, 10:28 AM

Nah, no offense taken. Many here thought the same of: Benny Hill, The Two Roonies; Monty Python; Waiting for God; Keeping Up Appearances; Are you Being Served; My Hero; etc. etc. etc.

jammi567 · 07-08-2006, 10:32 AM

that's ok then, i guess.

me9996 · 07-08-2006, 10:33 AM

I've seen that 'my hero' show! If we're thinking of the same one, the one I'm thinking of is an english comady about a superhero and his imidete family.

jammi567 · 07-08-2006, 10:35 AM

yes, it is.

durinsbane2244 · 07-08-2006, 12:53 PM

ah...just made some money...and got "The History of Magic and the Occult" from the library...YES!!!

jammi567 · 07-08-2006, 01:18 PM

what for?

Thain Peregrin Took I · 07-08-2006, 02:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Spock

I didn't know that they had a MONK book series. For me, it would probably not work as while I love the show, the time to read a book on him would drive me nuts....it's a short drive.
I cannot see how he functions in the real world and an hr. show is my tolerance level.

Taped the premier of MONK and will watch next week; too many things going on now.
Psych, just looked too damned dumb from the previews. They are def. trying to cash in on "MONK" and "The Dead Zone" popularity.

Yeah, there's 2 books: Mr. Monk Goes to the Firehouse, and Mr. Monk Goes to Hawaii. There should be another one coming out in January.
MB and I watched the premier of Psych. It was actually pretty good.

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Originally Posted by jammi567

i hope i don't offend anyone who likes it, but it sounds and looks crap, to me at least.

No offense taken. But you really should try watching it sometime, you might find that you really like it.

durinsbane2244 · 07-08-2006, 02:42 PM

hullo Pip!

ah, and jammi, i'm a huge fan of all things nosferatu, and i've been known to read up on some black arts in the past. creatures of the night and practices of the occult have always interested me. as fiction, of course. i do think some form of vampire existed, and i believe in demons, but i'm not in the backyard with a pentacle summoning Mephistopheles, the swift-flying spirit, if that's what you're thinking!

Gwaimir Windgem · 07-08-2006, 03:02 PM

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Originally Posted by durinsbane2244

ah...just made some money...and got "The History of Magic and the Occult" from the library...YES!!!

I have a copy John Dee's Mysteriorum Libri Quinque. It's heavily annotated, but a number of the translations they give from the Latin are not exactly precise.

durinsbane2244 · 07-08-2006, 03:25 PM

ah. good book, shame it has inaccurate translations...

Gwaimir Windgem · 07-08-2006, 03:41 PM

I remember one instance in particular, when the Latin was "Ille est lux noster", and they translated it "he/she/it is our light". Come ON! These words are not gender-neutral in Latin; Ille is masculine; Illa is feminine; Illud is neuter! Where the hell do they get he/she/it from a masculine pronoun?

EDIT:

By the way, this is an official statement that I cannot condone such literature.

The Malleus Malleficarum, on the other hand...

durinsbane2244 · 07-08-2006, 03:44 PM

only one solution presents itself, friend, STUPIDITY!!! [bum bum bum]

Meriadoc Brandybuck · 07-08-2006, 04:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Spock

I didn't know that they had a MONK book series. For me, it would probably not work as while I love the show, the time to read a book on him would drive me nuts....it's a short drive.
I cannot see how he functions in the real world and an hr. show is my tolerance level.

Lee Goldberg is the author. And what you're saying makes perfect sense. But it's from the viewpoint of Natalie.

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Taped the premier of MONK and will watch next week; too many things going on now.
Psych, just looked too damned dumb from the previews. They are def. trying to cash in on "MONK" and "The Dead Zone" popularity.

We taped it too, for our dad, since he had to work.
Never seen "The Dead Zone", so I can't say anything about that, but Psych was actually pretty good, like Pip said.

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Originally Posted by jammi

i hope i don't offend anyone who likes it, but it sounds and looks crap, to me at least.

It's the sort of show that some people absolutely love, and some hate.

ANYway,

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Originally Posted by DB

only one solution presents itself, friend, STUPIDITY!!! [bum bum bum]

No! Anything but that!

durinsbane2244 · 07-08-2006, 04:15 PM

i'm sorry, but when people make ridiculous translations from latin like that...it has to be stupidity...i just has to be...oh, and hey merry...

07-08-2006, 10:08 AM	#861
Spock An enigma in a conundrum Join Date: Oct 1999 Posts: 6,476	I didn't know that they had a MONK book series. For me, it would probably not work as while I love the show, the time to read a book on him would drive me nuts....it's a short drive. I cannot see how he functions in the real world and an hr. show is my tolerance level. Taped the premier of MONK and will watch next week; too many things going on now. Psych, just looked too damned dumb from the previews. They are def. trying to cash in on "MONK" and "The Dead Zone" popularity. __________________ Vizzini: "HE DIDN'T FALL?! INCONCEIVABLE!!" Inigo: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

07-08-2006, 10:11 AM	#862
jammi567 I'm Eru, and lord of Arda. Join Date: May 2006 Location: southampton, hampshire Posts: 2,609	What is this MONK show that you americans are talking about? __________________ Vote for me, Jammi567, in the 2008 Entmoot elections, and you will get many of the things we need: free, unbiased, newspapers; a strong alliance with many countries, so that war doesn't start over someone breaking their nose on a doorframe; etc, etc This forum is lonely. It's new and confused, and doesn't have many friends yet. Help today by joining for free, posting, and posting this message and link in your sig. So please, join and help make it feel welcomed and loved.

07-08-2006, 10:15 AM	#863
Spock An enigma in a conundrum Join Date: Oct 1999 Posts: 6,476	Try a search for it, it's a show about a detective no longer on the police force, who has 1000 things he's afraid of and yet has a mind sharper than or equal to Holmes in deduction power. It's on the USA network on Fridays at 9pm (new) and at other days and times for re-runs. __________________ Vizzini: "HE DIDN'T FALL?! INCONCEIVABLE!!" Inigo: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

07-08-2006, 10:17 AM	#864
jammi567 I'm Eru, and lord of Arda. Join Date: May 2006 Location: southampton, hampshire Posts: 2,609	ohhhhhhhhhh. never herd of it. __________________ Vote for me, Jammi567, in the 2008 Entmoot elections, and you will get many of the things we need: free, unbiased, newspapers; a strong alliance with many countries, so that war doesn't start over someone breaking their nose on a doorframe; etc, etc This forum is lonely. It's new and confused, and doesn't have many friends yet. Help today by joining for free, posting, and posting this message and link in your sig. So please, join and help make it feel welcomed and loved.

07-08-2006, 10:21 AM	#865
Spock An enigma in a conundrum Join Date: Oct 1999 Posts: 6,476	http://www.usanetwork.com/series/monk/ go read up on it........the BBC should import it. __________________ Vizzini: "HE DIDN'T FALL?! INCONCEIVABLE!!" Inigo: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

07-08-2006, 10:23 AM	#866
jammi567 I'm Eru, and lord of Arda. Join Date: May 2006 Location: southampton, hampshire Posts: 2,609	i hope i don't offend anyone who likes it, but it sounds and looks crap, to me at least. __________________ Vote for me, Jammi567, in the 2008 Entmoot elections, and you will get many of the things we need: free, unbiased, newspapers; a strong alliance with many countries, so that war doesn't start over someone breaking their nose on a doorframe; etc, etc This forum is lonely. It's new and confused, and doesn't have many friends yet. Help today by joining for free, posting, and posting this message and link in your sig. So please, join and help make it feel welcomed and loved.

07-08-2006, 10:28 AM	#867
Spock An enigma in a conundrum Join Date: Oct 1999 Posts: 6,476	Nah, no offense taken. Many here thought the same of: Benny Hill, The Two Roonies; Monty Python; Waiting for God; Keeping Up Appearances; Are you Being Served; My Hero; etc. etc. etc. __________________ Vizzini: "HE DIDN'T FALL?! INCONCEIVABLE!!" Inigo: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

07-08-2006, 10:32 AM	#868
jammi567 I'm Eru, and lord of Arda. Join Date: May 2006 Location: southampton, hampshire Posts: 2,609	that's ok then, i guess. __________________ Vote for me, Jammi567, in the 2008 Entmoot elections, and you will get many of the things we need: free, unbiased, newspapers; a strong alliance with many countries, so that war doesn't start over someone breaking their nose on a doorframe; etc, etc This forum is lonely. It's new and confused, and doesn't have many friends yet. Help today by joining for free, posting, and posting this message and link in your sig. So please, join and help make it feel welcomed and loved.

07-08-2006, 10:35 AM	#870
jammi567 I'm Eru, and lord of Arda. Join Date: May 2006 Location: southampton, hampshire Posts: 2,609	yes, it is. __________________ Vote for me, Jammi567, in the 2008 Entmoot elections, and you will get many of the things we need: free, unbiased, newspapers; a strong alliance with many countries, so that war doesn't start over someone breaking their nose on a doorframe; etc, etc This forum is lonely. It's new and confused, and doesn't have many friends yet. Help today by joining for free, posting, and posting this message and link in your sig. So please, join and help make it feel welcomed and loved.

07-08-2006, 12:53 PM	#871
durinsbane2244 Dreamweaver Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: The Misty Mountains, where the spirits go... Posts: 3,560	ah...just made some money...and got "The History of Magic and the Occult" from the library...YES!!! __________________ Lord, what fools these mortals be! ---------------- We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams; World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams: Yet we are the movers and shakers Of the world for ever, it seems. ---------------- Shanti, shanti, shantih...

07-08-2006, 01:18 PM	#872
jammi567 I'm Eru, and lord of Arda. Join Date: May 2006 Location: southampton, hampshire Posts: 2,609	what for? __________________ Vote for me, Jammi567, in the 2008 Entmoot elections, and you will get many of the things we need: free, unbiased, newspapers; a strong alliance with many countries, so that war doesn't start over someone breaking their nose on a doorframe; etc, etc This forum is lonely. It's new and confused, and doesn't have many friends yet. Help today by joining for free, posting, and posting this message and link in your sig. So please, join and help make it feel welcomed and loved.

07-08-2006, 02:42 PM	#874
durinsbane2244 Dreamweaver Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: The Misty Mountains, where the spirits go... Posts: 3,560	hullo Pip! ah, and jammi, i'm a huge fan of all things nosferatu, and i've been known to read up on some black arts in the past. creatures of the night and practices of the occult have always interested me. as fiction, of course. i do think some form of vampire existed, and i believe in demons, but i'm not in the backyard with a pentacle summoning Mephistopheles, the swift-flying spirit, if that's what you're thinking! __________________ Lord, what fools these mortals be! ---------------- We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams; World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams: Yet we are the movers and shakers Of the world for ever, it seems. ---------------- Shanti, shanti, shantih...

07-08-2006, 03:25 PM	#876
durinsbane2244 Dreamweaver Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: The Misty Mountains, where the spirits go... Posts: 3,560	ah. good book, shame it has inaccurate translations... __________________ Lord, what fools these mortals be! ---------------- We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams; World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams: Yet we are the movers and shakers Of the world for ever, it seems. ---------------- Shanti, shanti, shantih...

07-08-2006, 03:41 PM	#877
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	I remember one instance in particular, when the Latin was "Ille est lux noster", and they translated it "he/she/it is our light". Come ON! These words are not gender-neutral in Latin; Ille is masculine; Illa is feminine; Illud is neuter! Where the hell do they get he/she/it from a masculine pronoun? EDIT: By the way, this is an official statement that I cannot condone such literature. The Malleus Malleficarum, on the other hand... __________________ Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle Last edited by Gwaimir Windgem : 07-08-2006 at 03:42 PM.

07-08-2006, 03:44 PM	#878
durinsbane2244 Dreamweaver Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: The Misty Mountains, where the spirits go... Posts: 3,560	only one solution presents itself, friend, STUPIDITY!!! [bum bum bum] __________________ Lord, what fools these mortals be! ---------------- We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams; World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams: Yet we are the movers and shakers Of the world for ever, it seems. ---------------- Shanti, shanti, shantih...

07-08-2006, 04:15 PM	#880
durinsbane2244 Dreamweaver Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: The Misty Mountains, where the spirits go... Posts: 3,560	i'm sorry, but when people make ridiculous translations from latin like that...it has to be stupidity...i just has to be...oh, and hey merry... __________________ Lord, what fools these mortals be! ---------------- We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams; World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams: Yet we are the movers and shakers Of the world for ever, it seems. ---------------- Shanti, shanti, shantih...

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