throttling back my fanboy tendencies

[madbaker]

One of my cow-orkers watched the first half hour of The Two Towers recently, and was describing it:

"So I got to the point where those three dudes are surrounded by these guys on horses, and..."

I forcibly stopped myself from leaping out of the chair, grabbing him by the shirt, and shouting "It's the riders of Rohan, you idiot! The three dudes, they're named..."

Ahem. Bad for the corporate image.

Current book: Kristine Smith, Code of Conduct

Comments

God as my witness, Andy, I thought turkeys could float.

[fionnbharro.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I saw it yesterday.

The dude with the ring and the fat dude from Goonies met up with Dobby the House Elf and got caught by a guy named "Little Brother". They're all called rabbits, and they call rabbits 'braserkonies'. Go figure.

We also find out that the dude with the sword - Argon - is really a botox poster child (He's like, older than dirt). There are two other rabbits who hang out in a talking tree, and is an overgrown ant.

They also toke up a lot.

Turkeys float.

[zyxwvut.livejournal.com]

Similar, pointy-haired moment on the part of my boss.

We were doing a bugbase review, part of which is this light fluffy bit
where we ascribe numerological significance to certain bug numbers
(666, 1066, etc.). The bugbase in question had only 88 bugs in it.
We were playing the "what's the significance of this number?" game.
So, when Boss Lady got to #42, she said it, and was amazed that so many
of us chimed in with the answer. She obviously never read the
Hitchhiker's Guide Trilogy.

"It's okay; we're nerds," I said.

Z

P.S.: We work in a technical job: Software QA. Some of us even have
LJ's. %-}

[madbaker.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's part of it - I don't work in a technical job. Who knew they had those in Silicon Valley? But while I may be the only SF fan here, I'm certainly not the only Tolkien fan.

'course, I may be the only one here who read the books at the age of 7. (And 8. And 9. And...)

Lordie...

[scendan.livejournal.com]

...well, as can be seen plainly by my icon, I am a MAJOR geek. But still, just the linguistic capability shown by "So, these 3 dudes...surrounded by dudes on horses..." is unstunning, to say the least.

*snarksnark*

Re: Lordie...

[madbaker.livejournal.com]

What makes this better (or worse) is that the cow-orker in question is one of our main PR guys.

Re: Lordie...

[callistotoni.livejournal.com]

Since it shows a bear, it also shows that you will be on the right side when the revolution comes.

Toni, promoter of Radical Bear Consciousness :-)

Well...

[callistotoni.livejournal.com]

*You* aren't the one jonesing for a copy of the TT EE. I'd ordered it, and was looking forward to it showing up today, but it didn't
:-( .