Tell me about your homeworld, Usul.

[Rabrrrrrr]

"Well, I didn't have to drink my own piss, for starters."

:rofl:

[leeroysphitz]

1. Damn thats funny!

:)

[Dr. Strange]

2. That's not in the book!

What version are you reading?

:spray:

[Rabrrrrrr]

6. My own edited version.

:rofl:

[TZ]

11. I sure hope

that's water your smilie is drinking there....:P

[Dr. Strange]

15. Straight from my stillsuit.

:beer:

[Parche]

3. please explain?

[Deep13]

9. Not one drop of rain falls on Arakis. n

[Xipe Totec]

4. Who's piss then?

:shrug:

[Rabrrrrrr]

5. One's own!

[Xipe Totec]

19. Talk to Dean Kamen

Stephen Colbert interviews inventor Dean Kamen (best known for the Segway) to talk about his vapor compression distiller, a machine that takes contaminated water and turn it into pure drinking water without the use of filters or chemicals. Colbert tests the distiller by adding Doritos to the "contaminated water" container.

http://www.seriouseats.com/required_eating/2008/03/in-videos-stephen-colbert-interviews-dean-kamen-on-the-colbert-report.html

[KG]

7. yeah, but just think, peeing in your pants would not be acceptable, but necessary!

[Deep13]

8. "Tell me about the waters of your homeworld, Usul."

They're really, really wet.

[TZ]

10. thats so

not right but damn funny anyway....Careful though, you might piss off the Dune fans in the lounge...:rofl:

[Elidor]

12. With all his different titles, they should have called him...

The ersatz hatrack.

[PVnRT]

13. The worm IS the spice. This IS the shittiest adaptation ever.

Rabrrrrrr's name is a killing word. Or sometimes just causes gas.

[Rabrrrrrr]

14. Now that PETAs gotten involved, we have to ride these bicycles.

Who wrote this crap? Bicycles in the desert? And who replaced the Water of Life with Lefsa?

[Deep13]

25. Ride Schwinn-Hulud as a leader of men. nt

[Deep13]

21. It's pretty bad. Too much made-up stuff. Not enough story.

So, no one sweats above the neck I guess.

[PVnRT]

28. shaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-ZO

*BOOM*

[Deep13]

30. What the fuck was that all about?

Lynch basically took the description of "the voice" taking form in the air and the figurative "I can kill with a word" put them in a blender with a fifth of cheap Scotch and out came the weirding modules.

And how come the Fremen kept calling Mau'dib "Usul" with strangers around? And what was with the Baron's skin disease? Was it necessary to make him physically hideous to underscore his cartoonish evil? And Lynch really explained the whole first-Reban-then-Feyd thing didn't he?

And how about Stilgar saying, "That's what we call a big one." Really? Is it because it's big? Who the hell wrote the dialogue for that? Someone in the English-as-a-second-language class? "Our reverend mother is too old." Well, that's a nice way of putting it.

[PVnRT]

36. ...and the bald Bene Gesserit? WTF?

Maybe they were in the book, but I don't remember it.

[Rabrrrrrr]

38. I don't know if the book ever really said whether they were bald or not.

I gotta give Lynch a pass on that one - that's a legitimate director's choice for a novel-to-movie.

But the other shit - definitely Lynch took way too many liberties with the book, and gave us an odd movie.

If we could take the story-telling of the Sci-Fi Channel's version, but add the effects and acting ability of the Lynch version, we'd have a fucking great film.

[Dr. Strange]

16. I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer.

Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. I, and that big sand worm that's about to---splat.

[pokerfan]

31. It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.

It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.
It is by the beans of Java that thoughts acquire speed,
The hands acquire shakes, the shakes become a warning.
It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.

[sarge43]

17. You've met the Atreides gom jabbar

[Rabrrrrrr]

20. I've replaced the Gom jabbar with an Almond Joy.

[Deep13]

22. The Almond Joy I hold at your neck only kills animals. nt

[Rabrrrrrr]

23. Are you suggesting that Rabrrrrrr is an animal?

[Deep13]

24. I'm suggesting he may like coconut candy bars. nt

[Rabrrrrrr]

26. And I'm suggesting you may hang out in front of the sietch ogling the boys stabbing the wounded.

[Deep13]

27. Might be hard to explain to my wife why I'm ogling boys.

I'm not Baron Harkonen, ya know.

[Dr. Strange]

18. God created Arrakis to train the faithful.

Then he created GD: P to piss them off.

[Vidar]

29. Borrowed someone else's stillsuit, did you? Pretty damned kinky if you ask me.

[Dr. Strange]

32. From "Collected sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan

There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man--with human flesh. And that he knocked boots with your mom.

[Rabrrrrrr]

33. Or this one: "He who can destroy a thing, controls a thing.

And he who can paint a thing, will be asked by his wife to paint that thing."

[Dr. Strange]

34. "I'll paint the Sietch tomorrow, Chani."

Is it his prescience that tells him this? wondered Chani. Or will he spend the weekend once again lying in his underwear, sucking down spice chiclets, and watching Who Wants to be a Mentat?

[Rabrrrrrr]

35. Nagging him again, thought the Lady Jessica. Does she never stop?

I've hated this love affair since the beginning. No wonder my son, the Kwisatch Haderach! no less, is now so overweight he can only ride a worm if a Caryall takes him up. By the Catholic Orange Bible, he's like Orson Welles in sandy overalls.

[Dr. Strange]

37. Try looking into that place where you dare not look!

You'll find me there, staring out at you! No, not there, over here. No, a little more to the left. Yeah, yeah that's it. Boo!

[Lethe]

39. The Spice extends life. The Spice expands conciousness. The Spice is vital to space travel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAsa3fPYA5g

Just a friendly reminder that everyone needs to relax and dance around a camp fire.

[midnight armadillo]

40. Looooooooove that book

I re-read it every 4 years or so. I have twice plowed through the entire Dune chronicle. Am I a glutton for punishment? Perhaps...