What is it about Transformers that make me want to buy them? Whenever I’m at Target, I always take a detour to check the toy aisle that has Transformers and Star Wars toys.
And I gotta say that I’m addicted to the Star Wars Transformers. Those things are so darn cool. Especially the Millenium Falcon/Han Solo/Chewbacca one. Though the Darth Vader/Death Star is a close second. You get the two, you get the two, you get the two mints in one.
TwoPi: He was originally just gonna think it, but these days people in movie theaters never seem to hold back anymore.
john: I’m quite proud of my Transformer pics also!
Dave S: Get out of my head. I was in the Transformers/Star Wars aisle of Target this weekend when I came up with this post. And I have the Millennium Falcon Transformer
Wow! Amazing art! I am very impressed. I had no idea there were Star Wars Transformers. That sounds very strange to me. I guess I don’t spend enough time in the toy aisle.
I had been so put off by the lack of manors in movie theaters that I had not seen one for months. I just recently saw I Love You, Man. It was actually a nice experiance. However, I might have just been in a good mood because I finally had a first date with a guy I wanted to go out with again. Yay! Dating is not so bad.
Woohoo Chris. Kiss and tell? Spill. Glad you had fun.
Having a girl child I pretty much managed to avoid all things Transformer although there was a time when something similar to a Transformer was hot and we had a couple of those. Now Barbie is another story.
Thanks! I know I need to update my blog. I have been such a bad blogger. However I am conflicted about what the boundaries of my blogging should be. My blog is not living up to my initial vision for it. I think I either need to step up or pack it in.
I think I will do a somewhat general blog post with some background that may be helpfull to others in my situation when I have a moment to write it up.
thankfully, I was a bit too old to enjoy Transformers…although the purple outlining you did here was pretty nifty. Transformers and Pokemon…the black hole for money of toys.
john: Maybe it’s just me, but I’d rather have more figs than more dates. Dates are just so darn sticky. So, Chris, I hope it leads to more figs. But not fig newtons. Because that just makes no sense whatsoever.
Mark: OK, OK, I’ll stop, but the get thee behind me comment was difficult to resist. But I’ll help with: “something and something and warm woolen mittens”.
Craig: “these days people in movie theaters never seem to hold back anymore. ”
Apparently, neither do kindergarteners riding the bus to school. Or at least that’s who our eight-year-old fingered after he dropped the f-bomb at the dinner table one night: “What does f**k mean?”
Happily, Xi_Heather is a trooper at jumping in and saying just the right thing while I’m having a coronary.
Meditating on this post, I was thinking about recent kid films I’ve seen and their potential product lines.
What I’d love to see: from the film Coraline, a web-based company where you can upload photos of your family, and they manufacture cloth dolls in their likenesses. Naturally, the parent dolls and all your siblings have button eyes, and one of the parent dolls runs after you with a needle and thread.
Craig: Asking “Where do babies come from?” is doable. Asking “What’s a blow job?” at the Thanksgiving table is another thing. Thankfully that hasn’t happened to me but I’ve heard stories. I have a very private child who would rather die than ask me a question so I always have to initiate which is not always fun. Although the look on her face when I told her what a BJ was, was rather amusing. Books are also very handy in our house.
No child gets suspended from third grade for talking about dna and the inheritance of eye color from one’s parents. So that definitely feels like safer ground to me.
Should I have said “implicated” instead of “fingered”? Am I harming Mark’s purity even further?
(He knows a little ASL. Maybe Xi_Heather is helping prepare him for the consequences of his tastes in music.)
Totally off the subject, but did anyone watch Family Guy last night? The had the cast of Star Trek:Next Generation on… at least I think it was their actual voices.
Yeah! It was great! Loved the convention scene and the non-Star Trek related questions, Tasha Yar’s scene, the drive-thru scene, and Patrick Stewart’s abuse of Wil Wheaton. So basically all of it!
GoKitty: YES! I was dying! I don’t want to spoil it for others, but it was pretty funny. I know that was Patrick Stewart’s voice and I’m pretty sure it was the rest of the cast too. H-Wil H-Weaton. That’s all I’ll say.
Craig: I second that BJ’s discussion. I remember asking about the birds and the bees, but never about BJ’s. That is what porn was for.
john: Now it seems to be riding the school bus in Grade 4 is where you learn about oral sex, right along with real live examples of it. ACK!!! Not in my school division (that we know about) but I thought I better bring it up (since some girls were trying to do the same near Toronto). Times were different when we were kids (walking uphill both ways to school in a snow storm). I’m turning into my Grandpa.
I thought it was hilarious that the Megatron action figure transformed into an actual kid-sized, pretty realistic looking gun. The Galvatron figure (which is still in my basement at my parents’ house) was a battery powered space-age cannon. It’s hard to figure out what is a bargain these days.
I totally remember trading my original Legend of Zelda game for porn magazines in 5th grade, which is really when I learned about BJs. Not that I knew what to do with porn then. I look back, with my vast collection of porn currently, and NO Legend of Zelda, with deep, sorrowful regret.
I love love that last frame!
Too funny, and too true. (But such language in front of the kids! tsk tsk!)
Awww, look at how cute all the little Puntabupeople are! Great job on the transformers, they look awesome.
Oh yeah, its a giant conspiracy to suck every last dollar out of parents. Sigh. Great job.
Well played.
Hilariously true.
Kids smiling, parents all “WTF?”
Damn, you’re mastering MSPaint, Craig.
What is it about Transformers that make me want to buy them?
Whenever I’m at Target, I always take a detour to check the toy aisle that has Transformers and Star Wars toys.
And I gotta say that I’m addicted to the Star Wars Transformers.
Those things are so darn cool. Especially the Millenium Falcon/Han Solo/Chewbacca one. Though the Darth Vader/Death Star is a close second. You get the two, you get the two, you get the two mints in one.
TwoPi: He was originally just gonna think it, but these days people in movie theaters never seem to hold back anymore.
john: I’m quite proud of my Transformer pics also!
Dave S: Get out of my head. I was in the Transformers/Star Wars aisle of Target this weekend when I came up with this post. And I have the Millennium Falcon Transformer
Wow! Amazing art! I am very impressed. I had no idea there were Star Wars Transformers. That sounds very strange to me. I guess I don’t spend enough time in the toy aisle.
I had been so put off by the lack of manors in movie theaters that I had not seen one for months. I just recently saw I Love You, Man. It was actually a nice experiance. However, I might have just been in a good mood because I finally had a first date with a guy I wanted to go out with again. Yay! Dating is not so bad.
Congrats on the date Chris! We need details! Or a blog update! Or a blog update with date details!
Woohoo Chris. Kiss and tell? Spill.
Glad you had fun.
Having a girl child I pretty much managed to avoid all things Transformer although there was a time when something similar to a Transformer was hot and we had a couple of those. Now Barbie is another story.
Damn, Craig and I are so nosey. Great minds think alike I guess.
@Dave: I get the “two mints in one” reference. Does that mean I’m old? Or just have a weird knack for old commercial references?
Thanks! I know I need to update my blog. I have been such a bad blogger.
However I am conflicted about what the boundaries of my blogging should be. My blog is not living up to my initial vision for it. I think I either need to step up or pack it in.
I think I will do a somewhat general blog post with some background that may be helpfull to others in my situation when I have a moment to write it up.
danceordie: Yeah, we’re old.
Chris D.: Congrats on the date!
I trust the title of the movie you saw wasn’t *too* pretentious, given it was only your second date…
thankfully, I was a bit too old to enjoy Transformers…although the purple outlining you did here was pretty nifty. Transformers and Pokemon…the black hole for money of toys.
HUGS….
Chris D.: Excellent! I hope the date was fun and that it leads to more dates.
john: Maybe it’s just me, but I’d rather have more figs than more dates. Dates are just so darn sticky. So, Chris, I hope it leads to more figs. But not fig newtons. Because that just makes no sense whatsoever.
Ohwow, thats the exact animation they used in the Transformers movie when they upgraded the decepticons too.
GoKitty: You mean Craig’s even more brilliant than we thought?! It’s the little things that he sneaks in…
GoKitty: Thanks for the recognition! I watched the YouTube video ten times to get it right!
Too funny! I’m constantly fixing my kids Transformers that they have destroyed, but I’m getting really good at transforming them
OK, am I the only one that thinks it is funny that Galvatron has a 6 pack?
Dave S.: You have to stop. I mean I know this is Puntabulous and all, but seriously.
john: I thought it was a giant zipper with a purple pull-tab at the top.
john: If that was a 6-pack, wouldn’t he be called Guyvatron?
You realize Craig is gay… he’s compelled to draw six packs when given the chance.
Dave S: “Dates are just so darn sticky.” That’s sooo tempting, but I won’t. I’m trying to be good.
Wait. Craig is gay?
Mark: To hell with being good! Let it fly!
Gay meaning happy.
I see the world through six pack tinted glasses.
I think everybody should be happy!
Six pack tinted glasses – tee hee, you’re funny. I need to get a set of those for the Mrs.
Get thee behind me John! All I have is “Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens”
I just put this purity ring on and I’m not taking it off!
Mark: OK, OK, I’ll stop, but the get thee behind me comment was difficult to resist. But I’ll help with: “something and something and warm woolen mittens”.
john: That would be “Bright copper kettles”. Though how the hell that could be a favorite thing is quite beyond my capacity.
Mark: Careful…we all know what happened to poor Golem…
Okay, now I have dirty thought about john behind Mark.
And I like sticky dates. I’ll let you make of that what you will.
You guys are making this purity thing sooo hard! But I’m going to persevere.
Mark: *Difficult* we are making it difficult; hard is a bad thing remember.
Tam: Mark could get better than me, I’m sure.
Dav s.: I don’t know, I kind of like shiny copper. I also now have this image of Mark hovering over a ring saying “My precccciousssss.”
Craig: “these days people in movie theaters never seem to hold back anymore. ”
Apparently, neither do kindergarteners riding the bus to school. Or at least that’s who our eight-year-old fingered after he dropped the f-bomb at the dinner table one night: “What does f**k mean?”
Happily, Xi_Heather is a trooper at jumping in and saying just the right thing while I’m having a coronary.
Meditating on this post, I was thinking about recent kid films I’ve seen and their potential product lines.
What I’d love to see: from the film Coraline, a web-based company where you can upload photos of your family, and they manufacture cloth dolls in their likenesses. Naturally, the parent dolls and all your siblings have button eyes, and one of the parent dolls runs after you with a needle and thread.
TwoPi: Which is worse? Asking about curse words, or asking about babies?
Also “fingered”? Is he hard of hearing?
Craig: Asking “Where do babies come from?” is doable. Asking “What’s a blow job?” at the Thanksgiving table is another thing. Thankfully that hasn’t happened to me but I’ve heard stories. I have a very private child who would rather die than ask me a question so I always have to initiate which is not always fun. Although the look on her face when I told her what a BJ was, was rather amusing. Books are also very handy in our house.
No child gets suspended from third grade for talking about dna and the inheritance of eye color from one’s parents. So that definitely feels like safer ground to me.
Should I have said “implicated” instead of “fingered”? Am I harming Mark’s purity even further?
(He knows a little ASL. Maybe Xi_Heather is helping prepare him for the consequences of his tastes in music.)
Tam: Thankfully the only discussion of BJs I’ve had with my parents centers around large containers of food at low prices.
TwoPi: Oooooohhhh! Okay, I gotcha now. Yes, be gentle on Mark.
Totally off the subject, but did anyone watch Family Guy last night? The had the cast of Star Trek:Next Generation on… at least I think it was their actual voices.
Yeah! It was great! Loved the convention scene and the non-Star Trek related questions, Tasha Yar’s scene, the drive-thru scene, and Patrick Stewart’s abuse of Wil Wheaton. So basically all of it!
GoKitty: YES! I was dying! I don’t want to spoil it for others, but it was pretty funny. I know that was Patrick Stewart’s voice and I’m pretty sure it was the rest of the cast too. H-Wil H-Weaton. That’s all I’ll say.
Craig: I second that BJ’s discussion. I remember asking about the birds and the bees, but never about BJ’s. That is what porn was for.
Tasha’s scene was hysterical!
john: Now it seems to be riding the school bus in Grade 4 is where you learn about oral sex, right along with real live examples of it. ACK!!! Not in my school division (that we know about) but I thought I better bring it up (since some girls were trying to do the same near Toronto). Times were different when we were kids (walking uphill both ways to school in a snow storm). I’m turning into my Grandpa.
I thought it was hilarious that the Megatron action figure transformed into an actual kid-sized, pretty realistic looking gun. The Galvatron figure (which is still in my basement at my parents’ house) was a battery powered space-age cannon. It’s hard to figure out what is a bargain these days.
I totally remember trading my original Legend of Zelda game for porn magazines in 5th grade, which is really when I learned about BJs. Not that I knew what to do with porn then. I look back, with my vast collection of porn currently, and NO Legend of Zelda, with deep, sorrowful regret.
P.S. I’m totally wearing my argyle sweater vest today! Yay Craig!