Derf[sup2[/sup]. Lemon juice is invisible ink, but not all invisible ink is lemon juice. Granted I can’t think offhand of an invisible ink that is developed by lemon juice, but that doesn’t mean that no such thing exists.
On the other hand, the preceding post offers ample evidence that I should preview. :smack:
There’s an identical moment in the kung-fu parody Fistful of Yen, filmed years earlier.
“Commensalism.” See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbiosis.
While private sacramental confession may not be common, it is available and does have religious signifance for Anglicans. This is from the official site for the ECUSA:
I never noticed that. But I was troubled by the assumption that in the future, astronauts will fly in business suits!
Classic WTF moment: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom: In the mines, the Good Guys are fleeing the Bad Guys in a railcar. There is a gap in the tracks. The Good Guys’ car jumps the gap, lands precisely on the rails, and rolls on. (The Bad Guys’ car jumps the gap and crashes.) I was watching it with relatives.
MY COUSIN: I don’t believe it!
MY AUNT: That’s the first thing you don’t believe?!
(By now, of course, we have watched the Evil High Priest pluck the heart out of a man’s body without breaking the skin or killing him, among other things.)
Ha…on a similar note, when my friend and I saw Kill Bill Vol. 1 in the theatre, after the scene where the bride flies into Tokyo, he leans over to me and says, “They would have never let her on the plane, carrying a sword.” I just looked at him and said “Dude, after all the stuff that’s been in this movie, you got to suspend some disbelief.”
I think it’s been pointed out in another thread that in Japan they would have since the sword would have been considered a priceless piece of art.
Bwahaha. You need a beating, but you made me laugh.
If I’d seen the movie, I’d say that PJ was attemping to make it clearer that the Ents’ going to war was a direct result of the Junior Hobbits appearance in Fangorn Forest, so he had to have Pippin trick Treebeard into it, which in turn required him to change the timing of the sequence. It was all a result of his asssumption that his audience was composed of idiots.
But of course I didn’t see the movie. How can I see what doesn’t exist? Everybody knows Jackson died in a bizarre yodeling accident during preproduction and everything was shut down. It’s all for the best, as LOTR is clearly unfilmable and any attempt to adapt it was doomed to failure. It certainly wouldn’t have won an OSCAR.
–Maxie, dodging crocodiles as he paddles down Denial River
Re Invisible Ink
IIRC (and I might not) You can use a small amount of milk as ink and reveal the message with lemon juice.
RE The Fifth Element
I thought it was Lithium.
Re The Ents
I assumed that when Treebeard called the moot he used a standard ‘It is a matter of the utmost urgency and may alter the whole of Middle Earth. Be here in a week or less’ call. But, when he saw the deforestation Treabeard used an exceedingly rare ‘Come immediately, if not sooner. Make all possible speed. Hurry!’ call.
Plus, as has been said, the other Ents would still be relatively close by. A leisurely stroll back home could take them months.
I didn’t particularly like the movie, but I thought it made sense. Pilots wear business suits while flying commercial airliners.
Nope
Hydrogen, Helium, Lithium, Berylium, Boron, Carbon …
Wonder what the fifth element discovered to be an element was?
Thanks for the info about Anglican confession earlier. I knew I may have been wrong about there existing some form of Anglican confession, but my web search for such a thing drew a blank so I assumed wrongly it did not exist as a specific sacrement.
Nope. You need heat to reveal milk too. You can also use grape juice or red cabbage juice, but not lemon juice. As far as I know, there is no method that uses lemon juice to reveal invisible ink.
We don’t know!
From this site, the time/order of discovery of the first 9 elements is shrouded in antiquity (Lordy, I have always wanted to use that phrase. Finally!).
Carbon, gold, silver, copper, sulphur, tin, lead, mercury, iron.
Next is arsenic, which is only believed to have been discovered in 1250, but evidently, this is not absolutely certain.
Maybe. But then she uses it to fight the Yakuza? I think real-life Yakuza use guns. Despite Japan’s stringent gun-control laws.
I think Ebert pointed this out in his review of the film how he had a WTF moment when Connery just happened to have not 1 lemon in his fridge, but a whole bowl full of lemons. Who keeps a bowl of lemons on hand besides a restaurant?
My other WTF moment in this film is when they go to that little turret thing and wait to see at exactly the correct time of day where it’s shadow will fall so they can open the wall at that point. But there’s no mention of what day or month of the year. Shadows fall all over the place depending on the day of the year. I guess they just got lucky.
Of course, some people seem to think inserting WTF moments into movies, for their own sake, is legitimate artistic expression . . .
Did she have it as carry-on? Because I’ve taken a sword on an airplane before with no problem. I had to check it in with the rest of my luggage, of course, but the only hassle involved was trying to wrap the damn thing so it would impale somebody’s Samsonite in the cargo hold.
This was within a week of 9/11, too.