Just finished watching Iron Man, and I noticed something I’d never spotted before. At the press conference, a reporter tells Tony that he can’t expect them to believe that he’s not Iron Man. After protesting for a moment, Tony says, “I am Iron Man.” The other reporters (all wearing dark clothes) leap to their feet, shouting questions. She remains seated. (She’s wearing gray, so she stands out.)
I believe that’s the same reporter he sleeps with at the beginning of the movie, before he gets captured by terrorists
Same here!
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In the Star Trek TOS classic episode, “The City on the Edge of Forever”, the crew people assigned to look for Dr. McCoy on the Guardian’s planet are the worst seach-party members ever. McCoy literally hid behind the only rocks in sight, and Scott, Uhura, etc, still walked right past the rocks and couldn’t find him.
I am embarrassed to admit that until this week I never realized the striking physical similarity between the King of Id in “The Wizard of Id” comic strip (as originally drawn) and a typical king as depicted on a deck of a certain style of playing cards.
You think that’s bad. I learned the other day that Josh Brolin and Josh Groban were two different people. I had just figured that Thanos had a really nice singing voice.
Nitpick, (because this is the SDMB and that’s how we roll, yo): the coin, and the mineral which gave it its name, is spelled nickel.
I’m not seeing it. Beyond being a human being wearing a crown, the King of Id has two distinguishing characteristics; he’s very short and he has a big nose. Neither characteristic is common among playing card kings.
I’m well aware of that fact, HATE spelling errors on message boards (especially this one), can’t believe I missed and repeated such an obvious mistake, and don’t mind having it pointed out. :smack:
Compare them. Playing card kings vs. the King of Id.
I first read Watchmen when it came out as a comic book series. I’ve probably read it a dozen times since. I’ve seen images of its characters hundreds of times, if not thousands.
But I never noticed this:
The following two songs came up in sequence in my Spotify account:
He’s the Greatest Dancer, Sister Sledge, which has one of my all-time favorite guitar grooves.
Getting Jiggy with It, Will Smith, which, uh, does too.
In my defense, I wasn’t into hip hop (or even pop music) with GJWT was released.
To that end, how the hell did Billy Preston not sue Mike Post back in 1975 or so? I mean, holy hell, these songs sound a lot more alike than that Marvin Gaye song sounded like “Blurred Lines” and a helluva lot more than that other song sounded like “Stairway to Heaven”.
Billy Preston’s Space Race, copyright 1973.
Mike Post’s The Rockford Files Theme Song, copyright 1975
I was at a restaurant/dance hall last night with a lady friend and another obvious thing hit me while watching the crowd ‘dance’:
C&C’s Music Factory’s Everybody Dance Now is one of the most undanceable dance songs ever released.
JohnT, I saw your post crop up in my email over the weekend, and I’ve gotten several giggles out of it. 
It’s true, though! The rhythms are jagged, and those who dance to the melody (YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE) are also completely fucked trying to dance to “Everybody Dance Now”.
For an audience of middle-aged white and hispanics couples, EDN is a dancing disaster.
It’s really more of an aerobics song, isn’t it?
The rhythm is excellent for a slow, trippy dance. But I suspect the frantic vocal makes a lot of non-clubby types think they need to dance fast to it.
The last verse of Bruce Springsteen’s Glory Days is extremely ironic:
And I hope when I get old I don’t sit around thinking about it
But I probably will
Yeah, just sitting back trying to recapture
A little of the glory yeah
He already IS that guy. And he’s drinking way too much to deal with it. Every verse mentions his drinking.