# We don't talk about that here, thank you. House rule. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 12, 2012, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-dont-talk-about-that-here-thank-you-house-rule/624925 "2012-06-12T16:19:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Indistinguishable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/90ced4/32.png) [@Indistinguishable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indistinguishable)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2012, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-dont-talk-about-that-here-thank-you-house-rule/624925/61 "2012-06-13T00:31:37Z")
> [@Alan\_Smithee](#): > > What the hell are you talking about? That was _all they did_ in the fifth season! Just the press, no cops at all. As I recall, there wasn’t much press or cops… just the closing out of the Marlo arc, and some other stuff along those lines. It was a ridiculously short season. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2012, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-dont-talk-about-that-here-thank-you-house-rule/624925/62 "2012-06-13T00:54:09Z")
> [@Gedd](#): > > Since we don’t talk about it here (a house rule, you see) I can neither acknowledge nor deny the existence of the movie that may or may not have been mentioned in an earlier (or possibly later) post by me (or maybe someone else). > > ETA - Crystal Skull. > Eww . . . I got the heebie-jeebies just typing it. I need to take a shower now. > [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > I will send over a hookerbot and some sort of alcoholic refreshment if you wish. [Send him some of this. I’m sure he’ll be appreciative.](http://crystalheadvodka.com/welcome) ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2012, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-dont-talk-about-that-here-thank-you-house-rule/624925/63 "2012-06-13T00:56:06Z")
> [@](#): > > Like, I once spent a whole morning remembering a scene from the movie Terminator 3 - but of course they only ever made two Terminator movies. The mind’s a tricky thing that way, it’ll fool you and you won’t even know. I can see why you’d be confused. There _were_ only two Terminator movies, but Terminator 3 was one of them. For some reason, they called the movies _Terminator_ and _Terminator 3_, and didn’t make one numbered 2. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2012, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-dont-talk-about-that-here-thank-you-house-rule/624925/64 "2012-06-13T02:55:34Z")
Pfft. **Chronos** , everyone knows they made 3 Terminator movies, and then retired the franchise. Just like they made 2 Blade movies and then retired the franchise before some asshole could ruin it with a shitty 3rd movie. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2012, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-dont-talk-about-that-here-thank-you-house-rule/624925/65 "2012-06-13T03:11:56Z")
> [@Greg\_Charles](#): > > Some people, but not me, talk about a fifth book in the Hitchhiker’s Guide trilogy, in which Douglas Adams says a big FU to his fans by killing off all the characters with multidimensional finality, then leaves a loophole, then closes that loophole by dying himself. [Loopholes are made to be reopened](http://www.amazon.com/Another-Thing-Hitchhikers-Guide-Galaxy/dp/1401323588). (I haven’t read it myself, but Colfer’s a pretty fun writer). ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2012, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-dont-talk-about-that-here-thank-you-house-rule/624925/66 "2012-06-13T03:19:08Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > I also refuse to acknowledge any sequels to Neverending Story. Well, they shouldn’t even be logically possible. ---
**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2012, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-dont-talk-about-that-here-thank-you-house-rule/624925/67 "2012-06-13T03:34:56Z")
> [@Lobohan](#): > > I love this thread. That is all. What thread are you on about? There never was a thread about things we don’t talk about, it’s that imagination thing again. ---
**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2012, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-dont-talk-about-that-here-thank-you-house-rule/624925/68 "2012-06-13T03:43:13Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > One day I woke up in a strange universe where they’d turned \*Fallout \*into a Diablo-like action game called “Brotherhood of Steel”, of all things. It was a console exclusive, too. Then I woke up again, this time in the real world. > Dreams are very strange sometimes. > > . That name, brotherhood of steel reminded me of one of my weird lucent nightmare dreams where some sicko had made an RPG called Living Steel. It had a compelling backstory that made you want to play and the combat system was so realistic it actually made blood come out of players eyes and noses after it took most of a session to resolve a short combat sequence. I tried telling people about it, but no one wanted to talk about it, I just got those " duuuude you are saying scary things again" looks. ---
**Author:** ![Runestar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/74df32/32.png) [@Runestar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Runestar)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2012, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-dont-talk-about-that-here-thank-you-house-rule/624925/69 "2012-06-13T14:23:25Z")
I’m very glad that no one has ever taken Ian Fleming’s excellent _Chitty Chitty Bang Bang_ and turned it into a bloated, overdone, Disney-fied piece of crap that bears only slightest resemblance to the original book. ---
**Author:** ![gonzoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@gonzoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzoron)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2012, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-dont-talk-about-that-here-thank-you-house-rule/624925/70 "2012-06-13T14:59:34Z")
> [@Lord\_Mondegreen](#): > > I really enjoyed the four books in the _Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy_ “trilogy.” They were mostly harmless. Actually, _Mostly Harmless_ would have been a good title for a fifth book in the series. If Douglas Adams had written a fifth book in the series. Which he didn’t. Of course he wrote a fifth one name Mostly Harmless. And it wasn’t that bad. but NO ONE, and I mean NO ONE wrote a sixth. That would be just wrong. Along similar lines, Highlander 2, yeah, it’s bad. It’s real bad. But I’d give it an academy award if that would erase the existence of Highlander: The Source. ---
**Author:** ![PoorYorick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecccb3/32.png) [@PoorYorick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoorYorick)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2012, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-dont-talk-about-that-here-thank-you-house-rule/624925/71 "2012-06-13T15:23:17Z")
Robert Asprin stopped his _Myth_ series with _Myth-ing Persons_, or thereabouts. Nope, no more adventures for Skeeve and Ahz. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2012, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-dont-talk-about-that-here-thank-you-house-rule/624925/72 "2012-06-13T15:27:57Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > Plus they killed Winona Ryder. Not allowed. She’s too pretty to die. 1994 called, they want your mental image of Winona Ryder back. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2012, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-dont-talk-about-that-here-thank-you-house-rule/624925/73 "2012-06-13T15:53:32Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > 1994 called, they want your mental image of Winona Ryder back. :: checks **KneadToKnow’s** file :: That’s seven. At twelve I unleash the squirrels. > [@Anaamika](#): > > I hate Wynona Ryder, so there. I am going to send you the bill for my brain cloud treatment. > [@](#): > > And Kirk will get better. That’s merely the first movie, and he needed to be cut down a notch. He’s young, and arrogant, and cocky and brash. Hmm, like many many men I know of. Plus I don’t watch for him, I watch for Zachary Quinto and Karl Urban and the girl who plays Uhura whom I am very very sorry that I don’t remember her name. Nah, I’m pretty sure it was the actor. I’ve seen him in other movies since then and each has inspired me to wish a hockey-puck-assault on him. > [@](#): > > As to the video game movie comment, I guess you just hated it that much. 🙂 It was mediocre and I only remember it vaguely. Well, you know I don’t play video games. There’s a sacred story, blah blah blah. ---
**Author:** ![Nonsuch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonsuch/32/2922_2.png) [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2012, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-dont-talk-about-that-here-thank-you-house-rule/624925/74 "2012-06-13T19:16:00Z")
_The Long Goodbye_ was Raymond Chandler’s last Philip Marlowe novel. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-dont-talk-about-that-here-thank-you-house-rule/624925/75 "2012-06-15T06:28:10Z")
As terrible as Austen’s Nightcrawler storyline was, I still vastly preferred his overall run to the garbage Morrison was pumping out in the other X-Men title at the time. That grotesque Beak thing and that hideous fly-girl version of Angel making monstrous babies was something like thousands of times worse than Nightcrawler finding out his pops was the Mutant Devil. Oooh Xorn’s Magneto, big fucking whoop. So glad that got retconned like 2 seconds after he left the title. And I think Cassandra Nova just might be the worst villain ever created. Prof X’s evil twin sister that he murdered in the womb oh and also she’s some psychic alien thingamabobber? What the fuck? Also, why’d he have to go and turn Beast into a cat? Did he watch a certain Disney movie one too many times? So yeah, we don’t talk about Austen’s X-Men run in this house, lest I go on a rant about Morrison’s cocurrent run. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Gukumatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/74df32/32.png) [@Gukumatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gukumatz)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-dont-talk-about-that-here-thank-you-house-rule/624925/76 "2012-06-15T07:32:38Z")
I am glad that nobody ever tried casting Will Smith in movies inspired by great and groundbreaking novels within the science fiction genre. Especially my two favourite authors in the genre, Matheson and Asimov. Because I seriously wouldn’t want to live in that universe. Hell, those guys would be stupid enough to even make [sequels](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1083849/). ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-dont-talk-about-that-here-thank-you-house-rule/624925/77 "2012-06-15T10:33:19Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Just like they made 2 Blade movies and then retired the franchise before some asshole could ruin it with a shitty 3rd movie. And it’s unthinkable that anyone would consider turning it unto a low budget cable TV show. That would have been painful to watch. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-dont-talk-about-that-here-thank-you-house-rule/624925/78 "2012-06-15T13:30:15Z")
Godfather 1 & 2 were so good that a third can’t fail. ---
**Author:** ![JMH125](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee59a6/32.png) [@JMH125](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JMH125)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-dont-talk-about-that-here-thank-you-house-rule/624925/79 "2012-06-15T14:06:17Z")
JAWS the Return. Where it stalks the wife to another country. Somehow. But they’d never write that into a script, right? that’s just silly. ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-dont-talk-about-that-here-thank-you-house-rule/624925/80 "2012-06-15T14:33:32Z")
It’s really remarkable that Eric Clapton never did any recordings after Duane Allman died. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-dont-talk-about-that-here-thank-you-house-rule/624925.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-dont-talk-about-that-here-thank-you-house-rule/624925.md?page=5)