Happy Back To The Future Day!

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10-20-2015
Le Messor

Happy Back To The Future Day!

We're all geeks here, right? So we know in Back To The Future II, Marty McFly travels thirty years into the future.
From our point of view, that's next Wednesday (21 October 2015).

I've got Back To To Future playing now, and will play II tomorrow (on the day he travels to*) and III on Thursday.

* I'm on the other side of the international dateline from most of you; it'll be two days for you guys.

~ Le Messor
"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons."
~ Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949
10-20-2015
Phil

I'm off work tomorrow so may watch all 3 back to back...
10-20-2015
Le Messor

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Originally Posted by Phil

I'm off work tomorrow so may watch all 3 back to back...

Sounds like a plan!
10-21-2015
Tawmis

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10-22-2015
Le Messor

The problem with the future is, it keeps turning into the present.

(Calvin.)
10-22-2015
Tawmis

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Originally Posted by Le Messor

The problem with the future is, it keeps turning into today.

(Calvin.)

I love that Calvin Kline quote!

(I do realize it wasn't Calvin Kline, I am continuing the BotF references!) :D
10-22-2015
Le Messor

:) Actually, the other day when I was watching the movie and Marty woke up with scruffy hair, in a red t-shirt, and Lorraine started calling him Calvin, I couldn't help looking for a tiger...
10-22-2015
Tawmis

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Originally Posted by Le Messor

:) Actually, the other day when I was watching the movie and Marty woke up with scruffy hair, in a red t-shirt, and Lorraine started calling him Calvin, I couldn't help looking for a tiger...

Speaking of that... (though this is going to further side track the thread...)

We were playing HeadsUp (a game, where you put your phone on your forehead and words, people, places, depending on what the theme is - appear - and you try to guess).

And my friend's daughter, who is like 16 years old, picked "Fictional Characters" - and Hobbes came up, and I said, "Calvin and..." And she couldn't guess it... and when the game was over, she was like, "Who is Hobbes?"

My heart literally broke that there's a generation now who does not know Calvin and Hobbes.

That is absolutely tragic.
10-23-2015
Le Messor

:cry:

Educate her!
10-23-2015
Tawmis

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Originally Posted by Le Messor

:cry:

Educate her!

I should. I have the massive box set.
10-23-2015
Mekko Hotvle

As always, Cubs fans have to face reality that BTTF was pure fiction and Cubs will never win the World Series.
10-23-2015
Le Messor

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Originally Posted by Tawmis

I should. I have the massive (Calvin & Hobbes) box set.

Me too! I've been rereading it lately, which is why it was on my mind when I was watching BTTF the other day.

I'm still surprised that I'm nearly halfway through, and haven't seen either calvinball or the killer bicycle yet. (Though both have been set up.)

~ Le Messor
"All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream."
~ Edgar Allen Poe
10-23-2015
Tawmis

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Originally Posted by Le Messor

Me too! I've been rereading it lately, which is why it was on my mind when I was watching BTTF the other day.

I'm still surprised that I'm nearly halfway through, and haven't seen either calvinball or the killer bicycle yet. (Though both have been set up.)

~ Le Messor
"All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream."
~ Edgar Allen Poe

I need to re-read these... I have it and the Farside one as well.
10-23-2015
Le Messor

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Originally Posted by Tawmis

I have it and the Farside one as well.

:) Again, me too. I also have a Dilbert one, but that's obviously not as comprehensive.
(I was thinking of rereading The Far Side after C & H.)