tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20447280.post115253030335108319..comments2024-03-06T16:31:34.975-05:00Comments on Dies Irae: The eyes have itIvan the Terriblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09310595488905229264noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20447280.post-1152579625837989872006-07-10T21:00:00.000-04:002006-07-10T21:00:00.000-04:00gorilla: I'm a student and I'm afraid that your wi...gorilla: I'm a student and I'm afraid that your wild animal idea wouldn't work. We're <I>always</I> starving, so we'd eat the animal first. We barely manage to refrain from chomping on each other as it is.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20447280.post-1152579501326885032006-07-10T20:58:00.000-04:002006-07-10T20:58:00.000-04:00Blind people are conniving crooks, Des. Unbelievab...Blind people <I>are</I> conniving crooks, Des. Unbelievable robdogs, every last one of them. Fortunately they're lousy at getaways. That's the only thing that keeps them half-way under control.<BR/><BR/>And just because Robert Powell is a glassy-eyed lizard doesn't mean that Jesus was, Sam. I don't think he relied on really hard Paddington Bear-type stares to get his message across. What with all the water-walking, mass feeding, leper-curing and dead-raising, it was everyone else doing the blinking...Ivan the Terriblehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09310595488905229264noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20447280.post-1152572585941588312006-07-10T19:03:00.000-04:002006-07-10T19:03:00.000-04:00When Robert Powell was filming is acclaimed lead r...When Robert Powell was filming is acclaimed lead role in "Jesus of Nazareth" he said that not blinking was what leant this performance an other-worldly, divine element.<BR/><BR/>Anthony Hopkins, similarly, did not blink in "The Silence of the Lambs" to give Hannibal Lecter his disconcerting portrayal of pure evil.<BR/><BR/>Go ye and figure.Sam, Problem-Child-Bridehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06650421439038979462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20447280.post-1152564818420588132006-07-10T16:53:00.000-04:002006-07-10T16:53:00.000-04:00They used to say of Stalin that he had a similar e...They used to say of Stalin that he had a similar effect on his hapless subjects--a gaze more stupefying than a python's, more effective than a polygraph. <BR/><BR/>But I'm skeptical of such stories. If they were true, blind people ought to be the biggest conniving crooks.Desargueshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17874189015609216046noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20447280.post-1152556061792930992006-07-10T14:27:00.000-04:002006-07-10T14:27:00.000-04:00Yes, Sam, I get it. Lord help me now... :)Yes, Sam, I get it. Lord help me now... :)Ivan the Terriblehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09310595488905229264noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20447280.post-1152555836597720222006-07-10T14:23:00.000-04:002006-07-10T14:23:00.000-04:00Thanks for the link, Ivan. I thought for a minute...Thanks for the link, Ivan. I thought for a minute I was going to have to Google the eyes. Boomboom! Gerrit? Gerrit? <BR/> <BR/>...<BR/><BR/>'K<BR/><BR/>See you tomorrow then.Sam, Problem-Child-Bridehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06650421439038979462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20447280.post-1152555366935760422006-07-10T14:16:00.000-04:002006-07-10T14:16:00.000-04:00All very well in theory, GB, but real predators do...All very well in theory, GB, but real predators don't eat junk food. Maybe some hyenas would do the trick?Ivan the Terriblehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09310595488905229264noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20447280.post-1152550167700984642006-07-10T12:49:00.000-04:002006-07-10T12:49:00.000-04:00Yeah, that works in the jungle too. A pair of glea...Yeah, that works in the jungle too. A pair of gleaming snake eyes will make a monkey drop all its stolen coconuts and stare like a hypnotised rabbit. But if you really want order in a university campus, let a wild animal eat one of the students every week. There's nothing like fear to get primates to follow the leader and obey all the rules.Gorilla Bananashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13044093013423635830noreply@blogger.com