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diedye
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Mar 12 2007, 4:04am
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New Line seems to have a sense of humor...
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... either that or they're really desperate to get rid of any reminders of their association with Peter.
I got this in the in-box today...
http://i127.photobucket.com/...sc/newline_promo.jpg
... along with gift codes for $20 off the Noble Collection and $10 off Sideshow Collectibles.
So how's that boycott going, sibs? 
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SandWitch King
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Mar 12 2007, 8:11am
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But there is NO WAY IN HADES that I would buy those movies again. Aside from any other factor, I am a consumer that is very tired of studios selling me movies over and over. I would perhaps buy just the Botes documentary as a solo item but since it is part of the package as a re-release of the movies I am completely turned off. It might actually damage my chances of buying an HD-DVD down the road.
Another side effect of the Jackson/New Line relationship deteriorating is the sudden hit a giant re-release takes on its extras with the Jackson camp contributing.
I would consider the EA Games package of BFMO games but I already have them. I DO think that package of games together is a real deal.
. . . One should, if possible, express a negative concept in a positive form: "not meaningful" rather than "meaningless." I agree and will, therefore, now refer to contemporary movie executives as running around "like chickens without their heads cut on." - David Mamet
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Draupne
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Mar 12 2007, 9:13am
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Not boycotting anything (except strawberries from the Netherlands and apples from the US) but have no idea of what you're talking about. Another DVD set? Haven't bought any yet, does this mean I'm going to have to chose between different ones? *grumble*
*checks link* Hmm, don't really want to command the armies of ME. I just want the their captain. Which means I might need some of those armies to take care of diedye .....
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luinfalathiel
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Mar 12 2007, 9:50am
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They still haven't figured out
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how many of us would buy those sets if there was a BLOOPER REEL!!! WHERE THE @*@$#^$#$(&!! IS OUR BLOOPER REEL!!!
Chance favours the prepared mind.
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diedye
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Mar 12 2007, 3:35pm
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But I don't think this fella will let you within ten leagues of me, let alone any army...
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Annael
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Mar 12 2007, 3:38pm
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it's the inhumane way we hunt them.
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Do you know how many fruitflies die?
“I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another where the best fruit is."
-- Terry Pratchett,
NARF and member of Deplorable Cultus since 1967
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JRandomRohirrim
Rohan
Mar 12 2007, 3:40pm
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Well, I have Over 3,000 Boycott New Line Online Signatures...
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The commentary is pretty interesting, too.
OK, so it isn't a TORN-sanctioned boycott. I sent a description of the boycott and over 2,600 signatures to New Line in late November, but I haven't heard a thing back from New Line yet.
I've been told there's at least two other online New Line boycotts going on.
I haven't given New LIne any money since sometime last year. If New Line wasn't screwing around with The Hobbit, I would have seen Little Children. I would probably would go to see The Last Mimzy (I've always been a Kuttner fan), but I'm not going now. But it takes it takes more than a few hundred or thousand people to make a boycott noticeable by a large corporation.
I suspect Peter Jackson is right and there is something screwy with the New Line books. If New Line had nothing to hide, they would have gone along with the audit. Denying an audit to their biggest money-maker ever speaks volumes about what New Line is probably hiding.
Boycott New Line!
http://www.boycottnewline.com
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Darkstone
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Mar 12 2007, 3:56pm
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...it's something more to do with Steve Jobs, open source, and DRM than fruit.
Pippin: "When you guys fall, does it make a sound?"
Bregalad: "Are you kidding? Scott fell last week and he hasn't shut up about it since."
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SandWitch King
Rohan
Mar 12 2007, 4:59pm
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What is wrong with New Line's books is . . .
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Hollywood studios running business as usual.
I salute you for your committment.
. . . One should, if possible, express a negative concept in a positive form: "not meaningful" rather than "meaningless." I agree and will, therefore, now refer to contemporary movie executives as running around "like chickens without their heads cut on." - David Mamet
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Patty
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Mar 12 2007, 5:22pm
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I MUST have the high def version when it comes out, otherwise...
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I won't be buying them again, either. I salute myself on not buying the LE, although I did want to see the Costa Bates docu.
As for the boycott, I just don't see damaging the careers and salaries of all those who worked on the other New Line movies just to send a message to the studio heads, who are impervious. They already know we're pissed. I don't think even PJ sanctions a boycott. New Line has only to read our petitions, all the polls, etc. etc. to know they risk our extreme displeasure, and I'm thinking they wouldn't be doing it if they didn't have something to hide. If they do have something to hide, our voices will mean nothing to them.
Welcome to Rivendell, Patty Baggins
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GaladrielTX
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Mar 12 2007, 5:33pm
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Are you hinting my apples aren't what they ought to be? /
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I used to be GaladrielTX, but I lost my TX and an hour over the weekend. Stupid Daylight Saving Time!
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Darkstone
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Mar 12 2007, 5:42pm
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Oh, no! It's just that she doesn't like little Code Green worms. /
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Pippin: "When you guys fall, does it make a sound?"
Bregalad: "Are you kidding? Scott fell last week and he hasn't shut up about it since."
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Aerlinn
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Mar 12 2007, 8:47pm
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They don't still trap them in the wild, do they? I don't know which is more barbaric, raising them in cages for slaughter or using traps.
Aerlinn's Law #15 (maybe 16... 17?): Whatever I say goes.
In one ear and out the other.
My TORn archives - to be updated sooner or later
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Darkstone
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Mar 12 2007, 9:02pm
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Anyway, sometimes you do have to go out and thin the herd, otherwise we'd be up to our necks in little green apples. It's no fun, cause feral apples can be very dangerous. Still, not as cruel as in England where they have this big to-do with horses, funny hats, bright green coats, and applehounds.
"No, no, no. You're not thinking. You're just being logical."
-Niels Bohr
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Moriel
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Mar 12 2007, 9:06pm
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Here in Texas we use hound dogs
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Why, my old blue tick Rufus once got more than a hundred apples up one tree! He's a right good apple hound he is.
Moriel - the Daughter of the Dark
Serving your wiseacre needs since the blooming of the Trees.
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Darkstone
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Mar 12 2007, 11:11pm
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Pancho the Wonder Dog. So named cause we're always wondering what he's going to do next. He's way too smart for his own good.
Found him as a puppy left by the side of the highway with a plastic spoonful of peanut butter and a yogurt carton half full of water. He kept trying to wander onto the highway. Round and fat, he was just about all worms. Beside him is Lily, a black chow, also a rescued dog.
"No, no, no. You're not thinking. You're just being logical."
-Niels Bohr
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GaladrielTX
Tol Eressea
Mar 12 2007, 11:37pm
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Love the big ears and the black snout! Mutts are da best. Ours was a stray at a city pound. He has many nicknames, including Duncan Squirrelsbane (he caught one, briefly) and Duncan Nonuts (because...well, because of his condition when we got him from the shelter).
Pancho Applesbane could be one of your dog's secret identities. You never know.
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Draupne
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Mar 13 2007, 12:34am
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And they all look the same. A bit like your money.
Plus they taste yuck. Maybe that's why you export them and keep the good apples to yourself.
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Draupne
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Mar 13 2007, 12:37am
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I would reckommend whaling guns
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They're too big to harm the fruitflies. Plus there's not a lot of fruitflies on a whale.
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Draupne
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Mar 13 2007, 12:51am
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the US apples here remind me off. Except they're all green. And looked like they're cloned. *stares suspiciously around* Maybe you're all clones? Or apple-mutants?
Could also just be slightly late and bed-time this side of the pond.
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Kimi
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Mar 13 2007, 1:36am
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a bit hard to find the apple afterwards :-)
  
Promises to Keep: a novel set in 19th Century New Zealand.
The Passing of Mistress Rose
Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
- A Room With a View
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