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Posted by Michael Brown (Member # 890) on 06-15-2002, 10:53 AM:
As you probably know there is a website called Petition Online which host loads of most probably useless petitions.Here is the latest one (hoping its a joke)
To: Peter Jackson and New Line Cinema
Those of us who have seen The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring know what an amazing director Peter Jackson is. When I learned that there apparently was to be a sequel, I was overjoyed. However, Peter Jackson has decided to tastelessly name the sequel "The Two Towers". The title is clearly meant to refer to the attacks on the World Trade Center. In this post-September 11 world, it is unforgiveable that this should be allowed to happen. The idea is both offensive and morally repugnant. Hopefully, when Peter Jackson and, more importantly, New Line Cinema see the number of signatures on this petition, the title will be changed to something a little more sensitive.
Sincerely,
The Undersigned
The link is HERE
Posted by Ken Lackner (Member # 1002) on 06-15-2002, 11:15 AM:
ROFLMAO!! Have you seen the "signatures" to this petition!??
Posted by Darren Crimmins (Member # 1116) on 06-15-2002, 06:20 PM:
Anybody who is offended that a director actually wants to be loyal to the author and trilogy by using the same title name for the movie despite Sept. 11th needs to freakin' relax! That is where political correctness has gone way too far. Arguably the best fantasy trilogy ever written, and done a half century ago, and people want the movie named changed! Not trying to belittle Sept. 11th, but the world (for most people) does not revolve around this date, and I believe changing the name would be a bigger travesty to Tolkien and his family. This PC stuff just drives me crazy, sepecially when it comes to messing with the Tolkien trilogy. I can't believe that many people actually signed the petition.
Posted by Greg Mueller (Member # 17) on 06-15-2002, 06:59 PM:
I think the petitioners are absolutely right! I think we should petition the planet Earth to remove the following words from any and all langauges, lest it offend any human, animal or plant.
"Towers"
"Two"
"Twin"
"World"
"Trade"
"Center"Good Christ! Is this the best thing these people have to do?
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Greg Mueller
Amateur Astronomer, Machinist, Filmnut
http://www.muellersatomics.com/
Posted by Dave Williams (Member # 299) on 06-16-2002, 01:07 AM:
FROM THE PETITION ONLINE WEBSITE..""Please Note: The Two Towers is the title of the JRR Tolkien book originally published in 1954, the second book of The Lord of the Rings trilogy. The title was thus established some 47 years prior to the attacks on the World Trade Center towers, and there is no evidence to suggest that Peter Jackson meant anything by continuing the same title other than faithfulness to the beloved Tolkien classics. Furthermore, the two distant, opposing towers in the Tolkien classic have very little if anything in common with the two matching towers of the World Trade Center. — PetitionOnline.com""
Posted by Thomas Procyk (Member # 1170) on 06-16-2002, 05:03 PM:
**delete me!**
Posted by Thomas Procyk (Member # 1170) on 06-16-2002, 05:11 PM:
LMAO! My friend and I were joking after Fellowship Of The Ring came out, about how someone, somewhere would get offended by "The Two Towers" and there would be a huge media frenzy and New Line would change the title just to shut everyone up, but that would cause another controversy and we would be caught in this mess... but I assured him that people really aren't that stupid.This is just as absurd as people demanding that Milton Bradley yank all of their "Jenga" games from store shelves. 
>>Update, 2002.0509: This petition has been suspended temporarily due to a lack of maintenance [read: intelligence] by the petition author. ? PetitionOnline.com<<
=TMP=
"You can please all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you just can't please stupid people."
PS- Sorry for the double-post Brad! I got an "illegal operation" when submitting the other one and it didn't appear... Please delete the previous one.
Posted by Ken Lackner (Member # 1002) on 06-16-2002, 11:05 PM:
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This is just as absurd as people demanding that Milton Bradley yank all of their "Jenga" games from store shelves.
I hadn't heard of that. Why in the world would anyone want that????
Posted by Michael Brown (Member # 890) on 06-17-2002, 09:39 AM:
Janga isn't that where you build some sort of 'tower' out of wooden bricks or something and then let it fall down.
Posted by Chad Souder (Member # 343) on 06-17-2002, 09:54 AM:
If you actually look at the signatures, it seems to be mostly people agreeing with us. They're mostly calling the originator an idiot.------------------
"Asleep at the switch? I wasn't asleep, I was drunk!" - Homer Simpson
Posted by Ken Lackner (Member # 1002) on 06-17-2002, 10:36 AM:
Yes, that's what Jenga is. I forogot, but now that you mention it, I remember what it is. Thomas, were you just making up an absurd example, or have people actually asked for it to be pulled?Some of those signatures are hilarious! My favorite:
quote:
This has to be the single stupidest petition ever concieved. The moron who thought this up is an obviously illiterate ape who doesn't deserve to live, let alone get access to a computer.
Posted by Thomas Procyk (Member # 1170) on 06-17-2002, 04:37 PM:
I sure hope I just made up an absurd example! (Which is what I meant to do).Yes, Jenga is the "game of skill and determination" where you stack up a tower of blocks and people take turns removing them and stacking them on top, making the tower more unstable as the game goes on. You have to try and not be the one who makes the tower collapse.
=TMP=
Posted by Michael Brown (Member # 890) on 06-17-2002, 05:21 PM:
quote:
I sure hope I just made up an absurd example! (Which is what I meant to do).
Yes, Jenga is the "game of skill and determination" where you stack up a tower of blocks and people take turns removing them and stacking them on top, making the tower more unstable as the game goes on. You have to try and not be the one who makes the tower collapse.=TMP=
Well, Yes
Posted by Jesse Skeen (Member # 586) on 06-17-2002, 07:08 PM:
I heard someone who signed the petition said "I won't even let my 2 twin sons stand next to each other out of respect for 9/11!"
Posted by Ken Lackner (Member # 1002) on 06-17-2002, 07:25 PM:
Phuggin idiots! How far will PC go? When will it end??
Posted by Jennifer Osborne (Member # 1220) on 07-03-2002, 05:02 AM:
I know that this reply is a bit later than all of the others, but with the 4th of July coming up I had to comment! Recently people have been reporting that firework sales are up, because people are more patriotic since Sep. 11....hmm...ok so let's think about this one... People steal planes, crash them, and kill a lot of people... All Right!! Just one more reason to celebrate by blowing shit up!! Isn't patriotism great??
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I'm not a people person, that's why I'm in the booth.
Posted by Thomas Procyk (Member # 1170) on 07-03-2002, 02:11 PM:
I bought more fireworks this year than last... why? 1) They had a sale. 2) Last year there was a ban because of the drought. 3) I like celebrating by blowing shit up.=TMP=
Posted by Dave Williams (Member # 299) on 07-03-2002, 03:00 PM:
As a bio-chemical engineering student way back in the day, I blew stuff up on a daily basis, and that was for grades. I was very good at blowing things up too. You know you can shoot a bic pen about four hundred miles per hour through a brick wall with the right chemical mixuture?That was a long time ago, and to this day I am still patriotic and plan to blow up many things that may or may not contain life as we know it.
Dave
Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 07-04-2002, 03:11 AM:
Hey Dave, are you a fan of George Hayduke?
Posted by Dave Williams (Member # 299) on 07-04-2002, 12:40 PM:
Brad,As an accomplished and proud Scorpio, I have found that George Hayduke is a god! 
Now while I wouldn't actually take him seriously, it is nice to fantasize from time to time.
Dave
Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 07-04-2002, 04:06 PM:
I had a sneaky feeling.
Posted by Ken Lackner (Member # 1002) on 07-05-2002, 12:10 PM:
George who??
Posted by Charles Everett (Member # 889) on 07-05-2002, 05:28 PM:
Here's the way to shut the crybabies up: If you've gotten the poster for The Two Towers put it in your "Coming Soon" showcase now. The UA Union Square has that poster in the showcase along the escalators that run to and from street level.This poster proves, once and for all, that The Two Towers has nothing to do with the World Trade Center.