The Coolest Helmet Designs For Every College And NFL Team
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Limp Lizard
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The helmets they wore Saturday I call the "Forbidden Planet" helmets!
YA
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yep--cannot tell what the design is on the helmet in person or on TV
Tcupurplefaith
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I’m surprised they haven’t rolled out a white helmet with the big frog logo yet
Limp Lizard
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For you folks who did not get the movie reference, I was referring to the Monster of the Id from Forbidden Planet.
http://idyllopuspress.com/idyllopus/film/images/shining/sh_tempest2.jpg
http://idyllopuspress.com/idyllopus/film/images/shining/sh_tempest2.jpg
BrewingFrog
Was I supposed to type something here?
I was just trying to come up with a suitable Leslie Nielsen joke...
The Artist Formerly Known as PhormerPhrog
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Air Force is football AF.
Limp Lizard
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Forbidden Planet was back in his serious, leading man era. The funny Nielsen was basically the same character only with funny lines. The guy was a genius.
BrewingFrog
Was I supposed to type something here?
As a young geek, I went to various Sci-Fi conventions, and Forbidden Planet was always showing in a screening room somewhere. It was around the same time that Airplane! came out. Heh...
It just astounds me how the magic of restoration can bring such new life to old classics! The colors!
Limp Lizard
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Getting off the original helmets topic here, but in the 70's disaster movies were HUGE! Then Airplane! came out and so brilliantly lampooned the genre that it was years before there were big-budget disaster movies. I have seen that movie so many times, but I still laugh out loud at parts and grin through the rest.
Hoosierfrog
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I always wondered about the young Anne Francis and the not too young Walter Pidgeon stranded alone together...
The year this all supposedly took place?
1976
Limp Lizard
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Hey, we all swore we would have flying cars by now. OTOH, handheld computers/phones and the internet? The electronics innovations have way outrun anything we imagined. GPS?
And what about the disintegration gun Neilson has? Sure make getting away with murder easier: "What body?"
HG73
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We've got to get these people to a hospital.
What is it Doctor?
It's a big building with patients, but don't worry about that now.
Hoosierfrog
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So, you don’t have a flying car yet?
Gene Roddenberry thought up a lot of stuff for the original Star Trek such as flip phones, MRIs and apparently someone has even teleported an atom (not exactly moving Kirk from place to place, but still).
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Hoosierfrog
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Well, the writers may have helped a tad...
tcudoc
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Aren’t flying cars basically small airplanes?
We have flying cars, they are just not safe enough, affordable, or easy enough to use for them to translate to being used by the average human without extensive training and they are very unforgiving.
Perhaps the technology used in drones will cause development of different ideas that could change that.
We have flying cars, they are just not safe enough, affordable, or easy enough to use for them to translate to being used by the average human without extensive training and they are very unforgiving.
Perhaps the technology used in drones will cause development of different ideas that could change that.
Atomic Frawg
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Leslie Nielsen would sometimes do interviewers with a handheld fart sack. Right in the middle on the conversation he would squeeze it and keep a dead expression on his face, throwing the interviewers off their game. I think he did it in front of the Dalai Lama once. He said it cracked him up, as it did me.
