The Cartoon Network just became my favorite cable station with word that they are signing papers to bring Weird Al Yankovic on for multiple projects. The first of which will be a feature length movie. The world (or at least me and a few like-minded folks) have been waiting for another Weird Al movie since the genius that was UHF.
Try to hold in the insanity until then, and don’t forget to Dare to Be Stupid!
I’m not going to complain about my job. I like my job. I am happy I am employed. But I’m allowed to dream, aren’t I?
I dream of one day be employed in a position that pays well for something I know for sure I’m really good at. That presupposes that I CAN be really good at something but I think well enough of myself to assume that part of the equation.
My dream goes something like this: I sitting at work figuring out the proper regression line to apply to term life insurance rates. As an actuary, I am WELL compensated for this type of thing and the fact that the company is making money makes me happy. Apparently deep down, I’m a company man through and through. I wouldn’t want to go into the health insurance field because that would make me feel guilty – having to jack rates every year just to make ends meet.
Anyhoo…I decide one day that I want to go on vacation so I put in for time off right away because I know I have enough money to do it and I know I have enough vacation time to do it and this is AT THE SAME TIME so I do it. Repeatedly. Over the course of a couple decades. Until one day I retire. Without worrying about money or the price of healthcare because all along I had enough time outside of work to exercise and stay healthy thereby keeping term life insurance rates down for everyone.
We here at ovrnite.com have compiled a new television-related and themed version of alignments. You, of course, are familiar with the nine classic Dungeons & Dragons alignments. From Lawful Good through Neutral to Chaotic Evil, we apply these personality types to TV characters.
Lawful Good – Picard
Neutral Good – Bones
Chaotic Good – House
Lawful Neutral – The Ancients
True Neutral – Bender
Chaotic Neutral – Bugs Bunny
Lawful Evil – Dexter
Neutral Evil – Benjamin Linus
Chaotic Evil – Sylar
Again, if you can easily identify all of the above references and give good reasons why they are appropriate, you may be watching too much TV. If you can think of even better examples of each alignment type, then you’re definitely watching too much TV.
After a little break, we return with even more characters from the classic Dungeon & Dragon alignment set. The lawful good character is the typical hero character that stands for truth, justice, and the Krynn way. There are still many variations that can occur within the confines of these goody-two-shoes characters.
Superman – His power resides in that one curl of hair
Batman – But only the TV show version (BAM!!)
Mufasa – Oooohh! Say it again!
Atticus Finch – Doesn’t get any more lawful or good than this
Optimus Prime – Autobots, roll out!
God – Kind of the definition
In my latest and most recent entry into examples of the classic Dungeons and Dragons alignments, I bring you true neutral.
These are the types of characters that will give you a definite maybe. Although some may adopt a “I’ll leave you alone if you leave me alone” attitude, others are just above the arguments of lesser beings. See you next, maybe.
Switzerland – If you won’t fight against Nazis, you won’t fight against anybody.
Doctor Manhattan – Truly does not care, not even about wearing clothes.
Kaminoans – Cloning is cool; everything else, meh.
Treebeard – “I am not altogether on anybody’s side.”
Rick Blaine – “I stick out my neck for nobody.”
Jet – “I don’t know, and I have no opinion.”
Neutral President – “If I don’t make it, tell my wife ‘Hello’.”
Continuing on with the previous theme of examples of the classic D&D alignments brings us to today’s topic of Chaotic Good. This has to be one of the strangest alignments that the game has to offer. I would always imagine someone randomly roaming the countryside performing random acts of kindness. My previous example of the Chaotic Good alignment was Minsc. This may be too obscure for the masses. He was a character in the Baldur’s Gate video game series who was hit over the head too often, carried a miniature giant space hamster, and like to yell, “Butt kicking for goodness.”
Here are some more examples:
V for Vendetta – “Governments should be afraid of their people”
The Mythbusters – “Seeking the truth AND blowing stuff up”
House – “It’s not lupus”
Wolverine – “Do the right thing, even if you have to kill EVERYONE”
Bilbo Baggins – “I may be a burglar, but I am an honest one, I hope, more or less.”
The Incredible Hulk – “Hulk SMASH!!!”
Mary Poppins – “Mary Poppins, practically perfect in every way”
The A-Team – “Pitying fools since 1983″
With even more popularity for the inspirational posters or motivational posters with funny captions, we will be reviewing some other options for chaotic evil characters. The type of characters that do bad stuff without warning. Being mean and destroying stuff just for the heck of it.
Alex from A Clockwork Orange – “Real horrorshow”
Hannibal the Cannibal – “I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti”
The Joker – “Why so serious?”
Norman Bates – “A boy’s best friend is his mother”
Caligula – “Let them hate us so long as they fear us”
The Crimson King – “Ya ken?”
Now that I’ve spent the better part of the last two hours reading through a thoroughly funny comic strip about trying to DM the classic Lord of the Rings, I think that I’ve come across one of the funniest pages in the extremely long series.
I recommend starting at the beginning.
But this one is really funny.
True, so very true.
Monty Python reference (one of many).
Mario reference.
Beings that it is coming up on Talk Like A Pirate Day, I was doing a little musing. If Han Solo was a smuggler (pirate), and Chewie was his first mate, shouldn’t Harrison Ford have brought a little more “mateys” and “arrghs” to the role. Or maybe, just maybe, Chewbacca’s pirate accent was so heavy that it came out in his trademarked roars.
Makes you think, huh?
I’m excited! I just learned a new word. Not only is it new to me – it’s really, REALLY new. And no, I didn’t make it up. I read it on CNN so it must be out there. I looked up the definition in wikipedia so it’s been around at least long enough for someone to put an article in there about it.
It’s ‘exurb’.
Let me use it in a sentence for you.
‘Gilbert is an exurb so it takes a lot of time to people to drive to work but they can afford the gas.’