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is there anything you ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW?

One thing I really want to know. That birdseye fishfingers ad, where there are all these animals and a captain on a boat singing that song, 'we want the captain', theres one part that goes like this, 'they're crunchy and golden like peices of ......' and I can never figure out that word! It sounds like eight, or ape or something. The next line is 'out of the oven and onto your plate', so it must be something that ryhmes with plate... It irritates me everytime I hear it.
 
I don't know the song, but I'm going to guess that since it's about Captain Birdseye and all things nautical that the word is "Eight".

The term "Pieces of eight" comes from the the times of American colonies when there was no standard currency. The coin that was in widest use was the Spanish Peso, which was worth 8 Reales or Royals. They used to cut the Peso's into eighths in order to make change. So "Pieces of Eight" became a colloquial term for coinage, and through history and stories got linked to the pirates of the time.

It's just a guess though, as I said, I haven't actually heard the song. :\
 
^^ I think that'd be what they're talking about.

I thought "pieces o' eight" came from Monkey Island? ;)
(man I loved that game).
 
Pop Popavich said:
I don't know the song, but I'm going to guess that since it's about Captain Birdseye and all things nautical that the word is "Eight".

The term "Pieces of eight" comes from the the times of American colonies when there was no standard currency. The coin that was in widest use was the Spanish Peso, which was worth 8 Reales or Royals. They used to cut the Peso's into eighths in order to make change. So "Pieces of Eight" became a colloquial term for coinage, and through history and stories got linked to the pirates of the time.

It's just a guess though, as I said, I haven't actually heard the song. :\
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Hehe :P
 
In the movie Coach Carter..starring Samuel L Jackson...In the state finals where the Richmond Oilers plays La Francis College (top team) who is the NBA prospective player...(not name of the actor) NBA prospect character he is actually playing...?
 
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Actually I'll justify that by saying that it's something that I've always wanted to know, and I'm sure lots of other people did too! Consider it an answer to a question nobody quite got around to asking yet! ;)
 
Yeah I was aware of that. It seems to be taking it's damn time though and I heard something about it being cancelled which would be totally fucked...

Hopefully it doesn't go the way of Duke Nukem Forever...

I really hope it finishes getting made, I think they were planning to release it on consoles too which would be great for me as I hardly ever have access to a computer that is capable of playing the games around at the time...

:)

*Edit* - Just searched and found this: Not sure if it's good or bad news, seems like a strange format having episodic downloads. Hopefully my comp. will play it...

Sam & Max 2 Announced! Again!
September 15, 2005 Posted by Jake

Ha ha, yes! The emotional roller coaster that is Sam & Max sequel news is headed up yet another hill, care of an announcement made tonight by Telltale Games that they have secured the rights to develop a game based on the freelance police.

This is the third attempt to make a followup to 1993's Sam & Max Hit the Road, the first one being an Xbox-bound action/adventure title from now-defunct game studio Infinite Machine, and the second of course being LucasArts' ill-fated attempt at a sequel, Sam & Max Freelance Police. Both of those died before having a chance to live, but here's hoping third time's the charm! Telltale certainly has experience with the characters, as the studio was largely formed from members of the Sam & Max Freelance Police team, who left LucasArts shortly after their game was canned.

The sequel announcement was made at a press event held earlier this evening in San Francisco. The event was aimed mostly at potential investors, discussing Telltale's unique business model and position in the industry, so the Telltale guys and Steve Purcell (who was in attendance) had little to say specifically about the new Sam & Max game other than the fact that it will exist, but that didn't do much to dampen the excitement.

What I do know is that the game is not a continuation of the cancelled "Sam & Max: Freelance Police" sequel that the Telltale team was working on while at LucasArts - this Telltale Sam & Max game is all new, started from scratch. Whether or not we'll see a few familiar locations and characters from what little was released from Freelance Police, though, is yet to be seen. Telltale's Sam & Max game will be released in episodic form, downloadable from their site and other games portals (similar to the approach they're taking with Bone).

To answer a couple other questions up front: Whether or not Mike Stemmle is involved (and what level he is involved if he is involved at all) is not known as far as I can tell, and I forgot to ask whether or not the same voice actors from Sam & Max Hit the Road will be involved.

Official word from Telltale, hopefully including some juicy details, will be appearing in a week or two. Their first installment of their other adventure game, a promising title based on Jeff Smith's popular comic series Bone, is hitting the net in the next couple of days and Telltale wants to focus on that before letting loose the 6 foot canine and 3 foot rabbity thing.
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^^ That has just made me a happy happy man. :D

I was a huge fan of the Lucasarts adventure games, Monkey Island, Sam & Max, Day of the Tentacle and the Indiana Jones games stole an awful lot of my life, but gave oh-so-much in return.

I've been wondering when a new adventure game would come out that would actually be worth playing, because I seriously miss it. Hopefully this will fit that bill. :)
 
^ I don't know if you ever played it but there was another lucasarts game called Grim Fandango that was pretty fucking cool too :)
 
Ahhh yes!! Grim Fandago was awesome!

Controlling the movement and point of view took a bit of getting used to, but once you got that under control it was SO much fun!
 
Pop Popavich said:
I've been wondering when a new adventure game would come out that would actually be worth playing,
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it hasn't quite made it to PC or PSX or Xbox just yet, but if you combine this and this you actually end up with a pretty sweet adventure game.
 
^^ But see I prefer games that actually take a bit of smarts to participate in, and preferably games that you have a chance of winning. ;)
 
:D:D i had a grim fandango t-shirt!!
the game, well.. it's around here somewhere.
fking awesome.
 
omg
you haven't played Sam & Max?!?!?!
you have been seriously deprived of the possibly THE GREATEST COMPUTER GAME EXPERIENCE OF ALL TIME. that game is THE BEST. THE BEST I TELL YOU!!!! Sadism should always be graphically performed by cute and obnoxious bunnies that use big words to express their evil souls!
 
"Quiet, I'm trying to fucking concentrate!"
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"We got the tooth"

"The whole tooth?"

"Nothing but..."
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:)

Hey RaVPup, if you're skilled at finding and download bittorrents none of the old Lucasarts games are that hard to find - including Sam and Max. In fact I think I remember finding a package with all of them including Full Throttle around somewhere.

And thanks to ScummVM; the world's coolest program, you can play them all with sound on a modern computer without the fucking thing crashing.

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I bought a Brownes Berry flavoured milk today with my lunch.

I sat at my desk and opened it, only to see by the packagings handy markings, I'd opened at the wrong end. Derrr.

Why is it they have a prefered end to open from? Why is one side better than the other to drink from? Do the milk companies just like pointing out my idiocy and impatientness by saying 'wrong end stupid' when there isn't really a valid reason for it?
 
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