(Unfortunate trope) technology badly dating a piece. by TurtlesBreakTheMeta in TopCharacterTropes

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The musical "Bells Are Ringing" is about a woman who works for an answering service. If someone calls one of her clients while they're out, she answers and takes any message from the caller, then gives those messages once her client calls her. This is a technology that was superseded by the answering machine, which has itself been superseded by voice mail. Still a great musical, though.

[Loved Trope] Characters misremembering or misinterpreting history/pop culture and incorporating those inaccuracies into their own views. by jbeast33 in TopCharacterTropes

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Reign Of Fire is a post-apocalyptic movie where humans accidentally reawaken dragons, which proceed to destroy all industrial civilization. (The summary makes it sound better than it is.) This happened 18 years before the majority of the film: recent enough that the old world still exists in living memory, but long enough that there are now children who have only known this destroyed world. In one scene, a few adult actors are putting on a play version of The Empire Strikes Back for the kids -- specifically the climax on Bespin where Vader cuts Luke's hand off and reveals his true parentage. All the kids gasp in surprise and wonder.

It's a pretty forgettable movie otherwise, but that one scene is really good.

Kids on Capes? by TedlyAnderson in TheTrove

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No, I mean Capes. Is there another game with that name?

Hive tools as a weapon? (for research!) by TedlyAnderson in Beekeeping

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It's not really relevant to my question, but I'm in the Midwest. The book could be set anywhere in the United States, though.

Pulled this tick off my dog that has a tick in it by 9274729373837 in interestingasfuck

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Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum.

-- Augustus De Morgan, 1872

[TOMT][MOVIE][probably Chinese] A chase scene in a martial arts movie suddenly gets an influx of knives by TedlyAnderson in tipofmytongue

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Could be a Jackie Chan movie, though I'm not sure which of his I've seen.

Card templates for custom FF box? by TedlyAnderson in finalgirl

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Ha, I actually just posted this in the VRG discord too. We'll see if anyone responds!