Post your funny pictures here!!! part Deux

[Hydra009]

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Great line as an ice breaker.

[Hydra009]

[Cassia]

I swear some managers would hold meetings just to feel like they contribute and also to showboat their authority. The same empty-headed handful of employes would manufacture meaningless, suck-up questions and most of us just watch to show thinking well...this is another waste of time.

[Hydra009]

[the_antithesis]

I swear some managers would hold meetings just to feel like they contribute and also to showboat their authority. The same empty-headed handful of employes would manufacture meaningless, suck-up questions and most of us just watch to show thinking well...this is another waste of time.

"They're all just sat there pushing bullshit around the room like dung beetles"
~Karl Pilkington

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Poor corporate America. I worked for State Farm Insurance Co. for a few years, the pyramid was quite well in place there. BUT it was nothing compared to the military. Some how, during my twenty years on active duty, I avoided a court-martial for "disrespect". Liked to skate on the edge of actually calling some officer an idiot.

"Sir, we could do it that way but we're too far from land to walk home. Let's try shutting down the machinery before we work on it."

[the_antithesis]

Found the clip, finally.

[Hydra009]

Imho, fan fiction is always a combination of two things: 1) an addition to already existing characters/setting 2) amateur (which implies non-commercial)

So no, most of those examples are not actually fan fiction.  Writers can and always have been using ripping each other off and/or inspiring each other (the difference between the two is largely a matter for the courts to decide)

Even stuff directly referencing other works isn't fan fiction if the characters/setting are unique or if the writer is a professional and getting paid for it.

[Nobody]

So, the Stephen Baxter audiobook that I just finished listening to, The Time Ships, isn't a fan fiction of H. G. Wells's The Time Machine? Makes sense to me. It's way too good to be considered fan fiction.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I wrote fanfic for WWII. "How I defeated the Nazis single handed."

[Nobody]

That should be "single handedly."
😉

[Gawdzilla Sama]

My Engrish mo betta yous bee!

[Nobody]

Sounds like Jar Jar! 🤣

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Dank ewe.