*busts up laughing*

[phosfate]

Have found a Men in Black site whose owner is outraged, OUTRAGED by both the absence of Elle and the upgrade of the POS. Yes, she is PROUD TO BE MERCEDES-FREE! With multiple animated GIFs, she is proud!

Evildoers tremble.

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To her I say, "subtext, dipshit"

[paradisacorbasi.livejournal.com]

I admit I missed Elle, too, but --

A black man who makes good used to buy a Cadillac. Now a black man who makes good, buys a Mercedes.

When Jay took over as top agent for MiB from Kay, he was a black man who made good, so of course the new hotness had to be a Mercedes...

...even if it ended up as the old busted hotness.

[wednesday]

URRRRRL

Re: To her I say, "subtext, dipshit"

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

*snerk!*

A white girl who makes good buys a Volkswagon in a Website-exclusive color, then goes on and on about how it runs surprisingly well in the snow.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

herrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrre:

http://www.mibhq.com/

Lots of cool stuff, actually (animation sketches!). Shame about the bile.

Delia97 thanks you for being rude.

[(Anonymous)]

Hi, thanks for being rude--- and your information as well as rude posts will be publically mocked by a team of robots and a human on a Satellite orbiting Earth.

It's not as if people can't track you online. I found you easily :)


Aron
a.k.a Agent Delia97
www.mibhq.com

Re: To her I say, "subtext, dipshit"

[delia97.livejournal.com]

ACTUALLY--- your theorem is incorrect.

Mercedes replaced the 1986 Black Ford LTD (Crown Victotia Police package) because they had the highest bribe, at more than a million dollars, to be placed in the movie. It's called Commercialism, and since MIB 1 came out on July 2nd, 1997, companies have been vying to be tied into the successful and lucrative market with the trade names MIB Men In Black and the like.

-Aron
a.k.a Agent Delia97
www.mibhq.com

Too Bad

[(Anonymous)]

The owner of this site has harmed no one. Those who can, do. Those who don't, teach. Those who can't, make fun of others. I've seen this site and you sound jealous. If the thought of someone having fun without any thanks to you is so disturbing, you'd better stay with your mommy little girl, you're not ready for the real world. You must not even have a job.

Re: To her I say, "subtext, dipshit"

[delia97.livejournal.com]

So sorry, girlfriend--- No VW internet edition here.

College costs money--- and I don't have the luxary of actually owning a car. I do have the comfort in knowing when I'm part of a film crew in the future--- depending on where I excel in my field of study, I can sit back and laugh my ass off at shallow people like you.

Thanx!
-Aron
a.k.a Agent Delia97
www.mibhq.com

Ok yeah--- what's with this fad of assosciating races and automobiles? Would have thought the human race would be beyond this by now. Go figure!

[delia97.livejournal.com]

I'll send your compliments of the sketches to the 3rd season producer and the background Designer for MIB The Animated Series.

As for bile?

I haven't thrown up in some time.

I think you may have me confused with someone else.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Er..."tracked" me in what sense? I'm confused. I've been exactly here.

Your site is lovely. Your outrage is hilarious, and your xenophobia is...unfortunate.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Heartiest congratulations on your continued digestive health.

Re: Too Bad

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Gosh, courageous anonymous poster, thanks for sharing. While your willingness to stand up for (I assume) your friend is entirely admirable, I'm afraid your premise is faulty. I have every admiration for the site in question, and indeed have already said so. Delia's hard work is evident, and her collection of materials broad. It's comprehensive and easy to navigate. I am not envious - I've got my own stuff to do - but I am very impressed.

I am also, on the whole, in favor of fun for everyone on the planet, whether I am present or not.

None of this, however, means that I'm not allowed to mock yet another in a long line of dorky outraged fannish animated gifs - hers are not the first, nor will they be the last - or take exception to a statement that I find doofy and insulting on multiple levels.

Re: To her I say, "subtext, dipshit"

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

I'm not quite sure why you think a joke about Volkswagons is directed at you, but I assure you that you were not in any way the subject.

I hope that you do well in whatever field you choose, though you may be in for some disappointment if you consider film to be a career exclusively populated by persons of depth.

Yeah, race and automobile...sad, I agree. In a better world, the joke would've been beneath me - but then, in a better world, you would've gotten it. But you post statements associating race and animation, so we all have our crosses to bear.

Re: To her I say, "subtext, dipshit"

[finabair.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah, they run GREAT in the snow!!! I can't speak to the current ones but the 70s models were FABULOUS for these fun little sideways maneuvers that you really couldn't do as precisely in ANY other model car...

Re: To her I say, "subtext, dipshit"

[finabair.livejournal.com]

True enough about the product placement, but the move wouldn't have happened had it not *also* made sense character-wise. Meaning both "theories" would be correct.

Re: I think you may have me confused with someone else.

[finabair.livejournal.com]

Maybe she followed you through that elevator thingy to the secret HQ?

Hee!!!!

[finabair.livejournal.com]

Those who don't, teach. Those who can't, make fun of others.

Others such as teachers?

Suggestion, which I feel obliged to make but which, if you take it, will make you/your friend less entertaining: Take the compliment for what it is, and understand that universal praise is frequently false; sometimes folks will honestly tell you what they *don't* like about your work, and in the end that's usually the more valuable feedback. It's easy to say you just love something unconditionally if you haven't actually looked at it, or if you don't care whether it could be improved upon. So if someone actually mentions what they *don't* like, take the gift for what it is. You don't have to change to conform to their viewpoints, but at least you know what some of your audience is thinking.

[strawberrythief.livejournal.com]

Like rolling 'em over!

I still remember my 1973 Bug with horrifying clarity. I touched the backseat frame once and got an electric shock from the battery.

Re: I think you may have me confused with someone else.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

WE'VE GOT A BREACH! CODE 101!

Re: Hee!!!!

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

I thought it was "...those who can't teach, teach gym."

I love you, Agent Jaye.

Re: To her I say, "subtext, dipshit"

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

It's just a darn shame that MIIB couldn't be the pure, product-placement-free work of art that MIB was.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

O_o

That would be alarming.

Does anybody know if the new VWs float?

I SIILL say, "subtext, dipshit"

[paradisacorbasi.livejournal.com]

I wasn't speaking to outstory reasoning. I was speaking of instory reasoning. A good filmmaker doesn't just give no reason for major changes in the tenets of the universe. The black car with all the hypermods is a tenet of the universe, and since Benz won the bid, the story was adjusted accordingly to allow for its presence.

Thus, instory reasoning, they allowed for the "black man makes good, gets Mercedes" thing with the whole 'automatic pilot' scene. "It came with a black dude, but he kept getting pulled over." It is another reference to the "black man makes good" phenom. The authorities tend to think a black man with a Mercedes has either stolen the car in question or is a drug dealer.

I know perfectly well it was about who could put the most money on the table, thanks. Hello -- it's a movie. Movies come from Hollywood, the moneywanging capital of the world. That just isn't what I was talking about.

Okay, then.

Re: I STILL say, "subtext, dipshit"

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Shhh! You'll harsh her indignant purity mellow, maaaaaaan!

[finabair.livejournal.com]

I think my fondest memory is the way only the legs of the people in the backseat ever got any heat, and their legs were in fact being slow-roasted rather than simply warmed. To this day I sometimes have to be reminded that I can turn the heat on and warm up the car without hurting anyone...

They wouldn't roll if you slid them gently sideways up against a snowbank, which was how I parked mine in winter, but otherwise, yeah, they were almost as bad as an SUV is now. They also had the aerodynamics of a ball of tin foil, which was my biggest problem with them. Strong gusts from the wrong direction could pick them *right* up.

On the plus side, they were very easy to move by yourself if you had any trouble, because they were relatively lightweight. I could push mine while steering it through the open window (and did that, a couple of times!) My current car prolly has lots more plastic and it's harder to do that with. They also were relatively easy to fix yourself. (Won't go into the time I snapped the spark plug off while trying to remove it...that wasn't exactly a normal maintenance problem.)