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Chi Meson
Jun13-09, 09:10 AM
Futurama is coming back.
http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/entertainment/A-New-Future-for-Futurama--and-Maybe-TV.html

I told my wife that our youngest, Ben (That's him <== on my shoulders), is named after Benjamin Franklin.

It's actually so I can call him Bender.
Office_Shredder
Jun13-09, 09:22 AM
Better hope she never finds this thread...
JaredJames
Jun13-09, 10:53 AM
Wouldn't recommend calling him that.

I know it's not correct or anything, but where I come from a 'Bender' is a male homosexual.

Just a FYI on that one.
ExactlySolved
Jun13-09, 02:10 PM
I know it's not correct or anything, but where I come from a 'Bender' is a male homosexual.


These collisions are unavoidable, this one time in grad school we were about to start a final exam and one student (chinese, female) asked another student (British, Male) for "a rubber." The british student replied with a straight face that he didn't have one. At this point the rest of the class (mostly Americans, and all very nervous about the test) started to laugh at what we perceived as an absurd, bizarre exchange, and the puzzled expressions on the foreigners faces only made more absurd. It turns out that in UK slang a 'rubber' is a rubber pencil eraser, but in US slang a 'rubber' is a rubber condom!
Cyrus
Jun13-09, 02:26 PM
Futurama is coming back.
http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/entertainment/A-New-Future-for-Futurama--and-Maybe-TV.html

I told my wife that our youngest, Ben (That's him <== on my shoulders), is named after Benjamin Franklin.

It's actually so I can call him Bender.

I call him bono because he looks like him in that picture with the green swim goggles.
Chi Meson
Jun13-09, 04:50 PM
I call him bono because he looks like him in that picture with the green swim goggles.

No, that was Simon. Simon is the nicest guy you will ever meet. Ben is terrifying.
Pengwuino
Jun13-09, 07:09 PM
Finally, there will be something worth watching on TV :)
CINA
Jun13-09, 09:27 PM
I read the title in the professor's voice and instantly knew it was something about futurama.
qntty
Jun13-09, 10:10 PM
I read the title in the professor's voice and instantly knew it was something about futurama.

Same here. In fact, Farnsworth has been narrating this entire thread for me.