Many decades...Tarrbot wrote:Certain geeks have been using the term 'unobtainium' for well over a decade.
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I have NO idea what to do with those skinny stringed things... I'm just a bass player...
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I had to look http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unobtainium
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Yup. I remember when Texas race car builder/driver Jim Hall was asked what the chassis of his Chaparral car was fabricated from, "unobtanium" was his answer...cjj wrote:Many decades...Tarrbot wrote:Certain geeks have been using the term 'unobtainium' for well over a decade.
That was in '65.
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Having read the Wiki entry (thanks Scottie!) and understood the "cultural" reference, I'm actually even less impressed by its use in Avatar than I was before....Tarrbot wrote:Certain geeks have been using the term 'unobtainium' for well over a decade.
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It was a bad joke. If it's so unobtainable why was there so much of it?
Anyway, I saw it last Sunday. It was bad. Real bad. Pretty pictures does not make up for a weak rehashed story. I laughed out loud at the plot several times and threw my 3D glasses at the screen when it was over.
Anyway, I saw it last Sunday. It was bad. Real bad. Pretty pictures does not make up for a weak rehashed story. I laughed out loud at the plot several times and threw my 3D glasses at the screen when it was over.
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+1walker wrote:Ouch! Can't win them all, I guess.
