What happened?

Originally Posted by lunaticccc

sorry, don't understand yarn, what do you mean by mentioning it?
and, was your comment sarcastic to my comment or..?
//just asking, i'm pretty tired and don't understand always everything in english, especially when you use rolleyes smiley (folks use it here when they get bored by someone's posting) so i get confused

Originally Posted by stratman

If I may be so bold as to answer for big B:

Yarn = a story (an old English slang term)

Boab was teasing stcrissie for her apparent unawareness of the 2001 ASO story.

Originally Posted by lunaticccc

it's not hitchhikers stuff
this is real science fiction book, not funny or something like that
good ol stanley made movie, also called 2001. A Space Odyssey with slightly changed script
both are great actually.

Originally Posted by Botley

Also, it's hard NOT to be bored by 2001 when you watch it on a screen less than 25 feet wide.

Originally Posted by Mark Dwyer

All's I know is that Hal is a real bitch man.

Originally Posted by DeathTöngue

Not to nitpick, but Clarke wrote the novel based on the screenplay, not t'other way round. The screenplay was developed from Clarke's short story, The Sentinel, worth reading in its own right.

Originally Posted by stchrissie

He was?

Originally Posted by stratman

If I may be so bold as to answer for big B:

Yarn = a story (an old English slang term)

Boab was teasing stcrissie for her apparent unawareness of the 2001 ASO story.

Originally Posted by Bride of a Bull

Another bad habit this guy got me started on: Sci-Fi. (Anybody want to buy my third set of Asimov's 5-volume Foundation Trilogy?)

Originally Posted by DeathTöngue

Not to nitpick, but Clarke wrote the novel based on the screenplay, not t'other way round. The screenplay was developed from Clarke's short story, The Sentinel, worth reading in its own right.