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Here.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

HMMMMMMM.
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies

Is it natural to have wood after seeing that?

Ed Brubaker pointed something out on his Twitter feed a few days ago. Did none of the Corps realize that the guy named Sinestro was a bad guy?
Ebony the Black Dragon
http://ebony14.livejournal.com

"Good night, and may the Good Lord take a Viking to you."

Just like how "I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle" is a horrendous insult in some languages, Sinestro must be a terribly common name (like John Smith, or something) on some other world.

Mark Skarr Wrote:Just like how "I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle" is a horrendous insult in some languages, Sinestro must be a terribly common name (like John Smith, or something) on some other world.

Maybe he's just left-handed....
Ebony the Black Dragon
http://ebony14.livejournal.com

"Good night, and may the Good Lord take a Viking to you."

loving the actor they got for Sinestro and the costume dosn't look so goofy when you see it in action, rather than in a bunch of still shots.

and yeah, was a little leary about Ryan Renolds as Hal Jordan, not so much anymore.

Uh, I thought "Sinestro" was an assumed name, which the man in question took up after being kicked out of the GLC for going crazy and evil. Was I wrong, or is the film just taking liberties with comic canon?

He's an alien, what does he know of Latin root words in Terran languages?
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll

Proginoskes Wrote:Uh, I thought "Sinestro" was an assumed name, which the man in question took up after being kicked out of the GLC for going crazy and evil. Was I wrong, or is the film just taking liberties with comic canon?

It's been a while since I've read Emerald Dawn (the modernization of Hal's origin), but I'm fairly certain that he's Sinestro all the way through. *checks Wiki* Yes, he's listed as "Thaal Sinestro."
The actor in the film, by the way, is Mark Strong, who has evidently become in demand lately. He was the villain in "Sherlock Holmes" and "Kick Ass."
  
Ebony the Black Dragon
http://ebony14.livejournal.com

"Good night, and may the Good Lord take a Viking to you."

So it's a coincidental cognate that has only accidental relevance to an old Earth language.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

Bob Schroeck Wrote:So it's a coincidental cognate that has only accidental relevance to an old Earth language.

I still find myself wondering if he happens to be left-handed. I think that would be a nice Easter Egg (for lack of a better term) for the artists at DC to throw in.
  
Ebony the Black Dragon
http://ebony14.livejournal.com

"Good night, and may the Good Lord take a Viking to you."

Bob Schroeck Wrote:So it's a coincidental cognate that has only accidental relevance to an old Earth language.

Much like how every species in The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy has created a drink called "ginandtonic", with no two of those drinks matching...
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

saw the trailer on the big screen tonight when I saw 'Hannah' (five word review - 'meh, really'), my date was all "I don't get it".

There's your sign.
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies