Yes. And if you spelled it Forth it would be even more of a Nerd test. :)

Everything is relative!

My conceptual relativity is more like Steve Reeves vrs Mighty Mouse.

See? Clear as mud....

In terms of arms this is like Don Knots vs Pee Wee Herman.

Hey, my arms look pretty good compared to that T-Rex freak!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8l-e...

I am just picturing a toothy-grinning, tiny armed allosaurus caricature saying this!

Me dino gad yo tink tat yay..

I'll have to say I think I saw Airplane before the earlier movies, so Leslie was cast as a comic actor for me first.

It is a little like seeing George Peppard in the Blux Max after watching seasons of the A-Team in the 80s!

Agree with you re "The Day the Earth Stood Still".

Ah, poor old Leslie Nielsen. He was a hero, in some movies, a villain in others, but found a new career as a comic actor. He was so good at it because he was cast against type. "Airplane" still stands out as one of the silliest and yet funniest movies ever made. I only have to think about a few of its scenes in order to get a smile. As to "Forbidden Planet" it was in its day a jaw dropping experience. But "The Day The Earth Stood Still" was the one that grabbed me the most.

The party is tonight. As much as we want to be calendrically correct, we need a day off to recover when this bunch gets together.

A few months ago I saw a SciFi movie with minimal CGI that was miraculous. I was hoping to see it get more distribution but it did get an Acadamy Award nod for something or another. It's called "Ex Machina" and if you haven't seen it, I urge you to find it and see it. It is not only entertaining, but a lesson in how to make a great film without destroying a city. Also falling into that category, but not quite as good except for a performance by John Goodman is "10 Cloverlawn Place." Films like those prove that you don't need an hour of explosions, destructions and monsters to make a movie that piques the imagination.

Agree re CGI. Now too much action and too little plot.

Forbidden Planet is a great movie! I have trouble taking the captain seriously nowadays though. Keep expecting him to say "Stop calling me Shirley" or something.

How did the "Revenge of the Fifth" work out?

Yes, yes, yes, a thousand times YES!. Back when UFOs dangled from strings, gorgeous girls with little clothing and purple hair were on Moonbase...

Microsoft moment...when the little blue line underneath tells you it's an "an" not an "as" (or ass). But it is their logic, and never seems to make any sense...so, just throw it out the way you want, and let everyone figure out what it was supposed to be. More interesting...

Data was Feb 2. Love it.

Anakin as a child; Yoda; Padme. In a different Universe, it would be Data.

Go get EM herb !

Of course. My love for SciFi goes all the way back starting with Jules Verne and Herbert G. Wells, then -- Heinlein, VanVogt, Poul Anderson etc. Then came really good movies like The Day The Earth Stood Still (not the new version) The Thing, Forbidden Planet. There was a long dry spell for a while and then Star Trek, Star Wars and my cup sloppeth over. But I must admit that CGI is so good that it's actually getting repetitively boring.

Trekkie too?

Didn't think about those connections. Love RPN, but never did FORTH. No one is going to make a day for a constitutional amendment limiting the powers of government again

Awesome! What is your fav character?

Good birthday, but I like February because it is the reply unique month.

I have an entirely nerdish family.
The 4th is always with us, even though it was long ago bringing us into a faraway galaxy for the first time.

I never had the mind for LISP but did write some FORTH programs which also take a special state of mind having to manage a stack as with the HP reverse Polish calculators. I thought the shirt might be referencing the fourth amendment or a misspelling of the FORTH language.