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At the old Disney Hyperion Studio, the screening room where animators would show animated scenes to Walt for his approval was small, with no ventilation or AC. Not only was it hot, but the animators were nervously awaiting Walt's reaction to their work. Thus, the room became known as the Sweatbox. Even after the Studio moved to Burbank and elegant screening rooms were offered to the staff, the moniker remained.
Now SGT has a sweatbox of our own. This is the place to find and post all entertaining topics such as video links, jokes, games, and the like. A general rule of thumb is that if the thread is meant to be informative (interesting news stories for example), or a topic for discussion (like setting up a park meet) then it should go in the Break Room, but if the intent is to entertain the masses then it's home is The Sweatbox. I'm sure there will be grey areas at times, so if you have doubt as to where a new thread should go, just use your best judgement and the SGT Staff will be glad to move it later if you guessed wrong.
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shilohmm
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by shilohmm » Thu Dec 08, 2011 1:22 pm
Big Wallaby wrote:
Uh, buddy. There were no deaths, thank God. So physical damage is all there was.
That was my thought as well. So now I get to sue people for something that "might have" happened, but didn't? I'd love to invoke that right against some maniac drivers who were clearly doing something stupid and illegal that might have killed me if I hadn't had good reflexes. But using it against someone who was following the rules of safety as best they could? I don't think so.
But I was surprised at the depth of animosity against the Mythbusters and the show itself in some of the comment threads. I think it's a great show that has interested many kids in the scientific process, myself, and also regularly makes the point that the "inherently obvious" isn't always true, a valuable lesson, IMHO.
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GRUMPY PIRATE
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by GRUMPY PIRATE » Thu Dec 08, 2011 1:52 pm
don't forget, in the world of lawsuits, the one "Precaution" that they failed to take, was to not do the experiment.
and probably any rookie lawyer could argue that they put the entire neighborhood at risk of their lives!
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DonutGoddess
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by DonutGoddess » Thu Dec 08, 2011 2:33 pm
The show may just settle anyway which is probably the whole reason they want to sue.
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