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[Parsely]

At work today, I found the book that Shamalan ripped the plot of The Village from. I am increasingly coming to question why they ever let that man near film sets in the first place.

Simon & Schuster, publishers of the 1995 young adults' book Running Out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix, claimed that the film had stolen ideas from the book. The book had a plot which features a village whose inhabitants are secretly forced to live in the 1830s when the year is actually 1996. The plot of Shyamalan's movie had several similarities to the book. They both involve a village, which is actually a park in the present day (Shyamalan uses a late nineteenth-century village), have young heroines on a search for medical supplies, and both have adult leaders bent on keeping the children in their village from discovering the truth. In Haddix's novel, the truth is that the village is a genetic experiment; in the movie, that the adults had decided to withdraw from the outside world.

[Loud Whispers]

What a tweest

[Lord Shonus]

At work today, I found the book that Shamalan ripped the plot of The Village from. I am increasingly coming to question why they ever let that man near film sets in the first place.

Simon & Schuster, publishers of the 1995 young adults' book Running Out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix, claimed that the film had stolen ideas from the book. The book had a plot which features a village whose inhabitants are secretly forced to live in the 1830s when the year is actually 1996. The plot of Shyamalan's movie had several similarities to the book. They both involve a village, which is actually a park in the present day (Shyamalan uses a late nineteenth-century village), have young heroines on a search for medical supplies, and both have adult leaders bent on keeping the children in their village from discovering the truth. In Haddix's novel, the truth is that the village is a genetic experiment; in the movie, that the adults had decided to withdraw from the outside world.

That would be the one. I'd never heard of it before.

[majikero]

Our microwave randomly starts shitting sparks and there are no dead rats behind it.

[Orange Wizard]

there are no dead rats behind it.

Is this a normal thing for microwaves?

[Parsely]

^^^

What a tweest

[Eric Blank]

Our toaster-oven tends to collect dead insects rather than rodents. Are you sure the electrical outlet is properly installed?

[hops]

0/10 would not rat again

[Mictlantecuhtli]

What a tweest

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[Yoink]

Just sat down with my Vegemite toast and turned on my PS3, saw that I'd received a message.
Take a bite of toast and open it up, it's the Vegemite song. From a username I don't think I've ever seen before.

[majikero]

It's a message from the toast obviously.

[Descan]

* Descan steeples fingers and sits back, shutting down Yoinks webcam.

[TamerVirus]

As a non Australian, that begs the question. whatdoes Vegemite even taste like?

[TD1]

As a non Australian, that begs the question. whatdoes Vegemite even taste like?

+1

[hops]

They're kind of like liquid saltine turned up to eleven.