Ahhh, a 'sleet bomb'.

Often confused with a shit bomb a.k.a. a toilet seat.

I remember at least to old sci-fi stories, that involved radiation bombs, called 'sleet bombs', and a couple that reffered to radiation as 'sleet'.

Ah, fake slang.

I wonder. A lot of home made terrorist bombs are made with sugar and chemical fertilizer. If you'd literally translate a bomb of that sort to English would there be some that translate to Shit bomb?

I have no clue, lol.

To give an example in Dutch chemical fertilizer translates to"kunst mest". This translates back literally to English as "art manure".

Wow.

On the subject of gamma bombs, isn't it interesting (and irritating!) that despite two Incredible Hulk movies plus one TV series, not one of them uses the 'gamma bomb' origin story established in the comics.

I mean, isn't that a bit like doing a Batman movie in which Bruce Wayne is a blue-collar guy and his parents are still alive?!

Neither Hulk movie seemed satisfactory an any level, though it has to be said that the second was far better then the first, and that the Hulk was a loser as comics go anyway.

One curious detail of the second movie is that a lot of the fight scenes were staged here in Toronto. Some in the quadrant at the U. of T. and others in High Park, a long walk from my apartment. What was funny about the shooting was that they'd cut from one location to another. Any Torontonian would have to laugh, because we all know the U. of T. and High Park are several miles apart.

Reminds me of how the Jackie Chan movie Rumble in the Bronx was actually filmed in -- well, I think that was Toronto too; sure as heck wasn't the Bronx!

This kind of locational / geographical muddle happens in many movies, though. They completely mess around with London and the River Thames at the start of the Bond films For Your Eyes Only and The World is not Enough, for example.

Hollywood was never anything but an edifice of lies.

Oh, rest assured it pre-dates Hollywood -- it's as old as cinema itself! For example the 1899 British film A Kiss in the Tunnel, which consisted just of a shot of a real train going into a tunnel, then cut to a kissing couple on a studio set, made up to look like a railway carriage with blacked-out windows.

We talk about "the magic of movies", but "mendacity" would be more accurate...

I was listening to the soundtrack of Cats Don't Dance while working on uploading the cards -- much as I love the movie, one thing I was never comfortable with was the exaltation of Hollywood as a land of Dreams Come True and Glamour. Shit. Most "Danny Kats" only find out they have less talent than a bent copper penny, and end up back in Kokomo. Those who succeed are not always those who merit it most either. Maybe they slept around to get ahead. And what do you suppose ought to have happened to Danny after interupting the shooting of "Littles Ark Anglel?" He deserved to be tossed out of the studio on his ear. Time is money, and even an idiot should have realized that they weren't shooting a film with Danny the Moron as the star. He was upstaging Darla, a box-office earner, and that was all. I'd have blacklisted him in the industry from Burbank to Bollywood.

I had the (mis?)fortune of encountering various Rule-34 parodies of Cats Don't Dance well before I ever saw the movie itself.

Now, thanks to those darn furries, I can't watch it without simultaneously imagining Sawyer getting gang-banged, or turned to stone, or...