User:RPickman

I was a fairly regular, if inept,contributor here at one time (mostly in Films, with occasional forays into TV shows). These days I pop in once in a great while to do some cleanup work or just check out the progress that's been made.

Pages I created or unstubbed
28 Days Later - Black Hawk Down - Buffy the Vampire Slayer (film) - Conspiracy Theory - Daredevil - Dogma - Ed Wood - Galaxy Quest - Grosse Pointe Blank - Just Like Heaven - The Magnificent Seven - Mystery Men - The Pirates of Penzance - The Punisher - The Tick (live-action) - True Grit - We Were Soldiers - X-Men - X-Men 2 - Zulu

Pages I fiddled with to a lesser degree
Casablanca - Dawn of the Dead - A Few Good Men - Field of Dreams - The Godfather - William "Bull" Halsey - The Incredibles - Life of Brian - Lost - The Professional - William Tecumseh Sherman - Sin City - Sky High - Watchmen - Wayne's World - The Wizard of Oz

Some favorite quotes

 * "Punching in and out is part of your job duties, and will no longer be tolerated." ~ memo posted by HR at my former employer
 * "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread." ~ God (Genesis 3:19, King James version)
 * "Thou art no more than a pismire; why then wilt thou provoke the elephant?" ~ Timur, aka Tamerlane (attributed by Persian historian Shereffeddin)
 * "It happens sometimes. People just explode." ~ female agent in the film Repo Man
 * "Our scars have the power to remind us that the past is real." ~ Hannibal Lecter in the film Red Dragon [doesn't appear in the book]
 * "Between policy-makers in the capital and realities in the field lies an eternal gap whitened by the bones of failed and futile efforts." ~ Barbara Tuchman in Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45