There can be only ONE!!

[MrScorpio]

[Connonym]

1. Oh how I'd love to get a peak under his kilt

I need to rewatch that movie, it's been a long time since I've seen it

[Kutjara]

2. And that one would just have to be an alleged...

...Scots clansman with an unaccountably French accent, wouldn't it?

Which, I suppose, gives Sean Connery playing a Spanish swashbuckler with a Scottish accent a kind of bizarre symmetry.

[MrScorpio]

5. Not Spanish

He played an Egyptian

[Kutjara]

6. With a name like...

Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez, I'm pretty sure he was supposed to be Spanish.

[MrScorpio]

7. It's a line from the movie

Of course, MacLeod did accuse him of being a liar just before he was rocked off the boat.

[Kutjara]

8. Ah, I didn't catch that.

Although I suppose Connery makes just as unconvincing an Egyptian as he does a Spaniard.

on edit: I just did a bit of Wikipedia-ing and found this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Sanchez_Villa-Lobos_Ramirez. Which explains the Egyptian origin quite nicely. :hi:

[SeattleGirl]

3. Sorry about this, but I couldn't resist:

[ghostsofgiants]

4. ...

[MrScorpio]

9. Who wants to live forever?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbKSvhRovQs

[lildreamer316]

10. I have that exact poster on my wall not 5 feet behind me.

Good call.
I like Adrian Paul too...I think he did the idea justice.

[Lady Freedom]

11. Heres the REAL Highlander!

:evilgrin:

[Perseid]

12. I am the Alpha and the Omega. crap

I shoulda just been the Alpha. crap.

[Dr. Strange]

13. Aw jeez, not this fallacy again...

From the Wiki:

There can be only one highlander is the name for a fallacy of equivocation and question begging coined by ohiosmith in his 1975 book Ponderances About Thinking – or why do I have to be right all the fucking time?:

Imagine Mr Scorpio McDonald, a Scotsman, sitting down with his prono mag and seeing an article about how the "DU Sex Maniac tries to become the Highlander Again." Mr Scorpio is shocked and declares that "There can be only one." The next day he sits down to read his porno mag again and this time finds an article about a Freeper who wants to be a highlander too. This fact shows that Mr Scorpio was wrong in his opinion but is he going to admit this? Not likely. This time he says, "Seriously dude, there can be only one."

ohiosmith's original example may be softened into the following:

Argument: "There can be only one."
Reply: "But all my cousins are highlanders."
Rebuttal: "Aye, but seriously dude, there can be only one."

This form of argument is an informal fallacy if the predicate ("there can be only one" or "seriously, dude, there can be only one") is not actually contradictory for the accepted definition of the subject ("highlander"), or if the definition of the subject is silently adjusted after the fact to make the rebuttal work.

[MrCoffee]

14. would that i could recommend this

:rofl:

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

15. One, huh?

:shrug:


:wtf:


:banghead:


:P

(There should have been only one. The movie was great on its own)

[unpossibles]

18. so true

a friend of mine, upon seeing the last movie, stood up and said "there should have been only one!" at the end and was applauded.

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

19. When Mcleod started talking about "Planet Zeist" in Highlander 2 I think I literally said

"What the fuck?" aloud in the theater.

The "Highlander 2 Renegade Edition" didn't fix things, either. Instead of aliens, now they're time travelers.

Again, :wtf:

(And fixing Highlander 3 would have been easy. Add a single line about that sorcerer the Kurgan-wanna-be killed at the beginning had the power to remove themselves from the "gathering". Or the cave protected them from the said "gathering" in New York. See? Easy solution. And you don't negate the first movie by doing so.)

The best solution would have been to not capitulate to greed and make four more movies and two television series.
Just sayin'

[leeroysphitz]

16. At least until the confusing and disjointed sequel. NT

[sakabatou]

17. THIS IS SPARTAAAAA~!