What sort of movie scientist are you?

[jpgray]

[TZ]

1. I dress exclusively in white lab coats..

and nothing else..Oh wait...we aren't talking about real life are we?:blush: :rofl:

[SOteric]

2. Other:

When I take off my lab coat and glasses and let my hair down, my I.Q. lowers by 40 points and I suddenly become attractive to men.

[jpgray]

13. In the fifties, the lab coat and glasses were no defense for lady movie scientists.

[SOteric]

14. I wasn't alive in the fifties, so those rules just bounce right off me.

:patriot:

[TheCentepedeShoes]

19. So right

"What's a woman doing here?" Must have been a required line in any 50's monster flick.

[MrCoffee]

3. Mein Fuhrer! I can walk!

[Forkboy]

8. LOL

:rofl:

[mainegreen]

4. Disheveled scientist living in the woods perfecting his crowning achievement:

The automated nuclear cat dispenser.


edited: spell checker passed 'crowing' when I meant 'crowning' dammit.

[Evoman]

5. I'm the hotshot scientist with fame and money who is hired by the government to deal with the

problem, but then get upstaged by the "out of mainstream" shlub who was "descredited" by me an my egotistical scientist buddies years ago.

[TZ]

6. huh...

Somehow I had you pegged as the first option....:evilgrin:

[Evoman]

10. I'll only try to talk to the monster if their is a possiblity of having hot, man on monster sex with

it.

If it's not busty, has a wang, or there is too much fur to tell, it's tasting the business end of my Neutron-Flux Electolaserometer Gun.

[jpgray]

7. Fuck, I forgot one!

The conservative, "by the book" scientist whose ethical and procedural consideration is worthless next to the reckless maverickry of a "loose cannon" colleague.

[tigereye]

30. that's a classic!

then you have to debate which of those gets eaten....

[Gidney N Cloyd]

9. Where's the scientist who tries his serum/invention on himself

and either inadvertently turns himself into a monster or saves the world?

[jpgray]

11. That's good! There's another like that one:

The scientist who apparently waits for a conveniently dying subject to test an incredibly complex procedure that hasn't gone through any experimental trials whatsoever.

[Turbineguy]

12. I formulated

the concept of the nonreversible intervariant probability ratio.

[XemaSab]

15. I'm the scientist who discovers the Lost World while taking a pee

:shrug:

[Magrittes Pipe]

16. Hell. EVERYTHING I do is solely driven by cliched psychological problems from my past.

:shrug:

[jpgray]

32. So you and I are more like the characters of hack novel writers.

[mitchum]

17. I wouldn't be a mad scientist...more of a peeved or annoyed one

[jpgray]

24. Dr. Carrington?

[Rabrrrrrr]

18. The kind that won't find any room in his heart for caring until just after all life is extinguished

on earth in one of my hatefilled projects to extinguish all life on earth.

The caring, of course, will involve only that I will then realize that there is nothing left to kill, and I should have gone about it a little more slowly.

[jpgray]

20. So you're Harlan Ellison?

[mitchum]

25. I think Ellison would only kill John Gardner (if he weren't already dead)

In Gardner's "On Becoming A Novelist", he presents a passage as an example of hack writing. In the the text, he doesn't attribute the passage to anyone, but if you check the end notes, you will find the passage is by...Ellison.
I don't know what Ellison thought about that, but I can only imagine. Maybe he tinkered with his motorcycle.

[jpgray]

34. That's funny as hell

Harlan's alleged blowups remind me a lot of my first cousin, once removed, Wayne. Guy's a successful landscape painter and has that perfect mix of vanity and insecurity which leads to being "on" a lot of the time and explosive nonsense the rest. Once, before a showing, he tore apart a scale with his bare hands. Apparently he had gained a few pounds. :D Great guy though.

</Mr. Kotter>

[terrya]

21. I dress exclusively in white lab coats. I've always ignored the "no white after Labor Day" thing.

:-)

[jpgray]

36. Designer lab coats really should be -somewhere- on the fashion horizon, no?

:D

[Tikki]

22. I am a social scientist...interested in how someone(s)....

raggedy 'ole self got deposited in or on the ground.


Tikki

[jpgray]

23. To be a movie scientist, you'd have to insist on examining the ominous device the corpse is holding

[Tikki]

26. Ahhh....grave goods....

If you take really good care and careful storage of your cassette tapes...they last forever.
Problem always is about where to find a player.


Tikki

[tigereye]

31. or Scully - she never wears protective mouth or eye gear when she does that

we've been working our way through the X-Files 10 years later...

[Chemical Bill]

27. My lab coat is blue...

but I have quite a past....

Bill

[pokerfan]

28. Dr. Harry Wolper

as played by Peter O'Toole.

[tigereye]

29. husband says he's the guy who climbs the ladder at the end of the Andromeda

strain...


I'll have to parse the poll answers to see where that fits.... :hi:





I'd be the one sitting next to the elders in the long-house trying to avoid drinking some foul brew or something... :rofl: This is why i didn't become an anthropologist, I suspect.

[jpgray]

33. Andromeda Strain is an interesting case, as it has a more accurate depiction of scientists

Granted that's not saying much with regard to movies, but it's something! The surgeon guy does somewhat fit the prototype "emotional scientist" who is most likely to engage in an action sequence somewhere down the line, and generally show ambivalence or rebellion towards authority. :D

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

35. none of the above - I wanna be Peter Venkman

Coolest scientist ever