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   Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Mar-2025 10:58:51 JST Ben Zanin

   All right, I'm ready.

   #monsterdon

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Mar-2025 10:58:47 JST Ben Zanin

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     "He's mistaken you for his children, maybe you for his mate."

     "You might have some duties to perform!"

     WHAT
     WHAT THE HELL

     Red flag there, sir.

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Mar-2025 10:58:47 JST Ben Zanin

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     ...I really did just see a procession of women wearing t-shirts with "KISS ME YETI" across the back of them, didn't I

     We're at the hallucinogenic part of the movie, I see. I thought that was earlier, but by comparison apparently not.

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Mar-2025 10:58:48 JST Ben Zanin

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     "In a few moments the yeti will be regaining his senses!"

     Somebody _please_ get that poor yeti about ten litres of espresso

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Mar-2025 10:58:48 JST Ben Zanin

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     This dog is not scared or aggressive at all, they're having a grand old time galloping around outside with people! Look at that happy tail go!

     #monsterdon

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Mar-2025 10:58:48 JST Ben Zanin

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     What _scale_ is this?? Where in that lake did the yeti manage to scoop up a fish roughly five feet from nose to tail??

     OK, yeti, combing Jane's hair with the fish skeleton is a little weird. Probably not a lot more weird than a fork in The Little Mermaid, but still pretty weird.

     ewwwww fish hair

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Mar-2025 10:58:49 JST Ben Zanin

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     "He flies through the air with the greatest of ease /
     That frozen old yeti on the flying trapeze..."

     #monsterdon

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Mar-2025 10:58:49 JST Ben Zanin

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     *ten minute montage of a frozen yeti being suspended at 10,000 feet from a helicopter that is also somehow defrosting him by running water over him, like a shrimp ring*

     This soundtrack is working _way_ harder than the plot at this point.

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Mar-2025 10:58:49 JST Ben Zanin

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     MONSTER HOWL

     I don't how the yeti is managing to destabilize the helicopter when he's suspended beneath it in an oversized telephone booth, but sure, why not

     #monsterdon

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Mar-2025 10:58:50 JST Ben Zanin

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     This DVD version we're watching here looks like it was VHS-taped off a TV broadcast that had been sitting in the back of a closet for about 20,000 years in an arctic glacier

     #monsterdon

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Mar-2025 10:58:50 JST Ben Zanin

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     This 70s Richard Hammond dude being lowered out of a helicopter in a leather upholstered throne has hair implausibly un-ruffled by the helicopter supposedly hovering above him.

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Mar-2025 10:58:50 JST Ben Zanin

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     *frozen yeti is shown suspended on a gantry several stories tall*

     I'm sorry, this thing is inarguably an evangelion

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Mar-2025 10:58:50 JST Ben Zanin

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     CANADA FLAG SPOTTED

     Thanks y'all

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Mar-2025 10:58:51 JST Ben Zanin

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     #monsterdon Get your timed mute buttons ready, we're kicking off Yeti: Giant of the 20th Century in one minute!

     Or join in!!

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Mar-2025 10:58:51 JST Ben Zanin

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     Ready, steady, yeti!!

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Mar-2025 11:02:32 JST Ben Zanin

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     This disco version of the yeti musical theme would be so much more tolerable if it had no lyrics.

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Mar-2025 11:02:32 JST Ben Zanin

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     "Please, what's happening?"

     "The yeti has gone berserk!!"

     Here we go, 53 minutes in and _now_ the movie has really begun

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Mar-2025 11:02:32 JST Ben Zanin

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     !!!

     Finally, a movie showing an elevator getting its cable rigging messed up *and acknowledging the presence of rail brakes*!!

     Huge points to Yeti for that detail! Thank you, Yeti. Theti.

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Mar-2025 11:02:33 JST Ben Zanin

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     (Why is Tony stropping a straight razor against his _hand_?)

     #monsterdon

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Mar-2025 11:02:33 JST Ben Zanin

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     The yeti is surprisingly sanguine about being helicoptered over Niagara Falls while suspended by a single cable directly beneath the rotor.

     "Toronto is honored to be the first to greet this ancient ancestor and is sure to give him a warm welcome."

     *insert crowd scenes with implausibly light motor traffic*

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Mar-2025 11:14:58 JST Ben Zanin

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     Look, Jane just dropped 32 stories down that elevator shaft before the yeti caught her. I don't care how gentle he was, that's still more than enough kinetic energy to reduce her organs to chunky salsa. We have covered this already innumerable times while watching Superman, we know this.

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Mar-2025 11:39:49 JST Ben Zanin

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     Oop, landscape change, I think we're back in Italy now. Those hillside S-curve roads aren't in Ontario.

     MONSTER BOULDER TOSS

     #monsterdon

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Mar-2025 11:39:49 JST Ben Zanin

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     Those two goons just autoyeeted themselves over the edge of that small cliff in the most hilarious fashion possible. The only thing missing was a foley "sproing!" sound effect.

     Oh jeez, are they attacking the yeti with artillery now? What is _happening_?

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Mar-2025 11:39:49 JST Ben Zanin

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     MONSTER STOMP

     Well, there goes an odious character. F

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Mar-2025 11:39:49 JST Ben Zanin

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     "Go back to the wilderness, to the mountains! Where life is like you knew it! Goodbye, yeti."

     'Twas not bullets, but beauty s̶l̶a̶y̶e̶d̶ exiled the beast!

     #monsterdon

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Mar-2025 11:39:50 JST Ben Zanin

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     (For anyone wondering why these two goons are wandering through a field of parked construction vehicles, that part is completely plausible. Toronto's like that.)

     MONSTER SQUASH! ...or not..? Mysteriously spared?? Oh, nope, grabbed between two toes and then squished murderously, I think? This is a bit hard to follow.

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Mar-2025 11:39:50 JST Ben Zanin

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     Time check, 1h17m, woman screaming while grabbing her head in terror and then fleeing. Perfect GIF capture moment.

     #monsterdon

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Mar-2025 11:39:50 JST Ben Zanin

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     Oh hey, the Toronto Police are responding with alacrity to a violent crime in this movie?? I guess it's confirmed, none of the hired goons were gay.

     (Sorry, I'm still pretty peeved about that systemic problem with our TPS.)

     #monsterdon

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Mar-2025 11:39:50 JST Ben Zanin

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     DID THEY JUST STAB THE DOG

     C'mon back, yeti, we're going to need some more stomping, please and thanks.

     #monsterdon

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Mar-2025 11:39:51 JST Ben Zanin

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     *yeti looks completely nonplussed walking around downtown Toronto near University and Queen, around City Hall, because even in the late 70s we still had not prioritized the walkability of that neighbourhood, leaving it only a few narrow sidewalks to accommodate a huge volume of foot traffic. And in this case a volume of huge foot traffic.*

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Mar-2025 11:39:51 JST Ben Zanin

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     "The yeti has been taken out of his natural surroundings, his environment. It's difficult! We must be prepared for everything."

     Look, he's not breathing regularly because there is visibly no snow on the ground, which means it is HAY FEVER SEASON. Get that yeti some antihistamines.

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Mar-2025 11:39:51 JST Ben Zanin

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     Did those two hired goons just kill the professor by repeatedly slamming him into an air conditioning unit? Was I reading that scene right?

     #monsterdon