We ring in the new year with a post-apocalyptic strategy war game. Fallout 3 takes place in the year 2277 and is 200 years after a nuclear war broke out between the USA and China shortly after World War 2. The character that you play is an inhabitant of Vault 101 which is a nuclear shelter that was created to protect the survivors of the nuclear blast. The character that you play in the game has his father disappear under mysterious circumstances and you must venture out into post-apocalyptic Capital Wasteland (Washington D.C.) in order to find him. The game was originally being created by Black Isle Studios who made the two previous Fallout games but their studio Interplay Entertainment went bankrupt and the game’s rights were sold to Bathesda Softworks who went on to create the partially completed game completely from scratch without using any of the previous code from Balck Isle Studios. The game got positive reviews from critics and fans alike and received several awards including Best game at the Developer’s Choice awards and the Best Game of 2008 award from IGN Entertainment. The game has since released five downloadable content games for XBOX Live that can be downloaded for a fee from the online service. The quote we bring you is the same quote used in the opening sequence or trailers for the game which discuss the effects of war on humanity…

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This month not only rings in the Holiday Season but also brings us the arrival of a Sherlock Holmes movie to the theaters. The arrival of the movie is a great time to use Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as our quote for this month. Doyle was a British author best known for his books based on the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes as well as several other crime and science fiction stories and historical novels. Doyle’s first significant work came in 1887 when he wrote ‘ A Study in Scarlet’ which was the first known appearance of Sherlock Holmes in one of Doyle’s writings. Arthur’s short stories about Sherlock Holmes would continue to be published in ‘Strand Magazine’. Doyle killed the character of Sherlock Holmes at one point in order to concentrate on more important historical novels but the fan reaction was mostly negative and he wound up bringing the character back from the grave by making the death sound like an excuse for Sherlock Holmes to go deep undercover to unravel a mystery. Holmes would later write political novels surrounding various wars at the time including the Boer War and would go on to write several spiritual novels after his bouts with depression following the deaths of his wife and son. Doyle’s character Sherlock Holmes did a great job at convincing people not to rule out any possibilities and to look at every single clue in order to solve a crime. Here is one of Sherlock Holmes’ quotes from one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories on the detective…

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Thomas Hood was a British humorist and poet. Hood began writing and contributing various humorous and poetical articles to the provincial newspapers and magazines. In 1821, he was appointed as Sub-Editor of the ‘London Magazine’ and became acquainted with several established writers and poets such as Thomas de Quincey, Charles Lamb, John Clare and Allan Cunningham. Hood would become ill and created many of his poems and writings while on his sick-bed. Hood would create such popular poems such as ‘Song of the Shirt’ , ‘The Bridge of Sighs’ and ‘The Song of the Laborer’. Hood would later become associated with ‘Athenaeum’ which was a literary magazine that began in 1828. He would become a regular contributor to the magazine until his death. Hood was also an accomplished illustrator having drawn many of his pictures for his Annual Comic Hood Volumes that he created himself. Hood is being used this month for his humorous quote on November’s weather and how it’s easy to tell what time of the year it is based on this quote he gave us about the month of November…

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October at BoobNewb signals the beginning of hockey season. The Montreal Canadians finish up their Centennial season this year and we thought that it would be a great idea to honor the Montreal Canadians with a famous quote from one of their hall of famers – Jacques Plante. Jacques Plante was a goaltender for the Montreal Canadians on a full time basis from 1954 to 1963. He became the first National Hockey League goaltender to wear a mask during a regular season hockey game at a time when goaltenders still hadn’t worn a mask yet and helped to make the mask part of a standardized equipment for goaltenders nowadays. He was also one of the first goaltenders to stick handle with the puck and go behind the net to stop the puck for his defenders as before then goaltenders would simply stay in their nets all of the time and not move around very much.

Plante was also the first goalie to raise his arms up in the air to signal an icing call so that his teammates would know about the call in advance. In addition, Plante would go on to win several awards including the Hart Memorial trophy and the Vezina trophy which was a awarded to the league’s best goaltender. He would eventually be traded to the New York Rangers following several poor seasons due to injury. He would finish his career with the Edmonton Oilers of the WHA. He would later move to Switzerland with his second wife and act as an advisor and goaltending coach but later died of Stomach cancer in 1986. In this month’s quote, Jacques discusses the difficulties of being a goaltender in the NHL back during his playing days…

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Freaks and Geeks is a television show that was produced by Judd Apatow. It lasted only one season and was cancelled after its twelfth episode aired. Despite the cancellation, Freaks and Geeks has gained a cult status and has received critical acclaim from critics with Time Magazine giving it the honor of being labeled as one of the 100 greatest television shows of all time in 2007. The show focuses on Lindsay Weir (played by Linda Cardellini) as she struggles with being a smart student mixed in with a group of ‘Freaks’ who are a bunch of slackers who prefer to have sex and smoke marijuana. The other side of the show focuses on a group of geeks headlined by Lindsay’s brother Sam (played by John Francis Daley) who must survive the school year with his group of geeky friends as they try to avoid being picked on by jocks and other mean spirited individuals.

The show has helped to launch the career of Judd Apatow who has become a successful writer/director/producer in Hollywood and has cast a large portion of the Freaks and Geeks cast with starring roles in some of his movies such as actor Seth Rogan in the film ‘Knocked Up’ , Jason Segal in the film ‘Forgetting Sarah Marshall’ and James Franco in the film ‘ Pineapple Express’. We leave you with a quote from the episode entitled Beers and Weirs’ where Lindsay and Sam’s parents go away for the weekend and Lindsay wants to have a party with alcohol involved. Sam doesn’t think it’s a good idea and consults his two friends Neal and Bill who think that they should switch the alcoholic-beer with non-alcoholic beer without Lindsay knowing about it. Here’s Bill trying to convince his friends about switching the beer to non-alcoholic beer instead…

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