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Roxie says no sharing without her permission.

@tedcruz Ok then tell China to give back land they bought here in the US. Tell China Taiwan is free country. Tell China to obey international maritime laws. See how that goes

No.

@lukeevangelist_ Iowa vs Houston in the future?

Humble pie has been served.

@AshySlasheeDB I don't see the problem

You know it's true

@KBTXRusty I'm sorry the Ozzy song second video had me chuckle

🔥 CAR FIRE on Highway 6 northbound between Bryan and Hearne near the weigh station. 📸: Hector Ramirez and Jonathan Thorn

Yes

All Aggies today 👍

@ErdwicktheHero DBZ? Could have been anything in early 90's

@Pattypockets1 First one you remember then

@MisterBright64 @ErdwicktheHero Had the manga

@ErdwicktheHero Read or Die

@TheRoyalSerf Dye your hair pink or blue and shave the mustache off. Then come back and see the weirdos not have it anymore

If you could speak to Adolf Hitler what would you say?

1925 Rolls Royce Phantom I Jonckheere Coupe

That's an Aggie GRAND SLAM ‼️‼️

Having himself a day‼️🎸 @AidenSims4

Two-out double, stay hot @bearharrison32 🔥

@FilmsFallout My first playthrough. So couldn't do anything

What did you do on your first Fallout 3 playthrough when you found Megaton? Boom or no boom?

Gavin RBI brings home Nico, Ags up 3-1 👏

Oh damn core memory unlock Had Taz

@GamewithDave We actually played Pokemon card game

Age yourself with something kids today wouldn’t understand 🤔 I’ll start: Installing a game across 6 floppy disks.

@AnishA_Moonka Mel Brooks wrote a whole movie just to make a joke about merchandise

George Lucas traded $350,000 in directing salary for something Fox executives thought was worthless: the right to sell Star Wars toys. It was 1976. Over 40 studios had already passed on his script, including Disney. Fox only greenlit the project because they wanted Lucas for other films. Nobody at the studio expected to make money on a space opera with no stars, so when Lucas offered to cut his directing fee from $500,000 to $150,000 in exchange for merchandising and sequel rights, Fox said yes on the spot. Movie merchandise was a dead business. Fox had lost money on Doctor Dolittle lunchboxes a decade earlier. They thought they were getting the better deal. Lucas couldn’t even find a toy company that wanted in. Kenner, a division of cereal company General Foods, finally bought the licensing for a flat $100,000. Then Star Wars opened. Between 1977 and 1978, Kenner sold $100 million worth of toys off that $100,000 investment. They couldn’t make enough for Christmas ’77, so they sold empty boxes with IOUs inside, promising to mail the action figures later. Parents paid real money for cardboard and a promise. Nobody around the production saw any of this coming. Alec Guinness, who played Obi-Wan, privately called the script “fairy-tale rubbish.” But he was shrewd enough to negotiate 2.25% of royalties instead of a flat fee. About 20 minutes of total screen time earned his estate somewhere between $50 million and $100 million. Lucas himself was so convinced the film would flop that he offered Spielberg a bet while visiting the Close Encounters set: swap 2.5% of each other’s profits. Spielberg took it. That handshake has paid him around $40 million. And then the money started compounding. Lucas poured his Star Wars profits into ILM, the effects house he’d built for the film. When its computer graphics division got too expensive to maintain, he sold it to Steve Jobs in 1986 for $10 million. Jobs renamed it Pixar. Disney bought Pixar twenty years later for $7.4 billion. Then in 2012, Disney came back for the rest, buying Lucasfilm itself for $4.05 billion. Total franchise revenue today sits around $46.7 billion, over $20 billion from merchandise alone. The filmmaker 40 studios passed on is now worth $5.3 billion according to Forbes. Fifty years ago today, cameras rolled on a desert in Tunisia. The $350,000 pay cut that made it all possible might be the best trade in business history.

@wereshnefer @ErdwicktheHero Proof is community notes. He just flagged it

@Pattypockets1 @ErdwicktheHero He’s setting up a bot farm

@ErdwicktheHero Yeah it was you the whole time. Just cause I'm named pockets everyone harass me