Skin Slippage

cactuscake · 15 Sep 2009 at 01:20

Just heard this term used by the pathologist in a CSI type show ('Bones'... do they air that show in the UK?) I think the context was supposed to be serious...

What's the worst line you remember from silly American drama series?

cactuscake · 15 Sep 2009 at 02:51

Andy100 said:
What's wrong with the line?

I've heard it used before in books and tv. When a body decomposes the skin can literally slip off the bone.

Ewwww

That makes it funnier then - because the pathologist in Bones went on to explain what skin slippage was... and got it totally wrong! She said it was a mark on the skin from where the skin had slipped against other skin (like a friction burn I guess).

cactuscake · 15 Sep 2009 at 12:57

I don't understand why Hollywood started calling crackers hackers... hackers were something else before that, crackers were (and still are) the naughty ones who write malicious code.

cactuscake · 15 Sep 2009 at 13:52

Belmit said:
My most hated movie computer sound effect is when someone does a search and the screen starts scrolling through a load of information... complete with a noise like a Roladex flipping 'round!

DOS systems would do that though (without the sound). Really annoying when you're looking for a filename that doesn't fit within the last screenful of listings.