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More of a paraphrase than a quote
You may not know this about me, but I'm not Italian.
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Dear Mary Carrillo ( Read more... ) -
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Dear NBC,
I know there isn't much time left, but would you please make your on-air staff learn how to pronounce Beijing?
Thanks,
Rainherder
Dear David Bauder, AP Television Writer,
Would you please ask S. Robert Ramsey, if the zh sound isn't used in the English language, how are we supposed to pronounce words like "pleasure," "measure," ( Read more... ) -
An observation
I like driving to classical music because it makes everything you do while driving, including deciding where to park, seem more important than it is. (Of course, that does depend on what's being played; some of the weirder modern pieces make it seem like the car's being taken over by aliens.) -
The Amazon Review Meme (aka the Stross meme)
When you see this meme on someone else's journal, go to Amazon.com or whatever: look for a work of "classic literature" - Alice in Wonderland, The Water Babies, Hamlet, whatever - and find the most negative customer reviews. One star, two star, three star, may all be good hunting grounds. Pick out the funniest, and post to your journal.
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As much as I enjoy www.jacksonpollock.org as a quick way to waste a few minutes, I like www.mrpicassohead.com better. -
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So I scrounged the internet looking for reviews of "The Constant," the most recent episode of Lost.
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Movie quiz answers and results
I only got four people offering responses. It's one point for movie and one point for character; if you get the actor but not the character, you get half a point, but if you get both, you still get just the one for character. You also get half a point for identifying a non-English film and another half point for identifying the language (although ( Read more... ) -
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This quiz isn't really all that difficult. Hell, two of the quotes are from films that won Oscars for Best Picture (one from this decade and one from the 1960s, if that helps). One of the two-character quotes features a line from a character in one of thatabbygrrl's userpics. There are five foreign-language films represented and the quotes are all in a row ( Read more... )