we might as well just roll down our windows and wave

[tsuki_no_bara]

gone in 60 seconds was on last night, hence the subject heading. i kept looking at timothy olyphant (who looks so young! altho the movie's twelve years old by now, so he kind of was young) and trying to see raylan and totally failing. it's only the second movie i've ever seen with angelina jolie where i can understand people's physical

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[jola]

http://www.blooddrop.com/item_279/Sugar-Polish.htm my favorite sugar polish right now ... i like the Grapefruit and Green Tea one but people that like a subtle sweet mint rave about Minx.

[tsuki_no_bara]

i'm a big fan of grapefruit bath and body products, so that sounds like my kind of thing.

[dreamsofspike]

I agree about Grimm :) I love that Juliette is no passive victim just letting things happen to her, she hasn't been that at any point in the show (Nick tells her to run and she does... to the kitchen, for a pot of boiling water to throw in the bad guy's face and save Nick's life... just for example ;) hehe) ... but I love that she's working it out and I loved the moment when she called Monroe on it, like "I know you're hiding stuff, too, Mister" lol

And how adorable is Monroe, especially when the girls are ganging up on him? :P lol... and sitting on the stairs waiting for Nick to come home... I took an irrational amount of pleasure in that :) I love this show more with every episode :)

[tsuki_no_bara]

the secret-keeping was getting on my nerves, so i was really glad she called monroe out. she wants to know what's happening to her! she's not dumb, she's just confused, and monroe doesn't have a fabulous poker face. i too really liked him sitting on the stairs in his house waiting for nick, all "i did something that might bother you but i did it with the best intentions so please don't hate me". i could imagine him rehearsing what he was going to say when nick finally got home. (and the two of them sharing a house in the first place is all kinds of cute.)

[donutsweeper]

Ooh, that German soldiers article is interesting but creepy. Wow.

I agree completely with you regarding Grimm. The Royals are a snorefest, but the Juliette SL is getting interesting. I did like ACTION!RENARD though, he sees the suspicious case, grabs it and throws it outside and then goes after the badguy all in seconds.

[tsuki_no_bara]

the archaeologist comparing the buried germans to pompeii didn't help the creep factor. it's still really cool, tho. altho i have to admit that i was surprised at the lack of water, because from what i read about the western front, a lot of the landscape was like soup, it was so wet, and trenches on both sides flooded a lot. maybe the dirt was just too packed down around them.

i loved that scene with renard! he's a take-charge kinda guy. :D and paranoid very observant.

[tsuki_no_bara]

only four, but still. also, hi! it's so nice to see you!

[dear_tiger]

Well, I can translate some Russian jokes for you that won't make a lick of sense in English if you like. I'm not sure - I got the impression from your request that you wanted something that actually made its way into English-speaking culture, no? But if you just want some incomprehensible jokes from Russia, I have plenty for you.

Here, this one relies on untranslatable word play and, imo, kinda stupid even in Russian: "Chapaev was walking through the camp and met Anka, who walked by without saluting him. He stopped her and asked, 'Anka, why didn't you salute me?' And she said, "But I can't! I already saluted Petka!'" (Chapaev was a Red Army commander in the Russian Civil War; the other two, I'm pretty sure, are fictional characters from some film or book about him.)

This one is a quote from a book, and is very funny in Russian, and I think people tell it as a joke sometimes. A high school student presents his homework in an English class: "Forrest, forrest, forrest. Winter, winter, winter. Animal, animal, animals. In the middle of

[tsuki_no_bara]

i kind of skipped ahead in my bigbang to introduce misha, whose socialist mom emigrated to russia with him after the bolsheviks took over, so she could, in his words, participate in the glorious people's revolution. (apparently non-russians did that. if you were an american or british socialist who was super disillusioned with your own country after ww1, you evidently saw post-imperial russia - or i guess it would've been the soviet union - as a viable alternative.) (if you already knew that, ignore the mini history lesson. :D ) i don't know how many people emigrated, decided it wasn't for them after all, and came home, but in my bigbang, misha and his mom did. he's been in the us for four years, and one of the very first things jared learns about him is that he tells terrible and incomprehensible jokes. i figure they'd be either jokes that are funny in russian but don't translate well, or jokes in english that he might have mangled because he doesn't quite get the culture yet. the hedgehog joke is probably perfect for my needs

[dear_tiger]

Nice! I didn't know that about foreign socialists emigrating to Russia! Could they leave though, Iron Curtain and all? I'm not saying they couldn't, I just don't know. I'm not sure when the Iron Curtain thing started. Well, in any case, I like that detail about his character, it's very cool! Well, here is another hedgehog joke that also used to crack me up as a kid and is funny for no good reason: "A hedgehog learned how to breathe through his ass, but then he sat down on a bench and SUFFOCATED!" I have no idea what it is with Russian jokes and hedgehogs, but yes, Misha pretending to be one running through the forest would be funny :D

I don't know how you Big Bang is on paper, but in retelling it sounds awesome. I'm sure it's tons better than you think now, and you'll probably see once you finish it and rest for a bit. Ugh, I have the same problem with time constraint. Mine is 2/3 done, and the last third is killing me, but there is no time to let it stew.

[tsuki_no_bara]

i'm not sure when the iron curtain fell either, and in fact i don't know how many non-russians emigrated in the first place. (and the ones i do know about are british, just because it was discussed towards the end of the book about british pacifists in ww1 that i read. one of them went back to the uk, and one stayed in the soviet union where he was ultimately killed, i think in the 20s.)

that second hedgehog joke is funny! especially if you're a kid. :D

man, the bigbang in my head is SO awesome! i just can't make it sound awesome when i write it down. >.< (and i don't even have the excuse of being in medical school! which, let's be honest here, is a pretty good one as excuses go.) there will be time to edit, at least. hopefully.