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I'm not here...
Crash Davis: It's time to work on your interviews.
Ebby Calvin LaLoosh: My interviews? What do I gotta do?
Crash Davis: You're gonna have to learn your clichés. You're gonna have to study them, you're gonna have to know them. They're your friends. Write this down: "We gotta play it one day at a time."
Ebby Calvin LaLoosh: Got to play... it's pretty boring.
Crash Davis: 'Course it's boring, that's the point. Write it down.
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at 1:21 PM on July 11, 2008
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'Rejected' Dark Knight script
You guys. A giant robot pisses all over John Turturro. What the fuck else could you possibly want?
Okay, but seriously, I would watch In the Name of the King again--yes, again--before rewatching Transformers. If only for Burt Reynolds' death scene, where I'm pretty sure he might have actually died. Or Matthew Lillard's performance, which just makes the viewer want to die.
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at 12:04 PM on July 8, 2008
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Boing Boing Finds 21st Century Trotsky?
MetaFiltre: somy shitty bool
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at 10:26 AM on June 30, 2008
the Metafilter thread on the Violet Blue affair is now longer than that provoked by 9/11.
Nice poke in the asshole there, jackass. Because clearly, more comments = more care! It's so tiring having 9/11 be the zombie metric for measuring against what you're allowed to be upset about.
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at 8:55 AM on July 2, 2008
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Under His Robes
Clearly the misogynist material needs to be illegal
*blinks*
Ah . . . are you sure? I mean, boo misogyny and all, but . . . really?
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at 2:23 PM on June 11, 2008
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Oh look, we have created enchantment.
The male rejection of adulthood is now the dominant attitude in Hollywood comedy.
It is perhaps worth pointing out that as we speak the number one movie in America right now is Sex and the City.
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at 9:57 AM on June 6, 2008
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Main Core
Geez, what a bunch of whiners. Who doesn't like camping?
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at 1:02 PM on May 20, 2008
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Web 2.0 Vaudeville
Bed now, before I start on the Helen Keller jokes.
I'VE GOT YOUR BACK!
How do you get Helen Keller pregnant?
You fuck her.
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How did Helen Keller burn her ear?
She was in a terrible housefire.
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What did Helen Keller say when she fell down a well?... [more]
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at 11:58 PM on May 12, 2008
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Friday flash fun
Anyone figure out how to get the key off the pedestal?
You need to go into the room on the right first.
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at 1:49 PM on May 2, 2008
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"The Worst"
Whenever this sort of discussion breaks out, I am compelled to mention Leda Had A Little Swan, by one Mr. Bamber Gascoigne, which was a comedy about bestiality, set in the future when animals were given to adolescents as sexual surrogates to help them through puberty. You can read about it in William Goldman's immortal The Season by doing a search inside at Amazon.
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at 3:02 PM on April 21, 2008
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Why, it was an inside job!
Ugh. The "interview" is just a log of an IM chat. While I'm all for chatting on IM, I find reading them excruciating.
SWPL: [re. multiple washcloth use] I have the same questions about deep fryer oil like can you only use it once?
TAN: no way. i'm clueless in terms of cooking, but i feel in my black roots there's an implicit sense of cooking oil getting better every time you use it ...
SWPL: that's what I... [more]
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at 8:51 AM on April 11, 2008
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I'm sure the NRA will have something to say about this
No, the most compelling argument is that it's in the Constitution and if you start ignoring the bits that you don't much like, why shouldn't I or George Bush or James Dobson start ignoring the bits that they don't much like.
I have terrible news for you.
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at 8:37 AM on April 4, 2008
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Richard Feynman needs his orange juice
From James Gleick's Genius:
“So we aren't any closer to unification than we were in Einstein's time?” the historian asked. Feynman grew angry. “It's a crazy question!...We're certainly closer. We know more. And if there's a finite amount to be known, we obviously must be closer to having the knowledge, okay? I don't know how to make this into a sensible question... It's all so stupid. All these interviews are always so damned useless.”... [more]
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at 9:11 AM on March 6, 2008
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In the flash of a click
Whatever you do, don't read the comments.
Ugh, too late. Here's the very first one from Falling Man.
why the hell did these buildings disintegrate into powder?
who cares about anything else pertitent to the events from that day?
vote ron paul
That gave me an ice-cream headache, but with stupid.
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at 3:08 PM on February 15, 2008
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Multi-link Mike Post post
Seeing Andy Warhol's face pop up as a Love Boat guest star just about gave me the brain-fall-outs.
Besides [Warhol's] own shows he regularly made guest appearances on other programs, including "The Love Boat" wherein a Midwestern wife (Marion Ross) fears Andy Warhol will reveal to her husband (Tom Bosley, who starred alongside Ross in sitcom Happy Days) her secret past as a Warhol superstar named Marina del Rey.
Brrrrrrrrrrr.
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at 10:58 AM on February 1, 2008
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Whaling the Planet with Modern Whalers
Smash Lab is explosion-porn based on a formula created in a focus group of Mythbusters fans.
Oy, I just saw an episode yesterday. Their grand "experiment" was to see if wrapping mobile homes in polycarbonate would help them survive hurricanes. It will! If you don't mind tumbling end over end in your suddenly-rolling mobile home after your totally unapologetic fresh-faced hosts exclaim, "Well, we forgot to secure it properly, but oh... [more]
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at 12:30 PM on January 29, 2008
Fair cop on the carbon fiber composite; brain misfire. But still: this show is about pretending to be scientific while really, they just want to gleefully smash shit. I guess I'd maybe be okay if they just called it "Smash!" and dispensed with the fake problem-solving.
Or! They could team up with Ben Bailey for "Smash Cab," which would be sort of like Cloverfield, but with trivia.
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at 1:01 PM on January 29, 2008
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House of a thousand lies
The CPI is financed by George Soros. Who, of course, has no agenda whatever.
This comment was brought to you by Steven C. Den Beste. Who, of course, has no counter-argument whatever.
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at 9:00 AM on January 23, 2008
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2007: The Movie(s)
What the hell? Zodiac was like walking around in circles for three hours loaded down with a backpack full of drear.
(Uh . . . so have fun with that, blucevalo!)
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at 2:01 PM on December 28, 2007
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Literacy and voting patterns
If it makes anybody feel better, both of Seattle's newspapers are terrible. Then there's always the Stranger, which is also garbage, but they often write "fuck," so. There's also Seattle Weekly, which nobody has read since 1998, but is useful for mopping up household chemical spills. Anyway, reading is fundamental, motherfuckers!
THE MORE YOU KNOOOOW
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at 8:49 AM on December 28, 2007
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math for dummies
Thank Christ somebody finally came up with a reliable love calculator.
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at 11:22 AM on December 19, 2007
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Worst band names of 2007
One of the commenters:
one of the best worst band names i've ever encountered is "Sudden Infant Dance Syndrome."
USA! USA! USA!
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at 10:06 AM on December 14, 2007
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Who's got the button(s)
I expected as much from this thread.
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at 11:56 AM on October 18, 2007
*needles brain_drain for beating me to awful joke*
I guess I'm just . . . WAIT FOR IT . . . reaping what I've "sewn."
See what I did there? That's totally not the right word! And I used it anyway, as a pun! And that is how you comedy.
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at 12:11 PM on October 18, 2007
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Destructively Delicious
What? If all operas featured Jerry Seinfeld's wife, I'd . . . no, I still wouldn't go.
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at 1:09 PM on October 11, 2007
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The coolest man alive.
A couple years ago, I was in NYC, and my wife and I got tickets to "On the Stem." About 20 minutes in, Ricky asked for a volunteer from the audience, and I practically rocketed out of my seat.
I was the only person who raised his hand. I don't understand people. He called me onstage.
I got to do card tricks with Ricky Jay!--or, rather, I stood there while Ricky Jay made fun of me and did card tricks. He's fucking incredible.... [more]
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at 10:10 AM on October 3, 2007
MeFi post:
Four Colour Funnies in the Old Grey Lady
I really enjoyed following Building Stories, La Maggie La Loca, and George Sprott, but I must say that I find Watergate Sue to be a tremendous bore.
And Keith Talent: if you're genuinely interested in why comics are a unique, worthwhile art form, the lazy response would be to point you to Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics, and I'm nothing if not lazy.
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at 10:04 AM on September 27, 2007
Okay I get it, but it's constrained by the need to fit the text in the panel, and therefore the language needs to be simplified, how does this make it anything other than a novel for people that like pictures and don't like big words, or a TV show for people without access to an Ipod with video?
Oh, come on. All art forms have constraints. The beauty of (good) comics is how well they work within those constraints. Would you... [more]
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at 10:15 AM on September 27, 2007
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Adam Sandler - Secret
Good Lord. I couldn't even make it through the whole thing. That was comedy leukemia.
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at 10:15 AM on July 27, 2007
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Sports Acrobatics
So many moments spent saying to my monitor, "Please don't do what you're obviously about to do," and then they did it anyway.
posted to MetaFilter by Skot
at 12:23 PM on July 13, 2007
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The Right to a Trial?
(I was shocked by the mention of the billion dollar drug that was dropped for having 82 people die during the clinical trial. 82 people, out of what presumably was thousands of people participating
That's funny--I was shocked that a Phase III trial was allowed to rack up a body count of 82 people before it got shut down. I work for a cancer research nonprofit, and I'm seeing an awful lot of weird assumptions and wild assertions about how clinical trials are conducted.
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at 10:51 AM on July 6, 2007
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AFI Top 100
Young Frankenstein, people. Yes, in my personal inventory, it just edges out Dr. Strangelove.
PUUHHIN ONNA RIIIIIIIIZZZZ! Best ad lib ever.
Since we're all listing our personal outrages, I will simply offer that E.T. is embarrassing Spielbergian pap and that Easy Rider is a nearly unwatchable disaster.
If you give me a couple years, I'll make... [more]
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at 12:16 AM on June 22, 2007
