Tom Cruise is giving this lecture?

::dies::

I think I need the burial plot next to Betsy's.

Last week MADtv did a celebrity roast skit about Rosa Parks. She ended up getting mad, grabbing the microphone, and busting on all the assembled celebrities. The funniest of the jokes was "Mrs. Parks" telling Pamela Anderson that she'd been on her knees more than Tom Cruise in the Scientologists' steam room.

I never edit XML directly, except when I have to edit XSL I do it in MS Visual Studio .Net.

Question for Plei (or anyone who knows): What are you using to edit XML? A tool? or Notepad?

I've used XMetal, XMLSpy, Notepad, and Homesite for it at jobs, and have a random assortment of free tools at home.

My ideal tool, though, is one that mainly color codes and validates, so I'm not the best person to ask.

Oh, and I've also used (spits) Authentic.

I do everything in Notepad, so I don't know any. I have a friend of mine who needs to do some XML to Oracle transformation and needs to rewrite some XML schemas to pull it off.

I want this t-shirt.

My XML editor of choice is nxml-mode for emacs, but sadly that requires that you know emacs, which takes years to become proficient.

Wait. Sorry. That's Home And Away. Neighbours buses in some brunettes as part of Australia's cultural correctness laws.

Good lord. I was just drafting a "No, you're thinking of Home and Away" response to the first paragraph. dw knows his Aussie soaps.

Cultural observation: American soaps generally have only a passing resemblance to real life. Everyone is dressed in designer clothes. Everyone sleeps with everyone else, eventually. Money is only an object when a character is being forced to become a hooker.

British soaps are gritty-realistic. Set in a working class area. Broad range of body types and age groups. Most characters are struggling to get by.

Australian soaps feature storylines like "Timmy gets a haircut".

WWE: soap opera for men. Relevant sexes are goodies and baddies. The central concern of who's sleeping with who is replaced with the question of who's beating the crap out of who. Such (non-wrestling) women as there are manage the difficult trick of being both two-dimensional and inflatable.

American, British, and Australian soaps summarized in one sentence.

American: Erica Kane awakens from her contract renego, er, COMA to get married for the 1,807th time.

British: The body is under the patio.

Australian: KYLIE!

dw knows his Aussie soaps.

It's what I get for watching tea-time British television. Occasionally, I wonder how different TV would be if Vanna White and Carole Vorderman had been switched at birth.

Money is only an object when a character is being forced to become a hooker.

and every soap has one! and usually, it was out of town amd some old customer comes into town and tries to make a "purchase", and someone finds out and tries to blackmail her . . . it will get more interesting when you have the male hustler.