Somebody's never seen DOUBLE INDEMNITY or THE APARTMENT, methinks. Let's just say, Billy Wilder brought out the sleaze in good ol' Fred.
Too many My Three Sons re-runs at an impressionable age. I suspect that's where Cindy is coming from, too.
And almost sixty-five percent of that was actual compliment. Is that a personal best?
Xander ,'End of Days'
The Minearverse 5: Closer to the Earth, Further from the Ax
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls, The Inside and Drive), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
aurelia - Jun 23, 2006 5:54:15 pm PDT #479 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Frankenbuddha - Jun 23, 2006 6:35:17 pm PDT #480 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Too many My Three Sons re-runs at an impressionable age. I suspect that's where Cindy is coming from, too.
Oh, no doubt, and maybe a little Absent-minded Professor thrown in as well. I still think he's the most likely candidate for folks to chuck, but there's a whole gamut of reasons for the chucking.
Kristen - Jun 23, 2006 7:56:26 pm PDT #481 of 10001
Thanks, sarameg!
And my folks seem to have become much more TV aware since I moved to LA. I'm assuming that's my influence but it's still a little disconcerting when my mom says stuff like, "Could they shop it around to other networks?"
§ ita § - Jun 23, 2006 8:08:55 pm PDT #482 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
When she starts to use ankle as a verb, you're in lots of trouble.
amych - Jun 24, 2006 4:30:34 am PDT #483 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Too many My Three Sons re-runs at an impressionable age.
Of course, but that's at least half the joy of watching the Wilderene sleaze. It's all "I can't believe Dad would do those things!!"
That said, C
SailAweigh - Jun 24, 2006 5:41:36 am PDT #484 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Huh, I'm of two minds, either C MacMurray or M him. Both to do with My Three Sons. C because "daddy figure," ewww. M because he was still young enough to ping my, oooh, he's not bad for an older guy. I thought he was cuter than any of his sons. What can I say, I had crushes on half my male teachers from 5th grade on.
Good luck, Kristen and Kessie!
DCJensen - Jun 24, 2006 5:54:18 am PDT #485 of 10001
All is well that ends in pizza.
Andi and I were watching an episode of Jeeves & Wooster this week when Wooster used ankled in describing walking somewhere.
"Ankled down to the club" or some such, but I'm paraphrasing.
Kessie - Jun 24, 2006 11:23:02 am PDT #486 of 10001
The thing about life is :You can rehearse it all you want,
But nobody else ever sticks to the script. So why bother?
Ah, right. I knew there were some other catches why I didn´t enter. As for the language, heh. My parents just look at me strangely when I talk like that to POD on the phone. But then again it´s foreign language to them anyway, in more ways than one.
Oh and thanks SailAweigh and Jesse!
sumi - Jun 24, 2006 12:20:50 pm PDT #487 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Isn't Variety- speak based on slang from the 1920s?
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 24, 2006 12:29:16 pm PDT #488 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Imagines Kristen in flapper wear chain-smoking and tossing back drinks in a Prohibition-era speakeasy...