Nilly and Hil, you might appreciate this. Tonight's Jeapordy college contestant bet the exact amount for his winnings to be 22,222. Heh.
Angel: Connor, this is Spike and Illyria. Guys, this is Connor. Connor: Hi. umm...I like your outfit. Illyria: Your body warms. This one is lusting after me. Connor: Oh...no, I--I--it's just that it's the outfit. I guess I've had a thing for older women. Angel: They were supposed to fix that.
'Origin'
Natter 53: We could just avoid making tortured puns
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Vortex - Sep 05, 2007 3:20:24 pm PDT #8606 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
§ ita § - Sep 05, 2007 3:36:16 pm PDT #8607 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
God, I love this belt. Holler if the pic doesn't show--buffistas.org should be a valid referrer.
I covet that belt enough to cause me pain. Or maybe that was me jabbing myself with the safety pin while tidying my desk. Hard to be sure.
Bobbi - Sep 05, 2007 3:40:47 pm PDT #8608 of 10001
Dog is my co-pilot.
Awesome belt. Can someone find me a waist?
Jesse - Sep 05, 2007 4:01:04 pm PDT #8609 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
That belt would make you a waist.
Is it wrong that whenever I see an ad for Se7en, I have to yell at the screen, "What's in the box?? What's in the box?!?!?!"
sarameg - Sep 05, 2007 4:02:40 pm PDT #8610 of 10001
on second thought. Builds fort. out of Belgian Block. Lobs cans of Aqua Net.
spam bowling! Train tunnel fire UNDER THE CITY.
The USPS is trying to be hip. Their notification email is icustomercare.
I tutored tonight. Not really enough braincells, but I think she gets what an outline is supposed to do.
brenda m - Sep 05, 2007 4:42:11 pm PDT #8611 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Not for me, but I can totally see you in that belt, ita.
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 05, 2007 4:43:43 pm PDT #8612 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
Top 10 evillest people.
I'm a bit puzzled by Hirohito getting a mention. Isn't it widely held that he was a figurehead and Tojo was the one responsible for Japan's conduct in WWII?
I've seen A Clockwork Orange, Natural Born Killers, and The Last Temptation of Christ off that movie list. Birth of a Nation is the only remaining one that I have any interest in seeing.
Tom Scola - Sep 05, 2007 4:56:41 pm PDT #8613 of 10001
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
Isn't it widely held that he was a figurehead and Tojo was the one responsible for Japan's conduct in WWII?
That may be the prevailing view, but there is considerable dissent regarding Hirohito's culpability.
Ginger - Sep 05, 2007 4:56:53 pm PDT #8614 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I had the same response to Hirohito. I don't think there's evidence that Hirohito masterminded atrocities in anything like the way Hitler or Pol Pot did.
Fred Pete - Sep 05, 2007 4:58:25 pm PDT #8615 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
What Matt said about Hirohito. He certainly wasn't a hero, and I've read at least one biography that suggested that he could have stopped things if he'd pushed hard enough (based on his having halted at least one military-organized massacre of Japanese politicians by completely losing his temper), but others are more deserving of a place on that list.
Of the 10 controversial, I've seen Last Tango in Paris, Birth of a Nation, and in college a long time ago, Clockwork Orange.
Can't say I cared for Last Tango. I kept asking myself, what's the point? Which is frequently my reaction to lives of quiet desperation.
Birth of a Nation starts out as a relatively passable Civil War melodrama. After about 45 minutes to an hour, it turns its attention toward Reconstruction. And by the hour and a half mark, you start thinking it couldn't get any worse. But it does. And it does again.
I remember Clockwork as a movie with something to say, though I may be confusing it with the book, which I had read a short time before but haven't read since. At worst, I'd place it in the category of valiant efforts of the early '70s -- movies that tried to use the greater freedom to tell a story that wouldn't have been allowed on screen a few years before, and so deserves some respect for what it tried to do even if it didn't quite succeed. Though I should probably see it again before I try to defend that opinion.