I wish the clothes and hair had been more period.
Yeah! I hope January Jones laughed in her hairstylist's face. "This is not a sixties hairdo. Do you see how it's moving when the wind blows?!"
Hello? Gay now!
Willow ,'Showtime'
Buffista Movies 7: Brides for 7 Samurai
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DavidS - Jun 19, 2011 7:59:13 am PDT #15073 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Jesse - Jun 19, 2011 8:02:50 am PDT #15074 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
And hers was the stiffest.
tommyrot - Jun 19, 2011 8:09:17 am PDT #15075 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
The US/Soviet naval confrontation bugged me. No way would all those ships be so close together. A battleship could blow away any ship within, say, 25 miles, so if you're the captain of a Soviet guided missile cruiser, you stay more than 25 miles away from a US battleship, where you could still hit it with your missiles.
Jesse - Jun 19, 2011 8:50:14 am PDT #15076 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yeah, that was goofy.
Jon B. - Jun 19, 2011 11:14:16 am PDT #15077 of 30000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I thought it was odd that Xavier would use the word "groovy" in 1962 Britain. Wasn't popular usage still a few years away? Or are we supposed to think that he's also on the cutting edge of slang?
Typo Boy - Jun 19, 2011 11:23:33 am PDT #15078 of 30000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
"Groovy" was popular among the Beats and in jazz culture - and not necessarily just by leading edge. Bob Hope used the word "Groovy" in several of the "Road to" movies to show how far from cutting edge you could be and use that word. That series ran from 1940 to 1962.
§ ita § - Jun 19, 2011 3:30:28 pm PDT #15079 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Wordnik used to have a chart of usage by year, but I don't see one anymore. I don't like the redesign.
DavidS - Jun 19, 2011 6:13:34 pm PDT #15080 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I thought it was odd that Xavier would use the word "groovy" in 1962 Britain. Wasn't popular usage still a few years away? Or are we supposed to think that he's also on the cutting edge of slang?
Actually in Mingus' book Beneath the Underdog he has people using "groovy" going way back in the jazz era. Everybody was "Groovy at the Grove" (the Coconut Grove club).
Jon B. - Jun 19, 2011 11:51:26 pm PDT #15081 of 30000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I stand corrected!
DavidS - Jun 20, 2011 6:15:36 am PDT #15082 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
A review of the Moneyball movie trailer:
"So this movie tells the story of how the worlds most boring sport added math to create a system that doesn’t work. Holy shit, can I go stand in line now?"