(I also like to read the French, Italian and Spanish instructions on beauty products and cooking items aloud, to practice. I'm a freak.)
I learned most of my early French from reading the backs of Canadian cereal boxes as a kid.
Mal: Well, look at this! Appears we got here just in the nick of time. What does that make us? Zoe: Big damn heroes, sir.
'Safe'
Spike's Bitches 45: That sure as hell wasn't in the brochure.
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Jessica - Nov 24, 2009 6:25:50 am PST #1499 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
P.M. Marc - Nov 24, 2009 6:30:59 am PST #1500 of 30000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I learned most of my early French from reading the backs of Canadian cereal boxes as a kid.
Me too! And the backs of shampoo bottles and medicine bottles...
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Nov 24, 2009 6:31:00 am PST #1501 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
I also like to read the French, Italian and Spanish instructions on beauty products and cooking items aloud, to practice.
'Shampooing' has a very cool pronunciation.
I've noticed we sound super-nasal on your telly and tend to talk louder. But some of us really do, so it's hard to get offended, even if it is a caricature.
Heh. I know what you mean. It's like how we always sound as posh as the Queen on your shows. And I go "We don't sound like that," and then I hear Stephen Fry and apparently we do.
Jessica - Nov 24, 2009 6:33:03 am PST #1502 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
The one that confused me for years was "raisin" flavored soda and juice boxes. I was well into my teens before I realized that "raisin" was French for "grape."
Polter-Cow - Nov 24, 2009 6:34:51 am PST #1503 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I think he's got almost every space on his Genre TV Bingo Card filled in at this point.
When I met him at Comic-Con, I was all, "I loved you on Firefly and Battlestar Galactica and The X-Files, " and he was all, "Was I in all those?" He's also got, what, The Middleman and Dollhouse and Leverage and Supernatural and...I think that's all the ones I've seen him in. Perhaps.
Tom Scola - Nov 24, 2009 6:35:48 am PST #1504 of 30000
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
He was the bad guy in the White Collar pilot.
Dana - Nov 24, 2009 6:35:53 am PST #1505 of 30000
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
CSI. Which isn't genre, but still, I went "Hey, it's Badger! I mean, Pyro Boy! I mean, Nate's nemesis!"
Jessica - Nov 24, 2009 6:37:36 am PST #1506 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Thanksgiving without Gourmet - a really beautiful tribute by a former Gourmet staffer.
How does one mourn the loss of a cultural institution? It is a death, to be sure, but the grief is more amorphous, less straightforward, than what you feel for a person. It’s like passing by your childhood home, now in a strange family’s hands; like finding out that the library where you whiled away your adolescence has been torn down. Something you loved dearly is gone forever, and it is beyond your power to get it back. Yesterday, you were part of 69 years of collective wisdom; today, you are meeting with HR; tomorrow, you are once again just another unemployed thirtysomething with a passion for food. Ensign, where’s your ship?
The only possible answer to that question lies in action. You’ve lost Gourmet. What do you do? You cook, of course.
§ ita § - Nov 24, 2009 6:38:28 am PST #1507 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
He was a fun nemesis on Burn Notice, which he played with his main Leverage henchman.
smonster - Nov 24, 2009 6:45:45 am PST #1508 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
IMDB also lists Burn Notice, Bionic Woman, NCIS, Warehouse 13... [link]