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FROM THE CORN STATE OF IOWA.....
CHEERS to warming weather. Its supposed to be 50 degrees here today. Hopefully, all the crusty snow melts.
JEERS to more snow. Even though its supposed to be 50 degrees today, the weathermoron said we may get snow and ice tonight. Frowny face to you, weatherdude! :-(
CHEERS to coffee. A nice, medium blend is being consumed here as we speak. If you cut me, I bleed brown.
CHEERS to Bill in Portland Maine. Not only is he a gracious host, he allows me to be a mojo whore and doesn't charge a thing to stand on his virtual street corner. THANKS, BiPM!
JEERS to automobiles. I have a Suburban, a Ford Escort, and a Toyota Supra. Guess which one's running? My credit card melted after I filled up the last time - 44 gallons at $3.19 per gallon. OUCH!
CHEERS to lowering oil prices! Down from $111 to $102.54 yesterday! Maybe I'll only have to melt one more credit card to fill up the Suburban.
JEERS to 5 years in Iraq. 'nuff said.
CHEERS to politics. It might be a dirty, dirty game, but its a hell of a way to keep your heart rate up!
CHEERS to Spongebob Squarepants! I dunno why...I just love that show.
CHEERS to Firefox. Gotta love being able to open diaries and recommended articles in different tabs. My back button hasn't been used in months!
GRATUITOUS CEILING CAT PIC!
Can Johnny McVain become President?
We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming, already in progress. Join us next week - same C&J time, same C&J channel!
We...join arm in arm and decide we are going to remake this country block by block, precinct by precinct, county by county, state by state - that's what hope is.
by DemocraticOz on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 05:54:49 AM PDT
means what George W. Bush thinks it means.
by JoeW on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 05:57:43 AM PDT
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I do not mean to pry, but you don't by any chance happen to have six fingers on your right hand?
Do you always begin conversations this way?
by DemocraticOz on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 06:00:12 AM PDT
I have been seeing it all over. I mean, I know it is a normal thing to say, but it seems as if everyone is referring to some cultural icon that I don't get (Seinfeld, maybe?). Thanks for enlightening me.
by annetteboardman on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 06:00:13 AM PDT
So long as men die, Liberty will never perish. -- Charlie Chaplin, "The Great Dictator"
by khereva on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 06:01:18 AM PDT
Vizzini, in "The Princess Bride" (illustrated above), is always saying "Inconceivable!" (Or, actually, "Incontheevable!")to things that are about to happen.
Finally the Mandy Patinkin character, Inigo Montoya, says to him, "I do not think that word means what you think it means."
For some reason, one of my favorite lines in the movie.
by JoeW on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 06:04:00 AM PDT
I wonder why it has just in the last month popped up all over? Must mean I need to see the movie again. It has been years.
by annetteboardman on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 06:05:08 AM PDT
waitingforvizzini, who is named after the character...
by JoeW on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 06:06:08 AM PDT
I've never seen the movie so I was clueless also and have seen several references lately. I take it it's worth seeing?
"It's the Supreme Court, Stupid!"
by Kestrel on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 06:12:43 AM PDT
I like it. DOn't think it is as brilliant as some do, but it is really worth seeing. The book is good, too.
by annetteboardman on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 06:14:28 AM PDT
How did I miss that?! Imma have to read the book now...that movie remains one of my all time favorites.
"Sell not Virtue to purchase wealth, nor Liberty to purchase power." Benjamin Franklin
by Mewkey on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 06:30:47 AM PDT
made into movies (not all, but most), it's better than the movie (more jokes & content). That said, The Princess Bride was a great movie, very fun.
"My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die!"
Words to live by.
Book excerpts: nonlynnear; other writings: mofembot.
by mofembot on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 06:36:38 AM PDT
by Mewkey on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 06:44:28 AM PDT
I actually for the first time ever, felt exactly the opposite. I found the book so odd, and the movie so wonderful!
"We struck down evil with the mighty sword of teamwork and the hammer of not bickering!" - The Shoveler
by Pandoras Box on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 06:45:18 AM PDT
And I was glad they kept a flavour of the book in the Peter Falk/Fred Savage interludes. I'm an unabashed fan of Goldman's though, so I'm biased -- I've probably read 90% of his works. Hey, anyone who wrote the screenplays for All The President's Men and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is okay in my book.
"If I can't dance, I don't want to be in your revolution." -- Emma Goldman; -8.38, -8.36
by seenaymah on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 06:59:08 AM PDT
The Good Parts version by William Goldman.
by khereva on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 06:47:42 AM PDT
by Mewkey on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 06:56:12 AM PDT
The gist is that Godlman presents this as a book that was read to him as a child, that he loved. When he grew up, he says, he found a copy of it, and read it-- and hated it. It was tedious, long, boring, etc. So he set out to write the version that was read to him, which only featured the "Good Parts."
Think of it as a fictitiously created Reader's Digest Condensed Book, for which the process created something great out of something awful.
Hence the elaborate framing sequence in the film of the grandfather reading to the grandson.
by khereva on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 06:59:39 AM PDT
And the list of books I need to read continues to grow...
by Mewkey on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 07:05:40 AM PDT
... is this a "kissing" book?
President Barack Obama. I *like* the sound of that!
by BlueSky221 on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 07:08:03 AM PDT
You may find that you don't mind kissing so much."
by khereva on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 12:26:00 PM PDT
It's really a great movie. Also, possibly one of the most-quoted movies in history. Lots of lines.
Hello. My name is Inego Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.
by classico on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 06:24:30 AM PDT
by mofembot on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 06:37:26 AM PDT
The accent sells it.
Has anyone mentioned the sound track? You cannot beat the underappreciated Mark Knopfler soundtrack.
by Fungible Chattel on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 06:57:59 AM PDT
and the nice thing is it's worth seeing with the tots, too. One of the few movies The Family Agrees upon.
sure, you want to buy some refugee crafts.
by katier on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 06:29:47 AM PDT
very tongue in cheek and imho the movie is actually much better than the book, which i found odd and disjointed.
by Pandoras Box on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 06:44:31 AM PDT
seen the movie first, the book will probably not make as good an impression as it did on us (we'd read it long before the movie came out).
by mofembot on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 06:59:21 AM PDT
Mandy Patinkins and Andre the Giant's best roles. Great writing. Clever and yet warm.
by UkieOli on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 06:55:31 AM PDT
by Pandoras Box on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 06:43:33 AM PDT
by JoeW on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 06:49:10 AM PDT
by UkieOli on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 06:58:42 AM PDT
[-6.25, -5.59] "The love you take is equal to the love you make." - J. Lennon, P. McCartney
by Phil N DeBlanc on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 08:48:50 AM PDT
signing or vetoing legislation, and protecting the Constitution of the United States.
I'm pretty sure it does NOT involve wiping his ass with said Constitution, bankruping the nation, destroying the military, enraging the rest of the world against us, and (in short) double dog daring the citizenry on a daily basis to have him torn apart by lions.
by khereva on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 06:00:52 AM PDT
wide narrow
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