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Post by AQUA SALZ! on Feb 10, 2024 0:23:31 GMT 1
“Uh, um. Yes. Uh, was there a sequence that you liked very much from, uh, Pussycat?”
“Yes. I liked the, my favorite sequence was the, the, um, scene just before the first reel, uh, that goes, uh, ‘XXX-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1-0.’”
“What is it that appeals… to you about that?”
“I thought that had the most… social satire in it of anything in the film.”
“It had a message?”
“Yes.”
“Uh, do you feel the message was just directed at you, or…?”
“No, no, no, that was, the message was universal in that.”
“What was the message?”
“That, uhh, numerals can descend in order if placed properly.”
“Well, if that was the, to your mind the best scene, what, uh, what was the worst?”
“Uhh… The scene between the start of Reel 1 and the part that says, ‘The End.’”
“Was that a, a particularly long scene?”
“Uh, it was about, uh, close to two hours.”
“Hmm. Was there nothing in that, in that, uh, two-hour scene that, uh, that you found was slightly amusing?”
“Um, yeah, somewhere in the middle there was a, there was a shot of the sky that was rather… puckish.”
“What was the appeal about the sky?”
“Uhhum. Just the shade of blue that it was at the moment. {Giggling} Kind of a funny shade of blue, if you know how blue can occasionally be really funny.”
“What’s it like to go to the, uh, Academy Awards ceremony?”
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Post by AQUA JAR!™ on Feb 12, 2024 18:15:34 GMT 1
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Post by AQUA CAT! on Feb 18, 2024 5:36:05 GMT 1
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Post by AQUA CAT! on Feb 24, 2024 6:33:43 GMT 1
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Post by AQUA SALZ! on Mar 6, 2024 3:01:46 GMT 1
Gotta love YouTube comments:
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Post by AQUA CAT! on Mar 14, 2024 0:02:31 GMT 1
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Post by AQUA SALZ! on Mar 15, 2024 21:20:09 GMT 1
Seventh-grade English class. My teacher, to whom I’m forever indebted because she introduced me to poetry, writes on the board, “BEWARE THE IDES OF MARCH.” She asks us kids what it means. We don’t know. She turns it into a game, a riddle, a 20 Questions: We have to ask her questions until someone figures out what it means. After she’d gotten everyone’s interest, especially after she started proclaiming the phrase in the oral equivalent of all-caps, we poked and prodded and eventually, with her responses, got the story.
And that’s how I learned about the Ides. I think of that story every March 15.
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Post by AQUA CAT! on Mar 20, 2024 0:39:59 GMT 1
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Post by AQUA SALZ! on Mar 20, 2024 4:56:54 GMT 1
Bob Living is a left-handed gentleman from New South Wales, Australia, who was—and, of course, was not—in Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.A., on October 28, 2023.
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Post by AQUA SALZ! on Mar 22, 2024 18:23:53 GMT 1
Dear Chess.Com, I have been trying for a week to sign up for Chess.com, yet every time I try to write in my user name in the box it says I must use only Latin letters and Latin numbers. I don't know Latin, and I do not want to use it anyway in my user name. What am I doing wrong?
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Post by AQUA CAT! on Mar 23, 2024 16:36:11 GMT 1
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Post by AQUA SALZ! on Mar 25, 2024 18:16:48 GMT 1
I am going to sit here and stare at this screen and say that I never want to look at a screen again.
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Post by AQUA SALZ! on Mar 28, 2024 22:04:10 GMT 1
How I’m feeling today:
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Post by AQUA CAT! on Mar 29, 2024 3:56:58 GMT 1
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Post by AQUA SALZ! on Mar 29, 2024 18:07:46 GMT 1
As a Catholic, I’m a very good Protestant.
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Post by AQUA SALZ! on Mar 30, 2024 22:18:52 GMT 1
When I was in high school I was told I looked like Orson Welles (meaning, I hope, the handsome rascal who married Rita Hayworth, not the fat burbler who rambled drunkenly about peas).
Now I just looked at a picture of myself and I look like Chandler Bing. I don’t know.
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Post by AQUA SALZ! on Apr 1, 2024 20:35:59 GMT 1
David Hyde Pierce being cool and witty:
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Post by AQUA SALZ! on Apr 5, 2024 22:41:01 GMT 1
By a fellow editor with whom I used to correspond:
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Post by AQUA SALZ! on Apr 9, 2024 18:59:18 GMT 1
Sometimes I want to have a Twitter account just so that I can quote great, nerdy things like, prompting responses of “Huh?” and “Weird.” But then my rationality kicks in and I realize it’s not worth it.
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Post by AQUA CAT! on Apr 11, 2024 2:13:06 GMT 1
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Post by AQUA SALZ! on Apr 12, 2024 1:33:27 GMT 1
Mailman, a real good guy, pulled up yesterday. “What’s new with you?” he says. “Everything good?” “Everything’s good,” say I. “How about you?” “Yeah, everything good?” he repeats. “Anything new with you? Not married yet, no girlfriend?” “I keep hoping,” I say, thinking that it must be really bad if even the mailman’s remarking on it. Then I see this cartoon. Ha.
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Post by AQUA CAT! on Apr 19, 2024 18:20:04 GMT 1
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Post by WOLVERINE JACK! on Apr 23, 2024 23:39:16 GMT 1
When I wear my Kraken cap people assume I am a fan of hockey. I have to explain that I am just a fan of squids!
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Post by AQUA SALZ! on Apr 25, 2024 0:18:25 GMT 1
I have decided to quit my job and become either a clownish monk or a monkish clown. I’m not sure which yet, but I’ll let you know when I do.
Or, more accurately, I will not let you know, because the monastery or circus I will end up joining will strictly ban internet access. Either way and in either location, I intend to remain faithful to my vows until approximately 10 a.m. tomorrow, when I will restart my little office job of putting commas in the right place.
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Post by AQUA SALZ! on Apr 26, 2024 4:53:22 GMT 1
Did you ever notice that the know-it-alls always know nothing?
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Post by AQUA SALZ! on Apr 26, 2024 21:35:21 GMT 1
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Post by WOLVERINE JACK! on Apr 28, 2024 22:51:15 GMT 1
Bruh he’s from the greatest generation. They low key fought the nazis.
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Post by AQUA SALZ! on Apr 29, 2024 3:13:44 GMT 1
Bruh he’s from the greatest generation. They low key fought the nazis. High-key too!
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Post by AQUA SALZ! on Apr 29, 2024 3:20:27 GMT 1
my little office job of putting commas in the right place. I was at an office party in March where I started talking to this girl who doesn’t work in my office but was invited by a coworker. She asked what I do. I said I’m an editor. (My phone wanted to autocorrect to “I said I’m an idiot.” Hardy har har, Apple Corporation.) Cool! she says. What do you do as an editor? Mostly I put the commas in the right place, I joke, as usual and weakly. No, seriously, I fact-check, fix grammar, punctuation, spelling. Also, I… Oh, she says. Couldn’t you install Grammarly to do that for you? Shut up! Shut up! Put me out of a job, why dontchya?! But no. I smiled, nodded, moved on to talking to the next person. Oh do I despise goddam office parties.
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Post by WOLVERINE JACK! on Apr 29, 2024 3:44:15 GMT 1
my little office job of putting commas in the right place. I was at an office party in March where I started talking to this girl who doesn’t work in my office but was invited by a coworker. She asked what I do. I said I’m an editor. (My phone wanted to autocorrect to “I said I’m an idiot.” Hardy har har, Apple Corporation.) Cool! she says. What do you do as an editor? Mostly I put the commas in the right place, I joke, as usual and weakly. No, seriously, I fact-check, fix grammar, punctuation, spelling. Also, I… Oh, she says. Couldn’t you install Grammarly to do that for you? Shut up! Shut up! Put me out of a job, why dontchya?! But no. I smiled, nodded, moved on to talking to the next person. Oh do I despise goddam office parties. I can’t help but imagine the auto correct exchange between two people at a party… “What do you do?” “I’m an idiot.” 😂
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