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22:11 / 24.05.07

I'll second TTS, even though it's not random.

22:25 / 24.05.07

I'll third, TTS.

Still on-topic, MMM's random thought did inspire my own half-random 'no understudy could do it quite as well.' Reflex person/presence-preservation drive.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

23:11 / 24.05.07

The upside, I've found, to not having a garden and therefore having to take your dog round the local common last thing at night so she can go to the toilet, is the realisation that should one be mugged (which fortunately hasn't happened in this situation thus far), then, depending on the particular point of the walk at which this happens, one will have a bag of shit with which to defend oneself.

I mean, my personal jury's still out on whether a pound of protection does, in fact, beat an ounce of lead, but I reckon a flimsy plastic bag of poo applied vigorously to the face could probably be MADE OF WIN.

12:40 / 26.05.07

Las Vegas is one crazy fuckin` town

Keep in mind this is 7am and I really should get some sleep before Monday

18:18 / 26.05.07

oh crap, who needs sleep anyways?

09:43 / 29.05.07

The terror of unplanned pregnancy

Our Lady Has Left the Building

18:46 / 12.06.07

The Kaiser Chief's new single is called 'Everything is average nowadays'... It's like a perfect joke wrapped up in itself isn't it?

20:24 / 12.06.07

Like a mystery, wrapped in an enigma, sequestered within a puzzle, tied around a brick used to throw at some elitist, sneering, questionably musical bastards?

20:35 / 15.06.07

I really don't like the Kaiser Chiefs. They occupy the same annoying headspace as Jimmy Fucking Carr.

Anyway. Today's piece of trivia, for those as want it:

When Comedy Central showed The Big Lebowski, they obviously wanted to sort out some of the expletive dialogue to make it tv-friendly. However, when you run up against Walter beating the mortal shit out of a car while shouting:

"DO YOU SEE WHAT HAPPENS, LARRY? Do you see what happens when you FUCK a STRANGER in the ASS?

They had a problem in miniature. So, they overdubbed it.

However, they followed in the bad ("Maggotfarmer", "Muddyfunster") tradition of overdubbing. And so, as if by magic, Walter's rant transformed into a piece of aggressive existentialist thinking, as he was edited to shout:

"Do you See what Happens, Larry? Do you See What Happens, When you FIND a STRANGER in the ALPS?"

And that about made my day. Courtesy, I grant you, of IMDB, where the facts aren't necessarily facts, but don't let that get in the way of a story.

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16:01 / 18.06.07

It would be fun* to just chant "spork malpractice! spork malpractice!" at anyone demonstrating incurable idiocy until they get tired and go away.

*if ultimately unconstructive

17:40 / 18.06.07

I always get confused between Bernard Manning, racist comedian, and Bernard Matthews, turkey farmer.

jentacular dreams

21:48 / 18.06.07

Why is the concept of eternal sleep always bandied about as an ideal? Surely (dreams and feeling rested aside), the fun of sleeping is largely in the half conscious periods of falling asleep and waking up?

10:34 / 19.06.07

well, as a child i was always confusing Jim Bowen and Jim Morrison. imagine!

10:56 / 20.06.07

I reckon a lot of people drive drunk. A very lot. All the time.

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19:21 / 21.06.07

I wonder how many times I make posts in different threads that are exactly an hour apart.

12:53 / 22.06.07

upon reading this:"but whenever they have those hate stories in the tabs about Maxine Carr, I like to mentally replace the word "Maxine" with the word "Jimmy".

I thought this: "I have no idea who "Maxine" is. Or "Jimmy". But it is oddly pleasing to replace both of them with "Emily". Enough with the fucking totem poles already!

My Mom Thinks I'm Cool

13:30 / 22.06.07

so there's this ad in the subway of a wooden rollercoaster and it says something about how it's what trees dream of being when they grow up.

and at first I was pissed in a fuck you asshole, trees want to be Big Trees when they grow up! way. but through a long line of conjecture involving trees and death I ended up thinking about living in a much cooler world than this one, in which roller coasters are built out of human bones, and would I like my bones to be in a roller coaster? FUCK YEAH.

I mean, it'd suck to be hunted down and killed by Roller Coaster Harvest Men before my time, or to live my whole life in cramped conditions in a People Farm so I could be turned into roller coaster parts. but regardless, I can think of worse things for my bones to be used for than making little kids happy. in the real world, for instance, they'd just end up making my bones into a big throne for Donald Trump to sit on or something, and no thanks.

I'm always trying to convince my relatives to eat me after I die so my meat can live on in their meat, or at least to throw me off a cliff in a nature reserve somewhere so I can feed Coyotes or something. but they're never going to go for it.

anyway...trying to follow this to its natural conclusion, the ULTIMATE thing I'd like my body to be made into would be for someone to make my femurs into battle clubs. and use them to fight THE MAN! or Donald Trump. or the Roller Coaster Harvest Men. or, uhm, aliens. bad ones.

Mon Oncle Ignatius

12:20 / 27.06.07

I do believe for a moment or ten, until such time as Gordon B takes up the post of running her government, that the UK is currently under the direct rule of Lizzy II.

12:34 / 27.06.07

"Do you See what Happens, Larry? Do you See What Happens, When you FIND a STRANGER in the ALPS?"

This made my month.

Easily.

12:34 / 27.06.07

Oh, is that what this feeling is?

12:40 / 27.06.07

(that in reference to the QE II observation. I know full well what finding a stranger in the alps feels like.)

Mon Oncle Ignatius

13:14 / 27.06.07

It's OK! Don't worry, democratic control is restored. "There's never a frown, with Gordon Brown".

13:55 / 27.06.07

Yep, that finding a stranger in the Alps buisness is funking quality, goddamn hilarious in fact....

14:29 / 27.06.07

Doesn't always have to be funny.

Uh!

dija just make a shaun of the dead funking reference?
(and should I write in my journal me getting it as a geek street cred?)

15:57 / 27.06.07

Making people's months makes my day.

Prosaic as it is.

11:31 / 28.06.07

Tony Blair, Britain's favourite son, comes to the end of his ten-year domination of politics.
Harry Potter, Britain's favourite son, comes to the end of his ten-year domination of publishing.

Coincidence?

13:26 / 28.06.07

On July 01, the Hotel Adlon wants to celebrate its 100th anniversary with more than 100 Berliners that are 100 years old. Me being a staunch pessimist, I can´t help but wonder how it would reflect on the festivities if one of the guests should die while eating their cake. Haven´t the Adlon P.R. people ever heard of Murphy´s Law? And I´m a bit surprised that there even are more than 100 people that age in town.

13:37 / 28.06.07

I was charmed by a late 1990s tendency among many south Londoners to use the word ‘football’ as an overall adjective of approbation.

Barbelith: it's football

03:35 / 04.07.07

Changing my name here from it's current form to 'Stick, Here for the Dip' would probably come off far more offensive and baiting than intended.

16:45 / 06.07.07

A thought to take away with you for the weekend;

I am convinced that, at 37 seconds into "Take on Me" by A-Ha, Morton Harkett has a very quiet, very restrained, and very melodic orgasm.

All together now;

Ah-uh-uh-ah-ah

Probably not, though.

Jawsus-son Starship

16:58 / 06.07.07

I heard on a commentary for The Simpsons that the reason why the later series (nine onwards) are not as funny as the early stuff is because they're twenty one minutes long instead of twenty three. This has left my wondering exactly how small the line between greatness and mediocrity is, because it surely can't be just two minutes?

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

17:15 / 06.07.07

This has left my wondering exactly how small the line between greatness and mediocrity is, because it surely can't be just two minutes?

Obviously, you've not met my ex-boyfriends.

jentacular dreams

17:34 / 06.07.07

I don't buy that - a shorter length surely leaves less time for 'filler' humour? Although it maybe partly responsible for the slight rise in plot incoherence.

jentacular dreams

17:34 / 06.07.07

That last one to kali *obviously*.

Jawsus-son Starship

17:39 / 06.07.07

I don't buy that - a shorter length surely leaves less time for 'filler' humour? Although it maybe partly responsible for the slight rise in plot incoherence.

I'd argue that the most genius moments in the simpsons are the random moments. But I think that the time length issue is a bit of a misnomer; the real reason the quality of the shows have dropped is because all the simpler ideas for shows have been used up, so now they just scrape the crazy barrel to fill another twenty one minutes.

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