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[JoseSPiano]

In other news...

I've started a load of laundry.

[DERBRUCER]

GRATUITOUS POST 11,000

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[JoseSPiano]

[JoseSPiano]

GRATUITOUS POST 11,000

For your scrapbook:



der Brucer

I believe there's a visual echo in here!?!?

[JoseSPiano]

Before you leave the house in the morning, you may want to CLICK HERE.

[JoseSPiano]

DR Druxy - I hope all is going well in Austin, TX, today.

[JoseSPiano]

DR FJL - As for your keyboard's A/C adapter: Duct Tape.

As for your house not sliding down the hill: Duct Tape.



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[DERBRUCER]

I believe there's a visual echo in here!?!?

Well, in this case it's not too much of a good thing.

der Brucer

[singdaw]

Off to the land of Amahl.  If we get a break, I'll check in later.

[JoseSPiano]

DR Jennifer - "Distilled water" is made by boiling water and then collecting the steam via distillation in another container.  However, to help prevent traditional Chinese egg custard tarts from bubbling up too much, it help to boil the water before adding it to the custard mixture.  -Apparently, the boiling, boils out the oxygen.  Or something like that.

[JoseSPiano]

Off to the land of Amahl.  If we get a break, I'll check in later.

Ah, so you have yet to learn to "touch text" via your Blackberry.

[DERBRUCER]

LATIMES

WOODY ALLEN RECEIVES 19TH WGA NOM FOR 'VICKY CRISTINA'

"Milk," "The Wrestler" and "Dark Knight" also receive noms.
By Susan King
January 7, 2009

Woody Allen received his 19th screenplay nomination from the Writers Guild of America Wednesday for his romantic comedy “ Vicky Cristina Barcelona.” Allen, 73, has previously won the WGA award for original screenplay for “Annie Hall,” “Broadway Danny Rose,” “Hannah and Her Sisters” and “Crimes & Misdemeanors.”

Joining Allen in the original screenplay category are Joel Coen & Ethan Coen for “ Burn After Reading” — the brothers won the guild’s award for adapted screenplay last year for “No Country For Old Men” — Dustin Lance Black for “Milk,” Tom McCarthy for “The Visitor” and Robert Siegel for “The Wrestler.”

Nominated for best adapted screenplay are “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” screenplay by Eric Roth, screen story by Roth and Robin Swicord, based on the short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald; “ The Dark Knight,” screenplay by Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan, story by Christopher Nolan & David S. Goyer, based on the characters appearing on comic books published by DD Comics; Batman created by Bob Kane; “ Doubt,” screenplay by John Patrick Shanley based on his stage play; “ Frost/Nixon,” screenplay by Peter Morgan based on his stage play; and “ Slumdog Millionaire,” screenplay by Simon Beaufoy based on the novel “Q and A” by Vikas Swarup.
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Competing in the documentary screenplay categories are “Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story,” written by Stefan Forbes and Noland Walker; “Chicago 10,” written by Brett Morgen: “Fuel,” written by Johnny O’Hara; “Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson,” screenplay by Alex Gibney from the words of Hunter S. Thompson; and “Waltz with Bashir,” written by Ari Folman.
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[Matt H.]

Favorite game show would be $64,000 Question because the questions were all on the one topic you chose for yourself before the competition started. So, I could pick something like Hitchcock movies or Sondheim musicals and try to win with my knowledge of those.

I used to have a fair amount of general knowledge, but as the years have passed, my use for that general knowledge has lessened, and I've forgotten so much so a show like JEOPARDY or MILLIONAIRE wouldn't suit me now.

[Matt H.]

The mother lode of review deliveries occurred today. I got three TV box sets (two of them due next Tuesday!), two Criterion movies, and a COmedy Central stand-up special.

[Matt H.]

I began my afternoon watching another NCIS episode. This one involved a stalker after Abby and the numerous ways the gang were trying to protect her. Good little twist at the end.

[Laura]

I would never want to be on a game show. However, DR Sandra would probably do very well on any show that asks for trivial information. After all, what can you do with a B.A. in English? (An Avenue Q reference.)

[Laura]

In other news...

I've started a load of laundry.

I went to the mall.

Is there some requirement now that everything in malls must be ugly?

[bk]

I've been outside going through boxes so they can then be put away in their proper place.  When this is all done (tomorrow, I expect) it will be great - I'll even take photographs - should have taken a before and after, actually.

[bk]

I don't know that I'll get much writing done today, but I'm going to try and do a couple of pages right now.  And yes, I have found some very interesting things, including a few rare CDs, which some of you may or may not be interested in.  I'll do a little list later.

[Matt H.]

Then I began my review work with Season 2 of Andy Griffith's MATLOCK. I only got 2 1/4 episodes watched because (a) the season premiere was a 96-minute episode, and (b) we had a power outage that interrupted viewing for a bit.

By season 2, Linda Purl had left the show and been replaced with Nancy Stafford. The first was a real murder mystery. The second was a COLUMBO-style episode where we see David Ogden Stiers kill Greg Mullavey and then try to pin it on Mullavey's battered girl friend.

[Matt H.]

The episode I got about 10 minutes into involved a man killed once his wives found out he was a bigamist. The "latest" wife was a friend of Matlock's law clerk, so that's how he gets roped into the case for no money.

[Matt H.]

I did skim through today's AS THE WORLD TURNS. Nothing, but the boys were in tomorrow's previews. (No Brian, unfortunately, at least not in the previews.)

[Jennifer]

Jennifer you will be able to find gallon sized bottles of distilled water in the cleaning aisle oy your supermarket and tehy should be very cheap.  

If you are not able to go out today and just want tot ry the mop one time I am sure one run with regular tap water will not destroy the mop - they are talking about mineral  buildup over a period of time.


BTW which mop do you have?  I have been very tempted by the "Shark" since I have a lot of hard wood floors and tile floors, but the $69 + price tag keeps me from buying it... if it's the best thing since sliced bread please let me know 

It is the Shark. It was $20 off (although i did not pay for it). I'll let you know. I think i will wait to use the distilled water.  The dirty floor can just wait a day!

[Jennifer]

I have a hand steamer (i guess that is what DR RonP has) and now i have the steam mop. I love the hand steamer because it cleans things well and you don't have to use chemicals.

I love the idea of the steam mop. I hope it works. The idea of those dirty disgusting mops dragging dirt all over the floor was making me ill.

[bk]

Just did four pages, so that's good.  I'll do one or two more later tonight.

[Matt H.]

I guess I'll stop surfing now and head back downstairs to continue with MATLOCK. There are quite a few discs in this second season set.

WBBL.

[Ron Pulliam]

In other news...

I've started a load of laundry.

I went to the mall.

Is there some requirement now that everything in malls must be ugly?

I've slapped myself silly, and I want you all to know it!

[elmore3003]

Does no one else harbor secret hopes of being on a TV game show?


(of course I am too lazy to do anything about trying to find out how to actually apply to be a contestant but maybe someday Howie Mandel will show up at my house and ask me to be on the show... could happen!)

I always wanted to be on Password (I just reviewed a magnificent set of the 1962-67 CBS version).  I also harbored secret fantasties of being able to use "smidge" as a clue, delivered in that weird, elongated, questioning manner that they used, usually to get them to say the opposite.  I am known for saying "smidge" in that manner for no reason whatsoever.

And what would be the "opposite" of "smidge"?

I'm guessing some would say, "That's easy...it's 'alot'!.  But, of course, "alot" is not a word.  And "lot" wouldn't work

So...."smidge...?"....should elicit.....?..."heaping?"...or "excessive?"

Since "smidge" is a diminutive of "Smidgen" the Word Central student thesaurus lists these antonyms:

abundance, barrel, bucket, bushel, deal, gobs, heaps, loads, mass, mountain, much, peck, pile, plenty, profusion, quantity, raft, scads, stack, wad, wealth; volume; embarrassment, excess, overabundance, overage, overflow, overkill, overmuch, oversupply, superabundance, superfluity, surfeit, surplus; chunk, hunk, lump, slab

[JoseSPiano]

I've slapped myself silly, and I want you all to know it!

Is that what happened to DR DingMaw?

[elmore3003]

Because you asked...



der Brucer

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