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D2 ([personal profile] greybeta) wrote2005-12-28 01:37 pm

TU Cent Thoughts, 12-28-05

*EDIT*: I am so uncultured I have never seen some movie called "The Princess Bride."

Administration
Cleaned up my bio a bit more and added some stories. Eventually I will have to write up some of the good Quiz Bowl memories

Making enemies
It is said that you can only make enemies by talking politics and religion. I want to teach AP American Government. I'm going to be making a lot of enemies.

Project report
Thirty pages in Vietnamese from Dad. Now comes the tough part of translation.

Medical
Doctor agreed to reduce dosage in half. Yay!

Convos of the day
[D2 calls Kat, gets her voicemail message]
Kat: Hi, you've reached Kat but she is unavailable right now. She's off fighting a dragon. One of three things has happened to her...*
D2: [Laughs] This is hilarious!
*-Corrected message posted in comments

[Kat calls D2 back]
D2: Hello.
Kat: Hey!
D2: Hello?
Kat: Hey it's Kat!
D2: Hellllllooooooo?
Kat: Can year hear me...
D2: Oh, hey, if you've just heard three "hello's" then D2 is currently available...or he just doesn't want answer your phone call. You know what to do after the tone, right? Alright.
[beep]
Kat: You have an evil voicemail message.

Kat: A lot of people get nervous about getting into the education program here.
D2: Arkansas and Oklahoma just want teachers, period. How awkward.
Kat: There you go again. You're using awkward wrong.
D2: No I'm not.
[Kat defines awkward from a dictionary]
D2: How awkward.

Maph: A part of you dies in Iraq, another part of you wakes up.
D2: Whoa, that's profound stuff, samurai Maph.
Maph: Man, it sucks here. They're paying us to die.
D2: I thought they were paying you to protect America's interest.
Maph: Dude, we do "patrols" where we're just asking to get shot. And we can't do anything until the bomb is about to explode next to us. Freaking strict ROE, man.
D2: Sounds tough.
Maph: I'm getting those bastards back for taking my first sergeant and friend.
D2: What happened?
Maph: One was killed in a VBIED, the other in an IED.
D2: VBIED, and IED?
Maph: Vehicle Born Improvised Explosive Device and Improvised Explosive Device.
D2: Ewwwwwwwwwwwww.

Quote of the Day
"Reading Daniel's Xanga is like watching softcore porn on Cinemax. It's all fake and contrived and doesn't go anywhere, but you keep reading in hopes that it might eventually get interesting."
~Random Jameson

Links of the Day
I totally missed the memo that first class postage will be 39 cents starting Jan. 8.

BlogPulse lists its Top 25 posts of the year. [livejournal.com profile] wicked_wish has the number 10 and number 14 posts of the year.

Sports Report
Sidney Crosby may be a phenom, but he can't save the Penguins by himself. Or hockey, for that matter.

Movie Watch
I should be able to go see Syriana this Thursday with lucky Andy.

A question on politics
Apparently, not very many social conservative but economic liberal people voted for Bush in the last election. Then again, a lot of people tell me that there are not very many people who are socially conservative but ecomically liberal in the first place.

Am I really that unusual?
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[identity profile] zarhooie.livejournal.com 2005-12-28 08:10 pm (UTC)(link)
The actual voicemail is this:
Hello, this is Kat's voicemail. Kat has gone off to fight dragons.
If you are getting this message, one of three things has happened.
A, Kat is still fighting dragons
B, Kat got eaten by the dragons
C, Kat got distracted on the way to the dragon lair and is actually somewhere in the vicinity of Fangorn and is chilling with Treebeard.

You choose.
In any case, voicemail's purpose is to leave messages for Kat when she is not around. I suggest you do this at the tone. Thanks! *toooone*

Secondly, the exact quote was, "you keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." which is a quote from "The Princess Bride" which you have not seen. A plauge on your house.

[identity profile] odclay.livejournal.com 2005-12-28 08:37 pm (UTC)(link)
"What about the Arr-Oh-Yoo-Esses?"
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[identity profile] greybeta.livejournal.com 2005-12-28 09:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Rouses, what are those?

[identity profile] odclay.livejournal.com 2005-12-28 09:56 pm (UTC)(link)
An ROUS. Rodent Of Unusual Size.

[identity profile] yndy.livejournal.com 2005-12-28 08:54 pm (UTC)(link)
And the only appropriate response?

"Inconcievable!!

;)
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[identity profile] greybeta.livejournal.com 2005-12-28 09:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Sadly, I still know the reference to "I am Inigo Montoya..."
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[identity profile] zarhooie.livejournal.com 2005-12-28 10:44 pm (UTC)(link)
but he does not know what it means and so he keeps using it.... my poor father, he turns in his grave. /inigo.
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[identity profile] greybeta.livejournal.com 2005-12-28 09:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Princess Bride? What in Gondor is that?
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[identity profile] zarhooie.livejournal.com 2005-12-28 10:45 pm (UTC)(link)
:P

If you haven't read the book, you're missing out on most of the fun

[identity profile] fub.livejournal.com 2005-12-29 09:09 am (UTC)(link)
which is a quote from "The Princess Bride" which you have not seen. A plauge on your house.
Really, the movie is only so-so. Fun, but it leaves out the vital issue: the book is very, very boring, and the father leaves out all the not-interesting parts when reading it to his son.

Really, get the book. It's so much better and funnier.