Friday Five

1. What's your favorite line from a movie, and why? Okay, it’s a little graphic but I LOVED this quote from Team America World Police
“See, there's three kinds of people: dicks, pussies, and assholes. Pussies think everyone can get along, and dicks just want to fuck all the time without thinking it through. But then you got your assholes, Chuck. And all the assholes want is to shit all over everything! So, pussies may get mad at dicks once in a while, because pussies get fucked by dicks. But dicks also fuck assholes, Chuck. And if they didn't fuck the assholes, you know what you'd get? You'd get your dick and your pussy all covered in shit!”

2. Who's your favorite villain from a movie, and why?
Col. Nathan R. Jessep from “A Few Good Men”. Jack Nicholson was so tough and condescending. I just loved him in that movie and that closing court scene stands as the only piece of cinema I can watch with Tom Cruise in it without being a little sick.

3. Name one movie everyone else loves that you hate.
Spiderman. Everyone I know loves that movie, but Tobey Maguire is on my last nerve. With great power comes great responsibility… okay, okay I get it now do I have to hear that for another hour and 45 minutes…..

4. Name one movie everyone else hates that you love.
High Society. This is the last movie of Grace Kelly (before she went and got herself crowned) and stars Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra. It is the only movie I like to watch when I am sick and could watch it over and over again without stopping. Most people cannot stand it; some hate it because it is a remake of the Philadelphia Story and “Katherine Hepburn did a much better job” and for the rest, they just hate that it’s a musical.


5. What's your favorite Pixar film, and why?
Finding Nemo, because it was the first movie my niece could watch all the way through and I was just so relieved to be able to watch a movie from start to finish :-)

I interrupt your viewing pleasure with this moment of lunatic punditry

So in my job I receive a lot of correspondence from International Companies. I usually rely on Babel fish translation as a means to understand what the question is and what the person needs from me.

Today my translation from Korean to English yielded me this gem:

“How are you. It is an ammonium sulfate B. ^ It is contacted just now in the most yearly good Sea the bedspread. The Alliance it says that the registration card Fax sample which it publishes from the nation of the Alliance is necessary. (In example hold our company it is cotton business owner registration card.) After being possible, until week Monday entrusting it gives. If until Hog Monday it is impossible and by morning it receives Tuesday and certainly it does. It says that cannot receive the registration card the case remittance is cancelled. The case which it will receive until Monday in Yoo rim Sea the staring nine bedspread, The case which it will receive until Monday in Yoo rim Sea the staring nine bedspread, which it will receive Tuesday when it is given to me. Be like that good one day. ^ Ammonium sulfate or streamer.”

Now because it starts with a simple question How are you, it set’s the expectation that the rest of the translation will be somewhat reasonable. A thought that immediately goes out the window when the person advises you, oh it’s me ammonium sulfate B. ^. After that the gibberish just gets funnier…. Climaxing with what I can only assume is a dire warning to be good or risk turning into either Ammonium sulfate or a streamer.

Upon deep discussion with D, I am now of the impression this wasn’t simply a missive which was poorly translated but a surrealist piece of art worthy of sharing to all. Even at the risk that cults will rise out to celebrate on all Hog Monday or that the great Yoo rim Sea the staring nine bedspread is always watching.

Squirrel Boy Strikes Again!!

As if I needed further proof that squirrel boy enjoys wreaking havoc....