“That’s just the engine powering up… that’s just the engine struggling… that’s just a carp swimming around your ankles…” – Homer Simpson Recently I took a trip to Europe. I have never flown over the Atlantic before, but on this flight everyone had their own little TV screen built into the headrest of the seat in front of them. I found this to be quite nice; an 8 hour flight in coach sucks, but it is much easier when you have a decent handful of free movies and tv shows with which to entertain yourself. One of the TV…
Day: August 20, 2009
And It’s Not Even Close
Apparently Jerry Seinfeld is coming to Ottawa. This prompted a columnist in The Ottawa Citizen to praise Seinfeld and his show for being second only to Shakespeare in terms of adding “catchphrases” to the language. That’s all well and good, but this paragraph cannot go unremarked upon: Most catchphrases are pure confection and essentially hollow: think of the greatest hits of Seinfeld’s closest competitor in numbers, The Simpsons: “D’oh!” or “don’t have a cow” or “eat my shorts” are memorable, but they don’t really say anything that we didn’t already know how to say ourselves, though perhaps not so memorably.…
Quote of the Day
“First, let me assure you that this is not one of those shady pyramid schemes you’ve been hearing about. No, sir! Our model is the trapezoid, that guarantees each investor an 800% return within hours of your initial . . . uh oh, the cops!” – “Million$ for Nothing” Guy