“Do the toilets go backwards here?” – Bart Simpson “No, to combat homesickness we’ve installed a device that makes them swirl the correct, American way.” – Amb. Avril Ward
Category: QotD
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“I’m sorry, I can’t divulge information about that customer’s secret, illegal account. . . . Oh, crap, I shouldn’t have said he was a customer. . . . Oh, crap, I shouldn’t have said it was a secret. . . . Oh, crap! I certainly shouldn’t have said it was illegal. . . . Ah, it’s too hot today.” – Cayman Islands Offshore Banker
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“You see anything yet?” – Chief Wiggum “Nothing, captain. Somebody took all the beer and cold cuts.” – Lou “That’s it. I’m not even casting off until we go to the store.” – Chief Wiggum
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“More friends! More allies! More, I say! Hang those who talk of less! There’s a few inches over here! Ho!” – Martin Prince
Quote of the Day and Site Update
“I just want to entertain!” – Itchy Actor As you may have noticed, this have not gotten off to the smoothest restart here. An annoying irony is I spent quite a bit of time the last two days working on a blog post, but it’s for work. What I wanted to be doing was a compare & contrast with Disclosure Day and either E.T. or Close Encounters of the Third Kind, sigh. On the book front, the first chapter went up in full on Saturday, but there won’t be a new section today. Sections 1 and 2 of Chapter 2 will…
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“They say he carved it himself, from a bigger spoon.” – Lenny
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“Everyone likes Whacking Day, but I hate it. Is there something wrong with me?” – Lisa Simpson “Yes, honey.” – Homer Simpson
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“Yeah, it’s a good idea, Homer, but they’ve already made some movies about World War II.” – Drunken Troy McClure “Aw, hell . . . well, what about Dracula?” – Homer Simpson
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“So that’s it, after twenty years: so long, good luck?” – Kirk van Houten “I don’t recall saying good luck.” – Cracker Factory Manager
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“It’s so unfair! Just because he’s different…” – Homer Simpson
Quote of the Day and a Quick Review of Backrooms
“Are you helping me or are you going on and on?” – Homer Simpson “Oh, right, and of course within we find the, uh, doomed individual.” – Prof. Frink [Note: a discussion of the ending of the movie is at the end of this post.] Having been largely shielded from the internet discussion of Backrooms, I went into the film and my subsequent reading of its Wikipedia page as a mostly blank slate. I had completely forgotten the “Backrooms” internet meme, but as a premise for a horror movie it’s a great one. What is this image if not an…
“Myth: cable piracy is wrong. Fact: cable companies are big faceless corporations which makes it okay.” – Homer Simpson Top Line: This movie should have been called “Keke and the Clothes Factory”, it’s weird, bright, funny, and very moral. Box Score: Runtime: | 1h54m MPAA Rating: | R – strong sexual content, nudity, language throughout and brief drug use. Sweatpants Rating: | PG-14 – Kids need to learn about shoplifting and that’s a good age for them to do so. Three Stars: | 1. LaKeith Stanfield – This is unfair since he gets the Mercutio role as a cunnilingual sex…
QotD and Actual Good Simpsons News
“It’s a good thing you drifted by this brothel.” – Chief Wiggum Back in 2012, one of this coolest things this blog ever did was score free tickets for commenter Hank Pumpkins to see Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play in Washington DC. You can read his review here. Well, it turns out the play (by Anne Washburn) is getting made into a movie (by Boots Riley). I found this out clicking on Boots’s IMDb just now before going to see I Love Boosters this later this afternoon. No cast or timeline according to this, but I never saw the play so this announcement…
QotD and Book Preview Explainer
“Sure, I may have offended a few of the blue nosers with my cocky stride and musky odors.” – Homer Simpson The site is starting to look like itself again, baby steps, but progress. The first of ten preview posts for We Kicked Their Ass is now up. This one contains the preface, the author’s note, and the first section of chapter one. A new post/section will be added every Wednesday and Saturday until Fourth of July. There is an email address box for those who might later like to order it (but no pre-orders yet). Work on this book…
Quote of the Day And More Site Crap
“Tis a fine barn, but sure tis no pool, English.” – Amish Guy “D’oheth!” – Homer Simpson From an ironic distance it’s impressive how WordPress as a platform has retained its ability to be worse than it was in 2009. As a user it is more frustrating, but on the internet someone else has always had the same problem, and god bless everyone who works on the “Classic Editor +” pluigin and the “Regular Blog” theme because this looked and functioned like shit and now that is less so. Further improvements, hopefully to come. Also, my thanks to everyone for…
“This isn’t just about Sideshow Bob! It’s a chance to turn around all our stinkin’ lives!” – Homer Simpson
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“In order to keep our broadcasting license we devote Sunday night dead time to public service shows of limited appeal. In that spirit, we bring you Gabbin’ About God.” – KBBL Announcer
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“What is your area of expertise?” – Adult Education Annex Administrator“Well, I can tell the difference between butter and I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter.” – Homer Simpson“No you can’t, Mr. Simpson, no one can!” – Adult Education Annex Administrator
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“Now, why are we doomed to this Quimby quagmire, you ask, oh, reasonable listener? Because this town is under the stranglehold of a few tie-dyed tree-huggers who would rather play hacky sack than lock up the homeless.” – Birch Barlow Rush Limbaugh died, and while I have read a few appropriately scathing summations, this is the best I’ve seen at explaining his appeal. Birch was cool to the uncoolest people in America, and it was worth tens of millions of dollars per year.
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“Sir, the TV ratings for the launch are the highest in ten years!” – NASA Guy That was damn fine television.