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Yeah, too bad she's married. On another note, here is your Christina skank pic o' the day:

http://forums.7pounds.net/index.php?...=post&id=19287

Bewitched, bothered, and bewildered am I.
 

If he's cast as Dr. Bombay, that's not a bad call at all.

Bewitched, bothered, and bewildered am I.
 

As it turns out (after a bit of IMDB and Googling work) he is not. He plays Samantha's father, Nigel Bigelow. If you find this as confusing as I did, you should know it's not a straight-ahead remake of the sitcom, as I learned from this review of the screenplay (some spoilers, though not the resolution of the entire film). The import of this is that (a.) the casting of Farrell makes slightly more sense, so I'll give up on the Carrey thing now; and (b.) the casting of Nicole "Oh my God she's a dead ringer for Elizabeth Montgomery" Kidman is actually part of the plot, in a strange sort of way.

The reviewer likens the TV-show-within-a-movie device to Adaptation., which might be dignifying it a bit much, but needless to say it's a pretty innovative way of doing a '60s sitcom as a movie --- certainly more so than Brady Bunch or Starsky & Hutch.

As long as they bring "Are You Being Served?" to neither the big nor the small screen, I'm happy.

Recent addition to list of sounds I am not likely to soon forget.
 

The piercing, high-pitched, desperate, trilled screams of a baby raccoon caught without shelter in a thunderstorm in the middle of the night. It sounds like distilled panic. Apparently rain + baby raccoon = bad thing.

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And did you go help it or call someone who could?

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Although I am quite skeptical that any animal control or humane society people respond to middle-of-the-night calls to rescue baby raccoons caught in the rain, I was nonetheless considering this option when the baby raccoon went running off into the darkness, its screams growing ever fainter in the night.

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Yeah, well, so am I, so it's not like I was going to go bang her or anything. She's still pretty hot.

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You're a Minnesotan. Don't you have a loaded .22 by the back door? Problem Solved.

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I used to, but I once "accidently" shot the neighbor's dog.

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I guess the animal lovers in the midwest aren't as devoted as they are here in the DC metro area. One of my neigbors (the mother of the "Poor Man's Pamela Anderson" as Chef labeled her, for those of you who have met all my trashy ho friends) who is a wildlife rescuer, among other things, would have come out in the dark, in three feet of snow, or during a hail storm. She takes better care of fauna then she does of her family. Maybe I can convince her to hop on a airplane to Minn. next time.

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There are a lot easier ways to kill the neighbor's dog. I prefer the "Oops I changed the antifreeze in my car and left it outside where the dog could get to it" method.

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Warning: I am not responding EXACTLY, DIRECTLY to Sunny's post.

I was watching a nature show a while back and they focused on a young bear cub who'd become lost. The narrator, who had a camera about 20 feet from the cub, matter-of-factly said some shlocky crap like "ahhh, the cruel dance of nature... this bear will not live to see the next season." I wanted to reach through the screen and scatter the fucker's teeth. Why not drop your pompous detached objectivity, pick up the bear, and take it to a fucking sanctuary? I'd like to leave that asshole in Falluja with a canteen and a compass and film him screaming as we drive away, calmly narrating into my mic, "Ahhh, nature, this skinny British fuck will not see sundown."

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Like I said, we have no evidence as to the relative devotion of wildlife rescuers in D.C. and Minnesota because the banshee-like wails of the baby raccoon faded as the baby disappeared into the stormy darkness before I had the opportunity to call anyone. In a poignant footnote to the story, before I saw the baby raccoon, I saw an adult raccoon running back and forth on a neighboring porch, dry but apparently unable or unwilling to help what I assume was its offspring.

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It'd be a lot better if we could kill the neighbor instead.

I was standing in line at Starbusk's this morning, waiting a half an hour or so for a coffee, thinking "Sheet, the whole 'dignity of humanity' thing is dead wrong." Its hard not to think Salinger hit the nail on the head when the chick next to you is yammering about how she's going to meet the man of her dreams at the Princeton in Avalon this Summer and the bevy of paralegals behind you is discussing bear claws and which potato salad they'll be bringing to the block party this memorial day. All I needed was a conversation about bingo or two 26 year olds discussing hot stock tips and I would have had a trifecta.

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Poor baby bear. When I was a kid one of our cats grabbed a baby bunny. The screams, I imagine, are similar to the baby racoon screams, it was horrible. We chased the cat around trying to save the bunny, but, no luck.

You all probably recall though, that I managed to save the three baby ducks. I have a picture of the three of them (from the back) waddling away hanging in my study. It always gets comments and requests for copies.

As far as the nature show, I imagine they probably see a lot of animals that have gotten lost or had parents killed. They also see a lot of one animal killing another one. When should they interfere, do you think?

I don't think they should interfere and stop one from killing another one, I'm not quite sure about the lost baby animal issue, but that is probably just because baby animals are so cute.