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[Hank Chinaski]

I was impressed by the behavior of the Indiana fans at the Christmas Day game. They booed, but didn't throw anything. I know security was really tight and anyone who did throw would be removed, but still I expected at least 1 crazy. A few Pistons went into the front row after loose balls, and the fans helped them up. A kid near the aisle as Ben Wallace was leaving after the game didn't heckle- he asked for Ben's sweat band. All in all, a kind of hug fest. We are healed!

Then I learned that Indiana law prohibits alcohol sales on Christmas Day.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
You can't quote AN because its overexposed. To be good, a quote or reference must be obscure to at least a portion of a the audience. I doubt there is a single breathing male alive in the United States who is not familar with AN. Worse, I used AN occasionally in the past when referring to your posts ("I... see... no... method... at all...).

If you were to quote Satisfaction, no one would respond. But quoting the fifth line in the third verse of Before They Make Me Run would probably get a few chuckles. That said, you can't pull a Dennis Miller and get too obscure or too faux-high-brow with your references because then you just sound pompous. Unless you are the Flower, who for some reason can pull that shit off. So be forwarned - if you go googling for quotes from The Stranger or Yeats' Noh Plays, you've gone too far in the other direction.

I wonder how you would feel about your posts if someone else posted them.

How could anyone take what you're saying about overly-used movie quotes seriously when you can't write a single sentence without putting some trite, overly-used saying in it?

I thought Hank's quote was funny because it actually worked. He took a funny quote and turned it around and made fun of me with it. It's even funnier because it's not too far off from his drunken-monkey-style posts.

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Properly utilizing the good comedic reference is a studied art. I stuggle with it constantly.

Yep. You are a true student of comedy.

TM

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
I was impressed by the behavior of the Indiana fans at the Christmas Day game. They booed, but didn't throw anything. I know security was really tight and anyone who did throw would be removed, but still I expected at least 1 crazy. A few Pistons went into the front row after loose balls, and the fans helped them up. A kid near the aisle as Ben Wallace was leaving after the game didn't heckle- he asked for Ben's sweat band. All in all, a kind of hug fest. We are healed!

Then I learned that Indiana law prohibits alcohol sales on Christmas Day.

Saturday (Christmas Day) and Sunday (no booze either) had many a Hoosier fleeing for their border states. Back to back no booze sales is inhumane. If I'm stuck in Indiana, I want to be really drunk.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by Not Bob
Saw it last night -- some amusing moments (Uncle Rico throwing a steak at Napolean and knocking him off his bike), but overall, I was Not Impressed.

I was particularly bothered by the way the script treated the internet girlfriend ("hey! let's make her black, and have her turn the geek into a thug wannabee with a doo-rag and a Mister T necklace!") and the Mexican friend ("I know -- we'll give him some scary older brothers or cousins who will look like gangstas and drive a lowrider with hydraulic lifts!").

You are right - the stereotypes were pretty unbelievable. But I thought it was more a case of trying too hard rather than being offensive. And I thought the film redeemed itself because Pedro was so charming overall and with the cake in particular. Also the dance sequence at the end.

[spookyfish]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Saturday (Christmas Day) and Sunday (no booze either) had many a Hoosier fleeing for their border states. Back to back no booze sales is inhumane. If I'm stuck in Indiana, I want to be really drunk.

You would think if you were stuck in Indiana, you would have the foresight to purchase your liquor ahead of time. I'm just saying.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by spookyfish
You would think if you were stuck in Indiana, you would have the foresight to purchase your liquor ahead of time. I'm just saying.

I wasn't stuck there, but the people that were did just that.

Most Hoosiers think foresight is removed during circumcision.

[dtb]

Originally posted by Not Bob
"I know -- we'll give him some scary older brothers or cousins who will look like gangstas and drive a lowrider with hydraulic lifts!".

This reminds me of the Chris Rock joke (who is in a class by himself):

Shaq is rich. The white guy who signs Shaq's check is wealthy.

[Imitating white guy signing Shaq's check]: Here's your check Shaq -- go buy yourself a car that jumps.

[dtb]

Originally posted by Not Bob
I like John Mayer, but I really dislike that song. The first time I heard it, I kept waiting for a punch line.

"Your Body is a Wonderland," however, is fantastic. I guess this makes me a 14 year old girl. Mrs. Not Bob likes it too -- so much so that she forgave John for writing it about Jennifer Love Hewitt instead of her.

WHAT?!$*#?

That lousy, no-good, rotten two-timer...

[spookyfish]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
I wasn't stuck there, but the people that were did just that.

Most Hoosiers think foresight is removed during circumcision.

In case you were wondering, my use of the word "you" in my earlier post was in the editorial sense. Had I thought you were actually there over the holidays, I would have offered my condolences. I say this as someone who has spent the holidays in Indiana.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by spookyfish
In case you were wondering, my use of the word "you" in my earlier post was in the editorial sense. Had I thought you were actually there over the holidays, I would have offered my condolences. I say this as someone who has spent the holidays in Indiana.

I have as well. Just not this year. Scary though.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Lenny's dead.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/TV/1...ach/index.html

I suppose this should be on the death pool board.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
I wonder how you would feel about your posts if someone else posted them.

How could anyone take what you're saying about overly-used movie quotes seriously when you can't write a single sentence without putting some trite, overly-used saying in it?

TM

I'd think they were arrogant and too long.

Trite? On this board?

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Actor Jerry Orbach, best known for his long-running role as New York police detective Lennie Briscoe on "Law & Order," has died. He was 69.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/TV/1...ach/index.html

TM

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
You can't quote AN because its overexposed. To be good, a quote or reference must be obscure to at least a portion of a the audience. I doubt there is a single breathing male alive in the United States who is not familar with AN. Worse, I used AN occasionally in the past when referring to your posts ("I... see... no... method... at all...).

If you were to quote Satisfaction, no one would respond. But quoting the fifth line in the third verse of Before They Make Me Run would probably get a few chuckles. That said, you can't pull a Dennis Miller and get too obscure or too faux-high-brow with your references because then you just sound pompous. Unless you are the Flower, who for some reason can pull that shit off. So be forwarned - if you go googling for quotes from The Stranger or Yeats' Noh Plays, you've gone too far in the other direction.

Properly utilizing the good comedic reference is a studied art. I stuggle with it constantly.

Daddy would have gotten us Uzis.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
I have as well. Just not this year. Scary though.

And yet the most arrogant lawyers I've ever ran into are from Baker Daniels. Go figure.