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[str8outavannuys]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Semaphore? Aldis Lamp?

I have a vague memory of Monty Python doing a bit about some theater troupe that adapted some famous work into semaphore. Great, now I've exposed myself as a Monty Python dork, and worse, nobody will respond to let me know what the work was, for fear of exposing themselves as an even bigger Monty Python dork.

Ah well, there's always google.

[str8outavannuys]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
Last night I dreamed that I was in Str8's office and the two of us were attempting to make cappucinos with his in-office cappucino machine. And then Str8 said that he had something better than cappucinos and pulled from his desk drawer packets of something called "Samurai" which turned out to be a powdered beverage made of sake that fizzed when added to water.

I'd be a hell of a lot more likely to drink your "Samurai" than cappucino, or any coffee beverage.

Why don't they have carbonated jam? I think that'd be tasty.

[SlaveNoMore]

str8outavannuys
I have a vague memory of Monty Python doing a bit about some theater troupe that adapted some famous work into semaphore. Great, now I've exposed myself as a Monty Python dork, and worse, nobody will respond to let me know what the work was, for fear of exposing themselves as an even bigger Monty Python dork.

Ah well, there's always google.

You're even more of a dork for wigging on the dual, obvious reference.

Monty Python's Flying Circus
Series 2, Episode 15: Semaphore

Voice Over : And now for the very first time on the silver screen comes the film from two books which once shocked a generation.

From Emily Brontë's 'Wuthering Heights' and from the 'International Guide to Semaphore Code'. Twentieth Century Vole presents 'The Semaphore Version of Wuthering Heights'.

(Caption on screen: 'THE SEMAPHORE VERSION OF WUTHERING HEIGHTS' Film: appropriate film music throughout. Heathcliffe in close-up profile, his hair is blowing in the wind, he looks intense. Cut to close-up Catherine also in profile, with hair streaming in wind. As if they are 1ooking into each other's eyes. Pull out to reveal, on very long zoom, that they are each on the top of separate small hills, in rolling countryside. Heathcliffe produces two semaphore flags from behind him, and waves them.)

SUBTITLE: 'OH! CATHERINE'

(Pan across to Cathertne who also produces two flags and waves.)

SUBTITLE: 'OH! HEATHCLIFFE'

(Heathcliffe waves flags again.)

SUBTITLE: 'OH! OH! CATHERINE'

(With each cut they are further and further away from each other. Catherine waves flags again.)

SUBTITLE: 'OH! OH! HEATHCLIFFE'

Cut to her husband at front door of early Victorian manor house, looking stern. He waves two flags.

SUBTITLE: 'CATHERINE!'

(Cut back to Catherine on hilltop.)

SUBTITLE: 'HARK! I HEAR MY HUSBAND'

Cut to husband with two enormous flags.

SUBTITLE: 'CATHERINE!'

(Cut to intertor of the early Victortan manor house. Close-up of a cradle. Suddenly two little semaphore flags pop up from inside the cradle and wave.)

SUBTITLE: 'WAAAAAGH! WAAAAAAGH!'

(Pull back to reveal a nurse who walks over to cradle and waves flag briefly.)

SUBTITLE: 'SSSH!'

(The nurse points across the room. Cut to shot of old man asleep in chair with head slumped forward on his chest. He has two flags which he waves.)

SUBTITLE: 'ZZZ . . . ZZZ . . .'

(Cut to front door again. Exterior. Husband is waiting. Catherine comes up the path towards him. As she approaches he flags.)

SUBTITLE: 'YOU'VE BEEN SEEING HEATHCLIFFE'

(Catherine waves frantically.)

SUBTITLE: 'YES! YES! I'VE BEEN SEEING HEATHCLIFFE, AND WHY NOT? HE'S THE ONLY MAN I EVER LOVED. HE'S FINE. HE'S STRONG. HE'S ALL THE THINGS YOU'LL NEVER BE, AND WHAT'S MORE . . .'

(Caption on screen: 'MONDAY FOR 7 DAYS' Stock film of a Roman chariot race.)

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Voice Over: From the pulsating pages of history, from the dark and furious days of Imperial Rome we bring you a story that shattered the world! A tale so gripping that they said it could not be filmed. A unique event in cinema history! Julius Caesar on an Aldis lamp!

(Superimposed caption on screen: 'JULIUS CAESAR ON AN ALDIS LAMP' Close-up of Caesar walking in Roman street. Soothsayer pushes his way up to him wild eyed and produces Aldis lamp and starts flashing

SUBTITLE: 'BEWARE THE IDES OF MARCH'

(Some steps at the foot of a statue. Caesar is stabbed. As he falls he brings out a really big Aldis lamp and flashes to the assassins around him.)

SUBTITLE: 'ET TU BRUTE'

(A Western street. Two cowboys facing each other with morse buzzers.)

Voice Over: From the makers of 'Gunfight at the OK Corral in Morse Code'.

(Superimposed caption on screen: 'GUNFIOHT AT THE OK CORRAL IN MORSE CODE' They buzz a bit.)

SUBTITLE: 'AAAAHHHI'

----

(Cut to a Red Indian making smoke signals.)

Voice Over: And the smoke-signal version of 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes'.

(Superimposed caption on screen: 'AND THE SMOKE-SIGNAL VERSION OF GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES')

[str8outavannuys]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Had to happen sooner or later. (spree: article)

And this is different from Big Brother how?

[str8outavannuys]

Originally posted by Alex_de_Large
"Did you know that the numbers that are the center of a mystery on Lost (4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42) are all numbers that have been retired by the New York Yankees? In order, Gehrig, Berra/Dickey, Munson, Whitey Ford, Mattingly and Jackie Robinson.
-- Jeff, Owasso, OK"

That's stupid. It's not a complete list -- if that was their intention, why wouldn't they have included 1, 3, etc. Besides 42 is bullshit; yes it's "retired," by all major league teams, but Jackie wasn't a Yankee, and Mariano still wears it.

[str8outavannuys]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
The Grand Canyon is on my list of things not to fuck with. (Monday Night Football, thin mints, and teaching Mark Twain in public schools also being on that list.) There's a lot of haunting I'm going to have to do after I die. Grrr. (spree: article)

Your list lacks one important entry:

[tmdiva]

Originally posted by str8outavannuys
I grew a moustache and bought a stupid captain's hat the week of last Halloween to go with my wife to a party as Captain and Tenille. Then our younger cat died two days before Halloween and we didn't feel like going. I still think it's a great costume. Almost as good as the time one of my wife's vendors made us Iron Chef costumes for cost.

Good costume for someone like you, who's three-quarters of the way there. Wouldn't work for us, the same way Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox or Viking Warrior (which we've done in the past) wouldn't work for you.

tm

[str8outavannuys]

My preferred sports gambling website (www.wsex.com) has an exotic wager on some nationally televised baseball games called "Super Six Sluggers." They pick six sluggers, and create a market for which one of the six will have the most total bases (not including walks) in the game. You can buy and sell "shares" of each slugger. Last week I made $45 on a sure thing (by short-selling shares of a player who'd been removed from the game with no chance to win). So I was looking for something similar tonight.

With Howard having a HR early in the game (4 total bases), Troy Glaus hit a double, and seemed to hurt his leg scoring on a base hit. So I shorted 5 shares of Glaus at $11. I win $55 if Glaus doesn't win this competition. I could lose $500 if Glaus wins it outright. Well they didn't pull him from the game, but Shawn Green had 5 total bases and Howard and Burrell had 4, at the time Glaus came up for what looked to be his final AB in the 7th (Arizona was at home and leading by 2).

Of course, Glaus drives a pitch the other way, into the swimming pool. I think back to all the comments made here about how I'm the worst gambler ever. I'm about ready to throw my computer and my TV out the window.

And then Shawn Green singles to tie Glaus with 6 total bases, cutting my likely exposure in half. And then of course Burrell hit his second HR of the game to win the competition with 8 total bases.

Of course, Glaus has to get up again in the 8th inning, to make me sweat even more. (he walked). MOTHERFUCKER. Can't I ever get an easy one? I mean, aside from betting Brothers Grimm to make under $18.0M this weekend?

That is all.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by str8outavannuys
[incomprehensible (to me) sports stuff, possibly having to do with baseball]

Murderer.

In other news, my hair is particularly fluffy this morning.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Murderer.

In other news, my hair is particularly fluffy this morning.

Wow! So is mine!!

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Murderer.

In other news, my hair is particularly fluffy this morning.

The humidity in this place prevents this from ever happening.

IN other news...
This guy looks older (way) than 40.

SAN FRANCISCO - Actor Robert Downey Jr. married his girlfriend, Susan Levin, a movie producer he met on the set of the film “Gothika,” on Saturday, People magazine reported.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
The humidity in this place prevents this from even happening.

IN other news...

My hair is fluffier in humidity. It gets a little curly.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Murderer.

In other news, my hair is particularly fluffy this morning.

My hair is not particularly puffy today.

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
My hair is not particularly puffy today.

My hair used to be puffy, but is now, officially, diddy.

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
The humidity in this place prevents this from ever happening.

IN other news...
This guy looks older (way) than 40.

SAN FRANCISCO - Actor Robert Downey Jr. married his girlfriend, Susan Levin, a movie producer he met on the set of the film “Gothika,” on Saturday, People magazine reported.

I think he looks 40. And I actually think he looks pretty good. I mean, considering all the drugs he's done and everything.

On a marginally related note, I am reading Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis. I am finding it much more difficult to read than any of his prior works.