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marika
The first two times, it was hard to get through..
Mos Def's character is annoying. The accent or voice he put on the
character is very hard to listen to.
On top of which I just don't think Mos is a good actor. Tho he was
clearly the flavor of the month for a brief while
While I love Bruce Willis, the plot was difficult to follow making it
even harder.
But the worst part of all -- David Morse. One of the worst actors of
all time. In his dotage, he's moved from sweet sympathetic guy to
old guy. But he can't seem to find a way to define himself.
In this movie, and again in "house", he plays the same exact bothersome
character
His way of defining this new persona -- gum chewing. In House, it
was the nicotine gum that became the crux of the story. In 16
BLocks, it's just an annoying character trait
----- Original Message -----
From: "marika" <marik...@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: alt.gossip.celebrities,alt.usenet.legends.lester-mosley
Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2008 12:15 PM
Subject: Re: The French are the biggest lovers in the world!
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> <cuh...@webtv.net> wrote in message
> news:25994-483...@storefull-3258.bay.webtv.net...
>> How do you say Surrender Monkeys in Frog language? Those Frogs in
>> Frogland never take a bath either,,,, and they don't like
>> Americans.Maybe you think the Frog language sounds better, I don't think
>> so meself.The Irish gals in Ireland have the best sounding language and
>> also the sexiest sounding language in the World.
>> Frogland has Nothing!
>> cuhulin
>>
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> Just how big are those French lovers?
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> I thought the French were renowned for losing weight
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> I don't get why people attribute sexiness to French or UKian accents. Or
> as
> discussed below, why they think French is like math
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "marika" <marik...@gmail.com>
> Newsgroups: rec.outdoors.rv-travel,alt.usenet.legends.lester-mosley
> Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 8:13 PM
> Subject: Re: Pig story - very old and very OT
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>>
>> "marika" <marik...@my-deja.com> wrote in message
>> news:6d7d73d7-a709-4cb8...@x35g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...
>> On May 14, 5:14 pm, Lone Haranguer <lin...@hughes.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>
>>> But socialist governments have commonly used force to ensure that no one
>>> rises above the herd.
>>
>>
>> but pigs don't really travel in herd do they
>>
>> (trimmed previous persons comments about pork and stuff which
>> results
>> with the following sentence...and repost)
>>
>>
>> this part is me and an accurate account of an actual conversation I
>> had
>> with our 52 year old enrolled in college part time employee
>>
>> . Well the first part is about the
>> disastrous day I had trying to cook without ingredients that I thought
>> I
>> had on hand. hope you enjoy it
>>
>>
>>>> I tried to make an thai type salad today with grilled prok. BUT. It
>>>> is a hundred degrees in my house, and, once again, I forgot to put
>>>> away the lettuce and bean sprouts. This is not attractive to the
>>>> gustatory senses when cooked by house. Fortunately, I still had a red
>>>> pepper another bag of lettuce and cucumber that I put away. And yes,
>>>> the prok was in the fridge.
>>>> I did remember to put the ginger and garlic away, but I bet that was
>>>> not a necessity. The oil was not warm either.
>>>>
>>>> Today I had a conversation with an employee which was probably a lot
>>>> wackier than you are.
>>>> I am not her supervisor but she wanted to ask me the possibility of
>>>> getting another part time job with us. She has a masters in
>>>> literature from an allegedly famous University specializing in Famous
>>>> Literary Wannabes. [she also has many years experience in an HR
>> department of a major accounting firm]. She cannot arrange files
>> alphabetically. [perhaps in accounting they file by....client
>> investment
>> amount? instead]
>>
>>>> After a long conversation, [which included an explanation that she MUST
>> apply for jobs Under A VERY SPECIFIC RIGAMAROLE otherwise no one will
>> make the inference
>> on her behalf; and a discussion that a temporary appointment does not
>> mean she gets to work the hours she chooses, but that the job is at
>> will
>> for only the time of the appointment. She must work forty hours a
>> week and
>> does not get to decide not to come in while she drafts the great
>> american
>> novel. We also covered such issues as the fact that there actually
>> has to
>> be an employment opportunity allocated before I can offer her a job
>> and that even if there
>> were a temporary appointment available, I would have filled it
>> already]. I
>> made it clear that our office will\
>>
>>>> probably increase automation and that many jobs may be phased out.
>>>> She drew a long breath, and then gave me this I R an intellectual
>>>> look, and grinned maniacally as she told me that this trend towards
>>>> automation was creating slave labor. If she were standing, she would
>>>> have hands akimbo doing that you know I am right pose.
>>>> Privately, I wondered if she were perhaps Cobb Anderson's niece in
>>>> disguise or something. [Cobb Anderson was a character in the book I
>>>> was
>> reading , "Wetware", who was considered the father of the
>> robots featured in the novel. His robots caused a revolution, because
>> they
>> claimed that we were treating them like slaves. They took over the
>> moon]
>>>> I asked her to explain. She said that life is not fair because people
>>>> who are not mathematically inclined have difficulty understanding
>>>> computers.
>>>> Hmmm. I thought. She is a literary person. I am sure that if she has
>>>> a masters in literature, she must be inclined to the linguistic arts.
>>>> So....I said....computers are easier to learn than French.
>>>> No she said, COmputers and French are very hard to learn.
>>>> I wondered why someone with an advanced liberal arts degree would
>>>> conclude that a language was outside of their grasp.
>>>> She answered that French is very hard because it is just like
>>>> math. I raised my eyebrow, wordlessly, and she persisted....that
>>>> many people
>>>> she knows say that French is just like math.
>>>> While I might at first agree that everything is just language, and
>>>> that language is just symbolism for what twirls in our heads....
>>>> I though I might just check the reasoning here...I asked WHAT ABOUT
>>>> SPANISH???
>>>> She said, no Spanish is easy it is nothing like math.
>>>> Needless to say, she doesn't know Spanish either. But she does
>>>> use a computer every day in her job. Does anyone know anyone who
>>>> thinks French is just like math???
>>>
>>> here are some of the funnier responses I got
>>>
>>> "Um.I bet a french teacher on a teevee show could bring up measurable
>>> responses"--dramar ankalle
>>
>>> "french is the langauge of math. spanish is the language of geometry.
>> but italian, italian is the langauge of phys ed"--ranjit bhatnagar
>>>
>>> "Computers are hard because they ask you for money for food but you
>>> KNOW they are buying liquor and going gambling with it! CURSE YOU,
>>> LAWLESS RIVERBOATS!!! I have witnessed my own computers cavorting
>>> with bifurcated girls! Of course, you can't say anything to them or
>>> they'll order up MORE aluminium siding that turns out to be
>>> VINYL....French is to math as
>> choco-bar is to cumbus?"--CRGRE
>>>
>>> "REAL PERSONAL EXPERIENCE:
>>>
>>> When I started learning Spanish in high school, I was already a
>>> trombonist. As everyone knows, music is just like math! And when I
>>> started
>>> learning Spanish in high school, I thought, "Gosh, as this becomes more
>>> natural, and I stop translating word-for-word, instead thinking in the
>>> language, it reminds me of playing music!" TO SUM UP MY ARGUMENT:
>>> Spanish
>>> is
>>> just like playing music, and music is just like math. SPANISH IS JUST
>>> LIKE
>>> MATH!
>>>
>>> You will have to teach me French before I agree that French is just
>>> like
>>> math, however."--BlakXXJack
>>>
>>>
>>> "Just Goethe:
>>>
>>> http://sunsite.utk.edu/math_archives/.http/hypermail/historia/dec98/0008.ht
>> ml"--Matt McIrvin
>>
>> I just read this and thought it was really apropos
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Magda" <pikrodafni@death_to_markku_noos.fr.invalid>
>> Newsgroups:
>> alt.politics,alt.gossip.celebrities,rec.arts.tv,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,fr.soc.politique
>> Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2008 4:27 AM
>> Subject: Re: The French are the biggest lovers in the world!
>>
>>
>>> On Fri, 23 May 2008 00:42:02 -0600, in alt.gossip.celebrities,
>>> "curmudgeon"
>>> <britica...@bresnan.net> arranged some electrons, so they looked
>>> like
>>> this:
>>>
>>> ...
>>> ... "Magda" <pikrodafni@death_to_markku_noos.fr.invalid>
>>> ... wrote in message news:9u9e34p3imh88tpbp...@4ax.com...
>>> ... <varr...@aol.com> >
>>> ... <doomell...@gmail.com> :
>>> ... <varric...@aol.com>
>>> ...
>>> news:5966c326-a382-451c...@s50g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...
>>> ...
>>> ... " It sounds much better in French, but then, everything does.'
>>> ...
>>> ... To quote Al Bundy "I'm an American, and I'm sorry."
>>> ... Now my question to you all is simply this.
>>> ... Would that quote sound better in French?
>>>
>>> It depends on your tastes, I suppose. I know that French is music to my
>>> ears, but it's not
>>> the only one, either!
>>>
>>> Anyway, I stole this sentence from a post in another ng, so don't hold
>>> it
>>> totally against
>>> me. ;)
>>>
>>>
>>> =====
>>> It sounds much better in French, but then, everything does.
>>
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