Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
This Is Good XXII
Now this…this is my kind of humor. And to think, they aren’t even trying to be humorous. Well, maybe half-assed trying.
www.tvtropes.org…includes hundreds of priceless entries like this one…
Bond One Liner
When the hero has just killed someone, often in a gruesome manner, they do a Bond One Liner.James Bond does this in every Bond film.
The classic Bond One Liner is typically a bad pun on the manner in which the victim was dispatched.
Examples:
* (After decapitating someone) “He really lost his head”
* (After disemboweling someone) “I’ll say this for him: he had a lot of guts.”
* (After forcing a grenade down someone’s throat) “Something he ate disagreed with him.”
* (After throwing someone to a shark) “He went out for a quick bite.”
* (After tethering someone to a rocket) “He got rather carried away.”
* (After killing someone with ninja throwing stars) “It just wasn’t in the stars for him.”Buffy The Vampire Slayer both used and subverted this trope, as Buffy would nearly always have a Bond One Liner after (or just before) killing a baddie, but occasionally she would be mocked for using a stupid-sounding one. Also brought to the attention of the audience when Willow tries to do a One Liner in the first episode of season three (“Anne”), and when it doesn’t work out, she explains that Buffy always says something clever, and she thinks it throws the bad guys off their guard.
Note that while William Peterson’s one liners on CSI and Jerry Orbach’s on Law And Order are often similar in content, they fail the test for this trope, as Grissom and Briscoe were never the killers. But see: Grissom One Liner.
For added entertainment, flip forward to the pages on the Six Million Dollar Man, The Dukes of Hazzard, The Incredible Hulk and MacGyver.
Very cool find.
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Is Arnold Schwarzenegger in this site, somewhere? What was the movie? Commando!
Someone asks, “What happened to Sully?”
And Arnold, who has been holding the villain by his feet over the edge of a rocky cliff releases him to plummet head-first into an angry ocean, says, “I let him go.”
- Sabra | 09/09/2006 @ 05:01