Ah, lexicondevil, The Plague is a wonderful book. I, too, would love to see it filmed, but only if done well. I can easily imagine Hollywood making a complete hash of it, jazzing it up along the lines of Outbreak into an action-thriller.

I was doing the jinx-you-owe-me-a-coke with my sister back in the late 1970s. We're East Coasters. It definitely pre-dates the Simpsons and the Office.

Ugh, you are so right Lemur. I have to use the NJT side, too. But I get to it through the LIRR side, so it's a huge tease. Also, have you noticed that the heat has now settled in to the tunnels? I'm guessing it will be there until late October.

@ Rationalist: No shit. Me too.

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I'm going to down four or five shots of bourbon and quietly weep until I pass out.* Is it just me or have these been getting worse and worse since O'Neal got back?

I think you can take it farther, 4sx2, and say that most people have already proven they are shitty parents. No "would" about it.

Nice, 4sx2. That made me laugh.

Technically, having kids _is_ a right, not a privilege. That whole pesky reproductive freedom thing. Not saying it should be for everyone, but that's the tricky part about rights. Anyway, 4 strength got it right the first time around.

Concur. Also, I'm as willing to suspend disbelief as the next guy, but the premise that Katherine Heigel (sp?) was going to fall in love with Seth Rogen (or even that she would go home with him, however drunk) was really pushing it.

Nah, but I definitely remember when I had a giant crush on her. That trailer pretty much killed whatever nostalgic dregs remained.

My favorite one from Weird Science is: "I don't know what you're talking about and I want you to shut up." Gary's dad says it to his mom after Kelly LeBrock confronts them. The great thing about it is that when you say it to people and they get really offended, you can cover with a quick, "What movie?"

I have questions about a lot of these. Like, is FOL really something that high school kids are going to sext each other? And doesn't Q2C describe every male teenager? And is ILF/MD on the list because that many teenagers have figured out that they're really subs?

Thanks for setting us straight, Scott. SAN DIMAS HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL RULES!

Yeah, I got the sense that Tobias wasn't impressed by Bill & Ted's. I have to take issue if that is in fact the case. Bill & Ted's rocks. I may be romanticizing it a little, as I've not seen it since college. But I refuse to acknowledge that it may not be as good as my memories of it.

Hey, Riff, I've been in that U-boat. Pretty awesome. Isn't it the only u-boat captured (as opposed to sunk) during the war, or something equally cool?

Hey, I like Parker Posey as much as the next guy, but nothing about Fay Grim grabbed me. Come to think of it, I'm not sure I've ever seen a Hal Hartley movie I liked. He may just not be my cup of tea.

Placeholder, Scalia busted out the "soon we'll have legal polygamy, incest, beastiality, etc., etc." argument when he dissented in that case striking down the Texas law making gay sex a crime (Lawrence v. Texas). I haven't noticed the parade of horribles, yet. My favorite thing about his dissent was that he included…

I'm glad someone else tagged that as the single stupidest/most horrifying thing in the ad. A little surprised it took as long as it did, but it works out for me because I can't post new comments at work, so I would have had to hijack someone else's thread.

Ugh! I hated Henry Fool, and the sequel was ten times worse. I saw it a while ago, so I don't remenber what it was I didn't like, but I just could get into it.

You guys are right on about that surreal feeling and the sense of not understanding what's going on. For me, it helped me identify with the characters who also don't know what's going on and are trying to figure it out. An obvious narrative convention, but for me it worked well in Brick.