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Pancakes house.

The Treaty of Paris!

Another Kindler Klassic.

When I still lived in Tucson I frequented a bar downtown by the bus station. I got into maybe a half-dozen conversations with an older hispanic gentleman who enjoyed comic books and quoting The Princess Bride. Eventually, while talking about his past, he mentioned having been an actor as a teenager, but that the

Don't his noise complaints eventually get Audrey Hepburn evicted?

We don't need liquor to have fun. Not when we have the Babylon 5 Collectible Card Game!

Every time an NBC cancelation is announced on the Newswire, I try to pop up in the comments and remind everyone that this creates a slot for the return of The Cape.

Where is Lying Cat when we need it?

I'm hoping to see Pink Martini in April. My new lady friend has never seen them and they're one of my favorite groups. I shall try to be manful in my geeking out at the show.

Some of us know Themistocles from Lawrence of Arabia, dagnabbit.

Little Shop of Horrors.

"strangely almost sort of hot"? Julie Andrews is a sexy lady. Watch The Tamarind Seed.

"You said you were going to scare the Ice Princess."

I'm sorry, the answer we were looking for is "Julie Newmar".

Christ, I hate those pre-tied things. The only thing worse is the stranger who asks if I "really tied" my tie. My friends and relatives still aren't hip to my battle plan in this regard.

A foolish undertaking doomed to failure?

I had a VHS copy of Bon Voyage Charlie Brown (and Don't Come Back) that I watched to destruction as a child. I don't know why I loved it more than its contemporaries, but there it is.

"I'll just have to flip a coin and pray it explodes and kills me."

I still use Jay Sherman's essay, as read on "English for Cab Drivers", as a metric for my own moviegoing habits.

I'm not much of a one night stand guy in general, but I've always felt more comfortable at the woman's place. I always think my place is too gross for company, and if she turns out to be completely insane she doesn't know where I live. That said, I give off a bit of a serial killer vibe, or so I've been told.