OK, after saying that I don’t generally post links, here’s the second one in two days. It’s a short video starring Patrick Stewart from Star Trek: TNG. It’s a scene from a British show called Extras, and it’s absolutely laugh-out-loud hilarious.
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The Dilbert Blog today contained an article on coincidences, and numerous people have written in comments containins some pretty amazing ones. I’ve got one too:
Gail and I got married in October of 1995, and honeymooned in Ocho Rios, Jamaica. One of the day trips we took was a bus trip from Ocho Rios to the Blue Mountains, approximately four hours away. Once there, we took a bus to the top of a mountain, then biked down. Halfway down the mountain, the tour stopped at a little place for lunch. Gail went to the washroom while I sat at a picnic table – another couple from the tour was already sitting there. When Gail came back, she and the woman already at the table recognized each other – they had gone to high school together in Woodstock. Not only that, but they were on their honeymoon too – they got married the same day that we did, and they were staying in Ocho Rios, in the resort right next to ours. So not only did we get married on the same day, but we chose adjacent resorts in Ocho Rios, and then chose the same bus tour on the same day, but after all that, we didn’t run into each other until I chose to share their table for lunch.
I love stuff like that.
I got a real kick out of today’s Dilbert . Kind of reminds me of the one a bunch of years ago where the boss is having network trouble (and you can clearly see the network cable unplugged from the wall). Dilbert tells him that it’s a token ring network, and the token must have fallen out. The last panel shows Wally telling Dilbert “You are the wind beneath my wings”, while the pointy-haired boss is on his knees looking under his desk for the token. Classic.
One of the DVDs I got for Christmas is one I am surprised it took me this long to get – one of my all-time favourite movies, The Princess Bride. There are a staggering number of great quotes in that movie:
Inigo: Let me explain – no, there is too much. Let me sum up.
Vizzini: He didn’t fall? Inconcievable!
Inigo: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Miracle Max: True love is the greatest thing in the world! Except for a nice MLT – mutton, lettuce and tomato, where the mutton is nice and lean, and the tomatoes are ripe. They’re so perky. I love that.
Humperdinck: Tyrone, you know how much I love to watch you work, but I’ve got my country’s 500th anniversary to plan, my wedding to arrange, my wife to murder, and Guilder to blame for it. I’m swamped!
Rugen: Get some rest. If you haven’t got your health, you haven’t got anything.
Inigo: I do not suppose you could speed things up?
Westley: If you’re in such a hurry, you could lower a rope or a tree branch or find something useful to do.
Inigo: I could do that. I have some rope up here, but I do not think you would accept my help, since I am only waiting around to kill you.
Westley: That does put a damper on our relationship.
Westley: Truly, you have a dizzying intellect.
Inigo: That’s a miracle pill?
Valerie: The chocolate makes it go down easier. But you have to wait fifteen minutes for full potency. And he shouldn’t go in swimming after for at least, what?
Miracle Max: An hour. A good hour.
…and of course, the classic:
Inigo: Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.
Thanks to IMDB for some of the quotes that I couldn’t quite remember exactly.
A few of us at work use MS Messenger, and one of the things that messenger allows you to do is add a “tagline”, a single short line of text that is displayed after your user name. Usually these are blank, though a few of us put little amusing things in there now and again. In the last week or two, one of my colleagues started putting in haikus, so a few others have been doing it too. It’s kinda fun. In our case, they’re mostly sports-related. Here’s mine for today:
Great news for the Leafs
Aki Berg is returning
The Cup is ours now
I kind of liked the first one I did too:
Haiku can be tough
You have to count syllables
This one is wrong
I got an email today saying that Sir Dennis Thatcher, late husband of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, passed away and left me $750,000! That’s right, a famous rich guy that I’ve never met left me a fortune! All I have to do is send an email to this guy in England (he’s a reverend, so you know you can trust him).
Strange that an English guy left me a nice round number of American dollars, but like I said, if you can’t trust an English reverend, who can you trust?
Drinks are on me, boys…
Yesterday Nicholas said something rather profound, for a three-year-old, anyway. He was trying to do something (don’t know what), and was not having much luck, and started to get frustrated. Ryan told him that he needed to be patient (Ryan being the poster-boy for patience), to which Nicky gave a big sigh and said “It takes too long to be patient”. Truer words were never spoken.
Here is a story from boingboing about a guy who received the ubiquitous spam email supposedly from the FBI saying “we have logged your IP address on some illegal websites and now you’re in big trouble”, yadda yadda yadda. He figured the email was real, and turned himself in to the police, who found lots of child porn on his computer.
One more kiddie porn scumbag off the streets, and it’s all thanks to SPAM! I have long hoped for a day where spam would simply cease to exist, but if the existence of spam helps to get these people off the streets, then sign me up for your mailing list! I want to buy a cheap Rolex knockoff! I want to increase the size of my manhood! I want cheap xanax and alprazolam and propecia and other drugs I’ve never heard of! I’m excited that hot teen sluts are just waiting for me to call them!
Actually, thinking about it some more, keep me off the mailing lists, and just send all my spam to the stupid kiddie porn people. Thanks.
On Wednesday, while taking a cab to one of the shows we saw (at The Bellagio, I think), the cab driver asked us where we were from. When we said Toronto, he asked if we’d had any snow yet. We laughed, and told him it was only October, and we don’t generally get snow until December, maybe late November.
It’s snowing right now.
Cut The Chatter, Red Two 
