Sparkler Pile
Nov. 9th, 2006 03:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rain_gryphonThey're showing "Drawn Together' in the breakroom. As usual, they have the closed captioning turned on. Now when the Pikachu-like thing exclaims in Japanese, there's a sort of in-show captioning that appears. The captioning typist faithfully repeats this. Except that just now, when he exclaimed "The chickens!", the closed caption said "Ow! Kittens!".
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Those who are old enough will recall when gas pumps always featured a filter on the hose. Today I bought gas at Marathon. They had, what looked from the street, like fat red filters on their hoses. When I actually pulled in, I discovered that they weren't filters at all - they were just red foam sleeves that said "Marathon'. Close-up, they didn't even look like filters - just foam sleeves.
The whole incident was kind of weird. It's not even so much that they were trying to make you think it was a filter, as that it was just sort of a decorative nostalgia item, like a cardboard fireplace. I never thought of gas filters as something people fondly recalled. Perhaps gas station operators do.
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The other day I watched "Cast a Giant Shadow", which is about Israel's war of independence. In 1948, long before Menachem Begin was a politician, he was commander of the Irgun. He's shown as a character in the film, in one of the crowd scenes where Israel's leaders are meeting. What really impressed me is that they don't name him, he doesn't really have a part - he's just kind of sitting there with the other commanders listening to David Ben-Gurion talk. But one glance, and you know it's supposed to be Begin. The actor looks just like him, except younger. Now this was made in 1966, when Begin was a historic footnote, before he'd really begun his political career.
Detail like that impresses me. It would have been quite easy to have just tossed in some random actors, on the theory (valid in 1966) that only historians would recognize anyone except Ben-Gurion and Golda Meir anyway. Instead they took the time to find people who looked the part, and it paid off down the road.
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Best quote regarding the elections: "Santorum lost because despite his outward charm, he whored himself out so much to corporations that he needed an ass transplant every 6 months." -![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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From the Times, that unfailing bastion of classical journalism: "safety experts said yesterday that launching a rocket from the backside was a practice that contravened the firework code."
A lesser paper wouldn't have thought to seek the opinion of experts.
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Man arrested on concealed weapons charges for having an awl up his butt. Considering that he was found naked and masturbating beside a public pathway, one does have to wonder if the awl was actually stuck up his butt to serve as a concealed weapon...
???
*****
Those who are old enough will recall when gas pumps always featured a filter on the hose. Today I bought gas at Marathon. They had, what looked from the street, like fat red filters on their hoses. When I actually pulled in, I discovered that they weren't filters at all - they were just red foam sleeves that said "Marathon'. Close-up, they didn't even look like filters - just foam sleeves.
The whole incident was kind of weird. It's not even so much that they were trying to make you think it was a filter, as that it was just sort of a decorative nostalgia item, like a cardboard fireplace. I never thought of gas filters as something people fondly recalled. Perhaps gas station operators do.
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The other day I watched "Cast a Giant Shadow", which is about Israel's war of independence. In 1948, long before Menachem Begin was a politician, he was commander of the Irgun. He's shown as a character in the film, in one of the crowd scenes where Israel's leaders are meeting. What really impressed me is that they don't name him, he doesn't really have a part - he's just kind of sitting there with the other commanders listening to David Ben-Gurion talk. But one glance, and you know it's supposed to be Begin. The actor looks just like him, except younger. Now this was made in 1966, when Begin was a historic footnote, before he'd really begun his political career.
Detail like that impresses me. It would have been quite easy to have just tossed in some random actors, on the theory (valid in 1966) that only historians would recognize anyone except Ben-Gurion and Golda Meir anyway. Instead they took the time to find people who looked the part, and it paid off down the road.
*****
Best quote regarding the elections: "Santorum lost because despite his outward charm, he whored himself out so much to corporations that he needed an ass transplant every 6 months." -
arcturax*****
From the Times, that unfailing bastion of classical journalism: "safety experts said yesterday that launching a rocket from the backside was a practice that contravened the firework code."
A lesser paper wouldn't have thought to seek the opinion of experts.
*****
Man arrested on concealed weapons charges for having an awl up his butt. Considering that he was found naked and masturbating beside a public pathway, one does have to wonder if the awl was actually stuck up his butt to serve as a concealed weapon...
