Maybe Malaysia is trying to pull off a casually insouciant look in its border crossings? You know, if they were clean, they'd look as if they were competing with Singapore. As it is, Malaysia can be all "Oh, sure, if you don't have anything better to do than look blindingly efficient..."
Don't you mean that there are 2 ringgit to the Sing $? Otherwise everything would be twice as expensive.
Shouldn't the original BG movie have more cred, anyway?
Says someone who used to own a Space: 1999 lunchbox. Man, none of that shit happened, did it?
Tell me about it. Growing up on 40's through 70's SF means that for about the last ten years, every time I've looked at a date I've had a little twinge of "Still no moon colonies or personal jet-packs. This sucks."
matt: d'oh! I'll fix that. yeah, and where's my flying car, huh? I wanna wanna flying car!
I had a professor who bought bootlegged copies of Microsoft products in China just to see if they worked, but then he removed them from his computer, because he didn't want to be involved in the IP violation---or so he said.
wait, you used to have Husband X as a professor! that's totally airwolf! it's one degree of separation!
Perhaps someone here can answer this Malaysia-Singapore question: What is the difference between a bridge and a causeway? How can you tell when the a surface that you are driving on over a body of water is one, as opposed to the other?
Also, Aw, pickles?
Naturally Husband X is all
Does this mean there's also a Husband Y?
Would husband XX be a wife?
For awhile the I-90 highway had a similar mismatch - the Illinois side was kept absolutely immaculate and the Wisconsin side was awful. Neither matched the road quality throughout the rest of the states.
Maintaining anonymity by any means necessary.
12: I hope the Wisconsin side of I-90 wasn't worse than I-43 between Beloit and Milwaukee because that there is some teeth-rattling road.
Were Husbands I - VIII named Henry?
Do Husbands I-IX live in South-East Asian City States I-IX?
They live in a derangement thereof.
Psychotic city-states? I see a summer blockbuster in the future.
"And I just figured the Sci-Fi Channel had made a 2-hour movie before starting the series (didn't they, actually?) "
4 hour mini-series in two parts, actually. In the U.S. available both as its own DVD, and for not a huge amount more along with the entire first season.
"With the A-Team's Faceman as Starbuck. Or maybe Apollo."
"I've had a little twinge of "Still no moon colonies or personal jet-packs. This sucks.""
Yes, but robot camel jockeys of Arabia. Can't beat those.
Ok ogged, you've reduced and B-wo to arguing about what is rock and what is not in the Crooked Timber comments. Haven't you done enough?
crap, poor html formatting ate two words. Intended to read: Ok ogged, you've reduced Weiner and B-wo to arguing about what is rock and what is not in the Crooked Timber comments. Haven't you done enough?
But it's to a post by Crooked Timber Contributor X, so it's not so bad, right?
Right?
Since we need grist to comment on (tomorrow for me, perhaps now for others), have you guys seen teh craziness over at Bitch, Ph.D.'s?
Yes. I can't believe she's got some jackass threatening to sue her.
Re XVI: She wouldn't have a Willie or a Sam!
That thread at CT made my brain hurt even more than the thread at BPhd.
I mean, I'm enough of a music snob that the average person would find me obnoxious (family members get really impatient with my incessant whining about radio stations when in the car with me), but jesus christ, it was like I was looking into a whole nether-world filled the music version of my sister-in-law, who needs to tell me why such-and-such piece of animation is more kawaii than this-and-that and all I'm hearing is blah-blah-blah, and why the fuck can't we just shut the fuck up and ROCK, for christ's sake.
[pant, pant]
When I go home I'm going to listen to Kill 'Em All. Loud.
I keep trying to post something here and it keeps getting moderated and not appearing.
Thanks, eb. I have nothing relevant to add, so let me post this bit of NYT editorializing as an advertisment for Hug Your Grammar Shrew day:
Mr. Bush cannot fire Mr. Cheney, but he could do what other presidents have done to vice presidents: keep him too busy attending funerals and acting as the chairman of studies to do more harm.
(Emphasis added.) Nice work if you can get it.
eb, that's some nice work. I'd found a couple of those while skimming the archives here (the vocab one, at least), but the rest are new to me.
sb and w/d, thanks, it's nice to see that my unhealthy need to read the archives has paid off. Also.
eb, that looks like good work, though I don't have time to click now. I'm pretty sure the number of links were what spam-moderated it. But also what makes it so appealing! The paradox of whatever it is.
That speed reading thing was infuriating.
The best selection of pirate DVDs that I found was in Penang. Truly mind-boggling--these guys have whole stores set up in major malls, filled with only DVD cases. They have to go "downstairs" to fetch the actual discs you want, presumably from a truck at a loading dock that just keeps its engine running all the time, on the off chance some non-bribed police show up.
I did that whole "Nothing to Declare" business in Singapore a few days later, with four DVDs in my backpack, and was scared absolutely shitless going through the line. My buddy went through with about 25 discs in a Case Logic case, totally oblivious to the signs warning against bringing in unauthorized copies of music and movies. I had visions of both of our bleeding backsides splashed all over the American nightly news...
