Hey, I thought this was a post about Tina Fey's scar! Rip-OFF!
The interview excerpt in this post is ten times more interesting than anything she's done on SNL.
If had a hand in "Lazy Sunday", I take back what I said.
I get the sense they knock a lot of the funny out of the snl cast these days. Those quotes are delightful.
I've only seen one ep of 30 Rock, but I liked it.
Also, I just want to say that I made the GRE my bitch this morning, so I'm feeling pretty good. Woo!
Do you guys think it is too much to use the word "ecstatic" in a job letter, as in "I am ecstatic at the opportunity to work with the Alden March Bioethics Institute"?
Dagger: I'm pretty sure that "Lazy Sunday" was the work of Parnell and the Lonely Island guys, who also made this bit of awesome.
Do you guys think it is too much to use the word "ecstatic" in a job letter
Yes.
Way to GRE, mrh.
I figured.
It would be a really cool job, though.
Yes, no ecstasy in your cover letter -- also, this phrasing makes it sound like you're accepting a job offer rather than applying for the job. You could be "very excited about" or "by" the possibility, or the prospect, of working with them, though.
Maybe not "very". Excited, though, I think is A-OK.
I was hoping there was some jedi mind trick that would come out of acting like I already had the job in the applicaiton letter.
"You will give me a 2/2 load"
"We should give this guy a 2/2 load"
"I need two teaching assistants"
"He should have two teaching assistants."
etc.
GREat work, mrh!
. . . I'll ban myself on my way out.
Thanks everyone. 'Smasher, I may borrow that line.
The link in 8 lead me to these, which are hilarious.
"You will give me a 2/2 load" sounds so much like a euphemism. So much.
Everyone should check out The 'Bu, but that will have to wait until after the game.
O-H!
I-O!
That is all.
"Delighted" is probably better than "ecstatic." But "delighted" is more for an acceptance, and doesn't convey the craven, sweaty desperation suitable to application.
Yes, yes, craven sweaty desperation is exactly the vibe I am looking for.
I want to watch those links, but it's the darnedest thing: yesterday all of a sudden the audio on YouTube stopped working. Listening to itunes or DVDs works fine.
And congratulations to mrh.
So go with the simpler, "Dear Sir/Madam, I am desparate to get a 2/2 load from AMBI. Yours ATM, Dr. Helpy-Chalk"
All you need is three words, Rob:
Hire me, please.
Letter done! On to more enjoyable activities, like cutting your toenails.
21: DA, you must correct this problem as soon as possible, so that you can listen to this evidence of the awesomeness of Finland.
Thanks to werdna nworb for this link.
Hey did you guys know that a saiselgy sighting merits a notice in Wonkette?
I hate writing application letters, that's why I keep posting here.
mcmc -- what an amazing thing that is. The music, the performance, the video, the subtitling, just everything. Why is the cord on the vacuum cleaner always too short/ Just like summer. Thanks for the pointer.
No discussion of Finnish awesomeness would be complete without this.
*A* reason to love Tina Fey?
One of many.
27: awesome in a completely different way, but definitely.
Stuck at the dentist's yesterday, I ended up reading Seventeen magazine, which featured Paris on the cover and in an interview, where she insisted that her dumbness was really an act. That would have been far more believable had her responses not been wretchedly ungrammatical and solipsistic. [If I had a 14-year-old daughter - the magazine's central demographic - I'd be terrified by shit like this rag.]
In addition to her other flaws, she's well known around here for not tipping and for frequently not paying her tab at all.
Also, if you look closely, she has an embarassing rash on her butt.
Spotted here in Lake Wobegon: Leroy Wheeler, the first person tried and convicted under the 1989 Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act (possession of ricin).
Top that, Wonkette!
32: Sorry, I was going to show you a nifty fix. Actually, on the off chance that it'll help, it's this: on a Mac, you open and close Garageband, which resets the core audio. Perhaps there's a similar trick you can do in Windows.
The video linked in 24 is fabulous.
31 - Conversely, I saw a Natalie Portman letter complaining about being quoted out of context that made it clear that she was very bright, even if her range as an actress is limited. (And then I checked, and she's apparently one of the very few Hollywood types with an Erdös-Bacon number, although her Erdös number needs to be defined liberally.)
The Finns are the greatest musical genuises on the planet. Also see Mieskuoro Huutajat, the Men's Shouting Choir; their rendition of the Star-Spangled Banner captures the full-throated, masculine essence of the U.S. like no one since Kate Smith stopped singing "God Bless America."
37: Portman's a Harvard alum. Not that that snaem gnihtyna.
38: That's fantastic. I especially love the giant crumhorn things--especially the one with the 3 mouthpieces. And the Star-Spangled Banner is great.
The long dark winters must be part of the reason.
Speaking of awesome, my cd finally arrived and I am listening to it now. Thanks, Ben!
I have an Erdös-Bacon number of 8 (5-3). I think.
Olivia Newton-John has a lot of good degrees-of-separation numbers -- her grandfather was Max Born, a Nobel-prize-winning physicist and Jewish Lutheran. Newton-John's father worked on the Enigma Project.
A number of things about 42 are interesting:
1) the fact that it is comment 42;
2) the fact that people have apparently been playing a joke on me involving which operand signals addition for many years;
3) that you should update the IMDb.
And speaking of awesome, mcmc is on fire these days, photography-wise.
people have apparently been playing a joke on me involving which operand signals addition
It was meant to be the same operand that separates the terms "Erdös" and "Bacon". But you're quite right, arithmetically speaking.
that you should update the IMDb
Actually, that occurred to me while I was figuring this out. But that sounds like work.
Ally Sloper Runs a Revue stars Ena Beaumont as Tootsie Sloper; but our friend slol is not credited.
(Or maybe Max Gionti is our friend slol's screen name.)
49: Numerous past comments (as well as other mysterious sources I may or may not have access to, bwah ha ha) indicate that slol is not the 84 years old he'd at minimum have to be to appear in a 1921 film, and probably he'd need to be older than a month or so to have starred in it.
Actually if the photo I linked in 50 were actually of our friend slol, he would need to be over a hundred and forty years old. I'm not saying he is, not saying he isn't -- you can draw your own conclusions. I will say I imagine it's a decent resemblance.
The video in 24 is indeed fabulous.
Her hair is like a Fraggle
Fraggle references are cool.
Tina Fey is on The Daily Show right now.
(In the clip they played from 30 Rock, she said "nut up".)
(Is that correct terminology? I mean, "her breasts are visible.")
If the entire breasts are visible, then cleavage is the wrong word.
The correct term is "two more reasons to love Tina Fey."
