Re: There's Probably A Swiss Word For "Doppelganger"

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I wonder if the resemblance would stand up to other angles.


Posted by: gswift | Link to this comment | 06- 3-07 8:50 PM
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An band? Just as pretty, twice as likely to kick your ass.


Posted by: Populuxe | Link to this comment | 06- 3-07 8:56 PM
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U HAS A PROBLEM


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 06- 3-07 9:09 PM
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Wow. I really dig Jessica Biehl, but that chick in the photo looks nothing like her.


Posted by: NCProsecutor | Link to this comment | 06- 3-07 9:53 PM
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You're going to be the one guy who goes and sees that godawful Chuck and Larry movie, aren't you?


Posted by: Becks | Link to this comment | 06- 3-07 9:54 PM
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True fact: I've haven't seen anything Jessica Biel has been in.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 06- 3-07 9:56 PM
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"Next" wasn't too bad. More entertaining than Spiderman 3.


Posted by: gswift | Link to this comment | 06- 3-07 9:59 PM
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I also enjoyed The Illusionist.


Posted by: gswift | Link to this comment | 06- 3-07 10:01 PM
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I can't believe Alex Payne wrote Chuck and Larry. I'm wondering if Election and Citizen Ruth were flukes.


Posted by: snarkout | Link to this comment | 06- 3-07 10:04 PM
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I liked "The Illusionist" too, although from the time I saw the previes for it, through the time I saw the movie, and through the next four months until one minute ago, I thought the female lead was Jessica Alba rather than Biel.


Posted by: Cryptic Ned | Link to this comment | 06- 3-07 10:06 PM
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Or maybe Chuck and Larry is the greatest movie in history.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 06- 3-07 10:07 PM
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Ned, aren't you also the one who doesn't know what kind of car he (or was it your wife) drives? Maybe you're not much of a noticer.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 06- 3-07 10:08 PM
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Not knowing what kind of car one drives doesn't mean that one is not much of a noticer.


Posted by: Megan | Link to this comment | 06- 3-07 10:09 PM
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Nice try, Ogged. Somewhat charming, even.


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 06- 3-07 10:09 PM
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Not knowing what kind of car one drives doesn't mean that one is not much of a noticer.

That's exactly what it means.


Posted by: gswift | Link to this comment | 06- 3-07 10:10 PM
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A movie doesn't have to be great to be better than Election (or the Illusionist, for that matter).


Posted by: eb | Link to this comment | 06- 3-07 10:10 PM
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Aren't you the one who somehow thought I was married? Maybe you're not much of a noticer.

And I know exactly what her car looks like, I just couldn't remember the arbitrary so-called "make and model" that is inscribed subtly on the back.

I do plead guilty to not noting what color a girlfriend's eyes were for the duration of a two-month relationship. Fortunately my intuition led me to the right guess.


Posted by: Cryptic Ned | Link to this comment | 06- 3-07 10:13 PM
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That's why I mentioned the wife thing as part of my uncertainty; I wasn't going to look it up.

Anyway, gswift gets it right and Ned confirms in 17.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 06- 3-07 10:14 PM
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I was completely unaware of the existence of Jessica Biel until I started reading Unfogged. I don't thank you for that, O, but neither do I condemn you.


Posted by: Jesus McQueen | Link to this comment | 06- 3-07 10:16 PM
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If you don't know what kind of car you yourself drive, that goes beyond "not being a noticer". It would mean you're brain-damaged or "absent-minded", given that you must have had to write down the type numerous times on various forms in order to maintain ownership of it. Please don't tar me with that brush.


Posted by: Cryptic Ned | Link to this comment | 06- 3-07 10:16 PM
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Or nor, I mean.


Posted by: Jesus McQueen | Link to this comment | 06- 3-07 10:17 PM
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In fact, don't tar me with any brushes.

Also, 19 gets it right. I conflated any mention of her with the known quantity of Jessica Alba before this blog forced me to pay more attention to her as a discrete entity.


Posted by: Cryptic Ned | Link to this comment | 06- 3-07 10:18 PM
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Cryptic Ned: surprisingly touchy about his brain damage.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 06- 3-07 10:19 PM
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Cryptic Ned: prefers to have tar applied with rollers.


Posted by: eb | Link to this comment | 06- 3-07 10:21 PM
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I do plead guilty to not noting what color a girlfriend's eyes were for the duration of a two-month relationship.

If it was because you were staring at her tits all the time, then this is understandable.


Posted by: gswift | Link to this comment | 06- 3-07 10:24 PM
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People notice different things, as has been mentioned here before.

People can have neato plants in their yards their whole time living there and never see them until I walk over, riveted by the leaves. But I don't say they aren't noticers.


Posted by: Megan | Link to this comment | 06- 3-07 10:25 PM
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I liked Election, though this isn't necessarily saying anything.


Posted by: Matt F | Link to this comment | 06- 3-07 10:26 PM
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And my ex didn't know the color of my eyes for several weeks (until his roommate commented on them, in fact), but I'd be shocked if there were thirty seconds of our acquaintance that he didn't know my bra size.


Posted by: Megan | Link to this comment | 06- 3-07 10:26 PM
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Cryptic Ned bled on the lipstick triptych despite his styptic cred.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 06- 3-07 10:29 PM
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my ex didn't know the color of my eyes for several weeks

Clearly a moron; you should have dumped him right then.

Anyway, noticing or not noticing worm trails is one thing that differentiates people based on their preferences and expertise. Noticing or not noticing the kind of car you drive, in the manner of Cryptic Ned, differentiates the dummies from the rest of us.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 06- 3-07 10:29 PM
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People can have neato plants in their yards their whole time living there and never see them until I walk over

Wow, bad analogy. Maybe if people rode their plants around town or something it might work.


Posted by: gswift | Link to this comment | 06- 3-07 10:31 PM
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I don't make a note of make and model of most cars. But I do notice the cars.


Posted by: eb | Link to this comment | 06- 3-07 10:32 PM
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Do people generally notice size and brand of others' shoes?


Posted by: eb | Link to this comment | 06- 3-07 10:33 PM
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Do people generally notice size and brand of others' shoes?

Not straight dudes.


Posted by: gswift | Link to this comment | 06- 3-07 10:34 PM
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But they walk around town with them, right? (This is the annoying not really Socratic but just plain leading questions thing, isn't it? I'll stop now.)


Posted by: eb | Link to this comment | 06- 3-07 10:36 PM
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Noticing or not noticing the plants in front of your building, that you walk past several times a day, differentiates the dummies from the rest of us.

Or, people's minds latch on to different things, and the name of a car I drive is never going to be one of the things I pay attention to. (That's not quite true. I could memorize it, because people ask. And I remember all the proper names of all the cars/bikes I've owned (Scarlet, Teela, Dart, Clara, Blanca and Princess).)

He claimed that because he was Asian-Am, he never looked at eye color because all eyes were brown anyway.


Posted by: Megan | Link to this comment | 06- 3-07 10:36 PM
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I think you'll agree with me that it was more or less the default car, with no distinguishing features whatsoever.


Posted by: Cryptic Ned | Link to this comment | 06- 3-07 10:37 PM
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He claimed that because he was Asian-Am, he never looked at eye color because all eyes were brown anyway.

Nice effort on his part, but not buying it.


Posted by: gswift | Link to this comment | 06- 3-07 10:39 PM
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What kind of naive question is that? Of course.


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 06- 3-07 10:40 PM
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39 to 35?


Posted by: Cryptic Ned | Link to this comment | 06- 3-07 10:41 PM
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Asian-Am, he never looked at eye color because all eyes were brown anyway

But since eye and hair color are the only things that prevent all white people from looking alike, he should have paid even more attention to that.


Posted by: eb | Link to this comment | 06- 3-07 10:41 PM
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I'm mostly just giving Ned a hard time; it's not so strange not to notice made/model of cars, although your girlfriend's car is stretching it. And Megan, I know you know better now, but clearly, clearly, this guy was either a moron or a liar. You have very BIG, very BLUE eyes--once again, should have dumped him on the spot.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 06- 3-07 10:41 PM
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I didn't realize I was analogizing, although of course I was. But it was when I was mocking my ex for not recognizing the same plant in two different colors that I realized that it was exactly the same as recognizing cars. They come in families; you distinguish slight changes in form despite different colors; you remember linked names. In fact, I stopped making fun of him for not knowing plants when I realized it was exactly the same as not knowing cars, and I was never going to bother to learn anything about cars.


Posted by: Megan | Link to this comment | 06- 3-07 10:44 PM
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I was never going to bother to learn anything about cars

Except that you've said that you can tell various asian ethnicities apart by how they trick out their cars.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 06- 3-07 10:45 PM
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I, for one, can imagine not "knowing" the color of someone's eyes. I love pretty eyes, but I just think "pretty." The actual color may or may not stick. I'm not sure I'd be willing to swear about the eye color of anyone I've dated.


Posted by: SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 06- 3-07 10:46 PM
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And I remember all the proper names of all the cars/bikes I've owned (Scarlet, Teela, Dart, Clara, Blanca and Princess)

BARF


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 06- 3-07 10:47 PM
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w-lfs-n, she just not that into you. Get over it.


Posted by: SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 06- 3-07 10:48 PM
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Do people generally notice size and brand of others' shoes?

Heh. My ex did notice clothes (and dated me despite that). He could tell me what shoes every single one of my friends was wearing the first time he met them.

But since eye and hair color are the only things that prevent all white people from looking alike, he should have paid even more attention to that.

I couldn't tell white people apart until I'd been at Berkeley for two years.

this guy was either a moron or a liar.

I didn't think he was a liar. I was totally willing to believe that he didn't know my eye color because he was looking at my breasts.

And he was funny.


Posted by: Megan | Link to this comment | 06- 3-07 10:49 PM
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He could tell me what shoes every single one of my friends was wearing the first time he met them.

Foot fetish.


Posted by: gswift | Link to this comment | 06- 3-07 10:51 PM
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The actual color may or may not stick

I'm mostly the same way, actually, which is why I remind myself to note it, because it seems so stupid not to know for sure.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 06- 3-07 10:51 PM
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39 to 33 but I was lying.


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 06- 3-07 10:52 PM
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The lyrics to "I want your socks" appear never to have been posted to the web.


Posted by: eb | Link to this comment | 06- 3-07 10:53 PM
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Except that you've said that you can tell various asian ethnicities apart by how they trick out their cars.

In the late eighties, early nineties - I couldn't vouch for now:

Korean-Am - white Accura, blue tinted windows, no decals

Japanese-Am - stripe of some sort and a spoiler, Japanese script

Southeast Asian-Am - lowered, aftermarket rims, larger muffler.

I cheat if I want to get into finer detail on SE Asian. Buddha glued to the dashboard - Vietnamese - Am. Cross hanging from mirror - Fil-Am. Neither? Go to Cambodian - Am.


Posted by: Megan | Link to this comment | 06- 3-07 10:53 PM
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I couldn't tell white people apart until I'd been at Berkeley for two years.

Waitaminute...


Posted by: Matt F | Link to this comment | 06- 3-07 10:54 PM
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I'm mostly the same way, actually, which is why I remind myself to note it, because it seems so stupid not to know for sure.

You're such a classic immigrant.


Posted by: SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 06- 3-07 10:54 PM
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"stupid not to know for sure" rings true for me as well. If it's someone I'm dating, I don't want to get caught not knowing.


Posted by: gswift | Link to this comment | 06- 3-07 10:59 PM
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Classic immigrant behavior, gswift. Apparently Timbot grew up in a tepee.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 06- 3-07 11:01 PM
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In a jam, with no eye-color recall to speak of, Peter Gabriel nattered on about light and heat for 20 minutes.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 06- 3-07 11:02 PM
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You have elicited sustained and audible laughter, SB.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 06- 3-07 11:03 PM
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Yipee


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 06- 3-07 11:05 PM
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I've heard white people drive sedans.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 06- 3-07 11:09 PM
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57: Yeah, thinking about it a bit, that doesn't really fit/make sense. I just recently read a piece about Tom Stoppard, in which he was described as a classic immigrant, and somehow that rung the same bell for me.


Posted by: SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 06- 3-07 11:10 PM
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61: Do they sound alike?


Posted by: eb | Link to this comment | 06- 3-07 11:10 PM
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63: *cough* What was that?


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 06- 3-07 11:13 PM
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I have heard the movement of my whiteness sputter,
And I have heard the repairman lift the hood and mutter,
And in short, I was afraid.


Posted by: eb | Link to this comment | 06- 3-07 11:13 PM
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Foot fetish.

Try again. I notice shoes (both men and women) but I don't have a foot fetish. (And no, I'm not Megan's ex.)


Posted by: Josh | Link to this comment | 06- 3-07 11:22 PM
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Of course, I also notice cars, and I look around every time I hear a motorcycle until I've found it and identified it... so maybe it's just OCD.


Posted by: Josh | Link to this comment | 06- 3-07 11:24 PM
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I notice shoes

I submit that "could tell me what shoes every single one of my friends was wearing the first time he met them." is going beyond "notice".


Posted by: gswift | Link to this comment | 06- 3-07 11:28 PM
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Lo! I am "hella" white
Amid my wholesome honky peers!


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 06- 3-07 11:32 PM
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Your eyes are not here.
There are no eyes here.
In this empty highway,
This broken car of our lost chances.

In this last of parking spaces
We mope together
And avoid heat
Gathered on this seat of the humid interior.


Posted by: eb | Link to this comment | 06- 3-07 11:35 PM
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If there was any fetish, it was shoes more than feet, but I think it was neither. I think that his first once-over for class signifiers put a lot of weight on shoes. He also knew brand names and designers and knew which watches were expensive.


Posted by: Megan | Link to this comment | 06- 3-07 11:36 PM
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If there were any fetish...


Posted by: Megan | Link to this comment | 06- 3-07 11:37 PM
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58, 59: Twice.


Posted by: Hamilton Lovecraft | Link to this comment | 06- 3-07 11:41 PM
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his first once-over for class signifiers put a lot of weight on shoes

"He's a gentleman. Look at his boots."


Posted by: Matt F | Link to this comment | 06- 3-07 11:42 PM
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I drove a car in Tennessee,
A Rolls it was, upon a hill.
It made the slovenly underclass
Surround that hill.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 06- 3-07 11:50 PM
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Whenever Richard Cory went to supper
We people in attendance looked down at him:
He was a gentleman from sole to upper,
Well polished, and appropriately prim.


Posted by: eb | Link to this comment | 06- 3-07 11:57 PM
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I read this: "Except that you've said that you can tell various asian ethnicities apart by how they trick out their cars" as: "Except that you've said that you can tell various asian ethnicities apart by how they trick out their ears" and will now spend the rest of the night pondering hip Japanese kids sporting streamlined, bedecalled ear prosthetics.


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 06- 4-07 1:35 AM
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Annoyingly on-topic: Doppelgängli, in the specifically Swiss variant.


Posted by: Doug | Link to this comment | 06- 4-07 2:32 AM
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67: if you go to London (or Europe in general), they have 250 two-stroke streetbikes. Talk about doing a double-take when you hear something.


Posted by: Jake | Link to this comment | 06- 4-07 2:36 AM
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72/71: "If I was" is correct (or, at least, can be correct). It's not a hypothetical scenario -- it's a possible fact (conditional?) in the past tense.

By the way, all Asian eyes may be brown, but aren't all Asian bras A-cups?


Posted by: anno-nymous | Link to this comment | 06- 4-07 4:25 AM
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80: Very definitely not.


Posted by: Anarch | Link to this comment | 06- 4-07 5:13 AM
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...he says without any trace of heteronormative smile.


Posted by: Anarch | Link to this comment | 06- 4-07 5:13 AM
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standpipe be on a *roll* in this thread!
this in particular:
"Cryptic Ned bled on the lipstick triptych despite his styptic cred."

the line about Peter Gabriel requires prior knowledge that i don't have.

anyhow--remember how i said those shots of biel in her bathrobe looked like 250 million other women? oddly enough, ogged found one among the other 2.75 billion.


Posted by: kid bitzer | Link to this comment | 06- 4-07 5:44 AM
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A movie doesn't have to be great to be better than Election

This is the most absurd thing I've ever heard. Election is awesome.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 06- 4-07 6:46 AM
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Thanks, kb. Some posterior knowledge for you.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 06- 4-07 6:50 AM
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Oof. The verse+bridge should sue the chorus for defamation.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 06- 4-07 6:54 AM
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Doppelgängli, in the specifically Swiss variant

Huh. Thanks, I guess.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 06- 4-07 7:21 AM
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Foot fetish.

There are options.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 06- 4-07 9:09 AM
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Um, that's NSFW.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 06- 4-07 9:13 AM
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That's one way to lose those walking blues.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 06- 4-07 9:22 AM
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Without seeing the woman's ass, how can we tell if she resembles Jessica Biel or not? What are the rest of you going by?


Posted by: Anderson | Link to this comment | 06- 4-07 9:26 AM
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I'm not sure what SB and eb are up to, exactly, but I still find it amusing.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 06- 4-07 9:42 AM
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91: That's too funny. I didn't even click on the link, because I was sure that it was a faceless picture.


Posted by: Witt | Link to this comment | 06- 4-07 10:01 AM
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That's one way to lose those walking blues.

Noted without comment.


Posted by: NickS | Link to this comment | 06- 4-07 10:06 AM
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58 and 59 are both delightful.


Posted by: mrh | Link to this comment | 06- 4-07 10:16 AM
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Noted without comment.

It's a terrible, terrible song, ta-na na-na-na. My musical taste and my sense of humor aren't speaking to each other.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 06- 4-07 10:29 AM
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87: Actually, the Swiss reputation among German-speakers is cute accents plus adding "li" at the end of almost any conceivable noun, so in the interest of comity and cultural understanding, I note that doppelgängli is probably more mock-Swiss than actual-Swiss. But then you don't have to pay full price for mock-Swiss. to say nothing of mock-Swedish.


Posted by: Doug | Link to this comment | 06- 4-07 10:53 AM
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88: As always, Apo, holey shit.


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 06- 4-07 10:59 AM
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My musical taste and my sense of humor aren't speaking to each other.

I'm not willing to concede that it's a terrible song (mediocre, perhaps, but terrible?) but I will acknowledge that a song being terrible would make it more, rather than less, appealing as a target of humor.


Posted by: NickS | Link to this comment | 06- 4-07 11:03 AM
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100 Double Gangly points!


Posted by: Cryptic Ned | Link to this comment | 06- 4-07 11:10 AM
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88: I'm seeing a whole new line of Dr. Scholls products. Yowch.


Posted by: Anderson | Link to this comment | 06- 4-07 1:25 PM
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