On Fit Of Pique
A co-worker was trying to give me some props in a staff meeting and he said he wanted to "single me out for special condemnation." I told him to talk to my wife.
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On Fit Of Pique
Saw a headline recently that said something "ran the gauntlet" when the meaning was "ran the gamut."
Also hated: "Everyday" (ordinary) to mean "every day" (once in 24 hours). The words are different. "The Cubs start an everyday pitcher every day."
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On Fit Of Pique
@mbmargarita - in my backwater part of the world I'm seeing "sneak peak" until I want to cover my face with fingers and then pique out between them.
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On The Mindy Kaling Problem
@IBentMyWookie I love coming here to reaffirm how hopeless I am. Nevertheless: I like and admire Mindy Kaling, she is intelligent and pretty (haven't watched the show yet because I watch little TV of any kind), and I even like Zach Braff and Scrubs, so to hell with non-ironically-hip me, huh.
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On The Hollywood Life Of Walter Mitty
Welly well. Hollywood shat all over a piece of literature to make a movie, first time ever. Don't forget when listing Thurber tributes the one-season wonder TV show "My World and Welcome To It," which I miss terribly. (It was the lead-in to Laugh-In in, what, 1969?) Starred William Windom as a Thurber clone and Lisa Gerretsen as his night-retainer-wearing daughter. It adapted actual Thurber drawings into the action (especially the house that becomes his nagging wife). It was gentle, and true to the Thurber spirit, as best I could assess it being in high school at the time. Of course it was too genius to last on network TV.
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On How Did Your Mom Screw You Up?
@dinosaur_senior - This lovely set of steak knives. I know you'll find them useful. Congratulations!
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On How Did Your Mom Screw You Up?
Philip Larkin, "This Be The Verse," says it all. Can't print it here, but it's the greatest poem in English. Look it up, you'll recite it inside your head for a month.
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On What TV Character Have You Wanted to Be?
When I was little I wanted to be Top Cat. Now I want to be Dr. Cox from Scrubs. Same character, basically.
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On 'Gone With The Wind': Devil In A Black Bombazine Dress
(1) Don't know why she didn't choose a Tarleton twin, preferably the one that was really Superman. Would have solved a lot. (2) My college fiancee had a bad case of Scarlett envy. Made her pathologically narcissistic. (3) There is a wonderful cabaret theater GWTW parody along the lines of "Compleat Works of Shakespeare" (I'll have to come back and post its name) in which most of the laughs are generated as you watch the same actor frantically wheel back and forth to play both Rhett and Mammy. 1000 laughs. I was helpless with laughter. The most fun I've ever had out of the Civil War.
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On Here's Who Will Win The Oscars (And Why)
Ignorance always makes the purest satire. What a waste of electrons.