First off, I would like to thank mapgirl and Golbguru for highlighting my post about financing a child's college education. It actually pushed me to submit to this week's Carnival of Personal Finance, something I rarely do. 2million chose, appropriately enough, a Carnival theme. (I'm picking up my king cake in a week, so I'm all over this.)
Other than the highlighted posts, I noticed:
Ask Uncle Bill's Thinking outside the box. This is a pretty clever tactic to get around admissions requirements.
DDL from Make Your Nut's an idea to save money by patronizing crappy movie theaters. I'm not sure I could deal with this kind of disruption. I patronize my local second-run movie theater to save money instead.
And speaking of lists and bloggers, Michael has asked all bloggers to give him a list of their top 5 movies. I'm bad at doing precisely what I'm told, however. (If only because asking me to pick a top 5 is well-nigh impossible. Top 2? Okay. Top 15? Maybe. But in between those, the differentials don't mean much.) Instead, I'm going to take a similar meme I did elsewhere last year and repurpose it for this.
I'll give out twenty quotes from twenty of my favorite movies. Whichever blogger identifies the most movies by February 19 wins! I'll then write a post on a topic of his or her choice. (I reserve the right to ask for alternate topics if the initial request would require either more knowledge on the subject, or more provision of personal details, than I am able/willing to offer.) I'm putting all of you on the honor system; don't look at the comments before replying!
1) As the producer, I can fire anybody I want, and I am f****** fired!
2) Is that related to a Corolla?...Like the car?
3) Death is... whimsical, today.
4) You should be very glad I'm not 12. I was a very straightforward child. I used to spit.
5) The French have said au revoir to the franc, the Germans have said auf wiedersehen to the mark, and the Portuguese have said... whatever to their thing.
6) Some think he imagines us. Others that he sleeps, and we are his dreams...
7) F*** you, quality of mercy.
8) You know Steve, you're not very hard to figure, only at times. Sometimes I know exactly what you're going to say. Most of the time. The other times... the other times, you're just a stinker.
9) The man who folded this tube of Crest is looking for someone meticulous, refined. Anal. ... What?
10) Double negative? You mean you have photographs?!
11) Am I getting worse? Am I improving? I don't know. When I was younger, I was healthier, but I was, uh, whacked with insecurity, you know? Now I'm older and my problems are deeper, but I'm more equipped to handle them.
12) I took a course in art last winter. I learnt the difference between a fine oil painting, and a mechanical thing, like a photograph. The photograph shows only the reality. The painting shows not only the reality, but the dream behind it.
13)I warn you, madam - I know the entire Geneva Convention by heart! / Oh, how nice! You must recite it for me some evening; I play the harpsichord.
14) But I don't want to believe in something or not believe in it because I might feel bad. I want to believe in it or not believe in it because I think it's true or not.
15) I could put... I could put... strychnine in the guacamole.
16) I never did like the idea of sitting on newspaper. I did it once, and all the headlines came off on my white pants. On the level! It actually happened. Nobody bought a paper that day. They just followed me around over town and read the news on the seat of my pants.
17) Everybody's sin is nobody's sin, and everybody's crime is no crime at all.
18) PUT THAT COFFEE DOWN. Coffee is for closers.
19) What do you do for exercise? / I pace.
20) With music you can have twenty individuals all talking at the same time, and it's not noise, it's a perfect harmony!
Other than the highlighted posts, I noticed:
Ask Uncle Bill's Thinking outside the box. This is a pretty clever tactic to get around admissions requirements.
DDL from Make Your Nut's an idea to save money by patronizing crappy movie theaters. I'm not sure I could deal with this kind of disruption. I patronize my local second-run movie theater to save money instead.
And speaking of lists and bloggers, Michael has asked all bloggers to give him a list of their top 5 movies. I'm bad at doing precisely what I'm told, however. (If only because asking me to pick a top 5 is well-nigh impossible. Top 2? Okay. Top 15? Maybe. But in between those, the differentials don't mean much.) Instead, I'm going to take a similar meme I did elsewhere last year and repurpose it for this.
I'll give out twenty quotes from twenty of my favorite movies. Whichever blogger identifies the most movies by February 19 wins! I'll then write a post on a topic of his or her choice. (I reserve the right to ask for alternate topics if the initial request would require either more knowledge on the subject, or more provision of personal details, than I am able/willing to offer.) I'm putting all of you on the honor system; don't look at the comments before replying!
1) As the producer, I can fire anybody I want, and I am f****** fired!
2) Is that related to a Corolla?...Like the car?
3) Death is... whimsical, today.
4) You should be very glad I'm not 12. I was a very straightforward child. I used to spit.
5) The French have said au revoir to the franc, the Germans have said auf wiedersehen to the mark, and the Portuguese have said... whatever to their thing.
6) Some think he imagines us. Others that he sleeps, and we are his dreams...
7) F*** you, quality of mercy.
8) You know Steve, you're not very hard to figure, only at times. Sometimes I know exactly what you're going to say. Most of the time. The other times... the other times, you're just a stinker.
9) The man who folded this tube of Crest is looking for someone meticulous, refined. Anal. ... What?
10) Double negative? You mean you have photographs?!
11) Am I getting worse? Am I improving? I don't know. When I was younger, I was healthier, but I was, uh, whacked with insecurity, you know? Now I'm older and my problems are deeper, but I'm more equipped to handle them.
12) I took a course in art last winter. I learnt the difference between a fine oil painting, and a mechanical thing, like a photograph. The photograph shows only the reality. The painting shows not only the reality, but the dream behind it.
13)I warn you, madam - I know the entire Geneva Convention by heart! / Oh, how nice! You must recite it for me some evening; I play the harpsichord.
14) But I don't want to believe in something or not believe in it because I might feel bad. I want to believe in it or not believe in it because I think it's true or not.
15) I could put... I could put... strychnine in the guacamole.
16) I never did like the idea of sitting on newspaper. I did it once, and all the headlines came off on my white pants. On the level! It actually happened. Nobody bought a paper that day. They just followed me around over town and read the news on the seat of my pants.
17) Everybody's sin is nobody's sin, and everybody's crime is no crime at all.
18) PUT THAT COFFEE DOWN. Coffee is for closers.
19) What do you do for exercise? / I pace.
20) With music you can have twenty individuals all talking at the same time, and it's not noise, it's a perfect harmony!
3 Comments:
#3 is The Professional. A great, great film. A trigger away from my Top Five.
#15 Office Space.
#18 Glengarry Glen Ross. Or something like that.
#8 is To Have and Have Not (Or something like that--I don't recall the exact preposition).
#9 is Sneakers--a classic! (COOTYS RAT SEMEN is a perennial Scrabble favorite)
#15 is Office Space.
18. Glengarry Glen Ross
20. Amadeus
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