tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777603.post109870636093786472..comments2023-10-31T04:55:56.259-05:00Comments on The Architectural Dance Society: various...2fshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17813487704459856169noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777603.post-1099763391004739692004-11-06T11:49:00.000-06:002004-11-06T11:49:00.000-06:00It's all about being a handsome actor. I presume y...It's all about being a <A HREF="http://www.blogger.com/r?http%3A%2F%2Fsnltranscripts.jt.org%2F90%2F90nhandsome.phtml">handsome actor</A>. I presume you remember the SNL skit with Mike Myers and Alec Baldwin:<br /><br />Lank Thompson: Always wear glasses, so you can snap them off for a handsome effect. <br /><br />Alec Baldwin: [ now wearing glasses ] "My God!" [ snaps off glasses ] "A meteor that size could destroy the Earth!"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777603.post-1099343770616983922004-11-01T15:16:00.000-06:002004-11-01T15:16:00.000-06:00And if I am a fraud (and I can't quite see where y...And if I am a fraud (and I can't quite see where you'd get the basis for that), what does that matter to you? As the famed philosopher said, whatever.2fshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17813487704459856169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777603.post-1099315539443459722004-11-01T07:25:00.000-06:002004-11-01T07:25:00.000-06:00Hmmm. Well, now I understand the animosity here. B...Hmmm. Well, now I understand the animosity here. But really: I'm not responsible here for clarifying Led Zeppelin references, pointing out irony, or the use of not-all-that-obscure slang. And while facts are, in fact, public domain, I apologize that an editing error removed that particular credit. Extra points for correctly using the HTML paragraph tag - even though I can't get the damned thing to work here. You might want to point out that I left out a space after the quoted, italicized material in my last comment: oh the pain, the pain. (That would be Dr. Smith from <I>Lost in Space</I>, I believe.) Really though - resentment isn't very constructive, is it. I'm sure you have better things to do.2fshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17813487704459856169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777603.post-1099293623771316952004-11-01T01:20:00.000-06:002004-11-01T01:20:00.000-06:00"suss out"?
"Has anybody seen the goddam bridge?"..."suss out"?<br /><br />"Has anybody seen the goddam bridge?"?<br /><br />"bear... little resemblance...except when it does"?<br /><br />Is this the psychobabble garbage we normally get from a college professor?<br /><br />I have another question. When someone re-distributes work without properly crediting the original author, isn't that called plagiarism, professor?<br /><br />http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml%3Fi=20041108&s=factsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777603.post-1099051627527506592004-10-29T07:07:00.000-05:002004-10-29T07:07:00.000-05:00Really? What would you call this?
"A map of his p...<I>Really? What would you call this?<br /><br />"A map of his peeves and fascinations would bear precious little resemblance to generally available topographies of interest, except when it does."</I>A sentence designed to suss out the tone-deaf?2fshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17813487704459856169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777603.post-1099032928534873192004-10-29T01:55:00.000-05:002004-10-29T01:55:00.000-05:00Really? What would you call this?
"A map of his ...Really? What would you call this?<br /><br />"A map of his peeves and fascinations would bear precious little resemblance to generally available topographies of interest, except when it does."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777603.post-1098987227767707702004-10-28T13:13:00.000-05:002004-10-28T13:13:00.000-05:00Nope - I've never seen a "post-modernistic" Englis...Nope - I've never seen a "post-modernistic" English professor perform that gesture. And I don't know anyone prone to psychobabble either. "Has anybody seen the goddam bridge?"2fshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17813487704459856169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777603.post-1098985147057486332004-10-28T12:39:00.000-05:002004-10-28T12:39:00.000-05:00I would have to guess that this started with post-...I would have to guess that this started with post-modernistic english professors that have a propensity for psycho-babble.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777603.post-1098839242703331112004-10-26T20:07:00.000-05:002004-10-26T20:07:00.000-05:00This wasn't a very controversial entry, so I don't...This wasn't a very controversial entry, so I don't know what the deleted entry had. Maybe gratuitous profanity or advertising? <br /><br />Wouldn't a body shown from the waist up (or the waist down) be half a dead body? <br />Reminds me of the math problem: <br />If six men can dig six holes in six days, then how many holes can one man dig in half a day? <br />(Answer: One.. because half a hole is still a hole)<br /><br />Anonymous SteveAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777603.post-1098761646440554342004-10-25T22:34:00.000-05:002004-10-25T22:34:00.000-05:00Coincidentally, Janet, Rose made a similar observa...Coincidentally, Janet, Rose made a similar observation: if you wear glasses for reading, and not for, uh, regular seeing (someone killed my vocabulary, sorry), you would in fact remove them when you want to talk to a person. Still...the drama of the gesture stands out, so that I've never seen a person in real life do it with that sort of flare. I think the characters in ads who do it are almost always authorities of some sorts: doctors, lawyers, scientists, etc....as if they were reading over some important info and then sincerely conveying it to you. Well there we go: another triumph for the Meme-Scheme Dream Team!2fshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17813487704459856169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777603.post-1098759014721848342004-10-25T21:50:00.000-05:002004-10-25T21:50:00.000-05:00I recently caved in to ocular reality and began we...I recently caved in to ocular reality and began wearing reading glasses for, uh, reading. And computing. Thanks to my uniquely shaped nose, I can't quite get the "perch" to work all that elegantly, so I am continually whipping off my glasses to better interact with people and things at distances greater than about 18". My job is a constant blend of reading/computing and interacting with people. Bifocals are actually looking pretty damned attractive, so to speak. Meanwhile, don't be getting in <I>my</I> face over that gesture - or on second thought, maybe you'd better. Then I could see you just fine with my glasses on.<br />--JanetAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777603.post-1098747442324100812004-10-25T18:37:00.000-05:002004-10-25T18:37:00.000-05:00VL sez: "Taking off one's glasses is a way of remo...VL sez: <I>"Taking off one's glasses is a way of removing a boundary, being more direct."</I> Hmm: I'm sure you're right, but I never thought of it that way - as if wearing glasses (regular glasses, not sunglasses) constituted a barrier of any sort. Apparently I either have, or lack, intimacy issues. Of course, hard to believe that people think there's anything like a removal of barriers in viewing, on the television, an ad featuring an actor filmed in another city many months ago whose purpose is to sell a product. But then, a third of Americans think the <I>National Enquirer</I> is a reliable news source. So what do I know.2fshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17813487704459856169noreply@blogger.com