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Dec 07, 2005 | 2:44PM

Glockgirl has a great game over on her blog. You'll see a movie still with pieces from two different movies in it, combined to make one new title -- and you have to guess what it is!

Here's an example from her:

This shot has Albert Brooks from "Defending Your Life," and Kevin Kline in "Life as a House."  So the combined title -- and the answer! -- is "Defending Your Life as a House."

My images aren't nearly as good as hers, but I'll share anyway.  Guess away!

 

#1:

The Importance of Being Ernest Goes to Camp,
guessed by Deuce

#2:
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The King Kong and I,
guessed by marnie78


#3:
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Plan 9 From Outer Spaceballs
Almost correctly guessed in person by several people.

#4:

The Little Shop of Horrors Around the Corner,
correctly guessed by deuce

#5:
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Dirty Harry and the Hendersons,
correctly guessed -- surprise! -- by deuce


#6:
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Cast Away We Were,
correctly guessed by taffy70

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Lex's Movie Quote Quiz
Sep 30, 2005 | 9:20AM

Okay, okay, I'm hopping on this meme very late in the game.  But still, the quizzes were fun, so today I'm sharing one.  You play by adding a comment to identify the movie from which any of these quotations comes.  And don't Google them -- that's no fun!

Update: All 10 accounted for!

1. "This is not the forum to be cavalier." My Cousin Vinny, guessed by LaurenPretzel

2. "You get to drink from the fire hose!" UHF, guessed by Deuce

3. "I'm calling the organization of the United Brotherhood of It's None of Your Damn Business, Lewis." The American President, guessed by ERIKHA

4. "You can milk just about anything with nipples." Meet the Parents, guessed by d0rk

5. "I can kill again! You've given me a reason to live!" Hot Shots, nearly correctly guessed by ERIKHA

6. He: "They'll pay you 75 dollars a week."
She: "We only make 30 at the dairy."
He: "Well then, this would be more, wouldn't it?" A League Of Their Own, guessed by Deuce

7. He: "My orders came through. My squadron ships out tomorrow. We're bombing the storage depots at Daiquiri at 1800 hours. We're coming in from the north, below their radar."
She: "When will you be back?" 
He: "I can't tell you that. It's classified." Airplane, guessed by Deuce

8. "The world, the place you live in, is the sick place." The Truman Show, guessed by ERIKHA

9. "First thing it's two minutes, then four, then six, then the next thing you know, we're the U.S. mail." Cast Away, guessed by GrabQA

10. "Don't you tell me you don't remember me, 'cause I sure as heckfire remember you." Groundhog Day, guessed by TC

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Last Book, Last Movie, Last Song, Last TV Show
Sep 21, 2005 | 9:38AM

The last book I read was: HappinessTM by Will Ferguson. (Amazon) This book comes highly recommended; it's a delightfully self-aware and self-referential novel. I laughed out loud and truly couldn't wait till I turned the last page, so that I could finally know how the story ended.

The last movie I saw was: Hmm. In theaters, that would be The 40-Year-Old Virgin, which was funny but not brilliant.  (Okay, the ending montage was brilliant.  The rest was good but not great.)  Including DVDs and the like... The last movie I intentionally sat down to watch would have to be Teen Wolf Too, which I watched on an airplane immediately after watching the astoundingly better Teen Wolf.

The last song I heard was: "Trust Me," by the Barenaked Ladies, in the car on the way to work.

The last TV show I watched was: Medium, on TiVo last night.

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No offense
Aug 15, 2005 | 9:14AM

I have betrayed Deuce.

He doesn't know it yet.  I am informing him of my betrayal right here, via this post on this blog.

See, Deuce and I have both expressed considerable interest in seeing a little movie called The Aristocrats. It's a movie co-produced by Penn Jillette (of Penn & Teller fame) wherein 100 famous comedians (George Carlin, Robin Williams, Whoopi Goldberg, Hank Azaria, Phyllis Diller, Martin Mull, Fred Willard, Drew Carey, etc) all dish on a single joke.  Many of them tell their own version of the joke. 

The joke basically goes like this: A man walks into a talent agent's office and says, "I'd like you to represent my family's act."  The agent says, "Well, what do you do?"  The man replies: "My whole family gets on stage and passes gas for twenty minutes." The manager is taken aback. "What do you call this act?"  The man's reply: "The Aristocrats!"

It's not a great joke.  The punchline's supposed to play up the crassness of the act.

But the punchline isn't the funny part of the joke, my friends. See how I italicized part of the joke up there?  That's because when the man describes his act, that's where comedians get to improvise, coloring in the description of the act with the most filthy, vile, and vulgar activities you can imagine.  I'm talking pure, unadulterated filth.

All in good fun, of course. 

The movie's unrated, not that it contains images of gratuitous sex or violence -- it's all the language.  Comedians use language to shock us, often to shock us into laughing.  The taboos that they're breaking, the "naughtiness" of the words surprises us, and we can't help but laugh.  Presuming, that is, that we're not offended. 

I don't get offended by much of anything. Words are words.

I know what you're thinking now.  You're thinking: "You started this post by saying that you had betrayed Deuce! How does a description of this intriguing film indicate said betrayal?"

Well, dear reader, if you'd stop interrupting and just listen for a second, I'd tell ya! See, Deuce and I had both wanted to see the film and had even spoken tentatively of having a joint outing to see it.

But I couldn't wait any longer, and saw it ALL BY MYSELF on Saturday.

Sorry, Deuce! But it was so worth it!

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