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At the beginning of "The Crying Game," where the IRA guy is about to execute Forrest Whitaker and he asks him to check up on his "girlfriend," do you think that's sincere--or just revenge from the grave buy making the IRA guy fall in love with a dude?
 
While it could never approach the classic "Who's on First?" bit by Abbott & Costello, I keep rolling a restaurant sketch around in my head and developing it:

[waitress, taking order]
WAITRESS: ...and that comes with a soup or salad.
CUSTOMER: Sounds good, why not?
WAITRESS: What?
CUSTOMER: I'll have the super salad.
WAITRESS: Which one? The soup? Or salad?
CUSTOMER: Yes.
WAITRESS: Pick one: Soup? Or Salad?
CUSTOMER: What are the options?
WAITRESS: Soup or salad.
CUSTOMER: I already said, I want the super salad.
...
 
I love when you realize you're completely mad. Had to fire up the old Windows 7 box to do bookkeeping today and truth be told, I still love it so much more than this machine. The 2 problems that killed it (the "A" key tending to occasionally fall off is just an annoyance) are that the speakers died and I was not finding a supported browser.

Since I had her up and running, I did some diagnostics. The software all claims to be working properly, so it makes me think the actual hardware died. Did some preliminary exploring of the case but stopped short of completely opening it up--it still is my sole way to access my bookkeeping files--and found there are speakers available online. So next I looked for articles about browsers that still work with Windows 7. Some of them, I know don't "work". Brave and the extended release version of Firefox both have assorted problems. But I may do some research and see if I can keep the old girl running.
 
Dirty Dancing is a really freaking good movie.

I dunno. Maybe it's only good compared to the movies they make today, but it's on TV now and I've caught the 2nd half twice in a week or two. It's a really simple story but it hits all the points that make a fulfilling story with a big payoff at the end. I'd love to hear Joseph Campbell talk about it.

And it's funny that Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey had no chemistry IRL, because they're such effing magic as Johnny and Baby. It's like Adam and Jamie in Mythbusters or any number of other teams that are so great on camera that don't actually get along IRL. Wild.
 
Nobody puts Baby in the corner!
 
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