Tuesday, July 19, 2005
Another meme
What is a meme anyway? It sounds like a fancy word made up for the computer age. Oh well, please enlighten me. While I'm waiting, I'll pass on this thing that some folks I know are doing. Pop culture junkies...
Five things I just don't get:
1. Complaining about the weather.
2. Why green olives come in jars but black ones come in tins.
3. Muchmusic.
4. Why so many passed balls are scored as wild pitches.
5. Right wingers.
Five things (other than money) I wish I had more of:
1. Socks.
2. TV channels.
3. Aeroplan points.
4. Musical talent.
5. Beer.
Five least favourite words or phrases:
1. Irregardless .
2. Van (as in "couver") .
3. It's (when you mean "its").
4. Asterix (when you mean "asterisk").
5. Meridian (when you mean "median." One time when I lived in Vancouver I was forced to phone the U News at 11 people when the anchor said something about a car crashing into the meridian on the Upper Levels highway. When I pointed out to the guy that a meridian is a big imaginary line that circles the globe, he told me the anchor had actually NOT said the car crashed into the meridian, but rather was hit by another car and forced into it. I then said "well, even so - if a car hit or was forced into a big imaginary line that circles the globe, it wouldn't really be news, now, would it?" and then he hung up on me).
Five famous people I've spoken with in person:
1. Joe Strummer (he bought me a beer and invited me to sit with The Pogues.
2. Brian Mulroney (he also put his hand on my shoulder...ewwww!) .
3. Gene Hackman (he said "'morning boys!" to me and some others on Rodeo Drive in LA. We all said "Morning Gene!" back to him).
4. Bob MacDonald (I also bought him a Bushmills in return for his renditions of Monster Mash and Moondance).
5. Norah Young (the only woman who ever left me speechless after only a couple of words).
Five things I do daily that I don't enjoy:
1. Get out of bed.
2. Talk about money.
3. Wonder why my shower is so slow to drain despite my repeated attempts to clear it.
4. Fail to watch Seinfeld.
5. Restart my computer due to a crash.
Five things I wish I had the chance to do more often:
1. Travel.
2. Play music.
3. Climb mountains.
4. Speak French.
5. Take courses - you know, generally improve myself.
Five favourite movie, TV or literary quotations:
The object here is that you're supposed to guess the sources, and I'll post the answers in a day or so.
1. Books, movies, tv -- these things matter! Call me shallow, it's the fuckin' truth!
2. When you become thawed out your love will swamp the tracks, and my heart will be restored with virgin blood.
3. I believe in this and it's been tested by research, he who fucks nuns will later join the church.
4. That's when I whacked him with the olive loaf.
5. What do you mean, like laundry?
Five things I have done that sound like lies:
1. Thrown up in church.
2. Surfed on a moving car like in Teen Wolf.
3. Been in Times Square for New Years Eve, 1999.
4. Been hit by a car and not told anyone about it.
5. Kissed former NDP leader Audrey McLaughlin on the cheek while dressed as a sailor.
Five things I just don't get:
1. Complaining about the weather.
2. Why green olives come in jars but black ones come in tins.
3. Muchmusic.
4. Why so many passed balls are scored as wild pitches.
5. Right wingers.
Five things (other than money) I wish I had more of:
1. Socks.
2. TV channels.
3. Aeroplan points.
4. Musical talent.
5. Beer.
Five least favourite words or phrases:
1. Irregardless .
2. Van (as in "couver") .
3. It's (when you mean "its").
4. Asterix (when you mean "asterisk").
5. Meridian (when you mean "median." One time when I lived in Vancouver I was forced to phone the U News at 11 people when the anchor said something about a car crashing into the meridian on the Upper Levels highway. When I pointed out to the guy that a meridian is a big imaginary line that circles the globe, he told me the anchor had actually NOT said the car crashed into the meridian, but rather was hit by another car and forced into it. I then said "well, even so - if a car hit or was forced into a big imaginary line that circles the globe, it wouldn't really be news, now, would it?" and then he hung up on me).
Five famous people I've spoken with in person:
1. Joe Strummer (he bought me a beer and invited me to sit with The Pogues.
2. Brian Mulroney (he also put his hand on my shoulder...ewwww!) .
3. Gene Hackman (he said "'morning boys!" to me and some others on Rodeo Drive in LA. We all said "Morning Gene!" back to him).
4. Bob MacDonald (I also bought him a Bushmills in return for his renditions of Monster Mash and Moondance).
5. Norah Young (the only woman who ever left me speechless after only a couple of words).
Five things I do daily that I don't enjoy:
1. Get out of bed.
2. Talk about money.
3. Wonder why my shower is so slow to drain despite my repeated attempts to clear it.
4. Fail to watch Seinfeld.
5. Restart my computer due to a crash.
Five things I wish I had the chance to do more often:
1. Travel.
2. Play music.
3. Climb mountains.
4. Speak French.
5. Take courses - you know, generally improve myself.
Five favourite movie, TV or literary quotations:
The object here is that you're supposed to guess the sources, and I'll post the answers in a day or so.
1. Books, movies, tv -- these things matter! Call me shallow, it's the fuckin' truth!
2. When you become thawed out your love will swamp the tracks, and my heart will be restored with virgin blood.
3. I believe in this and it's been tested by research, he who fucks nuns will later join the church.
4. That's when I whacked him with the olive loaf.
5. What do you mean, like laundry?
Five things I have done that sound like lies:
1. Thrown up in church.
2. Surfed on a moving car like in Teen Wolf.
3. Been in Times Square for New Years Eve, 1999.
4. Been hit by a car and not told anyone about it.
5. Kissed former NDP leader Audrey McLaughlin on the cheek while dressed as a sailor.
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Much music is lovely! Olives are a mystery. Do you mean right wingers the hockey players or politically speaking. Although I think hockey players are also right wing politically. I think more beer, good call. Curse those Meridians. I do not get it. But now I say it too be funny, odd how my version of funny is actually just to be annoying. Ah Norah Young. Well obviously the first one is from high fidelity, it is from the movie but I have never read the book but I am guessing it is taken from that. I know the fifth one, by I forget from where. You were hit by a car, oh my. I told everyone when that truck hit me. You dress like a sailor, oh my.
And the second is clearly "When Winter Comes", the third is the Clash ("Death or Glory"?). That's all I got. I really want olives now.
Your "5 Things I Want More Of" is by far the best list I've read out of all these memes. Hee - socks! Of course! Nice work.
Here are the answers to the quote mysteries. Thanks to all who played. Even if you didn't get them all, you're still a winner...
1. John Cusack as Rob Gordon in the movie version of High Fidelity.
2. Of course it's the Rheostatics' When Winter Comes.
3. Yes again, it's the Clash talking about Death or Glory.
4. Bloom County's Opus said this during his trial for beating up a mime (shortly after real-life subway vigilante Bernard Goetz screwdrove his way to fame as the Subway Vigilante).
In closing his defence, Opus remarked, "The justice system is a scandal. Mimes and murderers are coddled. Victims are abused. As a vigilante, I can make only one conclusion: all judges are mental perverts and communists. Thank you."
5. On Seinfeld, Elaine said this in response to George & Jerry's queries as to whether or not women know about "shrinkage."
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1. John Cusack as Rob Gordon in the movie version of High Fidelity.
2. Of course it's the Rheostatics' When Winter Comes.
3. Yes again, it's the Clash talking about Death or Glory.
4. Bloom County's Opus said this during his trial for beating up a mime (shortly after real-life subway vigilante Bernard Goetz screwdrove his way to fame as the Subway Vigilante).
In closing his defence, Opus remarked, "The justice system is a scandal. Mimes and murderers are coddled. Victims are abused. As a vigilante, I can make only one conclusion: all judges are mental perverts and communists. Thank you."
5. On Seinfeld, Elaine said this in response to George & Jerry's queries as to whether or not women know about "shrinkage."
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