Monday various

  • Maybe I’m just still bitter that my family stood on line for several hours to see this when it was new — and missed out on Journey into Imagination (at the time a personal favorite and which is what we originally thought we were standing on line for) — but come on, the return of Captain Eo? Really?
  • I’m always dubious about lists of new slang words. They inevitably seem like they’re just a joke on whoever is compiling them — “can you believe what I got that reporter from the Guardian to believe?” — or like somebody’s just gotten corrugated ankles, gone to goat heaven, and started making things up. [via]
  • Graham Greene once entered a contest to parody himself. He came in second. [via]
  • Sketchy Santas. Parents, do you really want your kids sitting on these men’s laps? [via]
  • And finally, speaking of which, Jack Bauer’s making a list and checking it twice…

One thought on “Monday various

  1. I doubt I’ve heard more than two of those slang words actually spoken. And I’ve never heard a tramp stamp called a “California License Plate”.

    One that annoyed me was: “set-jetter” (UK) someone who goes on a holiday to a particular place simply because he’s read about it or seen it in a film or on television

    Well, how the hell else do you decide where to go on vacation? Either someone tells you about a place, or you read about/see a place on tv.

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