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Bra Vo Paula

Technically, two words, but it’s doubtful that those were the two words that Paula Abdul meant last night when she was fawning over the performances of “the guys” on American Idol.

Of course, if your entire vocabulary consists of one-syllable words, you would be hard pressed to come up with anything to explain how she obviously felt about last night’s performances. Let’s face it – nice, good, cool, and neat -- fall a bit short for the Praises of Paula (not to be confused with the Perils of Pauline, but sometimes I wonder). Even 'real good' appears to have escaped her last night. Unfortunately it didn’t leave her speechless though.

Simon, on the other hand, was, and that was precisely how I realized that I hadn’t misheard what I thought I had misheard.

What I thought I heard was Ryan asking Paula to sum up the evening in one word, to which she replied (I think) “two words – Bra Vo”. Sometimes the show is painful to watch, like an episode of Jerry Springer where people are deriving pleasure from the pain and/or stupidity of other people.

Btw… bra is… well, you know.what a bra is. Vo is short for verso, referring the left-hand page of an open book or the back of a coin. And while interesting one syllable words are bountiful in the English language, I still think Paula would be the last one picked for a party game of charades --  “two words, first word sounds like….”

is it genetic?

"It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right."  Moliere

I saw that quote yesterday on Answers.com and thought to myself, I know someone else who feels the same way -- are they related?

So, the saga continues and basically I'm just really tired of it. I guess being flexible isn't great when it leads to you being f*cked up the *ss. And, because I've never been good at sports, I'm not that great at returning tennis serves, insults, snide remarks, or ill wishes. ARGHHHH, all those years of telling my kids to "be the better person" and not to "lower themselves to the same level as the offendeer" have made me the target of insensitive bullies.

Maybe I'm just tired because I had to wake up at 4:30 this morning so I could leave at 5:30 so I could be at a doctor's appointment at 6:30. WTF is in the office at 6:30?! Apparently my doctor is, and apparently this is a regular occurrence for him -- I can think of a number of things that could account for someone being in the office at that time, none of them very happy. I used to be "in the office" at 6:30 a.m., but that was when I worked at home and "in the office" just meant I had to stumble downstairs in my pjs with a coffee and turn on the computer. Ah, those were the days....

Speaking of computers, mine arrived yesterday as I had suspected. With great restraint I didn't even break the taped seals. If something is worth doing, it's worth doing right -- so I am going to take my time this weekend (or Friday night) and reinstall all of my favorite software and get the network up and running once again. Yay me!

Here's a few more quotes that I discovered today.

Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.
Robert Orben

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
Mae West

Very good ones, but not necessarily suitable for a sig file at work... still searching for a new one.

someone's going to h-e-double hockey sticks

... besides me i mean. This site is both scary and funny at the same time.

http://www.crummychurchsigns.com/

Side note: just when I was feeling sympathetic to my soon-to-be-ex again, I get blindsided. Is this God's way of reminding me to carry on, stick to my guns, (insert cheesy adage here)... right down to the daily quote I got emailed to me today:

God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless."

good ol Chester W. Nimitz....

still loving Mother Teresa though... I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.

you said it sister... er, I mean mother?

i think so too!

this wasn't my horriblescope today, but it's true, so i'm including it here as my own ;)

A crucial part of every learning process is the moment when you recognize that you have something to be taught. For as long as you feel you have all the answers, you cannot expect to be interested in asking questions.

cattle call

Deja Moo: The feeling that you've heard this bull before.

banner day

bumper stickers in my mailbox today:

The word listen contains the same letters as the word silent.

You can't make footprints in the sands of time by sitting on your tush.

Time flies when you don't know what you're doing.

I think i'd actually alter the above one... Time flies when you've forgotten your Ritalin....

Thanks for reminding me...

"It is the enemy who can truly teach us to practice the virtues of compassion and tolerance."

Dalai Lama

top 100

The American Film Institute's list of top 100 quotes from U.S. movies, with film title and year of release:

1. "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn," Gone With the Wind, 1939.

2. "I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse," The Godfather, 1972.

3. "You don't understand! I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I could've been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am," On the Waterfront, 1954.

4. "Toto, I've got a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore," The Wizard of Oz, 1939.

5. "Here's looking at you, kid," Casablanca, 1942.

6. "Go ahead, make my day," Sudden Impact, 1983.

7. "All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up," Sunset Blvd., 1950.

8. "May the Force be with you," Star Wars, 1977.

9. "Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night," All About Eve, 1950.

10. "You talking to me?" Taxi Driver, 1976.

11. "What we've got here is failure to communicate," Cool Hand Luke, 1967.

12. "I love the smell of napalm in the morning," Apocalypse Now, 1979.

13. "Love means never having to say you're sorry," Love Story, 1970.

14. "The stuff that dreams are made of," The Maltese Falcon, 1941.

15. "E.T. phone home," E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, 1982.

16. "They call me Mister Tibbs!", In the Heat of the Night, 1967.

17. "Rosebud," Citizen Kane, 1941.

18. "Made it, Ma! Top of the world!", White Heat, 1949.

19. "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!", Network, 1976.

20. "Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship," Casablanca, 1942.

21. "A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti," The Silence of the Lambs, 1991.

22. "Bond. James Bond," Dr. No, 1962.

23. "There's no place like home," The Wizard of Oz, 1939.

24. "I am big! It's the pictures that got small," Sunset Blvd., 1950.

25. "Show me the money!", Jerry Maguire, 1996.

26. "Why don't you come up sometime and see me?", She Done Him Wrong, 1933.

27. "I'm walking here! I'm walking here!", Midnight Cowboy, 1969.

28. "Play it, Sam. Play As Time Goes By," Casablanca, 1942.

29. "You can't handle the truth!", A Few Good Men, 1992.

30. "I want to be alone," Grand Hotel, 1932.

31. "After all, tomorrow is another day!", Gone With the Wind, 1939.

32. "Round up the usual suspects," Casablanca, 1942.

33. "I'll have what she's having," When Harry Met Sally, 1989.

34. "You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow," To Have and Have Not, 1944.

35. "You're gonna need a bigger boat," Jaws, 1975.

36. "Badges? We ain't got no badges! We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinking badges!", The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, 1948.

37. "I'll be back," The Terminator, 1984.

38. "Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth," The Pride of the Yankees, 1942.

39. "If you build it, he will come," Field of Dreams, 1989.

40. "Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get," Forrest Gump, 1994.

41. "We rob banks," Bonnie and Clyde, 1967.

42. "Plastics," The Graduate, 1967.

43. "We'll always have Paris," Casablanca, 1942.

44. "I see dead people," The Sixth Sense, 1999.

45. "Stella! Hey, Stella!", A Streetcar Named Desire, 1951.

46. "Oh, Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars," Now, Voyager, 1942.

47. "Shane. Shane. Come back!", Shane, 1953.

48. "Well, nobody's perfect," Some Like It Hot, 1959.

49. "It's alive! It's alive!", Frankenstein, 1931.

50. "Houston, we have a problem," Apollo 13, 1995.

51. "You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?", Dirty Harry, 1971.

52. "You had me at 'hello,"' Jerry Maguire, 1996.

53. "One morning I shot an elephant in my pyjamas. How he got in my pyjamas, I don't know," Animal Crackers, 1930.

54. "There's no crying in baseball!", A League of Their Own, 1992.

55. "La-dee-da, la-dee-da," Annie Hall, 1977.

56. "A boy's best friend is his mother," Psycho, 1960.

57. "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good," Wall Street, 1987.

58. "Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer," The Godfather Part II, 1974.

59. "As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again," Gone With the Wind, 1939.

60. "Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!", Sons of the Desert, 1933.

61. "Say 'hello' to my little friend!", Scarface, 1983.

62. "What a dump," Beyond the Forest, 1949.

63. "Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you?", The Graduate, 1967.

64. "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!", Dr. Strangelove, 1964.

65. "Elementary, my dear Watson," The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, 1929.

66. "Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape," Planet of the Apes, 1968.

67. "Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine," Casablanca, 1942.

68. "Here's Johnny!", The Shining, 1980.

69. "They're here!", Poltergeist, 1982.

70. "Is it safe?", Marathon Man, 1976.

71. "Wait a minute, wait a minute. You ain't heard nothin' yet!", The Jazz Singer, 1927.

72. "No wire hangers, ever!", Mommie Dearest, 1981.

73. "Mother of mercy, is this the end of Rico?", Little Caesar, 1930.

74. "Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown," Chinatown, 1974.

75. "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers," A Streetcar Named Desire, 1951.

76. "Hasta la vista, baby," Terminator 2: Judgment Day, 1991.

77. "Soylent Green is people!", Soylent Green, 1973.

78. "Open the pod bay doors, HAL," 2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968.

79. Striker: "Surely you can't be serious." Rumack: "I am serious ... and don't call me Shirley," Airplane!, 1980.

80. "Yo, Adrian!", Rocky, 1976.

81. "Hello, gorgeous," Funny Girl, 1968.

82. "Toga! Toga!", National Lampoon's Animal House, 1978.

83. "Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make," Dracula, 1931.

84. "Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast," King Kong, 1933.

85. "My precious," The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, 2002.

86. "Attica! Attica!", Dog Day Afternoon, 1975.

87. "Sawyer, you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!", 42nd Street, 1933.

88. "Listen to me, mister. You're my knight in shining armour. Don't you forget it. You're going to get back on that horse, and I'm going to be right behind you, holding on tight, and away we're gonna go, go, go!", On Golden Pond, 1981.

89. "Tell 'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper," Knute Rockne, All American, 1940.

90. "A martini. Shaken, not stirred," Goldfinger, 1964.

91. "Who's on first," The Naughty Nineties, 1945.

92. "Cinderella story. Outta nowhere. A former greenskeeper, now, about to become the Masters champion. It looks like a mirac ... It's in the hole! It's in the hole! It's in the hole!", Caddyshack, 1980.

93. "Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!", Auntie Mame, 1958.

94. "I feel the need - the need for speed!", Top Gun, 1986.

95. "Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary," Dead Poets Society, 1989.

96. "Snap out of it!", Moonstruck, 1987.

97. "My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you," Yankee Doodle Dandy, 1942.

98. "Nobody puts Baby in a corner," Dirty Dancing, 1987.

99. "I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!", The Wizard of Oz, 1939.

100. "I'm king of the world!", Titanic, 1997.

oh pooh!

"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries".

- Winnie the Pooh

anonymous

Keep in mind that letting go isn't the end of the world, it's the beginning of new life.