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Post by massiefan on Jul 11, 2007 23:19:17 GMT -5
Well I tried to type c*ckpit on here one time and it changed it to 'thingypit'.
I nearly died of laughter.
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Post by nimue on Jul 11, 2007 23:44:07 GMT -5
Really? Le' me try... thingypit.
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Post by nimue on Jul 11, 2007 23:45:01 GMT -5
Lol. You're right.
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Post by massiefan on Jul 12, 2007 18:33:24 GMT -5
The ironic thing is that c[o]ckpit doesn't seem like a rude word at all, but when it's changed to thingypit, that MAKES it sound rude.
Hehe.
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Post by kaliszewski on Jul 12, 2007 20:04:38 GMT -5
Try typing in the name of the utensil you normally see opposite "fork" and see what happens. That's my personal fave. I was proofing "Pod," and I got to the first bowl o' sludge breakfast scene, and the spellchecker's word made for a very "What the fudge...?" moment. I have a theory for why what happens happens, but it is a theory of great (and, I'd like to think, dated) naughtiness....  |
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Post by massiefan on Jul 13, 2007 0:38:07 GMT -5
Dated naughtiness....teehee...
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Post by nimue on Jul 13, 2007 6:27:13 GMT -5
Thingypit. Hahaha! I love it.
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Post by massiefan on Jul 14, 2007 1:45:11 GMT -5
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Post by nimue on Jul 14, 2007 3:25:06 GMT -5
I wonder if they have something similar to hineyrumpus too... Le' me see... association.
Nope, nothing.
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Post by chero on Jul 14, 2007 15:06:18 GMT -5
There's a miscellaneous category for talk like this...  |
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Post by kaliszewski on Jul 14, 2007 20:04:12 GMT -5
So... we just got back from the trendy Uptown area of Minneapolis, our City of Lakes in our Land of, umm, Lakes, where we saw "You Kill Me" at the tiny, trendy-but-running-down Lagoon Theatre, a six-shot multiplex specializing in independent film, crappy sound, wee screens, pawn-your-car ticket prices, and uncomfortable but oh-so-stylish non-stadium seating, and you'll never guess what the first trailer was. Yep, it was...
... the ad for the new Mercury Mariner.
No, after that: "Sunshine."
They're marketing it as an independent here. I'm thinking that that is NOT good news. As in REALLY not good news. If the Landmark-owned Lagoon is getting it, that means they have an exclusive. Which means "one scratchy print in the Twin Cities." At a multiplex whose largest auditorium seats, maybe, two hundred people.
And there was no mention of the film in the Landmark brochure of upcoming movies. I had to ask about it at the box office-- where one of the two employees hadn't heard of it. Oh, no....
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Post by massiefan on Jul 15, 2007 3:27:40 GMT -5
EEEEEK HOW CAN PEOPLE NOT RECOGNISE THE SHEER BRILLIANCE OF SUNSHINE?!?!?
It just kills me to read stuff like that, kali.
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Post by nimue on Jul 15, 2007 23:34:27 GMT -5
Are they crazy? How is it an indie film? I mean, I love indie film but they're not really well marketed are they? Sunshine deserves lots of recognition dammit!
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Post by massiefan on Jul 16, 2007 4:31:41 GMT -5
Indie? INDIE?!? HOW DARE THEY!!!!
The owners of the Lagoon Theatre will have to be careful, because otherwise angry fangirls may come and beat them up...
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Post by kaliszewski on Jul 16, 2007 16:07:14 GMT -5
The sad thing is, the Lagoon is a member of Landmark, one of the one of the nation's most widely respected independent theatre chains, known for restoring and maintaining historically significant showhouses across the U.S.A. Fox marketed it to them. So it's Fox taking the indie route-- at least here in the Midwest. And the Twin Cities is-- or at least we used to be-- a major film venue. (Funny: with only seven months of winter per year, studios think we have time to sit inside and watch movies...! ) What could happen is this: Fox will open it on one screen at the Lagoon for two to three weeks, track the business on it, and then open it wider at half a dozen other theatres. Which leads us to the problem of used prints, with dirt and splice-jumps and emulsion scratches.... Ouch. |
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