Quote

From the upcoming movie Serenity

"This is going to get pretty interesting."
"Define interesting."
"Oh God, oh God, we're all gonna die?"

Email quotes

I love having a littel quote or joke at the end of my email sig. The only problem I have is that I use the same email account for both work and personal use. Since I' m not yet at the stage in my career where I can be old, respected, eccentric and cranky and do whatever I want without fear of repercussion, I have to find things that are funny, pertinent, and not offending. My current quote is:
"Ranger Brad, I'm a Scientist. I don't believe in anything."
- Dr. Roger Fleming, The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra
I am contemplating changing it to:

Van Helsing: "Carl, you're a genius!"
Carl: "A genius with access to unstable chemicals!"
-Van Helsing

Does anyone have any other suggestions? I'm looking for funny yet science-pertinent quotes.

Chick flicks

Girlzoot posted recently about a number of chick flicks she has seen w/T-Rex and myself in the past couple of weeks. In response to this, I offer my categorizations of "chick flicks"

Category 1: "Box of Kleenex" flicks: Here we have those epic dramas that leave you feeling happy and congested. They tend to star Kevin Costner or a large number of British actors. They also often have some moral that you get hit over the head with again and again. Some examples: Field of Dreams, The English Patient.

Category 2: "Baby Chick" flicks: Movies aimed at the teeny bopper set. Formula: teen, usually ungainly or social outcaste with glasses, tries to get girl/boy/job of their dreams. They undergo a personal and physical makeover, encounter difficulties with parents that don't understand them/schoolmates that betray them/just not nice people/personal insecurities that are then surmounted and everyone is happy and the bad guys/girls get theirs in the end. Some examples: anything starring Freddie Prinze, Jr., Ice Princess, Princess Diaries, and anything by John Hughes (well, almost anything).

Category 3: "Girls Night Out" flicks: Usually a movie starring a female heroine. The lead is strong, and the movies are generally comedies. Can be good, bad, or ugly. Have a tendency to star Sandra Bullock. Some examples: Miss Congenialty, 13 Going on 30, First Wives Club.

Category 4: "The Romantic Comedy": It may be a comedy of errors, or one person forever missing the other, or a love triangle gone wrong, but we can be sure in the end that our hero and heroine will get together and live happily ever after. Some examples: Pillow Talk, Alex and Emma, the John Cusack Collection (Serendipity, High Fidelity, America's SweetHearts), the Sandra Bullock Collection (Two Weeks Notice, While You were Sleeping, Forces of Nature, the Meg Ryan collection (Sleepless in Seattle, When Harry Met Sally, You've Got Mail).

So, there is my general sum-up. Obviously, some movies fit into one or more categories, and my generalization, by definition, aren't always true. But you get the drift.

One more thing: Generally, I've found that the date acceptability potential of these categories, assuming a typical American male, range, from most to least acceptable:
3>4>2>1
I've put 2 over 1 because those movies are more likely to have fighting in them.

Ciao

Der Pattens on Der Popo

So, when T-Rex and Girlzoot talk about their pets (beagles, giganto cats, evil cats, and etch-a-sketch cats), they have mentioned that the pets enjoy being patted on the popo... i.e. patted on the butt. Now the phenomenon of a cat liking the spankings is not unusual to me.... I have other friends whose cats (fairly muscular ones) enjoyed being pummeled on the flanks.. think of it as a kitty massage. The thing that always struck me was the use of the word "popo". That was new to me.

Flash to Wednesday night, when, for some deranged reason, the three of us went to see Miss Congeniality 2 (rent it... even better, wait for cable and save the money). There, to my surprise, I once again heard the word "popo" as a slang for butt. This intrigued me, so I went looking on the internet for more info.

It runs out that the word "popo" is a German synonym for butt. How cute.

On a separate note, this is now the second time in a week that T-Rex sayings have popped up in other artistic forms I have been exposed to. Coincidence? The end of the world? Signs of an alien invasion? Who knows.