Collectively, y'all got 9/11. Not bad.

1) You asked for a miracle, I give you the F...B...I!
Die Hard, specifically Alan Rickman as a German terrorist. Interestingly, the scene where he and Bruce Willis bump into each other and he fakes an American accent was added by the director when he discovered how good Alan Rickman's American accent was ( Read more... )

How many movies can you identify from the quotes below? Don't look them up - that would be lame.

[If you want to make your own quiz, pick 10 movies you like, go to IMDB and search the memorable quotes section for each movie, and post them.]

1) You asked for a miracle, I give you the F...B...I!

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postsecret, where users submit anonymous postcards with secrets on them.

Found Magazine, where users submit photos and notes that they find lying around.

In a response to my previous post, vaticanplum alluded to the recording of Verizon customer service reps having trouble with decimals (it gets described as problems with fractions, but it's really decimals and units of measure). The story: American customers going to Canada were offered a deal of $.002/kb for data transfers. Now, the question is, how do you ( Read more... )

I recently got a $220 cell phone bill from T-Mobile.

( The details of how this happened, which will interest few, if any of you )

A friend of mine just sent me a link to this article. Please to scroll down past the pictures of ants and fish and note the header a little more than halfway down ( Read more... )

I was checking out somebody's online profile today and they referred vaguely to their "internal locust of control."

Ew.

I am not sure why I am just finding out about parasitic insects that, I can only assume, burrow into your brain and seize control of cerebral function, like the parasitic trematodes that sit on fish brains and make them swim ( Read more... )

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I'm nearly speechless. I'm not even sure where to begin. I'll start with this one:

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Here we learn to use English to (hopefully) avoid being killed, but in a fun and cardio-friendly way! It is unclear whether the arm movements double as self-defense maneuvers, although given the English text, it seems unlikely.

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Lest you think all Japanese ( Read more... )

There is a new English dialect survey being done by Cambridge University. It's for research, so it's not one of those ones that's going to tell you you talk like you're from Liverpool or anything - they want to know where you're from and what you say, being from there ( Read more... )