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So pub quiz last night…we’re slowly improving…no thanks to Saffa I’m sure, but we got 4th out of 12 this time…Just barely missed placing (and a free baby guinness for the table) and it’s probably cuz Saffa was rude to the quizmistress…He had to correct her (adamantly) about one of the movies (about a boy I think)…

anyways if we had taken my advice and used the Joker on General knowledge we might have moved up a spot…

I did peak in the General knowledge section…here was my high point…

Q. Which US chain is named after a character in Moby Dick
A….Starbucks (this one was all me….I got cocky after this, which probably lost us a point in the movie round when I was adamant that “Gone with the Wind” was a black and white movie…It was in fact in colour and also won best picture oscar in 1939…everyone at the table wanted Gone with the Wind, but since “the yank” was flying high after the Starbucks question I misled the team…oops…stop listening to me people…

I’ve been in 4 countries (besides DE) in the last 4 weeks…Wow…fairly impressive considering I had never been outside of the states as of about 2 years ago.

I’ve put up the other pics on the Bratislava page…please note that not only is Bobby McFerrin visiting that country, but also Naughty by Nature (hip hop hurray…down with OPP?) and also there are Kim Wilde posters in the background….I also saw that Chuck Berry is doing a show in Slovakia…Rock n Roll is apparently more powerful than democracy…the West has won with their sex drugs and rock n roll.

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Saw I am Legend today…basically a 28 days later remake I thought… (ok a solitary man battling with/for/against a mix of science and something unnatural is not as recent an idea as 28 days later, but that was my first thought and I don’t see a need to correct myself)
Movie exec: ok…I liked 28 days later, but it just wasn’t american enough…what if we remake it, but we set it in New York….
Movie Exec 2: Oooh I like that…that could work).

I was tearing up repeatedly through it so Wil Smith must’ve been good…or it’s just not my day…

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Wow…the bed at this hotel might possibly be the most comfortable bed I’ve ever been in in my life…Not the best nights sleep, but the best bed….Somehow managed to have a horrible nights sleep….So behind on sleep it’s not even fair…

Went to C-Map Office…again I find some things about Poland to be strange…I’ve seen two KFC’s. Maybe Colonel Sanders does put an addictive Chemical in his chicken…

and now from Airplane:

Roger Murdock: We have clearance, Clarence.
Captain Oveur: Roger, Roger. What’s our vector, Victor?
Tower voice: Tower’s radio clearance, over!
Captain Oveur: That’s Clarence Oveur. Over.
Tower voice: Over.
Captain Oveur: Roger.
Roger Murdock: Huh?
Tower voice: Roger, over!
Roger Murdock: What?
Captain Oveur: Huh?
Victor Basta: Who?
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Hanging Lady: Nervous?
Ted Striker: Yes.
Hanging Lady: First time?
Ted Striker: No, I’ve been nervous lots of times.
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Rumack: You’d better tell the Captain we’ve got to land as soon as we can. This woman has to be gotten to a hospital.
Elaine Dickinson: A hospital? What is it?
Rumack: It’s a big building with patients, but that’s not important right now.
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Captain Oveur: Joey, have you ever been to a Turkish prison?

and now from Top Secret (sorry it’s from IMDB and I can’t be bothered to remove the links right now):

Hillary Flammond: My uncle was born in America.
Nick Rivers: Oh, really?
Hillary Flammond: But he was one of the lucky ones. He managed to escape in a balloon during the Jimmy Carter presidency.

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[Doctor Flamond is being rescued]
Doctor Flamond: How ironic. Another day and I would have completed my tunnel.

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Hillary Flammond: Only a year ago, I was teaching a course in black history at the University of Blaupunkt.

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Hillary Flammond: I know a little German. He’s sitting over there.

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Deja Vu: Nigel, what are you saying?
Nigel: How do we know he’s NOT Mel Torme?

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Nick Rivers: Listen to me Hillary. I’m not the first guy who fell in love with a woman that he met at a restaurant who turned out to be the daughter of a kidnapped scientist only to lose her to her childhood lover who she last saw on a deserted island who then turned out fifteen years later to be the leader of the French underground.
Hillary Flammond: I know. It all sounds like some bad movie.
[Long pause. Both look at camera]

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Hillary Flammond: People change, hairstyles change, interest rates fluctuate.

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German teaching tape: Die Sauerkraut ist in mein Lederhosen.

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[last lines]
Hillary Flammond: And I’ll miss you most of all scarecrow.

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[the East German national anthem]
All: Hail, hail East Germany / Land of fruit and grape / Land where you’ll regret / If you try to escape / No matter if you tunnel under or take a running jump at the wall / Forget it, the guards will kill you, if the electrified fence doesn’t first.

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Nick Rivers: Hillary. That’s an unusual name.
Hillary Flammond: It’s a German name. It means ‘she whose bosoms defy gravity’.
Nick Rivers: I’m pleased to meet you. My name’s Nick.
Hillary Flammond: Nick? What does that mean?
Nick Rivers: Oh, nothing. My dad thought of it while he was shaving.

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[Introducing his men]
Du Quois: This is Chevalier, Montage, Detente, Avant Garde, and Deja Vu.
Deja Vu: Haven’t we met before?
Nick Rivers: I don’t think so.
Du Quois: Over there, Croissant, Souffle, Escargot, and Chocolate Mousse.

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Martin: Nick, I’ve tried everything: the embassy, the German government, the consulate. I even talked to the U.N. ambassador. It’s no use, I just can’t bring my wife to orgasm.

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Hillary Flammond: Who do you favor in the Virginia Slims tournament?
Blindman: In women’s tennis, I always root against the heterosexual.

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Doctor Flamond: If they find out you’ve seen this, your life will be worth less than a truckload of dead rats in a tampon factory.

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Blindman: What phony dog poo?

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[on train at checkpoint]
Nick Rivers: Where are they taking him?
Colonel von Horst: They are not taking him anywhere.
[gunshot is heard off screen]

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General Streck, German High Command: …And once again, Germany will be united under one rule – OURS. After Sunday, there will be no one to stop us.

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Latrine, Resistance Member: [throws dead carrier pigeon on table]
Latrine, Resistance Member: We have a traitor in our midst.
Deja Vu: Well done, Latrine. I see that you have taken care of him appropriately.
Du Quois: [looks at Deja Vu] Not the bird, you fool! This is a carrier pigeon on its way to the German Headquarters.

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Colonel von Horst: [reporting on Nick's interrogation] They’re still working on him. He won’t break. We’ve tried everything! Do you want me to bring out the Leroy Nieman paintings?
General Streck, German High Command: No. We cannot risk violating the Geneva Convention!

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General Streck, German High Command: [talking on the phone] What is the condition of Sergeant Kruger?
[pause]
General Streck, German High Command: Very well, let me know if there is any change in his condition.
[Hangs up]
General Streck, German High Command: He’s dead.

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Du Quois: Nigel made me go back to the meter shed. He ordered me to set off the alarms.
Deja Vu: And what does he want us to do now?
Du Quois: Nothing you numbskull, Nigel’s the traitor!

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Deja Vu: Don’t take it so hard Nick, life is filled with it’s little miseries, each of us in his own way must learn to deal with adversity in a mature and adult fashion.
[Sneezes into hands screams, and jumps out a window]

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Weird how many people I’ve met once or twice and will never see again. Seems to be Ozzies particularly. Must be some kind of coming of age thing where the 20 year old Ozzies travel Europe or wherever just wandering…staying with friends…working occasionally then traveling some more…why couldn’t I have ever done that? What else did I miss out on in life?

Babel was quite good. One of the better  movies I saw all year, but then it’s December and I can’t remember what I saw in January so ignore that statement….one of the better movies I saw in the past week.

Also saw Deja Vu. which reminded me why I don’t normally see movies except either in the daytime or at the late showing…too many loud people and food wrappers.
uhhh…I guess if you can buy into a storyline like that the movies was OK. Val Kilmer is fat.
Val Kilmer was in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang which is a smashing movie. OK I think I talked about it before, but that must’ve been one of the better movies I saw this year, even though I think it came out last year.

what is Democracy if not the tyranny of the majority?

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Watched Monty Python (Grail). Classic…at Matt’s flat.
If you own the DVD watch the scenes that were translated into Japanese then shown with subtitles…I know it sounds weird, but it’s hilarious.

Also off work today so listened to the last modest Mouse album about 3 times.

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Yesterday I bought some DVD’s. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang was one of them. I rather enjoyed it. I heard it was good and it was very excellent.

There’s a car show in the Zeil near here. Lots of old cars. Many of them I’ve never heard of before, and even some models of American cars I’ve never seen before. It was neat-o.

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Sunday night. Saw the Black Dahlia today. It was OK I guess. The ending got a little weird. Not as weird as Perfume, so compared to Perfume the ending makes perfect sense. My fault for being confused.

Listening to Son House. I find myself listening to strange music now that I’m here. I guess it’s my own fault for being selective about what CD’s I brought over with me. I left a bunch behind, but I grabbed some weird stuff I hadn’t listened to for years and years.

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