What Ellen should have said

The Academy Awards happened last night, and I didn't watch it other than a couple of looks in. Not that interested in watching the show. Sort of interested in who won, but don't need to see the show.

But I was thinking that what Ellen DeGeneres should have said to open the show was something like this:

I'm proud to be hosting this year's Academy Awards, because I think it's high time the Academy have someone host the show representing a group of people responsible for millions of dollars of Hollywood box office. I speak - of course - for the dumb blonde! Oh, you think Hollywood hasn't made money off us? Just, just, look at this!

Then a montage of Hollywood dumb blonde characters rolls, perhaps with Ellen cut into the scenes somehow, making dumb blonde kind of comments.

Would have got a laugh I think.

Quote of the Day

"But the competent Mr. Harper just doesn't do cool."

- The Economist, February 17-23, 2007, p. 40.

I'm just braggin'

I'm in a Premiership Predictor pool on the Sportsnet website, which asks people to predict the outcomes - win, lose, or draw - of the Premiership football matches each week. In the last game week, I was #1! A few people were tied with me, but still.

They also divide the stats up by first half and second half (i.e., first 17 weeks and then the second 17), and I'm the second half leader! Woo! I think there have been three game weeks in the second half, so it's still early days.

Nevertheless, it's better to be number 1 than say, #4480, which is my rank for the first half games, so overall I'm #3163. Not so great.

But that's better than those Molehill Grinders!

New Listen to New Adventures in Hi-Fi

I put R.E.M.'s New Adventures in Hi-Fi on a couple of days ago, and I have to say that I was more than impressed. My general impression of R.E.M. has been that they have made better songs than albums.

I'd bought New Adventures in Hi-Fi for the song "Bittersweet me", which I absolutely love. I was never impressed by "E-Bow the letter," and I'm still not. But there are other good tracks such as the opener "How the west was won and where it got us."

I remember listening again to Automatic for the people after seeing R.E.M. in concert here a couple years back. I was also duly impressed with that album, so maybe my low judgment of R.E.M. as an album band needs some revising.

Nutmegged?

In the BBC report of Newcastle's glorious victory 1-3 over Zulte-Waregem of Belgium in Gent, it states the following.

"The home side had their tails up for the five minutes that followed the goal, but a cheeky individual strike from Sibierski ended stifled the Waregem revival.

After picking up a pass from Martins on the edge of the area, Sibierski nutmegged a defender before rounding Merlier to give the Magpies their third away goal and possibly a passage into the next round of the Uefa Cup."

My question is what is it to nutmeg someone? I've never heard of that before.

I only know nutmeg as a spice that's often used in Christmas baking, not that I do any of that.

Don't mess with me!

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You are Magneto

Magneto 63% Mystique 56% Mr. Freeze 56% The Joker 55% Apocalypse 55% Dr. Doom 55% Venom 48% Green Goblin 48% Catwoman 46% Poison Ivy 45% Lex Luthor 40% Riddler 35% Dark Phoenix 35% Kingpin 29% Juggernaut 24% Two-Face 24%

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Mostly Hobbes You are 20% Calvin and 80% Hobbes

You've got elements of both Calvin and Hobbes, but over all, your sensible side wins out over your wild streak, and you tend toward the tiger. As the picture below indicates, the head is the first place that people usually turn to the darkside (i.e. Calvin): symptoms include irresponsible behavior and crazy ideas. You're liable to both. But beneath that you have a heart, a sensitive side, and this more often than not carries the day.

My test tracked 2 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 99% on calvin You scored higher than 99% on hobbes

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