Good ol' Billy!

Remember that book I'm reading?

Well I learned something else that's neat:

What do the following words and phrases have in common?
"to thine own self be true", "leapfrog", "flesh and blood", "majestic", "to be in a pickle", "vanish into thin air", "radiance", "one fell swoop", "frugal", "monumental"

They wouldn't exist if it weren't for Shakespeare!!!

How insane is that? He just made them up and now we use them on a fairly regular basis.

UNREAL.

Sugar & Gravy Movie Mania #1

I saw two movies this weekend:

#1: "Another Gay Movie"
This one sucked, I thought. There were a few funny & campy moments, but it was too much like "American Pie" - aka not my sense of humour.
Rating = 1.7/5.0

#2: "This Is Spinal Tap"
WAY better than #1, but not as good as other Christopher Guest movies that I've seen, namely: "Waiting for Guffman", "Best in Show", and "A Mighty Wind". "For Your Consideration" was good too, but not my favourite either.
Rating = 3.7/5.0

Here is a CLASSIC clip from "Waiting for Guffman":



I'm reading a cool book right now by Bill Bryson called "The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got That Way". The following is a quote from Chapter 1 entitled "The World's Language".

More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to. It would be chartiable to say that the results are sometimes mixed.

Consider this hearty announcement in a Yugoslavian hotel: "The flattening of underwear with pleasure is the job of the chambermaid. Turn to her straightaway." Or this warning to motorists in Tokyo: "When a passenger of the foor heave in sight, tootle the horn. Trumpet at him melodiously at first, but if he still obstacles your passage, then tootle him with vigor."

Loves it.