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a long while ago i posted on an animation that i found on youtube.
Seriously somebody must of been reading and thought it hilarious, because no less than half an hour later the video was taken off youtube, and i’ve been unable to find the same thing elsewhere.
Until now.
While working hard i stumbled upon this. The exact same video but on google video. Huzzah!
So now, if you missed it first time, here is the animation i wanted to show you nearly 6 months ago.
“Hold everything!” Dr. Hiller shouted as he burst into the room. “[PROTAGONIST'S NAME], my studies conclusively prove that you’ve been dead this entire time!”
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As [MALE PROTAGONIST] and [FEMALE PROTAGONIST] shared their first kiss, [MALE PROTAGONIST] slowly lowered his hand from her face and gently cupped her breast, then her other breast, then, to his astonishment, yet another breast.
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Suddenly, [PROTAGONIST] noticed darting shadows in the corner of the ballroom. Ninjas!
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“Wait a minute,” said [PROTAGONIST]. “So, as I understand it, [RECAP MAJOR PLOT POINTS OF NOVEL SO FAR]?”
“Yes,” replied [MINOR CHARACTER].
Note: This is not necessarily thrilling, but writers usually underestimate the importance of frequent plot recaps. No one likes coming back to a book after setting it down for a month and having to re-read the whole thing.
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“By the way,” [PROTAGONIST] said with a knowing smile, “did I happen to mention that I’m black?”
Note: This ending exploits the imaginative white bias of the reader, and works best if you do not give away the surprise early. Be sure not to give the protagonist any stereotypical “black” characteristics, which you really should be trying to avoid anyway.
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[PROTAGONIST] grimly shook his head, knowing that his plan was not working, and also that the person reading this book has no idea that right now there is a Mad About You marathon on TV.
Note: This is a long shot, but if it works, the reader will be totally freaked out.
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“Does this mean we’re breaking up?” [MALE PROTAGONIST] asked, struggling to keep his voice from breaking.
“I think so,” [FEMALE PROTAGONIST] whispered, as tears rolled down her cheek. “I just think we’ve grown apart … I’m so sorry.”
[MALE PROTAGONIST] slowly nodded, and his thoughts briefly flitted to the day they first met, that summer after freshman year, when the world seemed to BOO!
Note: Ideally, this ending should be used in conjunction with some sort of timed firecracker device hidden in the book’s binding. Talk to your publisher.
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The crowd suddenly hushed. There, in the doorway, stood the evil Colonel Maldefore.
Note: Colonel Maldefore does not need to be a major character in your novel for this ending to work. In fact, the thrilling effect may be greater if he just randomly shows up every now and then.
Woot, after putting Gemma’s little Citroen Saxo up for sale on Friday, its been sold. And now, only 2 1/2 hours later she’s got a new ride.
Wooh! Go Scooter!
A topic rather close to me -
CHRISTMAS. New Year’s Eve. Spring break. There are certain dates on the calendar when travelers know that hotel rooms in prime vacation spots will be nearly impossible to come by, even if they try to book months in advance.
This year, add another day to the list: Saturday, July 7.
That’s because that date — the almost numerically perfect 7/7/07 — is being sought after by couples around the country as the ideal day for a wedding. More than 31,000 couples have already signed up with theknot.com, a wedding-planning Web site, saying they plan to marry that day, a figure that is roughly triple the number for any other Saturday that month — and nearly 20,000 more than the number of couples who got married on the corresponding weekend a year earlier.
via The New York Times (link)
Ok, so the date I married Gemma didn’t have any funny numerical aliteration in, but it still was pretty special. It just so happened (due to some cunning forward planning by me) to be on my birthday. Yay for never forgetting an aniversary!
Also, from near the end of the article…
Meanwhile, none of the hotel wedding planners said they had had an event planned for a slightly similar — but apparently not as popular — date last year.
Somehow 6/6/06 didn’t have quite the same ring.
Now I wonder why?
Do you want something from downstairs? I’m just going down to the corner store, so not, like, pizza or anything—and not anything from below 16th Street. Just right here on the corner, that’s it. But do you want something from right downstairs, from the market there?
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You lived in Seattle, huh? I lived in Seattle for a while, five years. Yeah … partied a ton. Never really did any outdoors stuff, unfortunately. Dated a girl who was really into mountain biking, though. Broke up with me. Said I drank too much and I didn’t do enough physical exercise or whatever, so … yeah. I was like, “Oh, thanks for the information. Didn’t know you were a doctor.”
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I hate when I’m walking over here and I have to walk by Victoria’s Secret downstairs and there are the mannequins. It’s, like, how are you not supposed to look? You know what I mean? It’s, like, what am I? Some kind of nonhuman? As if I wouldn’t notice these basically naked women in a display window? You know what I mean? Well, obviously, you’re a woman, so you wouldn’t know what I’m … Or would you? That’s certainly not, you know … I think love is love, right? I mean …
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Steve was telling me about the trip you’re taking. I think it’s really cool that you’re going to Rome all alone. Me, I’ve never been to Rome. I’ve always wanted to go to Rome. My girlfriend and I almost went last summer, but we went to … well, to … we went to no place, since she’s, well, dead. Yep—yeah, so she’s basically … dead now, so she’s kind of … (I use my hand to make a sort of “out of the picture” gesture.)
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Let’s do that game where you say if you’d make out with the person if you had the chance, or if they were the last person on earth or whatever. OK, you go first. Let’s say the person is me. Keeping in mind that I would make out with you if the shoe were on the other foot. Let’s say I already had a turn in the game, and I said yes, that I would make out with you. OK, your turn. Ah! You paused!
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by Dan Kennedy
stolen shamelessly from McSweeneys
Hurrah, its friday!
And so to celebrate, heres an assortment of web games that I use to pass the time BETWEEN work. Not during, BETWEEN. I never play games at work. You can’t prove it. Shut up.
Oh, sorry. Heres the games (but don’t blame me if they end up eating all your day).
Its like Risk, only easier to pick up and the individual games are no where near as time consuming. Then again the overall time spent playing it is probably going to end some what the same.
Heres what the people around me think of it:
I love it. It really puts the axis of evil on its back foot.
—- Jay
Damn you greens!
—- Matt
Its Hitler beating fun.
—- Aled
What!? Who are you. Go away
—- Some guy in the corridor
Suggested Listening: Dad’s Army
All in all a brilliant game. Basically it all comes down the map you choose, the first few rolls of the dice, and luck.
In the end the key to winning, exactly as it is in real war, is not to overexpand. It’ll just turn around and bite you in the ass.
Go! Bring freedom to dice world! You’ll be welcomed as liberators.
300, filmed entirely infront of blue screen looks set to be totally awesome.
And just to show how close to the comics the adaptation has kept, heres a quick comparison between the film version, and the orginal graphic novels. Much in the same vein as the Sin City comparisons of days gone by.
Here the unedited R rated trailer for 300, watch it now, then continue onto the comparisons.
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Musings and wastes of time, all to put off the inevitable work