The Best Laugh of My MONTH! :)
The Best Laugh of My Week
Ancient Roman emperor Elagabalus is interviewed by a Martin Bashir impersonator. It’s a bit heady, but what can I say…it was made for an 11th-grade Latin class.
Cop Out
If you can make it through this mediocre movie, the last scene with Seann William Scott is fall-on-the-floor hysterical. Here’s the trailer:
Cop Out Trailer
Overview
User Rating:
6.1/10 3,483 votes »
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Down 45% in popularity this week. See why on IMDbPro.
Director: Kevin Smith
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Front and side views of the Motorola Droid
by Joyce Pellino Crane
After using the Android operating system for three months, living without it, would be like living without a car at my front door. It’s doable, but I’d have to readjust to a slow-boat mindset.
Truthfully, I don’t ever want to go back to a regular cell phone.
My Motorola Droid operates so closely to a mini laptop that it’s easy to take for granted the fingertip information and forget how amazing mobile access truly is. I not only receive email on my Smartphone, but I also receive email attachments—only a few mobile units have that capability and some require you to buy additional software to do so.
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It’s the Style, NOT Mensa Invitational
Dear Joyce:
Thanks for taking the time to check out the provenance of the “Mensa Invitational” list you then posted on your blog.
You’re so close, though.
The “blog post” (see below) you referred to was actually the introduction to one of the weekly contests of The Style Invitational, which I run. And two Style Invitational contests from 1998 are the sources of many — but not all — of the neologisms in the lists above. (For example, “decafalon” isn’t a one-letter change from “decathlon,” is it? Or “caterpallor”?) Much better to see the real thing — every week at washingtonpost.com/styleinvitational. read more »
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File this under “The Best Laugh of My Week”
This landed in my inbox today. It was identified as the Washington Post’s Mensa Invitational, which asks readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition.
But a quick Google search revealed that the Post takes no credit for it. On January 28, 2007, a WP blog post with the byline “The Empress” said the following:
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Nicole Kibblehouse’s Presentation at Saturday’s Memorial Mass at St. Catherine’s of Alexandria Church
WESTFORD, Mass. – For those of you who don’t know me, I’m Livy’s best friend. I know that none of you were probably as close to her as I was before she died, and that’s why I’m standing here this morning.
I don’t want you to remember her as the picture you see in the newspaper or on the news everyday, I want you to remember her as if she was your best friend. I want you to know the little things that should never be forgotten.
Liv is the most understanding person I’ve ever met and the best listener by far. I can ramble on and on all day about the most random and uneventful stories, and she will still ask me questions and laugh. She’s dependable. I can text or call her at any time and she will always answer.
The only time she lets me down is if she hangs out with someone else besides me.
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Gathering at Westford Academy Ends a Week of Mourning
By Joyce Pellino Crane
WESTFORD, Mass. – The bright smile was evident in every photo displayed on the oversized screen at an afternoon vigil memorializing Olivia Marchand, 17, who, police say, was the tragic victim of domestic violence.
Westford Academy students honored Marchand’s memory one final time, this afternoon, with a five-minute photo essay depicting their classmate from her elementary school days through her senior year—an effervescent girl surrounded by friends or nuzzling her horse Lola.
The assembly inside the school’s 850-seat Performing Arts Center drew so many mourners that it spilled over into a gymnasium.
Police say Marchand was shot with a 9 mm handgun by her father, Brian Marchand, 59, who also critically wounded his wife, Jody, 50, and then killed himself with a gunshot.
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Community Gathers to Memorialize Olivia Marchand, 17, Domestic Violence Victim
Mass Memorializes Olivia Marchand, 17, Fatally Shot by her Father, Police Say
Community Gathers to Memorialize Olivia Marchand, 17, Domestic Violence Victim
by Joyce Pellino Crane
WESTFORD, Mass. – A high school senior beseeched the community to “Live for Liv,” this morning, inside an overflowing church where her fellow classmates, their families, and friends gathered to memorialize a student who died violently this week.
The early morning Mass at St. Catherine of Alexandria Church brought together a community seeking solace over the death of a popular high school senior and the critical wounding of her mother who, police say, were shot Monday by the student’s father, before he turned the gun on himself.
Olivia Marchand, 17, died at her Makepeace Road home from a 9 mm gunshot wound. Her mother, Jody Marchand, 50, was med-flighted to the University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center in Worcester where a hospital representative, today, said he had “no information on that patient.”
Brian Marchand, 59, Olivia’s father and Jody’s husband, died at the scene, according to Middlesex District Attorney Gerry Leone.
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