Back to posting silly bits of trivia
Jan. 28th, 2004 05:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
usernamenumberSo I was perusing the trivia section of imdb, as I tend to do, looking for tasty bits of information on Monty Python and the Search for the Holy Grail. Among the interesting tidbits to be found there (Iain M. Banks was an extra??) were these two:
*contented sigh*
Geekdom, I love you.
- The airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow is roughly 11 meters per second, or 24 miles per hour, beating its wings 15 times per second rather than 43. And a 5 ounce bird cannot carry a one pound coconut.
- The capital of Assyria is Nineveh.
*contented sigh*
Geekdom, I love you.
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Date: 2004-01-29 01:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-29 01:40 am (UTC)Turnip colored! =:)
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Date: 2004-01-29 01:42 am (UTC)I dislike turnips unless they have grown into rude and amusing shapes.
(Whoa. We have just jumped seamlessly from one brit comedy to another. We are truly geek gods.)
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Date: 2004-01-29 01:58 am (UTC)There. That's better.
I HAVE A CUNNING PLAN...
Date: 2004-01-29 02:14 am (UTC)You think you're so clever... You think you're as clever as a fox who has just been named chairfox of the department of cleverness at clever university...
BUT
GODDAMNIT! :)
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Date: 2004-01-29 02:23 am (UTC)On second thought, let's not go there (it's a silly place).
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Date: 2004-01-29 02:25 am (UTC)Simpsons, X-files and Python. A geek hat trick!
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Date: 2004-01-29 02:31 am (UTC)Who thou callin' silly??
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Date: 2004-01-29 03:09 am (UTC)...It looks a bit like Tony Robinson, though, which would be scary.
The Royal Shakespeare Company presents Richard III starring Tony Robinson: "A turnip! A turnip! My kingdom for a turnip!"
'Nite! =:)
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Date: 2004-01-29 03:27 am (UTC)You could've image source'd it, I think that would've given it away pretty easily.
And if Tony Robinson is going to be in any Shakespeare play, my father and I have decided that he HAS to be the gravedigger in Hamlet. Wouldn't he ROCK in that role?
Oh and also-
QUITTER!
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Date: 2004-01-29 04:24 am (UTC)"Sir, I'd like it put on record that this man called me... <insert favorite blackadder insult here>"
Re: Camelot -- I had the soundtrack to that once upon a time and I remember really liking it. I'll have to dig it out one of these days.
Re: Quitting -- Pbbbt. =:P I am so sleepy that if I don't go to bed right now I will become
And so
good night.
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Date: 2004-01-29 04:32 am (UTC)Well all I've got to say is
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Date: 2004-01-29 04:33 am (UTC)Well all I've got to say is
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Date: 2004-01-29 04:34 am (UTC)Well all I've got to say is
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Date: 2004-01-29 05:19 am (UTC)Well all I've got to say is
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Date: 2004-01-29 08:33 pm (UTC)these two are like free cable.
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Date: 2004-01-30 07:27 am (UTC)on second thought, sorry! what a waste of beer that would've been.
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Date: 2004-01-30 10:12 pm (UTC)tee hee i am funny.
Date: 2004-01-31 12:57 am (UTC)Warning: Longterm exposure to my sense of humour may cause hysteria and nasal enemas.
heh.
Re: tee hee i am funny.
Date: 2004-01-31 06:18 am (UTC)Re:
Date: 2004-01-30 10:23 pm (UTC)Glad to be of service.
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Date: 2004-01-31 12:59 am (UTC)*mutters inappropriate things under her breath about the cult of the almighty turnip*
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Date: 2004-01-30 07:26 am (UTC)bad brad!
don't make me spam you.