I’d rather have that knowledge. Sincerely.
-xtien
“The package is out in the open.”
You guys frighten me.
Heh, well my first computer game, for the Apple ][e, was Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego. It came with the World Book Almanac.
By the time I was done with the game the spine was devoid of ink from repeated opening over the years.
I am constantly impressed by your movie quotes, do you have to look them up? Because I can watch a movie and five minutes after it’s over can’t recall a single specific line most of the time.
Yet ask me the capital of Djibouti and I can answer you (it’s Djibouti for the record). Which is about as relevant and useful in daily life… well nothing. It’s never once been relevant :P
Christien is a damn witch
40:40
https://i.imgur.com/z0e5sRY.png
60:60
https://i.imgur.com/ZYzcSfL.png
80:80
https://i.imgur.com/ZRsmM45.png
100:100
https://i.imgur.com/hqtrDNL.png
Bonus scene, because you can never have too much Emmanuelle Beart
https://i.imgur.com/YuKU0fc.png
Bordered by Eritrea, Capital Asmara; Somalia, Capital Mogadishu. Both formerly Italian Colonies. Djibouti was French.
I embrace you, brother.
He just figured out your pattern. :) Change it up, Mr. Cruise! :)
“In answer to your query, they’re written down for me.”
My brain works weird. It trips in a rhythmic fashion that is often annoying, and somehow quotes fit into that. Also, when I was a kid, I recorded all of the [real] Star Wars movies on cassette tapes and listened to them over and over. So that’s kind of cheating.
Also, as a kid, I had to memorize a lot of Bible verses for the school I went to, and for my VBS at church (doing so won me a plane ride in a Cessna and the dude let me fly it…I was in, like, 6th grade). So memorization of things became natural.
But I also take a lot of notes for movies and write down quotes to hang the memories of the scenes upon. It’s kind of a mnemonic that works both ways. I do look up the quotes sometimes to make sure I’m getting the wording just right, because I’m a stickler for that.
My superhero name. The Stickler.
-xtien
Depends on the movie. A few, like Casablanca or The Godfather, I just about know the script by heart. Others a particularly noteworthy line or two may stand out and many others I look up just to see if there’s something fun I can use.
“I was misinformed.”
Freaking Robespierre. He essentially goes on to say “I want men beside me who think, politically, just like me. And everyone else is suspect. Because I have a monopoly on compassion for the People.”.
Fun story, when I was traveling to India I spent the first leg (to Dubai) sitting next to a guy on his way to Addis Ababa. We spent the entire flight talking about his experiences in Ethiopia and the US. Also food, because talking about food in foreign nations is a time honored travel item :)
Last night I was talking about sci fi books with a guy from Nagpur India, who is living and working in Portland, because he saw my copy of Stephenson’s The Confusion and the idea of a novel about the rivalry of Newton and Liebnitz inventing calculus fascinated him, so we wound up spending half the flight exchanging book tips.
Just the tips?
But seriously, that sounds pretty cool.
-xtien
Yeah, usually I have been more places (and lived in more places) than a lot of people I know. It always leads to having something interesting to talk about. “You’re from Beirut? I’ve been to Amman!”…
Uh, apparently somebody correctly guessed that movie with the river, because Woolen put up all the frames. I think it was CraigM, but I’m not sure because all the geographical knowledge is still making my head spin.
You’re only saying that because I weigh the same as a duck.
Okay, continuing with theme of grandpa movies you all plowed through during my hiatus, I’ll post another classic.
The new twenty:
-xtien
Erin Brockovich?
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White, and Blonde?
Darn you I was about to guess the same!
“Oh bite my ass, Krispy Kreme.”
“I feel comfortable using legal jargon in everyday life…[wolf whistle]…I object!”
I envy @Navaronegun’s new way of saying no with language usements, but I cannot do that. I only know one language, and my grasp on that is tenuous.
So…no to both.
-xtien
BTW, same thing. I usually confirm online before I quote. I can @Jason_Levine -it and remember quotes very well, but I am a stickler about getting it right. F’rinstance on the Pat Garrett reveal, the quote I put up from Eno before the Video was off by a bit ("Shouldn’t instead of “oughtn’t”) and things like that bug me, when I do them, anyway.