Posts by Josh Addison
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Kyle, civil unions aren't just for teh gays you know...
Um, yeah - they're also for us heterosexual liberal atheists, too.
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Tom & Craig: get a room. ("If you can't say something nice ..." - it's the title of the freaking post...)
Judith spoke at my Civil Union last year (she's a friend of my wife). After the usual speeches, the MC (another maligned female Labour candidate, but that's another story) opened the floor - there was a blur and suddenly Judith was holding the microphone... Afterwards, some of my friends said they thought she got a little political for a wedding speech, but I though receiving congratulations on behalf of the New Zealand Government was pretty awesome.
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FINISH HIM
I think you'll find that's Mortal Kombat...
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By the way, considering the other threads that are going, feel free to bitch anything on TV (or anywhere else) that just isn't funny.
I never liked Seinfeld. Does that mean I have no soul?
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Venetia King:
I guess it would have been more correct for me to say that "rapt", "rapture" and "rape" all come from the same place.
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Telephone marketing surveys that assume I give a shit what petrol station I go to. When I need petrol, I stop at the nearest petrol station to me at that time -- I probably couldn't remember which brand it was 20 seconds later. Given that it uses up more petrol to drive out of my way in order to favour a particular brand, why do they think I'd base my decision on anything other than basic proximity?
(I'd have just said Telephone marketing surveys, but I figure that saying they're shit is like saying stabbings are painful.)
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Bill Walsh, copy editor at the Washington Post, is fine with "10 items or less". I see his point, but it still irks me. Mostly because, although "less" can be justified in this particular case, that fact is that too many people don't know the difference in general (or think that "less" is colloquial and "fewer" is just more formal, which is how many people seem to treat "that" and "which", too).
Apparently, New World says "fewer", but none of the other chains here do.
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...the best part of that kind of catch-phrase humour was the anticipation. The audience knows it's coming and claps when they hear it.
Yeah, that seems to be it, going by the audience reaction. I just don't get it. Is it a regional thing? Do the English appreciate that sort of gag more, or am I just weird?
That said, other segments involved the same overall joke, but did something different with it each week, e.g. Sebastian and the PM. The best bits for me, though, were always Tom Baker's voiceovers.
Good byve!
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I always had trouble seeing the Ting Tong sketches as anything other than blatant racism -- in the live show, there's a bit that features Ting Tong giving Mr. Duddley a "traditional Thai massage" -- a handjob under the sheets -- and then singing him a "traditional Thai song", which involves a lot of tuneless screeching and "ching chong" noises.
Those were the only bits I found dodgy though -- any other qualms I had with the show were to do with them using the exact same joke every episode ("Want that one." "Are you sure?" "Want that one." "OK, here you go." "Don't like it." Every episode.)
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So why particulalry select the seemingly bland Julia for a bit of a spray?
Because in spite of her blandness, she is still a highly paid A-List actress. I seriously can't fathom how, in the age of micro attention spans and flash-in-the-pan stars du jour barely scraping in their allotted 15 minutes of fame, someone can still be coasting on a fairly so-so film from almost 20 years ago. But anyway.
Returning to linguistics, I was interested to discover a while ago that "rapt" comes from "rape", whose original meaning was just "to be carried away" -- apparently there are passages in the Bible that talk of saints being "raped into heaven". Perhaps "wrapped" is a nicer alternative, malapropism or not?