Ten out of Thirteen

Three misses, all the rest very palpable hits!

1. "Do you like your chili with or without crushed Oreos?" -- Lethal Weapon 2, guessed by malinaldarose

2. "It's been a pleasure meeting you, even if you are my least favourite vegetable." -- Howl's Moving Castle, guessed by nea852, phantom_wolfboy

3. "Bacon sizzling away on an iron frying pan! Baste it! Roast it! Toast it! Nibble it! Chew it! Bite right through it! Wobble it! Gobble it! Wrap it 'round a couple of chickens and I am *ravenous*!" -- The 10th Kingdom, guessed by dustyskinandall

4. "So many cops. You'd think they were givin' away donuts." -- The Crow, guessed by celticboy, nursemae, phantom_wolfboy

5. "Give me food, so I have strength when the wolves come. Let me die, not in hunger, but in combat!" -- Conan the Barbarian, guessed by corwinok, nursemae

6. "I'm rather embarrassed, General Solo, but it appears that you are to be the main course at a banquet in my honor." -- Return of the Jedi, guessed by celticboy, malinaldarose, nursemae, nea852

7. "Blast! Nothin' but mutton to eat." -- The Hobbit, guessed by nightwind292

9. "Thank you, thank you very much. I'm here 'til Thursday. Try the veal." -- Shrek, guessed by feste_sylvain

10. "Well, I guess the laws of physics cease to exist on top of your stove. Were these magic grits? Did you buy them from the same guy who sold Jack his beanstalk beans?" -- My Cousin Vinny, guessed by feste_sylvain, nin_man, nursemae

11. "You think you're tough for eating beans every day? There's half a million scarecrows in Denver who'd give anything for one mouthful of what you got. They've been under siege for about three months. They live on rats and sawdust bread and sometimes... on each other. At night, the pyres for the dead light up the sky. It's medieval." -- Red Dawn, guessed by celticboy

Top Sekrit Message to wyyknot:

Yes, that's technically correct, but the game for last week was over, and this week's hasn't started!

I hid the answer and removed the unguessed ones - I'll credit you when this week's game comes out!


(In other news, knowing my flist, I can't believe that one wasn't picked off really quickly! =)

Monday's Thirteen: Episode Nine

Welcome to Monday's Thirteen, the movie quote guessing game.

Answers will be screened. Those who guess correctly will have their name listed with the quote as soon as I can. More than one person can claim a quote, so the movie's name won't be revealled until the weekend game-end.

On Wednesday, some additional hints will be posted for leftover Double Quotes (two-week veterans of the game). Any surviving Triple Quotes will get their hint from the prior week sorted out and matched up. Fridays will see any unguessed Triple Quotes matched with another quote.

Anything that makes it to four weeks is probably too difficult for you all to guess is a real challenge. It will be elevated to Sudden Death status - the first correct guess gets the credit for it, and, unlike earlier stages of the game, subsequent guesses just don't count for squat. Instead of waiting for the weekend, I'll expose the winners *and the movies* for Sudden Death quotes as soon as I can. Sudden Death quotes will also get the benefit of an extra quote Tuesday through Friday in an attempt to get rid of them and make room for something easier that you folks can handle new.

Enjoy!


Double Quotes:
1. "You can't make an omelet..."
   "...without killing a few people." -- Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere, guessed by wyyknot

2. "We can't leave yet, Captain. We haven't put enough food on board."
   "We need less mouths."

"Stop your chatter and say something Latin-ish."

3. "Mares eat oats, and does eat oats, and little lambs eat ivy. A kid'll eat ivy, too... wouldn't you?"

"You know, I know another little boy who has a horse. His name's Edward. The boy, not the horse."

Single Quotes:
4. "I'm going to clap my paws together and pray that you're joking." -- Kiki's Delivery Service, guessed by nea852

5. "But how the world turns. One day, cock of the walk. Next, a feather duster."

6. "Hello, I'm a nocturnal placental mammal of the order pterodidae, or ptero-didn't-I... In case you can't tell, I'm a bat!" -- FernGully - The Last Rainforest, guessed by feste_sylvain

7. "I saved him! I saved the boy from the leeches! Back to the depths, you fingery devils! You will not devour this boy's head today!" -- Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, guessed by puddock

8. "Oh, it's just a harmless little *bunny*, isn't it?" -- Mønti Pythøn ik den Høli Gräilen, guessed by feste_sylvain, luis_mw, malinaldarose, aequitaslevitas, rowancat, nea852

9. "No, thanks. I don't like cockfights."

10. "You are a very troublesome little fellow. I think I should teach you one of my special lessons? What do you think, Robert? Benson? What would look nice? Half-warthog? Half-donkey? Half-oyster? Half-carrot?" -- Time Bandits, guessed by feste_sylvain, nea852

11. "My puny kiwi wings weren't big enough for Delores. Oh no, oh no... she had to have AN ALBATROSS. With great big huge LONG WINGS. He was on hormones. You heard me, read my beak: HORMONES." -- Opus N' Bill in a Wish for Wings That Work, guessed by aequitaslevitas

12. "Did I say there's a petting zoo downstairs? NO there are ghosts downstairs Arthur!" -- Thir13en Ghosts, guessed by dustyskinandall

13. "Don't you dare touch the girl. You won't be the first pig I've gutted!" -- Pan's Labyrinth, guessed by sikander7

All the Updatia that has Fits in order to be Printed

Forgot to mention, some time last week I started learning contact juggling (see dot com for info and a great intro tutorial, see also dot org for a forum with tons of info I've barely even begun to look at). "But doesn't he have enough to do?" you may ask, and the answer is, "yes, lots, tons, and so on." However, I've been a fan of Michael Moschen for a long time, and it does provide a nice bit of cross-training for the martial arts - some portions of the Butterfly, for instance, are identical to blocks and strikes in various arts, only you have a ball providing a focus point. That, and, starting out, I'm getting a good aerobic and stretching and bending workout chasing after the ball...

There's been two updatia posts over the weekend, the public one in which I don't give a heckuva lot of info, and, in fact, had intended to include the whole bit above, and the locked down one, which talked about some stone work and some other things business related.

Speaking of which, today will be busy: I have to pick up some wood to build a stone working table, pick up a 6" pipe for the truck rack (I have end caps; the pipe will hold long materials), and check out the masonry supply shop for canvas sandbags and other tools. I'm wrestling with the need for a rebar cutter, but first I have to find a supplier of rebar - the Lowes website has rebar, but none of the local stores (30-40 miles) carries it; the Home Despot website search for rebar returned toilets, televisions, stereo systems, lawn tractors, and ATV accessories. For those completely unaware (which would quite obviously include Home Despot staff), rebar is a bit of steel bar used for reinforcing concrete and other masonry projects. You really couldn't find very many projects where a wide screen television or a lawn tractor would make a suitable substitute. See, the steel is there to provide torisonal strength. Concrete does great with the compression strength, but can't handle torsion. So you add the rebar - which contracts and expands in a similar manner to the concrete, so the whole structure doesn't rip itself apart when temperatures change. Now, not only are the other items much more expensive (20 feet of widescreen LCD - that's gotta be more than the $3 I've seen listed for rebar), I think they'd fail if concrete was poured on them. There's too many gaps in them, so that would create pockets of air (or, in the lawn tractor's case, possibly gasoline-filled, which creates an additional set of problems) and would weaken the structure. That, and they all perfectly fail at the one-rod-stuck-through-a-bunch-of-rocks-to-keep-them-together task for which I need them. For one thing, I don't think toilets or stereo systems come in four foot lengths, 3/8" of an inch in diameter.

So, yeah, rebar, a basic building block of the construction trade, can not be found on Home Despot's website, yet they are apparently stretching beyond the appliance angle (which makes a bit more sense for remodelling projects) to become an electronics store as well. I'd think that takes up valuable floor space and changes the requirements for the expertise (if any) you're looking for from the sales staff, but, hey, it's not my business. That, and it might give the local shops (if they haven't already been pressed out of existence by the buying power of the big chain stores) a niche to work in.

Oh, in yet other news, this is Jeet Kune Do week, which includes some light sparring. aequitaslevitas has decided I'm more dangerous without my glasses - apparently I can land a lot more blows when I can't see. I blame the "I can't see; must flail!" impulse. =)