Pajiba

I came here from The Superficial
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I drink heavily and lounge
It depends
New Wave Hookers

1) What's your earliest Pajiba memory and where did you come from?
I came over via The Fug Girls in 2006, and I think it was your old "Firecrotch" ad that brought me over. Whatever THAT says about me.
2) What city do you live in?
Athens, OH, baby - home of the Bobcats, The Pub's Beer Cheese Soup, and 50,000 drunk assholes who come down every Halloween from Ohio State to burn couches and puke on my lawn.
3) What do you do for a living?
Nonprofit arts fundraiser by day, starving actress by night (waiting out my husband's MFA degree in the meantime).
4) Single, Married, Straight, Gay?
Married to a total hottie, who has been sporting Weezer glasses for more than a decade.
5) What's your third-date movie?
So I Married an Axe Murderer. Total dealbreaker - you don't love Charlie's Dad (or even better, his scene-stealing mom), you are not getting into my pants. It was the Hubs idea to project it on the wall during our wedding reception. WIN.

I honestly can't remember, I've been reading it for years.
Toronto
Mooch off my parents while doing homework. Lots and lots and lots of homework.
Single, straight
Life of Brian

1. Probably from Go Fug Yourself as well. I know I've been lurking for quite some time, though.
2. Baltimore, MD (actually, the 'burbs, but I can see the city line from my backyard.)
3. I do as little as possible, and get paid shit for it too. No, I work in a warehouse currently, doing ordering and receiving of I shit you not, lawn mower and tractor parts. But I'm planning on going back to school next fall. Again.
4. Single, and quite happy about it currently.
5. Sadly, I think my last third date movie was Seven. It was also Christmas day that we watched it. No, it was not a traditional "third date". I haven't been on a third date in ages. *pout*

1) I believe my first foray into Pajibaland was a review of a documentary about meat factories. I don't remember the name of the movie, but the comments were aflame with anger between the Veggies and the Omnies. It was fun. I came back for more!
2) Huntsville, Alabama - The Rocket City
3)I work for a famous space museum as a Display Graphic Artist, which is a fancy way of saying that I make signs. I basically use my BA to direct people to bathrooms. I love it, though.
4)Married
5)Probably a Star Trek or a Star Wars movie (Empire or S.T. 4 to be specific). You can separate the wheat from the chaff with those.

Longtime lurker/above the fold reader here...

1) What's your earliest Pajiba memory and where did you come from?
My earliest memory is of the Crash review, but I think I had been reading before that- I knew I had found my movie site with the Haggis hate. I also came through the ads on gofugyourself
2) What city do you live in?
New York
3) What do you do for a living?
law student
4) Single, Married, Straight, Gay?
um, straight and partnered? Unmarried but not single
5) What's your third-date movie?
The Princess Bride

1) What's your earliest Pajiba memory and where did you come from?
I think that I found this site while looking for reviews for Bubba Ho-Tep, but I'm not exactly sure.

2) What city do you live in?
"City" is a strong word. I live in Booker, Texas (pop. 1200)

3) What do you do for a living?
English teacher/ coach (football, basketball, track)

4) Single, Married, Straight, Gay?
Married to the good ol' high school sweetheart. Mattfactor Jr.'ll be here in December.

5) What's your third-date movie?
The Princess Bride.

1) What's your earliest Pajiba memory and where did you come from?
I don't really remember, but I think it was the Fug girls and I know it was long before Homeland Security shut down the site. I think my first comment was on the original Brokeback review.
2) What city do you live in?
Seattle
3) What do you do for a living?
divorce attorney
4) Single, Married, Straight, Gay?
single, both
5) What's your third-date movie?
I don't date.

Weezer-glasses (or Lisa Loeb) using

And what, praytell, the FUC IS WRONG WITH LISA LOEB AND HER GLASSES?!?!?! HUH, MOTHERFUCKER?!?!!!

Dustin, tell me who this asshat is. Come on, I know you know. Just give me a name and a city, that is all I am asking. I expect a informative email by this evening, sir.

Nobody, and I mean NOBODY, gets to fuck around with Lisa Loeb. I will indeed cut a motherfucker. And no sissy swiping cut either. I mean a full-on, drag a dull blade against the trachea kind of shit.

(*wanders off, muttering*)...shit...done fucking around with these people...

Earliest Pajiba memory: Easy. My debut in NMN's column about Michael Richards.

Came From: ummm.....dontlinkthis.net. Please don't judge me because of that link. I have a weakness.

City: I already outed myself as an Atlantan.

Profession: Student, currently. Wannabe screenwriter (that makes two!)

Painfully single. Straight for now, but if I don't get laid soon....

Seeing as how I never had a third date, I wouldn't know.

1) No idea, but I stayed for the bitchy.
2) Toronto
3) Government of Ontario- Attorney General
4) Breeder
5) Veritgo

1) I don't remember how I got here, but I remember that after my first comment: I got issued a virtual smackdown by damn near all the regulars. Good times.

2) La-la Land.

3) I can't tell you or I'd have to kill you. ;-)

4) Single, Straight, and I don't discriminate!

5) What the HELL is a third date?

1) GoFugYourself or The Superficial

2) San Jose, CA (but I'm from So Cal)

3) Graduate Student in nutrition science

4) Not married, not single.

5) It varies. I haven't been on a 3rd date in 3 years.

1) I remember seeing "Pajiba" ads on some site, probably came over the find out WTF a pajiba was. Thank god the Urban dictionary finally cleared it up for me.
2) Madison, WI
3) Librarian
4) Straight by most definitions, anti-marriage but in a long term relationship thing
5) Werewolf of Washington. WTF about girls who bring in shitty, MSTK-esque horror, huh, Mr. Know-It-All-Third-Date-Movie-Writer? Pthbt. Deal.

1.When homeland security shut you guys down.

2.Oshvegas, WI

3.Part of the problem when it comes to popular music

4.Unattached, Straight

5.High Fidelity

1. Started coming here from Go Fug Yourself. Can't remember exactly when, but I do remember my first comment which was long after I started visiting, and was something snarky directed at the makers of that Bob Saget penguin movie (under the nom de keyboard "Ornithologist").

2. The wee village of Marion Bridge, Nova Scotia. A depressing Canadian movie starring Molly Parker and a very young Ellen Page was set here.

3. Biologist for an environmental consulting company. Hence the running around in chest waders and stuff that I occasionally complain about here....

4. Married to a very cool physics-engineering type. We're a pretty geeky couple.

5. Hmm, can't say as I have a standard one picked out, but if he doesn't find Robin Hood: Men in Tights and Tenacious D funny, then it's probably not worth pursuing.

1) What's your earliest Pajiba memory and where did you come from?
The 10 Worst Blockbusters of All-Time list, back in 2006, was the first article I read. It was advertised on Gofugyourself and I was hooked. I delurked primarily in the diversions because I was too scared of you bitches to really start commenting until January of this year.
2) What city do you live in?
I live in Philly, I hail from the suburbs in Bucks County.
3) What do you do for a living?
Medical publishing. Whee.
4) Single, Married, Straight, Gay?
Single and straight, despite my constant flirting with the lady 'Jibans.
5) What's your third-date movie?
I'm a movie whore, so I couldn't give a shit. From High Fidelity, Roxanne, Muppet anything, to fucking Re-animator, it's more about who you're with than what you're watching.

1. The Fug, and I can't recall the first review I read. It's been at least two years.
2. Dallas, but NOT A NATIVE
3. Auto Insurance
4. Married
5. American Psycho. If you don't laugh your ass off, we're not going to get along.

Oh! And I'm straight!

I forgot to mention that I'm straight too. But I went to an all girls Catholic high school.

Make of that what ye will....

1. I think someone sent me the link about the Brokeback Mountain review, said I should check it out, and heres i am.
2. New York City
3. Student
4. Single and Straight
5. You're absolutely right about Almost Famous, although I have used The Blues Brothers before. If you don't like either of those movies, it might be a deal breaker for me.

1) Arrived at Pajiba via comments in the Query Letters I Love blog.

2) Atlanta, more or less.

3) DBA for an advertising agency.

4) Happily divorced.

5) Not sure about this "date" word I keep hearing about. Last time I was invited somewhere and promised a thrilling time, they tried to get me to buy a timeshare. But if I was going to spend time with a member of the opposite sex for the third time, with no financial obligation, I might suggest Kung Fu Hustle. It would be telling.

1)I heard about pajiba from my best gay
2) I'm in college in Chicago, but from Boston
3) Poor student/crimefighter
4) Single and Straight and also a girl
5) Mystery Science Theatre 3000. If a guy can't love MST3K I don't care if he's freaking Gerard Butler, he's out. Well...

1 - I have been on this site for a while (like 3 years) and I think a friend of mine got me hooked.
2 - Toronto
3 - Some really boring stuff. Data entry.
4 - Single, Straight
5 - Temple of Doom. You gotta love Dr. Jones

1. Two years ago. I was working in Nicaragua, and desperately missing movies, so Pajiba helped me build the world's longest Netfilx list. And I didn't get Netflix until 3 days ago:)
2.Brooklyn
3. Student in Ecology and Evolution
4. swing between single and not single
5. True Romance. If you ever get to a third date with me, I like you enough to consider having sex with you.

I admit it, I am a lurker. Everyone here knows each other too well. Sometime brings back bad memories of junior high

1. linked by a friend nearly 2 years ago who encouraged me to pick up writing again. one of the Guides, though i forget which. probably Buffy....
2. brooklyn now, but i grew up in Ithaca where Dustin was for a while before he moved. in fact, we talked at great length about the indie theaters there (my home away from home as a child).
3. i'm a publishing drone (read: office bitch) on 5th avenue (but at least i have a job in these times right?) as well as a staple of the west village happy hour. you cannot go wrong with a $3 top shelf gin martini, especially when they become free after the 2nd one because the bartender thinks you're cute.
4. i'm a friend of dorothy and spoken for (3 years now, it's scaring me!)
5. depends....i have a roster of movies that i watch every few months to charge my batteries somewhat (it's like therapy). from those, i'd probably say "election," "to die for," "drop dead gorgeous," "death and the maiden" or maybe i'd go way back and do "who's afraid of virginia woolf." i got Al into Buffy/Angel shortly after we met, if tv shows count.

MissSmilla, it took me a year and a half to really de-lurk for the same reason. I forced people to be my friend, you should stay out and play with us :)

delurker here:

1 - I started checking in here from go fug yourself over 2 years ago I think
2 - I'm in Mount Pleasant, central michigan -- major reason for delurking; I'm surprised there's two other locals on here!
3 - I'm a part time student and rest of time stay at home mom
4 - Married
5 - that's a hard one. Maybe better off dead? I want to say Princess bride too but don't want to seem like a follower.

1. It was either TwoP or the Fug Girls.
2. Currently in NYC, formerly a Hoosier/Buckeye hybrid (the deadliest of all midwestern hybrids!)
3. Attorney
4. Single, straight. Loving it.
5. I don't "date" guys. I fuck them into submission until they beg to be my boyfriend. Then we watch Anchorman.

1. Was referred here by Go Fug Yourself and what a lovely day that was.
2. Orlando
3. Insurance adjuster
4. Single/ straight (and a girl, sorry a 30 year old LADY!)
5. It's gotta be So I Married An Axe Murderer. I just don't understand people who don't find that movie hilarious.

1) Memory Origin: ... umm, wow I can't remember. I do know is was my junior year of HS, and it was probably from Go Fug Yourself, either that or the opposite... yeah
2) City: San Francisco
3) Profession: Student of the artsy variety
4) Status: Single, Bi
5) 3rd Date Movie: Probably A fish Called Wanda or maybe Edward Scissorhands though probably not seeing as it has about a 50/50 chance of making me cry with little to no warning

1)I came over after absentmindedly clicking on a link at GoFugYourself in 2005. You've been stuck with me ever since.

2)Albany, NY, against my better judgement.

3)I work for the NYS Legislature as a legislative analyst. I basically get to explain legislation and laws to the people who supposedly wrote/voted for/passed them.

4)Married & expecting our first child.

5)Hmmmmm, third date movie...The third date is the one where you stay in watching TV in the hopes that the night will end with awkward, fumbling, first-time sex, right? In that case the movie should be boring, no? How about Citizen Kane?

Damn! A bit late to my own party. Stupid, stupid work. Anyway...

1) What's your earliest Pajiba memory and where did you come from?

My earliest Pajiba memory is clicking on the link from Go Fug Yourself (after being perplexed and intrigued by the ads there for some time) and being totally stumped by how to make this site work and what exactly it was. Yes, I am slow on the uptake. As I've mentioned before, it took my third visit to the site to finally get it.

I do clearly remember my first comment. People were calling out actors who did not deserve their Oscars and BSlim had pointed a finger at Helen Hunt. Being the innocent that I was, I responded and said that as long as we were taking Oscars away, especially for that movie, Jack Nicholson needed to give his back too. And shockingly (especially knowing what I do now about him) BSlim agreed.

If I had known how much Pajiba was going to take over/influence my life, I would have picked a more anonymous Pajibidentity. Oh, and I'm sorry to say that GFY gets much less of my attention these days, thanks to this here site.

2) What city do you live in?

No need to be coy, since I'm on the map--I live in Northampton, MA. However, Dustin, the other thing I wanted to know is Where are people from originally? So, to answer that question, I'm originally from Maryland--the central part that is now the epitome of suburban sprawl. Though Columbia is a planned community. Fellow Pajibans, I'd love to know this answer too.

3) What do you do for a living?

Academic Advisor for undeclared students.

4) Single, Married, Straight, Gay?

Partnered--12 years and counting. Bi, but I've been in this het relationship for so long, I've forgotten the secret handshake. Godtopusdamnit!

5) What's your third-date movie?

Hmm. I haven't been in this situation. Is this a movie you use to share something about yourself and see if they're worth your time, or are you using it to try to get into that person's pants? Or both? I'll have to mull this over and get back to you.

1. Don't remember what first brought me to Pajiba but I remember spending an evening reading the reviews of all the films I'd seen recently and being overjoyed at finally finding a place where the reviewers seemed to be so consistently on the same wavelength as me (but smarter and wittier...)
2. Paris (France, not Texas)
3. In a relationship, straight. (Crushes on numerous actresses notwithstanding)
4. In the Mood for Love. Or maybe Doomsday. Or something by Cameron Crowe, for a more middle of the road choice.

1 - The Fug Girls and I Don't Like You In That Way kept directing me here, so I kept coming by and become addicted. It's been about two years of occasionally de-lurking and snickering now. Dustin's Jackass review still gives me the warm fuzzies.

2 - I'm in Stratford, Ontario right now - but I've only been in Canada for two years because I'm an Australian (from Tasmania... shudduurrrp).

3 - I'm finally looking for work now after getting my visa shit sorted. Don't try it. Pain in the ass.

4 - Straight and been married to Marv for almost two years. He wears Ray Bans glasses - Clark Kent style. So there.

5 - Probably Trainspotting. It used to be that if you can't laugh with me, you'd be out on your arse.

1. All i know is everytime i sit at my desk the Browser sends me here.
2. LA
3. Sales Mgr @ Superior Axle and Gear
4. Dating and straight
5. Super Troopers

1) Randomly clicked on a banner from some far corner on the Internet. I found people just like me. Discerning, with a tolerance for crappy movies if they were entertaining, and enough snark to fill a whole season of Boston Legal.
2) Small town Howell, NJ. I know more about small town values than Gov. Peggy Hill! BRING ME THE VICE PRESIDENCY!
3) Paper Pusher/Aspiring Writer/CTU Deep Cover Operative
4) Straight and taken, dangerously close to engaged.
5) Dark City. If you don't like it, then you have to either introduce me to a new movie that doesn't suck, have really REALLY good sex with me, or leave. (Needless to say, my girlfriend hated the movie, and is still with me to this very day.)

1) A friend of mine sent me one of the Guides. I think it was about drinking. Gin was heavily featured.
2) Live in Chicago; at school in Norwich, England.
3) Student and slacker.
4) Single and ready to mingle!
5) I've never had a third date. Probably because I said single and ready to mingle. I watched Can't Hardly Wait after getting stood up to the prom, though, if that counts.

The third date is the one where you stay in watching TV in the hopes that the night will end with awkward, fumbling, first-time sex, right? In that case the movie should be boring, no? How about Citizen Kane?

lol, very true

All you bitches who said "True Romance" for your third date movie......i wholefuckingheartedly agree!!! that movie has an ass that tastes like peach vanilla ice cream!

1 - damn, those ads on gofugyourself must have been good!
2 - central NJ
3 - web designer for a university
4 - married
5 - blues brothers [And though my husband laughs at me for enjoying those car crashes far, far too much, HIS first album (8-track tape, even!) was Suitcase Full of Blues]

BTW - I also sport a fabulous pair of Lisa Loeb-style glasses and my husband, handsome gent that he is, wears some nice Weezer-like specs. Ahh, to be a stereotype. ;)

I can't tell you how much I love this site. . .

1) I THINK I came here from Superficial or IDLYITW-(Hey, I killed my short-term memory smoking dope in my party days.) I've been reading reviews here since before comments were enabled.
2) I live in southern Indiana, near Louisville, Kentucky.
3) I am a secretary but I long to be independently wealthy.
4) Recently, very happily, married.
5) I THINK we watched The Big Night (Shaloub/Tucci geniusness) on our third date.

By the way, I don't need glasses (Weezer/Loeb or other); I don't drink coffee; I don't own an ipod; I don't even know what a twee expression is; I am way too old and way too unhip to be a hipster; I don't watch The Office; I don't find Christian Bale particiularly attractive (as Tim Gunn says, "Chacun a son gout!"; I know how to spell/type "the"; I don't see movies based on the director; and I don't squee (well, sometimes for my husband). Does that mean I can't come here anymore?

In the spirit of delurking...

1. Tearjerker movies. How I found that, I don't remember.
2. I go to school in Tucson but I live in Yuma.
3. Student
4. Straight. According to the IRS: single.
5. Stir Crazy.

Fine! De-lurking for today.

1) I don't remember. GFY?
2) NYC
3) Scientist
4) Single Straight
5) The Princess Bride and The Big Lebowski are the first two that come to mind.

By trying to make Julie my friend.

It's WORKING :p

*does the cabbage patch*

SWEET!

I've been lurking here too long to remember why I came, I'd say "various" about covers the middle questions- although ND would at least be more specific for a location of said variety- and taking a date to a movie? Now there's an idea.

Yay! I'll have to go back and read all the comments later, because my boss is asking----nay, telling me to do the work of 3 people today. I kind of hate him, actually. *Ahem* But enough about that! On to awesome quesions:

1) What's your earliest Pajiba memory and where did you come from?
*I was reading the AVClub's review of Captivity, and one of the commenters (I think it was Alex the Odd!) provided a link to Dustin's review. I read it, agreed wholeheartedly, and have loved him, ever since. Despite his obvious and unreasonable hatred for all things geeky. (For the record, I came to love the eloquents and other staff writers pretty quickly, too.)
2) What city do you live in?
*Los Angeles, CA. I have a STRONG love-hate relationship with this city. Today, I want to board the next flight out of here. Tomorrow, I'll be all excited about going to New Beverly or UCB Theatre. I'll probably end up leaving.
3) What do you do for a living?
*I describe movies and TV shows for visually impaired audiences. The good news is, I get to watch movies and TV shows for a living. The bad news is, my boss is an unfair and unreasonable prick. And I kind of hate him. But I guess I mentioned that earlier...
4) Single, Married, Straight, Gay?
*A Kinsey 2 (which makes me mostly straight?), just broke up with a guy who thinks Tucker Max is "hilarious," and was a douche to my friends.
5) What's your third-date movie? Either The Apartment or Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

and as for what you girls have done to me, well, i suck dick now.

We have more in common than you think.

1. Can't remember the earliest Pajiba memory but came over from fourfour.

2. Born and raised in Boston, have lived in New York for the past four years.

3. I work as an Executive Assistant to the partners of a famous engineering firm on Wall Street. They build a famous set of buildings that rhyme with "Smin Flowers".

4. In a monogamous relationship with a dude, but sometimes I miss sucking on boobs. Oh, and I'm a chick.

5. Scarface. Tony Montana can slap me around anytime.

I can't remember my first memory and, although I'm not entirely sure, I think I was referred here by someone from Snopes.com.

I currently live in Bullard, TX.

I am an engineer and work for the City of Tyler (TX) in the Utilities Department.

Married for nearly 15 years with 2 kids.

It's been so long since I've been on a third date, I don't have any idea what I'd use.

I am mostly a lurker (read everything pretty religiously) and post only rarely.

1. I just came here a few weeks ago from a PopCandy link - I have no idea what article it was now.
2. Orlando, but only for the moment, I hope.
3. I suffer daily as a member service rep for a small credit union. I also have a part-time job working for the Mouse. As with any job I've ever had, it'd be great if it weren't for the fucking customers.
4. Engaged
5. Hmmm... probably a comedy, like Zoolander. If you can't quote that movie, I don't think it will work between us. Lucky me, my fiance has that whole thing memorized.

1) 2005 movie review from popsugar.com... don't remember which movie
2) Pensacola, FL
3) Work for a local Wildlife Sanctuary rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife.
4) Almost married to an amazing man
5) Baseketball

1. A coworker of mine forwarded me a story from IDLYITW and I saw a link to a movie review. I came and unfortunately have rarely left since then.I think it was for Captivity. I was so impressed by the way the review was written.

2. Yarmouth Maine. Home of the Yarmouth Clam Festival, most of which takes place in my backyard. Clam Festival

3. I fold letters to rich, snotty alums and file paperwork containing information about them. Oh, also I sometimes get the great pleasure of speaking to them on the phone.

4. I am engaged, going to do the deed in April. I have heard the first time is sort of painful.

5. Third date movies is tough to remember because the other half hates movies. I am going to guess American Beauty?

That, and taking high resolution photos of their breasts.

Posted by: BarbadoSlim

Slim, I would've never thought you were into nipple hair.

1. Go Fug Yourself!

2. Brooklyn

3. Copywriter for a national nonprofit org.

4. Single, straight

5. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

1 - Either the Fug Girls or the Impulsive Buy, maybe 2006ish?

2 - Bethesda, MD, just north of the District

3 - Work-at-home graphic designer, and mom of two kindergarteners

4 - Married to a Scotsman 8 years my junior (I'm old, but I'm smokin'!)

5 - Gotta groove on Caddyshack;-)

1) I don't even remember! I've been regularly lurking here for a long time. I remember the DHS debacle, and by that time I'd been frequenting Pajiba for a while. Don't remember how I came here, all I know is that you've been tops in my favourites for longer than I can recall.

2) Toronto, Ontario, though when I started coming to Pajiba it was Cambridge of same. That's Canada, but I know all of you know that....

3) Poverty-stricken student at York University, plumbing the depths of the most depraved souls. I'm in my second year of criminology.

4) Asexual, would you believe it? No, you probably wouldn't.

5) See above, but in a make-believe world it would be either American Psycho or Lyne's Lolita. Preferably both. Even more preferably followed by acting out the Huey scene in the former, followed most likely by my third date fleeing in terror/mortification. This brings me back to #4: asexual by nature/choice, though you reeeally wouldn't think so from the way I carry on.

Slim, I would've never thought you were into nipple hair.

Slim's a gentleman - he only shoots the recently plucked ones.

1) What's your earliest Pajiba memory and where did you come from?
I've been lurking for quite some time...since before coments were activated (Go Go Comment Thread Derailment Powers!) I started commenting about a year or two ago. My earliest memory is of the Dixie Chicks, for some reason...I don't have a very good memory.

2) What city do you live in?
Montgomery, Alabama. Don't judge me...military family and ex-military that just ended up retired here. And it's not so bad...

3) What do you do for a living?
I used to do computer and variable data programming..now I'm prepress and graphic design for a printing company. I'm hoping to go back to school soon for programming.

4) Single, Married, Straight, Gay?
I'm in a long-term, long-distance relationship that will culminate in an I Do at some point...it better, anyway, if she knows what's good for her...

5) What's your third-date movie?
Let's see...I have so many...Eurotrip, Across the Universe, Sweeney Todd, and Serenity would all be in the top four in some order

Slim, I would've never thought you were into nipple hair.

Slim's a gentleman - he only shoots the recently plucked ones.

Posted by: Kolby

In that case, I suggest staying away from dry-spell chichis. You could braid some of those.

1. I have no idea how I got here.
2. Boston
3. Work in higher ed.
4. Single, straight
5. Movies are not involved on the third date.

Oh, and I love Obama, wear Lisa Loeb glasses, have been known to wear sweaters when it's cold, work in an office, love coffee, and listen to my iPod all the time.

Sweeney Todd, Shadows?

You are my kind of people.

1 - Probably from IDLYITW, or from a link from the wonderful Noxious Nan. Either way, it's been years and I'm hooked. I can't imagine a day (or several times per day) without Pajiba.
2 - Reno, Nevada
3 - Legal Assistant
4 - Single, Straight, Female
5 - I've given up dating. However, on a recent 3rd friends-with-benefits, we kind of watched The Office. Guess it would depend on the date.

1) Accidently clicked on a clink and landed here, where I've semi-lurked ever since. Fell in love at first sight, following Jackass movie review.

2+3) Los Angeles law office receptionist and punching bag.

4)Divorcing. It feels good to laugh.

5)If I like him, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang or a Guy Ritchie flick. If I really like him? Arrested Development Season Two. Caricature? Yes, thank you very much.

Also, squee, and FSM bless APink.

I want to know about Skittimus Maximus. I still have a crush on him.

That, and taking high resolution photos of their breasts.

Are you horning in on Shadows' job there, Slim??

1. Go Fug Yourself
2. Santa Monica, CA
3. Attorney
4. Single. Straight.
5. Hmmmm. Either The Wrath of Khan (if you don't like Trek I have no need for you) or The Big Lebowski (ditto)

(1) I have no idea how I got here. I just know I've been happy ever since.

(2) I currently reside in Providence, right in the PC campus-- it was an accident, we moved during the summer and my sisterroommate and I didn't realize we were signing up for a year on frat row. Two houses down from the local late night pizza joint. Balcony people watching is my favorite. However, neither of us will ever attend PC.

(3) I work for an auto insurance company in Boston, going around MA to surcharge hearings. Also as a barista at Starbucks. Hopefully a student again soon.

(4) Technically single, though it always feels like cheating on the boyfriend when I say so. Also straight.

(5) I like to make the third date about going to the movie store and spending time looking for something we haven't seen, or introducing a *classic* movie to the one who hasn't seen it. It's all a matter of my mood, the weather, how the dvds are arranged in the movie store, if I've been enjoying any fond memories involving movies lately, etc. Or choosing something from a home collection, along the lines of The Big Lebowski or Office Space.

1. My then boyfriend, now husband told me about it.
2.Philly, PA
3. English teacher
4. Married/straight except when drunk and ask girls to make out with me.
5.Kill Bill II

1) What's your earliest Pajiba memory and where did you come from?
2) What city do you live in?
3) What do you do for a living?
4) Single, Married, Straight, Gay?
5) What's your third-date movie?

1) Reading the list of the '10 worst blockbusters of all time' and having something click inside me, because I had finally found the review site of my dreams. Can't remember where I found that...probably from Go Fug Yourself.

2) Tegucigalpa, Honduras

3) High School Art Teacher

4) Straight, Engaged to a Texan Boy (yeewhaaw)

5) Bringing Up Baby

1) Don't remember how I got here, but i think it was some time in the summer of 2005
2) Washington DC
3) 3rd year law student
4) unmarried but attached
5) Real Genius or Jackie Brown

1.) I'm actually really new to the Pajibaverse, having become addicted to lurking only a few months ago. The hook was the Buffy guide, and how I disagreed with most of it, but still found it hilarious. That takes talented bitchy people.

2.) San Diego, CA. It's October, and actually warm outside.

3.)An unemployed bartender, with serious thoughts about going into the assassination business. Anyone need a cheap hitman?

4.)Painfully single, fabulously gay male here.

5.)The third-date movie is actually a double feature. If he doesn't enjoy Labyrinth and LadyHawke, then it's truly over. I once left in the middle of a date when the guy fell asleep during LadyHawke. Either one of those movies can be substituted with Legend.

I think I might have a thing for the letter "L."

DAMN YOU SESAME STREET!!!

1. Dlisted.
2. Austin.
3. government drone.
4. boyfriend. gay.
5. sex.

1) I came from "Query Letters I Love." (May ManagerGuy RIP, we miss you.)
2) City - Orlando, FL.
3) Nerdy, techy, programmer, tech support person.
4) Married for 22 years straight to the same guy.
5) 3rd date movie? How the hell am I supposed to remember that?

1) Earliest memory: checking out a movie review then coming back a few weeks later to find that the Gov'ment had taken it down. That is the kind of shit I want to be a part of.
2) Moab, Utah. 4 hours south of Salt Lake. 1 1/2 hours west of Grand Junction, Colorado. Middle of nowhere, basically.
3) I am a grocery merchandiser for a whole foods company.
4) Married for 2 years (together for 6) 1 perfect offspring.
5) South Park Movie or Office Space.

(de-lurks)

1. I'm a relative newbie. I discovered you guys when you added Firefly to your top 20 of the past 20. After looking at the rest of the entries I realized I had found my home.
2. Washington, DC.
3. Law student, which seems to put me in good company round these parts.
4. Single and straight.
5. On the third date I try to avoid the movies entirely and head straight to my (or her) favorite bar...

Now I'll go back to lurking and waiting for the next Apatow/Whedon/Anderson project

1. I think I came originally from gofugyourself. I've been wasting valuable "work" time here for about four years now. Gawd - that's a long stretch of not paying attention at work.
2. I live in Toronto. Downtown east side, near Greektown and Little India. Mmmmmmmmmmmmm.
3. I translate information from science language to regular language, and get researchers involved with the community for a large not-for-profit.
4. Married. Straight, although I do appreciate women and have a huge girl-crush on Natalie Portman.
5. Either The Princess Bride or something artsy and foreign (Kolya or Like Water for Chocolate).

1. You're asking a geezer to remember that far back? Damned if I know.
2. Morgantown, West fuckin' Virginia
3. Newspaper page designer/copy editor
4. Married, 26 years.
5. Date? See No. 4. (FWIW, last movie we saw was "Burn After Reading")
5a. You'll have to ask AvB, my head's never where I can see the movie.

1) Memory & Origin - came from Fug in late '05 or early '06 I believe. No idea what my first comment was. I've made 1 or 2 but mostly I just lurk.
2) City - NYC but originally from Salt Lake City, Utah.
3) Job - lawyer
4) Love - none (sad, I know). female, single, straight.
5) 3rd Date - since the 3rd Date guide is what truly cemented my dedication to pajiba, it is hard for me to name the movie in the abstract because I think it is a situational call but both High Fidelity and About a Boy (I know, both Hornby) are at the top of the list.

1) What's your earliest Pajiba memory and where did you come from?
- Fug Girls. About 2-3 years ago. Started commenting about 1.5 years ago

2) What city do you live in?
Arkansas

3) What do you do for a living?
- Professional Student, this time in Biomedical Research. In 5 years, I get fancy letters after my name.

4) Single, Married, Straight, Gay?
- Married to a guy

5) What's your third-date movie?
- Office Space or Die Hard

1. Library paper-writing procrastination, which means I don't remember 'cause that's all a hyperlink haze.
2. Alaska - Anchorage or Juneau
3. Legislative Aide - fun stuff right now!
4. Straight, single.
5. Barcelona, Dazed and Confused, recently added I'm Through With White Girls (girl-dependent)

1. I think it was a link from Idontlikeyouinthatway.com. Was definitely a picture of Lindsay Lohan with Pajiba! in white letters across the pic. I thought it meant nudity. I was wrong. But I still love it cuz I get naked when I'm here.
2. Wilmington, DE
3. Database manager for an evil credit card company, that used to be a smaller, but equally evil credit card company.
4. Technically single.
5. I think it was Houseguest with Sinbad and Phil Hartman. Almost positive. I was 15. Was also my first time getting my fingers knuckle deep into the flower patch. She was a slut. I broke up with her on her 16th birthday...30 seconds after I gave her a car, a balloon, and her favorite flower. I rule.

1) Don't remember (senility)
2) Atlanta (originally Northern NJ)
3) Marketing manager for giant chemical firm
4) Married. Straight.
5) I haven't been on a third date since 1989. It probably was Heathers at the time.

1) Don't remember (senility)
2) Atlanta (originally Northern NJ)
3) Marketing manager for giant chemical firm
4) Married. Straight.
5) I haven't been on a third date since 1989. It probably was Heathers at the time.

1) No idea the earliest memory, been reading, lurking, and eventually commenting for years since before the DHS thing. I came from gofugyourself.
2) Anchorage (yes, the one in Alaska), which with the time difference explains why I usually get to these late.
3) As my name would imply, children's librarian.
4) Single-Straight
5) I have no idea about a third date movie. Usually I volunteer to cook if he'll bring wine and his favorite film. Works every time. Third date meal varies greatly depending on the guy, but usually it is baked fish in a light lemon sauce.

Um, I didn't mean to paste the questions in there. That looks idiotic. DUH.

I also wanted to add that I used to wear the EXACT SAME glasses Tina Fey used to have when she did Weekend Update for SNL. EXACTLY the same. Now I have some very similar ones, and never want to give them up.

See when we meet we can bond over our awesome glasses and we'll SO be total BFFs!

And woohoo to whoever is from Costa Rica! hey! we're almost neighbors! *waves down*

1) I came here because of Julie. Foul temptress!

2) Philadelphia, PA, by way of Rochester and Ithaca, NY

3) Medical publishing

4) Straight, with a new boyfriend after the dissolution of a 10-year relationship. New booty is the tits.

5) I think the one with the current bf was either Animal House or PCU -- movies I don't really need to watch because I've seen them so many times, so I can make out with my man and not worry about missing anything.

I never see these damn comment sections until there are at least 167 comments...I know no one is reading this...sigh.

1. Not sure what review sucked me in, but I came from "I Don't Like You in That Way".

2. Atlanta

3. Archivist at Atlanta University Center

4. Single and straight

5. Angel Heart. It's my favorite movie and the only way I explain my love for Mickey Rourke. Which is something I need to do on a third date, so that he won't ask questions about the tattoo.

1) What's your earliest Pajiba memory and where did you come from?

I guess it was Go Fug Yourself. It was a while ago. I just remember reading the Perez Hilton thing and feeling like I was home.

2) What city do you live in?

I live in Cologne.

3) What do you do for a living?

I am a painter. I'm supposed to be drawing right now, actually.

4) Single, Married, Straight, Gay?

It's COMPLICATED, ha.

5) What's your third-date movie?

The Goonies.

Dev- what about me? No Vancouver love?

I'm TOTALLY relurking now.

1. Lurking strong for about two years. I have no idea how I got here; most likely from gofugyourself.
2. Boston
3. I edit neurology text with my English degree.
4. Single, but I live with two guys and they are my built-in, non-sexual boyfriends.
5. The last third date I had involved season 2 of Arrested Development.

Sooo...lizzieborden...wanna roofie colada? Ignore the cameras and film crew behind me...

So
Its like me, lizzieborden and Rachelopoly are Veronicas.

and all the other Pajiba ladies are Heathers.

Where's the damn scrunchie?

Shadows, I knew there was a reason I pay you the big bucks. I'm looking forward to your next posting!

Dev, I'm actually closer than the google map indicates, I only work down by the freeway. In reality I live close to 96 & 208 - the C62 basically goes right past your house, I ride it every day. So yeah, movie night oughtta be easy to arrange.

And I for one would dearly love to see what's so special about medical journals. Julie, care to link to a sample of your work?

I came here because I was looking for a review of The Black Donnelly's that adequately described my issues with the show and I found it here in a scathing attack on Haggis. I stayed here because I read the High Tension review and loved that shit, and I've been hooked ever since.

1. Can't remember. It was a couple of years ago.
2. Nashville
3. Elementary school librarian
4. Single/ Straight
5. First couple of episodes of Freaks and Geeks. also, The Castle. (not the Last Castle, but the Australian movie)

MarMar add yourself to the google map and show up at my house to bask in the glory that is RDJ, drink yourself silly on whiskey, and bitch about generation douchebag and Dane Cook. Feel free to add more items to the Pajiban checklist.

Ok, third date movie answer. If I want to test them out, Big Fish keeps popping into my head, but I might cry at the end, since I saw this 4 days before my dad died--out of the blue--so it has bittersweet connections for me. Passion Fish or Truly, Madly, Deeply are also good options. If I were to want to get to the hot and heavy...perhaps The English Patient or any number of movies like that that have nice getting to the good stuff scenes.

1) Don't remember defo via the fug girls though, must be about 2 years ago.
2) York, UK
3) Project manager (well in training anyway)
4) Single, straight and Lisa Loeb bespectacled
5) As long as it isn't horror or chick flick - probably some random European film at the local independent cinema - if he can't cope with subtitles, he can't cope with me

Oooh! RobotSoda! I love Spellbound! Haven't thought of that movie in ages.

You're stuck in Ottawa as well?

"I think Lucas and I are the same person, but without the whole chopping off of the balls thing."

Posted by: JakesAlterEgo at October 9, 2008 4:15 PM

No, see, you made plans to attend your prom. I knew right away that I didn't have a chance at a date and that I'd hate it even if I did.

Kemp Ridley, did you ever hear of Foursouth? They were a group of kids at MSMS who made short films. Apparently they got to be a bit of a sensation there. I wasn't around, but one of my friends (Blake Buck) was a director in it.

1) i remember the homeland security invasion, but i was lurking long before that (originally came under the advisement of another lurker, who made me aware of the potential to become a "lazy douche content to make snarky, obvious jokes" - if only, if only)
2) currently austin, TX, though memphis, TN gets to claim me by birth
3) i'm a postdoc at the university, which means i am actually a person trying desperately to avoid having to get a real job. and for the record, even during 4 years in LA, i never adopted the screenwriter dream, so take that urban dictionary definition-writing arse hat!
4) married, straight
5) i think my last 3rd date movie, which was lo so many years ago, was suicide kings, which i love to this day, even if it needs more cow bell...

De-lurking
1) I don't remember, but it may go back to Dec 2005
2) Jerusalem, Israel
3) Webmaster
4) Single & Straight
5) Kevin Smith (Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back, Clerks 2)

1. I don't remember why I came, but I know why I stayed: the brilliant Captivity review.
2. I live in Malmö in the southern part of Sweden.
3. Reformed teacher, wannabe writer, getting by on student loans and odd jobs.
4. Straight chick, single for too long.
5. Third date movie? I don't know. I'd most likely go for season 1 of Dexter instead.

1. George Bush commentary during last election
2. Toronto
3. Teacher
4. Married
5. Almost Famous

1. Earliest pajiba memory was one of the guides probably the one on freaks and geeks being the most under appreciated show of all time.
2. Birmingham/Plymouth, UK.
3. Law student of the failing variety.
4. Straight but with heavy monkish tendencies foisted on me by ginger hair and my own twisted love for sarcastic pessimism.
5. Pft i dont date; im part of the seeing films alone and drinking in the cinema crowd.

I just spent the last 20 minutes or so reading everyone's posts. Stupid school with it's stupid required classes.

1. Fug Girls, because I'm a sheep. But I do remember the day I got the pronunciation right. I was hard e-ing the i for a while then checked out the about page when the lightbulb clicked on. I still pronounce it Pa-gee-bah to my mother though.

2.) If I told you what city I lived in you'd be able to point me out on a map because roughly... three people live here. I go to school in the Triad area of North Carolina (my home's in the Triangle area... Shut up, I didn't want to go to school that close to home, but they have a great study abroad program).

3.) College student and graduating at the end of January. Yay for finishing a semester early! But I also work in the software support center at my school. Because if my glasses and constant quoting of Austen and The Office didn't give me away as a total geek, I wanted to make sure my job did.

4.) Straight and single. (Also a lady)

5.) Third date movie... Probably something that would show my personality without outing me as a total goober. Stranger Than Fiction or High Fidelity... Maybe Die Hard or Roman Holiday I have no idea, it really depends on my mood... And, uh, how much I like the guy. In fact I saw Hamlet 2 in theaters on a date recently and the guy said, "You're very expressive when you watch movies. It's obvious you get into them." So now I'm officially self-conscious about how I watch movies. Although the guy who saw Wall-E with me at El Capitan didn't complain. And that had a live show! Of course I was attracted to one more than the other, so maybe the cuddling with the one eased the pain of animated fluffery.

And if you can't tell why I'm single by now then, clearly, you skimmed.

1) Found you on GoFugYourself after an all-out desperate alternative-seek away from Perez about a year and a half ago (maybe two? I've been on daily since). My guy tuned me into Perez, but I didn't have the heart for that kind of shit, and when I found you (and mostly the commenters) it was a profound sigh of relief. I did my best to be a joiner, and although I'm not witty or blessed with much time on my hands, I'm pretty proud of goading Skits into doing a 'cha-llllange' on my WBNS drawring and giving us the Godtopus and Murdertank. You're all my artistic re-inspiration, so Ta.

2) Vancouver BC. Everything you've heard is true.

3) Stay at home mom, former web content developer, illustrator, and saver of doomed bullshit projects.

4) Living in sin with two kids, on my tenth anniversary this month. Former bar star, so I get the references.

5) Aliens. Just the one. Must be coo with the menfolk or no panty reveal (heh).

Oooh! RobotSoda! I love Spellbound! Haven't thought of that movie in ages.

You're stuck in Ottawa as well?

Ack, this thread is progressing so quickly my reply to kalafraja will likely be lost. But yeah, I'm also stuck in O-Town although my Ottawa experience sounds quite a bit lamer than your living it up SATC style!

1) a friend kept raving about this site, so I finally came over, saw the banner, and never left

2) Warsaw, Poland

3) Translator

4) SMG (that's single, male, gay. Or Buffy)

5) Probably Laurel Canyon or Out of Sight

1) I also came here by way of the Fug. I was intrigued by random celebrity pictures in their sidebar with an enthusiastic "Pajiba!" accompanying them. I actually thought it was going to be some kind of silly-but-funny gossip site. I was pleasantly surprised to stumble across some thoughtful movie review or other (and comments that consisted of more than "First!" "Hez a doosh!" "Fuck u all i luv Britney!" and so on).
2) Ottawa, Ontario
3) Research Assistant (mostly involves writing and editing and mailing pedometers to stupid sedentary children)
4) In a relationship (but not married), straight
5) I don't know! I can't remember my last third date. I think High Fidelity would be a great one though.

5. Pft i dont date; im part of the seeing films alone and drinking in the cinema crowd.

Hey, Jim! Does this mean you do the movies alone thing on weekends? Because when I go solo it's usually Monday evenings (or just recently) Sunday afternoons. My mother got weirded out a few years back when I was still in high school and a young carefree teenager when I announced I was going to go by myself to a movie on a Saturday afternoon. She insisted I should try to go with someone. I need to be less anti-social.

GOD I miss you bastards! Yo school sucks.

I can't remember my earliest Pajiba memory and I only showed up around January. I think I found you guys through Celebslam or something. But I do remember lurking for awhile, mostly because I had no idea there was a site where the comments were worth reading. Then I started posting here and there, like the loner making a passing comment to the cool kids who didn't even hear what she said, like, "Oh, that movie sounds good," or, "Heigl sucks." But then I realized you guys were batshit crazy... LIKE ME! So a few sore pandas later, I was in there like swim wear.

2) I'm in D.C. but NY is my homeland. Anybody else in DC? I'll let you buy me dinner.

3) I owe the government massive amounts of money for the graphic design degree I am so close to getting.

4) I am a straight lady with no diseases(except chronic procrastination). Unmarried but taken and have been know to go cyber-lesbo for special ladies(wink wink Julie and Sarina)

5) My third date movie is My Boyfriend's Back. Say something punk. Serenity and Hollywood Shuffle, too. But if you don't like either of those, please let me know immediately and save us both the time it would take to reach a third date.

1) Found you from the Fug! Way back when, during my internet bingeing days when I had much more free time at work. I still make time for Pajiba even though I have less slacking time.
2) Surrey, BC
3) Admin at an Oxygen company, vet assistant and student
4) Divorced, single mom on the prowl ;)
5) Haven't had a 3rd date in almost 10 years, but let me think about it. . . Across the Universe

1. No idea, but I remember not reading/liking the comments at first. And then one day I realized they're the best part. And my life hasn't been the same since.

2. New York City (technically Greenpoint, Brooklyn)

3. Sales assistant at a magazine which shall remain nameless because I want to keep said job.

4. Single White Lesbian--not bi or anything, all the way gay. And yes Julie, are are indeed a clit tease

5. Singin' in the Rain

Wormer

I think we're the only two.

1. Through Go Fug Yourself (which by the looks of the comments already was a wise move Pajiba)
2. Brisbane, Australia
3. I hug trees (with measuring tapes), catch furry animals and write reports that nobody every reads
4. Straight and de facto
5. High Fidelity

1. Oh man I have been reading for EVER. Years. I don't remember an actual first memory but I just remember seeing "Scathing reviews for bitchy people" and thought, YESS.. and I loved the reviews, love them still.

2. Outside Philly

3. Photographer - I work for myself

4. Married

5. My ANY date ANY time movie is Fight Club

No idea - it was years ago, been mostly lurking ever since.

I move around a lot - currently south of Boston, but soon to be back in Chennai, India.

In publishing. Not the fun part of publishing.

Single and straight, mostly.

Can't remember the last time there was a movie as part of a 3rd date, but it would likely be something I hadn't seen before. Or maybe Serenity, because the other party should know he will never measure up to Mal.

1. I'm not positive how long ago but it was a link from IDLYITW
2. I live in Tempe, Arizona by way of Cincinnati, Ohio.
3. Well, I am an attorney licensed in California, but my unfortunate decision to move to Arizona really screwed me. I passed the bar but clearly Arizona has much stricter moral standards than CA and my application was rejected by the commitee on moral character and fitness. Therefore, I am technically a paralegal or legal assistant as I float in limbo.
4. Straight, not single but unmarried.
5. I didn't go back to check the criteria for 3rd date movie so...I'm just guessing that I would go with Kingpin, Conan the Barbarian, or Muriel's Wedding.

Hoppin' Horny Toads, Batgirl!!!
There is a Pajiban on campus??? This is more exciting than Christmas and Easter combined! Do you have a shirt? Once I get mine *ahem* PRISCO I'm looking at your column*ahem* I'm wearing it proudly.

How come Pajibettes wanna adopt me but they won't cyber-romance me? Do I repel cyber-lesbo-crushes?

I'm sad now...

1. I think I got here via Fametracker a few years ago (prior to the Homeland Security fun), although it's also possible the inestimable Fug Girls showed me the way.

2. I live in Halifax or Vancouver, subject to season.

3. Law student.

4. Single and Straight.

5. Depends on the gentleman in question. Maybe the Royal Tenenbaums? Or something like Beetlejuice?

1. Came from Go Fug Yourself in early 2006, I believe.
2. Louisville, KY
3. I am a glorified paper pusher/file clerk (what else can you do w/ a degree in history?) and although the PTB don't realize it yet, they also pay me to read almost every word on Pajiba.
4. Married
5. My third date movie is "Thirteen Ghosts" - not b/c it is a test or a great movie or anything, it just happens to be what my hubby and I watched on our 3rd date, Halloween of 2002.

1. thanks to my friend tberg, few years back. never left.
2. right now an asshole of town in italy, where I was actually born, seriously you would have more fun in an al qaeda boot camp.
3. unemployed.
4.Straight so far. u really never know is my motto
5. I guess I should pick something I'm not gonna pay that much attention too since it's probably gonna be just an excuse to get it on. I'm gonna go with "freaks" cause creepy is sexy.

1) Someone, probably No Fact Zone, linked to your 2007 Most Bangable list because Stephen Colbert was on it. I've been obessed with him for years, so I checked out the article. Clicked on a couple of other entries and just haven't left.

2) I live in Kenosha, WI

3) I used to do actual science. Now I write reports about actual science that others do.

4) Straight single female

5) 3rd date movie: either Young Frankenstein or LA Confidential

1) Followed a link from a friend's (now-defunct) blog to the 10 Worst Blockbusters post. And despite my love for all things Batman (or maybe because of it) I cheered when I saw Batman & Robin at the #1 spot.

2) Portland

3) Writing romance novels about demons, vampires, and sex. Good times.

4) Married, 7 years

5) Evil Dead II (if he hadn't recognized the awesome that is Ash, there would have been no hope for us.)

1) Where'd I come from? A friend linked me to GoFugYourself.com and I noticed a Natalie Portman Pajiba ad on the side of their page. Haven't left Pajiba yet. Haven't read GoFugYourself in a while.

2) What city do you live in? Was living in Milwaukee, WI, for about 5 years, but just recently moved to Waterloo, IA, for a new job.

3) What do you do for a living? My new job title is Technical Director of the Waterloo Community Playhouse.

4) Single, Married, Straight, Gay? Recently Married. By the way: Belated congrats to Pea, who got married to Mr. Pea the same day Mrs. Bistro and I tied the knot.

5) What's your third-date movie? One or more of the following: Princess Bride, The Crow, Sneakers, Dear God, Red Dawn, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

Thank you, jM. I'm like mono sometimes, too. Only it's getting harder and harder to shed pounds quickly.

Wait, what are we talking about?

Hey jM, you're not alone. I'm in DC as well, plotting a pajiban takeover of the government. My full "getting to know you response" is somewhere in the mix above. I'd put Serenity on my list too, but I'd need to make sure she's seen Firefly first...

Ok, whoever said High Fidelity, I love you. Might be my favorite movie.
Apparently I click away from Pajiba for a few minutes and completely miss a TON of posts. Too much to respond to. I just hope my Mt. Pleasant Pajoibs can scroll down the page. I must meet them (I don't care if it's creepy! I'm an Eloquent, dammit!)

1. I have no idea. I can't remember back that far. I think I've been reading this site almost daily for years.
2. Pensacola
3. FT Accountant/PT Bartender/FT FABULOUS
4. Single and straight
5. By the time the 3rd date rolls around, we're usually drinking in bars and having booze-soaked, clumsy, un-climaxing sex until we pass out. Movie? Not so much...those come later....

1) I came from Go Fug Yourself. I let the light of the Godtopus into my heart, and my life has been all the richer for it. If it wasn't for you lot I might have got past the age of 18 without seeing The Goonies.
2) A little town in Yorkshire, England. And a little town in Cornwall, England during term time.
3) I'm studying Biology at uni, so I scrounge for a living. If this place keeps inspiring the purchase of DVDs at the current rate I may have to resort to prostitution.
4) Single, straight girl.
5) Fight Club, or maybe The Princess Bride...

1) What's your earliest Pajiba memory and where did you come from? My earliest memory was the review from John Tucker Must Die. I came here by luck from another site, which one I do not know.
2) What city do you live in? Plainfield, Illinois. North of Joliet, south of Naperville and 25 miles SW of Chicago.
3) What do you do for a living? I am a aspiring history teacher, right now I just sub because no district around here wants a teacher that actually wants to educate kids.
4) Single, Married, Straight, Gay? Married, 15 1/2 years to Cathy..two sons Connor and Reilly.
5) What's your third-date movie? It was The Untouchables.....it would be Say Anything.

1)My most vivid Pajiba memory is being had by an April Fool's day post about "Sister Act," and getting ribbed about it by half of the regulars. Picked a helluva a time to make a nearly-first post.

2) Originally from East Tennessee, grew up in Nashville, now in Norman, OK.

3) PhD student. Which explains why I had no idea that the day I saw that post about "Sister Act" was April 1st - I'd spent all day with my head buried in Hume.

4) Seeing someone, although it's a "nonstandard" relationship. Straight, as long as you don't inquire too closely about my early twenties.

5) Third date movie - bounces back and forth between "The American President" and episodes of "Arrested Development."

By the way - I don't drink fancy coffees, I don't own an iPod or a cell phone, I loathe netspeak, and I fucking hate hipsters.

1. I came over from AV Club or IDKYITW sometime in early 2007. Soon becoming a regular to read reviews on movies I might see in theaters.

2. From Lancaster, PA. Amish country, oh yea

3. Environmental engineer

4. Single, straight guy

5. My third date movie would be Big Lebowski or True Romance

@ RobotSoda - oh no, don't misunderstand -- no boots have been knockin' in my life for awhile now. It's a problem. I've cycled through my colleagues and peers, and now I'm out of inappropriate sexing targets. If you were a dude I'd invite you to H&C right now for a drink. Are you a hot chick? *wink, wink*. Yeah, Ottawa is been killing me. I should crawl into a hole.

1) Arrived at Pajiba by way of IDLYITW in the summer of '07, delurked in the fall, and became a regular this March with the return to a desk job that involved too much computer time.

2) Bloomington, Illinois. The dead-fucking-center of the state, surrounded by corn and soybeans and windmills.

3) I seriously have never figured out how to explain what I do in under a paragraph -- even then there is a lot of head-scratching and shrugging of shoulders. The teaser, three-word description is "global electro-political lobbysist".

4) Married. Straight. Grandfather. Hopeless Romantic.

5) Harrumph. I truly don't care about "date movies" anymore, and if I had used any of the ones that come to mind on the current Mrs. G in this fashion then we probably wouldn't be married right now. So that's my cautionary input to all you hyper-selective lonely-heart singles out there...don't take this shit too goddam seriously!

1) Strangely enough, I found a link to your review on the Princess Diaries 2 on a Christian movie site. My parents had it in their bookmarks and I was looking at it for laughs. Greatest thing one could find from a Christian movie site!'
2) I live in Bryn Mawr, a village believe it or not in PA. I'm glad to live where I live, there is an art house movie theater, a library, a video store, many pizza places, and a bookstore all within walking distance.
3) I am currently a student, but I also work at a campaign office to elect our democratic nominee for state senate.
4) I'm a sadly single gay man, which is something that is a small pity, but I've been trying and failing to find someone to date. Though within the next few months, I may be lucky...
5) I'm pretty sure my third date movie was the first Scream movie. Good film by the way.

1) No idea what the first thing I read was, but I think I was sent here from Quiz Law about two and a half years ago.
2) Austin, TX.
3) Law student, living off loans.
4) Straight, single, groovy.
5) Ghostbusters, Brick, or Drop Dead Gorgeous.

Eva? Eva!!!

*waves*

Look at P'cola representin'!

Saint Saturn Sunshine! You probably live about five minutes from me!

I'm way too excited about this sort of thing. I love finding out other folks here live near me. Gives me hope for my nebulous, currently still only in my head Mid-Atlantic meetup.

1) Early memory hss long since faded. Just remember being impressed with no BS reviews. Came from DListed.
2) Novato, CA, about 25 miles north of San Francisco
3) Software Geek
4) Married, Gay, part-time care-giver two small children, who give me reason to live.
5) Stardust

1) De-lurking, saw the "Firecrotch" ad.
2) Sacramento, CA
3) I work at an ag chemical plant
4) Straight & Married
5) Princess Mononoke: My wife was able to sit through this, and is now a Miyazaki fan. Done.

1) Stumbled upon Pajiba in Aught 6. Earliest memory is that Homeland Security debacle. That's a lot of lurking!
2) I currently am deployed to Afghanistan, on leave in Florida, and discovered Pajiba in Iraq.
3) Broadcaster in Army.
4) Single and straight.
5) Haven't exactly established one... maybe Shaun of the Dead or Hot Fuzz.

Pajiba has definitely become more than just a website for me, even though I'm a lurker. I cannot even think about seeing a movie before seeing what the reviewers/Eloquents here have to say. Even when you disagree, you are somehow still right about everything.

Wow, this one's coming in late...

1) I clicked on Firecrotch while visiting yesbutnobutyes(?). About the only entertaining thing Lohan's ever done for me (including the hummer behind the Piggly-Wiggly on RR9 before she got all lesbianish). I think the first thing I posted had something to do with music, mentioning the Reggae cover of Radiohead's OK Computer. First time I've ever posted on anything and only place I've ever posted. Period. And it's been a steady decline ever since.

2) Minnesota. If I could live anywhere? Hawaii. If I was forced to flee somewhere to try to avoid authorities? Nebraska. If I was living two separate lives and had a wife and child somewhere but was always away on business trips while, in fact, I was spending time with my other wife and child... Not sure where I'm going with that one... but can you IMAGINE what they'd do if they found out? Zoinks!

3) Graphic Designer & Doodler of Dreams. Voice-over work one day. Hopefully. I've said it before - my voice moistens the britches. Anybody with leads? Anyone? Hullo?

4) Depends on which one of my wives you ask. One's a total freak hippie chick who's into organic foods, dreamcatchers and swapping - the other's pretty straight laced Democrat who enjoys yoga and baking. There was a third, but due to advances in medical technology and with gay marriage not yet recognized in Minnesota... well, you can figure it out. Nice guy though...

5) Whatever Julie said (somewhere way the hell up there) - depends who it is, the overall mood, and how much it's going to cost me for them to stick around until the flick's over. Last time, we watched all the deleted scenes and it cost me an extra fifty! Prostitutes nowadays... Sheesh!

1. I think it may have been the Fug Girls as well. I definitely remember the Homeland Security disaster, and I had been reading for a while by then.
2. I live in Torrance, CA, one of LA's many suburbs.
3. I work for a health nonprofit.
4. Lesbian living with my non-registered partner of nearly 4 years.
5. Have never really dated--came out because of my current partner and hadn't dated anyone before that, so I'm gonna take a pass.

1. Query Letters I Love (the original)
2. Madison Wisconsin
3. Entertainment Software Developer/Free-Lance IT guy
4. Single Straight
3. Tremors 1 or New Dragon Inn

1) What's your earliest Pajiba memory and where did you come from? I think I came here from Go Fug Yourself and my earliest distinct Pajiba memory would have to be that epic review of Crash.
2) What city do you live in? Seattle
3) What do you do for a living? College student
4) Single, Married, Straight, Gay? single and gay
5) What's your third-date movie?
Flash Gordon.

Saint Saturn Sunshine, do you know where Goucher crosses Loch Raven and turns into Taylor? Go down the hill to the first light and hang a right. I live back there (in Hillendale). I didn't think there'd be anyone so close either!

What about you?

I am totally keeping the hope alive.

1) I linked here from Maryscott's blog via Daily Kos -- time has stood still since that day, so I can't recall exactly when it was...maybe early '06? First memory is convincing TPTB that, while Pajiba sounds a lot like vagina, it don't rhyme...
2) Decatur, GA
3) Real estate title examiner, yo
4) I always mark "single" on forms that include "divorced", because what biz is that of some random a-clown who requires me to fill out a form, but since you didn't include "divorced" I'll fess up.
5) ummmm....dunno

Er. I totally know how to use basic HTML. Promise.

I'm just trying something here.

Now that I think about it, I probably came here from IDLYITW, if you need that for your marketing research or something. I'd been hanging around there and WWTDD for awhile. This feels like home, and by "home" I mean "a lunatic asylum."

1. Dunno. Lurked since well before Homeland Security.

2. Marin County, California.

3. Financial Operations (assuming there's still Finance to Operate).

4. Straight & Single

5. Ha! Like I've had a third date since 2003...sigh.

kalafraja, hooray for html! i totally had to ask my work buddy the web designer what the hell html tags are. so, yeah, i feel your excitement!

Saint Saturn Sunshine you can't see, but I'm nodding. I know exactly that area, my dentist is on Kenilworth, across the street from the BMW dealership.

Don't feel bad about missing the party due to time zone differences, redhead; I live in the States and I'm still late on the come up...laggerdom is so hard to throw off!

Anyhoo:

1. TWOP, I'm fairly certain, and I wouldn't be surprised if it was Buffy related somehow.
2. Castro Valley, CA (10 mins south of Oakland in the Bay Area) by way of Makakilo, Hawaii
3. Full - time Exec Admin for huge HMO based out of Oakland that shall remain nameless and part - time Conservation & Resource Mgt student at UC Berkeley. Yes, I lloooveeee being stressed out, it's SO great.
4. Straight, married and boring. :-)
5. I was forced to admit my love for cheesy 80's fantasy movies in class today, so let's go with that: Neverending Story, the Dark Crystal, ups to everyone who mentioned Labyrinth and the inexplicable hotsexy of David Bowie...if my date don't get it, they gots to go....

Joker, Hilversum is right next to Utrecht. Smack dab in the middle of Dutchland (30 minutes from Amsterdam).

1. One of the sites I go to to see celebrity nipple slips and crotch shots.

2. Waipahu, Hawaii

3. Resident Crisis Manager

4. Single and have social phobias that make it hard to mingle

5. Grosse Point Blank or any movie John Cusack gets rained on

1) Probably arrived from GFY, stayed for the intelligence, wit, and hilarious comments and exchanges therein. I feel like we could be friends & I would be smarter for it as well. We're friends, right?

2) Boston suburbs. Did some schooling in Baltimore, too. I mean "Bawlmer" because that proves I really did live there.

3) Biotech/pharma development manager.

4) Separating, oh the sadness.

5) Probably Princess Bride, because that will identify if someone can tolerate my hopelessly bad impersonations. Also, that allows the smarter among the men to comment on a perfect set of breasts.

xo to you all & good night.

1) I don't know when I started coming here, at least a couple years ago I guess. I found Pajiba from Go Fug Yourself, just like everyone else, apparently.
2) I currently live in Prince George, BC.
3) I manage a museum.
4) I am straight and in a serious relationship.
5) My third date movie (or, rather, my anytime movie) is Hot Fuzz. Or also, Eulogy.

I recognize you Sasha.

aidan - yay archaeology! are you private or government? or are you a smarty smarty academic arch? :)

1. Reading over my friend's shoulder while he was using my computer.
2. Los Angeles, CA
3. Grad student in archaeology at CSU Northridge
4. Married to my fist boyfriend.
5. See four. Dates? What's a date?

1) My earliest memory is Pajiba's annual Shit List, where Dustin asked Scarlet Johansen to "take out those goddamn marbles out" of her mouth. The list also included Oprah. I was in love ever since. Also, I found you guys through an advertisement on Jezebel.com
2) Toronto
3) Law Student, living off student loans and parents.
4) Single with all sorts of sexuality.
5) "Leprechaun"

wow, there's four of us in central michigan?

Optimus no I'm not in that class...I'm married to a prof and taking speech pathology classes in a desultory way. Maybe I could find you a fake i.d. and we could go to...um, where do students like to drink here? My husband and I are old fogies and tend to get a drink at brass cafe, but I guess that's a bit tame :)

I see there are many scumbag lawyers here.

Makes my skin crawl to tell you the truth.

And Lizzie we'll make the meet-up happen sometime, for sure. There have to be at least a few others close-ish/nearby, right?

- Hmmm.. I must've come across from Go Fug Yourself too - I'd say in about 2005. Too long ago to remember the first review...
- I live in Brisbane, Australia.
- Mostly, while at work, I sit and browse Pajiba.. But technically I am a Project Support Coordinator for an engineering company.
- Am almost up to my 3 year anniversary with BrisVegasBoy.
- Not sure about 3rd date, but on the 2nd date BrisVegasBoy rented and showed up to my house with:
Cursed (horrible, horrible, werewolf movie with Christina Ricci - only made it 30 mins in and then switched...)
American Pie: Band Camp (possibly even worse)
Sad to say his 3rd choice was equally terrible, but the name escapes me - I think I probably blanked it out...

Gosh good thing I didn't judge him on movie taste alone...

There's a whole lot of people before me, but in case you do get all the way down...

1. It's been so long ago I don't even remember how I found y'all. GoFugYourself maybe?? I guess my oldest Pajiba memory would be when your server got shut down...something about national security.

2. Los Angeles

3. Assistant Editor - film.

4. Single and straight

5. The Big Lebowski (to see if the guys has any taste whatsoever in movies or if we share the same sense of humor) or Steele Magnolias (to see if he really likes me or is just trying to get laid)

1.) I don't remember my first memory of Pajiba. I remember being confused when it was shut down by Homeland Security. I came from Quizlaw.
2.) I live in St. Paul. MN.
3.) I'm an unemployed lawyer. It's a great time to be unemployed, let me tell you.
4.) "Single female lawyer..." and frustrated at the lack of sex.
5.) Shattered Glass

1) I think I found this site from a "bad query letters" blog a few years ago.

2) Holy Toledo, Ohio

3)Freelance Writer/Aspiring Screenwriter/Preschool Teacher/Sunday School Director (Yeah, I'm all about some Jesus)

4)Straight, Married 5 years to a smoking hot Med student - in like five years, she's gonna be my sugermama AND my trophy wife.

5) My wife (yes I had to ask her - it's been nearly ten years) said it was 'Bound', um, yeah...

- Officially delurked -

1) (Sh)It List - I remember thinking "Wow what a bunch of hate-filled douchebags." Then I started reading regularly and loved every minute of it.
2) Minneapolis
3) High School English Teacher
4) Living In Sin
5) Bottle Rocket (it worked! except for the sin part...)

oh, i'm married to a man and i'm a woman.

he's a brilliant musician, by the way.

01. i think from gofugyourself.com, but i dont remember.
02. currently in san diego, but not willingly. id rather be in san francisco... or scotland! even better.
03. grad student. doing the lit thing. and making no money.
04. in the words of margaret cho, my crisis: "am i gaaaaaaaay? am i straaaaaaight? then i realized, im just slutty. wheres my parade?". fantastic.
05. the last third date movie i can remember is the apartment with jack and shirley, but i dont have an official one.

1) What's your earliest Pajiba memory and where did you come from?
I arrived via the ladies of Go Fug Yourself. I can't remember what I read, but I remember thinking "these are my people" and I've lurking and posting every now and then for years.

2) What city do you live in?
Los Angeles (but originally from Philly!)

3) What do you do for a living?
Intellectual Property Law

4) Single, Married, Straight, Gay?
Single and straight

5) What's your third-date movie?
As a rule, I don't watch movies with guys I'm dating. Movies enter the scene much later than a 3rd date. However, if I had to choose, it would be Fight Club, True Romance, American Psycho or Primer. If he's up for a couple of episodes of Farscape, he gets major points.

1. I linked to Pajiba through The Superficial...and haven't been back to The Superficial in months.
2. I live in Queens (only New Yorkers list just a borough and expect everybody to know where it is).
3. I'm a matrimonial attorney.
4. I'm very, very happily married.
5. Probably "Waiting for Guffman". If you don't find that movie hysterical, I just can't trust you.

1) I'm pretty sure I saw you on gofugyourself and I used to occasionally check it out when I was procrastinating, but slowly fell completely in love!
2) Toronto
3) restaurant server, but I'm also a student
4) single and straight
5) Y Tu Mama Tambien... I wouldn't pick it for a third date, but if someone thought Lost in Translation was "boring" and "about nothing" the third date might not be happening...sorry, i sound like a snob!

SashaCA2 - I am right smack in the middle of Orange County (I want to spit everytime I have to type or say that). I've only been here for a little over a month. I think LA is within reasonable driving distance, the problem is how to go to LA to drink and then make it home afterwards.

Damn, I missed all the fun.

I have no idea how I got here, but my earliest memories were of music discussions - or that's what first got me interested.

I'm in Southeastern CT, hail from NY and lived back and forth a few times.

Married, three kidlets.

Haven't had a date in a long time, but it would be something like Spanking the Monkey, The Comfort of Strangers, Secretary or The Music of Chance.

1) What's your earliest Pajiba memory and where did you come from?
I can't really remember my first Pajiba memory, I've been here for quite a while! I do, however, remember coming here because of a funny ad on Go Fug Yourself.
2) What city do you live in?
Kitchener
3) What do you do for a living?
student
4) Single, Married, Straight, Gay?
single and straight
5) What's your third-date movie?
The Big Lebowski

I love when all the lurkers come out-it makes me feel not so alone.
1) Pajiba memory: Like many, I don't remember how I got here but it was right before the Homeland security "incident." But I was hooked once I saw the name because it always reminds me of "Hajiba," which is my name spelled backwards and was what some former students of mine called me (we all agreed it was a great name for a witch).
2) Live? Eastern Iowa, from birth to now.
3) Job? Medical insurance-I don't like it, but I'm really good at it.
4) Single and a Kinsey 2.
5) Third-date movie? The Thin Man

I think of myself more as a stalker than a lurker, I'm like an obsessive groupie!

1) I've been creepily watching you all for a little over 2 years, I think I got here from the Fug's. It's weird how everything before just evaporates once you're here.
2) An hour outside Melbourne, Australia in the vast suburban landscape of Narre Warren South.
3) Bottom feeder for a printer co., HP wanna be. I like to think I'm the laziest employee they have... feel free to call with your printer complaints!
4) Single & straight
5) Field of Dreams. I know, I can't help it. I just love me some Kevin Costner!

1) Followed a link from Mr. Cranky (which I no
longer read). That was at least two, maybe
three years ago. Possibly four...?
2) Washington, DC, though I move a lot
3) I'm a composer and conductor and teach music
at a conservatory.
4) Straight. Married.
5) Star Wars. I'm a total geek. My wife had to
come to terms with that. She did.

I saw the ad on Go Fug Yourself and thought, "I'm kinda bitchy. And I like movies. Why the hell not?" I've been reading for two years now.
I am currently working and going to grad school in western Pennsylvania, but I hail from the mountains of the great state of North Carolina.
I run a residence hall at Clarion University...which basically means I keep about 380 18-year-old morons from burning the building down at any given second. I also work in health advocacy as a sex educator. Which means I hand out a lot of condoms.
Straight. Single. Interested?
28 Days Later. They should know what they're getting themselves into at that point.

Long time reader, extremely rare commenter.

1. I think I found this site through TWoP, CHUD, or StumbleUpon. Not 100% sure on this matter.

2. From Huntington, West Virginia. Please be advised that West Virginia is a different state from Virginia.

3. I work in a group home for persons found not guilty by reason of insanity. It's delightful. Most days, I feel incredibly sane because of it. Other days, I'm pretty sure the crazy is contagious.

4. Single for way too long. Straight.

5. Possibly Royal Tennenbaums. Or perhaps stun him a musical selection just to test.

1. I came from Go Fug Yourself. Ha. That's not uncommon.
2. I currently live in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
3. I am a student at the University of Southern Mississippi and work part-time at a hotel.
4. Single, straight
5. Almost Famous. If it is meant to be, he'll understand.

1. Came from GoFugYourself. Don't remember how long ago. Definitely after the shut down, but still a while ago. First memory is of Gina(?) the Grammar Nazi whom I believe everyone used FLAME!
2. Sacramento, CA - originally from the Bay Area.
3. Litigation claim rep.
4. Single (separated) - straight (definitely voting "NO" on 8, telesilla. And congratulations on your marriage!)
5. Labyrinth (had a few comments on this a while back, with the double jeopardy of David Bowie's package and Jennifer Connolly's underaged hotness, but I don't care. I LOVE this movie.)

1. i followed a link to a movie review or a top ten list from idontlikeyouinthatway.com
2. virginia beach
3. starbucks barista/bagel whore
4. single
5. amadeus, american psycho

i wear lisa loeb glasses. i love cardigans, my iPod and coffee. i will NOT, however, misspell words on purpose (e.g., teh).

1) I think from The Superficial. It took a long time for anyone to acknowledge my lame comments...oh wait that still happens.
2) St. Louis now, the DC area before then
3) Grant writer looking ahead to grad school
4) Single, straight
5) My only date movies ever were "Fun With Dick and Jane" and "Talladega Nights." Those were fun, but "The Court Jester" and "Chariots of Fire" are more representative of me. Yeah, I'm a nerd.

Oh and sooooooooo, many people from flyover country *shakes head* mmmmmm...if I were you, poor folks, I would move...or kill myself.
There, I said it.
Seriously.
PS: all you cannucks too.
PSS: Europe? pffffffffffft...niggas ...plz.
Posted by: BarbadoSlim at October 9, 2008 8:14 PM

Well, let's see - BSlim seems not to live in the Midwest, Canada or Europe. He could be in another country, but I'm thinking he's in the US, one of the coasts, leftie that he is. Ooooo - and an animal lover. But really into hookers. Hmmmmmm - No Cal, is my guess (too hippie for LA, too nasty for OR or WA), but he commutes somewhere slightly more "Big City."

Other guesses?

1) It was a long and boring morning partway through Christmas vacation. I was still trying to relax after finals and did a random google search for "the best movies you've never seen." Pajiba was the first website with a list where I'd only heard of a couple of the movies. I literally spent the rest of the day going through the archives. I knew I was home.
2) Somewhere in the middle on the mid-right.
3) Attorney-at-law
4) Chronically single
5) Depends on what I think the guy can handle. If I'm thinking potential soulmate, it's Darjeeling Limited, High Fidelity, or Stranger than Fiction. If he's funny, Heathers. If he's super-cute, "fun," and not that bright, Die Hard. If I still can't tell, a few choice episodes of Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

1) My wife told me about the site.
2) Detroit - Mi
3) Attorney
4) Straight, Married
5) Thanks to all that D&D I played as a kid (and still play) I never really dated all that much, so I have no clue...

I too came from Go Fug Yourself, and I think it was the "Firecrotch" add that attracted me!
I am from Costa Rica (That's in Central America) but right now I live in Manila, Philippines.
I work in IT, for a US company.
Single, Straight and happy.
Haven't had a third date in a long time!

1) no clue...it was about 2 years ago, was there a link to the 3rd-date flicks? that may have been one of the first couple of posts i read...
2) new orleans
3) i work at the university of new orleans as a counselor
4) single and straight. mostly. at least lately.
5) my 3rd-date movie...hmmm...wet hot american summer. mainly because i've seen it enough to where i can still fool around and laugh at it without watching it. if whoever i'm fooling around with has a problem with me laughing at it while they're going down on me...they should just leave. (the last guy decidedly did not, and ended up laughing into my vagina a few times. awesome.)

Ooooh, I'm loving the BarbadoSlim guessing game! How old do you think he is? How many of you think he's the tooth fairy living in McCain's chipmunk cheeks and that he whispered an order for the old man to call Obama "that one"?

Posted by: Sofía at October 9, 2008 10:38 PM

Well, since I started it. . . .

I think he's 42.

And a half.

He's old enough to not give a shit what other people think, young enough to have been to Burma for 3.5 months (oh, wait, that was just a front for being in TK's basement. . . . . OK, young enough to fight off zombies for 3.5 months), old enough to have survived Burma/zombies, young enough to survive sex with multiple hookers and old enough to confirm that it's his preference (oh, yeah, and to have the money to pay for it).

As for living in McCain's cheek, I agree. BSlim could be running the whole thing. It would explain the INCREDIBLY disastrous choices McCain's been making, which completely undermine the Republican agenda while also setting women's rights back about 50 years.

Sofia, you are a genius.
As are you, BSlim, for guaranteeing an Obama win.

Officially de-lurking after 3 years.

1) Came over from the Fug side. Earliest memory - your tagline. I am known for being both scathing and bitchy. It seemed like a match made in heaven.

2) Sydney, Australia. Which is currently being besieged by an epic flogging of Nicole "my face looks like a boiled egg" Kidman's latest attempt at acting. On the other hand, Hugh Jackman, no shirt. It's a dilemma...

3) I work in media. But I try to use my powers for good instead of evil.

4) Married to an absolute sweetheart who still rocks my world after 10 years.

5) Say Anything

1. Link from DListed I think, which I no longer read. 2ish years ago, maybe? Lurked until 'Bama got sick, and mostly lurk now...

2. Tuscaloosa. Roll Tide!

3. Fourth-year undergrad hoping to go to law school next year.

4. Deeply involved with a great guy, but as yet unmarried.

5. Either Dark Crystal, Labyrinth or The Princess Bride. Ooh! Or Dirty Dancing. But maybe Ladyhawke? *sigh* Anyone I'm with just has to understand my adorable obsession with eighties movies. And excuse my love of fanfiction. Truly, he must be a Man among men.

Hahahahahaha..aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah...you scumbags.
I hate you people ...make no mistake, when the big one comes, I'm gonna steal your food and feed your unedible parts to my dogs.
Posted by: BarbadoSlim at October 9, 2008 11:02 PM

Hmmmm. . . . the evidence is mounting.

As are your dogs.

Hispter douchebags.
Posted by: BarbadoSlim at October 9, 2008 11:04 PM

How many hookers does it take to satisfy you, BSlim?

At last count, I think it was three.

Now read here, honey, I remember when my posts used to get DELETED here.

This site has sunk so low, that I'm allowed to post here.

Pajiba pffffffffffffffftttt...

1) Don't recall my earliest memory, but I believe a former roommate pointed me in this direction. (Side note - that roommate and I used to communicate via noise only.)
2) I live in a very small city.
3) I edit da news.
4) Recently single and straight.
5) Third date movie? The Blues Brothers

1) What's your earliest Pajiba memory and where did you come from?
It's been a loong time, but it may have been from TVGasm when it was still funny.
2) What city do you live in?
Norwalk, CT
3) What do you do for a living?
Graphic Designer/Production Manager
4) Single, Married, Straight, Gay?
I am officially off the market Saturday at 3:30. Please wish me luck that I don't puke.
5) What's your third-date movie?
Hmm, maybe The Red Violin? It's been three years since my last 3rd date, and we didn't watch movies on it. We just did it.

HAhhahahahahaha, yeah I'm remembering now (must be the Jack) it was like, Rowles and Vermillion and shit and it was all spellcheck and... and I don't know WHAT the fuck that was all about.

THAT, was Pajiba and Ranylt would have like PDF length reviews you had to download the latest Adobe Acrobat reader to read that shit.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I don't know how this site survived to tell you the truth...it SUCKED.
And I was there there, telling them..IT SUCKED.

So basically, I made Pajiba.
WHERE'S MY MONEY ROWLES?

The one damn day I have shit to do and you run this fun diversion!

1) I've been reading for 1 - 2 years. I'm pretty sure I found this haven of joy through a google search for Nathan Fillion and landed on the first "Most Bangable Celebrity" article. Fell head-over-heels for the staff and commenters. Since that day, I pretty much open Pajiba first thing when I get to work and hit "refresh" like 50 times throughout the day. Every day. You're welcome, Company Who Pays Me A Really Good Salary!

2) I live in Ohio - the city isn't important. Ohio is Ohio is Ohio...

3) Human Resources - Otherwise known as glorified babysitting

4) Single and straight, although I'm finding Sofia and Kalafraja very alluring. Also, in a new disturbing trend, I seem to be attracted to men half my age...'Sup Optimus? How you doin'?

5) Either "Raising Arizona" or "Serenity". Depends on the guy...and how much I want to get some. "Raising Arizona" doesn't really promote the sexytime vibe, ya' know?

Now read here, honey, I remember when my posts used to get DELETED here.
This site has sunk so low, that I'm allowed to post here.
Pajiba pffffffffffffffftttt...
Posted by: BarbadoSlim at October 9, 2008 11:11 PM

Sorry, but you left us for over 3 months. You have to start over as a newbie.

Although, I will admit that when I first saw you start up again, I was giddy. I was alone and I said, out loud, "Oh my God, it's BarbadoSlim." It was a beautiful moment.

I'd declare my undying love, but I'm not a hooker, so I know it will remain unrequited.

(sob)

Greetings from the top of the state, YellowRugby.

I think whoever wins a Pajiba t-shirt from now on has to have his or her (or hishers -- you never know in what mood you'll find BSlim) name printed on the back. That way, when we attend PajiCon '10 in the Atacama desert, we'll be able to sneak up on each other and say "Gotcha, insertclevernamehere!"

1) What's your earliest Pajiba memory and where did you come from?
I can't recall my earliest Pajiba memory but I know that it was in my roomates room maybe four years ago. I come from San Mateo CA which is 20 miles south of SF
2) What city do you live in?
I now live in San Bruno CA, which is 10 miles south of SF
3) What do you do for a living?
I work at a Planned Parenthood
4) Single, Married, Straight, Gay?
I am straight living with my partner of 6 years
5) What's your third-date movie?
Shawshank Redemption or The Big Lebowski depending on the boy.

Man I'm posting late on this one...this is longer than the open threads during the debate! But damn, I honestly don't remember when I came to pajiba was. Anyways...

It's been at least three years, but feels like only yesterday. And somehow I lurked for years until Jim Butcher love brought me out.

I split my time between Boston, MA for law school and hometown Hudson, NH.

I'm currently more broke than the stock market because I'm a law school student who doesn't have time to work. It's ridiculous to be living off loans!

I'm straight and single for the first time in over three years- and it's weird and wonderful.

My third date movie is kind of on a rotating schedule between the Evil Dead Trilogy and The Shawshank Redemption. I figure that anyone who actually dislikes these movies is someone who I should run from very fast.

1. I wandered over here from Go Fug Yourself by clicking on the Pajiba banner that had "Power to the Firecrotch, bitches!" on it. For some reason, rereading that sentence cracks me up even now. I've been reading ever since. Sometimes I post on the tail end of a comments section and then run away.
2. Seattle (by way of Oberlin, France, Greece, New Haven, and New York City, in that order).
3. I teach eleventh and twelfth grade English. Before that, I sold books at the Elliott Bay Book Company in Seattle.
4. Straight. And I'm not married, but I have an adjunct.
5. Oy. Um. Hm. I'd say Star Wars, but I don't think anyone would get to a third date with me if they hadn't already seen it. Spirited Away?

You had me at IROC-Z (I am a child of the 80's) but lost me at Bud Light.

If we're going with the theme of cheap, I insist on Miller High Life.

Posted by: ncnn at October 9, 2008 11:43 PM

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Miller it is.

Truly, your class shows.

You better be wearing a tube top when I pick your ass up.

You're paying for the Motel too.

You had me at IROC-Z (I am a child of the 80's) but lost me at Bud Light.
If we're going with the theme of cheap, I insist on Miller High Life.
Posted by: ncnn at October 9, 2008 11:43 PM
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Miller it is.
Truly, your class shows.
You better be wearing a tube top when I pick your ass up.
You're paying for the Motel too.
Posted by: BarbadoSlim at October 9, 2008 11:48 PM

Sorry to disappoint, but it's a light blue, airbrushed, shredded t-shirt (with beads at the ends) that I got at the beach boardwalk in 1987, with the "Y&T" logo.

And it's definitely shredded a lot over the last 20+ years. Up.

As for paying for the motel, well, honey, don't you worry. I run a tab.

1. The Fug Girls sent me here in 2004.
2. Butt-fuck, New Mexico
3. Self-employed medical biller and stay-at-home-mom
4. Never been married, but I like the boys
5. Pan's Labyrinth. I need a man that can sit through a sub-titled film.

-This site was on a list of favorite sites posted on a message board I've been frequenting for years. (The message board will remain unnamed as the subject matter is a bit touchy.) I don't have any early memories except developing crushes on a few of the early Eloquents.

-Jacksonville, Florida. I actually like living here. Even though this state can really bring the stupid sometimes, it's de rigueur to be weird around here. I blend.

-I work at a bank here in town.

-Single, bi, still madly in love with Alex the Odd.

-Third dates are not for movies; third dates are for bookstores.

1. One of the folks in the GFY group that followed the "firecrotch" link.
2. A FL native (grew up in Altamonte Springs) settled in Fprt Myers, FL. Our city motto is "Home of the newly wed and nearly dead."
3. Full-time student and mom of two. Will eventually be an ornithologist tromping around the swamps looking at anhingas and such. Provided I can pass biochem...sigh...
4. Married for 10 years to the Zenmaster, a fellow geek and civil engineer.
5. Haven't been on a 3rd date in 14 years, but I'd have to go with a double-headed - a conversation comprised almost entirely of movie quotes, followed by an unforced viewing of an old-school movie - musical, Danny Kaye flick, or Auntie Mame. Zen won me forever by mixing passages from Blazing Saddles and History of the world, followed by singing the entire first verse of "Surrey with a Fringe on Top .". Yes, I love that man of mine.

1. Either the Superficial or the Fug Girls.
2. Cowtown, Alberta! Home of Stampede and rednecks! (are the two ever really that far apart?) I KNOW there is another Calgarian out there, I saw it on the map one time, but so far, no one has de-lurked? I feel so lonely...
3. One of the many law students on this site.
4. Straight; long-term relationship.
5. Shawn of the Dead; Evil Dead; Big Lebowski

BAM!
That shit's gonna get dirty.
Posted by: BarbadoSlim at October 10, 2008 12:03 AM

Promises, promises.

And obviously I meant that gay ass Pajiba Facebook thing...

Hehehehehe..you make me laugh, I THINK you are all talk, whoever you are, it is doubtful that you'd have anywhere near the elasticity or the skill to handle my massive genitalia. But hey, feel to try, be aware that you'll pay for the liquor and the cigarettes send me an e-mail...I'm on Facebook see if you can figure it out.
let's see
Posted by: BarbadoSlim at October 10, 2008 12:52 AM

There are SO many ways to deal with massive genitalia, I really don't have the time to enumerate them all. Although I do have the desire to demonstrate them. To the deserving.

Paying for the liquor and cigarettes - is that in cash or trade?

As for figuring you out on Facebook - I don't think I'm that conversant in the medium.

And so we return to whence we came. . . . (sob)

1) Coming here from Dlisted....
2) Adelaide, South Australia
3) HR at a University
4) Attached, straight
5) The Running Man

1) What's your earliest Pajiba memory and where did you come from?
-It was the review for Night at the Museum. It was linked from somewhere, maybe Nerve? Anyways, they said it was funny. I agreed.
2) What city do you live in?
-Aurora, IL, which is a suburb of Chicago. Excellent.
3) What do you do for a living?
-I currently sell chocolate and am on my way to becoming a nurse.
4) Single, Married, Straight, Gay?
-single, straight
5) What's your third-date movie?
-My heart is saying Gremlins 2:The New Batch, but my brain is saying Wag the Dog.

1) What's your earliest Pajiba memory and where did you come from?

I was reading a BSG editorial from Dan. The original link was on The Superficial.

2) What city do you live in?

New Orleans.

3) What do you do for a living?

Cook.

4) Single, Married, Straight, Gay?

Engaged.

5) What's your third-date movie?

Dazed and Confused or Empire Records.

1) can't remember, but its kept me coming back for years - check that, lurking. pretty sure it was a random gossip site though.

2) northern sf bay area

3) wonderful part of life where i'm a college grad but work retail because it pays better than what i spent years training for.

4) single/straight

5) Young Frankenstein

1. I can't remember how I found this site, but it's been a daily read now for about 2 years.Also led me to other great places as well.
2.Bioley-Orjulaz, Switzerland
3.Kept Woman
4.Engaged/straight
5.Dangerous Liasons/The Red Violin

1) What's your earliest Pajiba memory and where did you come from?
Well, I can't even remember last week (hooray for my family's alcoholic bogan gene), let alone how I came to find a website, but I'll give it my best shot.
I think I came over from the Fug Girls as well, and some other ads from different sites.

2) What city do you live in?
Perth, Western Australia. Which I will be leaving in about a year or so, finally!

3) What do you do for a living?
I work in retail, selling....argh, stationery. But I am a member of "Generation Douchebag", so I'm not old enough for a real job yet.
For some reason I thought it was a maternity clothing chain.
But seriously, everyone go buy pencils, they're amazing! Watch how I demonstrate by shoving one into my manager's eye!
(Dream job: Writing, sigh).

4) Single, Married, Straight, Gay?
Single and straight. I find it weird to date people who have grown up around me. The guys who go to school with me, I knew them when they were picking their noses. No, not since last week.

5) What's your third-date movie?
Do I want them to be a keeper or do I want to drive them away?
Something that isn't terribly shit.

1. IDLYITW linked (and still does) to you, a little under two years ago. I think it was the 10 Worst Blockbusters of All Time list I stumbled upon first. And then the third date movie question. To which I commented.

2. Around Brussels, BE

3. HR admin

4. Living together, straight

5. Corpse Bride

AH why am I always so late to these? Seriously, I haven't broken into the first 300 in over 6 months. Oh, to not have school in addition to a full time job.

1) Like so many others, I came here from go fug yourself. I was still in high school, and it was just after the site reopened after HS shut it down...so that was 2003? 2004? I can't remember. I only comment occasionally, but my favorite memory: when pookie asked if I was married in a totally unrelated response to something I'd said. it was so...pookie-ish

2) Chicago

3) nanny/student

4) straight and unmarried (and female)

5) Any of the Marx brothers' movies, or Harold and Maude. Actually, as long as he doesn't suggest anything heinous, any movie shall do. I'm a pretty harsh judge of peoples' taste but I'll watch anything once.

1) I came from Go Fug Yourself (which I actually don't look at very often anymore, yet I read this most everyday). I can't remember the first thing I read. Sort of did a binge. It was a few years ago.
2) Spokane area, WA
3) Write. The living part is questionable.
4) Married, and I like the term equal opportunity
5) I didn't really put much thought into it other than strong-arming my date into what I wanted to see.

Slim is 32-34.

All this and there's still...what? Only four people in Georgia? This does not help Vermillion and I. But then, we may not be helping ourselves staying here either.

1) Shit, I have no idea. I've been here for over three years, since the site was a baby. I remember when it was blue, dammit. In unrelated news, get off my lawn!
2) Currently: Riverside, CA
3) Student at UCR/Write reviews for "The Highlander"/work in computing and communications building
4) Single Straight
5) A Woman is a Woman

1) What's your earliest Pajiba memory and where did you come from?
TWOP
2) What city do you live in?
Wageningen, The Netherlands
3) What do you do for a living?
Junior Scientist
4) Single, Married, Straight, Gay?
single, srtaight female
5) What's your third-date movie?
Jackass, the movie... if the guy laughs he is a keeper
6)The Eloquents sort of scare me

1) Found site in google-storm. Stayed for the reviews.
2) Amsterdam, Netherlands.
3) Sell Apple computers in privat company.
4) Straight and in relation (She loves movies too!)
5) No Idea, but our 1st date was a movie..

BTW i'm here for the reviews, and gossip, not the comments. Too much reading :-)

Best thread ever?

1) I came from Go Fug Yourself because the ads in the sidebar cracked me up. My earliest Pajiba memory was coming in right around the Homeland Security debacle, which was certainly an intriguing start.

2) Danvers, MA (near Boston)

3)Freelance artist/ substitute teacher/unemployed

4)Married, Bi

5)No third Date movie, but a third date show; Buffy episodes Welcome to The Hellmouth/The Harvest. The good news is if they like it, there are many more excuses to get together. If they don't...I'm probably not going to bother.

still another delurk
and i'm also late as hell because i'm halfway around the world

1) don't remember where I came from but my earliest memory is dustin or somebody bitching about the DHS taking their server and having to reconstruct everything from google cache or something

2)Bayreuth, in the best part of Germany, also known as Franconia

3)I'm currently in the process of acquiring a PhD in Polymerchemistry

4)Straight and Single, but through no fault of my own. I swear !!!

5)For some reason i dont quite get we dont do dates in Germany but if I had to choose one I'd say Operation Dance Sensation or some part of The Bourne Trilogy, probably.

Anhingas in the swamp, sweetpea? Do you think our geeky husbands would mind if we hooked up sometime, 'cause I think I just fell in love with you a bit!

Oh, and did I see not one, but two part-time Nova Scotians in this list? Awesome! Hey Celery and Ellie, I could really use some hands on the MurderBluenose II!

Sweet tap-dancing Christ, you sonsabitches are close to 500. Do you know what that means? DO YOU?! It means that for a limited time, next twenty minutes or so, I'll be selling ShamWows at $14.99. Five dollars off the regular price. Now that's four standard-sized ShamWows, six mini ShamWoozies for your car and Murder(insert mode of transportation here), and, AND I'm throwing in a two-pound bag of peanuts... You can't fucking beat that deal folks! But you gotta act quick - I can't do this all day. These fuckers are made in Germany - you see any spills in Germany? Hell. No. Am I right, tris, or am I right? ACT NOW!

1. Came from GFY forever ago, and it stuck because TWoP was too slow posting (also, I like to see a Texan make good with the wit)
2. Austin proper
3. School
4. Married to the real deal
5. Rushmore (I need to know if we're both going to cry)

Holy fuck this is a lot of comments, clear my schedule!

1. I came from Go Fug, like so many others, and it was right before the homeland security thing. That was enough to keep me around.
2. I live in Joe-Sixpack country. Actually there are a lot of Obama bumper stickers around town (Raleigh, NC) but my particular neighborhood (full of old white people) is overrun with McCain signs. The fact that NC is a battleground state after all these red years makes my heart swell two sizes too big.
3. Tech writing. That's why I need you Pajiba.
4. Straight and almost married, in 3 weeks
5. Boondock Saints or Big Lebowski. Always classics.

1. Go Fug Yourself, the add with the picture of Lindsay Lohan.
2. Canada, currently living in Montreal, which some of you might recognize as Hipster country.
3. Hm... I swindle my summer savings while working towards a BA.
4. Single.
5. I'm very selfish about my movies. They guy may very well be stuck watching a historical or fantasy epic that has me too utterly engrossed for me to care about the sexual tension he's trying to brew. Meaning: The Princess Bride, Phantom of the Opera, Stardust.

1. Found pajiba by way of the Fug Girls. I don't remember the first review I read, but it was really, really funny. Lurk mostly.
2. Suburb of Chicago
3. gleefully unemployed for the moment
4. Married, last Saturday. Straight.
5. Princess Bride

1. I come from gofugyourself.com as well, which probably explains the number of hot women on this site
2. I'm in Tallahassee, FL for college, but I come from Holland, MI (the heart of religulous fever)
3. A grad student in archaeology and perhaps geology next year.
4. Living IN SIN with my s/o for three years (I still get crap about that from my religious relatives)
5. Fight Club. If you can't stomach it or think its stupid, you're out the door.

no, skitz, no spills

we're spill-free since that shindig 'roun '04

See? Do you see?! I've got backing from an official German! People, it's not every day you stumble across something like this. $14.95 - you probably spend more than this daily at happy hour. We're talking top-of-the-line ShamWow technology plus a two-pound bag of peanuts. WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU WAITING FOR! SEND ME YOUR MONEY! NOW GODDAMIT!

1. I was killing time, clicked over here from Go Fug Yourself, and now I'm hooked.

2. Columbus, OH. Yeah. It's pretty non-descript. Columbus is... nice.

3. I'm a scientist and shit. Tumor immunologist, to be precise, working in breast cancer research.

4. Single, and pissed about it. Straight.

5. Monty Python's Life of Brian

1)Found you from QLILOVE. Been around for two years or so. I read every couple of days and laugh, but this is probably only my third of fourth post. More querry letters!!

2)Detroit area.

3)Economist

4)Married and straight. I have three kids. Yeah, I know you didn't ask but I was emphasizing the straight thing.

5)Naked Gun. She fell asleep but I married her anyway. One of her favorite movies is The Cutting Edge. So, obviously, we don't watch many movies together.

should I feel proud that somebody, let alone skit, acknowledged and reacted to my first comment ?

what's the protocol here ?
indentured servitude ?

what's the protocol here ?
indentured servitude ?

I think you have to motorboat Minimus. :shudder:

Nothing but a golf tournament?

Don't you sully Brother James like that!

"what's the protocol here?"

Well, as I see it, tris you got one of two options: you either quit lurking or you send me fourteen dollars and ninety-five cents so I can get rid of some of these goddam ShamWows...

I suppose a third option would be Julie's, but... well I don't know that he's ever been motorboated and I'm not sure how he'd take it. More than welcome to try, though...

this town sucks balls for gettin' your skank on

I can't work out exactly how that car wreck of mental imagery is funny. But it is.

Yeah, Jay, I know. THAT is how bad it is here. Simply saying, "I can't get any", or "the dudes here are asswipes", just won't suffice.

Sometimes a girl just wants a little casual sex, you know? And damned if this place isn't conducive to that desire.

Well, I believe (being the foremost Minimus Scholar currently posting) that while he retains a tube-like shape, he is still malleable enough to form a primitive pair of boosums, as if molding clay. The rest is instinct.

No pain needed. Just jump back,kiss yourself, and then get up--into it--and involved.

Tris I believe that Minimus, despite his waifish figure, has man teats. Have at them!

Ew ew ew ew ew.

Damn it, I was really trying to help the little fella out. :p

1. Came her from the Fug Girls, and knew that no other reviewers would share my taste in film quite so completely. I've been here since shortly after the Great Erasure. I comment from time to time, but they never stick because I'm way too earnest, and wordy, and only funny in person. But I think ya'll are hilarious bitches and I love ya.

2. Atlanta, GA

3. Anthropologist/epidemiologist

4. S/S

5. It depends on the guy. If he thinks Brick is hilarious, we're likely to have the same sense of humor. I had a non-date/guy friend over to watch it and he definitely didn't get it. I felt stupid. But oh, if I can find the guy who gets it...... *sigh*

I seriously hope a date won't turn his nose up at A Knight's Tale, which I freaking LOVE and is one of the few I can watch ad nauseum. I'd think him way too much the snob if he didn't get into it at least a little. Add Plunkett and MacLean to that list, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern too (for good measure).

It'd be great if he was into the political stuff and documentaries I like but I don't think I'd hold it against him if he didn't.

If he doesn't love Pixar AND Gibli by default, he's a douchebag and doesn't get to come back to my couch.

Also, minus points if he thought Superbad was super funny. I saw this at a drive-in with a guy I was dating. He laughed waaaaaaay too much at the menstruation scene. And I thought, any guy who is that squeamish....just really isn't a man. Grow a pair, for chrissake. Weezer glasses are great an' all but I think some of you are gettin' a little soft, this generation. I have way bigger balls than most fo the men I date (and I don't have any).

Yes, No, Yes, No, Yes, No....you drive a hard bargain, Jen!

Hey, 50% is better than most, Jay.

But, so let me get this straight: you DON'T like Knight's Tale, or studio Gibli? Huh. I'm not sure we can hang.

On the other hand, Brick trumps a lot of things.

What's your stance on Donnie Darko?

Also, when the financial crisis starting overtaking the news, did you immediately think of the social consequences of Reagan-era economic policy and then draw a connection with American Psycho and how it is not only brilliantly funny (as many Pajibans will readily admit) but also a scathing critique of such policies in the form of a blatant allegory for their destructiveness and how such destructiveness is steadfastly ignored by all involved?

If you did then maybe we can be friends after all.

1) From the Fug Girls somewhen in 2004
2) In a major city in Northern Germany
3) Studying technical translation and communications but now a trainee in advertising, all the time neglecting the fact that i have to write my thesis sometime
4) Dating a very sexy young man
5) The Big Lebowski while tryin to keep up with the White Russians (has worked before)

Hmmmmm.

I like Brick, Pixar and Superbad a lot but I'm not menstrually squeamish, though bleeding wounds are a different story (when visiting a friend two years ago she stated "We're watching Brick" and I thanked her for it). It's sad how seldom one has a reason to say "I've got all five senses and I slept last night. That puts me six up on the lot o' you". The way Dode's boot heels make him walk when he's in a huff is hilarious. And did you know that actor was a cover model for a novel about gay teens?

I'm neutrally ignorant of A Knight's Tale ("Purists be damned!") and Studio Ghibli, along with most modern anime. Donnie Darko was ruined by its cult of hype so I've never seen it, nor have I read or seen American Psycho, but only because it just doesn't interest me.

And I thought, "well, they're talking about 'the 80s savings and loan crisis' and 'the 2001 recession', and I lived through those as well as the 1991 recession so I'm not going to freak out. I wish capitalists could learn to control their hysteria, like Captain Polk's contagious panic that broke the line at the battle of Lookout Mountain (He ran! At the height of our victory he ran!) or remember what got them into trouble the last time, but they probably can't do that on their own. Besides, I have no house or invested money to lose! WHEEEE!!"

Okay. Well at least you have Brick. It's hard to do self-aware comedy without either losing yourself in a meta-warp or else sacrificing the viewers' emotional stake in the story. I think I damn near choked on my popcorn at the interior of Dode's van.

Have you actually run across someone who *didn't* like Rushmore? I guess there's the group that don't know what it is, but I don't think I know anyone personally who belongs to that category.

And yeah, thank godtodpus I've blown all my cash (which grad school has provided so repletely) on wine and Netflix. I'm so much better off than all my friends who, like, saved, and bought homes. Chumps.

I lurk...often...everyday often...
Pajiba is this little piece of sweetness in my life during my lunch hour every day.

It brings joy to my soul.

Imagine, if you will, the utmost personification of joy being brought forth from a seashell of awe and wonder like the Birth of Venus, surging upon my little soul as two delicate cherubs pour beer all about while singing glorious sea shanties to the tune of an angelic big-breasted woman playing the accordion.

It's kinda like that.

1) What's your earliest Pajiba memory and where did you come from?
Err, this is a funny little story actually. For my 18th birthday my sister and I had taken a trip to Vienna to see the Dresden Dolls in concert. Anyways, I'm a touch of an insomniac and hadn't gotten any sleep for a week or so prior to this trip.So, as my sister and I are driving from Germany to Vienna, I'm doing the navigating. Obviously, this means we get all kinds of fucked up lost.

It's two in the morning by the time we reach Vienna, and it's raining, and the city lights are shimmering and bouncing through raindrops in the night sky. At some point, I think it was shortly after we missed our turn to the hotel, I gazed into the sky as we drove and saw what can only be described as a majestic huge fuck off octopus made of light in the heavens. Now I know this is merely a trick of my sleep deprived mind, but damn if it wasn't nifty.

So, we get to the hotel, see the concert, it's all awesome-o, go home, it's all good. However, a few months ago I brought all this octopus in the sky stuff up with a co-worker, who told me this is a common hallucination among insomniacs.

So obviously, I gotta check this shit out.

I go to google, type in octopus insomniacs (should totally be a band name by the way), nothing comes up. I type up every variation on the idea I can think of. At some point I don't think I care about finding a correlation between a sky octopus and insomniacs, but instead am just doing it for pure shits and giggles.
Eventually I type Godtopus.
Don't really know why that specific phrase came to mind, but it did, and although I did not find anything to do with members of the genus Octopus and Insomniacs, I found this site.

And damn if this isn't just all spiffy.

2) What city do you live in?
Heidelberg, Germany

(No, I'm not German. Although there's nothing wrong with being German.)

3) What do you do for a living?
I work in an office.
It sort of saps away my inner happiness.

4) Single, Married, Straight, Gay?
Single, and Straight

5) What's your third-date movie?
L.A. Story
Because Steve Martin is magic.

Wow, Bias Thwack! You're like the Joseph Smith, Jr. of Pajiba.

Spiffy

Does this mean I have to decipher shit out of a hat and have eight wives?

Although...I could use that whole polygamy thing to test which Steve Martin movie is in fact the best third date movie.

Hrrmmmm

@Jay: An ass? I mean, I've made the same argument for hating Seinfeld and the entire godforsaken cast of characters, and gotten incredulity in response. But Max Fischer? Weird. It must be that whole "two Americas" thing playing out.....

@Bias Thwack: my money's on the Jerk. Heck, I'd be a co-wife for someone who whipped out The Jerk on date three.

1) Go Fug Yourself. The first review I read was the one for "Hostel", God I really hate torture porn, I remember leaving a hate comment which eventually got erased.

2) Caracas, Venezuela.

3) Freelance translator and interpreter.

4) Straight and unfortunately single (I'm getting a little sick of it).

5) I don't really date.

I'm very much delurking.

1) No idea, but here's a funny story. I loved the prom night review so much I read it out loud to my friends in the room and made one cry. She was so offended.
2) Burlington, vt
3) Student
4) Single
5) Little Manhattan.... Eek.

1) Eddie Murphy film review=instant addiction. Found it through IDLYITW
2)Somewhere near Seattle.
3)Line cook
4)Single/Straight
5)Baraka

1) I came here from GFY and IDLYITW. I think the first review I read was for Brokeback Mountain, and since then, I have never looked back. I come here everyday and wish I was as wordsmithy as the Eloquents. After gradually reading through the reviews and the comments section, I found myself NEEDING to read BSlim's comments, and Skitts, and TK...and I just want a seat on the Murdertank.

2)I live in beautiful Ottawa Ontario. Yay for fall leaves.

3)I have a teaching degree and I teach High School English and History. I love it. I get to be the hot teacher (only compared to the other teachers) and talk about the Russian Revolution and read books all day. It's pretty sweet.

4)Single, currently in love with a boy.

5)I would and have made all of my potential suiters watch one of the following( I like to give some choice)
Labyrinth
Dark Crystal
A Scanner Darkly
The Royal Tennenbaums
Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!

So I pretty much love this site, I quote it constantly,and I wear my Murdertank with Pride.

Sloppy Kisses and Wet Panties,
Amanda

Admin11, if you pay me $158.52, I'll collate the information for y'all.

Though - I doubt this event would be hosted in Canadialand, so maybe I don't give a shit. Fuck.

1) What's your earliest Pajiba memory and where did you come from? Perez Hilton, but i know better now. I go to ONTD for my celebrity gossip needs
2) What city do you live in? Richmond, CA
3) What do you do for a living? premed student at Cal Berkeley
4) Single, Married, Straight, Gay? single and strait
5) What's your third-date movie? Hardboiled, with the subtitles. i love chow yun fat

Admin11, I get my skank on for no less than 4K, Spitzer styles.

Or, you know, some beer and two shots of sambuca.

"...a third date movie is only meant to be watched halfway through, right?"

In that case Elsa you should probably rent I Am Legend - the ending blows hobos...

The kinky shit will cost you extra, Admin11. A bottle of Boones should do nicely.

Miss_Mimi, I suspect that you are my doppelgänger. The fact that you are a mere four exits away on the 24 makes that all the more unsettling.

Julie, I hereby pledge to post more often. I am happy to be your non-sexual life partner.

Oh, and Dustin see how right I was that this would be a good topic?

Posted by: tamatha at October 10, 2008 4:51 PM

Gloating does not become you, tamatha -- regardless of how right you were...

I feel like I'm coming to the party after the cops already broke it up, but here we go:

1) What's your earliest Pajiba memory and where did you come from? I fell into Pajiba via Webster's is My Bitch and I can't even remember how I did that. Because I was reborn that day.

2) What city do you live in? Encino, CA

3) What do you do for a living? Real Estate Paper Pusher

4) Single, Married, Straight, Gay? Engaged to a lovely young woman who doesn't even need a green card.

5) What's your third-date movie? It's funny because with my fiancee' our first date was opening night of Shaun of the Dead. The she picked Team America, World Police (and I knew we were destined to be as one eternally) The third was.....I'm going to say Sideways. I'm pretty sure that was it.

But back in the days, it was usually Young Frankenstein and if you didn't like that, there was no saving you.

Your my kind of girl kalafraja. Smart, cheap, kinky and only drinks the good stuff.

I commend thee Tamantha for the excellent idea.

For serious though, we should do a PajibaCon.

However it did accentuate mt point nicely.

Yes, yes it'd be excellent to have you all concentrated in one convenient location.....

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at October 10, 2008 6:05 PM

Absolutely. Knowing your inability to resist such a temptation, you would be an easy mark skulking in the shadows...

Admin11, well, there's no point in pretending to be someone I'm not, you know? And who doesn't like some skanking while hopped up on cheap booze?

Facebook has allowed me to get closer to some Pajibans! PajiCon is near...

For serious though, we should do a PajibaCon.
Posted by: Wormer

Wormer...can other Canadians join in on your Paj-gathering? I may be able to dedicate myself to a long flat drive to Sask.

As it relates to PajiCon - I think that the site should use the money collected for the creepy American Apparel ads and fly us all to a central location. It only seems fair.

Assuming, of course, that I'm invited. I hope that I am, I can do the macarena better than anyone, and that ALWAYS gets the party started.

1) I was directed by the Fug Girls. I think it was a Firecrotch ad that got me in, and my curiosity to find out what a 'Pajeeeeba' was (yes, now I know how to pronounce it!!). My earliest Pajiban memory is... not sure. But I remember the server crash. I am doing a degree in Media/Communications, and for one assignment we had to analyse an online community that we were a part of. I did Pajiba, and had written most of the assignment but hadn't linked to the particular pages that I was discussing/referencing. Then, on the day the assignment was due, Homeland Security decided that we shouldn't be able to say/do what we want, and clearly that included stopping me from finishing off my assignment. I managed to google cache some of the pages for the URL references, but otherwise I just made them all up as to what I thought they would be. And clearly university lecturers don't check the accuracy of references. Also, I totally got an A on my assignment.

2) Brisbane, Australia.

3) Law / Media student, work in fucking hospitality to pay the way.

4) Single.

5) Ummmm... Well, seeing as dates just aren't happening at the moment... I recently made two of my best (platonic) male friends watch Waitress, and they had both been really reluctant because the DVD cover makes it look like a total "chick flick". They watched it and loved it, and we quoted the movie for the rest of the weekends (I do have pasty, pasty skin), and I felt totally awesome about having spread the love.

1) By way of The Superficial. Though I'm not 100% on that.
2) Vancouver, Canada.
3) Health care technology.
4) Single *sigh*, straight.
5) Either Blue Velvet or Donnie Darko. Oh, wait, a Deadwood all-nighter...that sounds lovley.

1) I think I came over from Go Fug Yourself, but it was so long ago I don't remember!
2) Greenville, North Carolina-Go Pirates! ARRGH!
3) I'm a professional college student
4) Not single, not married. Straight!
5) Pan's Labyrinth. If they don't love that movie, I cannot associate with them.

As far as I know, it is Puh-jye-buh.

What's odd is that I seem to be the only person who thought Puh-hee-buh (which is also easier to say).

Does the word not look Spanish, in nature, to anyone else? I know I stand alone on a lot of things but....

Jay, I totally thought it was puh-hee-buh too! I have not idea why I thought the Spanish J sound was appropriate, though. Thanks for informing me!

Ok, let's give this a go:

1. My first Pajiba memory was reading the review for V for Vendetta...I think I saw the link to this site on another one (the picture of Natalie Portman).
2. Ottawa, Canada
3. Poor, starving, University student for life.
4. straight and single...and enjoying the freedom!
5. Adaptation, without a doubt. If they can put up with me for three dates then they deserve to watch it with me.

1) via The Blemish (or The Superficial, not that there's a difference), but no idea why
2) Melbourne, Australia
3) University Student (lit and philosophy) as well as writing music reviews for free cds and designing and selling t-shirts online.
4) straight and taken
5) no idea what it actually was, but i'd recommend the prestige (for post-movie 'what the...?' discussion) or shaun of the dead (for laughs and zombies).

1. Just after the Department of Homeland Security seized it, I found this site through GFY.
2. Okinawa, Japan, has been my home for the past two years.
3. I am a U.S. Marine (and that is why I'm in Japan).
4. Straight, taken
5. We'd have to watch Star Wars, Episodes IV-VI, on VHS (before all the extra crap was shoved in). The potential suitor is dead to me if there is no Star Wars love.

1. I followed Jessica Alba's ass from Go Fug Yourself

2. I live in Winnipeg, a bastion of culture and surprising liberalism surrounded by red states and rednecks, in the middle of the bald prairie.

3. I'm an electrical technologist working in automation. I currently have some very interesting "green" projects on the go but I can't divulge them now. Suffice to say, bring on the electric car!

4. Single White Female and since I followed Alba's ass here, you can guess which way I lean.

5. Third date movie is tough to choose, Hedwig and the Angry Inch comes to mind. It has the right mix of music, comedy and pathos.
Or any MST3K movie, EEGAH! anyone? As I have a framed 36"x 30" MST3K the Movie poster hanging at the entrance to my bedroom I doubt that I'll ever have a third date again... Or any date for that matter.

1) Being a firecrotch myself, it was also the firecrotch! ad on gofugyourself that brought me here. I fell forever in love when I read the review for "P.S. I love you."
2) I am a 205 gal. The 'Ham, AL.
3) Disgruntled graduate student studying creepy crawlies and cooties.
4) Straight and single, and will probably be for the rest of my life (unless a copious amount of alcohol is involved...)
5) Dating??? See answer to #4. I guess if I ever made it that far it would be "Closer" (i.e. this is what dating me will be like) or, to scare them off fo sho, V for Vendetta, Everything is Illuminated, Shaun of the Dead, or Steel Magnolias.

1) What's your earliest Pajiba memory and where did you come from?
The Fug Girls brought me over. Earliest memory was of "rhymes with vagina"

2) What city do you live in?
Christchurch, New Zealand (though I've brought Pajiba over from Syracuse, NY and Manila, the Philippines)

3) What do you do for a living?
I used to teach but now am a bum.

4) Single, Married, Straight, Gay?
Single, straight

5) What's your third-date movie?
John Carpenter's The Thing (it's also my annual Valentine's movie, especially when alone)

reading this reminds me of a rehab/therapy group. a very very big one. ginormous even. what's the next step after this?

or maybe it's all the chuck palahniuk books i've been reading...

1) Clicked an ad at GFY way back when I was still in high school, around the DHS deal. Been mostly lurking ever since.

2)In Boston for college. From Kensington, MD, 5 miles outside of D.C.

3)College sophomore studying journalism.

4)Straight, have a boyfriend. Hopefully. If he's been able to deal with my recent bout of absolute crazy.

5)Never been on a true 3rd date. I guess Spirited Away, Arrested Development, or Big Fish.

I am part of Generation Douchebag and I swear I'm not like them. Please, s-someone be my friend. *sob*

Jesus Christ, people - six hundred? I thought it was crazy when it was getting close to five hundred... But six HUNDRED? Holy fuckin' guacamole, I now know more about the lot of you than I do my own co-workers. There also seems to be a shit ton of lurkers. Lurk no more, I implore you. Cast the shackles of lurk aside and frolic in the fields of lunacy. Shit, I only stumbled across this joint in January of '08. Now look at me - I've got a conjoined twin, a spiteful cousin whose wife I've slept with, drawn two t-shirts, channeled Michael Bay, Buddha & Count Orlock, doodled Scrabble tiles enjoying a post-coitus smoke in a tub of taco-dip, sat outside in the MurderTank reading Family Circus during The Great Battle, won a Lifetime Achievement Award, bought a mail order bride, and stabbed a garbageman in the neck - all since January. I haven't spoken to any relatives or friends in the past ten months, but look at what I've accomplished. I am a colossal failure. Imagine where you could be in months... Imagine!

The Reach flosser is really good.

Believe me, I'm a complete flossing spaz.

And for the record, I'm a friend to any journalism major. My hoary advice is quickly approaching anachronism, but the fundamental things apply as time goes by: get someone to pay you for something before you graduate. Remember, it's not a professional degree and it needs all the help you can give it.

Also, this experimentally purchased pumpkin ale isn't bad and it's a nice enough day for it. Besides, I need something to defend myself against "Love Actually", which was pressed into my hand several months ago and which I'm finally watching now (but it would've been rubbish watching it in the summer, and the summer doesn't make me feel melancholily romantic anyway. It just makes me angry).

Wow, late to the party as usual... but whatever

1) Hmmm, I think it was fug girls. Earliest memory was being told by PissBoy that I needed to stay away from the enter key like Michael Jackson needed to stay away from little boys. Also pajiba marrying TK in the knocked up thread.

2) Hollywood Florida...

3) Film student / insurance specialist at a law firm.

4) Married

5) Well, my actual third date movie was terrible, so I won't tell you what it was (unless you ask) but I think now it would be either The Princess Bride or Little Miss Sunshine.

1) I remember finding Pajiba through an ad on a Radiohead fan site, it was back in the early days, must have been 3 years ago. I figured if it was advertised with Radiohead it must be a smart site. Not sure what was the first review I read was, but i went back and read all the previous ones and was totally hooked.
2) Newport, Rhode Island
3) I used to work at a movie theatre for about 6 years, so it's fitting that I read a lot of the movie reviews. Now I work at an upscale hotel and go to school.
4) Dating a girl. Probably won't go on much longer- she doesn't smoke pot or drink. *sigh*.
5) LA Story. Let's the girl know I'm a romantic with a sense of humor.

Hey now, you know what happens when you mix a Scorpio and a Sagittarius!

Actually, do you? I have no idea. I just know to avoid Cancers and the middle name Marie. There tends to be trouble for me there.

I suppose I better be diligent then. My dentist never gives that kind of positive reinforcement.

Oh, and by the way Jay, my middle name isn't Marie. That is my sister's middle name though, so you probably shouldn't make out with her, which is just as well since her fiance would punch you in the face.

1. I too came here from gofugyourself.com! It was the ads on the site that made me come over and check you guys out. Then, once I read the reviews and subsequent commentaries.. I stayed.
2. Houston, TX
3. a new career, actually: stay at home mom! A while back, I got recognized solely for delurking and announcing I was pregnant on the site (not for any intelligent or amusing banter). I am happy to say, my little girl arrived on Oct. 2 without any issue.
4. Married to my love and my best friend!
5. Definitely The Jerk or Airplane! (depending on which one hadn't been seen by the guy).

1. when the site was shut down, reviews gone, st to do with US government department? can't remember how i got here...:)

2. Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

3. uni student, a future nurse...and for money i stack shelves in a supermarket

4. straight and single

5. can't pick one

Well, that's nice Optimus, but I'm not really sure what it has to do with anything. I was talking to Jay. You're not my type either, since you're... what, like fifteen and a half years old? I know some ladies prefer the tender flesh of the young, but tiny tots aren't really my thing. I can't imagine macking on someone I could have legally adopted when they were in preschool.

Actually, Sarina, I was hoping you'd ask why. Just because I love that line in Casino Royale. (Paraphrased)
Bond: No, don't worry, you're not my type
Vesper: Smart?
Bond: Single

1. Definitely found my way here from GoFugYourself, probably 3 years ago (nothing like writing a thesis to inspire one to begin prowling the interwebs for interesting distractions!) Usually a lurker, though I have weighed in a time or two.

2.Portland, OR (originally from SF)

3. 25 and deeply entrenched in the land of part-time jobs. In brief: curriculum developer, event coordinator, occasional nanny.

4. Straight, newly single after 3 years.

5. Hmmm. Probably something a little esoteric and sexy. Mira Nair's "Kama Sutra," "Eat, Drink, Man, Woman," or "Picnic at Hanging Rock." Potential lovahs need to be able to appreciate the slightly less mainstream.

1) Earliest case of Pajibitis was your review for Norbit, which I occasionally go back and revisit, suggested by my super-cool former landlord, who found you through Fug.
2) Canberra, Australia
3) I am a writer, but nothing this fun. Mostly fact sheets about Improved Irrigation Drainage On Your Farm, or somesuch.
4) Gayer than Christmas. Last Christmas anyways.
5) Princess Bride. If they don't get it, or don't want to, there isn't a fourth date.

1) I came from The Superficial, which I call the Superfiscal every time I hit the link in some sort of OCD misfire that somehow amuses me.

2) Just outside Houston, TX

3) I'm a temp, and most often an unskilled light industrial laborer. At the moment I load and unload multi-ton slabs of imported tile in a warehouse. I'm sweaty, dirty and climb around like a monkey.

4) Straight and aggressively, perpetually single.

5) See above, though I love "Before Sunrise."

6) I'm liberal, Obama-liking, Weezer &/or Harry Potter glasses and MP3 using waste of life, who prefers specialty teas and multisyllabic jargon.

late to the party per usual...

1. Reading reviews in my statutory interpretation class first year of law school
2. Chicago, Illinois
3. Attorney
4. Straight and single
5. The Last Unicorn. This is a test to see if they REALLY like me.

Good Lord, I still haven't made through all these... this'll take hours! Days, even!

Meantime:

1. A couple of years? Possibly a friend introduced me? Not sure. All I know is, you had me at "rhymes with vagina".

2. The lovely Northern NJ.

3. Recently promoted to Accounts Payable Coordinator. Ooooh! Exciting!

4. Straight or gay? Undecided. Although I do love the schween. Single or married? Living in sin with pseudo-husband (code for, "I'm too old to use the term 'boyfriend', it feels ridiculous coming out of my mouth, also we've been together 13 years, but NJ doesn't have common-law, and I don't want to get married, I just don't like it, and 'significant other' sounds so boring, and 'life partner' sounds too new-agey, so 'pseudo-husband' it is").

5. Showgirls. Do I really need to explain?

1.some time in early 2007 I believe... for the Open Water real time review

2. Auckland, New Zealand originally but currently residing in London, England

3. Costume stylist

4. straight i like boys too much (one in particular)

5. Commando (if they laugh I love them)

1.some time in early 2007 I believe... for the Open Water real time review

2. Auckland, New Zealand originally but currently residing in London, England

3. Costume stylist

4. straight i like boys too much (one in particular)

5. Commando (if they laugh I love them)

According to the commentator spreadsheet I'm the only one from Ireland here. Random! And as the only representative of my country here I would like to establish that A) I am not a leprechaun and B) I'm not Bono.

I am always late to the cool games. But I don't care, I want to play anyway.

1) What's your earliest Pajiba memory and where did you come from?
Pretty sure I followed the trail over from Go Fug Yourself. Not positive, but it's a likely story. And then my earliest memory was reading comments and thinking, "Hey, these people like punctuation! They're like ME!"

2) What city do you live in?
Washington, DC.

3) What do you do for a living?
Masters student in international relations; babysit to pay the rent.

4) Single, Married, Straight, Gay?
Single, happy.

5) What's your third-date movie?
Erm...something foreign and fascinating that no one else appreciates, except Pajibans.