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I can't be the only person who thinks the new football coach on glee looks like the old one in drag am I? Did I miss something?

I agree, Mr.Feist. If The Beatles were alive in more modern times they'd be The Backstreet Boys.

You're right*, BigTodd, it's Hugo Strange, not Stephen Strange. And that makes perfect sense as a choice of villain, or one of the villains. It seems to me that the rumors of female casting might just point to Talia Al Ghul, if Hardy is indeed playing Strange. It would just make sense for those two characters to team up in some fashion. Tie the series back in to part one, and get Bruce recomitted to being Batman when he's forced to keep his identity a secret (which would be a nice conclusion to the character's arc in the first two movies).

* Damn it, people. Why didn't anyone else chime in with Hugo Strange's full name before BT? I know he was quick on the draw, but now I actually have to acknowledge his presence. I blame you all.

Hugo Strange makes the most sense considering the universe, I see him a profiler helping GCPD track Batman to arrest him. In the Comics he also takes to wearing a batsuit

Yes, if the Backstreet Boys started as teeny-bopper sensations, then evolved to become the most influential musical forces of their or any generation.

I'm another one who never fully got the appeal of The Beatles. They had a few catchy tunes. That's about all I can say about them. I do get weary, from time to time, of the Beatles worship, but it's mostly kept to a minimum these days.

I had a boyfriend in college who seriously considered breaking up with me when he found out I don't worship the Beatles. We ended up mutually ending it about six months later, but he confessed to me at that point that he "never saw me the same way again" after I confessed to having meh feelings about The Beatles.

Seriously, people. They were just a band.

Dr. Strange is Marvel.
Batman is DC.

Incorrect rumor.

Wasn't there a Dr. Strange movie rumor recently...?

I think that would be a little worse than having a couple people see my junk.

Other things Jeremy thinks is worse than you seeing his junk:

. . .

Can I say "everything?" I really want to say "everything" since getting people to look at his junk is probably Jeremy's favorite thing . . . okay, maybe people seeing him with his junk in another man's mouth might be MORE favorite, but I refuse to make such broad assumptions out of respect for Mrs. Julien's innocent heart. I think I may have permanently damaged her with a post* this morning and I'm feeling less inclined to go Full Kballs here.

*An INTERNET post you fuckin' pervs. Jeez!

Go with the Jesus Cobras KBalls! I'm wearing my hazmat suit!

Yeah. Patrick Dempsey was trying to get the part.

"you have to admit, the guy is very, very pretty when he’s not wearing a shirt."

C'mon Feist, he's like Lyle Lovett with photoshopped abs. Except I'd probably do Lovett cos he looks like he has a sense of humor and a sense of knowing what to do with his penis.

Jeremy,

Did you listen to "Sgt. Pepper?" I used to dislike The Beatles because all I ever heard was their early teen-pop crap (i.e. "Help," "I Wanna Hold Your Hand," etc.). If you don't like "Sgt. Pepper" or any of their late-60s stuff, then you REALLY don't like them.

Might I recommend listening to the 2nd and 3rd Anthology albums? You hear some cool stripped down versions of their best songs, which is great since their biggest problem was overproducing songs in the studio. And judging by the music videos you post, that style would suit you.

Or don't. Whatever. I know you're busy being Canadian and shit.

. . . and we are all descended from that farty caveman.

The first musical note ever played was by a cave man who farted while lifting one cheek there by changing the pitch. Therefore, The Beatles owe their musical careers to a prehistoric expulsion of noxious gas.

Posted by: admin at November 18, 2010 1:02 PM

Correct me if I'm wrong... but that was STILL Ringo :D

Admin and Lubeg for the win!

A word of warning re. the quiz for today... Huckleberry Finn does not count as correct, you have to have The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. If it wasn't for that I would have had 19, by far the best score on a Litely Salted quiz I've attempted. I am a librarian though, so I suppose it would have been fairly embarrassing to be badly...

I have some comics with Hugo Strange, and that dude is SERIOUSLY fucking creepy. I've been worried about what villain they could possibly use that wouldn't be a letdown, but making a conscious choice to NOT try to outdo Ledger's Joker, by picking a lower-tier but still freaky villain like Strange, could be a great way to go.

Hardy is way too good-looking, of course, but what are you gonna do?

The Beatles or the Stones?

The correct answer is the Kinks

I wish I could be like David Watts.

The right answer is James Brown.

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Racists.

My American cousins, the British guy doing a step by step guide to how to do Generic news is Charlie Brooker, one of THE best things about British television in years. You should really track down some of his stuff, either Newswipe, Screenwipe or the one-off Gameswipe, where he basically rubbishes everything and anything.

This is his take on American TV:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TTtPMy-7RY

And this is his take on why us Brits generally regard your top TV as being better than our top TV:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgwKU54rO0U

Please, please PLEASE watch them, he's brilliant!

Hey. I have to defend that professor. There's nothing more annoying than having one idiot who doesn't understand that his parents might have better things to do with their money spend his time in class making idiotic noises and comments. You've got a limited amount of time to get information across and you just know (because it happens every term) that the same idiot is going to be taking up your free time with emails about how he "didn't catch this" and "didn't understand that" when finals approach. And he's going to be the first one challenging his grade and getting his parents involved. Most students come to class to learn and understand that they should get a solid return on their parents'/bankloan's investment. They don't need the idiot with the yawns. And by the way, I am not tenured and would be far more strict than that lecturer was if it happened in my class.

Regarding the professor freak-out video:

I'm currently going through college at age 40, studying heating and air-conditioning. The class is almost exclusively young guys (one girl in a program of 160 people, no kidding), and frankly, they're some of the least-behaved, disrespectful, cheating shits I have ever come across. Honestly, they act like twelve-year-olds, playing constantly with their cellphones, occasionally throwing nickels and paper airplanes at each other, and talking-talking-TALKING all throughout class. The only time some of them speak with an instructor is when they want to know how much of the semesters' marks a given assignment is worth, so they will know whether they need to bother doing it or not. There are also a few groups of "students" who are known to copy each others' papers (including typos and incorrect answers) and submit them as their own. And old farts like me who are trying to build a new career and learn the trade have to put up with this crap five days a week.

The aggravating part is that some of the instructors, meanwhile, seem to have given up. The head of the program has to tell people to turn off their cellphones three or four times in class, even at points physically separating groups of guys when they won't stop talking. Two instructors on two separate occasions have told me they have never seen a group as bad as this. Some of the guys are good people, yes, and they're starting to do the work they need to do, but many of the others think the whole thing is a joke. Mommy and daddy are paying the tuition, and they would rather talk about going to the titty bars in Montreal or play MMA YouTube videos on the projector when the teachers are around than actually sit down and actually learn something.

One instructor in particular, he doesn't even bother to say anything when guys are talking. He just goes through the lecture with a dead look in his eyes, like he's counting the days to retirement and hoping he doesn't have this generation running the old folks' home. Hell, I'm counting the weeks until I finish this program, so maybe I'm the lucky one after all.

All of this to say: I kind of admire the professor in the video for going off on the one yawner. Sometimes students deserve to be told to shut up, if not kicked out of the class altogether. On the other hand, if a random yawn is the worst he has to contend with, he should consider himself damn lucky.

Must...resist...Beatles...flamewar...I...love...the...goddamn...Beatles...

I think all Beatles detractors should be forced to listen to 200 hours of 1959-1963 pop music - in particular the complete works of Frankie Avalon and Fabian.

Otherwise, who do you guys agree is the best band of all time then?

The Crucible is not a novel, it's a play. The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane, however, is a novel you stupid quiz.

* Interrupts professor douchebag's speech with a loud raspberry*

Wow that must be one fuuuuuunnnnn class.

I bet the students can't wait to fill out their teacher evaluations.

Seriously though. The Abbey Road medley makes me choke up every. single. time.

I didn't get The Beatles when I was in high school. Really, for a long time, I only ever heard them when my dad occasionally listen to them.

But then one day, I took a stack of all the Beatles discs my dad had to my room and just tried to wade through them. And when I finally gave up skipping through to the songs I knew I liked, when I really forced myself to examine the music I'd been hearing since I was a baby, it was like I was listening to it all for the first time, as though they had never really existed for me until that day. I dunno, it awakened something in me. It made me see all music, decades worth of it, seem so much more logical, accessible, real. It put a lot of popular music in a whole new perspective.

So don't fuck with my White Album.

I thought to myself 'Hey, why not do the Litely Salted quiz today? I'm a reader, it's Friday and very quiet at work, and I've never done one of these quizzes before.'

Lo and behold my surprise when the work computer blocks it because of it's 'Provocative Attire'.

Is there more than just quizzes going on over there??

This thread seems quiescent, so I feel safe to assert

Sarah Palin hates the Beatles because that's just the kind of person she is!!