Sorry for the pun :P
But anyway, Puey came back from her grad trip and bought £1 leggings from London! I have five. OH THE LOVE.
I wore two of them out yesterday, along with my new pink sale!skirt– I had a particular distaste for bubble skirts, but the colour and print on this was enough to override my prejudice :D
Lilac 50denier leggings that Puey’s sister rejected on grounds that it was too bright and argyle netted ones that she said no one else would wear ARE A MATCH MADE IN HEAVEN. Puey, I’m not giving back the lilac even if your sis wants it back hor! HAHAHAHA XDD
Oh and those are gold nails :D
Being corny.
I positively need to go to London XDDD
In other time-wasting news, I spent the whole of today at TvTrope and it’s insane wiki-style articles (much like ED.com). Here are some I love:
✿ You Should Know This Already
Gabe: Yeah, the ending was kind of a low point. Everybody knows Kong dies, but…
Tycho: Kong dies? Thanks a lot, jackass. I was going to see that.
Gabe: Kong? You don’t want me to spoil Kong, a seventy-year-old movie? There’s a statute of limitations on this shit, man. Everybody knows he climbs to the top of the Empire State Building. What did you think happened next?
Tycho: I thought that, you know… maybe he climbed back down…
— Penny Arcade, 2005-12-05
This troper saw a poster for Fight Club, that named the actors “Brad Norton” and “Edward Pitt”, which highlights the identity confusion of the characters.
Likewise, The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde, as originally conceived, was a mystery. You weren’t supposed to know Hyde was Jekyll all potioned up. Thanks to numerous film adaptations, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and the phrase being constantly (mis)used in popular culture, it’s not a mystery any more!
Instead, it’s Dramatic Irony.
✿ High Heel Face Turn
(a female take on Heel Face Turn)
Related to Beauty Equals Goodness and Double Standard – both henchmen and ugly, older Rosa Klebb type villainesses seem far less prone to being redeemed. Interestingly, the Beauty Equals Goodness aspect could be read as yet another way in which this trope might be considered sexist: Pretty women who are appealing to men are much more likely to be redeemed than less conventionally attractive women.
In the film version of Titanic, there was a scene with Leonardo DiCaprio telling Kate Winslet to get on the daybed in preparation for him sketching her nude portrait, saying “Get on the bed — errr, couch!” According to the director’s commentary, the original line had no reference to a bed, but DiCaprio’s nervous flubbing of the line seemed just too perfect to leave out.
The actor playing the drunken uncle in Its A Wonderful Life is accompanied by a loud crash on one of his exits; the noise was actually caused by a grip tripping over a prop table and scattering its contents, but the timing was so serendipitous that director Frank Capra decided to use the take anyway.
- The way I heard it was that they were GOING to re-take it, but the actor playing Uncle Billy shouted “I’m alright! I’m aallllll….right.” That saved the take, as it made it look like he’d just done an off-screen collision with a garbage can.
In Disney’s The Hunchback Of Notre Dame, Phoebus naming his horse Achilles was an ad-lib by Kevin Kline, first cropping up in his line “Achilles, heel!”
Speed Racer, probably. Honestly, who names their kid ‘Speed’?
Speed: What kind of a name is “Spritle”? That’s not even a word!Spritle: You think my name is bad? Your name is the rate of motion expressed via distance traveled per units of time!
- The kind of people who’re prophetic enough to know that their son will be the greatest racer ever. (And they themselves are named “Mom” and “Pops”, so…)
Pops: What do you guys have to complain about? My wife’s name is “Mom”. “MOM”! Do you have any idea how awkward that is? Do you have any idea how awkward that is during sex?
The IT Crowd gave us Peter Phile, who was unfortunate enough to be paged over an airport loudspeaker.
:DDD
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