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Ok, it's a new year and since I'm finally back at work today, the quizzes are back; but like I promised they're going to be a bit different. I still haven't figured out exactly how, but I'm just gonna say that they might change in format from day to day. Who knows. For the time being I'm gonna just do less quotes from each movie, so you'll have less to go by. But I'm going to try to make the quotes maybe a little more obvious so you won't need as many. Anyway, here's today's first clip:

clue #1

Update - No guesses yet so here's the next clip:

clue #2

Update #2 - Nobody's got it yet, but there's been a couple guesses. Here's the next clip:

clue #3

Update #3 - No more guesses so here's the next clip:

clue #4

Update #4 - Ok, this is the last clip I've got for this one. After this I'm gonna have to start telling you who's in the movie, but you really should be able to figure out who the biggest star in the movie is from these clips I've provided:

clue #5

Man, trying to re-adjust to going back to work after being off for almost two weeks sucked yesterday. I was sleepy as hell all day. Because of that, I wasn't awake too late last night, and so this entry is real short. I did make time to do a quiz though:

clue #1

Update - Dave got it today so here's the rest of the clips:

clue #2, clue #3, clue #4

Yesterday Koga called me a slacker, and you know what? He's right. I'm slowly re-adjusting to working and blogging and doing the quizzes again, so bear with me if my entries are rather lackluster. Here's your damn quiz!:

clue #1

Update - No guesses yet. Maybe everyone's upset over the USC game last night or something. Anyway, here's the next clip:

clue #2

Update #2 - Still no guesses, and I figure it's cause nobody's playing cause this one's pretty easy. Here's another clip:

clue #3

Update #3 - Lambro won, although, come on Here's the last clip:

clue #4

Yesterday was a long-ass day. On the project I'm working on, which I just got basically as I was leaving Tuesday, I was told I had till this coming Tuesday to get it finished; but then around lunch today they changed their mind and decided they wanted it gone on Monday. Always nice when you've got a rush project for them to take a day away from you at the last minute. So I was at work till 11 or so last night. Yee haw. Nevertheless, I still found time for a quiz, so here you go:

clue #1

Update - Lambro's on a roll, the answer's in the comments and here's the rest of the clips:

clue #2, clue #3, clue #4, clue #5, clue #6

I haven't written about the Lakers in a while, but this weekend saw the kind of performances that really deserve a little mention here. Kobe Bryant returned to the Lakers on Friday after serving a 2-game suspension for what the NBA deeemed was a cheap shot forearm on Mike Miller of the Memphis Grizzlies a week or two ago (even as biased as I am, having seen the clip, I thought it was probably the right call by the league). At that point the Lakers were in the middle of a 5-game losing streak after putting together a fairly decent start to the month of December, and were a game under .500 for the season. But Kobe came back to the team, and he came back with a vengeance. He scored 48 points on Friday night as the Lakers routed the Philadelphia 76ers; and then just to prove that it wasn't a fluke (or that he wasn't tired possibly) he came back the next night and scored 50 on cross-town rivals, the Clippers, pulling the Lakers back from a 13 point 3rd quarter defecit, and making the game's winning basket.

What was really impressive was that in both games there were stretches for Kobe that spanned the end of the third periods and then into the fourth periods where Kobe was just literally on fire. On Friday night, in his last five minutes or so he scored 21 points, and then on Saturday night in about a seven or eight minute stretch he scored 22 points. Also in both games he made seven 3-point attempts, which is very impressive (he went 14-22 in the two games, for a ridiculously good 64% from beyond the arc). These two performances come just about two or three weeks after Kobe set the league-high mark in the NBA for the year, scoring 62 points against the Dallas Mavericks, even though he only played in three quarters in that game (to put that in perspective, the most Michael Jordan ever scored in any game in his career was 69 points, and he needed overtime to do that).

The Lakers aren't going to win a title this year (unless they pull off some miraculous trades in the next month), and it is extremely doubtful Kobe would have a realistic shot at the MVP without the Lakers finishing in the top 2-3 records in the NBA, but Kobe has really put on some pretty impressive displays of basketball this season. He's a truly amazing player to watch play the game Enough basketball though, here's the first quiz of the week:

clue #1

Update - Sorry, I got pretty busy here at work and couldn't give a second clip for a while, but better late than never I guess, here you go:

clue #2

Update #2 - No guesses yet so here's another clip:

clue #3

Update #3 - No guesses, huh? Wimps.

clue #4

Update #4 - Cookie and John got it today, so here's the rest of the clips:

clue #5, clue #6

I'm gonna skip the quiz today in favor of a different type of movie-themed question. This comes from a combination of looking at that damn Jeopardy scene from White Men Can't Jump the other day and a picture that Steven sent around of Mola Ram from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, in case you're wondering where this weird question came from; but if you could pick three movie villains to be contestants on the TV show Jeopardy, who would you pick and why? My pick for most terrible Jeopardy contestants would be Michael Myers, Jason Voorhees and Jaws (either the shark or the Bond villain). It would just be a half hour Alex Trebeck monologue in which you'd get sick of hearing "I'm sorry, the answer is..." Saruman, Darth Vader and Pinhead might be a funny one just for the low-pitched, all-important sounding voices of each contestant. Anyone got any good villainous trios to put forth?

I just wanted to point out to anyone who cares that tonight is the first episode of the fifth (and probably final) season of "The Shield". I have to say that I'm a guy who doesn't watch many TV shows, but "The Shield" is the best show I've ever seen, and so I am really looking forward to seeing what they're going to do this season. I've only ever watched the show in big blocks on DVD though, so watching it one episode a week will be an interesting experience for me. Or maybe it won't be. Who knows.

Also of note, last night the Lakers beat the Indiana Pacers and extended their winning streak to three games, after losing the previous five. Last night's game was historic though because Kobe Bryant became the first player since Wilt Chamberlain in 1964 to score 45 or more points in 4 consecutive games. While Kobe has almost no chance of breaking any of Wilt's old scoring records (I think Wilt scored 50 or more in over 10 games in a row at one or more points, and I know he averaged over 50 points a game for an entire season), the fact that Kobe did something scoring-related that Michael Jordan never did is very impressive. Naturally I'd still rather have Jordan when he was Kobe's age on the Lakers now, but Kobe is clearly the best player in the NBA right now. I found it interesting that Kobe has more games in which he's scored 40 or more points for his career than Shaq has, even though Shaq's had a much longer career. Anyway, most important, the Lakers got the win last night, and hopefully that's the streak that will continue.

That was fun yesterday, the question instead of the quiz. But I'm uninspired and not too terribly bright so I'm back to the old standby today - another damn quiz:

clue #1

Update - No one's got this one yet so here's another clip:

clue #2

Update #2 - Lambro thought he got it, but boy was he wrong! Man, how embarrassing is that? What a maroon. Anyway, here's the next clip:

clue #3

Update #3 - Steven guessed the answer from two days ago, but the answer from today is still out there, so guess while you can! Here's another clip:

clue #4

Update #4 - J-Krue returned to form and won today for the first time since last year. Coincidentally this was the first quiz he participated in since last year. Go figure Anyway, here's the rest of the clips:

clue #5, clue #6

I'm not doing a quiz today because I've got something I want to discuss instead. I know this is a really long entry, and for that I'm sorry, but I had a lot to put out there, and I'd really appreciate it if people read this and gave some feedback, good or bad, so bear with me.

I realized something the other night, and I had a sort-of revelation: my blog has really become a message board that is masquerading as a blog. I tend to do my quizzes almost every day, and while that started out as kinda fun in its own right, I think that for me and probably for most people who participate in them, it's definitely a little played out. However, I still find a fair amount of enjoyment in doing them simply because of the great conversations that go on in the comments sections, even if the comments and conversations have nothing to do with the quiz or whatever my blog entry was. I feel like most of the people who come here are some of the funniest, most creative and most intelligent people I've ever met, and as a result we have some really fun and funny conversations online, and not just here on my blog, but also on John's blog, of course, and in email conversations. The great thing about these conversations is that they're started by all different people, and that we're always having new topics of conversation arise. This to me is a message board and not a blog, and so I am proposing a change of venue and/or format.

I've been a frequenter of a couple message boards over the years, and think that if we were all to start a message board where we could all go to have our daily online conversations and communications and humor, it would be better in a number of ways. For one thing, I almost feel silly that at least on my blog many of these great conversations that ensue in the comments have to begin usually with some lame post of mine which really has nothing to do with what the comments are about. Clearly everyone has funny and intelligent stuff to say, and don't need me to make an entry about how tired I am (or whatever) to prompt this, but it's just the nature of what we have now, in that because we don't have a website to go to for having funny online conversations that you guys just come here or go to John's blog to do it; and that we all only post something as a reply to whatever the most recent entry happens to be. So I figure, that's silly, let's just get a message board up where anyone can start a topic of conversation properly and anyone can respond to that topic. It'll help keep the different threads of conversation more organized and coherent, so you don't have someone continuing a conversation from yesterday's comments in today's comment section or anything like that, and you won't have to worry that if someone makes a comment to a topic that was started two days ago, that the newest addition to the thread will go unnoticed since it's further down the page.

Imagine a website where if you find something funny online, you just start a new topic, and then everyone can post their responses after that. Like, for instance, if you are finding a bunch of YTMND's and want to start a topic about that, you post your favorites, and other people can respond with the good ones they've found, etc... Also, on a message board we could set it up so that it would be easy to post pictures with your responses and stuff like that, since I think funny pictures add so much to these kinds of conversations.

I'm really looking for feedback on this, because this is not something that I want to do as "my" message board, this is something I want to do as our message board. I'll do the work of setting it up and administering it if there's technical issues with it or if some problem arises (I may enlist Riggs's help ), but I really envision something where everyone is an equal contributor and participant. I propose that we come up with a name for a website, pick a domain name and set something up. I would try to make this website as simple and straightforward as possible, and save any "bells & whistles" for later on if people like the site and request that kind of stuff. Anyway, I would love to hear what people have to say about this, and I would love to hear some website name suggestions if you guys think it's a good idea. John posted about this over on his blog too, so feel free to comment in either place, but hopefully in the future we'll all be able to just go to one website and keep our conversations going there. What do you think?

Man, today is one of those days I don't have anything to say. I've had a really fun week here on my blog though, you guys have provided me with a lot of entertainment with the funny-ass conversations that have taken place in the comments. I tried to come up with another good movie question like that movie villain jeopardy one instead of a quiz, but the best I could come up with was either something like if you could replace the characters on "Three's Company" with any movie characters, who would you choose, but I don't know if that's any good, so I just did a quiz anyway:

clue #1

Update - I've been pretty busy at work and haven't been able to give a new clip, but better late than never I guess:

clue #2

Update #2 - You guys are probably scared to guess cause it's Friday the 13th, but come on, you guys gotta stop being such a bunch of wimps. It's time to get over this fear of Friday the 13th. Veture a guess already! Here's another clip:

clue #3

Update #3 - If you guys are stumped by this, you should be embarrassed. This clip should clear it up a bit:

clue #4

Update #4 - Dave finally got it, so here's the rest of the clips, and both of these are absolute classics:

clue #5, clue #6

I went to bed damn early last night at about 10:30 or so (which is damn early for me on a Friday night), so as a result I'm up damn early today. Anyway, to pass the time I began surfing the web and noticed that Nine Inch Nails just added a show in Vegas on April Fool's Day. Naturally I got all excited about seeing them for the 4th time in a year, and will almost surely be picking up tickets for that when they go on sale. However, it is on a Saturday (which is good), but staying in Vegas for the night would be super expensive (which is bad). So I was thinking I might just drive out and back, a la what Riggs and I did for the Oakland show in November, but then I had an idea: why not stay in the Bun Boy Motel in Baker on the way home! I mean, not only is it right next to the superbly mediocre Bun Boy restaurant, but it's right next to the World's Tallest Thermometer! It's always been a dream of mine to sleep in the shadow of that damn thermometer, and I think that now I may have my chance. But here's the problem, there's a good chance the place is a fleabag worse than the room that cost $20 a night that I stayed at in Gallup, New Mexico (I actually moved the bureau in front of the door when I went to sleep there because I was so worried I'd get robbed ). So that's why I'm posting this here, I wanna know if anyone's ever stayed at the Bun Boy Motel, and if so is it ok? Will I need to delouse after staying there? Will I love waking up to Bun Boy burgers? Help me out people, certainly someone else has at one point shared the dream of sleeping near a huge thermometer and a mediocre burger joint on the side of the highway. Help me make my dream a reality by quelling my fears about the Bun Boy Motel!

It was a weird weekend for me. I actually watched all the football games that were on and I got to bed really early on both Friday and Saturday nights. I can't remember the last time either of those things happened I've found that football is the perfect sport to watch using a DVR, because it only takes me about 35-45 minutes to watch an entire game. It helps that I don't care too much about it. I just fast forward through all the commercials & halftime(naturally), and also all the kickoffs, punts, extra points, field goals, and through all the time in between snaps. Basketball is a lot harder to use a DVR to effectively zip through a game, because there's a lot less downtime, so the only thing to really skip is free throws and commercials. But in football, the clock is running in between plays, so I've realized there's very little actual game time. Anyway, I'm rambling. Here's today's quiz:

clue #1

Update - No real guesses yet, so here's another clip:

clue #2

Update #2 - J-Krue got it so here's the rest of the clips:

clue #3, clue #4, clue #5, clue #6, clue #7

Ok, I've got a couple things to cover in this entry. First off, for the first time since the Lakers traded Shaquille O'Neal away to the Miami Heat, the Lakers beat Miami, and it was fucking awesome. Shaq finally stopped acting like a baby for a second and said hello to Kobe this time, but his mature act didn't last long. Maybe it was because the crowd was booing him relentlessly the whole game or it was because he just got dunked on by the Lakers fresh out of high school, 18 year old rookie Andrew Bynum; but Shaq got all pissy and decided to cheap shot Bynum for making him look bad on national TV. Anyway, here's a great clip of Bynum dunking on Shaq and then Shaq's resulting cheap shot elbow at the kid: clip Anyway, the Lakers were in control the whole game, going up by as many as 19 at one point. The Heat got back into it in the second half (actually after Shaq had to go to the bench with foul trouble was when they made their push), but then Kobe took over in the 4th quarter and the Lakers never gave up the lead. I can't tell you how satisfying for the Lakers to finally beat Shaq and to see that stupid look on his face when the Heat lost

Enough about that, I wanted to talk about the message board thing. I guess we've had all the submissions for domain names that we're going to get, and unfortunately there didn't seem to be (from the comments anyway) a clear winner. So I figured I'd repost them all and see if we can't at least narrow it down a bit, so here's the list again:

replytothis.com
postthis.com
openallnight.com
replyall.com
veryundude.com
kneejerk.com
Tietheroomtogether.com

Preferrednomenclature.net

Eyeofthetiger.com

Brojak.com

PopQC.com

Yourejealous.com

whoneedsice.com

dontwastemymotherfuckingtime.org

flaggingconversations.net

If I missed any, or if you have another one you want to add, go for it, otherwise I'd really like to see if there's a couple that are the clear favorites. Anyway, instead of a quiz today, we've got this to figure out, so go to it. I'll post my own favorites after a couple other people have weighed in with their choices because I don't want to bias it.

Late last week I went with Jen and Dolly to see Hostel and I wanted to let everyone know I now have an early candidate for "Worst Movie of the Year". Hostel alternated between being laughably bad, pointlessly and gratuitiously disgusting, and irritating. If I were to tell you the "premise" you'd think I was making it up to be funny. It is one of the most juvenile movies I think I've ever seen, with one of the following in almost every scene: naked women, torture and mutilation, drug use. I kept thinking to myself "is this movie supposed to be enjoyable to anyone who is not a 13 year old boy?" Then that got me to thinking about something I could throw out there here on my blog: if you were to compile a list of the ultimate movies that are aimed at pre-teen (or young teen), angsty males, what movies would you put on that list and why?

Ok, all that aside, it looks like judging from the comments that there are two clear favorites for the name of the message board thingie. So I would like everyone to pick one of the two domain names and post the answer in the comments or email it to me or whatever you want to do, and I'll tally up the results and hopefully we'll have a winner. The two domain names to choose from are:

WhoNeedsIce.com
YoureJealous.com

Let's not let this election be soured by low voter turnout

The people have spoken. Long live the power of democracy. Who needs ice? The question was put to y'all (a little tip of the hat there to Lady K), and the winner by a slim margin for the name of the new message board will be WhoNeedsIce.com. It's Friday and I'm damn tired and am heading to bed, but I will try to get off my lazy ass and work to get the board up and running quick so we can all give it a test drive. In the meantime, here's the new website's unofficial mascot to entertain you:

I gotta thank Riggs for expediting this the way he did. When I got home from work last night there was an email from him that he'd already registered and set up whoneedsice.com on his hosting box, which was really really cool of him. Today I got up and logged in and set up the message board, and it appears to be working correctly so I'm going to offically say that it looks like it's ready for use. You can go there and post as a guest, but it would be preferable if everyone just quickly registered, that way you can have the same username every time you visit, and it will record how many posts you've made, you'll be able to have an image as an avatar and you'll be able to have a signature if you want one. Once you register, up at the top of the page you'll see a link to your Profile, and from there you can set things like your location, your avatar, your signature, etc. On the board I have posted just a welcome post, and you can respond to it if you want, or even better, go ahead and start a new topic if there's something you want to talk about. This board is for whatever you want, so you can post anything: movie reviews, general gripes, funny thoughts, whatever. I'm going to admin the board, so if you have any problemss, suggestions or complaints, either post them in a new topic (which might be a good idea anyway) or just email me with them or leave me a comment here or smoke signals or whatever you can. Well, I guess now I'll just sit back and keep my fingers crossed that this fares better than other like-minded projects have in the past. I hope you guys use it and enjoy it cause it should be a lot of fun

Sunday night Kobe Bryant did something that has only been surpassed once in the history of the NBA when he scored 81 points and brought the Lakers back from an 18 point defecit with 55 second half points to beat Toronto by 18. While the Laker win is the most important thing to have happened in the game, the scoring output by Kobe is really remarkable. To put it in perspective, the only time any player ever scored more in an NBA game was when Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points back in March of 1962. Even the great Wilt himself only passed the 80 point mark that one time, which considering he averaged 50 points a game for an entire season shows how impressive it was that Kobe was able to do it. Michael Jordan, who has been by far the greatest scorer of the modern era, never even scored 70 points in a game; and when he got his career high of 69, he needed overtime to do it. It should also be pointed out that Kobe has recently been on a scoring tear, and as such other teams have been gearing their defenses to stop him, so it makes it that much more amazing that he was able to score as many points as he did.

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By the way, now that WhoNeedsIce.com is open, I've moved my daily movie quote quizzes over there, so go there from now on if you want to participate in them

As you can see, my blogging has definitely slowed way down. That's fine though, I've been having a blast over at WhoNeedsIce.com and with that site just don't have much to blog about these days. WhoNeedsIce.com has been up for a week, and I'm really happy with how it's going over there. It seems like everyone's registered and are making posts and having some great humorous conversations. It's a great place for everyone to go to, and everyone jumping right in like that has made it so much fun. This last week at work wasn't so much fun as I had a bunch of projects come due and another one that's just a major pain in the ass that's due very shortly, so I pulled some long hours this week. But it's the weekend now and I'm gonna enjoy it. I'm going to the movies with some friends tonight and then I'm probably gonna hang out with Dave and Jen tomorrow, so it should be a nice relaxing weekend