Posts by Russell Brown
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No-one's saying that *all* new, altered usage is "incorrect"; just some. When people say "should of", it's not an example of the vibrant evolution of the language; it's just a mistake.
And I just like "enormity". It has a flavour.
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I don't understand, on this one, what either of you are saying. (He says, taking care not to split the infinitive).
Bret and Jemaine of Flight of the Conchords both have unusual variant spellings of their Christian names, in that each appears to be missing a letter. If I ever interview them, this will be on the list of questions.
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It's "past tense", not "passed tense". :)
I was going to say that, but I knew you'd be along soon enough ;-)
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The writers are clearly delivering what they think the public will accept (ie rough as guts characters, on the wrong side of the law but still heart-of-gold) but maybe they should have set the show in the 80s or 70s. These days it's a lot grimmer than OT pretends to reveal.
Well of course. If it had real P-head characters it wouldn't be funny at all. Ditto if people spoke exactly how they spoke in real life. But it's not The Wire, it's comedy drama. The thing I enjoy about it is the way the writers and storyliners juggle the two elements.
The closest comparison is probably with Shameless (although I am given to understand OR was developed before its creators ever saw Shameless), which is a very fond view of life on a Mancunian housing estate, with vomiting, drug use, bad behaviour and affecting moments with sympathetic characters.
Last week's Madeleine Sami episode of OR wasn't exactly gritty realism, but it was bloody hysterical. And are you really saying that Cheryl West isn't an iconic character?
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By the way, slightly off topic but distantly related - I noticed that Flight of the Conchords fellows Brent and Jermaine are each lacking the letter "r" in their names.
Er, surely Bret is in fact missing one letter "t"?
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And one more MediaDefender update before I get back to work. The latest leaks include an MP3 and transcript of a phone conversation between MediaDefender staff and the New York Attorney General's office and a 14GB "Gnutella Tracking Database" grabbed from a MediaDefender server. The people responsible are claiming to have access to the company's "internals" and a promising further leaks.
Holy shit.
The AG conversation has MediaDefender discussing tracking child porn for the AG, so I really hope that part of the operation hasn't been derailed.
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Oh right. And one of the emails pots MediaDefender management encouraging staff to remove information about their MiVii "honeypot" site from the Wikipedia article about MediaDefender ...
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I aren't as skilled at this here interweb as some but would be interested to know what the origin was of of this entry at Wikipedia on the page about the vile Jack Abramoff
The scandal is known for being completely blown out of proportion by Democrats and the media for political purposes.
here's the page
I took it out using my awesome Wikiskills, but it's still there in the history. Couldn't see at a glance who'd added it, but it was obviously inappropriate.
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BTW, the guy with the HTML threaded version of the MediaDefender emails is back on a 15mbit connection in Norway. Endless fun.
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ok so what about Ask My Milfs and it's on C4, right?
So that's TV3's secret plan for Freeview ...
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