Posts by Danielle
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Judi Dench was the original West End Sally Bowles in Cabaret
<squeeeeak> Really?? Oh, I must do more research about the various stage versions. Issyvoo!
My love for that film is so immense. Baz Luhrmann, take some notes on 'divine decadence' in musical form from Mr Fosse, and get back to me.
(Oh, also, speaking of pop-cultural things that are hard to fathom: Bob Fosse was one of the backup dancers in the film version of Kiss Me Kate, wasn't he? In pastel tights?)
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They're getting very angry this election, and it's mostly making them funnier.
Agreed. I am very pro-Incredulously Angry Jon.
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I'm quite the opposite though I think the commentators are hilarious!
Lon and Norman really make that show, I agree. I've tried to watch other poker tournaments and they're just not the same. I think the key for me is that the WSOP is only tangentially about poker: it's really more about characters interacting with each other, telling their stories, being strategic, fighting, bonding... it's a dudely soap opera. Plus there's that 'oh my goodness how did he *know* that guy had a full house?' crazy reading skills stuff with people like Daniel Negreanu or Allen Cunningham.
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some element of physical movement requirement more than putting a small papery rectangle down on a table is required
Hey, there's a rule that you *do* have to stand up and pace around muttering after you go all in before the flop with your pair of kings and someone else has aces! It's quite strenuous really.
(Oh World Series of Poker on ESPN, how I love thee.)
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One woman had to ask her husband (first tipoff, ask her husband?)... the response was "We're voting for the ni*r"
My husband and I have been making 'can you believe this shit?' jokes about that one for a day or two. I can't work out whether it's more horrifying than funny, more funny than horrifying, or just generally too gobsmacking to be either. :)
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That's just mean.
I wasn't trying to be! I'm just pondering my uncanny ability to worry about something trivial for six straight years before it happens. I'm going to end up with an ulcer fairly soon, probably.
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He was a man who played by own rules. A maverick. A hero. And now he had less than two weeks to destroy his enemy and save the world. John McCain is... "Screwed." Only in theatres.
Heh. Didn't the guy who did all those voiceovers just die? How will they introduce his replacement? 'In a world without that guy who did the voiceovers... only one man could take his place...'
I'm stunned that Obama is ahead in the polls. I am trying not to become complacent. It could still all go horribly wrong! Wrong I say!
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I'm always amazed that there are any liberals still living in the USofA, I'd have fled screaming years ago.
But - to use the same point I used earlier, in a different direction - it's their home. (And a lot of it is fantastic.)
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Sigh. I just turned 34 and have started to panic about turning 40 already. It's going to be a long six years.
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You know, I forgot the maddest/most infuriating question of them all, which was consistent, happened dozens of times with people from all walks of life, and was in reaction to news that we were moving back to New Zealand:
<honest befuddlement shading into vague resentment> 'Why are you doing that?'
It was as if I'd never existed until I entered the US, and leaving it meant that I would cease to exist again. I was heading off to the Inferior, non-USA Area of the Globe.
(Ironically, the most understanding person about this issue was my cousin Wendy, who has never left Simmesport, Louisiana, pop. 3000. 'That's your home, right?' she said. Yes. Right.)