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2013-02-05

Double Your Words, Almost

The FX channel schedule displays a movie about reincarnation on my iPad. In the pop-up window for the movie description they put these words:

   Down to Earth
   Thursday February 7, 2013
   After dying before his time, an aspiring
   comic gets a second shot at life...by being
   reincarnated as a wealthy but un-likeable
   businessman. After dying before his time,
   an aspiring comic gets a second shot at
   life...by being reincarnated as a wealthy

Did I see that right? I took a screen shot save just to be sure. After aLL it is 6:25 AM and I am operating on only a few hours sleep.

I found that veRy hilarious. I had to read it carefuLLy three times, not just twice. After the first pass through I asked myself A) I had already seen this movie, right? AND B) Did they reaLLy repeat the same sentence twice?!?!? ... Yes, they did repeat it, but then I noticed they had fiLLed the tiny pop-up box and truncated the last few words. Of course then I had to check it again to be sure it was eXactly same words and same order, yes, same and same, just incomplete. Then there was the whole process of copying it and formatting it into Blogger, so the amount of laughter got stretched out over a long complicated time frame, so it had a feeling of constrained diluted laughter, no, not laughter, there was no boiling, just hilarity, evaporation. Yes, that's it, comedic evaporation.

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Bigfoot

Bigfoot in South Dakota? How come I have NEVER heard of this before ... what a load of crap! Animal Planet channel is getting stupidly desperate for programming material. There are enough people with rifles that somebody could have & would have shot one by now. I think I wiLL start looking for Medium Foot.

Then I thought about the massive number of animals that have become eXtinct through the actions of humans.

Message from my aunt in South Dakota: Big Foote was Indian Chief, My address road named after him, killed at Wounded Knee.

Message to my Aunt: I had remembered your road name & the sign's wrong speLLing at the Interstate 90 exit, but there are people chasing a Bigfoot creature in South Dakota and elsewhere of course. I have seen some of the humans from the teleBision shows "Moonshiners" and "Duck Dynasty", and they could veRy easiLLy seem Bigfoot-ish from a distance, and that distance would not have to be that great.

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I am watching someone walk towards the entrance of the cardiologist office but then had to pause to finish their cigarette.

Then she threw the remains on the ground, nasty.

6 comments:

  1. After dying before his time, an aspiring Big Foot gets a second shot at life...by being reincarnated as a wealthy but un-likeable Wildlife executive on the Animal Planet channel but all does not go well.

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    1. Dearest Rob: hahahahahahahaha (catch breath) hahahahahahahahaha - veRy good!

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  2. Gah, I despise it when I read the same sentence twice. Gah, I despise it when I read the same sentence twice.

    ;) ;)

    Have they never heard of an editor?

    best,
    MOV

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    1. MOV: I am pretty sure they did it on purpose. I am pretty ....

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  3. Badger: Sorry for the apparent absence. I am in the middle of eXciting (for the geek side of me) research into math problems. It was one project concerning the latest large prime number and then writing a blog post about it, but then I discovered a different math problem involving stacks of cannonballs with square roots. So I am actually writing two blog posts at the same time. I hope you are getting better, and I wish you could have had better weather for your trip to DC and IN. We are doing fairly good but we have been eXtra busy taking care of a few health issues for certain others plural but not me, I have just been the long distance chauffer for others. Cooper is doing pretty weLL and I have a huge number of recent orchid blooms but for some reason, maybe less light, they aren't lasting as long as normal. It appears I have a Thai Basil plant that started growing from a branch I received at a pho restaurant. I promise to get a blog post published soon! Hope Cate is doing weLL, give the cats a hug for me!

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