*It Totally Is
Me: What was the Jack Nicholson movie where he plays the likable crazy guy?
Wife: All of them?
Me: The one where he was a writer.
Wife: The Shining?
Me: The romantic comedy one.
Wife: As Good As It Gets.
Me: Got it. Thank you.
Wife: Why did you need to know?
Me: I had this idea. Imagine if Jack Nicholson’s character in “As Good As It Gets” was a guy who wrote anime instead of novels.
Wife: I’m not sure where you’re going with this.
Me: You would have one of his fans asking “How do you write women so well?” And Jack would go “I think of a man, and I take away reason and accountability. And then I violate her with tentacles. Many, many tentacles.”
Wife: …
Me: Admit it. You could totally imagine Jack Nicholson saying that.
Wife: Yeah….I guess I can. So you know that your brain is a scary, scary place, right?*
October 8th, 2009 at 7:29 pm
I love jack….
one of my favourites
October 8th, 2009 at 7:35 pm
heeeeeere’s SKIPPY!!!!
October 8th, 2009 at 8:23 pm
This.
October 8th, 2009 at 8:25 pm
I hated that movie. Had to watch it in my Psych class. We missed A Beautiful Mind for it. Sad day
October 8th, 2009 at 10:28 pm
thats odd sequoia, same shit happened to me when i was in school….
October 8th, 2009 at 10:34 pm
You didn’t go to Marquette Senior High School in Michigan did you…?
October 8th, 2009 at 10:37 pm
nah, Wilson High School
its in New York, near niagara falls
October 8th, 2009 at 10:41 pm
haha, no, things are hard all over
October 8th, 2009 at 10:42 pm
Obviously neither of you are cool enough to be from Wisconsin.
October 8th, 2009 at 11:15 pm
How many times do we have to tell you? Wisconsin is *COLD* not *cool*..
October 9th, 2009 at 1:14 am
I SOOOOOO want to live in your world for just one day….but it seems I might be here already. The Speaker of the House took one look at the post and walked off with a, “Dear God! I thought I had the only one!”
WIN! XD
October 9th, 2009 at 2:33 am
lol..skippy, I heard jack’s voice saying that quote as I read it.. :)
October 9th, 2009 at 4:45 am
I already know what the wife’s going to say: “You guys are EVERYWHERE!”
All I ever saw in school was “Donald Duck in Mathematic Land.” And the old Bell Telephone science films. In the Washington DC area too.
October 9th, 2009 at 5:31 am
Our weather is just fine for 10 months out of the year thank you very much. But when July hits it reaches around 40 and our igloos melt and many of us are lost to polar bears.
October 9th, 2009 at 5:58 am
I saw that last year.
Did you get to sing the quadratic formula song?
October 9th, 2009 at 7:06 am
My family is from Wisconsin. I’m the first to not be born in the noble land. Instead, I live next to the second largest by volume, and largest by surface area, lake in the world.
Captcha: spartans CARNEGIE – The Spartans had a Carnegie library?
October 9th, 2009 at 7:07 am
I LOVE THAT!
October 9th, 2009 at 7:08 am
Try coming to the UP. That is cold. Wisconsin is nice and warm, with little snow.
October 9th, 2009 at 7:41 am
And you called your wife crazy?
October 9th, 2009 at 7:54 am
The UP? Isn’t that that balmy region in the south? I’m from Canada, dammit. The region I’m in is the mildest I’ve ever seen – the temperature only averages about 20 degrees F in January, though it can spike to -4 and we get a lot of blizzards. Other places I’ve lived in had such charming details as groceries brought by skiplane once a week, and one memorable Christmas when the oil tank for our large-scale industrial generator froze solid. (We wound up sleeping with the huskies for warmth. I am not making this up.)
I am a Canadian stereotype.
October 9th, 2009 at 8:02 am
Ah, one of the ones from the north? I respect your ability to live there. But not as much as if you were from Alaska.
October 9th, 2009 at 8:13 am
Tee hee, Random.. I, too, am a Canuck. But I’m not a REAL Canadian. My car doesn’t have a block heater, I see snow only a couple weeks a year unless I go up to the mountaains.. yes, it’s true, I’m near Vancouver.. Utopia! Mild weather (if you like rain) and still in Canada. :)
I survived 3.5 Edmonton winters. You can’t make me go back!!
October 9th, 2009 at 8:32 am
the weird parts is that she only called him crazy and not batshit crazy…..
skippy your my hero!!
October 9th, 2009 at 9:22 am
I regret to say that I have no pity for your wife. She married you, after all :D
October 9th, 2009 at 10:10 am
What, no Our friend the Atom or Johnny Tremain? I swear you Montgomery County mandated the watching of J.T. EVERY YEAR as a graduation requirement.
captcha: Adrien overran Somehow I’m picturing crossing a trench by stepping on a Poilu’s helmet
October 9th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
-4 wow is that all… Try sleeping in a truck in 6′ of snow and its -30 out. I had to do that my last deployment to afghan. Lucky for me this time around im in the south where its about 80 during the winter.
October 9th, 2009 at 2:09 pm
Bunch of yankees! None of ya’ll are cool enough to be from Texas! :P
October 9th, 2009 at 2:13 pm
Skippy, at first I only thought you were crazy. Now i know your crazy, and perhaps crazier then i first thought. Thats scary because I frist put you on the same mental status as Jack himself in the shining/as good as it gets. When the zombies come i want you on my side….
October 9th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
Who would want to be, or admit that they were from Texas? I’m just kidding. I’m not a yankee though.
100% irish born and raised.
Captcha: stewed 393.87: Damn thats some hot stew
October 9th, 2009 at 3:19 pm
I thought it was “Donald Duck in Math-Magic Land”. It seemed like a so much cooler title that way.
Regardless, that movie is the only thing I remember from 9th grade Geometry.
In fact, that movie is probably all I remember from 9th grade period.
October 9th, 2009 at 7:56 pm
I’ve lived in Texas almost my whole life. When my South Dakota relatives told me about block heaters, I was flabbergasted. And when I found out that lakes can freeze solid enough to DRIVE on, I almost flipped out. Wow.
Coldest I’ve ever seen it here (Dallas) was 0 in 1989. Miserable! The buildings aren’t designed for it, and pipes froze up right and left.
October 9th, 2009 at 9:25 pm
Texas is about the only part of the U.S. I would willingly live in. :)
October 10th, 2009 at 6:29 pm
I love how quickly half this discussion went to discussing living in cold temperatures from two random comments….
October 10th, 2009 at 7:05 pm
I’ve been to Texas, as much as they say everything is bigger there, it made me miss mountains. And it sucked. But then again, I hate the heat, because I’m a cold-blooded bastard.
October 10th, 2009 at 10:32 pm
Its the people more so than the environs.. and i would need AC. But frankly, I can’t see the U.S. letting me in long term anyway so it’s all moot ;)
Captcha : Jungles Export .. Uh, while I do live in a rain forest, I wouldn’t call it a jungle!
October 10th, 2009 at 10:33 pm
I’m a bad influence and excel as derailment. :)
October 11th, 2009 at 9:01 am
Derailment is the best way to win an argument. If one party uses logic to attempt to win, the best choice is to make up stuff until they are so confused that they forget the original argument and give up. When you cause their logic to fail, then their weapon of choice is broken.
October 11th, 2009 at 5:36 pm
I’m all for the cold. The second it gets above 50 degrees I get uncomfortable.
October 12th, 2009 at 4:44 am
Doh! I guess I had the mental block on Johnny Tramain since I saw it every year. Also saw the old Bell Lab film on weather every year, the 2 guys and the “magic” movie screen.
Math- MAGIC land! It’s been a few years. I saw it in geometry too, but my dumbass saw it in a higher grade.
Never did sing the quadratic forumla song. Now, if it had been on DC 101….
October 12th, 2009 at 4:55 am
Coming from Maryland, the northen most southern state, I thought that I’d seen some cold weather. HAH! A couple winters in the Rockies let me know that was a lie. Tuzla Bosnia could get a bit brisk too – I had a liter bottle of water freeze when I walked about a 1/4 mile in January ’98.
To experience Kuwait heat, get into your car in the summer after it’s been sitting in the 99 degree sun all day, windows up. Sit there and feel the moisture leach from your eyes. That’s Kuwait in August, in the shade. In Sept, it gets really humid, heh.
November 8th, 2009 at 11:03 am
I’m SAYIN! I’ll stay here with my frozen, dark, 70F days of winter. Of course, in summer the seatbelt clip becomes a branding iron…
November 8th, 2009 at 3:04 pm
Not to mention the door handle, owie
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