Friday, July 01, 2005

Colonel Sanders... before he went tits up

Baby G and I had a discussion last night about the word "fortnightly". She didn't believe it was a word, and of course I had to launch into the famous Pentavirate speech from So I Married An Axe Murderer because I am a big nerd. For everyone's enjoyment, I've taken the liberty to recreate it below. A fortnight is 14 days, so apparently Stuart Mackenzie gets a chicken jones every couple weeks, thus "fortnightly." Now if only we could determine the grammatical status of the word "shatty" I'd be doing fine.

Stuart Mackenzie: Well it's a well-known fact, Sonny Jim, that there's a secret society of the five wealthiest people in the world known as the Pentavirate... who run everything in the world including the newspapers and who meet trianually at a secret country mansion in Colorado known as The Meadows. Tony Giardino: So who's in this Pentavirate? Stuart Mackenzie: The queen, the Vatican, the Gettys, the Rothschilds, and Colonel Sanders before he went tits up. I hate the Colonel with his wee beady eyes and that smug look on his face, "ooh you're gonna buy my chicken, ohhhhhh." Charlie Mackenzie: Dad, how can you hate the Colonel? Stuart Mackenzie: Because he puts an addictive chemical in his chicken that makes you crave it fortnightly, smartarse! Charlie Mackenzie: Interesting... Cuckoo!
S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y night!

In other news:
Happy Birthday to my wacky sibling, Prophet. I didn't hear a peep from him on my birthday, but I'm not bitter. In fact, I'm publicly wishing him well on his special day. Now if only he'd get a haircut... Oh, and we went to see Batman Begins last night. Frickin' fabulous! If you're like me and you waited to see it, wait no more. I think I'm going to go see it again. Perhaps Baby G could come out of hiatus and write a review? Please, Baby Guanaco? Please? Oh, and one more thing, yours truly received a 3% annual raise today! [Insert crazy-era Daffy Duck woo-hoo dance here.]

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I *heart* about fifty things in that post. And here they are:
1)So I Married an Axe Murderer..I'm going to watch it tonight!
2)Batman Begins...wonderful but that Scarecrow guy freaked me out!
3)You
4)Baby G
5)Daffy Duck
6)Rants about Colonel Sanders and his evilness
7)Harriet, Har-ri-et, hard hearted harbinger of haggis
8-50)Everything else!
How dare Prophet not acknowledge your birthday!! What kind of bro is he? I hope he eats a bad slushie in that it doesn't taste very good. Huzzah!

~The Booklahver

tiny robot said...

Yep, Scarecrow---quite freakish. Although, the hallucination he had about Batman---even freakier. That whole melting bat-face thing was uber-creepy to the nth degree. Wow!

On a different note: that Christian Bale melts my buttah. Hawd. Real hawd. Yeah.

Anonymous said...

How's Devil in the White City going? I read the review today and I'm very interested in it. Congrats to you, Tiny Robot, for braving serial killer lore. I applaud you. *clap clap clap*

~The Booklahver

tiny robot said...

The book is going quite well---i read 1/2 of it yesterday. The architect part is quite interesting; for the 1890s, they had lots of innovation and huge ambitions.

The serial killer part is EXTRA creepy---i don't want to read it but i can't stop myself!

Overall, the book is pretty well written. It could be a bit more clear in parts (the author relies heavily on the reader's knowledge of historical events, some obvious, some not so obvious...) Definately a good summer read.

Speaking of summer reads...HP6 comes out next week! Eeep!