Oops, one more thing, noisyass annoying people next to me notwithstanding; there is absolutely NO damn Mexican food in Wales! And in most of the U.K., for that matter! So even though Taco Bell is a sad excuse for "Mexican" food, I gotta tellya, when a group of us American and Canadian gals saw the Taco Bell in Piccadilly Circus (alas, no longer there, at least when I visited last in '96), there was a tremendous amount of heartfelt shrieking shortly followed by sprinting in its direction.

Not surprisingly, London Taco Bell food was different than that in the U.S. (I remember the taco chips were *way* more heavily salted), but this did serve to make our British friends curious as to what all the screaming was about, so a few weeks later back at our dorm, we'd gotten our parents to send us tortillas, seasoning, refried beans, etc. and we served as good of a Mexican feast as you'd expect from a buncha gringas from New Hampshire, Colorado and Cali. (For the record, our Brit pals absolutely adored every last bite of it, utterly unlike the peanut-butter-and-jam sammiches they flinchingly ate in my honor at my bday party; I still recall with great amusement the expressions of shock and horror every last one of them had when beholding the jar of Goober Grape I'd had Brian send to me.) And *these* are the folks who eat prawn-flavoured EVERYTHING?!!

In retrospect, though, I don't know why we didn't serve any menudo at said feast, apart from the fact that none of us flat-vowelers liked it; after all, I *was* one of the few who willingly ate haggis on Burns Night, so fair woulda been fair...

Figures. The annoying people are gone, but my computer time is up, too. Basta!

Edited by author 01-25-2004 06:11 PM
I did see the Save Disney and did think of TheArtSlave :) Burbank is beeyoutiful, should you care to relocate (again).

LJMama - I watch Spanish videos and soap operas. I have no grasp of what's going on, but the people are so PRETTY! And angry. I also have this addiction to a Korean soap opera about four girlfriends and I think a rock star or something that one wants to date? Any chance to watch foreign TV, I watch. I saw a "game show" that I think was Japanese that was a mix of science and drawing skills that would be a huge hit here in the US. But no. We get My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiance. Like thin people can't be obnoxious?! Hmpf.

Edited by author 01-25-2004 11:42 PM
Ok, ok... lesseeee

"Not surprisingly, London Taco Bell food was different than that in the U.S."

"And *these* are the folks who eat prawn-flavoured EVERYTHING?!! "

the reply is:
http://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=05262003

all of you should read achewood, too.

"until I broke a tooth on one (dang, when they say they're 'chewy granola,' they're not kidding!). I pretty much just do anything I can microwave, which means stuff like Lean Cuisine etc., or sandwiches. I only have steak once in a blue moon, but I love it when I do, since I know I have those canine teeth for a *reason.*"

The reply is lenghty...:


""Oh? What? Me? No, Dmitriy, I'm not one of those. Homo sapiens is an omnivore. Our teeth are
not those of vegetarians. The enamel isn't thick enough. That's sort of a political movement, the
vegans. Some of them won't even wear leather shoes because leather's an animal product." Killgore
ate half a meatball to show what he thought of that. "I even like hunting."
"Oh? Where does one do that here?"
"Not on the Project grounds. We have rules about that, but in due course I'll be able to hunt deer,
elk, buffalo, birds, everything I want," Killgore said, looking out the huge windows.
"Buffalo? I thought they were extinct," Popov said, remembering something he'd heard or read
long before.
"Not really. They came close a hundred years ago, but enough survived to thrive at Yellowstone
National Park and in private collections. Some people even breed them with domestic cattle, and
the meat's pretty good. It's cal led beefalo. You can buy it in some stores around here."
"A buffalo can breed with a cow?" Popov asked.
"Sure. The animals are very close, genetically speaking, and cross-breeding is actually pretty
easy. The hard part," Killgore explained with a grin, "is that a domestic bull is intimidated by a
bison cow, and has trouble performing his duty, as it were. They fix that by raising them together
from infancy, so the bull is used to them by the time he's big enough to do the deed.""

From Rainbow Six, by Tom Clancy.

I don't like mana. all their music sounds alike to me. so i don't think i have watched that video. most of the TV we get is amerikan, but we also get Korean soap operas, who at least my aunts like.

LJ mamaceta (variation of mamacita one read in a chat room.. still makes me laugh) de donde viene tánto español, señorita? nos oculta un oscuro pasado?

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Hey, just a quick observation on Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow: The producer is not the dreaded Dino De Laurentiis, but two other De Laurentiises (De Laurentiii?) by the names of Aurelio and Raffaella. Unfortunately it looks like they might all be related, so it might still be bad. Here's hoping that the rest of the family has a different take on filmmaking. Oh man, what a pun! Heh! That was unintentional though, I swear.

Hey, looka me! I'm posting and nobody can read it! The site's down, and none of you bookmarked the comments page like I do!

Looka me! I'm running around naked singing the Speed Racer theme song, and you can't tell! It's only me here!

Here he comes, here comes Speed Racer, he's a demon on wheels! VROOM!

Know what? All of you have bad breath and oozing genital warts! Hey, if I'm not right about that, speak right up!
What's that? The sound of no one speaking up, is it? So, like, how do y'all deal with your oozing? Buy Depends in bulk and mumble to the cashier, "They're for my granny"?
How very, very sad for you. You and your genitals.

He's a demon and he's gonna be chasin' after someone! OH NO, SPEED! Look out! SCREECH CRASH POW!

Guess what! Now I'm making fun of your children! If you don't have kids, I'm making fun of your eggs or sperm. YOUR GENETIC MATERIAL IS INFERIOR TO MINE! You will surely give birth to inhuman monstrosities, like the next Michael Jackson or Ann Coulter. Argue away if I'm not totally hitting homeruns on these observations.
Hmm, what's that? The meek silence of the shamed? How sad for your DNA. Your DNA, and your freakishly malformed offspring.

I now am making fun of your mothers. Your moms so dumb, in school she copied off of Dubya's tests! Am I wrong? Speak up, can't hear you! How sad for your stupid mom. Who is also most certainly grotesquely obese. Like a manatee in a muu-muu.

Go, Splut Racer, GOOOO!

Of course, you can deny all of my claims, which I must say are quite fair and balanced. You can deny them right up until next year, or when my site comes back online, whichever comes first.

Oops! You're reading this, so guess which came first! I WIN!!!!!!!!!

Okay gang. NOW!!

***WEDGIIIIEEEE*****!!!!!

Well, YOU guys wedgie him. He IS naked, after all...
oh don't ask me HOW, just do it!...

happy belated birthday to Mimi :)

and the horse link was funny. how I have the tune stuck in my head.

Bill,

I had a dream about your cats.

They were naked.

You are entirely correct about how much control customer service people have, and that it's better to be nice to them. I work customer service for a bank now (taking calls 8 hours a day, every day). If people are nice I will go out of my way to help them, even bend the rules a bit.

If people call and start out by being hostile and yelling at me, I'll dig in my heels. I'll help them if I have to, but only the minimum amount required.

Bill - my children are the spawn of Satan - how did you know? oh no wait, we just haven't had any school for the past week because of all this snow and ice and if i have to play candyland or sorry once more i'm gonna implode!! (she says as the snow continues to fall and the small child comes tentatively over to her with ... GO FISH CARDS!!!) I don't know about fishing but I might drown myself in the tub if this weather keeps up.

it is insanity to live in a land where frozen water falls from the sky!!! i wish i were a cat wherein my only duties would be to eat, sleep and demand attention from my human servants.

well, Splut, just wait until I make my own website where I post pictures of you doing unspeakable things with obese, muu-muu wearing MONKEYS! Ha, take that! and I won't tell you where it is, but I'll tell everyone else and we'll all laugh! HAHAhahhahahahhahahahhaha!

Damn enter key! Damn library kompyuter! Damn me!

Billy boy, now when I go home and finally set up the new vcr/dvd player, I'll have to watch Monster A Go Go. Thank you. "There was no monster..."

Zef dahlink, the only thing worse than my inability to translate Spanish well or quickly is the stuff Altavista gives me via babelfish. The latest:

"from where comes tánto Spanish, young lady? it hides dark a last one to us?"

LOL, well alrighty then! :::Slaps self::: Uhm, I don't dig on Mana a whole lot either, although not long ago I saw an oooold video of theirs (circa 1990) and I was all, wow, that's when their singer used to bathe regularly!

M3, you can't tell me that watching novelas *hasn't* helped your bilingualism to some extent. Hell, some of the ones on Telemundo are subtitled in English! (Though I always feel like that's *cheating,* somehow, at least at this point I can definitely tell when the subtitles aren't accurate.)

Dang, I don't get any Japanese or Korean soap operas...maybe I will if I ever have cable again, though in truth I'm now just waaaay happy at getting Mas Musica TeVe, which is about as close as I'll get to having MTV Latino again. My main rule for videos? If it's a bunch of guys in cowboy hats and matching suits, chances are I won't like the music. A good rule for life, actually; when you see a group of guys in cowboy hats all dressed alike, change the channel or better yet, run away quickly.

"If it's a bunch of guys in cowboy hats and matching suits, chances are I won't like the music. A good rule for life, actually; when you see a group of guys in cowboy hats all dressed alike, change the channel or better yet, run away quickly."

hahahahaha, sorry, you just discovered "banda" music. it is not to be confused with the "band" music you know. and yeah, if you can read without moving your lips, chances are you won't like it. it's the same case here. actually, are some of the guys packing accordions? that'd definitively mark it as banda music. also, it might be the equivalent of country, i dunno.

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Splut! Found another reason for cable - MythBusters! Two ubergeeks use science to disprove common urban myths! And they're wacky! Today one of the examples was a bullet shooting through a plane or a plane's window will not suck you out, and the American Graffiti police car rear axle gag doesn't hold water. They're so entertaining, they're kinda hot... New favorite phrase: "I reject your reality and substitute my own!"

Lilly - actually, checking out Telemundo today, I think the stories are dubbed. The lips match the words about 1/3 of the time. Why they are dubbing spanish with spanish, I dunno. And the asian soaps... they dub in another language then subtitle in creative characters as well. I'll keep an eye out for any english, but in the four months I've been here, not a single one. The only spanish I've learned is "hoy", which I looked up online anyway. Pft. It's just spoken too fast!

Music videos - if it looks homemade, I won't like it :) The splashier it is, or if it's on MTVEspanol, I will like!