A Trifle One-Sided

Twitter-cast: Young Frankenstein

nobody@vox.com(Hieronymus) — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 09:30:10 -0400

Last Friday, I did my weekly Twitter-cast of the classic Mel Brooks comedy, Young Frankenstein. Basically, I watch a funny movie and TXT as many of the funny quotes as I can. In Young Frankenstein they come fast and furious, but I think I got most of them. Tomorrow night, I think I will probably do National Lampoon's Vacation, which is one of my favorite comedies. Anyway, here is last week's transcript.


My name. It's pronounced Frahnk-in-steen

Nice hopping...

My grandfather's work was doo-doo!

Not on the lips... I don't want to smear my lipstick

The hair! The hair! It's just been set

Taffeta darling!
Taffeta sweetheart?
No the dress Is taffeta. It wrinkles so easily

You must be Igor.
No, it's pronounced Eye-gor

Perhaps I could help you with that hump?
What hump?

Walk this way. No no, like this...

Hello! Would you like to have a roll in zee hay? Roll Roll Roll in ze hay.

Werewolf!
Werewolf?
There.
What?
There wolf. There castle.
Why are you talking that way?
I thought you wanted to?
No, I don't want to.
Suit yourself. I'm easy

What knockers!
Oh zank you doctor

Stay close to zee candles. The staircase can be treacherous

Destiny! Destiny! No escaping that's for me!

It seems to be coming from behind zee bookcase.
Behind zee bookcase...

Take out the candle and I'll block the bookcase with my body...
Now listen to me very carefully - don't put the candle back

Put zee candle back!

3 yrs dead
2 yrs dead
6mos dead
freshly dead
I-yee ain't got nobody and nobody cares a for me ...

A hunch - buru-chi!

Wait master! It might be dangerous. You go first.

Damn your eyes!!!
Too late...

What a filthy mess!
Oh I don't know. A little paint, a few flowers, a couple of throw pillows...

Well it seems our mysterious violinist has disa...
Dissa vhat?
...peared.
Shhhh!

He would have an enormous schwanstuker!
That goes without saying.
Woof

What a filthy job!
Could be worse.
How?
Could be raining

"After 5:00 pm slip brains through slot in door"

Elevate me!
Now? Right here?

If science teaches us anything it teaches us to accept our failures as well as
our successes with quiet dignity and grace... Son of a bitch bastard I'll get
you for this!

You haven't even touched your food.
There, now I've touched it are you happy??

You know. I'll never forget my old dad when these things would happen to him
the things he'd say to me.
What did he say?
WHAT THE HELL YA DOING IN THE BATHROOM DAY AND NIGHT? Why don't you get out of
there and give someone else a chance!

Quick give him the...
Give him a sedagive!

Would you mind telling me whose brain I did put in?
And you won't be angry?
I will NOT be angry.
Abby Someone.
Abby Someone... Abby who?
Abby ... Normal.
ABBY NORMAL?!?!
I'm almost sure that was the name.
Are you saying I put an abnormal brain into a seven and a half foot long, 
54 inch wide GORILLA!?!?

Nice grouping...

Ix-nay on the otten-ray

HE ... VAZ ... MY ... BOYFRIEND!!!!

Now throw a kiss and say bye-bye. Oh dear nothing left. What shall we throw in
now?

Me a blind man and you a mute. An incredibly big mute...

Fire is good. Fire is our friend. I'll show you

Now don't inhale until the tip glows

No matter what I say. No matter how much I cry. Do not open this door.
Nice working with you.

What was once an inarticulate mass of lifeless tissues may I now present a
cultured sophisticated man about town...

If there was only some way I could gif you a little peace

Igor, would you give me a hand with the bags?
Soitanly. You take the blonde and I'll take the one in the turban...

Is your room right down the hall in case I get the fright-th-s during the
night?

Now give me a kiss and say goodnight... No tongue!

Oh Sweet mystery of life at last I found you!

Penny for your thoughts.
Mmmmmmmm
You're incorrigible my little zipper neck. Alright seven has always been my
lucky number

He gave me a calmer brain and a somewhat more sophisticated way of expressing
myself

"Mrs Frankenstein" What a beautiful name...

Mmmm the feeling is mu-tule. You know, it's a puzzlement. Something I've
always wanted to ask you about that operation. You know in that operation, za
monster got part of your vonderful brain but vhat did you ever get from him?
Mmmmmmmmm.
Oof I don't belief ... Oof oh oh Oooooo sweet mystery of life at last I found
you

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Blazing Tweets

nobody@vox.com(Hieronymus) — Mon, 19 May 2008 14:57:41 -0400

Last Friday night, after a couple of Maker's Mark and Cokes and much tweeting on Twitter, I decided it was a good idea to watch Blazing Saddles and tweet all the great one liners as the movie played. It actually was a blast and folks seemed to get quite a kick out of it. So I'm going to do it again (Tweet the movie; not sure about the drink) with Young Frankenstein (or, "Frahnk-en-shteen") this Friday. So get yourself a Twitter account and follow along!

And here's the transcript from my Friday night Mel Brooks session. See if you can't follow the movie as I go along:

And Bart was his name
What in the wide wide world of sports is going on here?
Send a wire to the main office and tell them I said ... OWWW!
Ditto? Ditto? You provincial putz...
You spare the women?
No, we rape the ... out of 'em at the #6 dance later on
We'll make Rock Ridge think it was a chicken caught in a tractor's nuts
People stampeded. And cattle raped. - murmurrrr
Authentic frontier gibberish
Work work work work. Hello boys have a good night's rest? I missed you.
I didn't get a harrumph out of that guy
Where would I find such a man? ... Why am I asking you?
Can't you see that man is a ni..
The sheriff is a ni..
As chairman of the welcoming committee, it is my privilege to extend a laurel, and hearty handshake to our new ..... n***r
Excuse me while I whip this out
The next man who makes a move, the n***r gets it
Are we awake?
It depends. Are we ... black?
Yes we are.
Then we are awake but very puzzled
Well, my name is Jim but most people call me . . . . Jim
Man, why do you do that to yourself?
Ha, you don't really wanna know that.
I do I do.
Well, if you must pry.
I must I must
Yeah, but I shoot with this hand
You was just pulling my lariat
Well raise my rent. You are The Kid!
I must've killed more men than Cecille B. DeMille
The little bastard shot me in the ass
What's a dazzling urbanite like you doing in a rustic setting like this?
Beans...
Why don't we give him to Mongo?
The common clay of the new West. You know ... morons
Never mind that shit, here comes Mongo!
Mongo ain't exactly a who - he's more of a what
Candy gram for Mongo.
Me Mongo.
Sign please. Thank you
Mongo like candy
My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives
Gol darn it Mr. Lamarr. You use your tongue prettier than a 20 dollar whore
Lily von Shtupp, whose very name was bleeped on network tv
[ed. note: For the record it's Lili von Shtupp or 'The Teutonic Titwillow' or 'Lili Lili Lili legs Lili Lili']
Is Bismark a herring?
They are always coming & going & going & coming & always too soon
Oooo. A wed wose. How womantic
Tell me schatzie is it twue what they say about the way you people are gifted?
Oh it's twue it's twue
Don't know. Mongo only pawn in game of life
I want rustlers, cutthroats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, real estate agents, mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwackers, hornswogglers, horsethieves, bulldykes, trainrobbers, bankrobbers, asskickers, shitkickers and ... METHODISTS!
You'd do it for Randolph Scott
Head'em off at the pass? I HATE that cliche
Now you are about to embark on a great crusade to stamp out decency on the West. Now you will only be risking your lives, while I will be risking an almost certain Academy Award nomination for best supporting actor
Now go do that voodoo that you do sooooooo well
Somebody's gotta go back and get a shitload of dimes

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All a-twitter

nobody@vox.com(Hieronymus) — Fri, 02 May 2008 11:12:54 -0400

I've been pretty quiet here at Trifle for a couple of reasons. First off, work has been pretty hectic, as we try to get a version together for a BIG customer. While my company is very very good at resisting long, involved changes for the sake of one customer, when a multi-billion dollar company really really wants something that is on your upcoming feature list, you tend to do your best to deliver it early, right?

I've also become something of Twitter-holic, especially since I added unlimited text messaging to our cellphone plan. As I've mentioned before, I have even received some timely help via my twitter "neighborhood", which is a feedback loop that is hard to resist. I've stopped using TwitterFox though. For one thing, Firefox itself is slightly too unstable, as it tends to crash about twice a day, so I figure I need to cut back on my Addons. Secondly, typing gets very very very slow. Not sure what that is, besides a general Firefox slowdown, but it makes it impossible to use.

So I've been beta (maybe even alpha!) testing phpitter, a PHP(!) app. It took some work to get it installed, but the SVN version is reasonably solid at this point. I suppose I should look at twitux. Or maybe write my own, eh?

But anyway, a couple of short takes on my time wasting efforts, besides Twitter:

I read Debatable Space by Philip Palmer. A pretty long science fiction novel, it tells the story of some space pirates who kidnap a VIP and then proceed to try and topple the current galactic overlords. A little too much internal dialog by the VIP, and not quite enough action, but the book postulates an interesting future of limitless resources and "travel" by avatar, as the light speed speed limit is still obeyed. If you like "hard" sci-fi, I think you'll like this book. Just skip over all the interminable Lena reflections and you won't miss a thing.

I watched Michael Clayton onDemand and was decidedly underwhelmed. Originally, I had no interest in the movie. Who cares about battle lawyers? But the previews I saw on cable made it look pretty intense, so I used my free coupon to "rent" it. The beginning was cool, with a very startling event punctuating a quiet time, but then it rewound time (which I generally like in a movie) and got dull. I just never understood why George Clooney's Michael Clayton suddenly got attacked by a case of the guilts. Some whacko lawyer friend of his decides that defending big business is right and he somehow infects Clayton, whose conscience bothers him after years and years of protecting the big guy. I never got connected with him and so the last 2/3rds of the film just didn't resonate. Oh well.

Fever Pitch became available online at Fancast (a Comcast site), so I watched that yet again while "working" yesterday. Man, the 2004 ALCS still brings a tear to me eye. I wonder if any but heartfelt Red Sox fans can really "get it". It's not as painful as Game Six, as it has a much better ending, but still...

Narrator: Ben became one of God's most pathetic creatures - a Red Sox fan.
Uncle Carl: Careful kid. They'll break your heart.

Michael Clayton (Widescreen Edition)

Debatable Space

Fever Pitch (Widescreen Edition)

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Tweet Tweet

nobody@vox.com(Hieronymus) — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:55:26 -0400

I've been a sporadic user of Twitter for a while now but I really didn't get into it. I would go through some phases of using it, but they were fairly short bursts, and prone to long lapses of quiet.

But lately I've been using it more. I installed TwitterFox (although I don't remember when!) and happened to notice it in my status bar. And it works very nicely, giving me an interface that I can understand (the Twitter home page had me a little confused - what can I say, I'm easily confused). Although lately it has been giving me trouble, as the popup window is appearing underneath web content on some pages, which is annoying.

So I've started "tweeting" a bit more. And it has actually paid off over the past couple of days, with some great information appearing.

First up was the notice from jamiei about Google App Engine, which is a way to leverage Google technological muscle to create web apps. Very nice looking, even if I can't crack the beta team. You can download the SDK and play with it locally until they open it up a little more. Here's an excellent hands on quickie tutorial for using it.

Then I tweet-complained earlier this morning that my Amarok had stopped downloading cover images. I figured it was my fault, because I had recently gone through "version hell" trying to get a libCurl update to work. libCurl is often used by programs to get web information, and I just figured I broke Amarok solving my update problem.

But nightrose came to my rescue just a few minutes later, pointing out a blog post by Seb, an Amarok developer, explaining that an Amazon API change broke Amarok's album cover download and it will be fixed in the next upgrade. Yay for instant help!

So maybe Twitter can actually be useful, rather than just another distraction. But I will not turn on audio notification of new tweets. Nope, I just won't do that...

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