True, though idiot is a much older word that already had a common use like we currently use it.
When my wife and I drove around Ireland, we got a big kick out of seeing the villages on the map that our favorite band (Gaelic Storm) sprinkles into their songs. Ballybunion, particularly, we had figured was mythical. Not only is it real, but rather well-known. :smack:
He also agreed to paint out the kangaroo.
Scapulamancy is the art of shoulderblade divination. Learned about it from the excellent Chinese Fantasy novel, Bridge of Birds.
Spatulamancy would be divining based on the layout of utensils after tipping out your kitchen drawers.
That wiki article mentions it as an alternative, but doesn’t give a citation. Although I see it is in the dictionary. Way to ruin a joke, reality…*
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I followed the link to look at the picture, and “extraneous figures” is the understatement of all time. 
There’s not thirteen at dinner, there’s three dozen or more. Its like “Where’s Waldo: Renaissance Edition.” There’s guys literally climbing the walls on one side of the room. There’s a kid about to whack a dwarf with a metal dinner plate. There’s a black cardinal button-holing a man who’s the spitting image of Jackie Gleason, and a bearded man apparently making a dramatic (and/or drunken) speech. There’s no kangaroo, alas, but there is a cocker spaniel. In the middle is Jesus, leaning over to the (rather non-Apostle-ish) guest next to him as if to ask “Who invited all these people?!” 
That’s exactly what I thought about Family Guy writer Cherry Chevapravatdumrong, who is apparently a real person. (though I’m sure someone will be by soon to say she’s actually a manatee..)
I don’t understand. Why does the idea of that movie bother you so much?
Back when MASH was still on, Klinger kept talking about a Toledo restaurant named Packo’s Hungarian Hot Dogs. As it turns out, Jamie Farr went to school in Toledo, and Packo’s was one of his favorite places. He convinced the writers of the show to write it in. Since then, every cast member has been there.
And there’s another TV writer named Speed Weed.
Many people don’t realize that D’Artagnan himself is a historical figure. I’m pretty sure I had no idea when I first became aware of the Three Musketeers.
As are Cyrano de Bergerac, John Henry, and Uncle Sam (despite many attempts to dislodge the last of these)
Because it’s a movie about Facebook. Facebook. Which I already find pointless and annoying, and it’s only gotten worse since I got away from the addicted people in college to find it suddenly everywhere. Hell I like twitter and google a lot more (Google a whole lot) and I’d still go WTF?!? if someone made a movie about either of them. It does not compute in my head.
Agreed. It’s too Inception-y. Or the internet is leaking. Or something like that. Something just doesn’t feel right about it.
My “that’s a thing?” moment was when I realized that my trypophobia was real. It was always a joke in my family growing up that when we saw something that would trigger that squirmy feeling, we’d want to “pick at it”, presumably to disfigure the object, and not be squirmed out by it.
Then I watched this video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwE3xcWjfe8 (Forgive me if you puked in your mouth.) So yeah. Now I have a thing.
Not really. It’s a movie about the development of a multi-billion dollar company. One of the most influential companies of the past decade, started in a dorm room. It was about the genesis of the idea, the marketing strategies, legal disputes, and other crucial decisions made along the way.
It isn’t as though the whole movie revolves around people logging on and off of Facebook.
Speed Weed is likely a pseudonym however.
The flashbacks keep coming.
The existence of that movie bothers me too. Not only is the world suddenly populated with people who *are *constantly logging on and off Facebook, even the movies they watch have to be about the damned thing now?
In fact, when that movie appeared, that was the moment when I decided that this was no longer my world and sent me looking for the exit. I’m not going to argue with all you people. You can keep the world, do whatever you want with it, I don’t give a shit anymore. I’m just leaving.
Half a pseudonym. His real name is apparently William Weed.
I sympathize with your displeasure with the movie, but that’s a bit like saying that The Black Swan is a movie about ornithology.
What the hell? You’re bothered by a movie that spotlights the creation of a billion dollar company by a teenager? Yeah, what is this world coming to?
:rolleyes:
The trailer I saw for Black Swan didn’t even mention orinthology. No visuals indicating it either. I haven’t seen it either, but the trailer did indicate ballerina and a thriller. The trailers for Social Network I saw seemed to focus entirely on facebook. I really don’t think that’s a good comparison. At least not according to how these films marketed themselves.