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Re: 11 Most Painfully Obvious Newspaper Articles Ever - 11Points.com

Whittier — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:07:43 -0000

#7 makes sense within context. It's clear from the content below--a letter to the editor contesting the statement that smoking is the #1 killer, the writer tmaking the point that death cannot be prevented, only delayed. I think his thinking is specious, but still, the headline makes sense within context.

Re: 11 Most Disappointing TV Shows of the 2000s - 11Points.com

Whittier — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:54:07 -0000

XFL Trivia #1: The XFL changed rules to increase scoring. *In the middle of the playoffs*.

XFL Trivia #2: There was XFL fantasy football online. I played it. The "pundits" said you absolutely had to pick up one of like only two or three players. I did, and placed second in my league. The "pundits" were right, because they were the *only* players scoring *any* fantasy (and real?) points.

Re: 11 Things The Bible Bans, But You Do Anyway - 11Points.com

Whittier — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 23:36:56 -0000

Yup, looked through. No surprises. Sorry.

Re: 11 Secrets For Taking Amazing Nude Photos - 11Points.com

Whittier — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:24:34 -0000

Love the site. Anorexia jokes? Don't love so much. It's bad enough that we have websites encouraging anorexia.

Yes, I have no future as a comedian. Now, pass me my beret and copy of Sartre. I need to go depress some chipmunks.

Re: 11 Points Inbox-O-Rama, Number 2 - 11Points.com

Whittier — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:13:11 -0000

Three-story single episodes of the Simpsons off the top of my head:
The Bible (mentioned here)
The Spin-Off special (mentioned here--GREAT send-up of old TV shows)
I don't know the name of the episode, but it tells one story from three points of view--Homer's, Bart's, and Lisa's, and each story explains confusing details of the one previous. The part I remember best is Lisa's school project, her grammar robot Linguo.

There are lots of Chipotles in the Twin Cities. This is good because I LOVE Chipotle (it's practically a ritual for my friend Don and me), but it's bad because I think a lot of people are going there, thinking they're eating "Mexican", and missing out on the fantastic authentic Mexican restaurants in town (one of the many reasons I love having a large Mexican population here).

Re: 11 Points

Whittier — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:52:31 -0000

Wow, folks don't bother to read other people's comments.

Anyway, I personally like plentyoffish.com. It's a dating site that's supposed to mean Plenty Of Fish, but most everyone I know calls it Plenty Offish, which is much more accurate.

Re: 11 Fascinating Donors on California's Prop 8 - 11Points.com

Whittier — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:14:00 -0000

Don't know how I missed this 11 before. Very interesting.

Re: 11 Points Inbox-O-Rama, Number 1 - 11Points.com

Whittier — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:08:15 -0000

You don't look anything like Austin Powers.

Re: 11 Awful Shows FOX Has Aired Right After The Simpsons - 11Points.com

Whittier — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:38:09 -0000

Though, now that I think about it, "Oliver Beene" was suspiciously similar to a failed CBS dramedy of two decades before--"Brooklyn Bridge". I liked that one too, though.

Cripes. I just used the phrase "two decades" in reference to a memorable span of my life. Gettin' old...

Re: 11 Awful Shows FOX Has Aired Right After The Simpsons - 11Points.com

Whittier — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:36:05 -0000

"Babes" looks like it had the wonderful, departed Wendie Jo Sperber in it.

I LOVED "Oliver Beene"--give me a "drab" city over the drabber suburbia of "The Wonder Years" any day of the week.

Re: 11 Highlights of the Billboard Top Singles Chart From This Week in August 1993 - 11Points.com

Whittier — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 19:25:49 -0000

Trivia:
Robin S released the song "Show Me Love" in 1993.

In 1997 (long before she went into her current "tough" mode), Robyn (similar name, see?) released an entirely different song called "Show Me Love".

That just always stuck out to me.

Re: 11 State Laws About Marrying Your Cousins, From Strictest to Loosest - 11Points.com

Whittier — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 22:26:22 -0000

chris09--My goodness, you took the words out of my mouth. Our only task now is to copy and paste your words into about a trillion article comments on the web.

Re: 11 Damn Near Identical Movies That Were Released at the Same Time - 11Points.com

Whittier — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:51:42 -0000

Funny--a bunch of us ended up seeing "The Dark Crystal" long ago because it was one of the all-time favourite movies of our friend (who could best be described as "square").

Thanks, everyone, for helping me to tell the difference between "The Dark Crystal" and "Labyrinth". I now know it was "The Dark Crystal" I saw.

Re: 11 Famous People Who Were in the Completely Wrong Career at Age 30 - 11Points.com

Whittier — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:41:07 -0000

This was the perfect 35th birthday present for me--an artist who was laid off from his customer service job some months ago.

Re: 11 Points

Whittier — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 11:56:09 -0000

On the grounds of freedom of speech, I'm sharing an instance when I myself used a string of characters online that I thought would be read one way when it could be read the other, exactly the same train of thought that the creators of the website creators in the article used.

Re: 11 Observations on America's Most Popular Baby Names - 11Points.com

Whittier — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 23:21:29 -0000

Though Barack is already climbing up (I know this is an old post). Will probably be in the top 1000 in a couple of years, barring a disastrous turn in the presidency.

Re: 11 Stupid Questions From Yahoo Answers That Have Changed My Life - 11Points.com

Whittier — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:21:39 -0000

Then there's this one, made famous on Fail Blog:

http://answers.yahoo.com/qu...

What's worse, there are others on there very similar.

Re: 11 Stupid Questions From Yahoo Answers That Have Changed My Life - 11Points.com

Whittier — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:01:19 -0000

Re: 11 Stops on a Sexual Tour Around the United States - 11Points.com

Whittier — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:25:00 -0000

Blastow Cove? I don't get it.

Re: 11 Damn Near Identical Movies That Were Released at the Same Time - 11Points.com

Whittier — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:58:36 -0000

I don't know if they came out so close to each other, but I ALWAYS confuse "Labyrinth" and "The Dark Crystal". I know David Bowie (for his third reference!) is in one, but don't remember which. I know I've seen only one (and can't remember if it's the one with David Bowie) and can't remember which.

Re: 11 Low Class Behaviors I Can't Help But Love - 11Points.com

Whittier — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:09:01 -0000

I will drink milk with chili to cut the spice for me (I'm a total wimp).

Re: 11 Low Class Behaviors I Can't Help But Love - 11Points.com

Whittier — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:00:27 -0000

I'm from the Midwest (back and forth between Indiana and Missouri, and moved to Minnesota at 30). The older I get, the more I realise how behind the times we were. We didn't do denim shirts til 1992-93 (and for the record, the only one I ever *reluctantly* owned was part of a job uniform). We didn't get Hypercolor til like 1991. (Yes, I had a purple-to-pink sweatshirt. I realise now that Hypercolor was invented primarily to get people to paw you, and, sadly, no-one pawed me. :-P )

Re: 11 Awesome Phobias, In Photos and Videos - 11Points.com

Whittier — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:25:03 -0000

"Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia" is a word that was constructed to play off the fact that "sesquipedalophobia" just doesn't seem *quite* long enough* for that phobia, does it? The breakdown of the word: "hippoptomo" = hippopotamus; "monstro" = monster; "sesqui" = one-and-a-half; "pedal" = foot, "phobia" = fear. (The most common derivation of this word, "sesquipedalian", literally means "a foot and a half", as in words that seem to be a foot and half in length.

*The well-known word "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis" is generally considered the longest word in the English language, and was actually coined for that purpose, as, when you leave out redundant affixes, you can call the disease "pneumoconiosis" (which is what medical professionals actually do) and still retain the meaning.

Re: 11 Disappointments About He-Man, In Retrospect - 11Points.com

Whittier — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:40:38 -0000

I remember the religious argument against He-Man was that it was "He-Man and the Masters of the Universe"--and only God is the true Master of the Universe. That was seriously it.

Re: 11 Literary References People Make Without Realizing It - 11Points.com

Whittier — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:11:02 -0000

Dallas--you would be oh so surprised. I've worked in public settings in which I would need to discuss scientific principles with adult patrons, and it was amazing how many of them didn't have a junior-high grasp of science. I'd have to say the same goes for literature.

I think a good one for the list is, "Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them"--from "Twelfth Night".