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do you know how to post video material on your Weblog?
YouTube is not invented until 2005
boricua
Puerto Rican
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davening Recitation of prescribed Jewish prayers.
that Watergate movie
All the President's Men (1976). It's about Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward investigating the Watergate scandal for The Washington Post.
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They emerge into the open, high up near a catwalk...suitable for teen adventures, clandestine lovers, well-heeled wrongdoers on the run, and take this vertiginous crossover...
Once again, there's no telling if Pynchon had Hitchcock's Vertigo in mind when he wrote "Bleeding Edge," but it sure is easy to get the two works into a casual conversation.
I've got their album
Is she talking about the band Men at Work?
It's quite possible. The lines that provoke Maxine's comment are: "Look sharp," March ducking behind a vent. "Some gents with metal accessories."
Or, just the fact that to Maxine it looks more like a band setting up to play on the roof than it does the Stingers they saw in the video.
Or, she just means the DVD they just watched.
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introduced piranhas into the Doctor's swimming pool
fwiw, if the pool was chlorinated, the fish would die pretty quickly. There are chlorine-free pool disinfectant systems, but I don't know if they were around then.
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Yozhik v Tumane
Real short film. YouTube. More info at Wiki where you can learn, among other things, that the title means "hedgehog in the fog."
podyobka
Russian подъёбка = a "trick" or "practical joke." It's a mild obscenity, however (the word is derived from the root -ёб = fuck) so it's perhaps more in the spirit to translate it as "dicking around."
what Flintstones call page right out of history
Lyrics to the theme song of the cartoon The Flintstones:
Flintstones. Meet the Flintstones.
They're the modern stone age family.
From the town of Bedrock,
They're a page right out of history.
Chapter 1 pp. 1-7 |
Chapter 2 pp. 8-19 |
Chapter 3 pp. 20-29 |
Chapter 4 pp. 30-40 |
Chapter 5 pp. 41-52 |
Chapter 6 pp. 53-67 |
Chapter 7 pp. 68-79 |
Chapter 8 pp. 80-86 |
Chapter 9 pp. 87-95 |
Chapter 10 pp. 96-111 |
Chapter 11 pp. 112-120 |
Chapter 12 pp. 121-133 |
Chapter 13 pp. 134-144 |
Chapter 14 pp. 145-159 |
Chapter 15 pp. 160-171 |
Chapter 16 pp. 172-184 |
Chapter 17 pp. 185-197 |
Chapter 18 pp. 198-210 |
Chapter 19 pp. 211-218 |
Chapter 20 pp. 219-229 |
Chapter 21 pp. 230-238 |
Chapter 22 pp. 239-246 |
Chapter 23 pp. 247-255 |
Chapter 24 pp. 256-264 |
Chapter 25 pp. 265-273 |
Chapter 26 pp. 274-287 |
Chapter 27 pp. 288-300 |
Chapter 28 pp. 301-313 |
Chapter 29 pp. 314-326 |
Chapter 30 pp. 327-337 |
Chapter 31 pp. 338-346 |
Chapter 32 pp. 347-353 |
Chapter 33 pp. 354-364 |
Chapter 34 pp. 365-382 |
Chapter 35 pp. 383-394 |
Chapter 36 pp. 395-407 |
Chapter 37 pp. 408-422 |
Chapter 38 pp. 423-438 |
Chapter 39 pp. 439-447 |
Chapter 40 pp. 448-462 |
Chapter 41 pp. 463-477 |