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Okay, only two of my movie quotes have not been guessed yet. Here they are:


3. So this is the real furniture, and this is... Is this an actual street lamp?

Nobody guessed this one, which I thought would be relatively easy. Here's the full conversation:

Lawrence E. Turpin: All right, here's your giant banjo...
Jonathan Steinbloom: Um-hmm. It's very flat.
Lawrence E. Turpin: Well, it doesn't look flat from in the audience.
Jonathan Steinbloom: It has basically, no dimension to it.
Lawrence E. Turpin: Well, it's painted to look three dimensional. If you go back there, trust me...
Jonathan Steinbloom: But it's not painted on the back. I'm looking at the back right now. Will you look with me for a minute?
Lawrence E. Turpin: Why would it be... From the audience it's gonna look perfectly fine. And it looks three dimensional. Just go out there and take a peek.
Jonathan Steinbloom: Well, is this the real furniture or is this the rehearsal furniture?
Lawrence E. Turpin: Well, A it's not called furniture. It's a set.
Jonathan Steinbloom: Uh-huhh...
Lawrence E. Turpin: And it's painted this way. It looks completely three dimensional from the audience, if you just go out that way, Mr. Steinbloom.
Jonathan Steinbloom: So this is the real furniture, and this is... Is this an actual street lamp?
Lawrence E. Turpin: I'm sure it was at one time.
Jonathan Steinbloom: Can you have an actual three dimensional object that represents the thing that it actually is, can that be next to something that it's pretending to be? Would that be okay?
Lawrence E. Turpin: Yes, it's perfectly fine. You know, I really don't have time to explain Stagecraft 101. This show starts in an hour. Now, every... everything is exactly the way you...
Jonathan Steinbloom: And what are tho... what's tha... that... Those are lights hanging up there?
Lawrence E. Turpin: Yes, those are lights...
Jonathan Steinbloom: Could they fall?
Lawrence E. Turpin: ...and that's a ceiling above us!
Jonathan Steinbloom: But they look shaky.
Lawrence E. Turpin: No, they're not shaky, they're perfectly...
Jonathan Steinbloom: Is that wire? I see a wire. I see a...

*SLAP*

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15. How about that? It's a Mexican standoff. Only we ain't got no Mexicans.

This is the other one nobody got. It's not an obvious quote, I suppose, and could have potentially come from a lot of films. Here's a more obvious quote:

You gotta be able to laugh at stuff like that. Like me in the desert. I don't hold any grudges; I laugh about it. I'm not angry at you. You just left me there with chopsticks to die. Roy, all by his lonesome, just me and the buzzards, pickin' at my head... You're a very silent man, aren't you?

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Recently there have been more people using the exercise room, and often when I go there the treadmill is already in use. Worse, two of the new people are a husband and wife team, and when they're there the treadmill and the running machine are in use.

On top of this, the office is apparently not open on Sunday, even though it's supposed to be. This means the exercise room is not open on Sunday.

Therefore, on Sunday, I decided to try something new. It wasn't raining, but it looked like it could start at any time. I didn't want to walk up the hill to the park which could leave me quite a ways away from home when it might start raining. However, I had also witnessed the husband and wife team wander down into an area that I had always assumed was a dead end, and then come around a bit later and walk down that way again. Was there a path down there to walk on?

It's funny how you can live somewhere for more than two years and not really explore all of it. Turns out, there's not just a path but a parkinglot and some apartments down there that I'd never seen. Also you can walk along the edge of the cliff and there's a nice view, and one complete walk around the entire apartment complex takes about ten minutes. It's a much longer walk than I had realized, and more interesting as well. 3-5 times around is a very good workout.

I did that yesterday and again today when the treadmill was occupied.

One thing I also did was walk around the outside of my own apartment building. The back side is just lawn with no path, so I'd never actually walked bach there before. On the opposite side there's a pretty steep cliff, almost a straight drop in some places. I looked over the edge and I noticed something.

Part way down the cliff side, about ten feet or so down at least, is a sign. It sticks out perpendicular to the cliff face, sign facing up. And it says (if I remember correctly):

Danger
Enclosed Space
Entry Permit Required

I want to believe that someone put it there as a joke -- but in fact there's an enclosed power plant of some sort somewhere down below that you pass as you drive up Lea Hill Road. So it's probably really there on purpose.

But I imagine anyone falling down the cliff is going to have a hard time turning around, sign or no sign.

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( Today's Song: Girl in the War by Josh Ritter )

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Okay, for fun, round two: these should be pretty easy, I'm not trying to be as tricky this time around.


You know the drill. 15 movies, quotes come from IMdb, and no cheating.

( These are easy. I think. )