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Posted on 11/03/2004 6:16:42 PM PST by HairOfTheDog
Mornin'. This is worth a look.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1271414/posts
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Soo...what's the definition of mcguffin?
Mine is easy to write. Just boring. Maybe this weekend I'll write her a week or so worth of entries and then go back to my "real" story.
Right now they're chatting with a depressed nearsighted dragon. Fun times, fun times.
Good morning!
I'll be out all morning. Going to a workshop. Conflict Management...heh...I could show them some alternative means...
But I get free snacks and a lunch out of it, and the way things are until next paycheck, that's a wonderful thing...
And I can always bring my notebook and pretend to be taking notes when I'm actually writing. OK, so I wouldn't quite have the guts to do that, but...it's a nice thought.
WTH?!?!... just crush their skull and have done with it...
triple dawg dare yuh...
Heh, neener, neener would be fun, but I just got an idea that would turn the libs on their heads by using their own pro-communist slogan. I'd like to see a white t-shirt with the famous 'county map' in the red and blue, which shows just who voted FOR Bush, with the slogan "Better RED than dead"!
That's the way I'm feeling this morning. I saw my lie'bral co-worker's car this morning she's got that "No one died when Clinton lied" and a couple of other Kerrorist stickers.
I've been polite and we've had a cordial relationship. We share some similar interests.
But I'm done. If it's not about work, I don't plan to speak to her. Life is too short to deal with idiots.
If they want to be divisive, let them.
We'll lead the country without them.
A MacGuffin is a plot device that holds no meaning or purpose of its own except to motivate the characters and advance the story. The device is usually used in films, especially thrillers. The term "MacGuffin" was invented by Alfred Hitchcock, who made extensive use of MacGuffins in his films.
One example of a MacGuffin in Hitchcock's movies is the bottle of "radioactive diamonds" in Notorious: it is the reason the story takes place, but it otherwise means nothing. The story could just as easily have used "uranium" (originally meant as the contents of the bottle), gold or extraordinary rare wine as the plot device.
The best Hitchcock MacGuffin is considered by film scholars to be the one used in North by Northwest. In this movie, the MacGuffin is the character of "George Kaplan", who is being chased by the enemy spies. Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) is mistaken for Kaplan by the spies, and so they chase him instead. Thornhill spends the course of the movie trying to find George Kaplan himself without realizing that George Kaplan does not even exist. Both the hero and the villains of the movie are chasing nothing more than a puff of hot air, making this a true MacGuffin.
meanwhile...
I was reading a thread last night that said that no one else has the information about those bank accounts he uses for the Pali Authority. Heh, wouldn't it just be justice if they can't find the money to pay their suicide bombers to do their murderous work? Poor Suha might have to actually go out looking for a job because she won't have any more income.
Heh, heh.
Heh.... I don't think I'll touch that thread, but they cropped the photo so that most people will think he's prolly an angry lib demonstrator.
in their friggin' skull...
The first or second week of June at g'nad's for shootmoot sounds good for us! Has anyone said they ~can't~ make it then?
Oh dear... everyone, disregard that ping.... wrong list!
Coffee - check
correct List - check
smiles~ check
The first or second week of June at g'nad's for shootmoot sounds good for us! Has anyone said they ~can't~ make it then?
Sorry g'nad - a bunch of people with horses might show up at shoot moot. ;~D
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