Seth,
When Ms. Gorin observes "And if a man can’t form a fist when appropriate, then he shouldn’t be allowed to form an erection either." ..the eunuch generals Bagoas 343BC and Narsus 546AD sprang immediately to mind. These 'men' could form a fist, they could kick ass, but...would she want to marry one? Reminds me of an old Chinese engineer who asked, "Hey, who won the erection for congless?" Heh, Ms. Gorin CAN form a fist, but.....

BB --

LOL!

... but thank G-d she can't...

Well, re those two generals, since Clooney lacks their male attribute, he'd better hope he can at least muster the difference.

It would be kinda' difficult, methinks, since the man obviously has no bi-spherical support...

BB and Seth, I'd keep a safe distance away from Julia Gorin, lest she nail you with her fist in your manhood. FYI, women also have erections, only theirs don't stick out at you like men's do.

I suspect that George Clooney's title of "The Sexiest Man Alive" reflects more on the judges' detachment from reality than on his personal qualities. Or perhaps the judges were males? Or both? (The news reports don't say.)

I hope George doesn't get a swollen head from all this.

Civil Truth --

Thanks for reposting.

I think Julia Gorin is awesome, if I still lived in New York I'd be happy to take her to dinner anywhere from the T-Bone Diner on Queens Blvd to Tavern On The Green in Central Park, just for the conversation.

I think I'd be safe, as I'm as patriotic an American as she is, LOL, and a fellow Jew. I wouldn't bet on the positive side for Clooney or that drunken imp, uh, Danny DeVito, however. I'd hope that with either of them, she'd forsake her fist and just apply an expedient knee. I'd hold either one of them for her to knee, then take her out for a celebratory dinner, complete with a bottle or two of Nuit St. George.

She is awesome.

I am having a major spambot problem, like hundreds a day permeating my comment section. Hopefully I will have some help eliminating this problem shortly -- the SOBs get through the spam filters with few problems.

In deleting them in massive numbers, I keep on deleting legitimate comments that are buried among lists of 2-300 bots.

For the second time, I accidentally deleted a comment by Atheling2, but this time recovered it from comment notification:

The lady is right. George Clooney is a girly man.

I just rewatched "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World" (one of my faves) and I was thinking about how differently men were expected to behave and how quickly they had to grow up back then. They even had teenage boys taking command of the ship and over men. Those boys were more manly than Clooney and Company in Hollywood.

Atheling2 --

I missed that one, but having looked it up and read about it, it looks like a "must get" -- are you talking about the Russell Crowe (2003) version, or is there an older one?

Yeah, Clooney is a definite leftist and pansy. He probably got smacked around a lot in the schoolyard as a kid.

Seth,
Thanks for "definite leftist and pansy. He probably got smacked around a lot in the schoolyard as a kid." Dang Stevie S. chased me
all over Longfellow schoolyard and usually most of the way home. Been a pansy liberal to this day. Hope they are taxing the crap out of him!

Yes, Seth, it's the Peter Weir film starring Russell Crowe and it's a must see.

It's one of the most superb naval films ever made in its realism, intelligence and moral certitude. There have been dumb reviews by women (!!!) because there are no women in it (well except for one brief scene) but that's how it was in an early 19th century British warship during the Napoleonic Wars. I love it when a swashbuckler can be made without all the stupid Hollywoodized gratuitous crap to gratify dumbed down Americans.

It's not PC, and it shows how things really were back then!

Atheling2 --

I'm getting it.

If you would like to read a great sea story, I would highly recommend Jack Higgins' Storm Warning as well, one of that novelist's 2 best books ever. The other was The Eagle Has Landed, but the movie sucked, wasn't even a pimple on the butt of the book -- Donald Sutherland is a great actor I've always admired, but he simply wasn't the right guy to play Liam Devlin. Sorry, Donald.

I like Russell Crowe a lot, even better since he doesn't seem to associate his celebrity with politics.

Seth,

I like Russell Crowe too, especially after hearing that he refused to drink a bottle of French champagne because he boycotts French products!

If you get a chance, you should view "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World" on the big screen. I saw it when it first came out. I don't think it could be quite the same on home DVD. Bring your dramamine with you, though.

civil truth:

I saw it on the big screen twice. It was magnificent.

Hmmm, I didn't feel seasick from it. But then, I rarely get seasick when I'm on boats or ferries unless it's a really choppy crossing.

However, it's well worth watching at home. I have the DVD and watch it every once in a while; I enjoy it that much.

BTW, have you ever wondered exactly what were the ingredients in that Galapagos Pudding???

Atheling2 --

Crowe must conduct his social life outside Hollywood. :-)

Civil Truth --

How will it play on a 62" TV with surround sound?

Atheling2 --

You got me started -- and I could not find even a reference to "Galapagos Pudding" anyplace, except mention in a comment in a thread someplace where they were talking about a book called "For Wives and Sweethearts" or something like that.

That is a surprise, usually such things generate a lot of traffic.

Seth, if you've got that kind of system, you should be running your own movie theater. But be careful or else MPAA will come after you :) [h/t Oyster-"Another Outrage"]

Atheling2 & Seth - I found a discussion thread on Galapagos Pudding. There were lots of speculations, but the best response I thought was the following entry:

Re: The Galapagos Pudding
by syntinen 16 hours ago (Thu Dec 7 2006 05:58:53 )
UPDATED Thu Dec 7 2006 06:00:51
Of course it's anybody's guess what the production's "food stylists" (awful job title!) used to make the Galapagos pudding for the film; but the islands in a genuine 18th-century English-style Floating Island were made of cake or "French Roll" (a type of brioche), and in the French Ile Flottante were made of meringue.

The Galapagos pudding does indeed feature in the book of The Far Side of the World, in which we learn that it was made by a seaman who had been a pastrycook in Danzig; that the lines of latitude and longitude were "made of spun sugar; so is the equator, but double thick and dyed with port." There are many versions of the recipe: here’s one from Hannah Glasse’s The Art of Cookery made Plain and Easy, published 1747.

The Floating Island, a pretty Dish for the Middle of a Table at a second Course, or for Supper

Take a Soop Dish according to the Size and Quantity you would make; but a pretty deep Glass Dish is best, and set it on a China Dish, first take a quart of the thickest cream you can get, make it pretty sweet with fine Sugar, pour in a Gill of Sack, grate the yellow Rind of a Lemon in, and mill the cream till it is all of a thick Froth, then as carefully as you can, pour the thin from the Froth into a Dish; take a French Role, or as many as you want, cut it as thin as you can, lay a layer of that as light as possible on the Cream, then a layer of Currant-jelly, then a very thin Layer of Role, and then Hartshorn-jelly, then French Role, and over that whip your Froth which you saved off the Cream very well milled up, and lay at Top as high as you can heap it; and as for the Rim of the Dish set it round with Fruit or Sweetmeats according to your Fancy, this looks very pretty in the middle of a Table with Candles round it, and you may make it of as many different Colours as you fancy, and according to what Jellies and Giams [=jams], or Sweetmeats you have; or at the Bottom of your Dish you may put the thickest Cream you can get; but that is as you fancy.

heeeeheeeee!

(SPOILERS)

I'm on that thread. It's the IMDB. We have been discussing what the ingredients would be for that pudding from the scene where Jack announces where they are heading.

My guess is that it's chocolate pudding, and the Acheron is made of marzipan.

Civil Truth --

This Glickman character is a real piece of work. If I buy a DVD and want to have a couple of friends over for a movie and drinks, dinner, whatever, that's none of his affair, it's my TV and my house, and I'm not charging anybody.

The man is mad, MAD I say! The idea that I would allow any piece of equipment in my house (other than my own home security system) that contains surveillance technology is preposterous.

Did I say the man was mad?

What does he want to propose next, that if you buy a music CD, you can only play it while no one else is there, lest they get to hear it without buying it?

That recipe actually sounds interesting -- I like the ould English. Having not had occasion to make any brandy Alexanders of late, I'd have to go out and buy heavy cream, and hell, most of the ingredients! Currant jelly? Hartshorn jelly? Hmmm. That would definitely have to be an online purchase, this here bein' North Carolina an' all, unless substitutions would suffice. Now sack -- from the ABC in NC? Doubtful.

I have to ask -- how did you find this? I'm better than average at hunting stuff down on the Web, but you're like a human search engine. :-)

Atheling2 --

This really sounds like my kind of movie now -- chocolate pudding, too?

What a way to go: When the French aren't there to fight, eat, and vice versa.

Test...Test...Test

For those who want to know the Master and Commander fighting outcome, go to www.google.com, type in "French military victories" and click on "I'm feeling lucky". (Or just go here if the previous doesn't work).

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Seth, before you blow a gasket about Dan Glickman and MPAA, check out the "Related News" or some of the other BBspot articles like the ones titled Bush Proposes Faith-Based Firewalls for Government Computers or Teen Using MySpace to Lure Bands to Los Angeles.

If you still haven't figured it out, check out the comments at Oyster's Another Outrage. :)

Civil Truth --

LOL!!!!

This has got to be comedy, right? If it's not, Dumb & Dumber shoud be ready for a reality based sequel.

On the other hand, I have met a few people who just might....