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Eeyoreslament
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07-20-2003

Monday, March 21, 2005 - 11:21 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Eeyoreslament a private message Print Post    
Your sister is now dead to you. We are your family now Fab.

Hypermom
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08-13-2001

Monday, March 21, 2005 - 11:46 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hypermom a private message Print Post    
I couldn't stand O Brother, Where art thou...:::::running for shelter::::: lol

Hippyt
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06-15-2001

Monday, March 21, 2005 - 1:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hippyt a private message Print Post    
Run away! That movie is great!

Hypermom
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08-13-2001

Monday, March 21, 2005 - 1:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hypermom a private message Print Post    
LOL It was one of the movies my son would find on the cable channels to get me to leave the room so he and his Dad could watch their action movies. The song alone, would make me run. ;)

Fabnsab
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08-07-2000

Monday, March 21, 2005 - 10:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Fabnsab a private message Print Post    
Thanks Eeyoreslament, who ever said blood made a family? That person obviously never had to deal with a sister void of a sense of humor...lol

I think this is one of those movies that people who hated it will still laugh if they hear a reference to it. It kinda seeps into your bloodstream after a while.

Melfie1222
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07-29-2002

Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 10:29 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Melfie1222 a private message Print Post    
Fabnsab, I love the call back to your sister.

I think I've seen this movie too many times. On Monday I was feeling like crap and thought I must be coming down with something. My best work friend was teasing me about being grouchy and I said "I don't feel good!" and it came out sounding very Napoleon-like, and not on purpose.

Hypermom
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08-13-2001

Thursday, March 24, 2005 - 8:46 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hypermom a private message Print Post    
Melfie, did you say Gosh and Sweet too?

Melfie1222
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07-29-2002

Saturday, March 26, 2005 - 12:09 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Melfie1222 a private message Print Post    
No, it was more of an ughhhh moment.

Eeyoreslament
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07-20-2003

Saturday, March 26, 2005 - 1:16 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Eeyoreslament a private message Print Post    
Or was it more of the extended outward breath, like when he's mad at Kip while on the phone outside the school office.....

How would I SPELL an extended outward breath?

*siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiggggggghhhhhhhh*

Happymom
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01-20-2003

Saturday, March 26, 2005 - 2:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Happymom a private message Print Post    
I guess I should watch this. I only saw bits and pieces during my daughter's slumber party. (The girls were all 11 and not too impressed with this movie. They said it was "weird." They probably didn't "get it.") You all are having so much fun with this movie. My 14 really liked it and keeps bugging me to watch it with her. I keep saying no and picking a different movie. I guess I'll really have to watch it this time because from the min. here and there, I didn't notice anything great or funny.

Eeyoreslament
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07-20-2003

Saturday, March 26, 2005 - 3:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Eeyoreslament a private message Print Post    
Happymom, it's just a movie about nothing in particular. The humour is in the mannerisms and quotes of the characters. I would venture to say it is very DRY humour, but if you like that kind of thing, then you would love this. I think Fabnsab said it best:

I think this is one of those movies that people who hated it will still laugh if they hear a reference to it.

That quote makes me think of this one guy at my work who is always questioning me and the bartender about what we found so funny about the movie. Then, whenever the bartender and I are imitating the movie, the guy who didn't like it laughs! LOL

The great thing about this movie is how CLEAN it is. I appreciate that someone can make such an entertaining movie, without the gratuitous swearing, nudity, and violence.

Happymom make sure you watch it! Then you can quote along with the rest of us!

Hippyt
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06-15-2001

Saturday, March 26, 2005 - 3:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hippyt a private message Print Post    
Yeah,and even the "bad" popular kids really weren't even that bad.

Legalboxer
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11-17-2003

Saturday, March 26, 2005 - 3:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Legalboxer a private message Print Post    
i think this is one of the few times i fell to peer pressure (ie all of you TVCH scroundels) and watched a movie that my initial gut said to avoid - and thanks to having higher expectations that i might actually like it based on how many others here did, i guess it just didnt do enough for me. I hate stupid humor (avoid movies like Dumb and Dumber) but like dry humor - but i think this is like Sideways - it was a movie i sat through and laughed because it was so unrealistic and stupid but at the same time i am thinking what is the point of watching this - just because a movie has funny scenes and good actors, as sideways did, doesnt mean its a great movie - and this one just didnt do it for me. i wont say its one of the worse movies of the year but it was just pointless to me, even if it had points in the movie.

(maybe i just think napoleon gave a bad name to all the loner kids (ie me at age 11) that had ninja obsessions and liked numshucks and fancy martial arts skills but definitely would never go around citing numshuck skills as one of their abilities.:-))


Eeyoreslament
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07-20-2003

Saturday, March 26, 2005 - 4:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Eeyoreslament a private message Print Post    
Legal, you are dead to me.

Legalboxer
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11-17-2003

Saturday, March 26, 2005 - 4:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Legalboxer a private message Print Post    
gosh

Eeyoreslament
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07-20-2003

Saturday, March 26, 2005 - 5:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Eeyoreslament a private message Print Post    
LOL!! Yay Legal!! You are back in the good books!

Actually, you were never dead to me...

Melfie1222
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07-29-2002

Saturday, March 26, 2005 - 10:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Melfie1222 a private message Print Post    
Yes, Eeyores... that was the sound that I meant.

Fabnsab
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08-07-2000

Saturday, March 26, 2005 - 11:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Fabnsab a private message Print Post    
See, Legal, love it or hate it...its burned on your brain!!

I can honestly say that I didn't want to see Sideways because I didn't like the writers last two movies. I was very pleasantly surprised and LOLed alot.

Legalboxer
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11-17-2003

Sunday, March 27, 2005 - 12:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Legalboxer a private message Print Post    
Fab - freaking everything gets burned into my brain. :-)

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Sunday, March 27, 2005 - 12:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
This is my son's absolute favorite movie. DD and I rented it for the plane ride to Chicago. We both fell in the camp of this is the lamest movie we have ever seen BUT we got great insight into my son's personality. Here all this time, I thought he was just being a surly teen, come to find out he's been imitating Napolean Dynamite! LOL Now, when he says 'gosh, that's the stupidest thing i ever heard!' I just call him Napolean. It totally deflates him and has cause alot of friction to be gone from around here.

Happymom
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01-20-2003

Saturday, May 21, 2005 - 8:39 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Happymom a private message Print Post    
Eeyore...I saw it! I agree, very funny! I even bought it, I almost never buy dvds. I also like how clean it is. My 14 year old loves this movie, she's been taking TaeKwonDo for 7 yr., lots of jokes there. On Mondays she tutors at a middle school, I have to pick her up there and take her to her school for her last period class. We drive by a gorgeous brown llama, she yells out the window at it! It's very funny. She also has red hair and freckles and is a good actress and can make herself sound like Napolean!

Thanks for rec. the movie!

Lycanthrope
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09-19-2002

Friday, June 10, 2005 - 9:35 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lycanthrope a private message Print Post    
Did you guys watch the Scripps National Spelling Bee on ESPN? One kid did a Napoleon Dynamite impression when he got his word. I forget the word, but when the announcer finished the definition of the word, the kid(in perfect Napoleon cadence and voice) asks "Does a chicken have large talons?"...most of the adults didn't get it, but there were some snickers from the youngsters. Personally, I laughed out loud. The kid got his word correctly and hurried off the stage when he didn't get huge laughter from the audience. It was really funny for those who got it.

Egbok
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07-13-2000

Friday, June 10, 2005 - 10:06 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Egbok a private message Print Post    
Lycanthrope, I didn't watch the Spelling Bee and I'm sorry that I missed it! Ever since watching the DVD Spellbound, my ears tend to perk up with news about the National Spelling Bee.

Sorry, I also tend to get OT...lol!! Back to Napoleon Dynamite.

Thanks for sharing this tidbit about Napoleon Dynamite. If I had been in the audience, I would have been LOL!!

In my rl job, working with high school students, I discovered that when I needed to help settle in a student during a pre-interview, I can throw in a ND quote and the student all of a sudden become alert, yet more relaxed in speaking with me. Their parent on the otherhand, usually sits there with an expression of "huh?" and yet tends to pick up that their child is more at ease.

Anyway, thanks so much for sharing!!


Lycanthrope
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09-19-2002

Friday, June 10, 2005 - 11:23 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lycanthrope a private message Print Post    
I can beleive that, Egbok. The kids I interact with always perk up when I spew a Napoleon-ism.

Landi
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07-29-2002

Friday, June 10, 2005 - 11:51 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Landi a private message Print Post    
okay, i finally saw it earlier this week. laughed at some parts, my favorite was the guy throwing the steak at napoleon. but most of it, i kinda shook my head and went. but i am cool now, cuz i can quote the movie, and i did dropping her and keegan off at youth group last night.