Little people with giant pumpkins

My sister was hanging out with a bunch of friends last night, and for some reason the others decided to watch LOTR: Return of the King. Only, they skipped to the last like 30-45 minutes of the movie. Alex has never read the books or seen any of the movies, so she was confused as hell. She told me of her experience when she got home:

"They kept trying to explain stuff, but it only made it worse. There was this really old skinny guy who talked in a weird voice. He scared me. And then he bit someone's finger off! It was sooooo gross!"

"At the end, the little hobbits had a huge pumpkin in a cart, and I asked everyone if it was really a big pumpkin, or if it was just a normal pumpkin carried by little people. They all laughed at me."

I think it was a valid question.
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My brother went to the Homecoming dance last night. He was talking about what happened: "Yeah, like a circle formed for people to show off, but like, only a few people actually got in there and showed off. There was one guy who did a really good moonwalk, then everyone was too embarrassed to go in there."

"Finally, one Mexican kid got in there and danced really good, like break dancing and stuff."

"I bet he doesn't have good grades."

... wow.
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My dad got an EeeeeeeeeePeeCee, and it only reaffirmed my dislike of the things. It's just too small for me. Typing on the keyboard is awkward, because I have big hands. If I traveled like he does and was constantly on an airplane, I might enjoy it, but even then the short battery life is a turn off for me. I bet you couldn't even get through one movie. That said, he had me put season 1 of The Wire onto his 54GB flash drive. I expect a request for season 2 shortly.
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It's wierd for me when I watch TV shows and see actors from one show suddenly appear on another. Even if a show is over and done with, sometimes it's just odd to see them in a different role. The Wire is the show that has most recently done this for me, because I just watched all 5 seasons within a span of maybe a month. Now, I'm seeing characters from it on different shows, and it's just strange. Marlo Stanfield is like punching through people's bodies, and Frank Sabatka (sp?) is now a detective is some hillbilly town investigating some murders (last I saw, the Greek dumped him in the bay).

It's that time of the year, where good TV comes back on. There's a new show I've been watching kinda on a whim, called True Blood. It's... only okay, but I like it more for the premise than anything. It's set in a world where vampires have made themselves known to the world. It started when a Japenese company started mass producing synthesized blood, which allowed vamps to stop feeding on people. There was a whole thing similar to the Civil Rights movement, except applied to vamps. But, similarly to the civil rights movement, even after vamps got full citizen's rights, they are still discriminated against.

Just an interesting senario, imo.

~ Nick
You know that I am called the Count, Because I really love to count