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...going to suggest that television networks are going to learn any permanent lessons from one of their own mistakes, but I'm beginning to worry that the Florida flip-flop means that they're going to spend next rest of the evening behaving - ick - responsibly. No skylarking, no premature calls, no leaps of prognostication: just patient waiting and discussion. After the exit polls burned them once, we may have to wait until Dan Rather counts the last absentee ballot himself until we get a call in the Sunshine State. The note of caution seems to have spread to the talking...
When I asked a baking pro on Xpertsite (which is changing its name to Askme.com in March) for a creative alternative to chocolate-chip cookies, she suggested putting chow-mein noodles in the mix. Ick! My most pressing question, about how to revive a wilting African violet before it went to plant heaven, got no responses, even though I posted it on Abuzz, Xpertsite and Expertcentral. Queries to Knowpost on the number of states that do not have a death penalty (12 plus the District of Columbia) and the best sleeping position to avoid back pain (on your back with...
Grownups can act out revenge fantasies too. In Payback, Mel Gibson dishes it out (pulls a ring out of a punk's nose, shoots his rival's face off through a pillow) and takes it (gets punched, switch-bladed, shot and, ick, toe-hammered). The Matrix, the first 1999 film to hit $100 million at the box office, has more kung fu than gun fu but still brandishes an arsenal of firepower in its tale of outsiders against the Internet droids...
...WILL WIN: Ick. Probably Duvallbecause of Academy Guilt. But look for Coburn ifthere's to be an upset...
...increasingly looking for an all-purpose pop culture explanation for why everything has turned out so lousily. As explanations go, this sort of thing makes a superficial kind of sense, and it's more fun to play around with than Marxism or Freudianism or just about any other ism." Ick. Somebody, please, turn off the critics and pass the popcorn...