Against facetiousness, the bloggers themselves...

BoingBoing (via asagwe) points out that if one searches the Democrat-Gazette's website for other letters by Connie Meskimen, it becomes pretty clear that s/he is given to facetious humour, and the letter I quoted yesterday isn't meant seriously. Mea culpa for not checking the archives before I posted, but I'm pleased to see it's not genuine.

Snurk.

Via _scientists_, insert Inigo Montoya quote here.

Memeage: Movie keywords

Via silmaril and various others: try to identify these ten movies by a selection from their IMDB keywords (no looking it up). If it's any help, I've seen all of these.

1. Told in flashback, elevator, lawyer, cigar smoking.
2. Goldfish, German expressionism, spiral, pier. Picked by bunnyhugger.
3. Shot in the knee, double life, father figure, mind game.
4. Androgyny, night vision goggles, sequel, elevator. Picked by reynardo.
5. Boss, cockroach, bitten in the throat, nightclub. Picked by elynne.
6. Pitchfork, communism, paranoia, B movie. Picked by torin3.
7. Altering history, endless loop, zoo, epidemic. Picked by krfsm.
8. Altering history, motivational speaker, shot in the eye, love. Picked by hacked2death.
9. Fugitive, elderly, cellar, boarding house. Picked by reynardo.
10. Spiral staircase, redemption, hidden camera, realization. Picked by culfinriel.

For bonus points: what other keyword do all of these have in common? (It's not 'noir', BTW - quite a few of these would qualify for that, but not all.)