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Thought 19 and Counting Was Bad?

Proxima — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 10:24:18 +0000

The largest number of children born to one woman is recorded at 69. From 1725-1765, a Russian peasant woman gave birth to 16 sets of twins, 7 sets of triplets, and 4 sets of quadruplets.

And they didn’t even have health insurance!

Whoa, Castle Cliffhanger Wows!

Proxima — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 03:49:25 +0000

Stana Katic

Is Beckett Dead?

ABC TV – In a shocking cliffhanger, the question lingers, “Is Beckett Dead?”

The witty detective series is probably my favorite TV show currently on the air. Nathan Fillion, best know from “Firefly” TV series, plays Richard Castle, a writer following the NYPD on murder mysteries for literary inspiration. Stana Katic plays Kate Beckett, no nonsense cop who is Castle’s inspiration for his book character Nikki Heat. This show is fun to watch, and kind of reminds me of “Moonlighting”. That is without the song and dance routines.

Tonights episode, “Tick, Tick, Tick” quite literally ended with a bang. Castle figures out that a serial killing they have been investigating did not kill himself. As he warns Beckett, the bomb goes off blowing up Beckett’s apartment. So, is Beckett dead?

Fortunately, no. Sorry not a spoiler, just go to the IMDB listing for the show and Stana is credited for the rest of the season. Thank goodness, but ABC should control IMDB a little better.

Stupid Signage

Proxima — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:20:22 +0000

Earlier today I posted a dumb question billboard. It said, “Are the symptoms of schizophrenia interfering with your life?” But now I see several dumb signs, the first of which is census signs:

“If we don’t know how many people we have, how do we know how many trains we need?” Maybe count the number of people actually riding the trains, and is it a larger number than the number of seats? And,

“(Scribbled on sign) If we don’t know what color your skin is how will we oppress you?” Well besides not requiring grammer classes, I was unaware that Obama was oppressing people based on skin color. Thanks for the heads up!

Farah Fawcett, Dies at 62

Proxima — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:25:53 +0000

Farah dead at 62

I recieved a tweep from the Detroit Free Press and few minutes ago that Farrah Fawcett has died.

Before I became a big fan of Brooke Burke, there was Farrah Fawcett. Probably my first rememberance of Farrah was a toothpaste comercial. She always had the perfect smile. Teeth all in place, and so pearly white. It wasn’t until her role in Charlies Angels and that famous (infamous?) poster.

It wasn’t until after Charlies Angels did she gain acceptance and acclaim as an actress in The Burning Bed and Extremities. Often it would be overshadowed by Farrah’s personal life. Her marriages to Lee Majors and Ryan O’Neal often hit the tabloids.

In 2006, Farrah was diagnosed with cancer, and recently NBC played a documentary filmed by her and her friends called, “Farrah’s Story.”

Tonight there is scheduled an interview of Ryan O’Neal with Barbara Walters where reportedly Ryan has said that he and Farrah were to marry again. Alas, it probably didn’t happen.

Proper use of the Quotations

Proxima — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:04:17 +0000

On Twitter, Brent Spiner (yes Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation) re-tweeted messages about the proper use of the quotation mark. Now I’m no expert on the proper use of any punctuation mark, but I found an english teacher at Williams College.

The most common grammatical error in your papers is misplacing commas

and periods outside of quotation marks.

Periods go inside quotation marks, as in

Robert Frost is the author of “Design.”

Commas go inside quotation marks, as in

Robert Frost is the author of “Design,” as well as many other poems.

Question marks go outside quotation marks (unless, of course, they are part

of the quotation). As in

Is Robert Frost the author of “Design”?

Hope this clears it up!

Source:Professor Lawrence Raab, Williams College.