Random Thoughts

[jenniferofthejungle]

Men can now experience the joys of menstruation.

http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2010/06/fi...monthly-cycle/


I can't wait for the machine that allows me to experience what it's like to get kicked in the nuts! woot! Technology!

[Mysterious Dude]

Whatever would the world do without Japan?

[Mara]

I'm getting old. I've been making a wish list of things I need for my house, and for the last three hours I've been trying to remember what to call those thin square cloths that go in the kitchen.

Kitchen... cloths. Kitchen towels. Kitchen rags. (No, not rags!) Kitchen... thin... things. Colorful things with many uses!


I just had to google the damn things. Dish cloths. I need dish cloths.

*headsmack*

[[ETM]]

We have a neat word - "krpa" - which pretty much covers any piece of cloth you use to wipe stuff anywhere, from "dish cloth" to "floor rag".

[Mara]

We have a neat word - "krpa" - which pretty much covers any piece of cloth you use to wipe stuff anywhere, from "dish cloth" to "floor rag".

It would be so useful if it could be pronounced!

:lol:

For real, how do you say that?

[[ETM]]

It would be so useful if it could be pronounced!

:lol:

For real, how do you say that?

Hmm... "cr" as in "crawl", and "pah". Cr-pah.
Yeah, we have some pretty snazzy words beginning with three or even four consonants.:lol:

[Mara]

Hmm... "cr" as in "crawl", and "pah". Cr-pah.
Yeah, we have some pretty snazzy words beginning with three or even four consonants.:lol:

The only way I can get all those consonants out is to put the stress on the second syllable, like cr-PAH. Is that close?

Because I may appropriate that word.

[[ETM]]

The only way I can get all those consonants out is to put the stress on the second syllable, like cr-PAH. Is that close?

Here's a funny scene from a Croatian comedy, where the stoner is supposed to use the word as code if the police comes by to warn his buddy robbing the sports betting place...
[youtube]fgApZt71XAk[/youtube]
:lol:

[Ezee E]

Anyone know about this infrared technology with grills? I'm about to get a grill, and I see this neat looking grill that's a bit more expensive, but with infrared technology.

Stainless steel as well. Seems easier to clean, but I'm just curious.

[Mara]

Hmm. One of my insane online goose chases (geese chases?) has stonewalled.

I went to middle school / high school with a girl named Carla. We weren't close. For a year, maybe a year and a half she kind of disappeared and I think went to live her dad, and then came back. I didn't really pay attention because we weren't really friends.

Then, some time in the early 90's I was flipping through afternoon television and happened upon a perfectly awful teen show, like Saved By The Bell but less awesome, with poorer acting and really bad production values, and I swear to sweet heaven, Carla was on the show.

And then I started to wonder if she had left for a year and a half to try and make it as an actress. It seems like the kind of thing that would have gone around as a rumor if it had happened, but given the atrocious quality of the show, maybe she had hidden it.

Fast forward fifteen years and change, I'm putting my old yearbooks on a bookshelf in my new house and BLAMMO I must know if Carla was on that show or I would die. So I flipped through the yearbook until I found her, because I couldn't remember her last name. It was Dean. Carla Dean.

Then I looked for her on imdb, but found nothing. (Except a make-up artist who isn't her.) But maybe she went by a different name? I must find the show!

It had struck me, at the time, that it was a Disney Channel mid-afternoon sort of programming, so I went searching through the early-nineties programming, and didn't find anything.

I gave it up for a few days, until it occurred to me this morning that the show wasn't Disney channel: it screamed Nickelodeon. So I wiki'd Nickelodeon teen programming and found the show. Wow. It was called "Hillside" or "Fifteen" depending on whether or not it was being shown in Canada, and it was a steaming turd. Really. The worst show.

I pulled up imdb and looked for Carla Anything, but still no go.

So I YouTubed clips of the show (HAHAHAHAHAHA) and sure enough, the third clip I checked out had HER. Carla. I swear, it looks exactly like her. And, luckily, it's one of those shows where everyone says everyone's names all the time. ("Hi Ashley!" "Hi Peter! Hi Matt") When Maybe-Carla came on, they called her Carson. Or Arson. Or.... I scanned through the imdb cast list... Arseman! Which is both the name of the actress and the name of the character. Clever.

Except, wait. Arseman Yohannes doesn't sound a damn thing like Carla Dean. Not even a little. Is it possible that this whole thing was just about some strange Carla Doppleganger? If only I could find a bio for Miss Arseman Yohannes, but I can't, because that crap show is the only thing she ever did.

As a matter of fact, when I googled Arseman Yohannes what I found was... a review for lentil soup at Bidonville Bistro in Brooklyn, New York, 47 Willoughby Ave (between Adelphi St & Clermont Ave.) And there's a picture! And...

...well...

It's not a great picture, but that might be the same Arseman Yohannes from the show. She has the same sort of ethnicity. But she's wearing a hat. Whether or not she is Carla Dean is even more vague.

So, I'm stuck. Unless.

Unless someone who lives in Brooklyn (like, say, Number8) felt like going and getting a bowl of soup and then being like, "Wait, Arseman? Arseman Yohannes??? Get OUT OF TOWN. You were my favorite character from Fifteen AKA Hillside between seasons 2 and four! WHAT A CRAZY CRAZY COINCIDENCE!" And then if she admits to being on the show, the person could say, "And by any chance did you attend Hannah Middle School in East Lansing, Michigan going by the name Carla Dean?"

I'm just throwing out thoughts, here.

[Kurosawa Fan]

Hmm. One of my insane online goose chases (geese chases?) has stonewalled.

I went to middle school / high school with a girl named Carla. We weren't close. For a year, maybe a year and a half she kind of disappeared and I think went to live her dad, and then came back. I didn't really pay attention because we weren't really friends.

Then, some time in the early 90's I was flipping through afternoon television and happened upon a perfectly awful teen show, like Saved By The Bell but less awesome, with poorer acting and really bad production values, and I swear to sweet heaven, Carla was on the show.

And then I started to wonder if she had left for a year and a half to try and make it as an actress. It seems like the kind of thing that would have gone around as a rumor if it had happened, but given the atrocious quality of the show, maybe she had hidden it.

Fast forward fifteen years and change, I'm putting my old yearbooks on a bookshelf in my new house and BLAMMO I must know if Carla was on that show or I would die. So I flipped through the yearbook until I found her, because I couldn't remember her last name. It was Dean. Carla Dean.

Then I looked for her on imdb, but found nothing. (Except a make-up artist who isn't her.) But maybe she went by a different name? I must find the show!

It had struck me, at the time, that it was a Disney Channel mid-afternoon sort of programming, so I went searching through the early-nineties programming, and didn't find anything.

I gave it up for a few days, until it occurred to me this morning that the show wasn't Disney channel: it screamed Nickelodeon. So I wiki'd Nickelodeon teen programming and found the show. Wow. It was called "Hillside" or "Fifteen" depending on whether or not it was being shown in Canada, and it was a steaming turd. Really. The worst show.

I pulled up imdb and looked for Carla Anything, but still no go.

So I YouTubed clips of the show (HAHAHAHAHAHA) and sure enough, the third clip I checked out had HER. Carla. I swear, it looks exactly like her. And, luckily, it's one of those shows where everyone says everyone's names all the time. ("Hi Ashley!" "Hi Peter! Hi Matt") When Maybe-Carla came on, they called her Carson. Or Arson. Or.... I scanned through the imdb cast list... Arseman! Which is both the name of the actress and the name of the character. Clever.

Except, wait. Arseman Yohannes doesn't sound a damn thing like Carla Dean. Not even a little. Is it possible that this whole thing was just about some strange Carla Doppleganger? If only I could find a bio for Miss Arseman Yohannes, but I can't, because that crap show is the only thing she ever did.

As a matter of fact, when I googled Arseman Yohannes what I found was... a review for lentil soup at Bidonville Bistro in Brooklyn, New York, 47 Willoughby Ave (between Adelphi St & Clermont Ave.) And there's a picture! And...

...well...

It's not a great picture, but that might be the same Arseman Yohannes from the show. She has the same sort of ethnicity. But she's wearing a hat. Whether or not she is Carla Dean is even more vague.

So, I'm stuck. Unless.

Unless someone who lives in Brooklyn (like, say, Number8) felt like going and getting a bowl of soup and then being like, "Wait, Arseman? Arseman Yohannes??? Get OUT OF TOWN. You were my favorite character from Fifteen AKA Hillside between seasons 2 and four! WHAT A CRAZY CRAZY COINCIDENCE!" And then if she admits to being on the show, the person could say, "And by any chance did you attend Hannah Middle School in East Lansing, Michigan going by the name Carla Dean?"

I'm just throwing out thoughts, here.

:lol:

This is why you are NEVER allowed to leave Match Cut. EVER. I don't care if we're all 70 years old and technology has completely changed, we have to find a way for the board to continue traveling through whatever shape the internet takes so that, when I'm old and decrepit and looking for something to entertain me, I can run across a post like this.

[Mara]

I can never, ever leave Match-Cut because instead of being repelled by my borderline-mental-illness you guys seems to find it amusing.

:lol:

[D_Davis]

Anyone know about this infrared technology with grills? I'm about to get a grill, and I see this neat looking grill that's a bit more expensive, but with infrared technology.

Stainless steel as well. Seems easier to clean, but I'm just curious.

You should definitely get one.

[[ETM]]

number8 needs to step up. And figure out how a woman can be called "Arseman" properly.

[Mara]

number8 needs to step up. And figure out how a woman can be called "Arseman" properly.

Come on. That's not even a name. It's just a rude nickname for a proctologist.

[[ETM]]

Come on. That's not even a name. It's just a rude nickname for a proctologist.

Or a prank call at Moe's Tavern.

[number8]

This is a no.



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Show Spoiler

Maybe.

]

[Mara]

Think for a minute about this poor girl.

First, she gets named "Arseman" AKA "My Parents Hate Me and Refuse to Pay for My Therapy."

Then you dream about being a star and instead end up on some really crappy television show that nobody remembers as The Ethnic Girl.

Then you (possibly) go to school with me while tragically never becoming my friend.





8, I want you to think about the small ray of sunshine you could bring into this woman's life by pretending to remember her shitty television show and sussing out if I went to school with her. You'd be like some kind of freaking American hero.

[number8]

By the way, Ryan Reynolds was on Fifteen. For all four seasons.

[Mara]

I actually recognized the blond chica, Ashley, as that one blond bride lady from that one season of 24 who was marrying a Middle Eastern guy who we all thought was a terrorist, but, SHOCKER MISDIRECTION, the blond lady was the real terrorist, take that, racist us!

Figures she'd grow up to be a terrorist. That dialogue was very scarring.

[NickGlass]

As a matter of fact, when I googled Arseman Yohannes what I found was... a review for lentil soup at Bidonville Bistro in Brooklyn, New York, 47 Willoughby Ave (between Adelphi St & Clermont Ave.)

I nearly walked by this place just yesterday.

[Mara]

I nearly walked by this place just yesterday.

I CHALLENGE YOU!

[chrisnu]

I actually recognized the blond chica, Ashley, as that one blond bride lady from that one season of 24 who was marrying a Middle Eastern guy who we all thought was a terrorist, but, SHOCKER MISDIRECTION, the blond lady was the real terrorist, take that, racist us!

Figures she'd grow up to be a terrorist. That dialogue was very scarring.

Laura Harris. I remember her from Dead Like Me.

[[ETM]]

Laura Harris. I remember her from Dead Like Me.

Oh, Daisy! She's cool. I always liked her.

She was on the short-lived "Defying Gravity", too.

[MadMan]

I actually recognized the blond chica, Ashley, as that one blond bride lady from that one season of 24 who was marrying a Middle Eastern guy who we all thought was a terrorist, but, SHOCKER MISDIRECTION, the blond lady was the real terrorist, take that, racist us!

Figures she'd grow up to be a terrorist. That dialogue was very scarring.

Hah, Season 2 is still one of the most over the top, ludricusly entertainings seasons in 24 history. Since I bought it two years ago, I should really revisit the whole thing again.