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I'm going to watch today ... your newsletter is great! I just subscribed

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Thanks very much!

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"rubies and Riunite"

Awesome alliteration!

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Thanks! Just wait'll I bust out the rhyming dictionary!

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Hard to believe that this was the sequel to Chinatown.

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"Forget it, Bo. It's Tentacle Town."

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How long does it take for octopus tentacles to grow back?

It takes about three days for cells to cover the amputation site and take on a hook-like shape. Within two weeks, stem cells and blood vessels pour in. In approximately 130 days, the octopus will have gained another fully-functioning arm

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You know Michael, I think you've just proven that this film would be ten times better if every few minutes a VH-1 Pop-Up Video-style bubble would appear on screen with octopus trivia.

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<<Athena survives and clings to the first wreck, but almost immediately gets sexually harassed to death by some Hentai tentacle porn.>>

Meaning the octopus is now only three degrees of separation from Arnold Schw-- I mean Strong in Hercules in NY!

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considering the amount of action the octopus was getting it's more like 1 1/2 degrees of separation

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SCOTT: (RUNNING RED STRING BETWEEN PUSHPINS ON A BULLETIN BOARD) As I will prove, using geometric logic, every bad movie is connected to every other bad movie, because there ARE NO COINCIDENCES! There are only CONSPIRACIES and CAUL FAT, which is very useful when you have a really lean cut of meat and want to make your dish a little more unctuous...

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Who'd you just caul fat?????

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<<Shelley Winters, a loving, caring, slatternly drunk who regales him with tales of her latest one-night stand while powering down her first Bloody Mary of the day. >>

And all I gotta do is act naturally...

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They could have used an octopus in "On Golden Pond." That would have made the movie!

There's probably a metaphor in there somewhere, but I'm just too lazy to find it. :)

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The more I think about this, the more apt it becomes. There's a senility subplot in the film, so if Henry Fonda, sitting there on the edge of Golden Pond, saw a gigantic octopus head glide by on a tow rope, he could just blame the dementia.

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"Where are the loons, Norman?"

"Sitting behind the camera, wearing ascots."

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::commence furious hat tipping::

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