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[scarfman]

• I only recently learned that the internet idiom om nom nom nom is a transliteration of the Cookie Monster eating.
• At the store I saw a cereal box with an offer for a Star Trek t-shirt, with the insignia over the heart. The one illustrated was red. Who would want a red one?
• The problem with Men in Black II isn't that Will Smith couldn't carry a movie by himself without Tommy Lee Jones, cuz we all know he can. The problem was Agent K can't carry a Men in Black movie without Agent J. Unfortunately this is exactly the sort of thing that you can't know until you try it once.
• Weird Al's Eat It video is artistry in slapstick, but there's none funnier than Chevy Chase's You Can Call Me Al.
• [On my flist I was asked where my logon name comes from.] When I was a freshman at Northwestern I had a red scarf my mother had given me that I wore all the time. Sometimes my dorm buddies would call me Scarfman. One night late in the last quarter, on one of our excursions to the pizza place that didn't card, I lost it. It was replaced successively by handmade red scarves by my best friend from high school, my first lover, and my last lover (twenty-two year wedding anniversary next October).
  In May of 1995 when my mother recommended the ISP in my town as the best deal she'd seen listed anywhere for us to get online, and the system asked for a logon of up to eight letters, scarfman was what I thought of. It remains my first choice for logon names to this day, though I have been known to go with sc4rfm4n if I must.
• Torchwood: Children of Earth is airing in the US two weeks after it airs in the UK. I must now decide whether to read the spoilers on my flist.

Comments

[daibhid-c.livejournal.com]

I think I assumed scarfman was a Fourth Doctor reference.

[scarfman]

The first red scarf predated my exposure to Doctor Who.

But I've got one of those too, also made by the creator of the second red scarf.

[billfl.livejournal.com]

Scotty wore a red shirt, so they can't *all* be doomed.

[omorka.livejournal.com]

Re: "om nom nom" - I didn't figure that out until about the fifth or sixth time I read it, myself.

[scarfman]

I didn't figure it out. I had to read it somewhere.

[kiri-l.livejournal.com]

Cookie Monster.. really? Learn something new every day..

My LJ will be Torchwood Spoiler free. You may read (or not) in safety. =)

[athelind.livejournal.com]

At the store I saw a cereal box with an offer for a Star Trek t-shirt, with the insignia over the heart. The one illustrated was red. Who would want a red one?

Engineers.

[qtrhorserider.livejournal.com]

Solving your Torchwood dilema even as we speak....

It's about time for a new red scarf, isn't it luv?