Happy Mother's Day! Here's a meme.

[averygoodun42]

Happy Mother's day!

Both the local rivers here in Podunk are threatening to flood. Western New Hampshire got a nasty bout of flooding last Fall, so I guess it's our turn now.

At least there aren't any gorges around here. In my home town of Boulder, flash floods were a terrifying prospect, because if the Nederland dam failed, lots of water would be rushing down a very narrow canyon at very high speeds. There's practically no time to react and get to higher ground, unless you hear the roar and know what it is, or are in hearing range of the warning sirens.

Fortunately, Boulder hasn't experienced a nasty flood in many, many years. Thirty-some years ago, though, Estes Park wasn't so lucky. That's why there are sirens now.

So, I'm glad there aren't any gorges near here. I'm also glad our house isn't in a flood plain, and we don't live near either of the rivers. :) Otherwise I'm enjoying the rain. Our swamp is getting nice and full, just in time for mosquito season!

Just please don't let the sump pump fail!


And because it's such a special day, here's that movie meme. ("Riiiight," you say. "Like you need an excuse.")

1. Pick 30 of your favourite movies. (or 15 or whatever)
2. Then pick one of your favourite quotes from each movie.
3. Post the quotes in your journal.
4. Have people try to guess what the movie is.
5. Either strike out the quote once it has been correctly identified, or place the guesser's user name directly after the quote.


1. Yeah, but you are aware that there's an invention called television, and on this invention they show shows, right?

2. I do not think it means what you think it means. ashfae and larilee at virtually the same time. THe princess Bride

3. Stop... stop... I want to go home...

4. Is that really what my hair looks like from behind? kismet0116 Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban

5. He had too much LDS in college. kismet0116 Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

6. "I hope you know what you're doing." "Yeah, me too." keladry_lupin The Empire Strikes Back

7. Father, that beautiful ass! Pink, soft, round like a pumpkin.

8. Last time I had a pap smear, the guy needed leather gloves and an oyster shucker.

9. My mother? Let me tell you about my mother. ashfae Bladerunner

10. Mr. President, we must not allow a mine shaft gap!

11. Just a bit of harmless brain alteration, that's all. randomchris Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were-rabbit

12. Ah, youth is wasted on the wrong people. ginny_weasley31 It's a WOnderful Life

13. I was cured, all right. (DH's pick)

14. How many times do I have to kill you, boy? larilee and 25775423 at pretty much the same time. Aladdin

15. Christmas? Christmas means dinner, dinner means death! Death means carnage; Christmas means carnage! keladry_lupin Babe

(and some really easy ones)

16. Badgers? Badgers? We don't need no stinking badgers! ashfae UHF

17. So the combination is one, two, three, four, five? That's the stupidest combination I've ever heard in my life! The kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage! ashfae Spaceballs

18. There can be only one. ashfae and larilee at virtually the same time. Highlander

(okay back to some more challenging ones)

19. Shut up, you American. You Americans, all you do is talk, and talk, and say "let me tell you something" and "I just wanna say." Well, you're dead now, so shut up. szara1121 Monty Python's Meaning of Life

20. Everybody's coming back to take stock of their lives. You know what I say? Leave your livestock alone.

21. He lets the last Hungarian go. He waits until his wife and kids are in the ground and then he goes after the rest of the mob. He kills their kids, he kills their wives, he kills their parents and their parents' friends. He burns down the houses they live in and the stores they work in, he kills people that owe them money. And like that he was gone. Underground. Nobody has ever seen him since. He becomes a myth, a spook story that criminals tell their kids at night. ashfae The Usual Suspects

22. Become vengeance, David. Become wrath.

23. "Hey Flaps, So what we were going to do?"
"I don't know, what'cha onwanna do?"
"Look Flaps, first I say 'what were going to do?' then you say 'I don't know, what'cha wanna do?' then I say 'what we're going to do' then you say what'cha wanna do' let's do something."
"Ok. What'cha wanna do?" keladry_lupin Disney's the Jungle Book

24. There must be security for all, or no one is secure. Now, this does not mean giving up any freedom, except the freedom to act irresponsibly. keladry_lupin and her dad. :) The Day the Earth Stood Still

25. I can avoid being seen if I wish, but to disappear entirely, that is a rare gift. ashfae The Fellowship of the Rings

26. Don't touch that please, your primitive intellect wouldn't understand things with alloys and compositions and things with... molecular structures.

27. No matter how many times you save the world, it always manages to get back in jeopardy again. Sometimes I just want it to stay saved! You know, for a little bit? I feel like the maid; I just cleaned up this mess! Can we keep it clean for... for ten minutes! randomchris and larilee at virtually the same time. The Incredibles

28. Did he actually refer to himself as "the talent"? larilee Groundhog Day

29. I hate the living. minuet99 Men in Black (I)

30. If you were waiting for the opportune moment, that was it. ashfae and larilee at virtually the same time. Pirates of the Carribean

Comments

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

2. Princess Bride, of course!

9. Bladerunner.

11. randomchris guesses Curse of the Were-rabbit

16. UHF

17. Spaceballs

18. Highlander (man, those last few were easy!)

21. Usual Suspects

25. Fellowship of the Ring

27: randomchris guesses The Incredibles

30. Pirates of the Carribean

Ahhh, geeky movies. Love 'em. =)

[averygoodun.livejournal.com]

You and Chris are right on all counts! Woohoo! I love geeky movies, too!