Random Foo of the Week

First, tomorrow's my birthday. Not all that important and I'll be doing more of a substantive birthday post tomorrow, but this is the random post and it's unrelated to anything else in the post so it fits here too.

I've mentioned before how I'd like to ban newscasters from using the meaningless phrase 'made history'.

I would also like to ban them from the phrase 'You might be surprised.' in their promos, and all variations of it. There's a new poll about so-and-so. What are the results? You might be surprised! What's the law about such-and-such, and what rights do you have? You might be surprised!

Yes, I might be surprised. ( Rant proceedeth )

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Moving on, a phrase has been bouncing around in my head for the last week or so. I don't know what started it, specifically, some other random line of thought, but the phrase itself stuck with me - "The purpose of life is to create fiction." ( Read more... )

Finally, some thoughts on Stargate: SG-1 Season 9 and Stargate Atlantis Season 2, since they just aired the Season 9 finale tonight here. Spoilers behind the cut, nothing really big, but if you happen to be one of those who doesn't like to hear anything and haven't yet seen Season 9 because it airs in syndication for you or whatever, well, there'll be something.
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And thus ends this random post.