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| The Wanderer... |
 Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 12:34 am |
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What's the best movie name ever? Not necessarily the one that fits the film
best, but just the best title.
I was going to say "Jaw" because it's so clean or "Jurassic Park" because
it's so evocative. But I have to give it to "Teras Bulba", the name is just
cool even though the film is nothing. |
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| Avoid normal situations.... |
| Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 4:17 pm |
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I was a fan of _Paths of Glory_ for years before I took English Lit in
college and read Thomas Gray's poem "Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard".
As I read that line I had a serious "OMG!" moment as I suddenly realized what
the title of that old favorite of mine really meant.
As such, I'd say that's the greatest title just by virtue of taking almost
a decade to sneak up on me like that. (By the by, there's also a C. M.
Kornbluth short story entitled "Mute Inglorious Tam". Yet another reason I
don't regret a single day spent in college.)
Runner-up: _Sophie's Choice_, for a somewhat similar reason.
--
alt.flame Special Forces
"Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;
for the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened
against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me
without a cause.
For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer.
And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand.
When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin.
Let his days be few; and let another take his office.
Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread
also out of their desolate places.
Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his
labor.
Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favor
his fatherless children.
Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name
be blotted out.
Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the
sin of his mother be blotted out.
Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of
them from the earth.
Because that he remembered not to show mercy, but persecuted the poor and
needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.
As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing,
so let it be far from him.
As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come
into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.
Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for a girdle
wherewith he is girded continually.
Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the LORD, and of them that
speak evil against my soul.
But do thou for me, O GOD the Lord, for thy name's sake: because thy mercy is
good, deliver thou me.
For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the
locust.
My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.
I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shook their
heads.
Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to thy mercy:
that they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, LORD, hast done it.
Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed;
but let thy servant rejoice.
Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame; and let them cover themselves with
their own confusion, as with a mantle.
I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the
multitude.
For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that
condemn his soul." -- Psalm 109 |
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