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...room, he asked me the usual questions of what my plans were for the night. “Good, Marco,” he said in his thick, Polish accent when I told him I was free. “Go and rent two movies, one action and one stupid comedy.” Before hanging up, he added one more detail: “Marco,” he said, “the stupider the better...

Author: By Mark A. Pacult, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Welcome Diversion | 4/23/2010 | See Source »

...stupid comedy is a curious sub-genre. Most often, movies of this type involve a character who undergoes a great deal of absurd physical tribulations as a result of his or her own stupidity. The character is usually completely unaware of how stupid they are. Example: Lloyd Christmas telling the jetway attendant “It’s okay—I’m a limo driver” when told he can’t run down the jetway because the plane’s gone. He does, and falls onto the asphalt. I don?...

Author: By Mark A. Pacult, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Welcome Diversion | 4/23/2010 | See Source »

...looked it up. A TCAF is a Tactical Conflict Assessment Framework - in English, an interview script. "Anyway, we've been asking the TCAF questions for months now. People look at us and think, 'Why do you keep asking the same questions and not doing anything? You must be one stupid bunch of Caucasians,' " Ellis continued, replaying the dialogue. "It's totally insulting: 'What do you need here?' 'Open the frigging school, just like last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghanistan: A Tale of Soldiers and a School | 4/15/2010 | See Source »

...decided to ignore the National Day of Unplugging - a 24-hour break from the Internet, TV, iPods, GPS and phones - on March 19 largely because I thought it was stupid. I hate those acts of righteous self-denial that people do just so they can brag about them: health cleanses, bow hunting, reclaiming your virginity. So when the organizers called me the following week and asked if I would participate as the first in a series of celebrity unpluggers, I immediately thought, This is a fantastic idea. If it went well, I'd be trading 24 hours offline for hundreds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Trouble with Going Off the Grid | 4/12/2010 | See Source »

When I told my lovely wife Cassandra I'd be electronically disappearing, she liked the idea so much, she decided to do it too. "We'll make love by candlelight," she said. I was already changing my mind about this idea's being stupid. (See the best travel gadgets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Trouble with Going Off the Grid | 4/12/2010 | See Source »

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