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Archive for February, 2006

Amazing but true

Posted in Random random thoughts on February 20th, 2006 by Chris

Okay, you know the words fiancé and fiancée?

I always thought they were just variations on the same word, or that fiancé was just some ignorant misspelling of fiancée. 

Well today I just found out that they are two separate words!  Fiancé means ‘a guy who’s engaged’, and fiancée means ‘a girl who’s engaged’!! I didn’t know that!!!

Keep in mind that I’ve never had a single French lesson.  So wow, in French, all you gotta do is add Es till you get the right gender?  Well that’s pretty easy, maybe I should’ve taken French over Spanish. 

I’m sure this means nothing to most anyone, but to me this is pretty exciting news.

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Review - The Gay Cowboy Movie

Posted in Reviews of unlikely subjects, Movies on February 7th, 2006 by Chris

BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
a.k.a. The Gay Cowboy Movie
Movie Review

Okay, really?

Now I’m not one for the gay movies.  Call it an eccentricity of mine, but I am just not interested in guys in love with each other.  Especially if they’re gonna be expressing that love visually.  Bleah.  That’s just something I personally would rather steer clear of.  Odd I know.

But come on, a COWBOY movie? Was that really necessary? The one genre which you should be able to count on for just killin’ and gunfightin’ and pretty saloon ladies and gamblin’ and drinkin’ and then more killin’ is the Western. Read more »

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