Have a very merry, holly holy, cherry cherry Christmas!

Oh Neil, you're just the best.

WTB

Picked a movie for this week that I think everyone will be familiar with. Not a Teri Garr flick, but it does have a neurotic woman in it who is pretty funny though she's more of a role player. I'm starting decently obscure here, but I think it's recognizable to big fans. After that, I think pretty much every line will be giveaways, so guess early!

Write me at Facebook with your guesses.

Person 1: __________, what do you like to do?
Person 2: I dunno... Burn stuff?

Tuesday clue:

One character teaching another character a handshake:
"Slap it." (performs the action)
"Shoot it." (performs the action)
"Kaboot it."

Wednesday clue:

"Dude, is my face okay? I think you melted it off."

Thursday giveaways:

"I have been touched by your kids... and I'm pretty sure that I've touched them."

(from a separate scene):

"In the words of AC/DC: We roll tonight... to the guitar bite... and for those about to rock... I salute you."

Bippin Beethoven

Alright, so I figured because I had the WTB for the week of Thanksgiving, I would do a movie that had something to do with turkey day. The only one that came to mind was Beethoven, although I'm not sure if there is even a Thanksgiving scene in the movie, I just remember the cover of the VHS. I watched this movie a lot when I was little. I don't really remember really super liking it or anything, just watching it a bunch.

Its a pretty lame flick and not very quotable. I figured it would be kind of a tougher one so I didn't count on getting too many guesses, in fact I was a little worried anyone would get it.

Dan submitted the first correct guess on Wednesday. He said Hope helped him out. I know help from one's spouse is allowed, but I dunno what the rules are for children, especially smart kids who routinely beat their Phd-weilding fathers at scrabble..... Just sayin'

B sent in the next Wright guess 1 hour 14 minutes later. Tough break, B! Then on Friday and Saturday it was George, who apparently is a Charles Groden fan, Em, who claims she was fairly oblivious to the existence of the film, followed by Matt, Amy, and Cat.

So I guess Dan wins. But I think he kinda cheated by askin Hope. You guys figure it out. If he is indeed found guilty of this heinous crime, then B wins and I like it when B wins. It makes me happy.


BTW - The blog was awful quiet this week. Heck, I didn't even get one complaint about my playlist. Lame! I was really hopin someone was gonna comment on it. Especially the Flogging Molly song, cause it's super interesting if you research the lyrics. Oh well, I guess I'll just have to cook up a nice batch of twangy little nuggets for next time.

Peace and blessings. Peace and blessings.

UNDER THE RADAR

I recommend this book to you that read. David Baldacci is just about my favorite author. He writes crime thrillers but I saw this small novel in the library and read it yesterday. Very nice and well done. Kinda "To Kill a Mockingbirdish" Set is the eary 40's. 13 year old girl, 7 year old boy, bad red-neck man, lots of humor, adversity and love and triumph. New York City family has car accident and the childern and comatose mother go to live with the 80 year old great, great grandmother in the hills of Virginia and it's the story of their experience and adventures on the farm. Nicely done and read it for an uplift of spirit if you haven't already done so.

Al Pacino is still awesome

I thought since the blog was so quiet, and I have already done the crickets bit, I would post this video because it sure gave me a good laugh!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS61hWuh43Y&feature=related

Lame, this video doesn't allow for embedding. But there is the link.

Guess the Mippin Bovie

WooHoo! Go me! So this was a total fluke- Saturday night I went to go hang out with the girls who live in the apartment upstairs from me, they fed me some pie and we all sat down and watched Taken.

To be honest, I don't care for the movie much. I'm not a huge fan of ridiculous plots and unnecessary, over-the-top action flicks. The daughter was so stupid she made me wanna slap her around a bit. But on the upside, I do likes me some Liam Neeson, and he definitely was a B.A. in this movie.

Even having seen it the night before, I probably wouldn't have won if I hadn't spent so much time quoting and laughing and making fun of Neeson's character. So cheesy, so macho, too easy to poke fun at. I remember when Kyle made that prank call , 'twas a glorious moment in comedic history.


Here's your Bippin Monday Quote:

"I'm so excited. That was my very first felony. I've commited a lot of misdemeanors, but I do believe that was my very first felony!"

It's Wednesday and I have yet to receive a guess...you guys are making me nervous. Think! Thin! Think!

Wednesday Clue:

"We're goldfish people, we're antfarm people. We're not dog people."


Let's give this sucker away....

"No matter how many showers I take I still smell Beethoven all over me."


Good Luck...Bart Luck.

WTB: Taken

Alex won!!! Yay Spoon!!! He saw the movie Saturday night, and then got it at noon on Sunday. Lucky choice of film!! Pops got it next, I have to share his message because it was so dang cute. "It's the girls dad. She gets kidnapped in Paris (ha, Paris, France, B.) Laim Neeson goes after her and kills a bunch a guys. Good action flick and revenge plot. My favorite plot and I saw this again about 6 weeks ago. I am pretty sure the quote is from "TAKEN". It took ahwile to put it together." I didn't choose it because it spends a lot of time in Paris, but that's such a cute thought. Also, LAIM Neeson. Lame Neeson, hehe. Anyways, the rest of the Wotherspoon family got it on Wednesday after the second clue, then Emily, Amy, Susie and Haley all got it after the Friday giveaway.

I've only seen this movie once, but it was very entertaining. SOO unrealistic, but still fun. I remember making fun of a lot of things, the giveaway line being one. How stupid the girls are, how the daughter runs everywhere she goes, how laim :-) it would be to follow U2 around Europe, the girl wanting to leave her father's side and run to her mother after her ordeal, etc. It's one of those one in a billion scenarios that's still fun.

I'm going to miss my playlist :-(

The Best Second Kiss in Movies ???

I was watching the last 30 minutes of "Last of the Dogmen" last night before work. It is the best Tom Berenger movie I have seen. Anyway, near the end and he leaves Barbara Hershey with the indians. The have developed a relationship but short of physical, he gives her a kiss goodby and gets on his horse and starts to ride off, the stops and turns the horse around and rides back and gets off the horse and gives her a great big passion kiss. Nice! I thought to myself, there is a subject for a posting. Whats the best second kiss in filmdom.


If I remember, The Jack, kisses Helen Hunt a second time near the bakery after the first was rather lame. Anyway, there are two to consider. Let's hear comments from you movie peeps regarding this important subject.

Can't get enough super golden crisp

So...
I don't post things here, in fact I rarely comment. It's nothing personal, just not my bag.

I have really wanted to do an ode to Emily for her birthday, which has been fun (kind of)

First-
I love Emily. I love Emily!!!
When we first started to work together I always thought her name was Sue, and I thought she was snooty and stuck up...but she was just dead sexy (is that ok to say here?)
I really loved her smile, and her eyes, come to think of it I just loved her whole face, it was refreshing.
After working together for some time I realized that she wasn't too stuck up. She had a sense of humor that cracked me up. We watched a show of some people getting hit by cars, not a really funny scene unless you watched it with Em, then it was a riot...just flipping feet over heads.
I'm pretty shy, and though I really liked Em it took me a long time to ask her out-and then it wasn't like a real date, it was out for a drink. (a stiff coke at V.I.)

Emily and I are pretty different. She likes different music, she likes movies, she likes reading and stuff that makes people smart like artwork and junk. I like good music, not so much with movies, I only read church books as lame as that sounds, and I like things that make people dumb like sports...
Emily has this infectious way about the things that she likes, she makes you feel like her smart people stuff is neat and that you should get to know it. I discovered over the course of us dating that some of her tastes are tasty to me too.
I still marvel and learn so much from her and her passions.

Married life has been a blast with Emily. Rarely do we find dull moments, and our conversations are rich and fulfilling. She has to be some kind of woman to put up with me. I'm pretty stubborn and thoughtless, and she is just good.

I love my 2 daughters. They both have so much Emily in them. I love to watch Emily with them. I come from a home with a crazy mother, and a less than stable environment, so I get taken back to see what a good mother my wife is. Em is the most tender and compassionate selfless person I have ever know or heard rumor of. She has the ability to love people that few people possess.

I remember when she moved to NY and I went to visit I had great expectations of all the time we'd spend together...One day I was wondering what we were going to do together, and I was informed that I could do what ever I wanted, but that she was going to go give service at a homeless shelter/soup kitchen called 'loaves and fishes'. I cannot tell you how that touched my life, I think about it often still- you have a young, beautiful girl who is in NY on some (to me) pseudo extended vacation, who took the time and felt the inner calling to serve at some christian outreach place.

I love Emily. I Love Emily!!!!

Em, you are the best thing that has happened to me, and that continues to happen to me. Thank you for loving me, thank you for being such a good mother. And thank you for being you.

HAPPY BIrTHDAY!

Good Luck Bart Luck

Just going through older posts and thought Dan needed an answer to his inquiry regarding "good luck-bart luck"

Well, I guess to understand this completely, you have to know (and you probably already know, being a part of the fam) that in this family-

#1 Nothing slides. If you do something even a little embarrassing, it doesn't go unnoticed. You don't get away with anything.

#2 It is usually repeated and quoted for years and years, and ends up being a TOTAL exaggeration of how it was originally spoken or done.

So, about 5 or 6 years ago, Amy, a few of her kids, and I were playing the game "Pit" on the Phisters living room floor. It was REALLY late at night and we had been playing a long time. If you aren't familiar with the game, it is based on the stock market and you all play at the same time without taking turns, trading commodities by yelling "2!!! 3!!! 3!!!" and so on. It makes for total chaotic maddening fun.

Well, in between games we got talking about our individual game strategies, and Amy wanted to say something like "I always have good luck trading barley"

But- it didn't quite come out like that. (I think you can probably see where this is going now)

She said "I have always good luck...with...bart...luck" HAHA!!

I'm sure we have all started a sentence wrong, and it just goes downhill from there. You just can't seem to bounce back and pronounce your words right, or you can't stop making crazy word combinations as your brain tries to correct your earlier mistakes. Perfect Wright laughing material.

Not only were the words totally freaking awesome, but I seem to remember a very monotone, tired voice saying it. Which has now transformed into putting your hands in nerdy "Spock" position and saying GOOD LUCK... BART LUCK in a robot voice.

**********Update*************

I happen to have a picture of "good luck bart luck" in action!

This picture took place while Matt was on his mission and we were together playing games and things got a little silly. We missed Matt, but we happen to have a cardboard cut out of him (well, of George Bush with Matt's face on it), so we parked him with us while we played games and did "good luck bart luck" so we could send it to him.

(Special note: Cat got the hands wrong if you look closely).

Love,

Emily

There you have it! I can't wait for our next victim... Oh, and you better believe I have been the brunt of many family laughs. But mostly it's Catherine.

LOVE YOU!! KISSES!!!