Mutterings continued.

I've just come back from seeing Shrek and noshing dinner with Rob, Leece, her mum and uncle. I know people not a million miles from these pages have said how much they dislike the film, but.....I liked it, so there! Film Reference Spotto was a lot of fun (as was watching Ariel the mermaid being eaten by sharks) and I really, really liked Puss in Boots. Being the mad old cat lady I am, or plan to be, I couldn't help but like him and cheer when the annoying poodle was flattened by a stage diving Shrek.

There was a trailer for the travesty known as Thunderbirds. Ditto Garfield - couldn't the film makers at least have Odie look like Odie??

We had a good night last night - I made beef and mushroom casserole (not happy with the meat, I think I'll be giving gravy beef a miss in the future) and L and R brought pear and walnut tart and Lindt choccie. Mmmmm. And we watched Mstie, Muppets and Storyteller.

I spotted an ad for a 'stay young and beautiful' cream, part of which reads, "A breakthrough phyto-complex, Boswelox™ combines Boswellic extract and manganese to specifically target lines caused by muscular contractions." I guess a Boswellic extract would be something like, "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.", which is an extract from The Life of Samuel Johnson.

Some interesting links, thanks to Newsradio:

• The Museum of Hoaxes
• A Harry Potter Convention . Ok, this one isn't so much interesting as rather....sad. Methinks they are taking the books a little too seriously. Mind you, the topic "Severus Snape: Romantic Byronic Hero or Unredeemable ‘Greasy Git’?" is rather amusing. "Prisons in the Wizarding World vs. Prisons in the Muggle World" isn't.
• Stephen Hawking's website.

Amusing Work Buzz words, courtesy iVillage:

Blamestorming: A group discussion about why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.
Seagull Manager: A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything, and then leaves.

Assmosis: The process by which some people seem to absorb success and advancement by sucking up to the boss rather than working hard.
Salmon Day: The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed and die in the end.

Generica: Features of the American landscape that are exactly the same no matter where one is, such as fast food joints, strip malls, and subdivisions.
Ohnosecond: That minuscule fraction of time in which you realise that you've just made a BIG mistake.