Movie quiz - answers

6 and 10 are still up for grabs.

1. Decline of the American Empire - globetrotter1
2. Eat, Drink, Man, Woman - minx_minx
3. My Cousin Vinnie - anayajay
4. Farinelli - globetrotter1
5. The Witches of Eastwick - globetrotter1
6. Lady Jane (well duh!) - rosinarowantree
7. Straw Dogs - kalypso_v
8. Ridicule - globetrotter1
9. Shaolin Soccer - nanila
10. Slaughterhouse Five - thidwick

Humiliation - the movie

We haven't played this for a while so here's the call for player for another round of Humiliation - the movie.

For those who weren't around last time or have forgotten, Humiliation is a game created by David Lodge in his novel of academic life, Changing Places. Players have to name a book (or in our case a movie) that they have not read. They then score one point for each person who has read it. In the original, an English lecturer wins but has his career blighted by admitting to not having read Hamlet, hence the name of the game.

So what you have to do is comment with the name of a movie that you have not seen but you imagine lots of others will have seen. I'll then make up a poll for the voting. It's more fun if you pick something that has not already been taken by someone else.

ETA: Nominations close 0900 EST 17 March 2006

ETA2: If you want to play, pick a movie. Don't comment with some non unique set theoretic proposition of the "anything that has either hobbits or werewolves but not both in it" variety.

Film quiz - number 10 - new clue

That ODI

I just watched the highlights of the 5th ODI between South Africa and Australia. Extraordinary! Australia posted an extraordinary 434-4 in their 50 overs and lost. Every batting record imaginable was smashed; two highest team scores ever, most sixes in a match, most fours in a match etc. What impressed me though was that there was comparatively little slogging. I was expecting a 100 overs of 20/20 but, in fact, most of the runs were scored by good, genuine cricket shots. It's not like me ever to fee sorry for an Australian but one has to have some sympathy for Nathan Bracken. On a day when 870 runs were scored, figures of 5 for 67 are remarkably good so to finish on the losing side is a bit of a bummer.

Out there foods

I'm curious about how adventurous people are when it comes to eating. There are various foods that different cultures find more or less appealing that are incomprehensible to others. So here's a list of foods and I want to know which ones you have eaten.

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