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Apparently, I hold the Northeast record for the longest held Netflix movie: 2.5 years.

 

A 3.5 hour “potent drama that follows 14-year-old Hungarian Jew Gyuri Koves. After the Nazis take him into custody, Gyuri is moved from one death camp to another, witnessing increasingly greater atrocities that erode his spirit. When the camp is liberated, Gyuri returns home a survivor, but his neighbors— who want to forget WWII’s horrors— go out of their way to avoid him.”

 

The runner-up is a certain John P. Shales of Danbury, NH, who has held onto “The Hottie and the Nottie” for 1 year and 3 months— and only because he passed away seven months ago.





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It’s not your fault.
What?
It’s not your fault, Jemol.
What? What you talking about?
It’s not your fault.
Yo Mr. Forrester, why you being wack?
I’m not being “wack” Jemol… It’s not your fault!

 

 

 

*Admittedly, this is so esoteric I doubt more than .01% of the population will get it

 





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Michelle

deleting pages from my dissertation causes me acute physical pain

 

Shawn [a nurse]

I can manage that.

 

Michelle

propofol, or a little dilaudid?

 

Jason

That’s terrible. I feel for you. Those cretins don’t understand that those pages are essential to the purpose (now I think I just may be projecting)…. Maybe, afterwards, you can put out a “Dissertation: Director’s Cut,” including all the deleted pages— and an appendix of zany bloopers.

 

Michelle

Pages and pages of well-researched yet unnecessary historical context for a minor point: HILARIOUS BLOOPER.

 

 

ii.

 

Jason

‎”My body thinks I’m a bear. I think I’m a bear. You think I’m a bear. So why am I not a bear?!”

–Sasha

 

Katya

why would she not be bear?

 

Jason

I don’t know. You’d have to ask her. I think she’s a bear.

 

 

iii.

 

Jason

The Scorpions canceled their Minsk show

 

Matthew

I refuse to believe this.

 

Jason

I know, I know. It’s almost— unbelievable.

 

Barry

A new Day the Music Died

 

Jason

Soy tan sexy que mi amor

 

Barry

This is true.

 

Jason

soy mucho para Milán, mucho para Milán, New York y Japón

 

Kat

Hey, don’t you guys rag on The Scorpions! I love them!

 

 

iv.

 

Kat

‎”No mud, no lotus” –Thich Nhat Hahn

Ardha Baddha Padmottanasana (Half Bound Lotus Forward Bend)

 

Jason

“No woman, no cry” –Bob Marley

 

 

v.

 

Jason

‎”Russians are capable of bringing the notion of ‘jutkact’ (kitsch/ gaudiness/ tackiness) to a whole

other level. The level you never thought was possible.” –Sasha

 

Steven

woah.

 

Jason

indeed

 

Matthew

I think I sprained my tongue trying to say “jutkact”

 

Jason

It’s pronounced ‘zhoot-kuhst’… anyway, you sprain your tongue every month doing something or other

 

Margot

I’ve been searching for the name of this ever since my first trip to Israel…

 

Jason

That’s what a Russian would call it… ‘POSH-luhst’ would be translated as ‘kitsch,’ and ‘JHOOT-kuhst’ as the kind of absurd kitsch-gaudiness-tackiness seen in the video… Unfortunately, it’s difficult to approximate the right pronunciation…

 

Margot

My Russian/Ukranian colleague Dima who sits next to me says you’re wrong, and that jutkact means ‘liquid’. Bentsman are you trying to pull one on us?

 

Jason

He’s thinking of ‘ZHEET-kast’— which means liquid. ‘ZHEET-kaya’ means liquidy… ‘ZHOOT-kast’ (noun) comes from ‘ZHOOT-kaya’ (adj)— which means basically what I said: extreme kitsch/ tackiness/ gaudiness. Have him check a good Russian dictionary if he doesn’t believe it. (Again, the confusion here is trying to transliterate the Russian sounds in English letters.)

 

Barry

I’m still waiting to see evidence of a Russian capacity for kitsch/gaudy/tacky exceeding the American.





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Jason

pet peeve: The creepily subservient, alienating, and unhelpful ways in which large companies (banks, utilities, credit card, tech companies, etc) require their customer service people to speak. They sound like automatons, w/o intuitive conversational sense or rapport, forced to ask inane questions and make inane statements no one ever responds to affirmatively. At the very end of the conversation, after every issue has (or, more often, has not) been addressed, always: “Is there anything else I can help you with today?” – ‘No, clearly not’ – “Okay, sir. Thank you for your time today, sir. Motorcola and the Motorcola family has been serving the community for years and is proud of your continued patronage.” – Would anyone speak like this in person? – As Jerry Seinfeld would say: “Who are these people?”

 

Ben

I figured it out: you’re Andy Rooney and Larry David’s love child.

 

Jason

You just figured it out today? It’s common knowledge.

Larry and Andy were deeply in love. It was the height of the roaring sixties. Leicester Sqaure. The MODS. The Beatles had just returned from Sri Lanka. It was love at fourth sight. But it wasn’t meant to be. Not the right time; not their time. Strangers in the night… I knew I would get flak for that one

 

Jason

I just misspelled “square”

 

Michelle

there’s something missing from this story… andy kaufman as gestational carrier maybe

 

Jason

I’ve heard strange rumors about Andy Kaufman. Strange forebodings, and whispers in the night. But I’ve never myself seen the man.

 

Jason

Next on ’60 Minutes’!





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