predictable

So tonite my honey and I went to see Poseidon.

It was part of a grand Date Night, which I must tell you all about (I’m sure you’re just dying to know how it was) but I don’t really have time right now.

But I’ll tell you about the movie portion.  I’ll try not to spoil anything.

First, you have a ship, which is apparently a large ship (based on the many wonderful pictures of it sailing.  Someplace).

On the ship we have a couple thousand people, but only a couple dozen that we actually care enough about to have speaking parts.  And of these it is painfully clear in the first ten minutes that, well, it’s time to cut payroll costs, if you catch my drift.

(heh, I said “drift” in a post about a ship).

The movie is, well, predictable.  Want the cliff cliff cliff notes version?

Boat.  New Years.  Wave.  Scream.  Splash.  ”Gosh!” Climb. Swim. Die! Climb. Rescue.

And no, that is not a spoiler that they get rescued.  They can’t kill off everybody!  But they come pretty close.  (oops, now that was a spoiler).

Here are some comments we made to each other during the movie (not in order):
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I’ve tried to let it go, but I can’t.

Why the hell didn’t somebody tell the President that Washington was under attack the other day?

I got chewed out once for not telling the wait staff of the restaurant where I was working that we were out of clam chowder. Imagine the Secret Service guys:

“Mr President? Did you have a nice bike ride?”

“Well, yes I did. Lovely day.”

“That’s nice, sir. Mr. President? A half hour ago they evacuated the White House. And your mom and your wife. And Cheney. And, well, all of Congress.”

“Ummm…”

“But don’t worry, it’s okay now.”

???

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Also, after our “national outcry” about the Runaway Bride not apologizing, and needing to be charged for filing a false report, etc. etc. (Nancy Grace probably still has her panties in a wad over that one) — does anybody know how much it costs to scramble a couple of F-16’s for an hour or so? Plus a blackhawk or two? And poor Nancy Pelosi - did she ever get her shoes back?Who’s paying for all this?