Juli had an urge to watch this this week. It’s good that she did. It has been so long since I’ve watched it, although I never really forgot how good it is. It’s cool how director Robert Zemeckis centers Forrest in some of the most recognizable instances in history. Watergate, “Sh*t Happens” Slogan, the 80s running-epidemic, Vietnam. All brilliant ideas to incorporate history into a wonderfully-engaging film.
So I mentioned a few of my favorite parts of the movie…what are yours (quotes, scenes, sounds…whatever)?
Kennedi was baptised last Saturday night (August 20th). Click here to see photos of her baptism, or click the link on the right of the screen that says “Kennedi’s Baptism”…clever name right?
Here’s a story about a guy who isn’t too pleased with his experience on his flight with Continental Airlines. This is an actual letter from an actual guy:
12-21-04
FLT# 888/500 -> Houston
SEAT # 29E
Received Apr 13 2005
Dear Continental Airlines,
I am disgusted as I write this note to you about the miserable experience I am having sitting in seat 29E on one of your aircrafts. As you may know, this seat is situated directly across from the lavatory, so close that I can reach out my left arm and touch the door.
All my senses are being tortured simultaneously. It’s difficult to say what the worst part about sitting in 29E really is? Is it the stentch of the sanitation fluid that is blown all over my body every 60 seconds when the door opens? Is it the woosh of the constant flushing? Or is it the passenger’s asses that seem to fit into my personal space like a pornographic jig-saw puzzel?
I constructed a stink-shield by shoving one end of a blanket into the overhead compartment. While effective in blocking at least some of the smell, and offering a small bit of privacy, the ass-on-my-body factor has increased. As without my evil glare passengers feel free to lean up against what they think is some kind of blanketed wall. The next ass that touches my shoulder will be the last!
I am picturing a board room full of executives giving props to the young promising engineer that figured out how to squeeze an additional row of seats onto the plane by putting them next to the Lav. I would like to flush his head in the toilet that I am close enough to touch and taste from my seat. Putting a seat here was a very bad idea.
I just heard a man groan in there! This sucks!
(Here’s a ) Depiction of (a) mans butt in my face. Worse yet is I’ve paid over $400 for the honor of sitting in this seat! Does your company give refunds? I’d like to go back where I came from and start over. Seat 29E could only be worse if it was located inside the bathroom. I wonder if my clothing will retain the sanitizing odor…what about my hair! I feel like I’m bathing in a toilet bowl of blue liquid, and there is no man in a little boat to save me.
I am filled with deep hatred for your plane designer and a general dis-ease that may last for hours.
We are finally decending and soon I will be able to tear down the stink-shield, but the soars will remain. I suggest that you initiate immediate removal of this seat from all of your crafts. Just remove it and leave the smouldering brown hole empty, a good place for sturdy/non-absorbant luggage maybe, but not human cargo.
Here’s how this site works. We make up stuff to post to the site, you read it, you comment about what we wrote, we comment back…does anyone see the pattern here?
Okay. Some of you probably don’t understand how this works, so I’ll make this REAL EASY for those who can’t muster-up the verbiage to post something on our site.
If you can’t think of anything to put up here in your own words, just highlight and copy the following verbiage:
Although I know I have brain power, it’s so late right now that I can’t figure out what to say.
Now, click on the “Comment” link below. At the bottom of the next page, paste the newly copied verbiage into the “Comment” box, enter in your name and email address and click “Post Comment”.
It’s that easy!
It’s been raining for the better part of two weeks here in Wichita. Today started out pretty nice, but this evening it took a turn and started pouring down rain for a couple hours. After the storm moved on, Juli shot this cool photo of a rainbow. Before she was able to shoot this (and on the drive home), there were actually two rainbows side by side.
Enjoy;)
