My favorite scene from the 1993 film True Romance is when Sicilian gangster Vincent Coccotti, played by none other than Christopher Walken, pays a little visit to Clifford Worley, played by the late great Dennis Hopper, looking for the whereabouts of Clarence Worley, played by Christian Slater. The interrogation begins with Walken delivering one of [...]
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The joke goes, “How do you keep an Italian from speaking? You tie up his hands.” While Italians are indeed very expressive with their hands when they speak, most human beings can’t go through a single conversation with peppering it with plenty of hand gestures. People talking on the phone, will use [...]
Pornography has always led the pack when it comes to riding the wave of communication technology innovation. In fact it can be said that porn is responsible for creating the wave in the first place. This is particularly true when it comes to the internet. If need is the mother of invention, [...]
Remember the classic scene, where the grandfather takes his grandchild on his lap and talks about the days when they didn’t have things like airbags and ATM machines? Well I’m only 33 years old and I’m already starting to have these types of conversations with teenagers. “When I was your age, no one had cell [...]
The expression goes, “It’s not what you say, but how you say it.” And while this is very true, an even truer statement would be “It’s not what you say or how you say it, but what your body is doing.” The words we speak convey only 7% of our intended message. How we say [...]
While the Apple iPhone 3GS already has an impressive three-year lead and over 85 million units sold, Google’s Android cannonball launched out of the gates and after a mere 20 months, outsold the iPhone in the U.S. for the first time during the 1st quarter of 2010. Should the fine folks over at Apple be [...]
There is only one difference between an iPod touch and an iPhone: You cannot make calls from an iPod touch. There is a way you can adapt your iPod touch to make calls without the extra expense and call packages involved with iPhone. It is fairly simple but requires a few extra components. First you [...]
In the early days of the telephone there weren’t many options—you were either home to take a call, or not. Then came answering machines, caller ID and the concept of screening. The advent of the cell phone took that concept to bold new heights. With land line phones there was no real way of knowing [...]
There was a time not too long ago when doctors wrote all of their prescriptions in Latin. If you wanted to be a pharmacist you had to be in continuing medical education to be able to read these Latin prescriptions. If you were a Roman Catholic you were required to learn Latin because all masses [...]
Anyone that has watched, or still does watch, the short comedy films of the Three Stooges is very familiar with pig Latin. The Stooges used pig Latin all the time and what they did was take the consonant from the beginning of the word, put it at the end of the word, and the stick [...]
