8/28/06, my room in the duplex: You know those movie critics that TV spots for films are always quoting? You know, like, "Terrific...I loved it." - "Nonagon" John Johnson, MovieReviewsRUs.com. I was thinking about those quotes the other day, and the possibility occured to me that things may not always be what they seem. What if the film distributors are grossly misquoting their sources? "Nonagon" John Johnson's review may have actually read, "Terrific if you like to be tortured with a few hours of mind-numbing stupidity. This movie made me despise the fact that my job is to watch movies and say what I think of them. Luckily, I was able to sneak into Revenge of the Ancient Mariner afterwards. It was a great movie. Besides the two little punks sitting in front of me who laughed at all the wrong times, I loved it." I guess I can't give these guys too hard of a time. Most of the citations in my English paper-writing career were a distortion, if not the exact opposite, of what the original author was trying to say.

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