Do Not Adjust Your Stapling Machine

[strange_aeons]

Hypatia says, "My god, this 'Deadsy' band sucks -ass-."
Whitney ponders the sudden rise and popularity of the word 'ass', most particularlty in the phrases 'sucks ass' and 'tastes like ass'. Where the hell did this come from?
Hypatia says, "Even I have started using it, and I usually use 'arse' when actually referring to a piece of anatomy."
Whitney says, "It just . . . appeared out of nowhere."
Tesla says, "It may or may not have something to do with Chris Rock's 'tossed salad' bit."
Whitney says, "Is Chris Rock the annoying actor-named-Chris or is that a different Chris?"
Tesla says, "This is a different Chris who is also an annoying actor-named-Chris. He's the guy in Dogma."
Whitney tries to figure out whether or not that answer to her question was comprehensible. ;)
Tesla says, "You've seen Dogma, right?"
Whitney says, "Yes."
Tesla says, "Chris Rock plays Rufus, the thirteenth apostle."
Whitney says, "That's what I thought."
Whitney says, "So is the person with the tossed salad that Chris or some different Chris?"
Hypatia tired now.
Tesla pauses. So was the annoying actor-named-Chris you were referring to not, in fact, Chris Tucker, the guy who plays Ruby Rhod? The tossed salad guy is the Chris in Dogma.
Whitney ponders. You know, I don't know. I think I conflate them freely.
Hypatia says, "Chris Rock is this black guy with a really high-pitched voice, right?"
Tesla says, "A lot of people seem to do that. I'm not sure why. They're annoying in totally different ways. --No, that's Chris Tucker. Chris Rock is the black guy with the alarming teeth."
Vinci the Magnificent says, "And predatory pace."
Tesla says, "I don't think she's seen the predatory pace."
Hypatia says, "So it's Chris Tucker who co-stars with Jackie Chan in wossname. The Jackie Chan film with the foreign exchange cop thing?"
Vinci the Magnificent says, "Right."
Tesla says, "Rush Hour. And its sequel, which was apparently shot on some guy's handi-cam. When did using good film stock go out of style?"
Hypatia finds him intensely annoying.
Vinci the Magnificent says, "Chris Rock has mostly just been in bad movies, aside from Dogma, I think."
Whitney says, "I suspect it's 'There can't be /two/ aggravating black character actors named Chris, right?'"
Hypatia says, "But I thought the guy in Dogma and the guy in Rush Hour were the same."
Tesla says, "I think there was another movie he was in that wasn't bad, but I'm failing so terribly to remember what it was, it's possible I'm just making it up."
Tesla says, "They aren't."
Vinci the Magnificent says, "Nope. Chris Rock is the one in Dogma, Chris Tucker is the one in Rush Hour and Fifth Element."
Whitney says, "We could check the imdb if we cared."
Vinci the Magnificent says, "We're better than imdb! Because we include sodomy jokes!"
Tesla cackles.
Tesla ponders grabbing this conversation and putting it up on his livejournal, because it's damn funny.
Whitney says, "Starting from the ass?"
Tesla says, "Yeah. Any objections?"
Whitney says, "None, so long as you include the phrase 'starting from the ass'. And possibly this one. ;)"
da Vinci says, "My name should be changed to Vinci the Magnificent."
Hypatia says, "I'm probably confusing the two because of their annoyingness. And their tendency to use asses."
Vinci the Magnificent says, "Does Tucker? He seems cleaner. Granted, a lot of things seem cleaner than Rock."