If you watch this and you could swear you remember Johnny and Mr.
Carlson discussing Pink Floyd, you're not imagining things. Hulu uses
the DVD edit which cuts out almost all of the copyrighted music. [The
original link has gone dead, but I was able to find the relevant clip.]
As for my favorite line, it comes from the Buffy episode "Pangs" and it
requires a bit of a set up (which is a pain because it makes it next to
impossible to work into a conversation).
Buffy's luckless friend Xander had accidentally violated a native
American grave yard and, in addition to freeing a vengeful spirit, was
been cursed with all of the diseases Europeans brought to the Americas.
Spike: I just can't take all this mamby-pamby boo-hooing about the bloody Indians.
Willow: Uh, the preferred term is...
Spike: You won. All right? You came in and you killed them and you took
their land. That's what conquering nations do. It's what Caesar did, and
he's not goin' around saying, "I came, I conquered, I felt really bad
about it." The history of the world is not people making friends. You
had better weapons, and you massacred them. End of story.
Buffy: Well, I think the Spaniards actually did a lot of - Not that I don't like Spaniards.
Spike: Listen to you. How you gonna fight anyone with that attitude?
Willow: We don't wanna fight anyone.
Buffy: I just wanna have Thanksgiving.
Spike: Heh heh. Yeah... Good luck.
Willow: Well, if we could talk to him...
Spike: You exterminated his race. What could you possibly say that would
make him feel better? It's kill or be killed here. Take your bloody
pick.
Xander: Maybe it's the syphilis talking, but, some of that made sense.
Comments, observations and thoughts from two bloggers on applied statistics, higher education and epidemiology. Joseph is an associate professor. Mark is a professional statistician and former math teacher.
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