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Michael - 2005-12-30 16:02:59
"Working on my best-of-2005 lists (I may have actually seen enough current films to have an opinion about them this year!)"
I'm just waiting for the other shoe to drop and you to finally tell us what you think of "King Kong," although no one would blame you if you simply refuse to reopen that Pandora's box and skip any mention of it, period.
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Talkative Bob - 2005-12-31 00:27:53
While we're talkin' leftovers, (your not having put much out for us today, Paula, besides a tease about breakfast), I have to take issue with that link about "moot point" you posted a few days ago. It stated that "moot point" is actually from when moot meant to debate, but that just seems silly, since any point would be moot, in that sense, and "moot question" or subject seems more likely then. But I thought practically everybody knows the not-unsensible sense (from moot court) of a moot "point", the "it's academic" sense, from one of the few funny things ever on SNL, that being Jessie Jackson's oft-repeated "The question is... MOOT!" (Which was clearly NOT an invitation to debate.) And if that was your sense, it does not seem wrong, even historically. If, on the other hand, you had figured it meant insignificant, (as opposed to inconsequential), or that, um, the point was mute, you're on your own.
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Paula - 2005-12-31 08:45:38
I simply thought "moot" meant--beyond debate, not worth arguing. And like most folks, I learned this from Rick Springfield.
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Paula - 2005-12-31 10:53:27
Michael: I intend to see it before it leaves the theaters, for sure.
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Michael - 2005-12-31 14:45:18
If you intend to see "King Kong" before it leaves the theatres, you could probably safely go in July or August and still have plenty of time. That and Sarah Silverman's movie were two that I would've assumed you'd see right away, though, Paula (Silverman's movie actually is finally about to leave the theatres, since it's down to one theatre in Manhattan right now; it's going to have one hell of a permanent second life on DVD, though).
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Eric - 2005-12-31 20:41:27
It's at the Quad, and knowing them, it'll probably be dropped within a week. Two at the most. The Silverman movie, I mean. Very funny.
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On the Moot Case - 2006-01-02 00:48:33
Googling "moot rick springfield" to find what lyric you're talking about makes it seem that he's using it CORRECTLY, in the "of no real-world consequence"/"it's academic" sense, which derives from the fact that results of academic "moot courts" are of course not legally binding, in the 'real' world. Thus you can have a good, significant point, and still have it be "moot", for some reason, such as not being Jessie. Of course, Rick has himself a bad, insignificant point (wishing that he had Jessie's girl), but if that were what "moot" point meant, then the point would definitely, not "probably" be moot... so Rick is hereby cleared of misleading you.
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