Singing in the Rain
Have you ever seen the movie Singing In The Rain?
I was just a small kid when my parents had taken us to the movie
theatre to watch this.
I heard that there was a very unfortunate incident that had happened after the premiere
of this film which was that a small girl had tried to reproduce this scene by
going outside in the rain and singing. This would have been just fine had she not been running around while singing and jumping around while shrieking and laughing like a maniac as she had leaped into the air only to land on an open sinkhole in the middle of the street.
I can't see the movie without thinking of that story.
Rotisserie Cow
My home country is so rainy that there are flooding seasons.
There is this famous photo of a senior man riding on the back of a cow floating on the floodwater. The story goes that because this cow was moving its legs to change directions like the rudder of a boat, it was able to guide itself to the shore and find food to feed itself. As soon as people had discovered the animal they did what their stomachs told them to do: kill it and eat it. They had put it on a rotisserie rod.
Canada Day
Last Canada Day long weekend, our next-door neighbor, an American family, had confused me saying that “they” had done it first which is actually incorrect as Canada had been formed much before the American Independence Day. That reminded me of a move--it was the title of a Bruce Willis movie where he and his team not only defeat the aliens but send them flying back to where they had come from. There are so many twists and turns in the story, especially when the President of the United States actually turns out to be a shape shifting alien who can not only copy the appearance of people but also mimics their voices perfectly.
Back then, they had done a parody of this movie on SNL where Bruce Willis is wearing a big bright pink miniskirt with a matching colour tank top. This was so hilarious as it was but then he had started to dance wildly like a sexy woman. This was when my dear mother had choked on her cup of tea.
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