A Wisecrackin' Spell Checker

Ernie writes-

So, Igor and I were making some small revisions to the "Niente: The Movie" screenplay with a program, called Celtx, that's geared specifically toward screenwriting.

At one point I was describing that a character in this certain scene would combust. I literally typed in "SHE COMBUSTS." And the spell check on this program insisted that I had spelled the word "COMBUSTS" incorrectly. So I went to check to see what the spell check suggested the proper spelling was. The only thing it offered was (I kid you not): "CUM BUSTS."

Aside from that the fact that its Spell Check needs to keep its mind out of the gutter, it's a really great program. I highly recommend it.

Celtx

On an entirely different note, if any of you are familiar with the movie game:

One person names a movie, the next person names an actor from the movie, the person after that names a move that actor was in etc.

It would work like this:

Igor: The Dark Knight to...Ernie.

Ernie: Heath Ledger to...Kat.

Kat: A Knight's Tale to...Steve.

And so fourth.

A few of us have created a new version. Instead of the pattern: Movie>Actor>Movie etc.

It's Movie>Element>Movie>Element etc.

Instead of naming actors, you name things that appeared in the film, for example: the color brown was in the film "Ice Age."

Here's essentially how it went down:

Igor: The Dark Knight to...Ernie.

Ernie: A large truck to...Kat.

Kat: There's was a truck in Spiderman. So Spiderman to...Steve.

Steve: There was a chair in Spiderman. So chair to...Ben.

Ben: I saw a chair in Raiders of the Lost Ark, so Raiders to...Tommy.

Tommy: I saw the color blue in Raiders, the color blue to Igor.

Igor: Deep Blue Sea, I win. Everybody get the fuck out of my house.


After I left, I ate a sandwich and thought about writing this blog post all night. I'm so glad I finally got to tell all of you about this.