I mean, just THINK about Cato for a second.
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I was just thinking that sneaking up on people and kicking their ass would be a really, really cool job.
Bruce Lee is a god.
Oh – I think I am weirdly confused. Bruce Lee was Cato in the Green Hornet – Cato in the Pink Panther movies was Burt Kwouk.
Emily: Sneaking up on people and kicking their ass is not always as much fun as it might seem. It does have its moments, though.
Kato, with a “K,” the Green Hornet’s sidekick, was Bruce Lee. Cato with a “C” was Burt Kwouk in the Pink Panther movies, as well as a Roman senator and political opponent of Julius Caesar.
I nitpick. It’s my nature. I’ve embraced it. ;-)
Sorry Emily – Cato jobs are only for guys.
ducking and running…
This site rocks.
So, to use mt-blacklist to not only get rid of the Spambot named “Dave” above, along with his spam message, and to make sure it can never post again, there are three easy steps….
First, go into mt.cgi and copy out the site URL from the comment.
Then go to cgi-bin/mt/mt-blacklist.cgi, and add that URL. Then hit your de-spam button. Bang, Spambot “Dave” is wiped from your system and auto-banned from future postings.
Kinda cool, eh?
Now, as for doing backups…. that’s a lot more tricky, since there are about 8 ways to do it, and you have to pick the right one for you.
Dearest: one of my favorite movie lines is “Not now Cato!” love dad
Jim,
You’re a dead man. DEAD.
Jim –
By your comment alone, you have brought out the Cato in Emily.
My inner Cato is plotting this very moment.
believe it or not, I had a cousin live with us when I was a kid and he and I would take turns being Cato. It was not well recieved by the parents tho.
That’s damm funny, Val. “Took turns being Cato.”
Does anybody remember which Pink Panther it was when Inspector Clouseau went into that German hotel and asked the man at the desk “Do you have a rüm?” and the guy says “I do not know what a ‘rüm’ is”, so Clouseau busts out his German dictionary and tells him “Zimmer”. Then the clerk says “oh, you want a room!”
I’m so happy to have been the catalyst for this much overdue Cato lovefest!
Who, I wonder, will take up that part in the new film.
Sigh….CATO FOREVER!
Emily –
How the hell do you create an Umlaut? You did it with Husker Du and I was lost in admiration.
I love the “rum” exchange. My friend Meredith might know which movie that exchange comes from…
“Zimmer”.
HA!
You use the HTML code for ISO Latin character entities, Sheila.
cooool….
Not that I use Umlauts regularly, but it would be nice to know how, should the need arise.
cato RULES.
i need my own cato.
I volunteer, Jimbo! We can negotiate salary later.
Answering the phone in the middle of a fight.
Peter Sellers, deadpan, doing a clumsy parody of staff-showing-off (I don’t know the right term) with speeded-up film.
Loved every second of it…here’s a poser for you: What the heck happened to Blake Edwards after Victor/Victoria?
Umlautery: In Windows, you create an umlaut by holding down the “ALT” key and typing 252 on the keypad. On pre-OSX Macs, try Option+u (you might have to go to the Key Caps accessory in the Apple menu, copy it from there, and paste it into whatever application you’re using, if said app doesn’t recognize the standard Apple key combinations). Anything else, you’re on your own. :-)
I guess I should be thankful Emily didn’t unleash her inner Cato when I wrote the Candidate Official Song of the Revolution.
Or you can do what the apparently faster Emily does….
Okay. I now have an idea for a great post-feminist book. About – you know, basically being a bad-ass.
A “dame” – right, Ed?? :)
My book will be entitled:
Unleashing Your Inner Cato.
You heard it here first.
I think Bush needs a Cato to constantly be kicking his ass unexpectedly these days.
Maybe Laura Bush IS his Cato.
Maybe that’s why she always looks so oddly, serene….she’s coming down off the high she gets each night from doing a round-house kick to the commander and chief’s head as he’s walking out of the East Wing bathroom before on his way to bed.
Okay…I’m a little off my nut today.
Along those same lines….what if instead of calling a really tough, ballsy, taking names and kicking asses “dame” a B*tch, we now refer to her as a Cato?
That way the b-word can be reserved for the callow, totally hateful woman that nobody likes or respects.
Any takers? Or am I just pushing it?
Sheila,
I so want to write that book it’s not even funny.
Fee – Cato needs a revival. I love Cato. This is Cato central.
Emily – we need to write it together. Dueling Catos.
Classic Cato scene:
http://inspectorclouseau.com/d_retfight.html
Love it!
Totally, Sheila. We’ll put the “Cat” in Cato!
By your comment alone, you have brought out the Cato in Emily
the ways of the master are never direct…
Emily – no salaries allowed, it is enought to be Cato, of course, the elves have to go.
Jim –
At least you didn’t write “elfs” again. That would bring on the wrath of Emily’s inner Cato.
There’s no goddamm way the elves are going anywhere, Jim. Live with it.
Sheesh. If Middle Earth had oriental-like martial artists, they’d be Elves. They taught the humans how to make weapons, wage war, and they did not rely so much on physical size in combat. One of the few things I didn’t like in LOTR was Aragorn’s use of combat knives instead of his sword, but I guess he was trained by Elves…
Was Cato an Elf? Maybe that’s why he misspelled his own name with a “C”.
I want to read that book about your Inner Catos, and an autographed copy.
Emmmmmmmssss,
A female Cato can have elfs.
A male Kato can have elves.
There can be no mixed marriages.
Well, first Bill, you must see the movies so that you know of what we speak when we speak of Cato.
I want to read that book about your Inner Catos
You are one sick puppy McCabe.
Jim,
Okay, now you’re just starting to sound like George Wallace.
Yes, yes, yes. I have the movies on my list, but I may stop by Blockbuster anyway.
You can face the mortification of the fine, can’t you?? Just blame it on an irresponsible friend or something.
“I let my friend use my card and they didn’t return the movies…”
George Wallace? mortification?
I don’t do lying well, but I’ll give it a shot.
That’s assuming they even have it, Blockbuster did junk more than 50% of their VHS inventory last year.
Ya know Emmmmssss, the Great Governor Wallace would have viewed you Elf Obssession as nothing less than a slippery slope leading to pedophilia and gay marriage.
Really? I thought the slippery slope led to goat fucking on crowded playgrounds?
You know, I thought getting rid of the “Legolas Free Zone” bit had ended the Great Elf Debate.
goat fucking on crowded playgrounds?
oh yeah, Kali-for-n-i-a politics.!
How can an elf debate be great? Tell me, I’m curious.
Fee, you were so close.
Emily, for your reference, it was ‘Pink Panther Strikes Again’.
“Oh, you mean a Hhhroom?”
http://inspectorclouseau.com/sounds/room.wav
Another favorite of mine…
“…zat is not my dog.”
http://inspectorclouseau.com/sounds/bite.wav
Speaking of Inspector Clouseau, my brother and I used to attack each other quite often after school. Himself being older, he’d always come home saying… “Caaaatoooo…” in that horrible impression of Peter Sellers, where I’d immediately know the game was afoot. It was very ‘Calvin & Hobbes’. Typically, we’d fight until a parent separated us, or something was broken, whichever came first.
“…the ways of the Master are never direct.”
hahahaha.
Jim, hit the bar, and get yourself a Sidecar. You’ve earned it.
…psst…Emily…when he returns, be sure he doesn’t suspect a thing. I suggest hiding in the copy room.