Two Cunts in a Kitchen is slang used within the advertising industry for a type of television commercial. Generally, the commercial shows two women in a domestic scene, discussing, using, or otherwise portraying the advertiser’s product in a positive manner.
Hitchcockian is a general term used to describe film styles and themes similar to those of Alfred Hitchcock’s films. Elements considered Hitchcockian include:
- The cool platinum blonde (often a central figure of Hitchcock’s films).
- The presence of a domineering mother in her son’s life (e.g. Psycho).
- An innocent man accused (again used in many of Hitchcock’s films).
- Restricting the action to a single setting to increase tension (e.g. Lifeboat, Rear Window, Rope).
- Characters who switch sides or who cannot be trusted.
- Tension building through suspense to the point where the audience enjoys seeing the character in a life-threatening situation, such as the windmill scene from Foreign Correspondent.
- Average people thrust into strange or dangerous situations, such as in North by Northwest or The Man Who Knew Too Much.
- Bumbling or incompetent authority figures, particularly police officers.
- Use of darkness to symbolise impending doom (dark clothing, shadows, smoke, etc)
- Strong visual use of famous landmarks (Statue of Liberty, Mount Rushmore, Forth Rail Bridge, Golden Gate Bridge, Albert Hall, British Museum, Piccadilly Circus, etc.)
- Mistaken identity, such as in North by Northwest and The Wrong Man.
- The use of a staircase as a motif for impending danger or suspense.
- Use of a macguffin or plot device that remains unexplained, such as the microfilm in North by Northwest.
Robin (also referred to as The Boy Wonder) is the name of fictional characters appearing in comic books published by DC Comics, originally created by Bob Kane, Bill Finger and Jerry Robinson, as a junior counterpart to DC Comics superhero Batman.
Batman is a fictional character, a comic book superhero co-created by artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger (although only Kane receives official credit), appearing in publications by DC Comics.
“I never saw a discontented tree.” - John Muir
Wikipedia has a list of the world’s most expensive single objects. Number one is the International Space Station, followed by the Itaipu dam, China’s Three Gorges Dam, and the Big Dig.
The Old Man of the Lake is the name given to a 30-foot tall tree stump, most likely a hemlock, which has been bobbing vertically in Oregon’s Crater Lake since at least 1896.
At the waterline, the stump is about 2 feet (61 cm) in diameter and stands approximately 4 feet (120 cm) above the water. The surface has been bleached white by the elements. The exposed end of the floating tree is splintered and worn but wide and buoyant enough to support a person’s weight.
Due to mint plants’ tendency to spread unchecked, they are considered invasive.
