Fun Fact #9

Lupe Fiasco, the lead singer of Japanese Cartoon(I'm also told he's some sort of rap guy) takes his stage name from the Quentin Tarantino film Pulp Fiction. There is a part in the film where Jimmie(Tarantino) is imposed upon by two gangsters. He is reluctant to help them because he does not normally do what they request ("When you came pulling in here, did you notice a sign out in front of my house that said 'Dead Letter Office'?") and also because his wife Bonnie is due home soon. In the Spanish dub of the film Jimmie's wife is named Lupe, and the segment is known as The Lupe Fiasco.

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If I were Tyler Durden, tonight's fight club meeting would end something like this:

"This week, each of you has a homework assignment. You're going to go out and start a conversation with a total stranger. You're going to start a conversation, and you're going to lose. You will lose, because the entire time, you'll be talking like the Zima Guy."

It wouldn't be a very good club.

Sunday Cipher #32 - Topical Oinkment

Oh no! Your prize sow has a rash, and the third and ultimate portion of the pageant is in two hours! If the talent competition came last there would be nothing to worry about! There's no way Mrs. Skunkpennies' bikini top will cover the rash! But wait! There's one hope! You have your horrible Slavic Grandmother's recipe for her all-purpose balm, and it's written in some awful old-world chicken scratch. Can you figure out the recipe in time!?

Below is a quote from a famous person encoded with a substitution cipher. Each letter has been swapped for another. Today's hint: Y equals I.

"Y/ SVACTM'N/ DAYNX/ PLFX/ VAN/ NBX/ JVWTZ/ VHXW/ LCC/ NBX/ ZSWXLPYMO,/ UAN/ GVW/ L/ ZXSVMT/ Y/ NBVAOBN/ YN/ JLZ/ NWAX./ Y/ ZBVANXT/ 'PL,/ NAWM/ AR/ NBX/ WLTYV!/ Y/ NBYMF/ NBXE/ KAZN/ PLTX/ PX/ RVRX!'"/
- KVBM/ WLNQXMUXWOXW

The first person to e-mail me the correct answer at imillermoth@gmail.com wins a prize! If you would like your prize sent to you, include a mailing address with your answer.

Last week's answer:
"Most people think my breakout role was Michael in 'The Godfather' and forget that I also voiced the talking candy bar in 1962's 'To Kill A Mockingbird'" - Al Pacino

Sunday Cipher #23 - Inspector Cratchit

Boy did that crusty old Ebenezer Scrooge mend his ways! After his DMT-induced near-death experience, Scrooge helped out everybody! The biggest gift of them all was Scrooge's assistance to Tiny Tim! Scrooge fixed Tim's rickets and renal tubular acidosis by turning him into an amazing cyborg detective! Now Inspector Cratchit fights crime in Victorian England! [Yes, I'm writing about a cyborg in Victorian England, but it's not steam punk. Inspector Cratchit has no lacquered wood bits or inexplicable hoses running through brass fittings. You can either picture Inspector Cratchit as basically being Inspector Gadget but with bad teeth and a Cockney accent, or as a bad-ass futuristic cyborg cop, but he doesn't wear welder's goggles and a leather gauntlet with a baffling assortment of grommets and gauges.] Unfortunately, Tiny Tim was turned into a cyborg dynamo before he ever went to school, and is kind of an illiterate man-child. Can you help Inspector Cratchit solve his own jumbled writing!?

Below is a quote from a thing encoded with a substitution cipher. Each letter has been swapped for another. Today's hint: Y equals P.

"E/ KACCY/ EXGU/ QUPA/ AUUM/ JXH/ YPG/ MQ/ RCVW/ HUBX/ QUPA/ YJXGW/ BSERC/ QUP/ WRCCY./ WUMCGEMCW/ E/ BSEWYCA/ EX/ QUPA/ CJA"/
- VEJXG/ SPXGWMJX/ WYEHCA

The first person to e-mail me the correct answer at imillermoth@gmail.com wins a prize! If you would like your prize sent to you, include a mailing address with your answer.

Last week's answer:
"Until they called me to do Tron: Legacy, I seriously thought that all that shit from the first one had really happened to me."
- Jeff Bridges