Movie Trivia Badass.

[sechan19]

I was working in the VMW (as its now called) the other day, when I happened to overhear a conversation between two profs. One of them was quizzing the other, and a nearby grad student, with tricky movie trivia.

DA: So, tell me what's the one time a woman was ever given a best actor academy award?
CL: [silence]
JE: ...I don't know.

TJ: [in a voice designed to carry across the room] Linda Hunt.

[general silence]

DA: [also in a raised voice] For what movie?
TJ: The Year of Living Dangerously.
DA: That's right.

I got up and walked around the slide filing cabinets.

TJ: Don't never play movie trivia with this chick right here.
DA: Well, you win the prize. I'll take you out sometime as a reward.
TJ: Seriously?
DA: Yeah, like ice cream or something. When it gets nicer.
TJ: Awesome!
DA: So few people know that.
TJ: Well, my dad's a real Peter Weir fan, so I've seen a lot of his movies.
DA: Peter Weir?
TJ: The director. Dead Poets Society. Peter Weir.
DA: That was the same director?!
TJ: Uh-huh. Master and Commander. Peter Weir. Witness. Also Peter Weir.
DA: Really? Wow, you're like a computer program. Just plug in a name and you can spit out all the relevant data.
TJ: About movies anyway.
DA: Well, let me know when you want that ice cream.

Today I ran into said prof again. We lamented the lameness of the current weather, and he reiterated that as soon as it gets nice I should swing his office and grab him for ice cream.

I love my department.