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September 6, 2007

Everyone loves sequels! Well over a third of this summer’s record movie box office came from five sequels: The Bourne Ultimatum, The Shrek Ultimatum, Harry Potter and the Ultimatum of the Phoenix, Spider-matum 3, and Pirates of the Caribbean: Ultimatum of the Ultimatum Ultimatum. So here’s what you like, America: rewarmed, pre-chewed follow-ups to some old blog standbys.

Bewildering Conversations with a Four-Year-Old returns! Dylan, in the car the other day: “Yowch!!!” Me: “What happened, guy?” Dylan: “I bit my tooth!” That takes some doing.

The LEGO/”Legos” controversy returns! We went to Legoland California during our L.A. trip last month, and Mindy caught one of the tour guides saying “made out of Legos.” Official Lego employee approval for the bastardized American usage! On the other hand, another employee said to us, as he let us off one of the kiddie rides, “These doors are supposed to open by themselves, but we’re too poor to get them fixed.” So maybe Legoland “cast member” training isn’t quite up to Disney standards.

Wordplay Wednesday returns! The answer to yesterday’s stumper, as well as some entertaining wrong answers, can be found in this message board thread.

Other People’s Birth Announcements returns! If you know me or my family at all, you’ll be pleased to know that my youngest sister and her husband had their first baby yesterday afternoon. (If you don’t know us, no shower gift is required.) Mom and little Liam are doing great. I’m an uncle again! Ken Jennings, now 20% more avuncular.

Posted by Ken at 11:15 am     
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