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The phrase: "The greatest of all time" and those like it.

I think whoever coined that... we'll call it an expression, really should have said "The greatest in my life up to this moment" or like... "The greatest in my life that I can remember up until this moment and maybe for a few more years or until they invent flying cars or something equally as awesome".

Really, we live on a moment by moment basis and ...especially for movie reviews (ugh, don't get me started on movie revi- oh! too late)

Okay, about movie reviews. I realise you want to get some good word about your movie out there and so you get some schmuck -pay some schmuck to say your movie is really great, but does it really have to get to the point where you say it is the greatest of all time? Some say of the year and even that is pushing it because you don't know what else is coming out that year and also not everyone will agree with you.

I prefer reviews that say: "Made me laugh until I cried and spilled pop on the girl sitting next to me and I magically got her number, most likely because this movie is just so darned funny!" Or like... "This movie inspired me!" With those reviews, we can at least look back on what that person has reviewed in the past, see how they felt about those movies, and then base our judgement on whether or not we agree with them.

I also don't like reviews that say: "Greatest drama since ..." because that's assuming everyone likes that movie and if you didn't like that movie, then what's to have you watch this other movie? Yeah... where was I when this started?

Oh right, people feeling the need to say something is the greatest. You could say and should say and would be proper to say that something is really great, but not to say the greatest because something can always come along and surpass it, and then you're saying that item is the greatest... and it all leads back to marketing and I probably don't like marketing at all yet fall for it every now and then because it works more often than not and I'm a susceptible human being.

Sigh.

Here's the greatest WOTD of the day:

Umiak - (n) an open Eskimo boat made of a wooden frame covered with skins

Haiku:

Sailing across

Open waters lay ahead

Reaching their goal.