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castiron ([personal profile] castiron) wrote2011-12-05 05:44 pm

overheard in the Castiron household

[on my commenting that a local restaurant was now open for lunch as well as supper]

Castiron: Yeah, either they're doing enough business to justify it, or they've paid off enough debt that they can afford it.

Spouse: They've paid off enough dead? What?

Castiron: Oh yes. Zombies are of vital importance to the restaurant industry; if they don't support you, your restaurant's doomed. That's why every chef bribes zombies. Why do you think that Zagat starts with Z?

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Later over lunch we were stumped by a profound question: are there any actors who have appeared in both a Jane Austen adaptation and a Mel Brooks movie? (ETA: Thanks to [personal profile] lastscorpion, I now know that Cloris Leachman of Frau Blücher fame was in a Sense and Sensibility adaptation that I'd never heard of before.)
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[personal profile] lastscorpion 2011-12-06 02:21 am (UTC)(link)
Cloris Leachman played Marianne Dashwood on TV in 1950, apparently, and she was also in several Mel Brooks things, such as History of the World Part 1 and Young Frankenstein.