They even took your sword
I'll be frank, I don't have much to write about. Right now, the exterminator is downstairs. He's a nice man, and for some reason, I'm going to call him Floyd. The reason for that is that he looks like a Floyd. I'd forgotten what he looked like, but this morning, when I opened the door, there he was, looking like Floyd.
Anyways, the reason we have an exterminator is because we have a big ant problem. Not an ant problem that is big, but a problem involving big ants. You know the saying, "the people look like ants from up here." Well, that really wouldn't mean much with these ants. Each one is about the size of a dime. The day we moved in, I opened a cabinet and found them crawling all over each other like three deep. It was one of those scenes where you shield others from it because it's just too disturbing. I then grabbed a can of Raid and sprayed the bastards with the venom of someone who has just discovered that, not only are there giant ants, but they've invaded his happy home. The people who were helping me move were warning me that they felt I was using too much spray even before I'd made it half way through my killing spree. So, long story short, Floyd's downstairs. I'd better make this quick.
My favorite line in the movie Blade II is attributed to Whistler, Blade's aged mentor. He says, "they even took your sword." It's such a great line.
Allow me to set the scene. Blade and Whistler have just been captured by a big group of Czecoslovacian vampires and Blade has come to on some kind of big glass floor thingee that looks straight out of Aliens, but that's okay. These vampires are high tech. So, there's Blade and his first instinct is to reach for his weapons, but of course, the vampires were smart--they took his weapons away. They stuck him next to a big vat of blood so that he could use his vampiric powers to rejuvinate any wound, but hey...they took his weapons.
Then, after Blade is looking for his weapons, Whistler says, "they took your weapons," and then, "they even took your sword."
Okay, yes they took the sword. It's a weapon. So, yeah, when you say they took the weapons, that implies that they took your sword. But it isn't what Whistler says that so baffles me but how he says it. He says the line like the vampires were not taking the silver sword with the retractable spike handle away because it was dangerous or because Blade had at that point killed his way through nearly two movies using this thing, but because taking away the sword was the same as taking away Blade's dignity. His voice would have had the same tone if he said, "they covered you in vaseline and dressed you like Shirley Temple."
If I may, I'd like to respond to Whistler as Blade. "Yes, they took the sword. It's a weapon. I used it in the last movie to kill a whole series of big bad asses. I'll probably use it to kill all the badasses in this movie. But more than that Whistler. Of course they took the sword. You see, it's made of silver. It's worth a fortune. I could get mugged and they would take the sword. I'm surprised no one's broken into the house. Now, shut up about the sword, help me to that big vat of blood so that I can get back into kick ass mode and get my sword back."
Anyways, the reason we have an exterminator is because we have a big ant problem. Not an ant problem that is big, but a problem involving big ants. You know the saying, "the people look like ants from up here." Well, that really wouldn't mean much with these ants. Each one is about the size of a dime. The day we moved in, I opened a cabinet and found them crawling all over each other like three deep. It was one of those scenes where you shield others from it because it's just too disturbing. I then grabbed a can of Raid and sprayed the bastards with the venom of someone who has just discovered that, not only are there giant ants, but they've invaded his happy home. The people who were helping me move were warning me that they felt I was using too much spray even before I'd made it half way through my killing spree. So, long story short, Floyd's downstairs. I'd better make this quick.
My favorite line in the movie Blade II is attributed to Whistler, Blade's aged mentor. He says, "they even took your sword." It's such a great line.
Allow me to set the scene. Blade and Whistler have just been captured by a big group of Czecoslovacian vampires and Blade has come to on some kind of big glass floor thingee that looks straight out of Aliens, but that's okay. These vampires are high tech. So, there's Blade and his first instinct is to reach for his weapons, but of course, the vampires were smart--they took his weapons away. They stuck him next to a big vat of blood so that he could use his vampiric powers to rejuvinate any wound, but hey...they took his weapons.
Then, after Blade is looking for his weapons, Whistler says, "they took your weapons," and then, "they even took your sword."
Okay, yes they took the sword. It's a weapon. So, yeah, when you say they took the weapons, that implies that they took your sword. But it isn't what Whistler says that so baffles me but how he says it. He says the line like the vampires were not taking the silver sword with the retractable spike handle away because it was dangerous or because Blade had at that point killed his way through nearly two movies using this thing, but because taking away the sword was the same as taking away Blade's dignity. His voice would have had the same tone if he said, "they covered you in vaseline and dressed you like Shirley Temple."
If I may, I'd like to respond to Whistler as Blade. "Yes, they took the sword. It's a weapon. I used it in the last movie to kill a whole series of big bad asses. I'll probably use it to kill all the badasses in this movie. But more than that Whistler. Of course they took the sword. You see, it's made of silver. It's worth a fortune. I could get mugged and they would take the sword. I'm surprised no one's broken into the house. Now, shut up about the sword, help me to that big vat of blood so that I can get back into kick ass mode and get my sword back."
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