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Top 15 Seinfeld Food Related Episodes

Eating The Road — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:54:50 +0000

It’s been debated heavily what exactly Seinfeld is really all about. Most come to the conclusion that it’s really about nothing. I have have my own opinion. I think it’s all about food. Think about it, there is food in every single episode and in a lot of cases it plays an integral part.

You really don’t have to look any further than Jerry’s cereal stash to know that they are in love with food. They dine at Monk’s seemingly for most meals and they are constantly snacking in Jerry’s apartment. The cast does such a good job at this. Normally, due to continuity, eating on camera is avoided. That’s one of the things I think made Seinfeld so great and believable.

There are literally hundreds of funny food related moments throughout the series. Here I will present to you the top 15 full episodes where food played a large role. Next week we will look at:

Kramer’s Top 20 Seinfeld Food Related Moments
Jerry’s Top 20 Seinfeld Food Related Moments
George’s Top 20 Seinfeld Food Related Moments

If you don’t see you favorite yet just wait. I will list the top food related moments that didn’t necessarily have a play in the plot (like Kramer and Newman making sausage, George eating while having sex or Jerry refusing to eat from his girlfriend’s “man hands”).

To further stake my claim that it’s all based around food, I submit the initial meeting of Kramer and Jerry. Enjoy!

15. The Big Salad
Season 6	Episode 2	September 29, 1994
George and his girlfriend, Julie, ask Jerry and Elaine to go to Monk’s with them. Jerry declines saying he’s already eaten a “big bowl of Kix”. Elaine asks George to bring her back a “big salad”. George goes on a short rant about what exactly a “big salad” is. George buys Elaine the salad but Julie inadvertently gets credit for it when she brings it back to Elaine. George goes berserk over the fact that Elaine thinks Julie paid for the salad and that he doesn’t get credit for it.
Part 2 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPAW3gVkoc4 Part 3 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqkD_cL0MQY
Memorable quote: “Big lettuce, big carrots, tomatoes like volleyballs.” – Jerry when George asks what’s in the “big salad”

14. The Gum
Season 7	Episode 10	December 14, 1995
Llyod Braun runs into George, Kramer and Jerry at Monk’s. Llyod has a pack of Chinese chewing gum which Kramer makes everyone have a piece of. George tells him that he doesn’t chew gum. They go to the movies. Elaine doesn’t want to sit next to Llyod so says she must sit next to Jerry because of her (and his) poor eyesight. BLANK SPACE George, in attempting to look inside the register at Monk’s (to determine if he was short-changed), buys a pack of gum. Llyod sees this and is surprised. Lloyd asks Jerry if he would like him to pick up some gum since he knows where to get it. Jerry doesn’t really want it but lets him. Jerry must now wear glasses around Lloyd (because of Elaine’s lie) and he has trouble seeing. Jerry mistakenly gives him $100 bill and in return gets that much worth of gum.
Part 2 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbrE4v2f94E Part 3 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_7TeTL8iEo
Memorable quote: “Now see, this is what the holidays are all about. Three buddies sitting around, chewing gum.” – Kramer

13. The Cafe
Season 3	Episode 7	November 6, 1991
A new restaurant, The Dream Cafe, opens across the street from Jerry’s apartment and he becomes interested in it’s success (or lack thereof) and why no one is dining there. He looks down from his apartment window with binoculars at it. He befriends the owner, Babu, and offers his suggestions on how to improve business. He tells him to make his authentic Pakistani dishes as the menu was a hodge podge of items before. This turns out to not work and Babu gets extremely angry with Jerry. The restaurant continues to fail. BLANK SPACE Meanwhile George gets Elaine to cheat on his IQ test for him, which she takes over to The Dream Cafe to do. She has a hard time concentrating there and fails the test. George talks her into doing it again, which she does but this time at Jerry’s apartment. She never gets the test back to George though.
Part 2 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o41E4MCwLbs Part 3 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgoix1Rf94I
Memorable quote: “Where are people? You see people? Show me people! There are no people!” – Babu yelling at Jerry.

12. The Butter Shave
Season 9	Episode 1	September 25, 1997
George, Jerry and Kramer decide to grow mustaches over the summer because they’re bored. Jerry and George decide it was a bad idea and shave them off but don’t tell Kramer. Kramer sees them without their mustaches and gets that they’re no longer growing them. He quickly shaves his as well. Kramer is not getting a good shave with regular shaving cream and tries butter and finds it to be far superior. He notices that the butter makes his skin feel so good that he begins to spread butter over his whole body. While tanning Kramer falls asleep and due to the butter starts to cook. BLANK SPACE Newman in the meantime is reading the cannibalism-themed story Alive and smelling Kramer cooking finds it appealing. He envisions Kramer’s head on a roasting turkey. Kramer accidentally get’s oregano and Parmesan cheese dumped on him and it drives Newman berserk. He chases after and bites Kramer.
Part 2 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK2mBSBb21U Part 3 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UIvohaMA3Q
Memorable quote: “I ran out of butter so I had to borrow yours. Anything else, Mr. Nosy?” – Kramer when asked about taking Jerry’s butter.

11. The Pie
Season 5	Episode 15	February 17, 1994
Jerry gets upset because his girlfriend Audrey won’t try a bite of his pie. Jerry becomes obsessed with this. They go to eat at Poppie’s, her father’s restaurant. Jerry goes to the bathroom and runs into Poppie there. He notices that he doesn’t watch his hands. Jerry then refuses a slice of Audrey’s pizza because he saw her dad not wash after using the restroom. BLANK SPACE Jerry meets Audrey at Poppie’s later to talk. While there, the health inspector comes and arrests Poppie for unsanitary conditions. Also George gets taken to dinner my a prospective employer. George will not eat his dessert because he fears the chef (whom George “stole” a suit from) is going to taint it. George acts like Audrey did refusing Jerry’s pie. George does not get the job because of this but does not become ill as the other diners did. Jerry never found out why Audrey refused the pie in the first place.
Part 2 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV3cqCggbK4 Part 3 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-erm-67pRFI
Memorable quote: “Poppie’s a little sloppy.” – Jerry

10. The Chicken Roaster
Season 8	Episode 8	November 14, 1996
A Kenny Rogers Roasters chicken restaurant opens across the street from Jerry and Kramer’s apartment. They have a large red neon sign to advertise and it keeps Kramer up at night. Kramer gets upset and boycotts the restaurant. Kramer can’t take it any more and gets Jerry to switch apartments with him. Newman comes over to Kramer’s (Jerry’s) with chicken from Kenny Rogers. Kramer tries it and soon becomes addicted to it but he tries to hide the fact from Jerry. BLANK SPACE Jerry runs into Newman at Kenny Roasters and notices that he bought broccoli as well. He deduces that the food cannot be solely for him as he would never eat broccoli. Jerry finds out that Kramer is addicted to Kenny Rogers. Earlier Jerry had asked an old buddy to have lunch with him, which he skipped a business meeting for, and got fired. He then got a job as the assistant manager at Kenny Rogers. Jerry effectively gets the restaurant closed down when he shakes George’s wet hat and get all the food covered in rat fur.
Part 2 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acKM4jsUXwk Part 3 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qMpJa4FaW0
Memorable quote: “Hold it, Newman, you wouldn’t eat broccoli if it was deep fried in chocolate sauce.” – Jerry

9. The Muffin Tops
Season 8	Episode 21	May 8, 1997
Elaine while at a party eats only the top of a muffin. Her former boss Mr. Lippman, sees this and decides to open a business selling only the tops, Top Of The Muffin To You! When business isn’t going as planned he asks Elaine for help and advice. She tells him that he’s doing it wrong by just baking the tops. She informs him that he must bake the entire muffin and “pop the top” from the stump. BLANK SPACE Elaine and Mr. Lippman try to discard the stumps by giving them to the homeless but even they don’t want them. Nobody will take the stumps and they are left with piles and bags full of them. Elaine tries to get Kramer to take her stumps to the dump but even the dumps won’t take them. Elaine ends up getting Newman as a “cleaner” to get rid of the muffin stumps by eating them all. It ends with Newman bringing in a cooler with 4 bottles of milk and saying that he’s got a lot of work to do.
Part 2 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXypua_KEA0 Part 3 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOwAJNL7hws
Memorable quote: “I know what you thought. They don’t have homes, they don’t have jobs, what do they need the top of a muffin for? They’re lucky to get the stumps.” – Homeless Shelter Employee

8. The Calzone
Season 7	Episode 20	April 25, 1996
While in a meeting George is eating an eggplant calzone. Mr. Steinbrenner asks him what is is and asks for a bit, which he turns out to love the taste of. He orders George to go get him one. Soon they are eating calzones every day for lunch together. George leaves a tip for the guy at the calzone shop but he does not see George put the money in the jar so George goes to fish out the money in order to re-tip him (and get recognition for his tip) but the guy catches George and thinks he’s stealing from the jar. He bans George from the restaurant. BLANK SPACE Mr. Steinbrenner continues to want calzones but George can no longer get them. He has to recruit Newman to order them for him and bring them to him during his mail route. Newman decides not to go to work because it is raining and George has to get Kramer to pick up the calzones. While there Kramer has them heat his shirt in the oven because he has become accustomed to warm clothing from the dryer. Kramer tries to pay for the calzones with pennies and the owner kicks him out. Kramer goes to George’s office and places his shirt by a vent. The smell from it wafts into Mr. Steinbrenner’s office and runs into George’s office thinking that he has calzones. George tries to pass off another restuarant’s calzone as the original but Mr. Steinbrenner doesn’t fall for it. George then gets the idea to put the Yankee’s player clothes in a pizza oven after Mr. Steinbrenner was found rummaging through his office and realized the smell was from the clothes.
Part 2 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOpixo1HoOk Part 3 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cLg9aVl_cE
Memorable quote: “From 1973 to 1982 I ate the exact same lunch everyday . Turkey chili in a bowl made out of bread . Bread bowl George. First you eat the chili then you eat the bowl . There’s nothing more satisfying than looking down after lunch and seeing nothing but a table.” – George Steinbrenner

7. The Strike
Season 9	Episode 10	December 18, 1997
George, Elaine and Jerry go to a Hanukkah party at Tim Whatley’s where Elaine meets a man and gives him a fake phone number. Elaine realizes that she wrote the number down on the back of her “Submarine Captain” card that she was using to get a free sub sandwich and captain’s hat at a local sandwich shop. BLANK SPACE Kramer hears that the 12-year strike at H&H Bagels is over (where he used to work) because minimum wage is now higher than what they were demanding. Kramer returns to work at the bagel shop. Elaine wants to get the sandwich card back and goes to where the fake phone number calls, a betting parlor. She gives them the number of H&H if the man calls for her. She waits at the bagel shop for him to call but because of the steam inside she starts to get ugly. Meanwhile Jerry’s notices that his girlfriend’s appearance changes drastically day to day and in different locales. He wants to only sit in the back booth at Monk’s because she looks good in that setting. Kramer thinks that Jerry is cheating on her because of the variances in appearance. In the end they all gather for a Festivus Dinner at the Costanza’s (Frank’s made-up Holiday) in order for George to prove that he didn’t get to have Christmas.
Part 2 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdOxBcxg1tM Part 3 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Xqq2frt7zI
Memorable quote: “H&H wouldn’t let us use their bathroom while we were picketing. It put a cramp in our solidarity.” – Kramer

6. The Chinese Restaurant
Season 2	Episode 11	May 23, 1991
Jerry, Elaine and George decide to stop in for a meal at a Chinese restaurant before going to see a showing of Plan 9 From Outer Space. Jerry had previously lied to his uncle about not being able to go to dinner with him in order to see the movie. BLANK SPACE The maître d’ continuously tells them that their table will be “5, 10 minutes”. While waiting for their table Jerry dares Elaine to eat an eggroll from a random diner’s plate offering her $50 to do so. Elaine tries to conspicuously offer them $25 if they let her do it but they don’t understand what she’s getting at. A woman runs into Jerry in the lobby who turns out is his uncle’s receptionist. Jerry ends up going to dinner with his uncle because he realizes he’ll get caught. George and Elaine decide to leave too. The maître d’ calls their party for their table as they walk out the door.
Part 2 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9MD6EASTsI Part 3 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6pj2LBYGKk
Memorable quote: “For 50 bucks? I’d put my face in the soup and blow.” – George

5. The Soup
Season 6	Episode 7	November 10, 1994
Bania, having bulked up, no longer fits into his Armani suit and offers it to Jerry. It fits Jerry and he somewhat reluctantly takes it. Bania says he can just take him out for dinner as payment for the suit. BLANK SPACE Kramer, after having kidney stones, decides to get rid of his refrigerator and only eat fresh foods. Kramer takes food from Jerry’s for his girlfriend Hildy who is a waitress at Reggie’s. Bania and Jerry go out to dinner at Mendy’s but Bania only orders a soup because he had already eaten earlier. Bania says it doesn’t count as a meal because it’s only soup and insists that Jerry take him out again. Jerry gets extremely frustrated with him. Jerry and Bania go out again and he gets a soup and a sandwich but because it’s not “a fancy restaurant” he claims it’s still not a meal. Jerry ends up giving the suit to Elaine’s boyfriend. George doesn’t want to eat at Monk’s (he doesn’t want to see one of the waitresses) so they go to Reggie’s but they don’t have an omelet or big salad that Jerry and Elaine want. Jerry runs out of food because Kramer keeps taking it for Hildy (who is upset because Kramer got her fired for calling at work too much). After Jerry and Bania continue to argue about the suit and the meal, Bania demands the suit back but Jerry tells him that he gave it away. Bania runs after Elaine’s boyfriend to get the suit. Jerry and Elaine celebrate at Monk’s with an omelet and a big salad while George eats alone at Reggie’s.
Part 2 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPHUC5epw1Q Part 3 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xwtb3tm9qLY
Memorable quote: “No, I’m sorry Bania … I’m not going over this again. Well who told you to order soup? … No! There’s no dinner. There’s not going to be any dinner. You’ve had a sandwich and 2 bowls of soup and that’s it. Good-bye.” – Jerry on the phone with Bania.

4. The Mango
Season 5	Episode 1	September 16, 1993
Kramer gets a bad peach from Joe’s Fruit Shop and attempts to return it. Joe bans Kramer from the shop and Kramer freaks out about not being able to get fruit. He talks Jerry into doing his shopping for him and requests specifics like plantains, mangoes and plums that are “red inside”. Joe notices that Jerry’s selection is unusual and realizes that it’s actually for Kramer. He then bans Jerry from the shop as well. BLANK SPACE Kramer then gets George to do the fruit shopping (which Jerry pays for because Kramer only had “hundreds”) and he is able to procure it. George, who had been having sexual performance issues, eats one of the mangoes and notices some “vibrant” effect from it. In the midst of all of this Jerry is attempting to get Elaine to sleep with him once more because he found out she had been faking orgasms when they were dating (and to “save the friendship”). Eventually she breaks down and allows it but she is still unable to orgasm. Elaine is hungry and asks Jerry if he still has any mangoes. Jerry realizes the potential power of the fruit but the episode ends there.
Part 2 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkerZHeiQf4 Part 3 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSzFfrEsv-s
Memorable quote: “They don’t have a decent piece of fruit at the supermarket. The apples are mealy, the oranges are dry… I don’t know what’s going on with the papayas!” – Kramer

3. The Non-Fat Yogurt
Season 5	Episode 7	November 4, 1993
Kramer invests in a non-fat frozen yogurt shop that is becoming increasingly popular. It is frequented by Jerry, Elaine, George and Newman, amongst others. BLANK SPACE Kramer comments that Jerry and Elaine have gained weight and they become suspicious that its due to all the frozen yogurt they’ve been eating and believe the non-fat moniker to be a lie. They pay to have it tested in a lab to find out the truth. Kramer seduces one of the lab techs and tries to get her to falsify the results and in the process contaminates, soon to be mayor, Giuliani’s blood sample causing it to be misdiagnosed with high cholesterol. The lab results turn out to reveal that the yogurt does in fact have fat in it. Giuliani vows to eliminate false advertising because he believes his high cholesterol is due to the yogurt. Business plummets and it soon closes. Newman gets extremely mad at this.
Part 2 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okZTxEDCiqI Part 3 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hL8JYwTL7g
Memorable quote: “You don’t eat Oreos? The way you break ‘em open and…. It’s like you’re having sex with ‘em.” – Kramer to Elaine

2. The Rye
Season 7	Episode 11	January, 1996
George takes his parents to have dinner at Susan’s parent’s house. On the way Frank Costanza insists that they stop and get a Marble Rye from Schnitzer’s Bakery to bring to dinner. After dinner Frank realizes that Susan’s parents never brought the rye to the table and steals it back. Susan’s parents notice that the rye is missing. Frank is also upset that they did not serve dessert. BLANK SPACE George then puts together a scheme to have Kramer distract Susan’s parents with a ride around central park in a horse-drawn carriage for their anniversary and in the meantime he’ll sneak another rye back into their home. George recruits Jerry to purchase another rye from the bakery but they sell the last one to an old lady. Jerry offers her $50 which she refuses. Jerry continues to follow her and eventually steals the rye from her and runs. Kramer had been feeding the horse cans of Beef-A-Reeno because he had large quantities of it after shopping at a wholesale food store. This caused the horse to release horrible gas and Susan’s parents demand Kramer take them back immediately. This foils Georges plan and he resorts to another plan of fishing it from Jerry from the third story window, which he is caught in the midst of by Susan and her parents.
Part 2 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yif4VKgBQkw Part 3 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVjdHcGBnFw
Memorable quote: “Your father’s absolutely right. We’re sitting there like idiots drinking coffee without a piece of cake!” – Estelle Costanza

1. The Soup Nazi
Season 7	Episode 6	November 2, 1995
Probably one of the most popular episodes of Seinfeld in general. Kramer tells Jerry, George and Elaine about a restaurant with the most incredible soup that is run by the “Soup Nazi”. So called because of his stringent ordering polices and his intolerance of fumbling customers. Part of what makes this so great is that it’s based on an actual person (as Larry David often does). BLANK SPACE During the episode George gets denied soup because he wanted bread as the customers in front of him received some, Elaine gets banned for a year because she says the Soup Nazi looks like Al Pacino from Scent of a Woman, Jerry tells Bania to go back to his spot in line because he doesn’t want to anger the Soup Nazi and Jerry picks soup over his girlfriend because she kissed him in line. The Soup Nazi offers Kramer an old armoire that he has (to replace the one he had stolen from him while watching it for Elaine) which Kramer then gives to Elaine. Finding this out the Soup Nazi declares that he never would have given it to him if he knew it was for her. Later Elaine discovers the Soup Nazi’s recipes in the armoire and threatens to release them and ruin his business. Because of this the Soup Nazi has no choice and decides to close up shop and move to Argentina.
Part 2 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_Z1H8xM_mw Part 3 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bCn5W99rGE
Memorable quote: “No soup for you!” – Soup Nazi

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Top 15 Essential Wordpress Plugins for Beginners

bhanu210 — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:05:35 +0000

Here is a list of some popular and really useful WordPress plugins for the beginners, who are starting a new self hosted WordPress blog. Using the plugin is really essential as, they have the major role in making your blog more popular among users . You may find nearly 120 million blogs on the web and at that time you must ask yourself, how do the visitors find and share your blog. Yes, wordpress plugins give you the solution. No need to go for a premium/paid wordpress plugin. There are so many free of cost plugins available in wordpress plugin directory. You may give some donations to the plugin developers if you appreciate and found their plugins really helpful. How ever this a small and very useful list of plugins for the new bloggers.

1. Wp Spam Free

This is the first wordpress plugin you need after installing wordpress. “Wp Spam Free” really helps a lot to fight with comment spamming. Spam comments are the big headache for the bloggers now-a-days. This is an extremely powerful WordPress anti-spam plugin that eliminates blog comment spam, including trackback and pingback spam. Finally, you can enjoy a spam-free WordPress blog!

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This plugin has been a good player since its birth. You can find this plugin at any top plugin lists. Most of the wordpress users use this to promote their wordpress blog for search engines. This plugin gives you many options to adjust your page title, post titles, meta descriptions for each post and page, meta keywords etc. Basically this is the most useful plugin for the On-page search engine optimization.

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7. SEO Smart Links

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10. Insights WordPress plugin

Most of the bloggers love to insert relevant images and videos into their posts. But searching the images and videos, saving them to local computer and then uploading to the post is very time consuming. “Insights WordPress plugin” helps the bloggers to search, resize and upload the image or embed any video into the post withing few seconds. Just type the name of the image, choose the “Image” option and click on search. This will show you a big list of relevant images bellow the post editor. By clicking on any image you will see the actual image size. you can resize the image right there and then upload it to your blog. Videos can also embedded in similar way. Also you can search for any information on Wikipedia by using this plugin right there on your blog.

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11. WordPress Backup

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Raja rajathaan! Part 1

Gayatri — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:37:58 +0000

My love for Ilayaraja’s music is nothing new. I want to hear the man, live, at least once. Hopefully, it’ll happen sooner than later.

This week is Ilayaraja special on Airtel Super singers. Some of these kids have been doing such a wonderful job! Its got into this total Raja mood. Today, I woke up and played some of my favourite Raja songs while I made some yummy badam kheer! It put me in such a wonderful mood for the rest of the day. I’ve always wanted to make a list of my favourite Ilayaraja songs. But I have so many favourites that its hard to pick out only a select few. So I want to list some of my favourites by genre. Today, I’m going to list my favourite love songs of Ilayaraja. I only wanted to post 10 songs but I could not get the count down from 15. So I’m going to be posting this as a 3 part series. So, here goes my favourite 15, part 1 in no particular order.

Kadhal oviyam – Alaigal Oyvathillai

This song oozes innocence. It does what it is supposed to in a very soul stirring way, celebrate love that is young and pure. It starts with a hymn and a lovely veena prelude. It then progresses in a very unconventional way with some interesting beats and chorus that reminds you of choral singing in a church. Fascinating to see how even the tune and arrangements blend in with the story line. Jency voice teases you with such sincerity! She may not be a very versatile singer, but the honesty in her voice is something I love! Though Ilayaraja is an unusual choice for the male lead voice in this kind of a song, he brings a certain rough edge to an otherwise innocent song.

Sundari Kannal oru sedhi – Thalapathi

This is yet another song that has my fav pair, SPB – Ilayaraja! What starts of as a slow song of yearning slowly weaves into it a lovely interlude that tells you about the struggle in the hero’s mind. You can clearly make out the conflict between the two emotions in the song, duty and love, even if you have never seen the video or not know anything about the movie.

But if you’ve seen the video you will know how stunning Shobana looks! She easily looked her best in this movie if you of course, discount Suhasini’s rather irritating dubbing.

Thulli ezhunthathu – Geethanjali

This is not one of those extremely popular songs of Ilayaraja. Again, this song has a appealing honesty about it. Its one of those uncomplicated simple flowing songs that sounds just right after a long hard day. Ilayaraja is partial to the guitar. He arranges the most beautiful preludes and interludes on the guitar. This song is one such example. Many people have a problem with Ilayaraja the singer. I agree that is not the best of them. But there are songs, like this one, where I can’t imagine any one else doing justice to the rendition.

Partha Vizhi – Guna

This is not even a full length song. It is one of those tiny little songs that completely steal all the thunder away from even some of the proper 4-5 min songs. Yesudas’s voice with the chenda (?) beats sounds just mesmerizing. This song another one of his songs that has a lot of chorus very predominently. This man doesn’t need great singers to make his songs work!

Maankuyile – Karagatakaran

This is one of Raja’s best movies. I love all the songs in this movie cos it redefined the perception of folk music in everyone’s mind. It wasn’t just loud melam and nayanam and mindless beats. This song especially was a trend breaker cos it was unheard of for folk songs to be slow and melodious. Again a masterpiece by SPB. If one can ignore the Ramarajan’s heavy pink lipstick and Kanaka’s fake drawn eyebrows, this song is a pretty enjoyable one even to watch!

I will continue with part 2 next week!

Das war der Oktober 2009 » TOP 15

steffen030 — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:20:46 +0000

Was ist passiert? Ende des Monats Oktober stiegen die Leser in meinem Blog, das freute mich ja ein b

My Most Popular Articles

poetryman69 — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:33:31 +0000

These articles have either received the most hits or have beat out all the competition.

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Das war der September 2009 » TOP 15

steffen030 — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:16:23 +0000

Na ja paar Abstürze sind im September 2009 wieder da gewesen, die Anzahl der Blogleser ist wieder na

Top 15 do Horti Fruti

leandrotalocardoso — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:33:00 +0000

Se copiar coloca os creditos criado por mim mesmo otimo não?

15 frases míticas de películas

flint93 — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:47:37 +0000

De frases va la cosa. Pongo las 15 películas con las frases más míticas que conozco. Me dejo muchas, lo sé, pero es que cuesta mucho elegir…

15- ”Tócala otra vez, Sam”, Casablanca

14- ”Tontos son los que hacen tonterias”, Forrest Gump

13- ”No llueve eternamente”, El Cuervo.

12- “Sólo cuando lo perdemos todo, somos libres para actuar”, El club de la lucha

11 – ”¿Qué pasa, Mcfly, es que eres un gallina?” o ”Anoche Darth Vader vino del planeta Vulcano y me dijo que si no invito a Lorraine me va a fundir el cerebro” de Regreso al futuro.

10- ”¡Hasta el infinito, y más allá!”, Toy Story

9- “¿Por qué llevas ese estúpido traje de conejo?
Frank : ¿Por qué llevas ese estúpido traje de hombre?”, Donnie Darko

8- ”Mantén cerca a tus amigos pero aun más cerca a tus enemigos” o ”Le haré una oferta que no podrá rechazar”, de El Padrino

7- ”Luke, yo soy tu padre” Star Wars episodio V, o ”Que la fuerza de acompañe” obviamente, de Star Wars también.

6- ”Estaré aquí mismo”, E.T.

5- ”Dar cera, pulir cera”, Karate Kid

4- “La muerte nos sonríe a todos, devolvámosle la sonrisa” o ”Mi nombre es Máximo Décimo Meridio, comandante de los ejercitos del Norte, general de las legiones medias, fiel servidor del verdadero emperador, Marco Aurelio, padre de un hijo asesinado, marido de una mujer asesinada y alcanzaré mi venganza, en esta vida o en la próxima”, ambas de Gladiator

3- ”¡Os daré una que cuando despertéis vuestra ropa estará pasada de moda!”, Los Goonies.

2- “Luchad, y puede que muráis. Huid y viviréis… un tiempo al menos. Y cuando estéis en vuestro lecho de muerte dentro de muchos años, ¿no cambiareis todos los días desde aquí hasta entonces por una oportunidad, solo una oportunidad, de volver aquí y matar a nuestros enemigos? ¡Puede que nos quiten la vida, pero jamás nos quitarán… la libertad!”, Braveheart

1- ”Veo en vuestros ojos el mismo miedo que encogería mi propio corazon, podría llegar el día en que el valor de los hombres decayera y se rompieran los lazos de nuestra comunidad, pero hoy no es ese dia. ¡En este dia lucharemos, por todo los que vuestro corazon ama de esta buena tierra, hoy os llamo a luchar, hombres del Oeste!”, El Señor de los Anillos.

El Señor de los Anillos, Braveheart, Gladiator o V de vendetta tienen muchas frases míticas, pero he puesto una o dos de las más importantes.

Estas son las 15 frases de cine que más me gustan, desde frases épicas como el discurso de William Wallace en Braveheart, o del final de El señor de los Anillos; frases que simplemente son legendarias, como Karate Kid, Star Wars o El Padrino; hasta frases que me encantan por su sencillez, como E.T., Karate Kid, o Los Goonies.

The Dean's List: Top 15 Rap/R&B Songs 9.9.09

DbryJ Music — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:45:42 +0000

Pitbull is #1 on The Dean's List this week with "Hotel Room Service"

The Dean’s List – Top 15 Rap/R&B Songs – 9.9.09

“Hotel Room Service” – Pitbull
“One Time” – Justin Bieber
“Pretty Wings” – Maxwell
“Best I Ever Had” – Drake
“Throw It In the Bag” – Fabolous ft. The-Dream
“Number One” – R. Kelly ft. Keri Hilson
“Run This Town” – Jay-Z ft. Rihanna and Kanye West
“The One” – Mary J. Blige
“Ego” – Beyonce
“Ice Cream Paint Job” – Dorrough
“LOL ” – Trey Songz ft. Gucci Mane and Soulja Boy
“Under” – Pleasure P
“Birthday Sex” – Jeremih
“Becky” – Plies
“Every Girl” – Young Money

Maxwell snags the #3 spot on The Dean's List this week with "Pretty Wings"

For now, enjoy this list of hip hop and R&B fire. And let me call attention to Justin Bieber (#2), the Canadian teenager who is reppin’ hard for the white folks with his R&B gem “One Time.” Bieber proves that Justin Timberlake and Robin Thicke ain’t the only white boys who do great R&B Justin Bieber is definitely a rising star in the worlds of pop and R&B.

by:

Dexter Bryant Jr. (d.BRYJ)
DbryJ Music Media Group

15 verdades sobre o orkut

melkees — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 01:56:04 +0000

Primeiro Se não tem foto é feio(a).

Segundo Se não tiver foto de corpo é gordo(a).

Terceiro Mulher gostosa te adicionando sem que você conheça é fake.

Quarto Qualquer celebridade que te adiciona, é fake.

Quinto Pessoas adoram tirar foto em frente ao espelho.

Sexto Pessoas adoram entrar em comunidades .

Sétimo É bonita no Orkut? Toma cuidado, as aparências enganam…

Oitavo Quanto mais colorido e bem formatado é um scrap, menos você deve clicar no link que vem abaixo cheios de glitter.

Nono Depoimento 90% é falsidade.

Décimo Fotos não são tiradas como recordação, e sim para botar no Orkut.

Décimo Primeiro Orkut não é uma rede social, ela tira sua sociabiliade.

Décimo Segundo Ainda existem pessoas tentando descobrir como se rouba Orkut.

Décimo Terceiro A maioria das usuárias do Orkut colocam “Inteligência” na guia
“coisas que me atraem”? Mas, se a inteligência as atrai, porque os Nerds/CDF’s não têm namoradas?

Décimo Quarto Nos dias de hoje, só não tem Orkut quem não quer.

Décimo Quinto Buddypoke serve pra fazer coisas que não tem coragem de fazer pessoalmente

Fonte: Antigo BobbaVip

Das war der August 2009 » TOP 15

steffen030 — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:33:31 +0000

Es wird Zeit für die Top 15 für den Monat August 2009 bei Steffen030. Also erstmal danke an die viel

Miss Universe closes, Hoang Yen fails to enter top 15

bphan1492 — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 04:40:41 +0000

Although I was pretty sure Yen wouldn’t have won the crown (not to sound like a pessimist or anything), I was at least hoping to see her enter the pageant’s Top 15. Even so, what was more disappointing about this year was that not a single Asian rep. managed to make it onto the shortlist. But the ultimate disappointment of the overall competition once it came down to the Top 5, was definitely not seeing Australia bring home the crown as she seems to have been the majority’s favorite (including mine).

The top 15 comprised Miss Puerto Rico, Miss Iceland, Miss Albania, Miss Czech Republic, Miss Belgium, Miss Dominican Republic, Miss Sweden, Miss Kosovo, Miss Australia, Miss France, Miss Switzerland, Miss USA, Miss Croatia and Miss Venezuela with Miss Thailand winning Miss Photogenic while Miss China won Miss Congeniality.

Five beauties were chosen for the interview round, which decided who would be the queen. Surprisingly, yet expectantly (if that even makes sense)Venezula, for the second year in a row, brought home the crown.

The first runner-up was Miss Dominican Republic, followed by Miss Kosovo, Miss Australia and Miss Puerto Rico.

The final round of Miss Universe 2009 was held in the Bahamas from August 3-23, attracting representatives from over 80 countries.

Now that Yen is going home empty handed, I guess Huynh Thanh Tuyen would be our last major representative to place whatever’s left of our hopes onto. Maybe we’ll have a better shot in the Miss Bikini competition anyway…

Noughty films

Mark — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:57:11 +0000

The IMDb, (the place to head if you are in need of a bit of info about a film, or an actor or anything else related to the silver screen [silver screen, hmm where did that come from? Here]) have just released their list of the top 15 films made this millenia as voted for by users of IMDb.

I’ve seen a good chunk of these, but I’m still to check out City of God, need a flu day or a free eve then perhaps I’ll rent the DVD.

On the subject of films, this one was featured in my weekly email from fontfont (typography nutcases, like me) for having a beautifully considered use of fonts in it’s poster. It looks interesting too, I think I’ll try and catch this at some point as well.

Also, a Cool Fish.

Top 15 Cele mai obscene statui din lume!

Pantaleonescu — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 21:17:08 +0000

Sursa: buzzfeed.com

Das war der Juli 2009 » TOP 15

steffen030 — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 11:39:51 +0000

Also erschreckend ist der Monat Juli 2009 nicht wirklich gewesen. Nur erschreckend zum letzten Jahr

Top 15 Part 3 #13

joethebro19 — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 06:59:08 +0000

Since my last post; some interesting (however somewhat depressing) things have happened. I will not go into details on those subjects just yet, I’ll just save it for later. However, I will take this time to tell you how I regret purchasing a HP Pavillion Laptop. This has been the second time i have sent it in to be repaired. IN THE LAST MONTH!!! LAST TIME I WAS TOO STUPID NOT TO BACKUP MY STUFF SO I LOST ALL MY MUSIC MICROSOFT OFFICE AND EVERYTHINGELSE! This time it’s a screen problem, so i hope it won’t effect my data (I backed it up just in case) How am I typing this? you ask. I am typing this blog on a Desktop PC, my parents slow Desktop PC. I am thankful for at least having a computer to use!

Well I could probably talk all night on how much I would rather own a Mac than an HP, but I’d just get angrier and angrier. However, I will continue the previous Blog of the Top 15 People I couldn’t careless about or I just plain hate.

#13 Hillary Clinton

I don’t have as many reasons to hate her, but I just dislike the whole fact that she has an important position in the world and how she had the audacity of running a campaign to be the Democratic-nominee to become the president of the United States. This election was already riddled with horrible candidates anyways. She only added to the mediocrity of the election.

Leadership skills?

I think not. She couldn’t control Bill Clinton; so she can govern a country? If you voted for her. I wag my finger at you. If you did, let me know why…please! I can’t even begin to understand why you would support her. Now with the elementary insult-tug-o-war between her and North Korea. I can’t even fathom why shes in the position that shes in.

Dear North Korea,
I apologize for Hilary Clinton. She does not represent america. Please don’t take her seriously. She does not represent america. Obama made another mistake in appointing her Secretary of State. I believe a Secretary of State needs to show maturity and strength. None of these, Hilary Clinton shows. Please forgive us North Korea!

Sincerely,
An Honest American

Now for my shallow-side…a pant-suit? really?!

They are hideous.

Okay this was a come-back blog. So be nice

Coming soon…Top 15 Part 4 #12…Ben Roethlisberger

Top 15 moments of the last 15 years

christophergates — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 17:00:26 +0000

For many of us, the last 15 years in Pittsburgh sports are our history. A new generation of Pittsbur

Top 15 Part 2 #14

joethebro19 — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 06:55:59 +0000

Something very interesting happened today. I BOUGHT A NEWSPAPER! It blew my mind how much work is put into an industry that is going to dissappear in five to ten years! I loved it! The new York Times (which is my second favorite; right nehind USA Today. Well anyways, #14 on my ‘Top 15 list of people i could careless about, or just plain hate) is Vince Shlomi.

If you do not know who Vince Shlomi is; well here you go (I know Wikipedia is not a reliable source, but it is Vince Shlomi, so who cares?):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vince_Offer

Well, I am apart of the American Public. We are lied to everyday of the week. We usually just sit down and take it. As long as it doesn’t affect our personal lives; most of us could usually care less about it. Being sold crappy, pointless and downright lame things on television is a staple of american life. We sometimes buy them just to see if a “As Sold on TV” product could actually produce the advertised results. The “Slap Chop” and “ShamWow!” are the most famous products Vince Shlomi has pitched. The “Slap Chop” I’ve heard actually delivers. Whoop di-do! However, the “ShamWow” (properly named) does not even remotely produce the outcome that is advertised. I have done experiments with the “Scam–sorry “ShamWow” and a sock performed better.

If I were only to resent him on the outcome of his products, that would be hypocritical granted that the Late-Great Billie Mays is my Facebook picture; Bille Mays has advertised some less than adequate products, but he was man with morals! Vince Shlomi is a crook! Would Billie Mays beat up a hooker? I think not! (Unless she wouldn’t buy his Oxi-Clean[which works FANTASTIC!!!])

Please Vince! We know you lie to us on a regular basis to buy a product that you know doesn’t work, but don’t patronize us or DISRESPECT us!

Without the “Hookertastrophe”, I would look at you differently. Probably still buying the same old stuff that doesn’t work, but thats my choice. Now I’m making the choice to call you a Common Criminal! You should be ashamed to call yourself a Pitchman! Have fun in jail!

(Dedicated to Erin)

R.I.P The Last Real Pitchman! Billie Mays!

Soon #13 Hillary Clinton

Top 15

joethebro19 — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:48:33 +0000

Today I started a list of the Top 15 people I care about the least:
Each day or so, I will post the reasons why I personally don’t care aout these people.

List:
15. Al Gore
14. Vince Shlomi
13. Hilary Clinton
12. Ben Roethlisberger
11. Brett Favre
10. Yoko Ono
9. Anyone who says internet abbreviations in face 2 face conversations
8. Charlie Sheen
7. Sean Hannity
6. Alan Colmes
5. SARAH PALIN
4.Rush Limbaugh
3. Bill O’Reilly
2. Rachel Maddow
1. Jeff Goldblum

Today I will start with #15 on my list: Al Gore

According to some people that I have met, I am supposedly a Super Left Leaning Liberal. I hope to change those views, because I am a little more complicated then that. So you say “you must be a Libertarian?” and I say “Not exact;ly”. The ultimate goal is to figure out who and what is right. I am still on that path. Not really taking sides; just trying to figure stuff out. This leads to the next subject. AL GORE.

An Inconvient Truth. In my opinion this whole spiel was (and continues to be) one of the greatest propaganda movements of our lifetime. Al Gore’s global warming philosophy has been debunked by many scientists and by some kids as well. Al Gore has also been sued by over 30,00 scientists for fraud. 30,000 versus 1?

http://abetterblogsite.com/public/blog/143429

http://www.stonescryout.org/archives/2006/06/an_inconvenient.html

http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1690658&lastnode_id=0

Now I believe that global warming is occurring. It is and will be a threat to our Future. Not our personal future, but our Childrens>Grandchildrens> Greatgrandchildrens>Greatgrandchildrens>Greatgrandchildrens future. I think that we shouldn’t be making such a big deal about it. It’s only natural.

However, I do believe that we are contributing to it. Not helping at all! We should definitely do everything we can to “Go Green” and actually not just destroy ourselves. ( some people believe that self-destruction is human nature[that was relly random])

The main reason I dislike Al Gore is the fact that he has made so much money, for scaring people into completely changing their lives when he hasn’t done anything to support his own cause.

http://wizbangblog.com/content/2007/02/26/al-gores-own-inconvenient-trut.php

At least he’s can pay his bills with the money made off of “Inconvenient Truth.”

Still I agree that Global Warming will be a threat to humans and we should do whatever we can to slow it down. However, a Sixth Mass Extinction is due sooner or later.

I supported Al Gore until I found out his hypocrisy and straightup lies. Maybe with the money made on “Inconvenient Truth” and the upcoming “Cap and Trade/Carbon Tax” he can go and practice what he preaches.

Soon #14 Vince Shlomi.

Das war der Juni 2009 » TOP 15

steffen030 — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:49:50 +0000

Die Tipps zum Onanieren für Männer sind auch im Juni 2009 an erster Stelle im Blog. GayRomeo war gan

AXEL FOLEY'S TOP 15 FAVORITE FILMS

heathsworld — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:12:49 +0000

Axel Foley’s Top 15 favorite Films :

(click on the title to find out more information on these films)

15. McCabe and Mrs. Miller

14. Poltergeist

13. E.T.

12. FIGHT CLUB

11. Smokers (directed by Axel Foley/Mike Hull)

Axel Foley's "Smokers"

10. The Samurai Trilogy :

Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto (1954)

Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple (1955)

Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island (1956)

9. The Shining

8. Goodfellas

7. Crimes and Misdemeanors

6. Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control

5. Aliens

4. Le Roman d’un Tricheur (The Story of a Cheat)

3. Magnolia

2. Primer

AXEL’S #1 FAVORITE FILM OF ALL-TIME :

Hello Axel.

1. 2001 : A Space Odyssey

To listen to Axel’s Film list podcast, click on link below :

THE FILM LIST : EPISODE 3 AXEL’S FOLEY’S TOP 15 FAVORITE FILMS

Top 15 Celebrity Crushes

charlessimic09 — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:54:00 +0000

-Eva Mendes and Angelina Jolie are the only two I’m sure are in order. Everyone else can be interchanged pretty much. lol

1. Eva Mendes (Oh yes)

2.Angelina Jolie

3. Alicia Silverstone

4. Will Smith

5. Ryan Gosling

6. Tila Tequila

6.5 Dani Campbell (This was my first female love. I completely fell in love with her and Tila during the first season of A Shot at Love. She is the girl with Tila in the video above.)

7. Michael Cera

8. Johnny Depp

9. Viggo Mortensen

10. Mandy Musgrave (From South of Nowhere)

11. Rynan “Kid Rainen” Paguio (From the Jabbawockeez)

12. Mario Lopez

13. Jessica Alba

14. Beyonce

15. Kimberly Wyatt (From the Pussycat Dolls)

Purity Is Intentional: Day 6

generationsofvirtue — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 02:42:37 +0000

This post was contributed by Annie, Generations of Virtue’s warehouse manager and mother to th

Das war der Mai 2009 » TOP 15

steffen030 — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 08:16:26 +0000

Im Mai 2009 war ich ein bisschen ruhiger mit Blogeinträgen. Hatte ich eine Menge zu tun und hatte ic

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Top 15 Seinfeld Food Related Episodes

15. The Big Salad

14. The Gum

13. The Cafe

12. The Butter Shave

11. The Pie

10. The Chicken Roaster

9. The Muffin Tops

8. The Calzone

7. The Strike

6. The Chinese Restaurant

5. The Soup

4. The Mango

3. The Non-Fat Yogurt

2. The Rye

1. The Soup Nazi