Movie meme yoinked from theory_of_chaos

1. Go to IMDB.com and look up 10 of your favorite movies.
2. Post three official IMDB "Plot Keywords" for each.
3. Now guess the movies!


1.Organ donation/Sperm/Sketch Comedy
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life daemonfan

2.Based on Novel/Ocean/Child Killed by Animal
Jaws neiloney

3.Cabin/Maine/Telepathy
Dreamcatcher Chico de Tofu

4.Romance/Zombie/Tool shed
Shaun of the Dead nekooflove

5.Terrorist/Mask/Based on Graphic Novel
V for Vendetta nekooflove

6.Marijuana/Hamburger/ Character Name in Title
Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle nekooflove

7.Aunt/Free Spirit/Cocktail Party
Auntie Mame neiloney

8.Beer/Contest/Germany
Beerfest neiloney

9.Kidney Transplant/Louisiana/Friendship Between Women
Steel Magnolias belismakr

10.Troubled Teen/Rabbit Suit/Suburbia
Donnie Darko Chico de Tofu

Ways to annoy me #23: pronounce sherbet, "surebert"

I overheard a couple of co-workers talking about sherbet (pronounced "sherbert" by the first co-worker, we will get to that later) and sorbet and how they are the exact same thing. I don't feel like talking to these co-workers, because my break is only fifteen minutes long and I would rather update my blog.

So I will set the record straight for those of you who happen to stumble across my blog.

I lied, first things first, let's get the pronounciation correct, people.

Sherbet is pronounced "sure-bay.". Do you see more than one r in the word? No? That's because there is only one r in sherbet and it is after the first e, not the second e!

I don't care if "sure-bay" sounds snobby. You don't pronounce sorbet "sorbert", do you? (Wait, you don't, do you?)

(For my New Zealand friends, I apologize. Apparently, it is pronounced "sure-bert" in New Zealand. However, I am in the States, dealing with a population that is neither from, nor visited New Zealand.)

For the sake of keeping this short, let us focus on the United States sherbet and sorbet dessert definitions.

Sherbet is defined as:

A frozen dessert made primarily of fruit juice, sugar, and water, and also containing milk, egg white, or gelatin.



Sorbet is defined as:

A frozen dessert made from iced fruit puree.


Lesson Over.


Cliff Notes on sherbet vs. sorbet:

Sorbet is frozen pureed fruit.

Sherbet is fruit juice, sugar, water, milk, and sometimes egg white and gelatin mixed together and frozen.


No, they are not exactly the same thing. And for some reason, this misunderstanding, really annoys me.