I thought No. 6 was "Shaving Ryan's Privates." I'll have to check my DVD collection tonight. I'm also disappointed by the absence of "On Golden Blonde." The closest I ever came to attending a porn movie was when that movie was playing up the street from my office in SF. But I kept imagining Henry Fonda and Katherine Hepburn in the leads, and my ardor was cooled.

Well, if you want to shave your privates, you go right ahead, but as for me and my clan, I'm all for saving my privates.

I'm much more impressed with Viking's list than Jay's. The only good a romance movie begets is a good nap in the interim.

As a kid in high school, we would drive down the 405 to the LA Temple for baptisms for the dead. The exit is Santa Monica Blvd.

One the way back home, you can pass under the 405 and keep going a few blocks where there used to be this ice cream shop. Unfortunately, you also passed the infamous Pussycat Theater on your left hand side.

Over a few visits, I remember seeing on the marquee: "Indiana Joan and the Black Hole of Mamoo," "Sexcalibur," and "Star Whores: The Empire Strokes Back."

We never stopped to see any of the movies, but we always had a good turnout for baptisms.

Remind me to take never take movie advice from you. Pride and Prejudice and Forest Gump that is just wrong.

Was this list written by jay's wife? No man could have composed that list, and if his man card had not been burned, he would have forgotten the horror of those films.

I'm a bit worried that monkey man from the creek knows enough about P&P to argue about it.

You're way off creek. It wasn't until Mr. D'Arcy saved her sister did Elizabeth begin to feel affection toward him. It just so happened that this coincided with her visit to his home. She's well aware of his fortune prior to her tour of Pemberly.

On Pride and Prejudice, the fact that none of you knows how to spell Darcy undermines your credibility as analysts of Austen's work.

No offense, of course.

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So far I'd say Marsupial is the only one with a firm grasp of the romance genre. Any list without Say Anything is simply beneath acknowledgement.

I was going to say something, but wanted to give these folks credit for at least being influenced by the Smashing Pumpkins.

You're both wrong and so is Austen. Darcy is obviously of French derivation, where De is used to indicate origin, as in de = from. Wonderful Mr. Darcy is from Arcy, or at least his ancestors were, but because De ends in a vowell and Arcy starts with one, they are properly abbreviated so: D'arcy. Being some sort of nouveau riche trying to hide from his heritage, he obviously dropped the apostrophe. I was merely trying to help he and Austen out, but you two just couldn't let it rest.

In fact, Arcy is the location of one of the knights Templar temples in Picardie in France. See: http://www.ordotempli.org/picardie.htm Perhaps this is no coincidence?

It just so happened. Remarkable that. Of course he saved the sister by forking over a bunch of dough, so I guess it did prime the pump a bit.