A Dozen Ways to Differentiate

A Dozen Ways to Differentiate

12. In school, you do homework. In college, you study. 11. In school, you wear your backpack on one shoulder; in college, on both. 10. In college, the professors can tell you the answer without looking at the teacher's guide. 09. In school, you're told what classes to take. In college, you get to choose; that is, as long as the classes don't conflict and you have the prerequisites and the classes aren't closed and you've paid your tuition. 08. In school, if you mess up you can usually sweet-talk your way out of it. In college, you're lucky to ever talk with the professor. 07. In school, when the teacher said, "Good morning," you mumbled back. In college, when the professor says, "Good morning," you write it down. 06. In college, weekends start on Thursday. 05. In college, it's much more difficult to figure out the course schedule of the man/woman you have a crush on, in order to figure out where he/she will be walking around campus in order to "just happen to bump into him/her." 04. In college, there's no one to tell you not to eat pizza three meals a day. 03.

Before you fly

Before you fly

The fear of flights is a common syndrome. Frequent fliers may not be paying too much heed to pre-flight announcements and safety demonstrations but heaven knows how many of us our petrified when the smiling flight attendant politely points out how are chances of survival may be increased. And if you have recently read Arthur Hailey's 'Airport' or seen the movie, then it would be better to travel on tracks or on the road. Though the trend has not caught on in India, in many other places in-flight safety lectures and announcements are sometimes flavoured a little with humour and some amount of well meaning teasing. This often helps to lighten up the situation a bit. Here are a few classic examples of flight-wit; it is for you to decide how effective these are. § On a Continental Flight with a very “senior” flight attendant crew, the pilot said, “Ladies and gentlemen, we've reached cruising altitude and will be turning down the cabin lights. This is for your comfort and to enhance the appearance of your flight attendants.” § “On landing, the stewardess said, “Please be sure to take all of you belongings.

. Quality Cafe -- Basically Every Cafe in Every Movie Ever

 Quality Cafe -- Basically Every Cafe in Every Movie Ever

I Am Not a Stalker

If you live in Los Angeles, you may have seen the Quality Cafe once or twice -- and if you own a television, you've probably seen it hundreds of times. Seriously, the same place has been featured in a ton of TV shows and movies:

Sometimes in the exact same spot:

And with the exact same coffee mugs:

Denzel and Ethan win the award for cutest couple to sit in that booth.

Remember the awkward scene in the first season of Mad Men when Don Draper talks with his half-brother? That was also the Quality Cafe, only with '60s hairdos and indoor smoking allowed.

"We even made a Colored entrance for some of the crew members. That didn't go over well."

Gary Sinise investigated a crime that was committed inside the Quality Cafe in an episode of CSI: NY, even though Los Angeles is a little outside a New York cop's jurisdiction:

Strange ... usually CSI is so firmly grounded in reality.

The Quality Cafe doesn't even function as a real diner anymore. It stopped serving meals in 2006, but it's been doing pretty well for itself as a film location over the past few decades, as demonstrated by this two-and-a-half-minute mashup video of different scenes shot there. For example, here's Hilary Swank taking some advice and/or exposition from Morgan Freeman in Million Dollar Baby:

"Hey, how'd you like to be God? No? Guess it's time for Plan B, then ..."

Here's Morgan Freeman talking to Gwyneth Paltrow about Brad Pitt in Se7en:

He's a regular.

And here's Brad Pitt discussing some serious stuff with ... Vince Vaughn in Mr. and Mrs. Smith:

The really, really poor man's Morgan Freeman.

Meanwhile, here are Scarlett Johansson and Thora Birch making fun of Steve Buscemi's face in Ghost World:

And here's Tom Hanks looking exasperated in the same booth in Catch Me if You Can:

Do they at least wash those mugs?

How about a bleached staring at a lady in Gone in 60 Seconds? Sure thing, we got that, too:

Screw washing. If Cage drinks here, they'd better use an autoclave.

 So now you know: If you ever get the feeling that all the diners used in Hollywood movies look the same, that's because they probably are.