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		<title>Grating Ratings: Minor Simpsons Characters</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jul 2007 12:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the Simpsons Movie out now, I might as well toss in something movie-related. Here are a small assortment of some minor characters from The Simpsons:

Barney Gumble: B Barney is the town drunk who makes Homer look sober. He has a good line now and then but rarely carries a scene. Favorite line: &#034;Aaah! Natural [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grating Ratings: Third in a Trilogy, Part 4 of 4</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jul 2007 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is the last batch of movies that are the third of three in its series:

Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles: D Didn&#039;t we already see this movie? In the original, he goes to NYC and says the &#034;That&#039;s not a knife&#034; line. This time he goes to the west coast, where the jokes are exactly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grating Ratings: Third in a Trilogy, Part 3 of 4</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jul 2007 09:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are some movies that are the third of three in its series:

Austin Powers in Goldmember: B+ Again, there was a drop in quality by the time they reached the third episode of Austin Powers. The movie kept trying to play on the jokes that caught on in the first two movies, and it came [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grating Ratings: Third in a Trilogy, Part 2 of 4</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jul 2007 08:08:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Novac</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are some movies that are the third of three in its series:

Back to the Future Part III: C+ A decent film, but not nearly as good as the first two. Though the plot picks up right from the end of BTTF2, it seems like a completely disconnected storyline.
Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult: A- [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grating Ratings: Third in a Trilogy, Part 1 of 4</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jul 2007 07:02:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are some movies that are the third of three in its series:

Godfather Part III: D- This is the classic &#034;ruining a classic series by making one too many&#034;. The Godfather Part II was a great sequel and even won six Oscars . . . and then they had to go and make this.
Honey, We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grating Ratings: Telephone Features</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jul 2007 05:59:26 +0000</pubDate>
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Call Waiting: B+ Call waiting is a great feature because you don&#039;t have to worry if being on the phone is blocking someone else from calling. This is especially handy if you have a teenage girl in your house. Coupled with caller ID, this feature is even better because you know if it&#039;s worth the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grating Ratings: Scooby Doo Guest Stars</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jul 2007 04:59:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why and how Scooby Doo got so many guest stars is beyond me. Just to clarify: Technically, the show in question here is The New Scooby-Doo Movies. Here are five guests who appeared on Scooby Doo:

Batman and Robin: D When you&#039;re bringing on other fictional characters from another television series, you know you&#039;re scraping the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grating Ratings: Super Powers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jul 2007 04:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ask anyone whether they would choose invisibility or flight, and it&#039;s an instant personality test. Generally, people who choose invisibility would do so for selfish reasons &#8212; to be able to do things without being seen.

Flight: B Flight certainly seems like a fun super power to have, until you discover that you&#039;re flying through swarms [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grating Ratings: Tongue Twisters</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jul 2007 02:56:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How do these tongue twisters stack up? Please, feel free to try saying these tongue twisters right now!

Cher shot Sharif, the shoddy city sheriff: B Here&#039;s one you don&#039;t want to mess up in front of grandma!
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck would chuck wood?: F I don&#039;t know if this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grating Ratings: Minor Seinfeld Characters</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jul 2007 01:59:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Which minor Seinfeld characters do you enjoy? I left Newman out because he appeared in 47 episodes. That&#039;s a step beyond minor, in my book.

George Steinbrenner: C- George Costanza could never get Steinbrenner to fire him. Steinbrenner&#039;s face is never seen on the show. Larry David did his voice, so there&#039;s an extra point right [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grating Ratings: Weather</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jul 2007 23:59:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found a web page with a list of dozens of meteorological statuses that raised plenty of questions. What&#039;s the difference between &#034;ice pellets&#034; and &#034;hail&#034;, because they&#039;re both listed on there separately. And how do you have a &#034;heavy drizzle&#034; &#8212; isn&#039;t that an oxymoron or at least an &#034;oxymeteorologist&#034;? Also frightening is that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grating Ratings: Hotel Freebies</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jul 2007 23:02:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are some of the things you get for free (or things you aren&#039;t supposed to take, but do) from hotels. For the record this review is based on cheap hotels, not expensive hotels.

Bar Soap: C+ Hotel soap works quite well, even if it doesn&#039;t last very long. They are particularly useful 
Towels: F Stealing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grating Ratings: Driving Pet Peeves</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jul 2007 21:58:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I guess I&#039;ll grade these pet peeves at how good they are at &#034;peeving&#034; me off. The higher the grade, the more annoying. A couple years ago, these probably all would have been between A- and A+ because I frequently experienced road rage. Since then, I have slowed down and calmed down, but it&#039;s unavoidable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grating Ratings: The Three Stooges</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jul 2007 21:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are two types of people in the world: Moe people, Larry people, Curly people, and people who can&#039;t count very well.

Moe: A- The leader, the (relatively) smart one, and the bully. Viewers always wanted to smack the sense into Larry and Curly, and Moe&#039;s the one who did it.
Larry: B Larry always seemed like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grating Ratings: Car Features</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jul 2007 19:58:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cars have so many features nowadays that it can make your head spin.

Cooled Compartments: D- I&#039;ll file this one under &#034;Things that sounded cool until I realized I would literally never use them.&#034; These aren&#039;t refrigerators, either &#8212; they&#039;re simply cooled compartments. So if you have something cold, it will stay cold for two hours [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grating Ratings: Kitchen Utensils</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jul 2007 19:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you look through your kitchen drawers, you&#039;ll be surprised to see the dozens of tools and utensils available to help you make food. Even most bachelors have a relatively large number of such tools. Which are worth their salt?

Basting Syringe: B The basting syringe earns points for its simplicity, but mostly it&#039;s just great [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grating Ratings: Animal Sounds</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jul 2007 18:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Novac</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever since we were small children, we have learned the sounds that animals make. We are even taught at a young age how to &#034;properly&#034; spell these sounds. But how accurate are they?

Baa: B- Sheep do seem to make a &#034;baa&#034; sound of sorts, though I&#039;m not sure I can hear a &#034;b&#034; at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grating Ratings: Atari 2600 Games</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jul 2007 17:03:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Novac</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my mind, the Atari 2600 is the best video game console of all time. You either had a joystick or a paddle &#8212; both of which had just one button. Modern day consoles have nothing on the Atari 2600 with their 80-button, vibrating controllers and frequent crashes. The Atari 2600 blows these out of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grating Ratings: Smurfs</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jul 2007 15:56:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[La la la la la la. Sing a happy song. La la la la la la. Smurf the whole day long. This smurfy show really smurfed the generations of little smurfs back in the day. Besides the annoying smurf of replacing words with &#034;smurf,&#034; it seemed to entertain the masses.

Brainy Smurf: C- Afflicted with nearsightedness, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grating Ratings: Condiments</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jul 2007 14:55:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Condiments &#8212; what would we do without them? Eat our food plain? Enjoy the taste of the food we&#039;re eating??? Imagine the horror!

Hot Sauce: C Hot sauce earns a middle-of-the-road grade because it can go either way. The name of the condiment itself promises only to be hot, so many hot sauces do not have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grating Ratings</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jul 2007 13:57:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During Blogathon 2007, I will be posting Grating Ratings.
Here&#039;s how Grating Ratings work: I will select a topic or group of &#034;things&#034;. I will then take different condiments and grade them on the typical scale of A+ down through F.
There is no real &#034;standard&#034; on how to grade these items, so I&#039;m sure you will [...]]]></description>
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