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In my previous post, I described some of the bookmarks I keep around because I keep thinking they're awesome, even if I don't need them for anything http://cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com/797921.html

Here are some more:

100 Movie spoilers in 5 minutes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hN5avIvylDw

If you're bored of all classic and not-so-classic movies having their endings spoiled in casual conversation and want to get it all out of the way at once, here is one of the most efficient movie-ending spoilers. It's really funny :)

This is another recent entry into the group that's not an internet classic yet, I just happened to really like it myself.

Also see http://xkcd.com/109/

Geek hierarchy

http://brunching.com/geekhierarchy.html

Here is a helpful schematic illustrating which groups of internet users consider themselves less geekier that which other groups of internet users, starting with "published science fiction authors" and working its way down through many different groups.

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Continuing on from a comment in my last post, what doesn't constitute a spoiler? What examples do you think are so universally known that no-one at all would not know/mind being told? (In the UK, let's say -- obviously these won't have spread everywhere.)

This is *not* lj-cut, that's sort of the point :)

* Pasion of the Christ: Jesus rises from the Dead. Christians have spent 2000 years telling people, I really hope everyone in this culture has heard about this by now. Of course, some people haven't, but I think this tidbit is generally the first not the last thing said -- no-one says "Hey, you're ruining the ending for the Heathens!"

* Dracula: Dracula is a vampire Dracula is so synonymous with vampire I bet reading this it didn't occur to you that he could not be. Does anyone not known this? And also not know all the other hints?

This is an interesting one, actually, because when it was first written, I think this was *not* obvious, and a different and possibly better horror novel for it.

* Romeo and Juliet: They die at the end Quite apart from the bywordity of them, I heard an amusing exchange about this.

A: blah blah blah die at the end blah
B: Hey! Technically that's a spoiler.
A: Yeah, but everyone knows--
B: I know it's 400 years later, but some people haven't seen the play.
A: And also, IT SAYS SO IN THE PROLOGUE, YOU ILLITERATE MONKEY!

:)

Are those the best? Can you think of anything else more universally agreead not to be a spoiler?

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