What are the quotes on Logan Echolls's voicemail?

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Why: We finished Season 2 of "Veronica Mars" last night. I miss it already.

Answer: My b, they are "Inspirational Messages of the Day." They are!:

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." -Eleanor Roosevelt
(ep. 1.15, "

"Adversity is the diamond dust with which heaven polishes its jewels." -Thomas Carlyle
(ep. 1.22. "

"To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose: the next best." -William Thackeray
(ep. 2.3, "

"Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late." -Ben Franklin
(ep. 2.7, "

Source: Wikipedia

The More You Know: I just got the "LoVe" thing. It's their names, see. In case you're also going through withdrawal:

I want to watch "Fajita Roundup"

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Why: Lucy Lawless is credited in this episode of "Veronica Mars." Chandler was all, "Yes! I love Lucy Lawless!" (and then we talked about "Battlestar Galactica"). When she appeared on screen, this happened:

ME: Whenever she's in anything, I'm sort of always aware that she's a famous person.
CHAN: Who? Who is that?
ME: Lucy Lawless.
CHAN: WHAT! She's blonde! Why does she look like that!
ME: Anyway, she always plays bitchy aggressive characters. She can't just blend.
CHAN: Have you ever seen "Fajita Roundup"?
ME: No, I don't know what that is.
CHAN: WHAT! Google it right now!

But - full disclosure - after 2 more lines of dialogue, I remembered that I had, in fact, seen it. It's an SNL skit about Stevie Nicks.

Answer: Lul.

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Source: DailyMotion

The More You Know: Ian recently gave her* a mix tape. I wonder if she listened to it.

EDIT!!! Stevie Nicks, not Lucy Lawless.

Why are cigars called "stogies"?

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Why: Last night, Veronica Mars followed the plastic surgeon who saw Logan on the bridge into a cigar shop. What's he doing in there!

Answer: First, it's not all of them - just the long thin cheap ones. "Stogie" is an abbreviation of the name of Conestoga, a town near Lancaster, PA, where cheap cigars are made and popular!

Because the drivers Conestoga wagons (based in tobacco country) always had a roll-your-own cigar stuck in their mouths, observers called them "stogies."

This kind of cigar is also called a cheroot, which comes from the French cheroute and Tamil curuttu/churuttu, "roll of tobacco":

A cylindrical cigar with both ends clipped during manufacture. Since cheroots do not taper, they are inexpensive to roll mechanically, and their low cost makes them particularly popular.

Source: ChaCha, Blog of Answers, Wikipedia

The More You Know: The word "cigar" comes from the Spanish cigarro, which they took from cigarrales, a Cuban word meaning a "place of leisure."

or

The word "cigar" originated from sikar, the Mayan-Indian word for "smoking," which became cigarro in Spanish, probably from Maya sicar, "to smoke rolled tobacco leaves," from sic, "tobacco."

or

It's from or influenced by the Spanish word cigarra, "grasshopper".

Who was St. Valentine?

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Why: It's coming. Pressure pressure pressure! (aka pizza, cuddling, and a "Veronica Mars" marathon)

Answer: Nobody even knows! How about that. There were a bunch of people named Valentine, but nobody knows what they did or why they were even made saints:

The origin of St. Valentine, and how many St. Valentines there were, remains a mystery. One opinion is that he was a Roman martyred for refusing to give up his Christian faith. Other historians hold that St. Valentine was a temple priest jailed for defiance during the reign of Claudius. Whoever he was, Valentine really existed: archaeologists unearthed a Roman catacomb and an ancient church dedicated to Saint Valentine. In 496 AD Pope Gelasius, marked February 14th as a celebration in honor of his martyrdom.

According to The Nuremburg Chronicles (1493) - an illustrated Biblical and world history book - one Roman priest named Valentinus was caught marrying Christian couples who were being persecuted by Emperor Claudius.

He was arrested and imprisoned; while in jail, he wrote a love note to the jailer's daughter, signing it, "From your Valentine." Though Claudius took a liking to him, Valentinus then tried to convert the emperor, who subsequently sentenced him to death. He was beaten and stoned, and then beheaded outside the Flaminian Gate around 269 AD.

Valentine is the Patron Saint of affianced couples, bee keepers, engaged couples, epilepsy, fainting, greetings, happy marriages, love, lovers, plague, travelers, and young people. I love bees.

Source: Catholic.org

The More You Know: Fun facts about V-Day:

• In 1537, England's King Henry VII officially declared February 14th the holiday of St. Valentine's Day.
• It may have been invented in an attempt to supersede the pastoral pagan holiday of Lupercalia, observed on February 13 through 15 to avert evil spirits and purify the city, releasing health and fertility. The feast honored Juno, the queen of Roman gods and goddesses, and the goddess of women and marriage.
• Over $1 billion worth of chocolate is purchased for Valentine's Day in the U.S.
• Approximately 110 million roses, mostly red, will be sold and delivered within the three-day Valentine's Day time period.
• Approximately 1 billion Valentines are sent out worldwide each year, according to the U.S. Greeting Card Association. That's second only to Christmas.
• In addition to the United States, Valentine's Day is celebrated in Canada, Mexico, United Kingdom, France, Australia, Denmark, and Italy.
• Every Valentine's Day, the Italian city of Verona - where Shakespeare's lovers Romeo and Juliet lived - receives about 1,000 letters addressed to Juliet.
• In the US, 64% of men do not make plans in advance for a romantic Valentine's Day with their sweethearts.

How do you tell an alligator from a crocodile?

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Why: There is one (but I don't know which) floating in the water at the beginning Deliverance / Blair Witch Project part of Pirates of the Caribbean.

Answer: In list form:

Alligator

• Snout is wide and U-shaped
• Wide upper jaw; when its mouth is closed, the teeth in the lower jaw fit into sockets of the upper jaw, hidden from view
• Appear blackish
• Prefer freshwater, with low tolerance for salt water
• Averages about 14 feet in length
• Make nests of vegetation near freshwater
• Found in the southeastern United States, including South Florida

Crocodile

• Snout is long, narrow, and V-shaped
• Upper and lower jaws are nearly the same width; when mouth is closed, the teeth are exposed all along the jaw line in an interlocking pattern
• Light olivey-brown
• Prefer brackish water, and sometimes even ocean
• Grow to more than 19 feet in length
• Lay eggs in mud or sand near brackish water
• Live in the Caribbean, Central America, South America, and South Florida - the only place in the US
  

Source: WiseGeek

The More You Know: That one in the ride is a crocodile then, huh, since it's Pirates of the Caribbean. I feel like Veronica Mars.

What song plays at the beginning of "Lost in Translation"?

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Why: Jochem thinks he's heard it before. It's playing when Bill Murray (Bob) is riding around in the car looking out the window.

Answer: "Girls" by Death in Vegas. It's track 5 on the link below!

Source: Amazon

The More You Know: The song was also in an episode of Veronica Mars and a commercial for BBC's most recent production of Sense and Sensibility.