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#511
Random Topics / Re: What kind of ad's do you get?
November 24, 2014, 09:19:05 PM
Try This--Delicious New Recipes from Your local food co-op


10,000 single Asian womens' profiles.  You all get those, right?
#512
Double Indemnity 1944
Peyton Place 1957
#513
Random Topics / Re: What kind of ad's do you get?
November 24, 2014, 09:15:45 PM
Quote from: b_dubb on November 20, 2014, 08:30:19 PM
A steady stream of coq pics


Coq au vin?
That's what I should get, as much time as I spend on allrecipes.com.
#514
Random Topics / Re: What kind of ad's do you get?
November 24, 2014, 09:14:24 PM
I just got  Shutterfly ad for Christmas cards a few minutes after ordering Christmas cards from Snapfish.
#515
Radio and Podcasts / Re: Richard Syrett
November 24, 2014, 09:12:42 PM
I am getting sick of the JFK conspiracy theory stuff too. Now they are treating the Oliver Stone movie like a documentary.


I actually think Limbaugh has it right on this.  He believes that the reason these are such a big industry is that people could not come to terms with the fact that one little Communist schmuck like Oswald could take out a U.S. president, particularly such a great president as Kennedy.  As he points out, most JFK conspiracy theorists are on the left.  It was more comforting to make up elaborate theories, and if these  made people on the right look bad, so much the better.


I don't like this demonizing of "anti- Castro Cubans" either.  Since when do we demonize people who leave totalitarian regimes for a better life in a freer country? 
#516
I realize that this was several days ago--probably Fri.night, but did anybody else think Howard Bloom was making no sense?  I'm getting a little tired of this guy.
#517
I am deeply sorry that there was a Richard Alan Miller show that I evidently missed. This guy is a trip.


I wish old hippies would hang out in the U district now.  It would be a considerable improvement over the usually youthful criminal element that's there now.
#518
I actually stayed up until 2 this morning listening.  I was somewhat interested in the doctor who kept knocking olive oil.  When Deborah King came on, I actually expected her to have "phone trouble".  George kept asking her the same questions over and over again, and a lot of what she had to say seemed vague and evasive, but I guess I need to read her book.  That bat experience seems to have really imprinted on her. Very  few species of bats are harmful to humans, just as few spiders are harmful to humans. Only a few species are of the "vampire" variety.  The rabies thing is over-exagerrated.  The Scarabs(bug club in the Seattle-Everett area) had a bat expert speak to them in August. Bats are actually beneficial to us because of the insects they eat.


These blind tidbits about celebrities always cause people to try to guess the celebrity.  I have a couple of explanations.  I think unbeknownst to Ms. King, this girl may have been wearing some sort of stocking or thing on her feet that created a cloven hoof appearance.  Since I started dancing, I became aware of all sorts of these special socks,etc. that I had never seen before and some are pretty strange.  They either make them  themselves or you can buy them in dance specialty stores.  Since many actresses are former dancers, this makes sense to me.  It may have been something to mitigate the problems associated with wearing really high heels.  When I used to wear heels I used some of these devices myself.  They all attached to the inside of the shoe, but maybe there are some that go on your foot.
Or she may have dreamed it or something.  Remember in the novel East of Eden by John Steinbeck, he mentioned that Kathy Trask's feet were so short and wide that they resembled hooves.
#519
Random Topics / Re: What kind of ad's do you get?
November 19, 2014, 06:07:27 PM
Bisquick easy breakfast bake.


Before that a Chevrolet dealership in Marysville.


I stopped using Bisquick years ago.
#520
One time I saw a documentary on PBS(when I still watched TV)about children who had grown up in Hare Krishna. They didn't send them to outside schools, but taught them themselves, these particular children anyway.  They said that all they learned about the moon landing was that it was a hoax.  I always remembered that.  Maybe it's neither here nor there but I found it interesting.
#521
Random Topics / Re: Overrated Movies
November 19, 2014, 05:53:39 PM
Quote from: Lt.Uhura on November 18, 2014, 06:56:41 PM
I would also add bombastic soundtracks and lousy scriptwriting, with profanity-laced dialogue.  I'm no prude, but when I sit down to watch a movie and every other word is "motherfucker" I lose interest right away.

Also important to me is great acting.  IMO today we have lots of celebrities in movies, few great actors.  I think a good example of a great actor is someone who can convincingly play both dramatic and comedic roles.  One old school actor I really admire is Jack Lemmon.  Perhaps mostly known for his comedies, his dramatic role in The Days of Wine And Roses is one of the most memorable performances I've ever seen. This quiet, unpretentious black & white film, directed by Blake Edwards, is like a stage play.  The film stands and succeeds on the acting and story alone.


Yes, Jack Lemmon deserves to be remembered.  That's why he used to be my coastgab avatar.  But the picture went away one time when there was something wrong with the site.




#522
Random Topics / Re: What kind of ad's do you get?
November 19, 2014, 05:50:40 PM
Something called Runescape something--I assume some kind of currency to use in an internet fantasy game.  They are so rattling the wrong cage.


Now it's i-Sight case management software demo.
#523
Radio and Podcasts / Re: Michael Savage
November 19, 2014, 05:38:52 PM
I continue to listen to Savage out of morbid fascination.  I can't look away.


I remember this episode well.  It was 2010, and Savage was interviewing some GOP  activist in MA either just before or just after Scott Brown was running for Senate. (Brown has since fallen out of favor to some extent, but that's another story.) Savage used the phrase.  I could hear the guy doing a double-take, then darned if Savage didn't say it again, and again, the guy was clearly unsettled by it, but ignored it to be polite.


When the tea party was in its embryonic stages, Savage said, "Tea parties are for children."  You can see why a lot of conservatives don't trust him.


It was really amusing earlier this fall to hear him be so critical of Gerry Brown, when of course he donated to Brown's campaign in 2006.  This is probably the biggest thing to make conservatives distrust him, though there are a lot of others.


I had never heard the term tea bag or teabagger used this way either.  Don't forget, I'm almost 60.  Sometime in the 90s, a lot of sexual stuff started going over my head.  A lot of things considered outre when I was a young woman in the 70s is barely worth mentioning now.
#524
Pal Joey 1957
The Heartbreak Kid 1972
#525
Radio and Podcasts / Re: Michael Savage
November 17, 2014, 02:52:07 PM
You are right, come to think of it.  I think he stopped about the time he came to Cumulus.

Red Diaper baby is someone, usually from NYC or some urban eastern place, often Jewish, who was born to leftist parents.  He added the "doper" part.  I don't think he originated the red diaper term.  Like "parlor pink" or "limousine liberal", to describe certain New York types, it's been around a long time.  But Savage often claims he originated these terms, and others copied him.

Does the term have other connotations?  Maybe it does, that I'm aware of,a nd that's why he stopped using it.  Remember how he used the term "teabagger" when he may have not understood what it really meant  and why tea partiers themselves seldom use it.
#526
Random Topics / Re: Practical Jokes! On You, and by You.
November 17, 2014, 02:41:02 PM
That's a good one.  Turning the box spring upside down would be even worse. What a lot of work, though.

They might get suspicious if it were turned upside down, come to think about it.  It would look funny, especially if the fabric were torn, as it often is on box springs.

There's also the reverse peephole, as depicted on Seinfeld.  When I worked in the motel business we used to get a lot of this when we had large numbers of high school or college kids check in.  Regular business travellers never did it.  They never swung from the exit signs either.
#527
Random Topics / Re: New York - things to do and look at
November 17, 2014, 02:35:50 PM
There used to be a museum of holograms in Greenwich Village.  I missed it because it was closed on Wednesdays and I was there on Wednesday. But if I went back I would like to see it.

There's an interesting sculpture, a mechanical thing that makes sounds, in Penn Station, or there was in the 80s.

I liked eating shish kebabs from those carts on the Museum Mile.

Yes, those blue and white coffee cups.   Nice to know they still have those.
#528
Random Topics / Re: Overrated Movies
November 17, 2014, 02:31:11 PM
Quote from: Georgie For President 2216 on November 13, 2014, 06:54:21 PM
Sex, lies and videotape.  What was the deal with that?
**SPOILER ALERT**
The deal was sexual awakening of an inhibited and repressed character, played by Andie McDowell. The two sister were actually two sides of the same woman I believe--Cynthia, the hedonistic, rebellious libertine who does what she wants with no regard for others, and Ann, the good girl who does for others and focuses on propiety at the expense of her own needs and emotions. By the end of the film, each has become a tiny bit more like the other. One of my favorite scenes is the very last one, in which Grahame(James Spader) and Ann are talking about the weather and the film abruptly ends.

My only problem was I thought that Ann's quick forgiveness of Cynthia was unrealistic.  Even though they were sisters, in my experience most women would take much longer to do this.  She puts all the blame on John, and to be certain, he was an S.O.B., but he didn't act unilaterally.

I know others who despise this movie, so you're not alone. You either love it or hate it. Like another famous film of the 80s, Nine 1/2 Weeks, it was about sexual awakening, but not everybody  liked it. Some thought it was a waste of time.  It helps if you like Laura San Giacomo and James Spader, which I do very much.
#529
Random Topics / Re: Overrated Movies
November 17, 2014, 02:19:13 PM
Quote from: zeebo on November 13, 2014, 07:17:44 PM
Black Swan

Natalie Portman was great, and I'm glad she got her Oscar, but all the psychological stuff was dreadful I thought.  I would have much preferred a more understated and realistic script/direction for this one.

I agree. Disgusting movie.
#530
Random Topics / Re: Overrated Movies
November 17, 2014, 02:17:52 PM
Richard Conte is the name of the actor whose name I can never remember.  He was in a lot of film noir and war movies in the 40s and 50s.
#531
Random Topics / Re: Overrated Movies
November 16, 2014, 05:28:03 PM
My friend Rod seldom watches anything made after 1960, unless, possibly, it has Teri Garr, John Wayne, Ava Gardner or Katherine Hepburn.  This means that I actually got him to sit through One From the Heart.

His main beef with modern movies is that they are too long and self-indulgent and need better editing. I often agree.

I got him to see Godfather part One, made by  famously self-indulgent people.  He said it was pretty good, but too long, and "only the old guys (Brando, Sterling Hayden and the guy who plays Barzini whose name I can never remember) could act."
#532
Random Topics / Re: Practical Jokes! On You, and by You.
November 16, 2014, 05:21:29 PM
The proper spelling is charivari, according to wikipedia, and it translates "rough music" because singing or noise-making sometimes played a part.  It is in an old European custom also popular on the American frontier, especially where there are people of French descent, as there are in Montana.

According to wikipedia, a scene in it's a Wonderful Life, where people sing outside the home of George Bailey and his bride, is an example of charivari.
#533
Radio and Podcasts / Re: Have you been Hannitized?
November 12, 2014, 06:06:48 PM
I wouldn't want Gowdy prosecuting my ass, either, because he's competent, I think you mean.
#534
Random Topics / Re: Practical Jokes! On You, and by You.
November 12, 2014, 05:56:08 PM
The kids in my junior high school and high school loved to set tacks.  This was the days before the push pin and an old-fashioned thumbtack, upside down on a desk seat would stay in place waiting for the unwitting victim.  They got me twice.  I learned to check my seat before sitting down, which paid off at least once.

My algebra teacher found one on his chair and took the occasion to tell the story of a girl a couple of years ahead of us who was diabetic. He claimed that somebody set a tack in her seat, she sat on it and got an infection.  She was in hospital for two weeks.  They used to keep you in the hospital longer for things in those days, and anyway her dad was an insurance agent, so I'm sure they had good insurance.

There were also certain parties in that school who loved to set clocks ahead, not enough that teachers would get really suspicious, just 40 minutes or something.

One of the things I learned in school is people pretty much do what they want and what conveniences them, and to hell with everybody else.  If they are good in athletics or their dad is somebody important, consequences will be minimal.  If not, they will probably get suspended or something.  That school system was good preparation for adulthood.

Hmm, and I just now remember the old Saran wrap on toilet trick.  I was never personally a victim or perpetrator of this one, but heard a lot about it.  Apparently it makes people really mad.

Short-sheeting is another one I don't really get.  You just tear up the bed and re-make it.  It causes no permanent damage and no pain that I know of.  What's the big deal?  But people act like it's a tragedy.

Does anybody here come from a culture that does chivaree(sp)?  This is a reverse surprise party on a bride and groom.  They are sort of expecting it, so usually have beer and stuff. In 1944, my newlywed parents got chivareed(I wish I could remember how to spell it in French) Afterwards, my mother said something told her to turn down the covers on the bed and check for things that might have been placed there.  Sure enough, a big ole butcher knife.  My uncle Bob, of course.
#535
Random Topics / Re: Overrated Movies
November 12, 2014, 05:44:42 PM
Quote from: Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost on November 07, 2014, 01:53:33 PM
How can you say that?  It's full of valuable life lessons for the kids, such as:

Never steal a brutal crime lord's briefcase.

Never sexually assault a brutal crime lord who knows people who can go medieval on your ass.

Stay out of seedy pawn/military surplus shops.

Don't snort any white powder unless you know exactly what it is.

If you're staking out someone's apartment waiting to whack them and have to use the toilet, take your gun into the bathroom with you so that your intended victim can't use it on you.


I know I'd be a lot better off today if someone had taught me those things at an early age.

If you do snort white powder without knowing what it is, Eric Stolz can give you a shot in the chest to fix things up.
#536
Random Topics / Re: Overrated Movies
November 12, 2014, 05:40:02 PM
Quote from: b_dubb on November 07, 2014, 09:55:53 PM
Sideways I didn't care for really.  But the others are classics.  How could Apocalypse Now be overrated?  CHARLIE DON'T SURF ASSHOLE

Ha, ha. Duvall's character in Apocalypse Now sounded reminded me of a neighbor we used to have at home.  The guy probably had ADD or something but we didn't know about stuff like that now.  He was very successful but a bundle of nerves and had this funny voice.
#537
Random Topics / Re: Overrated Movies
November 12, 2014, 05:36:09 PM
Quote from: Camazotz Automat on November 10, 2014, 07:46:30 PM
This can be said for zombie strippers in general, not limited to the cinematic variety.

Yes, that's a man for you.  Who would want a lap dance with somebody whose flesh is falling off?
#538
Random Topics / Re: Overrated Movies
November 12, 2014, 05:35:11 PM
Quote from: Mind Flayer Monk on November 07, 2014, 07:23:47 PM
The pre-Heart of Darkness/up the river part of this movie is phenomenal.
The Vietnamese lady acting like she is going to get on the helicopter and then throwing a hand grenade in it.
The river boat inspection and the boy who get his face smashed with the rifle butt and just stares back with the defiant grin.

I haven't seen this since it came out in the theatres in the late seventies.  Were you watching the original cut or the one with additional scenes that came out some time later?

Martin Sheen nearly died making this.  And I guess that Charlie, just a kid then, was with him in the Phillipines or wherever nursing him when he was sick.
#539
Radio and Podcasts / Re: Have you been Hannitized?
November 12, 2014, 05:23:44 PM
Today Hannity had on that intellectual giant, Louie Gohmert.  I marvel at how that guy got through law school, which he probably did, since he's a judge.  I suppose he's my side's equivalent of Sheila Jackson Lee or somebody.  I usually agree with the content of what he has to say, but his delivery is so clumsy and undiplomatic.  And people like Hannity fuss over him like he's the greatest statesman ever.

Hannity did do a good interview with Cheryl Atkinnson the other day, though.  But she's been all over talk radio.  I hope people are listening.  This is scary stuff, what she's been through.
#540
Radio and Podcasts / Re: Mark Levin, The Great One
November 12, 2014, 05:14:44 PM
Man, Levin must have really gotten out of the wrong side of bed yesterday.

He insists on making fun of Angus King's name, revealing his own ignorance.  It's a fairly common given name in Scottish-American families, and probably in Scotland too.  Did it ever occur to him that the cattle breed was named after a person and not the other way around.  If this King character was someone whose politics he agreed with, you can bet there would be no making fun of his name.

Then there was the caller Mary, who had issues with military spending.  Unfortunately she called on Veterans day, which makes me wonder if it was a set-up call.  Why does it have to be that anybody who ever dares suggest that there is waste in the defense budget is unpatriotic or disrespectful to veterans? Did anybody else hear this and think it might be a fake call?
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