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| Befade |
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| Bart....I recently read a book about euthanasia called The Denial of the Soul by M. Scott Peck. There's a chapter where he talks about people with incurable depression. And in cases like this he suggests that a lobotomy might be a better option than suicide. Stunning idea. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2013 11:53 pm |
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| Gary--The tap dance between Astaire and Eleanor Powell to "Begin the Beguine" in Broadway Melody of 1940 is the best tap number ever filmed. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2013 12:02 am |
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billyweeds wrote: Gary--The tap dance between Astaire and Eleanor Powell to "Begin the Beguine" in Broadway Melody of 1940 is the best tap number ever filmed.
The Nicholas Brothers would beg to differ |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2013 7:14 am |
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Will someone teach me how to do that thing that gromit just did with the link?
As for the Nicholas Brothers v. Astaire and Powell, the two routines are in important ways apples and oranges, but let's call it a draw. What Fred and Eleanor lack in gymnastic ability they make up for in synchronization and sly humor. What the Nicholases lack in elegance they make up for in crotch-splitting energy.
Just for reference, here's the Astaire-Powell dance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWW6QeeVzDc |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2013 9:36 am |
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Befade wrote: Bart....I recently read a book about euthanasia called The Denial of the Soul by M. Scott Peck. There's a chapter where he talks about people with incurable depression. And in cases like this he suggests that a lobotomy might be a better option than suicide. Stunning idea.
"Stunning" indeed. I hope it's lobotomy with more finesse than the old "icepick" method of the 50's. I might consider the revived approach to ECT, but maybe draw the line at lobotomy....but different strokes, I guess.
Finally saw Ministry of Fear last night - one more Fritz Lang film I like, and, yeah, is quite Hitchcockian with many similarities to North by Northwest. And the writing is as good, too. Visually - you watch a film like this and you realize what we've lost in going to more closeups, zooms, and quick cuts of close-in shots - in MoF, you see characters in a more architectural sense, how they move inside a room or building, how they are "mapped" within a larger area of action. IOW, some very good Third Man-ish sequences. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2013 9:48 am |
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< a href = "the original URL goes here, Billy" >Then your visible text goes here, Mr. Weeden, then....< /a >
(except you remove the extra spaces I put between the HTML brackets, so my example wouldn't actually be read as HTML...) |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2013 1:34 pm |
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bartist wrote: < a href = "the original URL goes here, Billy" >Then your visible text goes here, Mr. Weeden, then....< /a >
(except you remove the extra spaces I put between the HTML brackets, so my example wouldn't actually be read as HTML...)
Testing, testing...
<ahref=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWW6QeeVzDc>Astaire and Powell</a>
NOT WORKING!!! HELP!!! |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2013 4:39 pm |
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWW6QeeVzDc">Astaire and Powell</a>
Well, there IS a space between "a" and "href," and the URL needs quotes, if I remember my html correctly, but that didn't fix it, either. Either we haven't enabled html in our posting windows, or the overall page format requires me to create a blank space or table function or something fancy. "Blind, leading the blind."
OK, I went to the Profile page and switched to "always allow HTML," but that didn't help.
I guess, if time were no object, you could click F12 and view the source code for the page, and see what Gromit did. That's some serious wading though, bro. |
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| yambu |
| Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2013 5:02 pm |
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By coincidence, we watched Revolutionary Road and The Reader back to back. Never have I seen such an exposition of breadth of great talent than that of Kate Winslet here.
In the first, she and DiCaprio are a despairing couple living in commuter Connecticut in the '50's. In the second she is opposite Fiennes, she as a former SS guard at Auchwitz. She is unlikable in the first, and has a morally bestial history in the second, and yet my heart went out to her. |
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| knox |
| Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2013 5:16 pm |
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I think the admin has turned off HTML, except for button approved (above), in the text windows.
Yet Gromit managed to get the [a href = ] to work. Huh.
Quite a Winslet double feature, Yambu. Winslet was the best thing about both those movies. She is quite something. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Sat Dec 21, 2013 12:09 am |
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Step 0: Ignore all of Bart's instructions
Step 1: Highlight the text you want to use
Step 2: Click the URL Button above
Step 3: in the opening [url] insert an = directly after the l in url
Step 4: Paste the web address/link just after the =
(there should be no spaces inside the [ ]
If you want to see what it looks like, or how someone did something, just click quote and it will reveal the code in their post. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sat Dec 21, 2013 1:38 am |
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| Gromit--Sorry, but I can't understand your instructions at all. What text? What "url button above"? Where is "the opening [url]"? |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Sat Dec 21, 2013 4:26 am |
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Well at least you didn't have trouble with Step 0 ....
Text = whatever words you want to make the link.
Absolutely anything you type.
I used The Nicholas Brothers beg to differ.
But I could have typed: Billyweeds doing splits in blackface.
Literally any text you type and want to make into a link.
Type anything, then highlight/select it just like you would to make it Bold or to Underline
URL Button=
Right above the Reply Box you have 9 Buttons -- Bold / Italic / Underline and the last one on the far right is URL
When you click the URL Button you get [url] in front of your text.
Just add an = after url and before the end bracket
Paste in the web address/link right after the =
The Nicholas Brothers would beg to differ
It looks like this [ url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBb9hTyLjfM]The Nicholas Brothers would beg to differ[/url]
But I've just added a space before url so that the link won't work so you can see the code. There should be no spaces within the brackets in order for it to work properly. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sat Dec 21, 2013 10:29 am |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Sat Dec 21, 2013 10:52 am |
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