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| billyweeds |
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Marc wrote an eloquent and moving piece about the closing. I guess it was on Facebook. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2014 3:09 pm |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2014 3:23 pm |
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| Of the candidates, I'd go with a magnetar. In any case, it has to be something beamed in our direction. |
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| carrobin |
| Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2014 3:29 pm |
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| Weird--I was reading the article and my phone rang and nobody was there! Cue the theremin..... |
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| carrobin |
| Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2014 12:54 pm |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2014 4:03 pm |
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Quote: I read the news today oh boy
Four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire
And though the holes were rather small
They had to count them all
Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall
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Add it to the Taos Hum, the Marfa Lights, the Magnetar, and William Shatner's hairline. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2014 10:49 am |
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You know the Chuck Norris meme that's been going around for years, about how cool and nadass he is?
Well, I just ran across this one which made me laugh:
Superman sleeps in Chuck Norris Pajamas.
And there's this half hour Woody Allen spoof on the Nixon Admin which was never aired:
Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story
Unfortunately I haven't been able to get past the youtube blockage here yet. \
But some of the lines are classic Woody from that period.
Woody plays Harvey Wallinger, a Nixon sycophant, I'll let you guess who it's based on.
Wallinger: “We decided to bomb Laos for a very strategic reason — we were not happy with the way it was spelled.” |
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| mitty |
| Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2014 9:00 pm |
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I know I'm going back to the previous page, but hadda mention that the Germany/Brazil game was the very first soccer game I've ever watched. Ever.
I loved it!  |
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| jeremy |
| Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2014 10:28 pm |
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Location: Derby, England and Hamilton, New Zealand (yes they are about 12,000 miles apart)
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| It was an amazing game; not in the normal sense of close fought sporting battle, but for the attendant human drama. Especially given, the level of the competition - team's just don't lose 7-1 in World Cup semi-finals. If Ozil hadn't missed that sitter at the end, it would have been 8-0. I have rarely seen such a rapid and hubristic fall. The Brazilian player's were emotionally crushed and along with them the spirit of a whole nation. |
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My irritability keeps me alive and kicking.
I know the meaning of life, it doesn't help me a bit.
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| daffy |
| Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2014 6:42 am |
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| carrobin |
| Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2014 1:26 pm |
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| Goodbye Jim Rockford, Bret Maverick, Emily's Charlie, so many others. I always felt that he should have been a bigger movie star. Nice to hear the newsfolk calling him an "icon"--an overused word, but appropriate for him. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2014 2:14 pm |
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| Always liked The Rockford Files, especially how he'd get all beat up nearly every episode. Always seemed he fit better on Tv than movies. Which film roles would people rec for Garner. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2014 2:47 pm |
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Sad loss, but age can do that kind of thing.....
He was a very classy guy. Never seems to have done anything unlikable. |
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| carrobin |
| Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2014 4:00 pm |
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| The movie roles I think of are his Scrounger in The Great Escape, the cynical Charlie in The Americanization of Emily, and the temporarily deceived officer in 36 Hours--all WW2 dramas. Makes me wish we could depend on that kind of smarts and style in today's military. |
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| mitty |
| Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2014 4:47 pm |
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Garner was one of my favorites.
The line of Rockford's that I loved was "I lie a lot." Whenever he trapped the crook. First met him as Maverick way back when. Fell for him immediately. |
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