When can we sing Ding Dong, the DinnerJacket is DEAD!

Why is there never an Overnight Invitational Thread?

For the M-F crowd.

A Nigerian couple who immigrated to Austin a decade ago thought they had finally made it in America. On May 7, they closed on their first home in the States, buying a $283,000 Cedar Park house that had been headed for foreclosure.

It seemed like a good deal to Bobo and Joy Dickson. They did everything right, they thought. They got a mortgage lender, signed the papers, had the title put in their name .

But on May 14, they came home from work at their janitorial services company to find that all their furniture, family heirlooms, personal photos, clothes, even their daughter's piggybank, had disappeared.

After filing a theft report with the Cedar Park Police Department, the Dicksons were given the news. In a mix-up over whether the home was still facing foreclosure, Field Asset Services was hired to drill open the doors and seize the belongings.

SNIP

*ssssnnnnniffffff* Ah, that fresh thread smell. Good evening/morning lizards.

Has anybody seen my lost shaker of salt? Oh, crude! I just blew out a flip flop!

I have a gut feeling he won't be around much more, at least not as president. The mullahs just need him as a frontman....and above all, as someone to blame when things get even worse than they are now.

Cost me almost $105 to fill up my F-250 tonight.....:(

re: #6 wolfie

Who? Around where?

Good Evening Lizards! It was hot in the Very Far Western Suburbs of Chicagoland today.

Kid wanted to watch Apocalypse Now. So, I watched it with him, to point out the difference between movies and reality. THE HORROR What a g-d awful movie! It was worse the second time around.

How are you-all?

Trevor Hance.

re: #8 theparson

Who? Around where?

LOL !
I realized after I posted that how I had failed to identify the subject!
Then I said to myself, "What the hey! They're probably too tired or drunk to notice!"

(Ahmadinejad)

re: #1 Macker

BTW, wishing someone's death on a world wide public forum isn't too kool. Having him voted out of office would suffice. Charles get's enough flack, try not to add to it.

/rant off.

re: #11 wolfie

Whew! I thought you were talking about me!

Well, I can go to bed now.

Good night Mrs Callabash... where ever you are.

re: #9 ggt

"I LOVE the smell of napalm in the morning!"
Actually, I have the REDUX version on DVD.
But, I am not normal. No way.

re: #9 ggt

Do you know that I have never seen that movie?
It was sooooooo chic w/ the anti-war crowd when I was in college.
Being anti-anti-war, I refused to acknowledge its existence!

Say, are you near Palatine? Mr. Wolf went to high school there.
(He grew up before then in Mt Prospect.)

There are currently 3, count 'em 3 diaries on the KozKidz recommended list defending Wesley Clark:

Time to get General Clark's back
  by Jon Soltz (Chairman of VoteVets.org)

Veterans Respond to General Clark's Comments
  by Brandon Friedman (Vice Chairman of VoteVets.org)

Defending Wes Clark
  by Lt. Gen. Robert G Gard, Jr. (USA, Ret.)
    (Chairman of the Steering Committee of Vets for Obama)

Didn't the Obamessiah (pbuh) toss ol' Wesley under the, er, I mean didn't he kick ol' Wesley to the curb earlier today? They must not have got the memo over there.

re: #15 rawmuse

It was the Redux version. The Robert Duvall scene was the only one I enjoyed. I thought it dragged and was depressing and did a diservice to our troops. Coppola could have drawn the same drama from a ficticious war. Of course, he couldn't have gotten the "American created the Vietcong" line in if he did that.

I do have to admit the actual movie making was very good (the acting, art direction etc).

re: #13 ploome hineni

these NIgerians hit the jackpot

wonder how much it will cost the city?

What the fuck? Did you actually read the stoy?

I will not respond.

Thomas Moore From Wikipedia

Thomas Moore (May 28, 1779 – February 25, 1852) was an Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer, now best remembered for the lyrics of The Minstrel Boy and the The Last Rose of Summer.

Just wondering who he was.

re: #16 wolfie

Aurora, I think Palatine is northeast of us somewhere. I'm way west in Kane County.

and, how are you this evening?

re: #13 ploome hineni

Did you read the story?

I meant to say the Wicked Witch.

re: #2 Opilio

Why is there never an Overnight Invitational Thread?

There is, we just never get invited.

re: #18 ggt

Once I learned the movie was actually based on "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad, it made a lot more sense.

/stuff about the army still sucked though.

re: #23 Macker

ah! gotta watch those freudian slips :)

Regarding "Apocalpyse Now" and "Full Metal Jackets" I have had many discussions as to whether these are War movies, or anti-war movies. In a sense, every war movie is an anti-war movie, or at least, all the good ones are. If you had asked Coppolla and Kubrick (now deceased) I do not think that they would not own up to their movies being anti-war.

Having said that, some recent war movies really stink. As a matter of fact, most of them do.

One of my favorite war movies is "Glory". That one is truly outstanding.

Hell's Bells...

“After a real crusher of a landing in Phoenix, the flight attendant got on the PA and said, 'Ladies and gentlemen, please remain in your seats until Captain Crash and the crew have brought the aircraft to a screeching halt up against the gate. And, once the tire smoke has cleared and the warning bells are silenced, we'll open the door and you can pick your way through the wreckage to the terminal.'”
true

re: #27 ploome hineni

should we hang someone?

it was a big mistake and they will get lotsa money

IT AIN'T ABOUT THE MONEY!

I thought Hamburger Hill was well done. The depiction of the troops abandonment by American's back home was enough to make me cry. Too bad it wasn't ficticious.

re: #23 Macker

I meant to say the Wicked Witch.

Not so wicked anymore...:)

[Link: www.theogray.com...]

"We Were Soldiers, And Young"
also outstanding.

re: #34 rawmuse

Yes! And both the Clint Eastwood movies about Iwo Jima.

How about 'Those evening wails from the Muezzin' ?

/More like United Kingdom Today.

re: #27 ploome hineni

What about the destruction of family photographs?

re: #33 Dustyvet

Now we need a photoshop of DinnerJacket on a broom with a pointy hat.

re: #31 MandyManners

IT AIN'T ABOUT THE MONEY!

I agree, what amazes me is how bloody fast personal belonging were spirited away into the ether, probably for stuff all. Personal belongings that hold dear and treasured memories, all for the sake of a monumental cock-up.

Yes, Clint was pretty torn about the second. But, in it's own way, it was very good. Clint really pushes the envelope sometimes.

re: #21 ggt

Aurora, I think Palatine is northeast of us somewhere. I'm way west in Kane County.

and, how are you this evening?

Not bad! Just starting to get a little sleepy!

Who asked you?

Alabama executions "highly problematic": U.N. envoy

"It is entirely possible that Alabama has already executed innocent people, but officials rather deny than confront flaws in the criminal justice system," Alston said.

Names. I want names.

re: #37 ploome hineni

Hell, yes, there was malice involved.

I liked the movie Black Book (subtitled). A WWII film made in Dutch.

I'm in Palatine, IL. Celebrating that fact that tomorrow, Cook county will officially have the highest sales tax in the nation. 10% = woo hoo.

I'm done.

I personally like Platoon Leader. Not as good as the book, but not an anti-us or anti-military film. Siege of Firebase Gloria was outstanding also. It was aided by the fact that R. Lee Ermey was in the unit that arrived to find what had happened at Gloria. (Also had the largest cast of any Viet Nam film, something like a thousand extras.)

re: #48 cannyman

I'm in Palatine, IL. Celebrating that fact that tomorrow, Cook county will officially have the highest sales tax in the nation. 10% = woo hoo.

Lordy, that is confiscatory.

re: #43 wolfie

You and me both, the washer just finished and I am toying with the idea of letting it sit until morning. I can always rerun it.

re: #48 cannyman

I'm in Palatine, IL. Celebrating that fact that tomorrow, Crook county will officially have the highest sales tax in the nation. 10% = woo hoo.

There, fixed that for ya!

Used to live in the People's Socialist City-State of Chicago two decades ago.

re: #46 ploome hineni

they probably have many more with their family in Nigeria, and maybe they can get more HEIRLOOMS

lol

Ploome I fear you are asking for the classic "piss up a rope". Mandy is not in a good frame of mind about this, hence I concur.

re: #48 cannyman

Oh my, are you going to celebrate?

re: #48 cannyman

I'm in Palatine, IL. Celebrating that fact that tomorrow, Cook county will officially have the highest sales tax in the nation. 10% = woo hoo.

I suppose they will also have a large unofficial black market and barter economy. Maybe that's how the Democrats can get around campaign finance laws.

re: #28 rawmuse

Regarding "Apocalpyse Now" and "Full Metal Jackets" I have had many discussions as to whether these are War movies, or anti-war movies. In a sense, every war movie is an anti-war movie, or at least, all the good ones are. If you had asked Coppolla and Kubrick (now deceased) I do not think that they would not own up to their movies being anti-war.

Having said that, some recent war movies really stink. As a matter of fact, most of them do.

One of my favorite war movies is "Glory". That one is truly outstanding.

Have not seen A Crock of Bleep Now, but almost every other war flick has played on my TV. Among the worst was jarhead. I'd heard some good stuff about it, so took a handfull of Retired Marine buddies. Nearly got lynched for the attempted kind gesture.

The first song "Troublemaker" on the new CD from Weezer is my favorite. Just drove home from Lansing and listened to that one a few times.

re: #41 A Kiwi Infidel

I agree, what amazes me is how bloody fast personal belonging were spirited away into the ether, probably for stuff all. Personal belongings that hold dear and treasured memories, all for the sake of a monumental cock-up.

I lost almost all of my heirlooms because I left the state they were in, and couldn't afford to pay the storage fees for a couple months. Devastating, but I got over it. Once in a while I remember something I lost and get depressed, but in general, I'm just making new memories.

re: #56 ggt

At least we know the government here in Chicagoland is fair and honest. What's not to celebrate?

Just found out I'm going to see Rush in Atlantic City this Friday night.

Never been.

To repeat my post from a couple of threads back:

Texas PC Repair Now Requires PI License

From its Texas Rangers to its enthusiastic take on the death penalty, the Lone Star State has long been known for its aggressive stance on law enforcement. Thanks to a strange new law, it's a sting that may soon be felt by a number of the state's computer-repair people.

A recently passed law requires that Texas computer-repair technicians have a private-investigator license, according to a story posted by a Dallas-Fort Worth CW affiliate.

In order to obtain said license, technicians must receive a criminal justice degree or participate in a three-year apprenticeship. Those shops that refuse to participate will be forced to shut down. Violators of the new law can be hit with a $4,000 dollar fine and up to a year in jail, penalties that apply to customers who seek out their services.

Some of the area's larger companies already employee technicians with PI licenses, a fact which generally doesn't apply to small computer repair shops.

(Emphasis mine)

WTF are they thinking in Texas right now?!?!? Who dreamed up this monumentally stupid law and how the frak did it get passed?!?!?

re: #48 cannyman

I'm in Palatine, IL. Celebrating that fact that tomorrow, Cook county will officially have the highest sales tax in the nation. 10% = woo hoo.

Good grief.
Looks like Mr. Wolf got out just in time!
(35+ years ago ! :)

(He's still a rabid Cub fan, tho!)

re: #63 NomadOfNorad

They are full of SHIT!

re: #34 rawmuse

"We Were Soldiers, And Young"
also outstanding.

A very good book.

re: #63 NomadOfNorad

hmmmmmmmmmm! What is the reasoning behind this?

re: #63 NomadOfNorad

Wow.

re: #58 JeremyR

heh heh. Small hint never talk a former or current soldier to a war movie and not expect to listen how the movie makers got it wrong. :)

/love tearing apart shooting or explosions.

re: #34 rawmuse

"We Were Soldiers, And Young"
also outstanding.

The book was required at OCS, and the movie was exceptionally well done. I loved the old, hard as rock SGM.
FWIW, the soldier on the original cover was killed at the WTC on 9-11-01. A true hero to the last.

re: #50 Mars Needs Neocons

Could not find that on Netflix. I found 2 films "Platoon" and "Leader" but not "Platoon Leader".

re: #60 Mars Needs Neocons

I lost almost all of my heirlooms because I left the state they were in, and couldn't afford to pay the storage fees for a couple months. Devastating, but I got over it. Once in a while I remember something I lost and get depressed, but in general, I'm just making new memories.

Agreed, however, that may have departed Nigeria in less than favourable circumstances and those fotos were a reminder of better days. As with Zimbabweans (I still recall that sad foto of the farm owner lying dead with his faithful dog waiting patiently by his side, he had refused to leave, but got his family out)

re: #53 ggt

You and me both, the washer just finished and I am toying with the idea of letting it sit until morning. I can always rerun it.

Oh, I've done that a few times myself ! :)

I also remember another decent Viet Nam film, I can't remember the name, but I remember it was a big deal, because it was made from the diaries of an American Soldier and a VC (or was he a regular, can't recall). Really good film. Neither was a bad guy, and the American wasn't portrayed like crap. (Unlike most Hollywood portrayals.)

Edgar Allen Poe's BELLS trump Thomas Moore's little ding-a-ling:

"Hear the tolling of the bells-
Iron bells!
What a world of solemn thought their monody compels!
In the silence of the night,
How we shiver with affright
At the melancholy menace of theit tone."

(Did Thomas inspire Edgar?)

re: #63 NomadOfNorad

I have a feeling people are going to be shipping their hard drives to other states for repair and waiting for the return. Requiring a college degree and a license just upped the cost of computer repair.

Nothing like legislating your State out of the market.

It will get repealed like Chicago's foi gras (sp?) law.

re: #57 zmdavid

There's an amazing amount of development springing up on the north side of Lake-Cook road, the dividing line. (Go figure.)

[Link: www.statesman.com...]

OK outa here.

re: #58 JeremyR

Have not seen A Crock of Bleep Now, but almost every other war flick has played on my TV. Among the worst was jarhead. I'd heard some good stuff about it, so took a handfull of Retired Marine buddies. Nearly got lynched for the attempted kind gesture.

What a dog that was. I wanted to kill my friend who made me go see it!

re: #61 cannyman

absolutely! Fireworks all around!

re: #24 JeremyR

There is, we just never get invited.

As I always suspected. Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you...

/securing tin foil hat

re: #67 ggt

hmmmmmmmmmm! What is the reasoning behind this?

Beats the frell outta me! I dunno... maybe they figured there was potential privacy-violation by peecee repairmen possibly poking around in the contents of people's hard drives? But if that was the case, this is massive, massive, massive overkill!

I have a feeling it's going to backfire on Texas. Like, they'll find soon they'll have a huge shortage of computer repair people, because they've all moved to neighboring states!

re: #71 rawmuse

Could not find that on Netflix. I found 2 films "Platoon" and "Leader" but not "Platoon Leader".

Great film, starred Michael Dudikoff. The book was incredible too. The only sad thing was that the officer who wrote the book always avoided the main arch at the firebase they were at. On his last day there he stepped between the arch and a mine wrecked his legs.

re: #76 ggt

Sheds a little more light on the subject.

[Link: www.citronix.net...]

re: #71 rawmuse

Is this what you're talking about?

re: #64 wolfie

Good grief.
Looks like Mr. Wolf got out just in time!
(35+ years ago ! :)

(He's still a rabid Cub fan, tho!)

Other fans are "rabid". We Cub fans are sane, rational and very, very patient.

re: #63 NomadOfNorad

Texans had better rise up and get rid of that idiocy pronto! :(

All Right, the laundry is staying where it is and I am leaving you-all for the evening.

Have a great evening and weet dreams!

re: #72 A Kiwi Infidel

Agreed, however, that may have departed Nigeria in less than favourable circumstances and those fotos were a reminder of better days. As with Zimbabweans (I still recall that sad foto of the farm owner lying dead with his faithful dog waiting patiently by his side, he had refused to leave, but got his family out)

Possibly.

I lost almost every memento of my time in the military, and everything from my childhood.

Any other GI's know how hard that is?

re: #76 ggt

I have a feeling people are going to be shipping their hard drives to other states for repair and waiting for the return. Requiring a college degree and a license just upped the cost of computer repair.

Nothing like legislating your State out of the market.

It will get repealed like Chicago's foi gras (sp?) law.

I fucking hope you're right. (And no, I don't normally use real cuss words.)

Speaking of over-hyped "classics", has anyone had the stomach to sit through "Easy Rider" lately?

re: #78 MandyManners

[Link: www.statesman.com...]

It's really sickening. I feel so sorry for this family. :(

re: #86 Roentgen

Yes, very good film.
I know Mel is not the most popular guy around these parts... :)

re: #91 NomadOfNorad

Incidentally, how long did it take for them to repeal Chicago's foi gras (sp?) law?

I don't like war movies. Actually I don't really care much for any movies that aren't comedies although I will sit through a good action movie.

Horror films have to be the stupidest of them all. I see no reason to sit through a minute of that nonsense. Chick flicks? forget it. I'd rather chew on a ball of aluminum foil.

re: #71 rawmuse

Could not find that on Netflix. I found 2 films "Platoon" and "Leader" but not "Platoon Leader".

Platoon Leader
I don't think it was ever officially released on DVD so Netflix won't have it but there do seem to be some bootlegs out there

re: #48 cannyman

I'm in Palatine, IL. Celebrating that fact that tomorrow, Cook county will officially have the highest sales tax in the nation. 10% = woo hoo.

Are surrounding counties any better? Then again, with gas prices being what they are, maybe that's not a practical option, except on really BIG stuff.

re: #87 USBeast

Other fans are "rabid". We Cub fans are sane, rational and very, very patient.

I agree with the last adjective!

re: #2 Opilio

Why is there never an Overnight Invitational Thread?

Maybe because Charles has too many golf tournaments going already!

re: #89 ggt

Weet dreams to you, too!
And wet dreams to your laundry!

re: #7 Maximu§

Cost me almost $105 to fill up my F-250 tonight.....:(

Cost me $103 to fill up my Jeep...

re: #99 wolfie

I agree with the last adjective!

"...this could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship." :)

re: #96 Mich-again

Some horror movies are cool, but I don't go for slasher types.
Try "The Others", a real psycho thriller. No blood, but what a scary flick.

re: #94 rawmuse

Thanks. I'll check it out.
Mel is still a heroe around here.

re: #96 Mich-again

I don't like war movies. Actually I don't really care much for any movies that aren't comedies although I will sit through a good action movie.

Horror films have to be the stupidest of them all. I see no reason to sit through a minute of that nonsense. Chick flicks? forget it. I'd rather chew on a ball of aluminum foil.

You should check out this flick.

re: #92 USBeast

Speaking of over-hyped "classics", has anyone had the stomach to sit through "Easy Rider" lately?

I didn't have the stomach to sit through it the first time around.
I do remember it fondly, only because it was the first ....and the last....movie I've ever gone to where I actually fell asleep in the theater. I mean the land of nod all the way.

Heroe=hero.
PIMF

re: #62 Formercorpsman

Just found out I'm going to see Rush in Atlantic City this Friday night.

Never been.

You're in for a real treat. They're going back through their old catalog and playing some gems. Plus, they have some new light features that are pretty kick-ass, too.

/probably just a drive-by. I'm trying to get to sleep.

...without bourbon.

re: #98 Opilio

Are surrounding counties any better? Then again, with gas prices being what they are, maybe that's not a practical option, except on really BIG stuff.

We're pretty close to another county where the tax is "only" 8%, IIRC. The people in the city proper are pretty much stuck paying it though.

re: #104 rawmuse

Some horror movies are cool, but I don't go for slasher types.
Try "The Others", a real psycho thriller. No blood, but what a scary flick.

Slasher types suck. I go for the monsters. Love the original Universal monsters. Give me a good twist on an old monster and I'm in heaven. (I've seen a little of Cloverfield and wonder WTF, it seems scary, the little creatures are terrifying, but the big one...Godzilla was scarier looking)

re: #75 profitsbeard

Edgar Allen Poe's BELLS trump Thomas Moore's little ding-a-ling:

"Hear the tolling of the bells-
Iron bells!
What a world of solemn thought their monody compels!
In the silence of the night,
How we shiver with affright
At the melancholy menace of theit tone."

(Did Thomas inspire Edgar?)

Trumped!

Good Evening Lizards of the night.
I am usually asleep at this hour on a week night , but I just got back from a ball game & wantred to see what goes on
So for tonight I am with you, we the night Lizards, the undead Lizards .
Fear us, How is everybody doin?

I have had the privilege to work on all of the "Predator" and "Terminator" movies.
We got 2 state governors out of the "Predator" movies.

re: #113 opnion

Were the Chisox playing tonight?

re: #111 Mars Needs Neocons

I thought "Cloverfield" was the best attempt for many, many years at a decent monster movie.

re: #114 rawmuse

I have had the privilege to work on all of the "Predator" and "Terminator" movies.
We got 2 state governors out of the "Predator" movies.

Nice. They call you for Terminator 4? Noticed the posters are out.

re: #109 Noam Sayin'

Ah nuts. I was planning on taking the GF to see them next week. Can't now though. She got a summer gig that eats up her Tuesdays and Wednesdays. I just hope they go back on tour again in the near future.

re: #97 Neo Con since 9-11 Huh, neverheard of that movie. Have seen "Platoon" and also, IMHO, the BEST of the Vietnam War Movies, "Go Tell The Spartans".
Also like "We Were Soldiers Once"
BUT I GOTTA SAY AGAIN, the BEST Vietnam War movie was "Dear America: Letters Home From Vietnam" (produced by HBO). Got a lot of critical praise, but since it's based on the book of the same name, and the "acting" isn't really - it's edited from real video footage with about 80+ well known Hollywood actors reading the letters over the video scenes, it surely didn't get wide distribution and frankly I thought the book was vastly superior.

re: #104 rawmuse

Some horror movies are cool, but I don't go for slasher types.
Try "The Others", a real psycho thriller. No blood, but what a scary flick.

They just had "The Others: on Oxygen over the weekend. Really good movie.

re: #113 opnion

Good Evening Lizards of the night.
I am usually asleep at this hour on a week night , but I just got back from a ball game & wantred to see what goes on
So for tonight I am with you, we the night Lizards, the undead Lizards .
Fear us, How is everybody doin?

Someone yanked my tail off, but it'll grow back.

re: #117 Mars Needs Neocons

Nope. My job description has pretty much vanished by now. Technology marches on.

re: #34 rawmuse

"We Were Soldiers, And Young"
also outstanding.

I'm sure you've seen "Platoon". Say what you will about Oliver Stone, but I've yet to meet one Viet Nam vet who will say the movie was fiction. And I spend a few hours each week at the local VFW.

re: #116 cannyman

I thought "Cloverfield" was the best attempt for many, many years at a decent monster movie.

It seemed that way. I'm just wondering what was with the monster. It looked almost like a giant version of the moron aliens from Signs. With long gorilla arms.

There was a fake pic out online that was way cooler, kind of a land-whale thing that carried these tick creatures on it. This is just my opinion though.

re: #92 USBeast

Speaking of over-hyped "classics", has anyone had the stomach to sit through "Easy Rider" lately?

Funny you ask. I saw it in a hotel room recently. Stupid flick.
But I remember seeing it on a date back in the day.
When the Peter fonda character , Got his gas tank shot & sent to that hippie commune in the sky, the theater broke into applause.
It was funny.

re: #114 rawmuse

I have had the privilege to work on all of the "Predator" and "Terminator" movies.
We got 2 state governors out of the "Predator" movies.

Shoulda kept their day jobs ...

re: #109 Noam Sayin'
"...without bourbon." Good on you my friend.

re: #118 BlueCanuck

That might be awhile. This is the second leg of their tour promoting Snakes and Arrows. But who knows? Maybe they'll just decide to do another run next year.

re: #114 rawmuse

On the set or in the recording studio?

re: #87 USBeast

Other fans are "rabid". We Cub fans are sane, rational and very, very patient.

/After 100 years, what other choice do we have?

re: #115 wolfie

Were the Chisox playing tonight?

Yup, they beat Cleveland 9 to 7.. Swisher had a Grand Slam.
Lots of hits

re: #123 Bob in Breckenridge

Yeah, Vietnam was a real cock up a lot of the time, according to what I hear.
I met Col. Hackworth a couple times (RIP).
He did not have a lot of good to say about it.
I got all his books. Some with his autograph.

re: #123 Bob in Breckenridge

I'm sure you've seen "Platoon". Say what you will about Oliver Stone, but I've yet to meet one Viet Nam vet who will say the movie was fiction. And I spend a few hours each week at the local VFW.

Several Viet Nam vets said it was accurate in many ways. But, most were pissed at how bad we looked. Though most said that if you noticed only one person was truly evil.

re: #128 Noam Sayin'

I sure hope so. I always seem to miss out on the good bands and stuff. My curse it seems. At least I have a few of there albums. I like the "2112 Overture".

re: #129 Roentgen

Rec. Studio

re: #114 rawmuse OK, I'll bite, AHNOLD and who?!

re: #127 realwest

Hah! I'm not as young as I used to be. Can't drink bourbon every night.

re: #122 rawmuse

Nope. My job description has pretty much vanished by now. Technology marches on.

Pity. Hope they have a decent script.

re: #122 rawmuse

Nope. My job description has pretty much vanished by now. Technology marches on.

What was it you did?

re: #136 realwest

Jesse Ventura!

re: #95 NomadOfNorad

Incidentally, how long did it take for them to repeal Chicago's foi gras (sp?) law?

They haven't. Yet.

re: #135 rawmuse

Nice! They were big budget features. I hope you were treated accordingly.

re: #136 realwest

Jesse "The Body" Ventura. A great lakes state I think.

re: #139 NomadOfNorad

Click on my blog to find out ;)

re: #107 wolfie

I didn't have the stomach to sit through it the first time around.
I do remember it fondly, only because it was the first ....and the last....movie I've ever gone to where I actually fell asleep in the theater. I mean the land of nod all the way.

What!? You must have forgotten to partake of the obligatory enjoyment enhancers/thought suppressants.

re: #121 cannyman

Someone yanked my tail off, but it'll grow back.

Yeah, thats not a big deal. Shedding skin is a little more tricky.

re: #136 realwest

OK, I'll bite, AHNOLD and who?!

Jesse Ventura.

And there was a link here the other night that Sonny Landham is running for Senate.

re: #136 realwest

Jesse Ventura.

re: #124 Mars Needs Neocons

I didn't see enough of the monster to get much of an impression. My son mentioned the scale was wrong in the monsters last big scene. I'd have to watch it again, but he might be right.

re: #134 BlueCanuck

They actually play that one on this tour. Go without your girlfriend, or take one of your dude friends.

re: #142 Roentgen

I am due for a reuse check, oh, like, tomorrow.
They get smaller every year, but, what the heck.

re: #133 Mars Needs Neocons

Several Viet Nam vets said it was accurate in many ways. But, most were pissed at how bad we looked. Though most said that if you noticed only one person was truly evil.

Ones I've talked to. Sorry, getting really tired.

re: #104 rawmuse

Some horror movies are cool, but I don't go for slasher types.
Try "The Others", a real psycho thriller. No blood, but what a scary flick.

Real life is scary enough for me. We have mirrors all over the house!

re: #150 Noam Sayin'

Go without the girlfriend? Man that would be a death sentence.

/she's a fan too.

re: #141 Bob in Breckenridge

They haven't. Yet.

Yes, they did, a month or so ago. And by a margin of like 48 - 1, which I thought was odd because it originally passed at a margin of 48-1.

The last movie I worked on was "The Zodiac".

The royalties are a good thing. I'm worried about how it will work in the future with so many films and recordings being illegally duplicated, thereby eliminating any chance for people to get paid.

re: #144 rawmuse

Click on my blog to find out ;)

[Clicks the link, glances around a bit...]

Uh... you're a music transcriptionist? Someone who typesets (for want of a better word) musical notes onto sheetmusic?

re: #141 Bob in Breckenridge

They haven't. Yet.

Yeah that is repealed. It was stupid anyway.
Now they want to ban handguns because of all thr gun violence.
No waity there is a ban. Well they will just ban them with more hysteria,

re: #141 Bob in Breckenridge

They haven't. Yet.

Hey Bob.
Sorry I fell asleep on the couch lol.

My avatar is my house btw.

re: #158 NomadOfNorad

Among other things. I also play.

re: #160 Typicalwhitey

The flag is a nice touch.

re: #137 Noam Sayin'

Hah! I'm not as young as I used to be. Can't drink bourbon every night.

I hear ya. Every once in a while I have to switch to medicinal brandy.

re: #162 Roentgen

What do you mean?

Jesse and Arnold were also both in The Running Man.

re: #161 rawmuse

Among other things. I also play.

Ah. So why did they "obsolete" you off the Terminator projects? They replace all the music people with robots? :D

re: #152 Mars Needs Neocons

Ones I've talked to. Sorry, getting really tired.

I will take the minority opinion, Oliver Stone went really over the top in Platoon.

re: #133 Mars Needs Neocons

Several Viet Nam vets said it was accurate in many ways. But, most were pissed at how bad we looked. Though most said that if you noticed only one person was truly evil.

Yep, Walter Cronkite. The fuckin' POS alone was responsible for us losing in Nam. I hope the asshole burns in hell.

re: #164 Typicalwhitey

What do you mean?

Isn't that a flag to the right?

re: #123 Bob in Breckenridge WHOA! I don't know which VFW you hang out at but I think Platoon has so much wrong with it I don't know where to begin!
And it's late and I don't want to start something now; let me just say that his depiction of the cowardice of US Chopper pilots in the last action scene was a fucking disgrace.
And I suppose I woulda liked it a teeny bit more if he - probably prodded by the studio - didn't say it was The Vietnam War Movie. Bullshit - it was loosley based on Stone's own one year tour of duty in Vietnam as a platoon leader.
That war took 11 years, was fought in what we sorta arbitrarily divided into 4 different commands and depending on where you were and WHEN you were there, Platoon could look like fiction to you.
It sure as hell would have looked like fiction to Burt Lancaster in "Go Tell The Spartans".

re: #35 ploome hineni

It's about failure to properly notify people of an eviction. It is about coming home and finding your property vanished. It is about improper handling of seized property. Lack of documentation. Theft of property by employees. Lack of investigation by the police and the DA's office.

This was not the only incident of wrong doing by this same company.

Nothing brings a smile to my face and an aneurysm to my brain like teenage bimbos.

re: #167 opnion

I will take the minority opinion, Oliver Stone went really over the top in Platoon.

Another one that went over the top was that thing with Michael J. Fox and Sean (human shield) Penn.

It was like they were just trying to rewrite Platoon.

re: #169 Roentgen

Yes.
That is a memorial to my family member who was killed in Iraq.

re: #155 cannyman

Yes, they did, a month or so ago. And by a margin of like 48 - 1, which I thought was odd because it originally passed at a margin of 48-1.

:D That's hilarious!
Politicians!

re: #166 NomadOfNorad

To make a long story short, the jobs that used to require 15 people now need about 2 or 3, or even 1. Sometimes none.

re: #167 opnion

I think Stone took some liberties in "Alexander," too. That was a powerful movie, tho.

re: #152 Mars Needs Neocons

Ones I've talked to. Sorry, getting really tired.

Same here, Mars.

re: #168 Bob in Breckenridge

Yep, Walter Cronkite. The fuckin' POS alone was responsible for us losing in Nam. I hope the asshole burns in hell.

LOL, Well we all knew that, but I was talking about the guy in the film.

re: #170 realwest

I agrree with you.

re: #140 rawmuse
*Smacks own head* I KNEW THAT, I knew that - I just sorta forgot! LOL!

re: #174 Typicalwhitey

God bless you, and I greatly honor the sacrifice.

re: #154 BlueCanuck

Go without the girlfriend? Man that would be a death sentence.

/she's a fan too.

Wait a minute. You're a hoser and you've never been to a Rush concert? That's sacrilege.

Look up their tour dates and make a trip out of it. I was thinking of catching them in Milwaukee later this summer.

re: #174 Typicalwhitey

Whew. Sorry about your loss. My family and I are grateful to those that have made the ultimate sacrifice.

re: #184 Roentgen

Thank you.

re: #157 Roentgen

thereby eliminating any chance for people to get paid.

I'm against pirating. But I won't shed a tear if a high school dropout actress has to work 2 months to film a movie and is forced to make less than $10 million doing it.

re: #173 Mars Needs Neocons

Another one that went over the top was that thing with Michael J. Fox and Sean (human shield) Penn.

It was like they were just trying to rewrite Platoon.

Well yeah, cause as we all know from Hollywood, Viet Nam troops were all a bunch of anti-social psychos. I mean, nothing else would do.
Most of the movies were just elitist crap!

re: #176 rawmuse

Wow. Plus they don't have to pay royalties to computers either.

re: #174 Typicalwhitey

Agreed with the lizards above. I am sorry for your loss, and thank your family for your service.

re: #188 cannyman

"Cloverfield" had no score, I think.

re: #187 opnion

Well yeah, cause as we all know from Hollywood, Viet Nam troops were all a bunch of anti-social psychos. I mean, nothing else would do.
Most of the movies were just elitist crap!

Yep.

re: #186 Mich-again

I'm against pirating. But I won't shed a tear if a high school dropout actress has to work 2 months to film a movie and is forced to make less than $10 million doing it.

With the amazing advances in CGI, I sometimes wonder if actors aren't going to be replaced too.

re: #168 Bob in Breckenridge

Yep, Walter Cronkite. The fuckin' POS alone was responsible for us losing in Nam. I hope the asshole burns in hell.

I suspect he probably will. But if you have hate in your heart for a fellow human being, you are as bad as the ones you hate in the eyes of God. And if you have hate in your heart for a fellow human being, no matter how justified it might seem, you make it too easy for others to mislead YOU into doing awful things.

re: #183 Noam Sayin'

Ssssshhhh! Not so loud. Still ducking and covering over the fact ^{_{I don't like or watch hockey}.}

/they may make me turn in my hoser card. Only thing keeping me safe is that I drink beer.

re: #170 realwest

WHOA! I don't know which VFW you hang out at but I think Platoon has so much wrong with it I don't know where to begin!
And it's late and I don't want to start something now; let me just say that his depiction of the cowardice of US Chopper pilots in the last action scene was a fucking disgrace.
And I suppose I woulda liked it a teeny bit more if he - probably prodded by the studio - didn't say it was The Vietnam War Movie. Bullshit - it was loosley based on Stone's own one year tour of duty in Vietnam as a platoon leader.
That war took 11 years, was fought in what we sorta arbitrarily divided into 4 different commands and depending on where you were and WHEN you were there, Platoon could look like fiction to you.
It sure as hell would have looked like fiction to Burt Lancaster in "Go Tell The Spartans".

I'm not going to base it upon the last scene, where Willem Dafoe's character was running in no one direction after Tom Beringer's character had said he was dead.

My point was that there were those who believed in what we were doing, and those who disagreed. That was my only point. BTW, I believe we did the right thing in Nam.

re: #189 Wyatt Earp
Thank you.

I don't usually bring it up.
But Bob in Breakenridge wanted to know what my avatar was so....

re: #190 rawmuse

"Cloverfield" had no score, I think.

You might be right. It was shot as a real life documentary video, sort of Blair Witch-like, so a score wouldn't really fit.

More pictures of Iran's First Lady here. Last one is the best. Lop off all the characters after jpg

re: #180 opnion Thanks my friend. I use to drink (well, me and about half a dozen other Vietnam Vets used to drink) with Stone before he really had scripted Platoon. We had some heated arguments but we all got to see a sneak preview of it and went back to the Red Parrot Saloon Bar&Grill with Stone and holy shit - he really thought it was a masterpiece and didn't take our rather direct criticism very well at all.
Last time I saw him, too.

re: #192 cannyman

With the amazing advances in CGI, I sometimes wonder if actors aren't going to be replaced too.

You almost make that sound like it would be a bad thing ...

re: #196 Typicalwhitey

No explanation necessary, sir.

re: #199 realwest

Creative people can be, er, different.

re: #198 HelloDare

Wow. She's hot. Heh.

re: #199 realwest

Thanks my friend. I use to drink (well, me and about half a dozen other Vietnam Vets used to drink) with Stone before he really had scripted Platoon. We had some heated arguments but we all got to see a sneak preview of it and went back to the Red Parrot Saloon Bar&Grill with Stone and holy shit - he really thought it was a masterpiece and didn't take our rather direct criticism very well at all.
Last time I saw him, too.

We were both there & Platoon seemed lik a lot of Stones delusions.
Thank you for your service, bro.

Highly overlooked Viet Nam movie. Very well done.

Boys in Company C

re: #186 Mich-again

I'm against pirating. But I won't shed a tear if a high school dropout actress has to work 2 months to film a movie and is forced to make less than $10 million doing it.

A deal is a deal. A handful of people make out like bandits, but the deal is set up for hundreds of other folks to get a taste if the thing makes money, and the bulk of those folks didn't make millions--not even close. We're not talking about the Amy Winehouses here. There is a system in place to get a little bit back to working Joe's, and it all goes out the window if the stuff is copied illegally. Rawmuse, am I close here?

re: #201 Wyatt Earp

No explanation necessary, sir.

Look again.
I am a girl lizard.

re: #198 HelloDare

More pictures of Iran's First Lady here. Last one is the best. Lop off all the characters after jpg

What am I doing wrong. I tried exactly what you said on both threads and all I get for any of them is how it didn't match any documents.

re: #63 NomadOfNorad

Some of the area's larger companies already employee technicians with PI licenses, a fact which generally doesn't apply to small computer repair shops.

That's your reason right there. The big boys don't like the competition from the mom and pops [actually the teenager and friends] and want to legislate them away.

Is Geek Squad or another pc repair chain based in Texas? That's who would be behind it.

re: #200 RedPepper

With the amazing advances in CGI, I sometimes wonder if actors aren't going to be replaced too.

You almost make that sound like it would be a bad thing ...

:) But who would feed the papparazzi? Oh, the humanity.

I wonder if people would go for it? People seem drawn to celebrity.

re: #193 NomadOfNorad

I suspect he probably will. But if you have hate in your heart for a fellow human being, you are as bad as the ones you hate in the eyes of God. And if you have hate in your heart for a fellow human being, no matter how justified it might seem, you make it too easy for others to mislead YOU into doing awful things.

No one is misleading me. I know he alone caused the deaths of thousands of our soldiers, because he made them feel that what we were doing was worthless, and caused them to question their commanders. I detest the piece of shit.

re: #207 Typicalwhitey

Look again.
I am a girl lizard.

There's a lot of that going around lately.

re: #205 lummox

Highly overlooked Viet Nam movie. Very well done.

Boys in Company C

Full Metal Jacket is a winner

re: #206 Roentgen

The little people get royalties?

re: #204 opnion

We were both there & Platoon seemed lik a lot of Stones delusions.
Thank you for your service, bro.

I was waiting for the same treatment for my war (Desert Storm), but this current one happened too fast, so of course they're playing the same old Viet Nam myths again.

re: #207 Typicalwhitey

Yep, I'm a jackass. My apologies.

re: #195 Bob in Breckenridge Understood. My point was that Stone's movie, although accurate in many ways prior Vietnam War movies weren't, contained a LOT more fiction than he led Hollywood to believe it did.
'Nuff said for tonight.

re: #207 Typicalwhitey

Look again.
I am a girl lizard.

I love girl Lizards!

Obama's preached today on patriotism. The best defense is a good offense. I think he is feeling defensive, but he is being offensive. He won't go on the offensive against terrorists, though. He will meet with them without condition. Just to talk. A little tete-a-tete between powerful warlords. Obama is just a warlord out of Chicago, a tribal cesspool of corruption. Yet he is arrogant enough to lecture the nation (or is the world his audience?) on patriotism.

Obama is a scallywag. Bush was naive about democracy in the Muslim world and made a lot of mistakes, but he has backbone, responded after 9/11, kept the US safe from further terrorist attacks and at least tried to do something about the resurgence of Islamic jihad that started well before he came into office. Obama has no backbone. He will capitulate to Islamists, signaling that the US is weak and wishes to appease jihadis. He will accelerate the vicious hold that political correctness has on our freedom to think and say and act as we please, and thereby encourage and embolden CAIR and its ilk to further its agenda of establishing sharia.

We'll see less integration and more separation. Obama is a divider and not a uniter. This is one of the ironies of his candidacy. The messenger of change and racial/religious/political unity has played every divisive card in the book. Obama. This man is a chameleon who wants power. Once he gets power, what is there? The only other thing we know is that his voting record in the Illinois senate and the US senate is stock-standard ultraliberal. He might as well be called McGovern, although he has a much more shark-like desire for power and will do and say anything - and sell out anybody - for power. Barack Hussein Obama McGovern Mugabe.

re: #206 Roentgen

You are correct! They are constructs of the AF of M.
I know some guys comfortably retired off reuse checks.
And I know some widows who are being provided for as well.
Me, I just do OK. I have not done that many movies, maybe 100 or so.

re: #213 opnion

Full Metal Jacket is a winner

Don't know, they overplayed the crazy. Also if you notice they slipped a lot of scenes in that showed the troops as dehumanized.

re: #213 opnion

Full Metal Jacket is a winner

Loved the first half.

re: #143 BlueCanuck

Jesse "The Body" Ventura. A great lakes state I think.

Minnesota

re: #216 Wyatt Earp

No you are not!

About 100 movies, including some monumental flops, I should say.

re: #221 Mars Needs Neocons

re: #221 Mars Needs Neocons

Don't know, they overplayed the crazy. Also if you notice they slipped a lot of scenes in that showed the troops as dehumanized.

Personally, I liked FMJ, but I also really liked 84C MoPic.

re: #209 stevieray

BINGO ! That makes sense. Screw the little guy.

re: #210 cannyman

I have two names for you.

Alec Baldwin.
Sean Penn.

No more actors?

Somehow, I'll live ...

re: #215 Mars Needs Neocons

I was waiting for the same treatment for my war (Desert Storm), but this current one happened too fast, so of course they're playing the same old Viet Nam myths again.

The vast majority of this country is proud of you guys (and gals)
Thank you.

night all

re: #226 Wyatt Earp

That's the one about the camera man following a platoon on patrol because he was curious about what really happened out there?

/if it's the same one I saw, really well done.

re: #230 Typicalwhitey

night all

Night!

re: #231 BlueCanuck

That's the one about the camera man following a platoon on patrol because he was curious about what really happened out there?

/if it's the same one I saw, really well done.

That's the one. Very well done, IMO.

re: #226 Wyatt Earp

re: #221 Mars Needs Neocons

Personally, I liked FMJ, but I also really liked 84C MoPic.

Forgot that one. Pretty good.

re: #219 Purple Prose

Obama's preached today on patriotism. The best defense is a good offense. I think he is feeling defensive, but he is being offensive. He won't go on the offensive against terrorists, though. He will meet with them without condition. Just to talk. A little tete-a-tete between powerful warlords. Obama is just a warlord out of Chicago, a tribal cesspool of corruption. Yet he is arrogant enough to lecture the nation (or is the world his audience?) on patriotism.

Obama is a scallywag. Bush was naive about democracy in the Muslim world and made a lot of mistakes, but he has backbone, responded after 9/11, kept the US safe from further terrorist attacks and at least tried to do something about the resurgence of Islamic jihad that started well before he came into office. Obama has no backbone. He will capitulate to Islamists, signaling that the US is weak and wishes to appease jihadis. He will accelerate the vicious hold that political correctness has on our freedom to think and say and act as we please, and thereby encourage and embolden CAIR and its ilk to further its agenda of establishing sharia.

We'll see less integration and more separation. Obama is a divider and not a uniter. This is one of the ironies of his candidacy. The messenger of change and racial/religious/political unity has played every divisive card in the book. Obama. This man is a chameleon who wants power. Once he gets power, what is there? The only other thing we know is that his voting record in the Illinois senate and the US senate is stock-standard ultraliberal. He might as well be called McGovern, although he has a much more shark-like desire for power and will do and say anything - and sell out anybody - for power. Barack Hussein Obama McGovern Mugabe.

Obama is doing what leties always do, redefine patriotism & voila!
They becme the patriots.

re: #229 opnion

The vast majority of this country is proud of you guys (and gals)
Thank you.

Thank you.

Anyway, night all.

I'll try to check tomorrow if anyone else has any interesting ideas.

re: #232 Wyatt Earp

been a long time since I have seen it. But from what I recall it seemed to be fairly balanced. The ending was pretty cool too, even though it was a little depressing.

re: #220 rawmuse

You are correct! They are constructs of the AF of M.
I know some guys comfortably retired off reuse checks.
And I know some widows who are being provided for as well.
Me, I just do OK. I have not done that many movies, maybe 100 or so.

I suspect our colleagues here are not the only ones that have no remorse over copyright infringement, thinking that the only ones losing out are limousine-liberal, elitist Hollywood types. But in terms of numbers, there are many more that get hosed, perhaps some pretty nice folks.

re: #229 opnion

The vast majority of this country is proud of you guys (and gals)
Thank you.

Amen.

re: #204 opnion

We were both there & Platoon seemed lik a lot of Stones delusions.
Thank you for your service, bro.

I'm not saying it was a fact by fact truism of what Nam was like, but I've not met one infantry vet who served who said the portrayals of those who served were untrue. Maybe exaggerated? Yes. But out and out untruths? No. In the end, the movie did portray us as the good guys. Conflicted? Yes. Maybe I'm too young to understand where you're coming from.

re: #202 rawmuse Yeah, they sure can and I DO understand that; what bothered me wasn't his depiction of Berenger and Dafoe, but lots of other "little" matters which he made up out of wholecloth. And those little matters mean a lot to a LOT of Vietnam Vets.

re: #236 BlueCanuck

been a long time since I have seen it. But from what I recall it seemed to be fairly balanced. The ending was pretty cool too, even though it was a little depressing.

Correct on both counts. Not a lot of big name actors in it, but a fine movie nonetheless.

'Nite guys and gals.

re: #204 opnion
Same to you my friend.

re: #240 realwest

I confess, I never saw that one. Possibly because Stone's reputation preceded him.

re: #222 lummox

Loved the first half.

Yeah the first half was best. It kind of wandered in the 2nd half,

re: #211 Bob in Breckenridge

No one is misleading me. I know he alone caused the deaths of thousands of our soldiers, because he made them feel that what we were doing was worthless, and caused them to question their commanders. I detest the piece of shit.

I don't disagree that he's done horrible things, I'm just saying that there's way too much hate in the world, and that as a society we should get away from ever allowing ourselves to hate anyone, regardless of reason. It is way too easy for hatred to trump reason, and too often we can't tell the difference between those that might genuinely deserve hate and those that don't. Too often we can't tell the difference between those that have done really awful things and those that have merely had a large number of awful lies told about them. Bush Derangement Syndrome being a major, major example.

I'm just saying it's a very, very bad habit to readily allow one's self to hate, and to make our decisions about things first on hate and then on reason second... because often we don't get to reason because we're focussed too much on the hate, and thereby lies danger. Here there be dragons!

"Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord, and I will repay in kind."

In short, let the Infallible and All-Knowing One decide people's ultimate fate in eternity. We have too many problems and shortcomings ourselves to begin to make such decisions with our own, totally fallible and easily mislead minds.

re: #238 wolfie

Amen.

Hey is my hush monet still good? You know , about the Cubs thing.

re: #208 Mich-again

What am I doing wrong. I tried exactly what you said on both threads and all I get for any of them is how it didn't match any documents.

Here are the broken links on that page.
[Link: www.iranfocus.com...]
[Link: www.iranfocus.com...]
[Link: www.iranfocus.com...]
[Link: www.iranfocus.com...]

Goodnight, Lizards!

I'm on Cloud Nine.

After nearly a solid month-and-a-half of pounding away at it, I just finally finished answering all my email!

What a relief! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

I'm literally dazed. I hardly know what to do!

The scenario:

I had 2,500 unanswered emails in my in-box. These emails were the ones that had been shunted aside because they were the ones that would take some effort to answer/deal with. No spams. No personal emails, No easy emails. No emails that merited a one-word reply. Every single one was one of those doozies.

People submitting photos to me. People submitting entire photo essays to me. People pointing out serious errors in some past zombietime report. Death threats. Offers to translate this or that report into language X, Y or Z. Requests for interviews. 5,000-word-long treatises meant as updates to past reports. Evidence of new fauxtography scandals. Some guy who actually received a medal from the IDF for translating my Reuters Photo Fraud essay into Hebrew. Someone who went to elementary school with Hillary and had photos of her as a young child. A bank manager with a Muslim name in South Africa who informed me that I need to take the Mo Archive offline or "the US will pay the consequences." Desperate pleas for help. A moonbat who threatened to sue me if I didn't change the caption on my photo of him. Offers to meet me, go out on dates. Requests to use photos or videos for TV shows or documentaries. And on and on and on it went. 2,500 emails like this. Dating back to April, 2005, which is when I just couldn't handle the sheer volume any more. Each email, I felt a responsibility to answer. So I set myself a single-minded goal to plow through them all. And to answer, deal with, cope with, implement, or somehow process each email.

Took me a month and a half, working every day. But I did it! Done! In-box total: 0.

And I expect to be writing another comment exactly like this one in 2011.

re: #171 FamHistoryGuy

  re: #35 ploome hineni

It's about failure to properly notify people of an eviction. It is about coming home and finding your property vanished. It is about improper handling of seized property. Lack of documentation. Theft of property by employees. Lack of investigation by the police and the DA's office.

This was not the only incident of wrong doing by this same company.

It is also about LEGAL immigrants who came here and WORKED their asses off and finally achieved for the American Dream!

It is also about a skunk of a company that has not one ounce of honor...

When told of Nipper's initial comments to the police, Hance responded Friday: "A month and a half into it, the silence is especially frustrating because if they (Field Assets) would have understood 'the big deal' from the beginning, and told the Dicksons where their belongings had been taken that night, this entire thing could have been avoided."

And it is about treasures, temporal and spiritual...

The Dicksons said some of their belongings were irreplaceable: the trunk of traditional African wedding attire and jewelry that had been passed along to Joy when she became Bobo's bride; the original scripts that Joy, a screenwriter, had created. Then there was a dollar bill that was tucked inside Grace's piggybank.

The bill was sentimental because Grace wanted a laptop computer and offered to give the dollar to her mother, wondering if it would help in the purchase. Joy said she was touched and wrote on the bill: "Trust God for more." Then she slipped the dollar back into the piggybank. Later, they were able to purchase that laptop.

re: #247 opnion

My lips are sealed ! :)

Well all y'all it's getting really late for me and I gotta go get some sleep, NOW! LOL!
I hope you all have a GREAT EVENING/EARLY MORNING and that I get the chance to see you down the road.

re: #250 zombie
Zombie, Keep on, keepin on!

re: #246 NomadOfNorad

And no, I am not defending Walter Cronkite, just saying that people do amazingly stupid things when they make decisions based on really negative emotions, even when dealing with people who really are horrible monsters.

re: #250 zombie

Let us know how the dates go.

re: #252 wolfie

My lips are sealed ! :)

Youse a good dame. Dats da ticket!

re: #254 opnion

Zombie, Keep on, keepin on!

I can't keep keepin' on until I answer the last question that's been bugging me:

What does "opnion" mean?

re: #256 Roentgen

Let us know how the dates go.

Heh.

Those all received a polite (and in some cases, impolite) "No."

More than a few were from LGFers! (Or people claiming to be LGFers.)

re: #259 zombie

LOL ! ! !

re: #250 zombie

I'm exhausted just reading about it!

I hope you are saving them....both the e-mails and your answers.
It might make a good book.
In any case, it would be an interesting historical record.

re: #247 opnion

Hey is my hush monet still good? You know , about the Cubs thing.

I've always wanted a hush monet...

re: #258 zombie

I can't keep keepin' on until I answer the last question that's been bugging me:

What does "opnion" mean?

I wondered that also, zombie. Thought maybe it was a typo.

re: #258 zombie

I can't keep keepin' on until I answer the last question that's been bugging me:

What does "opnion" mean?

It's a typo. I wish that I could say it had some metaphysical meaning, but it's a typo.
At the next open registration, I am changing to something really obscure.

re: #260 NomadOfNorad

To the lonely women of LGF, I'm a he-man super-hero. To the hound-dog male LGFers, I'm a svelte secret agent in high heels.

I'm everything to everyone!