primosprimos
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All those hippies sold out and ruined the world.
Gladys, I'm not sure it was all, but some did, you're right. They got greedy in the 1990s and melted down the country in 2008.
I didn't ruin the world, I simply got disgusted and saw the light. Heck, I didn't even make it to Woodstock.
And alcohol, in moderation, is actually better for one's health than teetotaling.
I agree, Vautrin. I bet Jack Webb would agree too. What was the story on his ID bracelet? He had it in his early movies. Who knew, ramrod Jack probably had a soft heart.
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I use my Microsoft Paint program (everyone running Microsoft should have this). I copy or capture each one separately and save - it automatically saves to my Pictures/Screenshot/Captures folder. Then I open a Paint window and paste each one side-by-side. Then save that group as a single pic. Then post that pic here.
I sure miss the old way of just running all the URLs end-to-end in the same message line 8^<
Wow, I'll have to try that KidDabb. Thanks.
And for using my FH as an example!
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I posted these images side by side when I composed it. Now they line up vertically. Can't account for it.
Yes, that's it, slayton. I notice it happens with emoticons, and with photos as well.
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I'll tell you--grass, weed, ganja, pot, wacky tabacky, tea, meemaw, mary
jane, didja, gomer, scratcnsnuff, puby. These punks think this stuff is
harmless, but before you know it, a baby is drowned in the bathtub, not
that these punks have much use for a bathtub. Hey, before we head back
to the Parker Center, how about we roust some hippies, just for the
fun of it? Maybe even plant something on them. C'mon, Bill.
Alcohol, cocaine, hedge funds, cigarettes, affairs, lobbyists, 2008 meltdown, real estate flipping, IOMs, bank bail outs - how about we roust some white collar criminals, just for the fun of it?
Here's to medical mary jane and the hippies who were naive in 1968 and thought they could make a difference.
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To quote Neville Brand in Stalag 17...
"Heartrending, isn't it? Maybe we should send them some food parcels."
It's a shame our anathema for the liars and crooks doesn't translate into them all going bankrupt.
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Hah!
slayton, you've created a monster!-------------sorry. Is there any way to make these pics come up horizontally? I put them in my signature horizontally, they come up vertically. If no, I will delete them. TIA.
I guess no one has the answer to my question. NP, one picture of my future husband Warren William is as good as five.
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Well, gotta admit I LOVE the "confidence factor" you project anyway, primos my dear!
Thanks, Dargo. If one has the good luck to live long enough, one can look back on the self that one was at 20 and 30 and 40 and 50, and wish one can slap that self silly.
And resolve to never EVER be that self again.
Ain't life grand, Dargo? Best line I ever heard from a friend of a friend of a friend: it's a good day when you're another day above ground.
Boy was George Bernard Shaw right.
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Well, seein' as how you brought THAT up again...
Have I ALSO ever told you that I think all this "trouble" you say you get isn't so much about your "speaking your mind" OR that "people can't handle the truth", MIGHT be more the idea that when you state some opinions of yours as "the truth", it gives others the impression that THEIR opinions are somehow "less truthful", and that MAYBE because of that, THIS might be why you sense receiving this so-called "trouble", aka "being picked on" by others around here?
(...yep, in THIS case, I do believe I HAVE mentioned this to you fairly recently, haven't I?!)
MIGHT be more the idea that when you state some opinions of yours as "the truth",
Nope, my opinions (usually) are the right ones, and they are the truth. Simple.
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Yeah, and now allow ME to try a photo in a similar vein here, primos...
LOL
(...sorry, couldn't resist)
Hah!
slayton, you've created a monster!-------------sorry. Is there any way to make these pics come up horizontally? I put them in my signature horizontally, they come up vertically. If no, I will delete them. TIA.
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It's called the generation gap.
The 1960's.....
Hah...Blue Boy was a fun Dragnet. Nobody talks drugs like Joe Friday talks drugs.
Until I tried to sit through some of his movies, I never realized Jack Webb, like John Wayne, always did Jack Webb on the screens, big and little. For me, unwatchable.
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Hah...thanks slayton, this post is for Pasting Photos For Dummies, i.e., me. Let's see if this works.
Wow, color me dumb. I kept using, over and over, COPY IMAGE, instead of Copy Image Location - I don't have Copy Image Address.
Is he beautiful, or what?
Thanks again!
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I enjoyed this post so much I had to make a second comment to it. I enjoyed it because it elevates me to the level of 'star' contributor around here, where we have a lot of people focusing on what I say. That is one reason I am one of the most-read posters. But I do not see myself as a malcontent.
A few months back I made a list of dragons I wanted to slay and one of them was the intolerance I feel keeps increasing on the board. Like if I said blue was a great color and someone else said red. Then all the fans of red would chime in and make apologies for why red is not as good as blue. This would lead into warring on the board, and then anytime I commented about how much I liked blue, the intolerant red fans would continue to slice and dice blue to re-elevate red to the ranks of most popular. That comes from insecurity and an intolerance of people to allow differences of opinion to exist respectfully.
So that is one huge problem I see on this board daily and I can imagine what kinds of reporting the mods have to deal with as a result of the on-going acrimony. Again, in my case, my views are not coming from malcontent as much as from strategy to make this a board where a multiplicity in views can be represented at all times. I hope that makes sense.
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TB, I wasn't calling you a malcontent. I was quoting my star ignored poster, who called all of those who disagree with him malcontents.
Since I had to read his post in order to read yours, I was being facetious.
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Excellent post. Thanks for providing some background/history on that darkblue.
Personally, if I was going to coin a phrase related to this, I would have offered up 'Defenders of the Realm.' The realm being the realm of anything and everything TCM.
Dear fellow malcontent TopBilled: do you realize you have given new voice to those of us in the choir? I thank you for it, keep up the good work, TB.
Your fellow malcontent and member of your admiration society: misanthropic Ebenezer.
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I'm not sure where to put this news story, but here it is. By the way, to get more news stories about TCM, Dish, CNN, Directv, Comcast and other related stuff we are interested in, go to Goggle News, then up at the top search box, type in simple terms such as DISH TV, or TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES, or DIRECT TV, etc, etc.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/04/us-dish-network-results-idUSKBN0IO0ZG20141104
Dish posts revenue below estimates as it loses pay-TV users
(Reuters) - Dish Network Corp (DISH.O), the second-largest U.S. satellite TV company, reported lower-than-expected quarterly revenue as it lost pay-TV subscribers due to increased competition.
Dish, which has about 14 million subscribers, said on Tuesday it lost about 12,000 pay-TV subscribers in the third quarter compared with the second quarter.
Awwww, too bad. Glad to read it.
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After I started this thread, I realized that I had a few more things in common with George Amberson Minafer. When my parents were divorcing-- I was 17 and had just graduated high school-- I was sent to Chicago to live with my aunt. I had an aunt as bad as Aunt Fanny (played by Agnes Moorehead in the movie). She was between husbands and she was about as vain and materialistic as a person could be. I was vain and materialistic, too, but not like she was-- though she did teach me a few new tricks. I was supposed to provide some sort of emotional family anchoring for her while my mother sorted out her marital problems back in Colorado-- my mother never did return to Chicago, and I was stuck with my aunt until she snagged some well-off poor soul, much older but obviously not much smarter, into marrying her.
In THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS, Fanny is George's aunt on his father's side. In my case, it was my mother's side, but it was the same kind of situation. And though it was not Indianapolis but rather Chicago, we still had the midwestern atmosphere and the stories of the past where I heard about my aunt being viciously jealous of my mother, like how Fanny is jealous of Isabel in Tarkington's story. My father confirmed the stories years later as being true.
I had been putting off going to college full-time-- I was attending part time at DePaul and working at my aunt's company in the Bloomingdale's building downtown. But eventually I decided it was enough. I reapplied to the University of Southern California, where I was once again accepted, and the following fall, at the age of 20, I had moved to Los Angeles. I never saw my aunt again. She ended up burying that old man seven years later, then found another fool willing to marry her. I call her a stupid woman, but she was actually quite shrewd, though not as skilled as my mother in this department. My mother always looked at my aunt with pity, the way Isabel does with Fanny in THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS-- you know, how a woman with children looks at a woman without children. I understood that. But I swore I would never let my mother use me again to be my aunt's surrogate son.
Thanks for sharing, TB, interesting stories. Sorry to say I can't recall the Georgie character. I don't find the movie easy to re-watch, for some reason.
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WAIT now, primos! Are you SURE about there being "no spirits" here?!
I mean, THINK about it! "No spirits" means no Afterlife, right?! AND, no Afterlife MEANS that there's NO way in some preconceived Heaven OR Hell that you'll be able to marry that bad boy of yours, Mr. William, after you kick off, RIGHT???!!!
Now, this IS unless you ONLY meant to imply that "there are no spirits" in this little Dickensian scenario of yours here, of course!
(...btw...have I ever told you that I think this "hard-as-nails" thing you try to project around here is REALLY just a big act, and that you REALLY have a "soft chewy center" just like Ebenezer is shown to have by the end of Mr. Dickens' tale?!...nope, I don't think I ever have, have I?!) LOL
Hah, good point Dargo about the spirits and my future husband, Warren. Heck, you might even be right about the 'soft chewy center', but Mr. primos might disagree with you. Aw heck, maybe not. I know my dog would agree with you, that little so and so has me wrapped around his paw.
But I still get in trouble for speaking my mind, you no doubt believe that, right?
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Karen Black in "Trilogy of Terror".
That was one of my first thoughts - Karen with the Devil Doll, holy mackerel, still gives me the creeps, and I can only see it in my mind's eye.
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Ebenezer Scrooge, minus the miserliness. Misanthropic, filter-less, and loving every minute of it. Oh, and there are no spirits, so there'll be no becoming nicer, thank you very much.
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This is an interesting comment, because in a reverse way it suggests that there has been an intolerance for eleven years. For eleven years, we have had people posting negative feedback and for eleven years the apologists, long before they were called apologists, were making excuses for TCM and trying to shoo the critics away. That's how I see it, and I haven't been around here for eleven years. I am all for constructive and immediate feedback. If the higher-ups don't take it, then it should be repeated. However, it shouldn't have to be repeated for eleven years.
Well said, TopBilled. I've been here for 8, and the ole grey mare ain't what she used to be.
Neither me, nor TCM.
I feel more badly that TCM used to be better than it is now. Oh well. La di da.
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Why would restaurants want to make conversation difficult? That seems counterproductive to an enjoyable meal - but what do I know.
It's insane to a normal person, but read this earlier article and you'll see some of the thinking behind it.
No Appetite for NoiseSome restaurants want the volume turned up. One of the few attempts at noise reduction at the new Westend Bistro by Eric Ripert is a glass partition separating the bar from the dining room. General manager Gonzague Muchery says the restaurant's casual concept demands a certain liveliness in the room, which measured an uncomfortable 80 decibels in a recent sound check. Like other restaurants, Westend Bistro has installed a sophisticated sound system and serenades its patrons with music that is programmed to start mellow and get jazzier as the night wears on.
The trouble is, once you fill the place with diners, it's hard to tell what's playing.
Even so, Muchery doesn't think the noise at Westend Bistro is a problem. He says he hasn't received a single complaint about it since the restaurant opened.....
FOR ALL THE DINERS WHO DON'T LIKE NOISE, there are plenty of people who look forward to some buzz with their Wagyu burger.
Janice Carnevale felt as if she had to whisper when she dined in a snug upstairs room at 1789 in Georgetown. "I don't like it when everyone around me can hear what I'm saying," says the 27-year-old wedding consultant from Falls Church. She much prefers the "dull roar" and "revelry" of a louder restaurant. Plus, "If my husband and I don't have a lot to talk about," she says, a noisy restaurant allows her a little anonymity and the chance to zone out. "I talk to people all day long."
"It's a double-edged sword," says Zagat, the dining guide founder. If a restaurant is hushed, "a lot of people feel it's dead."
Parents often seek out loud restaurants for a different reason. "I can dine out with my infant and never get dirty looks for the occasional squawk or utensil banging," one mom explained during an online chat.
And most restaurateurs don't seem all that worried about the decibel level in their bars and dining rooms. From the moment he opened Rasika three years ago, Ashok Bajaj knew he had a noisy venue on his hands. The floors were wood, and the bar was paved with stone tiles. To soften any blows, he'd had the walls covered in orange fabric, but it wasn't enough to dampen the volume of a full house. Sound experts came in to look at the problem; they recommended more fabric and acoustic tiles.
Ultimately, the restaurateur opted not to change the interior: The vibe, after all, was intentional. "I wanted a place with buzz," Bajaj explains. He also hoped to distinguish it from his more traditional Indian restaurant near the White House, Bombay Club. While some diners at Rasika told him they didn't like the din, Bajaj says he queried upwards of 70 patrons in all age groups, and the message he says he heard was: "Don't change it. If we wanted a quiet restaurant, we'd go to the Bombay Club.
Fascinating. Guess I'll quit complaining about the bad acoustics in most restaurants I frequent. Who knew they wanted it that way?
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And it's actually all quite deliberate. The Washington Post's restaurant reviews include the decibel level in its writeups and ratings, and the vast majority are deemed in the "conversation difficult" or louder category. When it gets to this point, it becomes much more than a coincidence.
Fortunately, it's a problem with an easy solution: Don't go to those places. Avoid restaurants where you can't hear yourself think, and avoid movies that mumble and drown you with background noise. Use the money you've saved to do a hundred much more enjoyable things.
Why would restaurants want to make conversation difficult? That seems counterproductive to an enjoyable meal - but what do I know.
I stopped going to movie theaters ages ago - before there was the problem of cell phones, never mind ear blasting sounds and music.
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Hi aj,
Welcome to the boards. It sounds like a mess. Glad I don't have Dish or DirecTV. I thought Charter was bad enough, but it seems like a walk in the park compared to what the rest of you are experiencing!
That's the ONE good thing about FIOS. They're liars and crooks too, but I am not required to have a contract. Of course, I pay more for the privilege, but big whoop. The downside - there is nothing else to jump to around here, which makes moot the bonus of no contract.
They gotcha coming - and they gotcha going.
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Article by Ann Hornaday in Washington Post discusses the increasing difficulty in hearing dialogue in new movies. It's intentional on the part of the directors and producers to add loud music, sound effects and background chatter. And the actors do intentionally garble their speech.
Another reason why I prefer movies from the '70's and earlier. The directors made sure that dialogue was heard and that the actors could speak clearly.
I agree. Remember when actors, television or movies, e-nun-ci-ated? Never MIND songs, when Sinatra e-nun-ci-ated every single word.
Much like the news articles on the internet where NO ONE is proofreading, I wonder who is doing the final production on television. If I hear one more supposedly intelligent anchor insert a LIKE, as in, well he was like, and well, I like, I'll scream. I recently tried to watch a very interesting article on a local PBS channel, and the music was louder than the dialogue throughout the entire show!
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"Mi amigo que cree que es General Eisenhower..."
Yes! And he really did tell the b-i-l he was a block of wood.
Very good movie, they should show it more often.
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People really can't handle the truth.
TV work by film stars you must see...!
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Not sure it applies, but both Loretta Young and Shirley Temple had anthologies in the late 1950s. Both featured some pretty respectable teleplays, iirc.