ValentineXavier
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> > {quote:title=mrroberts wrote:}{quote}Webster's should revise their definition of the word
. Or Hef should look at a dictionary.> Hefner probably looked here:
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> http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pneumatic
Or, perhaps Hef read Aldous Huxley's Brave, New World, where Huxley's characters used that meaning of pneumatic repeatedly.
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Why do women in old movies stand up on chairs and scream, when someone hollers 'there's a mouse?' I have seen people faint, but I've never seen anyone do that.
Edited by: ValentineXavier on Jan 14, 2012 8:02 PM
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I have an amateur's interest in anthropology and archaeology. While perusing one of my favorite news sites for such, I ran across something that people here might find amusing:
>A year later, Byrne returned to the monastery and struck a deal with the monks about removing just one finger.
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>According to Byrne, the alleged yeti's digit was replaced with a human finger provided by professor Osmond Hill, who got it from a severed hand belonging to the Hunterian Museum.
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>The relic was smuggled out of Nepal with the help of Hollywood movie star James Stewart, who was on holiday in Calcutta with his wife, Gloria.
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>Hidden in Gloria's lingerie case, the finger finally reached the scientist in London.
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>Professor Hill identified it as belonging to an early hominid.
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>But DNA analysis performed at the Zoological Society of Scotland in Edinburgh proved that Hill was wrong.
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>"We found human DNA," the zoo's genetics expert, Rob Ogden, told the BBC.
You can read the entire article here, but there is no further mention of Jimmy:
http://news.discovery.com/history/yeti-finger-mystery-solved-111229.html
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Coming from a different culture, and learning the references, as you have, is sorta like having to have the joke explained to you. In that kind of case, no one finds it funny. So, I quite understand your reaction to the Marx Bros.
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I'm a big Who fan. The Who Sell Out is the first album I bought, when it came out. I loved the cover. Great satire.
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Or, 'that big cutting room in the sky...'
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Condos and apartments most usually negotiate a custom channel package with the local cable provider, so TCM being moved to Digital Preferred probably wouldn't affect that package, at least not without new negotiations. Usually, apartment/condo situations will let you pay more, and get the same packages available to anyone else in the area, from the cable provider.
As others have said, Comcast makes changes in different areas, at different times. Usually, a change like moving TCM to a more expensive tier, would eventually happen everywhere, just not everywhere at once.
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I wish I could find some good pest programmers in my area, to program my squirrels and raccoons. I like the critters, but they sure can be pests!
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> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote}You didn't say whether Robert Vaughan answered you. I assume he didn't..........
It's been so long, I don't recall much. I don't think I tried to panhandle from him, but did say something, probably U.N.C.L.E. related. He kept up his brisk walk, but spun around as he walked, to face me, and said something. I don't recall what, but I'm sure it wasn't rude or unpleasant, or I would remember.
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> Heh ValentineX, you reminded me that I too have met Crispin Glover. I was working at my neighborhood movie theater when he brought his indie film there and was asked to "guard" him before he went up for Q&A. He was a squirrelly little man and we mainly talked about Syracuse and classic film since I know nothing about him. (a definite advantage when meeting a "star") I watched his film and was completely disgusted by it. Amazingly, the goth kids ate it up with a spoon and I had to "guard" him again for the roudy autograph line later.
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I met him when he came to show his film *What Is It?* at the Ann Arbor Film Festival. He was in our Green Room, for which I was the manager/chef. Squirrelly, perhaps, and thin, but he was as tall as I am, 6'1". I actually liked his film, but I realize it is not for all tastes.
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> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote}So what Honolulu police detective inspired Steve McGarrett?
Steve didn't seem the least bit inspired, to me.
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Well, let's see... back in the spring of '68, I was a hippie, panhandling outside of a big drugstore on Sunset Strip. Robert Vaughn walked out, with some little starlet in tow, and I said hello to him.
I know a lot of experimental/avant garde filmmakers, who most here wouldn't know. But, I have met Kenneth Anger, Crispin Glover, and Michael Moore.
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If you don't have a cable box, probably you cable company took them off the analog band, so you'll need a box to get them.
Also, Comcast is moving TCM to a higher tier - from Digital Standard to Digital Preferred. So, you might have lost it that way. Call your cable co.
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I remember Bill touting a scene in *Viva Zapata*, only to find out that it had been cut from the film by channel 50. He was embarrassed, and ****!
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> > I'm not losing much sleep over the thought of a Chinese attack.
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> Oh, I'm not afraid of them attacking us. They wouldn't attack their best customers.
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Or, their biggest debtors. If they attacked us, we'd never pay them back. Well, not with financial instruments of any kind, that is...
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Well, I've always thought that there are lots of 'politics' in the Oscars, but I'll shut up about the electoral variety...
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Michigan Republicans were clear enough about stopping lawsuits against businesses. Our Gov., Rick Snyder, didn't breathe a word about taxing pensions, or giving all the money from those taxes to corporations. I didn't vote for any of them. Unfortunately, our recall efforts aren't going as well as those in Wisc., but Snyder's approval ratings are in the dumps.
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I saw it. I thought it was sort of interesting, but certainly not great. Its meandering reminded me of experimental narratives of the 60s and early 70s, but with the vampire thing added. It was unpredictable, which I consider a plus.
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So, you're saying that you just didn't knead them? You couldn't get a rise out of them?
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I meant that sarcastically, since your post, and the previous 5 posts, had been political. So, I wasn't really interjecting, I was just adding on.
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Sounds like Japanese scifi from the 60s. Was it Japanese?
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Yeah, Fred, I thought that was what you were up to. But, I doubt it will stop the proliferation of such threads, until they stop running the spot. Maybe it will put a dent in them, though...
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Well, I hate to interject politics into yet another thread, but here in Michigan, it is our Republican dominated state legislature that has made it legally impossible to sue companies for defective, or dangerous products, even if they caused injury or death.
. Or Hef should look at a dictionary.
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I'd say that *Jigoku* would pair very nicely with *Hausu*.