ValentineXavier
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> {quote:title=jamesjazzguitar wrote:}{quote}
> Thus consumers that use coupons or only buy big ticket items when they are on sale are practicing a form of greed.
That's just ridiculous. That's being frugal, which is pretty much the opposite of greed.
>Definition of GREED
>: a selfish and excessive desire for more of something (as money) than is needed.
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I never miss the Oscars. I never watch 'em, but I don't miss 'em.
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I haven't seen *The Dough Girls*, but *Gambling on the High Seas* was decent, and Laurel and Hardy are great! I just finished watching all their shorts from the HDD, over the holidays.
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> {quote:title=JakeHolman wrote:}{quote}This was in my last Comcast bill: effective 2/1/12, Turner Classic Movies will move from the Digital Starter Package to the Digital Preferred Package.
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That I can believe. TCM has never been in the basic package where I live. That package is about 20 channels. Until recently, they were all available in analog. I have "Digital Preferred," so I'll still have TCM. I used to have a number of premium channels, but gave them all up with various price rises.
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> {quote:title=ThelmaTodd wrote:}{quote}
> My understanding of the Mayan calendar is that it tells of a convergence of long term time cycles come 2012. Our civilisation only counts one 365 day year at a time; unlike the Mayans, we have no concept whatsoever of time proceeding in 5,000 and 26,000 year cycles.
Dec. 21. or 23, 2012, depending on which correlation with our calendar you accept, will be the ending of the 13th Baktun of the Mayan calendar. A Baktun is their largest unit of time equal to 394 years. Neither the ancient Maya, nor the modern Maya, thought the would would end then. But, we will enter the 14th Baktun...
All of the rest is just made up for show.
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Sic transit gloria Pongidae...
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I just saw *Hugo*, in 3D. It'll probably be my favorite of the year. I highly recommend it. It's right up the alley of TCM fans. And, yes, please see it in 3D, even if you don't like 3D.
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*Chac, the Rain God*, shot in the rain forest of Chiapas, Mexico. No sets, only one professional actor - a dwarf. And the local Indians who act in the film helped write the script. Directed by Rolando Klein, a protege of Jules Dassin.
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> > I have always wondered on how appropriate mathematics would be in a first contact situation. Science fiction writers all seem to be adherents to the numbers-are-a-universal-language cult.
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> I've sometimes wondered about that notion, simply because our ideas of what mathematics are is not necessarily what their ideas would be. "One" to us might be "Ten" or something else entirely, to them.
Yep. There are just 10 kinds of people in this world - those who understand binary, and those who don't.
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> {quote:title=GreatMoviesFan wrote:}{quote}I just saw this movie for the first time and I LIKED IT, but my brother and I argue over whether it's funny when Richard Dreyfuss is throwing bricks and trees and garbage cans in through his window and climbing in through the window and pulling the ladder in behind him. I found it funny as hell and laughed myself sick, he disagrees. Can anybody else comment?
This scene made the movie for me. Funny, yes. To me, this scene shows that the film is satire, and that's really the only way I can appreciate it. Oddly, in the first re-release, they removed this scene, but it was put back in later.
I also laughed at what I call the "cosmic candelabra."
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Well at least Robert Osborne seemed to be up all night, and drinking champagne. That was good. The theme, which no one here seems to have gotten, but Bob announced several times, is that all the movies had to do with time, rapidly advancing to a deadline. Personally, I preferred the Marx Bros. earlier in the day.
I was glad to see the TCM premiere of *Panic in the Streets*. I also watched the excellent *D.O.A.*, and the campy *Ice Station Zebra*. I was actually burning things to disc from my DVDR's HDD while it was running, and didn't mind the interruptions.
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I'll be watching *New Year's Evil*, which I DVRed from TCM, of course!
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Musikone, Clore posted this good bit of advice, to which you have not responded:
>OK, let me ask if you have this problem with any other channels. For example, comparing HBO SD to HBO HD. If it's isolated to just TCM, then yes, there's a good chance that something is wrong at the Cox Cable end and not your hardware.
It sounds to me like your picture size problem on TCMHD is likely the result of watching a HD picture over a SD input. This is because the 16x9 HD frame, which would fill the screen top-to-bottom, and have black bars on the sides, with a 4x3 image, will be reduced so that the 16x9 frame is contained within a 4x3 frame, adding an extra frame of black bars, all around.
It sounds to me like your problem is most likely a wiring, or switching problem, with your own equipment.
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Face it Fred, the Japanese Americans were far less of a threat than German Americans, during WWII. The reason we locked up the Japanese, and not the Germans, is because the Japanese have 'yellow' skin. They are 'the other.' The Germans are 'us.' Neither should have been locked up wholesale. Exclusion zones around ports, military bases, war factories, for those without permits, well, I can see that.
I've read more than once that there were NO Japanese Americans in the US charged with espionage during WWII, but lots of German Americans were. I'm not sure how to reconcile that with what you've posted.
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Slaytonf, you said it better than I did...
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Okay, Fred, I don't think that anyone disputes that the quality of life in our concentration camps for Japanese Americans was, in comparison, far, far better than in those of the Japanese and Germans. But, we still imprisoned them needlessly.
All though we humans would prefer a gilded cage to a hellhole, we still prize freedom, warts and all, above the gilded cage. And, Manzanar wasn't exactly gilded, despite those there making the best of it. You can't post any photos that show they were free to come and go as they pleased. Would you have wanted to live in confinement there? After having your home and business taken away?
Edited by: ValentineXavier on Dec 20, 2011 10:51 PM
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I noticed that too. The IMDb lists it at 59m for the "Turner Library Print." My guess is that they trimmed it, after the Hays Office went fully operational. But that's just a guess.
Edited by: ValentineXavier on Dec 20, 2011 10:36 PM
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Fred, one could post frames from *Stalag 17* that would look similar.
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I've never been a Julie Andrews fan, but I really liked her in *V/V*.
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> {quote:title=LoveFilmNoir wrote:}{quote}
> > {quote:title=ValentineXavier wrote:}{quote}That's Rene A-bear-noise...
> Aren't you missing a syllable though? I thought there was a "jo" in there.
Well, I guess it wasn't clear, but I was kidding. I never pretend to be able to pronounce French.
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Sure, our concentration camps were nothing like the deadly and brutal hell-holes run by the Axis. But, they were still prisons, and especially at first, the accommodations were so bad that absent the force, few would have been willing to live in them.
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Now you see, Dargo, the fact that we "sugar coated" it back then, just shows how NICE we were to the Japanese Americans. Remember - sugar was rationed then!
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I don't think Marylin was a great actress, and her signature look - kind of a caricature of a woman - doesn't appeal to me that much. But, a society such as ours where she can be called a "chunker," implying she was fat, shows just how sick we have become.
I don't really have a preference for either fat or thin women. But today's popular emaciated look, with models who look like they got out of Treblinka a couple of weeks ago, I find repugnant. And a social ill.
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There are already about a dozen threads about TCM Remembers on the forums. Here's a link that lists most of them:
Ben M. commentating on Current TV
in Hot Topics
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> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote}"**** that smelled like lilacs"? I never heard it, but I like it. You learn SO much on these boards.
Then perhaps you'll like this one:
>He's so tight-a$$ed, only dogs can hear him ****.