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I find it doubtful that they could find a door. Musketfire within closed room is much like use of flash-bang grenade. Second shot would mean so much smoke in room that it would not be possible to see more than a few feet. Brilliant plumes of fire and short, deep bursts of sound would stun and confuse any person. Smoke from muskets meant that it was typical in lines on battlefield that first shot was aimed well. Second shot was aimed. Third shot was hopeful. All successive shots were in general direction of where enemy was last seen. Best position was to be upwind of enemy so that smoke would roll towards enemy and this would hide your advance. It was typical of time that persons carried two, four or even six pistols when action was to be in close proximity such as within cities or on board ships. This allowed them early volley to take down targets most significant and then to reload while hidden in cloud of smoke. Typical rate of fire with typical pistols was nine shots per minute. I thank you for your kind words. I am Cossack on my father's side and so have heard and read much concerning their use of firearms.

Normal rate of fire for muskets was three shots per minute. Trained troops consistently fired four times per minute. My ancestors on my father's side would have lost their position if they could not fire six times per minute. It is in contrast that knife or cleaver requires no reload time. That is one reason they are preferred weapon for mass murders in China. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanping_school_massacre

I remember well instance where he did not know of: Marty & The Mufftones' most popular song. I would doubt "authority" appellation in field of DooWop music for any person who did not know of such significant song.

I have read that many people believe that Ferdinand Porsche designed Volkswagen by placing tracing paper over pictures of: TatraV570. It is common for people to mistake front three-quarter pictures of: Tatra77 for Volkswagen Beetle. It was Germany's invasion of Czechoslovakia which prevented Tatra97 from becoming popular world-wide. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatra_V570 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Ledwinka#Volkswagen_controversy TatraV570:

I believe that a crucial point is whether it is there for its own sake or whether it serves a variety of purposes. Graphic violence can be setting, characterization, motivation and plot. I would consider it gratuitous and unnecessary if it is not most of those simultaneously. A filmmaker who wishes to convey the grit and grime of antisocial life and demonstrate how harsh realities often beget mindless violence would be ill-advised to set all scenes in upper middle-class pre-teen girl's bedroom adorned with My Little Pony posters during a slumber party. I believe that a person must consider also context. I am reminded of: "When Miley Cyrus is nude and licks a hammer, they call it 'art' and 'music'. When I do it, they say that I am 'drunk' and 'must leave Home Depot'." I have heard and read that many consider the violence in movies such as: La Femme Nikita (1990), Killing Zoe (1993) and: Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) is excessive but I find it barely noticeable as it is perfectly appropriate to setting and characters. It has been long since I have watched: A Clockwork Orange (1971) but I do not recall a great amount of violence-for-the-sake-of-violence. I must admit that I do remember thinking that some scenes were quite juvenile considering the depth which the director seemed to be trying to achieve.

Did you know that the: chainsaw was invented for: symphysiotomy? http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15209147 I believe that you can now amend your statement to: "you can find out about things on this board which you would rather you never knew."

On-line Working Girl: Please send $200 via PayPal. Client: Okay. (click, click click). Done! Wait. Long wait. Longer wait. Client: Well! What about it? I want to get screwed! On-line Working Girl: Again?

Films and Filmmakers forum is currently under siege! Man the battlements!

I congratulate: speedracer5 for well-deserved win! All schedules were quite wonderful. You are all masters of the craft! I with to thank lydecker for creating this Challenge and for running it so well in face of problems with forum software. I am comfortable with idea of next Challenge beginning in late November if ending is in January.

I have been reading a book about anti-gravity. I can not put it down!

It is possible that if you knew then Moderators would have to make you disappear.

I believe that argument could be made that viewer has many options for learning if movie contains profanity prior to viewing it while user of this forum has no such option prior to opening thread. Some forums use: NSFW tag on posts which contain material which some might find offensive. That is not available here. I try to keep in mind that censorship in this forum is not intended to curtail my words or words of majority of posters. We are unfortunate collateral victims of rules necessary to prevent those few juvenile posters who would flood boards with foul language if ability existed. To require that all posters pass mental health examination and meet established criteria of mature behaviour would achieve same effect but cost would be prohibitive.

The extreme number of spam posts has now subsided and we have been returned to only normal spam. Perhaps we should now all have t-shirts which state: "I survived the great spam flood of 2015".

I wish it understood plainly that this thread and statements in original post do not reflect opinions of management of this household nor any sane member of it.

I must admit that I have not studied Ms. Powers to any great extent and it may be a product of her preference for tight blouses but it is my guess that she is 'D' and not 'B.'

It has returned. Even Showtime does not have reruns this often!

Did what really happen? You do not look well. Perhaps you should go lie down for a while until the dizziness passes. Edit: I am so very sorry that I blew it! I did mean to write: "Perhaps you should go take a hot shower and then lie down for a while."

I feel that it is quite unfortunate that those posts do not contain words which were altered slightly to bypass the automatic censor. Moderators would quickly pay attention to that rather than allowing pages and pages of posts to be made.

I am intrigued by the bread. Were tall, narrow loaves of bread a thing in those times?

This is very welcome news. I am most happy that these units allow external hard drives. It has at all times been weakness of this series that the burner must be cleaned regularly if used heavily. I believe we have been disassembling and cleaning each of our units approx. twice a year. Procedure is simple but requires disconnecting wires in inconvenient locations. Use of external hard drive will allow transfer to computer to burn DVDs.

I believe that it may have been automated script running on one computer. I suspect purpose was to post same message quickly on hundreds or thousands of forums but that it became stuck on TCM forum for some reason. The posts were appearing so quickly that I believe no one person could have been typing that fast.

I can say only that I believe it was Korean. I had very intensive study of that written language during two month period approx. forty years ago and have had no cause to read it since that time. Most of what I remember from those classes concerns battles for chair away from windows because of very cold drafts. I believe that I recognized words: "hotel" and: "complete." It is quite possible it was very different language and that I am mistaken.

Five more pages is approx. an hour! I believe that we will soon reach our Recommended Daily Allowance for spam for remainder of the decade!

I am sorry to say that I missed skimpole’s wonderful schedule in original thread. I love it! Kinuyo Tanaka is excellent choice for: Star of the Month! She was wonderful actress. I would love to see TCM present: A Hen in the Wind (1948) in particular. I find it a very powerful movie. The spotlight on: Non-Hollywood Musicals is most welcome! I do hope that TCM Programmers use this idea. I was not aware: Awara (1951) had been shown previously. I am very sorry to have missed it. I have long wished to do schedule so full of excellent foreign movies. I am sad to say that I never had the courage. Your schedule has very eclectic selection from many parts of the world. I hope TCM Programmers take notice! I congratulate all entrants on their wonderful schedules! I thank lydecker for bringing us a great Challenge and for suffering through foibles of forum software. I have reasons to vote for each one. I do not know how I will make decision.