SansFin

I believe you could resolve any question of what was said by turning on the Closed Captioning when replaying it.

I believe this would be the perfect automobile for arriving at a picnic in the country: It is a 1950 Jaguar Drophead. The absolute perfection is maintained in that it has suicide doors! It is for sale for only $120,000 but I believe the added cost of importing it would make it seem extravagant.

I know this will not be popular but I have a deep capacity for things which are innocent and precious and so I will share: There is a comic strip about Phoebe who is a gawky fourth-grader and Marigold who is a unicorn. They met when Phoebe was skipping stones and hit Marigold by accident. That was a good thing because Marigold had seen her reflection and she was so entranced by her own beauty that she might have stood there many days before she could break free. Marigold granted Phoebe one wish. The girl wished that the unicorn would become her best friend. It has been a very touching and amusing relationship. Phoebe is now worried that she will not find an appropriate Christmas gift for Marigold. The episode of December 19th begins with Phoebe dreaming of a conversation with the Answer Pixie. It should be noted that the Answer Pixie looks like a miniature Marigold because that is the only magical creature which Phoebe knows: http://www.gocomics.com/heavenly-nostrils/2012/12/19 The next three episodes resolve her problem. They can be seen by using the arrow icon above the strip to advance day-by-day. I know that comic strips are not popular fare for most here and this storyline may seem trite to many but I find its innocence very refreshing and I love the drawings. I hope you are all having a Merry Christmas!

The only one of these that I love is: *Anastasia* and that is because of Yul. I like very much: A Christmas Carol (1938) Dark Victory Houseboat Love Crazy O. Henry's Full House Theodora Goes Wild The War Wagon I like: The Naked City Road to Utopia Union Depot I believe I have watched many of the others but they did not make so deep an impression on my that I remember liking or not liking them.

There is a database of automobiles which have been in movies and in television programs. It is: http://www.imcdb.org/search.php I have found photographs there of many automobiles which I could not identify. There is a website which shows automobiles which are rare and classic which are for sale at a wide variety of sources. It is called: "Bring a Trailer". I do not understand many of the terms which they use but they have a section called: "Under $20,000" which has several which I would like to own.

I have had the thought that perhaps the world did not end because a third thing has not happened. The first thing was the sad passing of Dick Clark who was virtually a requirement for bringing in a New Year. The second thing was the suspension of the manufacture of Twinkies which is known as the only type of food capable of surviving the Apocalypse. I will not try to guess if the third thing will happen within the next week and two days or if it was averted by some covert cadre whose mission is to save the world.

> {quote:title=Bronxgirl48 wrote:}{quote} > I'm in the mood for an '80's t.v. movie over my Christmas break. I do hope you enjoy it. Anthony Hopkins defines his role. Blythe Danner demonstrates a range in her performance. The plot is nicely twisty which I like very much. I did not foresee the ending which is a major plus!

> {quote:title=slaytonf wrote:}{quote} > Regardless of your opinion of the appropriateness of environmental laws, there is much less pollution in our air, water, and food than there was thirty and forty years ago I hope you do not think I am 'picking on you' and it is not my intent to cast you in a bad light but I believe that this statement of yours demonstrates a very bad trait in society: that if you disagree with some nonsense put forward in the name of an effort then it is assumed that you disagree with all the tenets of the effort. I actively support several environmental efforts and I approve of most others. The fact that I chose not to accept the lie that global warming is caused or accelerated by man's activity _does not_ make me anti-environment. It has been proven over and over again that it is a lie. That many influential people make money from it and that it opens for politicians to exert more control are the only reasons the lie still lives. I suspect that many here believe I am anti-gun-control. That is not true. I believe strongly that a person should have to prove they are proficient in the care, use and safeguarding of a firearm before they are allowed to have one in their home. I believe strongly that each case of misuse of a firearm be investigated and criminal charges brought when appropriate. I believe strongly that any person who uses a firearm in the commission of a crime should be put into prison for very long time. I believe there should be consistency in the laws from state to state while still allowing for variations which are appropriate for the citizens of each state. The fact that I disagree with banning some types of weapon _does not_ make me anti-gun-control. Has the freedom been lost to disagree with a thing without being branded as being against the effort which they purport to aid? Edited by: SansFin on Dec 22, 2012 11:11 PM

> {quote:title=LiamCasey wrote:}{quote} > I feel like an idiot for having to ask, but who is Zinida? She is in Leonid Andreyev's play: He Who Gets Slapped I remember her specifically because her costume was so beautiful and funny at the same time. IMDB indicates the role was played by Paulette Duval in the 1924 movie starring Lon Chaney, Norma Shearer and John Gilbert.

> {quote:title=ValentineXavier wrote:}{quote} > I've read a kid's version of The Lord's Prayer, with things like that in it. They are called Mondegreens. Common ones are: Gladly, the cross-eyed bear I led the pigeons to the flag 'Excuse Me While I Kiss This Guy I like very much reading your funny Christmas stories. I am sorry to say that I have none of my own to share.

*Guilty Conscience* (1985) was my first introduction to the actress Swoosie Kurtz. I am anxious to see if she made any movies in which her performance was not painful to watch.

> {quote:title=slaytonf wrote:}{quote} > It's only been a week, and already we have forgot the horror and moved on to global warming. Perhaps we simply don't want to be burdened with contemplation of the enormity of the slaughter and the profound rethinking of American society necessary to cope with it. I have not forgotten it. It perhaps sits more deeply with me because of certain things which it might be unwise to discus in open forum. I am very skeptical that any rethinking will result in positive change because of factors which are often not included in such discussions: 1) Recent testing has conclusively shown that people who play certain types of violent video games on three consecutive days have "significantly" increased aggressiveness both short term and long term as well as "significantly" reduced prosocial behavior. 2) One public group, several private groups and an unknown number of individuals are making great strides in the production of automatic weapons using 3-D printers. It has been announced that one successfully fired multiple rounds. Such printers are becoming more common and their price is falling. Some schools now have such printers and plans for the parts will soon be available on the Internet..

> {quote:title=Dargo2 wrote:}{quote} > "surreal" imaginings that there would EVER be an instances where the American culture would devolve into a Soviet form I stated that restrictions were a slippery slope and that the best examples of what could happen via slippery slopes could be found by studying the early Soviet machinations. I have looked at all of my posts in this thread and I could find no instance where I stated that United States would become another Soviet. I will apologize with all humility if my phrasing is so poor as to support such an allusion. I have been tested and evaluated many times and in many ways for employment, licensing and education. None of them revealed an axis of paranoia. The most recent has shown that I am more pragmatic and more skeptical than is average for students of this area. I believe that is likely because of the environment of my youth. That assumption is supported by my profile corresponding in most ways with the average for people who were children during the Great Depression. > especially my contention that shooting guns is NOT a REAL sport I believe that the more than one-hundred-and-forty-six countries with officially recognized marksmanship teams, many International accords supporting and regulating sport marksmanship and simple common sense make such a statement "surreal" under the definition of: [səˈrɪəl] / adj / having the disorienting or hallucinatory quality of a dream or delusion; not arising from the real world; Personal issues are beginning to limit my forum activity. I hope you do not interpret any lack of response by me in the future as tacit acceptance of any statements.

> {quote:title=jamesjazzguitar wrote:}{quote} > ... but we must also remember the inverse of this mantra ... > For example, the debate on climate change and what percentage of the change is due to mankind or nature. How often do we hear that since nature releases CO2 gases there is no need for mankind to reduce or regulate how much CO2 gases we release. I believe that the inverse of that mantra is that there should be a ban on junk science. CO2's effect and the greenhouse gas theories are the result of assuming correlation is causation and a few seeing great profit in popularizing the misconception. To apply the same methods of extrapolation to aircraft design shows that a cheaper alternative to aluminum and jet fuel would be a balsa-wood craft four hundred feet long powered by rubber bands 30cm thick and 2 kilometers long. Examination of entrapped air shows that the CO2 levels millions of years ago were more than twelve times what they are today and that was during an ice age.

> {quote:title=ValentineXavier wrote:}{quote} > > {quote:title=SansFin wrote:}{quote} >> The average person finds it hard to resist the promise that they can live freely and easily if they merely depose a tyrant, exile members of a certain religion or rid their town of the newest and shiniest evil menace. > So, then, should we NOT depose the tyrant, or rid ourselves of the evil menace? To merely depose or rid is rarely effective in and of itself. There must be a competent plan to address the political, social, psychological and economic vacuum created. It is sad to say that it is the very nature of such preparations and considerations that they are quite complex and so the general populace is often content to allow such things to be left in the hands of those few who fed them the idea that the world would be better if it were not for that one thing.

I have learned that "square" was a compliment because it meant a person was fair and honest in their business. It later became an insult meaning a person who had no imagination or fun and it had connotations of being oppressive.

> {quote:title=Sepiatone wrote:}{quote} > But I also noticed that the show used a regular rotating roster of "ensemble" actors. One week's crook would be next week's victim, fellow cop, or witness. I know very little of Dragnet but I have watched a few episodes. I would not find it odd that the actors took on new roles. One of the theaters at home had twelve actors and the theater opposite it had eight actors. It could be that last week's Kseniya was this week's Ophelia and next month she would be Zinida. I know of one time that the actor whose appearance was distinctly Jewish was loaned by one theater to the other and their run of the play overlapped a new offering so that for a time he had to run across the street several times each night to appear in both.

I have always thought it odd that they never reuse the introductions. It seems to me that they could save money and do a small service by airing Mr. Osborne's introductions when time allows for movies airing during the day and late at night. Do such might reduce the amount of other interstitial material which they must acquire.

> {quote:title=Bildwasser wrote:}{quote} > This is the superficial, over-simplified, sky is falling mantra that's been in play for...well a very long time. I believe that people eagerly accept superficial and over-simplified answers because the world is so very complex that no person is able to properly weigh all of the correlative factors which affect human interaction and societal constructs. Frustration arising out of the alienation of their lifestyle by other generations, faiths or political parties and despair of their ever being able to realize their long-held dreams because of changes in economic or social structures lead people to cling to any plainly stated one-size-fits-all solution which is guaranteed to make their world a paradise. The average person finds it hard to resist the promise that they can live freely and easily if they merely depose a tyrant, exile members of a certain religion or rid their town of the newest and shiniest evil menace.

Perhaps it is the time to read: Corporeal remains: vulnerability, proximity and living-on after the end of the world Harrison, P. (2008) Environment and planning A., 40 (2). pp. 423-445. "The paper suggests that thinking through the nature of vulnerability could have a considerable effect on how we think about embodiment as well as on wider processes of subjectification, signification, and sociality. However, because of the persistence of a primary role being given to intentional or auto-affective action in the theorisation of embodiment across a number of theoretical perspectives, vulnerability remains largely unthought of within much current work on the body within Anglo-American social science." - P. Harrison

> {quote:title=Dargo2 wrote:}{quote} > no one...NOPE not a livin' soul here has challenged me on that. There are some statements which are so surreal that no response is possible.

Here is Anthony Hopkins in a role which I believe fits him very well: *Guilty Conscience* (1985): http://youtu.be/rN-TazHHkgE

> {quote:title=Bildwasser wrote:}{quote} > And if something is inevitable that makes it sound like a sure thing. I believe the word "inevitable" implies that the general frame of reference continues. It is inevitable that a person's skin with lose it elasticity, their eyesight will degrade and their mental functions will become compromised. Those things will not occur if they are skydiving and their parachute fails to open when they are twenty-two years of age.

> {quote:title=JackFavell wrote:}{quote} > All my best to Capuchin for a speedy and full recovery. I thank you for your concern. He will recover well as he has the best possible care despite his engaging in strenuous activity before he should and not eating all that he should. All may save their worry for him for the time when I consider him perfectly fit and well again because then I may kill him for what he did.