SansFin
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> {quote:title=Bronxgirl48 wrote:}{quote}
> He can tackle me any time.
Does that mean you will receive his passes, welcome his rushing and not penalize him for being on your off-side?
I would like to continue but I am sorry to say that I know no other football terms and I do not know surely what those mean!
> I've analyzed your dream but not sure if you and Capuchin want to hear it, lol.
I had the dream when I was sleeping alone before I returned. I suspect it was caused by a person bringing bottles of rum from Cuba to our vodka tasting. I like to eat sweet breads and cakes when I am drinking rum.
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> {quote:title=Bronxgirl48 wrote:}{quote}
> I love that you include the English lyrics, because I've always wanted a good translation of this song. !
Do you know the lyrics for Kalinka?
Little snowberry, snowberry, snowberry of mine!
Little raspberry in the garden, my little raspberry!
Ah, under the pine, the green one,
Lay me down to sleep,
Rock-a-bye, baby, rock-a-bye, baby,
Lay me down to sleep.
Little snowberry, snowberry, snowberry of mine!
Little raspberry in the garden, my little raspberry!
Ah, little pine, little green one,
Don't rustle above me,
Rock-a-bye, baby, rock-a-bye, baby,
Don't rustle above me.
Little snowberry, snowberry, snowberry of mine!
Little raspberry in the garden, my little raspberry!
Ah, you beauty, pretty maiden,
Take a fancy to me,
Rock-a-bye, baby, rock-a-bye, baby,
Take a fancy to me.
Little snowberry, snowberry, snowberry of mine!
Little raspberry in the garden, my little raspberry!
Does it say much of us that we like our soldiers to sing of such things?
Here is one of my favorite songs with English subtitles:
It embodies the Cossack ethos of hard work, simple gardens and chasing women.
The last strange dream I had I was in a maze. The floor was chocolate and the walls were sponge cake. When I pushed on the walls they oozed jelly or creme. I was frantic to get out but I was afraid to try to eat my way out. It was more strange that I was not on a diet when I had the dream.
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As Kalinka has been posted it is only fair that Katyusha also be mentioned:
I am sorry to say I can not find a proper choir singing it with good audio.
Pears and apples blossomed on their branches.
River mist was spreading high and wide.
On the steep and lofty bank at morning
Katy came walking by the riverside.
Katy came walking, singing in the morning
Of a brave gray eagle of the steppes,
Of a man she'd come to call beloved
Of a man whose letters she had kept.
Darling song, song of a loving maiden,
Following the sun fly high and straight
Toward a soldier far out on the border
Bringing greetings from yours truly Katy.
Bid him then recall a simple woman,
Bid him hear her voice in every verse,
Bid him with his life guard mother Russia,
And his Katy shall guard their love with hers.
Pears and apples blossomed on their branches.
River mist was spreading high and wide.
On the steep and lofty bank at morning
Katy came walking by the riverside.
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I am sorry to say I could not participate out of concern for bandwidth.
I find at least ten movies each day which I consider classics which I feel others would benefit from watching. I acknowledge also that the movies I do not consider classic may truly be classic and it is my lack of knowledge of them that lets them escape my notice.
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> {quote:title=leobertucelli wrote:}{quote}
> Shame that Osborne doesn't read what we state on message boards. As stated before, I knew him when he was a columist and was not imprfessed at all. SSSSSSSSSSO, when will they throw out all those programers and buy new films???
I am sad to say that I believe it has come to the time for you to take drastic action. I have seen that your other sincere criticisms of the movie selections have been fully ignored by programmers and management.
I see no other option than that you begin a boycott of the channel by watching other channels when TCM is airing movies which you find inappropriate.
I know a boycott is an extreme measure but there seems to be no other recourse and you must teach them a lesson!
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I believe it is natural for people to want a protector who is effective even if it means that legal technicalities are not observed.
Would any reasonable person expect Superman to file for a search warrant each time before using his X-Ray vision? Could not the people he captured all file suit against him for use of excessive force? How much personal property did he destroy by bursting through walls or bending rifle barrels? We willingly excuse his actions because his intent is in line with our wishes for criminals to be removed from society.
*Gabriel Over the White House* feeds the natural desire for the preservation of a way of life which is comfortable and secure.
A dictatorship is most often the most efficient and effective form of government. It is desirable for many reasons IF the dictator's goals and vision mimic yours exactly.
Every normal person has a muted personal desire to be an absolute dictator. This is evidenced by the extent to which people say: "If +I+ were running things ... ". Movies based on such deeply-rooted instincts are generally popular.
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I hope to watch *Lady L* (1965) today! It is an odd little comedy which tweaks the nose of proper and ladylike behaviour.
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I had several moments of: "I should know who that is" when watching the episode of Hot Set on SyFy. It was not until the last stage where I could see him face-on and he was speaking continuously that I realized it was Ben Mankiewicz. I missed the first ten minutes of the episode so perhaps he introduced himself at the beginning.
I find his role odd. He is listed as the emcee but he did little until the sets were being presented and judged. The emcee of Face Off which is Hot Set's parent is much more active. The listing on imdb.com shows his role lower than half of the contestants.
I will say that I like very much the concept of the show. We see each stage of the creation of a set from script description to film clip. It will surely concentrate on science fiction and horror movies as Face Off does but the techniques, skill and work are surely the same for all manner of movies.
It was also interesting to see that there are stores where one can buy skeletons, foam corpses and dinosaur heads.
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Is it inappropriate here to mention the other smoking in movies?
I am thinking of that which was demonstrated in *Jewel Robbery* (1932). I remember that it was described as pleasant but I do not remember any statement as to health risks.
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I am concerned about the thread which was locked. I had decided to not post comments there and then a statement made me feel it deserved a response. I was not going to post because it is an old thing for authorities to call for public comment on a controversial issue. Their motive is not to process the responses but it is to take the names of all who feel strongly on the issue because those are the people who need to be watched.
I have also another concern. A forum I have visited for years is no more. There is only a page saying that it was hacked and the cost of creating a more secure site is far beyond the value of the forum to the company. A person who visited the forum regularly told me through a different channel that a poster who had been repeatedly banned had hacked the site and posted obscene comments under other poster's usernames. I would hate to see this forum disappear.
The hammer question revisited:
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Rain songs!
The song in *Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid*
The most classic:
Let us hope it does not come to this:
Canadian rain:
Russian rain:
Other rain songs:
Eurythmics:
Eddie Rabbitt:
Tim McGraw:
The Beatles:
Carpenters:
CCR:
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> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote}
> Where's your message boards loyalty? A number of people on these boards could do a good job, as long as they don't tell jokes instead of talking about the film being shown.
I believe there may be legal issues involved. The writers would have to sign real-world documents assigning the copyright to TCM. The user agreements which claim copyright ownership to all postings in a forum have been contested several times.
I know also that there is a trick to write things to be read aloud. It was often that I would write a report and some other person would have to rewrite the synopsis which would be read as a meeting because what I wrote was fine for reading but it did not flow well when spoken. There were times the synopsis would be rewritten because it was found that a different person would be speaking.
Perhaps a compromise using the knowledge here could be reached. The introductory script could be posted in advance and posters could comment on it. Any errors found could be fixed before airing. That may be very interesting. I am sure no disagreements could possibly arise in such discussions.
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> {quote:title=TikiSoo wrote:}{quote}
> I love Capuchin's "doomsday" line up. I think the day may have been chosen to coincide with the whole Mayan calendar "end of the world" date coming up Dec 20th-the 21st being "survivor day". Too bad no On The Beach, which is my personal favorite apocalyptic movie.
He sends his thanks for those kind words.
The 20th is the end of the cycle and many believe it will be a normal day. The 21st is the beginning of the end. That is why he put the survivors on the 22nd.
It is sad to say that *On The Beach* (1959) in nowhere on the schedule through December.
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> {quote:title=Sepiatone wrote:}{quote}
> Some day, some guy is going to look back to THIS decade, and wax nostalgically about how great it was.
Entropy dictates that things inevitably deteriorate. A person being born now will see this as the high point of that decline.
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> {quote:title=unclecharlie wrote:}{quote}
> Lou: I'm not gonna marry a pretty girl, I'm gonna marry a homely girl.
> Bud: Why's that, Lou?
> Lou: Well, a pretty girl's liable to run away.
> Bud: Well, a homely girl is just as apt to run away.
> Lou: Yeah, but who cares?
Flip Wilson had a routine wherein he recommended marrying an ugly girl because after you have had a few beers she will start looking pretty good.
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> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote}
> So if a guy is "pretty", a few well-placed intentional face slashes may be in order.
That does not affect bone structure or muscle shaping. I have seen men with facial scarring who I think are pretty.
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> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote}
> I think it's hilarious when they position these non-filter coffin nails as being "quite mild". What would constitute a strong cigarette? One where you get lung cancer after one drag?
I have had cigarettes which are similar to inhaling the flame of a butane torch. The method of curing determines to a great extent whether the smoke will be soothing or irritating. Additives are used with poorly cured tobacco to reduce the formation of chemicals which irritate mucous membranes.
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The 1970s were a grand time for me!
I was accepted by the military. That meant job security for life if I wished. I passed initial training quickly and they made me a provisional officer so I could instruct trainees because of my experience and proficiency with the SVD. In less than a year they sent me to University. That meant having two apartments: one near the depot and one near the University. I could get free vodka and cigarettes at the depot and share them with my friends at school. I dated professors, musicians and soldiers. I won a medal and an academic award.
In summers I became support for officers which meant travel all over the country. I saved half of what I needed to buy an automobile and I went to see if I could borrow the other half. They looked at what I was doing and they said I needed dependable transportation between University and depot and so they gave me a beautiful blue 407. Gasoline was free for me at the depot. I was the only person in my classes who had their own automobile. I received both military pay and student allowance and so I was making more money than my father's legitimate pay.
I could put on my uniform and stuff my hair up under my hat and go nearly any place I wished. I could dress as student and have my hair down and go any other place. My uncles and some cousins knew all the people who mattered to people like us and so I could go to any concert, movie or play I wished and I always knew which places might be visited by police that night. I wore American Levis, smoked Turkish cigarettes and ate Swiss chocolates.
I became an officer when I graduated and I was made an aide to an officer who did not need me. I researched things he might need to know and wrote reports no one ever read. I was often sent on training missions to act as officer to keep boys under control and to be present if medical staff needed me. I was in every country in the Union at least once. I was loaned also to be support to minor officials attending talks. I was in nearly every country in Europe at least once. I was dating officers, doctors and pilots.
I had generous pay from the military and I earned more by helping my uncles and cousins in their endeavors. I had a four room apartment and my own automobile. It was such that one night I might be at a formal dinner sitting next to an ambassador's aide and the next night eating pickles and cheese on the roof of a tram-driver's apartment building.
I married a wonderful and handsome pilot. His family had important connections and we had an active social life. I spent much time with painters, poets and musicians. I had to leave the military when I married but they gave me a post with a medical institution. I traveled to Switzerland and America several times for that work. The sore points for me were leaving Odessa and having to go only proper places and have only approved things.
The only bad things about the decade for me were my work making me fearful for our future, losing Capuchin, a surgery, some dental work, the loss of a fellow officer and the passing of the best and most lovable cat any girl ever had. That is not onerous when spread out over ten years.
If I had to chose any other decade in which to live it would have to be 1890s so I could be with my great-grandmother.
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I congratulate you greatly, LonesomePolecat! It is truly impressive that you were the genius behind a month's theme! I have not heard of any person coming close to such an achievement! A single day or a tribute is all I have heard prior to this.
I may have been the prompt behind a single evening of programming. I had a day of movies set in Camelot and *Camelot* (1967) as a premiere. They had that movie as the first in the evening and they used mostly movies I had chosen for that day to fill the evening..
It is sad to say that Capuchin has had a clear example of part of a day. He choose in TCM Programming Challenge # 21:
7:15AM The Last Man On Earth (1964)
8:45AM On the Beach (1959)
11:00AM Five (1951)
12:45PM Panic in Year Zero (1962)
2:30PM The Bed Sitting Room (1969)
4:00PM The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1959)
It is in the tentative schedule for December:
10:30AM Last Man on Earth (1964)
12:00PM The Bed Sitting Room (1969)
2:00PM Five (1951)
4:00PM Panic in Year Zero (1962)
6:00PM The World, The Flesh, and The Devil (1959)
They deleted his second movie and moved the fifth into its place. The major difference is that they will air on December 21 and he had scheduled them for December 22. The probably reason for that change is that December 22 is a Saturday which requires a different style of programming.
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> {quote:title=ValentineXavier wrote:}{quote}
>> {quote:title=SansFin wrote:}{quote}
>> nicotine nearly never causes addiction unless it is in the presence of alkaloids which are not present to a great degree in most strains of tobacco.
> I'm rather skeptical of the bolded statement above. Nicotine is an alkaloid, and is often cited as being more addictive than heroin.
It became legend that nicotine is addictive because it was considered the most active chemical in tobacco. All testing and studies were done with tobacco and most often with processed tobacco containing additives. All observed effects were attributed to nicotine solely.
It is very much like spinach being claimed for decades to be high in a certain mineral because one researcher misplaced a decimal point and all others after that time accepted it and did not test it independently.
It is very recently only that any study has used nicotine alone. It is sad to say I can not provide a link because that study is behind a pay wall.
The work was by Professor Jean-Pol Tassin. A pre-publication synopsis is:
"Paris, 23 January 2009
Smoking cessation: how effective substitutes for nicotine?
Nicotine is generally regarded as the main component responsible for the addictive properties of tobacco. Yet, a research team from the CNRS and the College de France directed by Jean Pol Tassin, director of research at Inserm has proven that nicotine alone is not enough to trigger a state of dependency among smokers. Other compounds in tobacco are needed to reveal the addictive power. This discovery also explains why nicotine substitutes used in smoking cessation are ineffective in the long term."
Another statement made is:
"To try to understand why smoking has, however, a very strong addictive potential, researchers are interested in other compounds. In this new work, scientists demonstrated that the combination of nicotine with other products in tobacco, monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs), which leads to this decoupling. Specifically, they show that MAOIs can be addictive properties of nicotine because they nullify the action of natural protection that serotonergic neurons have vis-?-vis the nicotine: the serotonin receptor 5-HT1A ."
An earlier study showed that other chemicals heightened addiction potential.
"Role of acetaldehyde in tobacco smoke addiction.
Talhout R, Opperhuizen A, van Amsterdam JG.
Laboratory for Toxicology, Pathology and Genetics, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment
Abstract
This review evaluates the presumed contribution of acetaldehyde to tobacco smoke addiction. In rodents, acetaldehyde induces reinforcing effects, and acts in concert with nicotine."
"Harman and salsolinol inhibit monoamine oxidase (MAO), and some MAO-inhibitors are known to increase nicotine self-administration and maintain behavioural sensitization to nicotine."
"Thus, acetaldehyde may increase the addictive potential of tobacco products via the formation of acetaldehyde-biogenic amine adducts in cigarette smoke"
It is reported that up to 80% of people who attempt to quit smoking by the use of a nicotine patch or other administration of nicotine fail. It is clear from this that nicotine alone is not the most important part of the addiction.
Part of my training included time in oncology wards. It was always confusing to me that a patient would be blamed by the doctors because their smoking caused their cancer and yet there were patients with identical cancers who were from villages where tobacco was nearly never in evidence and who had never themselves smoked or lived with a smoker.
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This is another person who wishes to fly away:
This is alternate view of some person leaving:
This is a person flying in a different way:
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> {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:}{quote}
> Here's The Clash, wondering Should I Stay or Should I Go?:
That is a great song.
Here is one for when they decide:
Here is the "just wash my sheets before you leave" song:
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I am not attracted to pretty men. I should be the one in the relationship who is drop-dead gorgeous. When a man is pretty and charming and sweet I must wonder if he has a boyfriend.
I like very much that a man's face says: 'I know of life'. It should be also a warning sign which says: 'Little girls who play games can have their fingers burnt and their hearts broken'.
Faces which speak to me this way are:
Steve McQueen
Toshiro Mifune
Sean Connery
Vyacheslav Dobrynin
Here is a less serious look at young Sean Connery:
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> {quote:title=TikiSoo wrote:}{quote}
> Uh oh, I hope this does not begin a board argument....
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Bring it on, baby!
>> I see little benefit to changing the source of the introductory scripts from TCM's lackeys to Leonard Maltin's lackeys.
> I suggested Leonard Maltin and/or the president of my film group. NOT a staff that works for them on publishing movie guides.
I am sorry to say that I am so jaded that I believe such a job would quickly be handed down to Maltin's subordinates. I have seen it in patient care. A doctor will become respected in his specialty. His patient list will grow so much he has to hire doctors to assist him. Soon he sees patients only on their first visit or when there is a unique problem. Then he only consults on difficult cases. Then he is only a manager and does not see any patient.
I believe movie reviewers such as Leonard Maltin are more likely to assign routine tasks to others as they do not have the constraints of their oaths and the legal and moral responsibilities as a doctor.
I believe also that such lack of faith in people is both justified and normal. It took me many years to come to an attitude which has now become acquired very quickly:
http://www.theonion.com/articles/newborn-loses-faith-in-humanity-after-record-6-day,29588/?ref=auto
> OTOH the President of our film group (or any real knowledgeable film historian) would most likely be less expensive to hire and not perpetuate common mistakes.
Your President may be an excellent choice. I do not know how you could present the issue to him and to TCM for consideration.
Edited by: SansFin on Sep 17, 2012 6:09 PM
BRONXGIRL'S MOTHER, HENRY FONDA'S HIRSUTENESS, ETC.
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> {quote:title=Bronxgirl48 wrote:}{quote}
> Aww, so many Russian songs allude to berries!
It is common to send a young girl to gather them, and every girl needs a big, strong man to protect her in the woods and berries do not ripen in predictable amounts so no one is surprised when they return with few berries after many hours alone in the woods.
Is that not a good reason to sing?
I must close for now. Doctor Who is starting in a few minutes. I have not seen all of last week's episode which they replay before the new episode. Capuchin was not impressed with last week's episode but the clips of tonight's new episode looked very good.