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Well, while "me" likes watching some of those old sitcoms, "me" has started noticing lately how little "The Donna Reed Show" and many of the later episodes of "My Three Sons"(just to name a few...and don't even get me started on that lame "Petticoat Junction") are actually funny and/or even interesting. (...yep, "me" didn't remember this from back when I first watched these shows as a kid)

Ya know finance, you might have a point here. AND, considering all the posts in this "ME-TV" thread that I've personally tried to make ABOUT "me", and just as it seems so many others have attempted to make it about "themselves"(and with the OP of this thread perhaps ESPECIALLY personifying this thought), well, maybe in THIS case the title of this thread might not only universally pertinent but ALSO maybe even legitimately conducive in this regard, huh?! LOL (...and the count goes on)

Lynn, once again I believe you're reading a few things into this that were never even hinted at, such as the idea that Ranse had some kind of an inkling that it wasn't just a lucky shot from his revolver that felled Valance. Remember the scene immediately after the shooting where Hallie is administering to Ranse's wounds, and when Tom sees by Hallie's face that it would be hopeless for him to think she was still his girl? And, THAT is when Tom says something to her AND Ranse that he was "sorry he didn't get there in time". And so, taking all this into account, AND the fact of the VERY believable expression of surprise on Ranse's face (thanks to Jimmy always being such a great naturalistic actor, of course) when Tom informs him at the statehood convention that he had actually shot Valance, THIS is the reason I still believe he didn't know Tom had actually done the deed any time earlier. AND, as I said a little earlier in this thing, for him to have told anyone else of this before Tom died years later would NOT have only been "inconvenient" for him, BUT also for Tom, as Tom COULD have been brought up on charges of murder. Yep, I really think that THIS is the reason Ranse never told anyone what had really happened...well, except maybe much later to Hallie, and thus THIS might be why Hallie still had such affection for Tom all those later years...because he was the man who had done the selfless act and saved her true love from dying on that dusty street that night.

Ummmm...I dunno. Wait! By maybe goin' the "AMC route"???

Eeh! Now that I think about this, is this REALLY such a big deal here??? (...I mean, the AIRLINES have been merging since the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978, and just look at how "wonderful" air travel is NOW, huh?!) LOL

Still MY favorite animated short of all time... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsSp4LK0tfA (...HANSAN CHOP!!!)

True, but as you said, "to some extent", as the primary catalyst for this would the events of Dec. 7, 1941, and when thereafter the predominate American mindset would be something along the lines of: "We're never going to get caught with our pants down ever again", and then precipitating our occasional overreach in such matters. (...this train of thought reminds me of what might now be considered the "anachronistic" little speech James Garner gives to Julie Andrews about "America never starting a war, and unlike you Europeans" in the film THE AMERICANIZATION OF EMILY)

BasilBruce, on 17 Jul 2014 - 11:09 AM, said: Yep, ya see?! Even the RUSKIES don't use those dumb superfluous 'u's!!! LOL

Excellent points, Mr.R. While in many ways it's your typical Hollywood whitewashing of history, I think the latter half of the 1944 biopic WILSON with Alexander Knox playing the 28th President presents this thought of yours in a decent enough manner. The scenes with Cedric Hardwicke as Senator Henry Cabot Lodge successfully blocking Wilson's desire for America to take more of an active role in international affairs after the end of WWI especially being pertinent to your observation here.

Yeah, amazingly it has. However, I'm just wonderin' about somethin' here. Ya see, with all the off-topic subjects that have popped up in this baby(with me as usual "contributing" more than my fair share of), I gotta wonder why the OP hasn't flipped-out about all this, and kinda like he does whenever any other of "his" threads go off in tangential ways??? (...oh...wait...THAT'S right...I think he goin' for some kinda "record" here, isn't he...never mind)

That's okay, General. We knew who you were talkin' about. (...and btw...the only thing that film reminds ME of is how badly overt archetypes serve in pressing one's overly simplistic personal world view)

Yeah...well...I'm tellin' ya RIGHT now, I'M drawin' the line when they replace Bob Osborne with that fat*** Karl Rove!!! LOL

Aaaah! Now THIS reminds me of a little ditty my father(a WWII vet who served in Patton's 3rd Armored Division) used to sometimes sing when the topic of "Texas" would come up in our household. Evidently Pop, the native Hoosier, learned the following fractured lyrics to the marching song "Mademoiselle from Armentieres" while drilling at one of his basic training locations, Ft. Hood TX. It went like this... Texas is a hell of a state, Parlez-vous Texas is a hell of a state, Parlez-vous Texas is a hell of a state, The a**hole of the 48 Rinky-Dinky, Parlez-vous (...yeah, you got it...THAT'S who I got this strange sense o' humor from...THAT guy!!!) LOL

Yeah, I hear this contributes mightily to having much purer precious bodily fluids. So keep up the good work, General. (...oh, AND of course, and as always, stay away from that fluoridated water!)

Eeh! I know the REAL reason you like little Christina, James! You like most ANY woman who's last name ends in a vowel, now doncha?! (...and I know EXACTLY how you feel !)

I know. I just couldn't resist, that's all...General, sir! (...btw...I gotta know...do you look ANYTHING like Sterling Hayden???)

I think TCM has a standing rule that ANY movie in which a character randomly fires off a Colt M16A1 equipped with a rocket launcher is automatically classified as a "War" movie, General Ripper sir. (...be the weapon being discharged in the jungles of Vietnam OR within the confines of a mansion located in southern Florida!)

HEY now, dark! Now how about leavin' poor ol' Kevin out o' this here?! (...and who is the ONLY actor I've ever found that usually bores me MORE than Glenn Ford)

I'll take De Niro's performance in THE UNTOUCHABLES over all of 'em.

Yes, but his motorcycle and sidecar would live on in the Mayberry Sheriff's Office Motor Pool for a while, anyway. (...btw...there's also a Pershing Square in downtown L.A.)

Yeah, ya know, maybe a little bit.

Eeh! I wooden put much stock in that old rumor if I were you, Rich.

So, basically what you're sayin' here MM is that THIS is the reason Ruskies, just like Germans, aren't noted for their comedy, RIGHT?!

I gotta ask... It is only me or does this here "Tabanga" creature look a lot like the talking trees that end up throwing their apples at Dorothy and her traveling companions? (...oh, and does this thing perhaps hail from "Tabanga Canyon", and if it does, then did it grow up on the Malibu Beach side or the San Fernando Valley side of it???)

Yeah, I thought you might be attempting to segue back on-topic here. This baby HAS gone far afield alright.