Dargo2

>Dow at record high? When can I buy in Oahu? Well, just sell some of your shares of those Blue Chip stocks you've been holding and then contact one of those realtors you see on that HGTV program titled "Hawaii Life", and as fast as you can say "Aloha", your dream will come to fruition. (...just don't tell me that you decided to quit the Market forever when the Dow was down to under 6,000 during W's final year in office, 'cause only a FOOL would've done THAT!!!!) LOL

Ya know Fred, that's actually an interesting proposition to ponder, isn't it?! Yep, I think I'd go with stayin' in the good ol' U.S. of A. with the beautiful Miss Wyatt, too. And NOT just 'cause we have Rock n' Roll, but 'cause I hear there aren't any cool cars and motorcycles there in Shangri La EITHER! (...Gearhead here, remember?!)

>Dargo wrote: . . Though I'm not TOTALLY sure about this, you understand. >I think the Lost Horizon--Lost Ending included Kitten and Bud vying for the High Lama post, and Fronk is now tending the grounds. LOL Well, if you remember "Fronk" in "Father Knows Best", Char, then I know you were as big a fan of the show as I was. Ya know it's kind of interesting that it's become somewhat fashionable by some to label that program as a "fantasy" and "an idealized image of 1950's American fathers", but I've always been of the mind that this is unfair, because I can recall more than once Robert Young portraying his Jim Anderson character as being "less than perfect" and much more "real" by showing his flaws than the naysayers believe. (...at least I know my own father was very much like Jim Anderson was portrayed, anyway)

If by that you meant that I always try to hit the corners and NEVER throw a fat one right down the middle UNLESS I know a particular batter never swings at the first pitch...then YEAH!!! (...though I had NO idea that that was a common practice among all of my fellow agnostics)

Wow! Six hours, huh?! Well, I HAVE heard that the cost-overrun for this film caused quite a riff between Capra and Harry Cohn at Columbia, and that it took many years for its costs to be recouped.

Eeh! Sorry Fred, but I think that guy is a little confused here. Uh huh, 'cause I'm PRETTY sure that footage of Jane is actually one of the outtakes of the "Father Knows Best" episode titled, "Our Cousins the Sherpas are in Town", and that this was an "outtake" because Jane kept calling out the name "Bob" while forgetting to call Robert Young by this character's name of "Jim" as he returned home from that insurance office where he worked. Though I'm not TOTALLY sure about this, you understand. (...btw...interesting find here, Fred...thanks for posting it...I love that movie)

Yeah, but it still ALWAYS all boils down to the fact that Atheists are as much "Believers" in their philosophy as are the Religious, as both of these philosophies can never be proven to be "The Truth" while one breathes in the life-sustaining mixture of 78% Nitrogen, 21% Oxygen and the remaining 1% of trace inert gasses and water vapor. And THUS why we AGNOSTICS of the world are the ONLY ones who REALLY have our "heads on straight", REGARDLESS of how "smart" people like Hitchens, Harris, or for THAT matter Pope Francis, Billy Graham OR any ol' Ayatollah ya might wanna bring into a conversation here might ATTEMPT to come across as being!!! (...any other questions here, folks?...I'm always more than willing to help people "see the light", ya know!!!) ROFL

>I got a kick of the Wonkette's headline about Glenda literally ripping into Thatcher's mouldering corpse. I doubt even the most severe critic of Maggie would want to see that. Yep Mr.Froy, I see I wasn't the only one who noticed the misapplication of the word literally there instead of the correct word of figuratively. (...btw...my guess is that the "Wonkette" is a college graduate of approximately 28 years young, because I hear and read this sort of "English" used by SO many of our youth of today, and even those who otherwise could be considered "well educated") Edited by: Dargo2 on Apr 11, 2013 4:04 PM

Sorry, but I just can't help interjecting the following... > Last time I heard the u.s, economy wasn't doing are that great. DUDE! What the heck are you talkin' about here? Just yesterday the Dow closed at ALMOST 15,000 ! And so, AT LEAST the U.S. Economy was been doin' pretty darn well recently for Corporate America, wouldn't ya say? You remember "Corporate America" don't ya?! Uh huh, those are the folks who's interests that our supposedly "socialistic"(no WAIT, I've even heard the term "communistic" MIS-applied) current President was going to "take over and nationalize" if he ever got his foot in the White House door! Well, at least I've heard THAT sorta you-know-what since before the first time he was elected ANYWAY. So, are you gonna deny THAT? (...OH, and one OTHER thing here...for a couple years now I've had a running bet of 100 bucks going on with my financial adviser at Merrill Lynch that the Dow would never reach 20,000...and from the looks of it lately, it sure as heck looks like HE'S going to win THAT bet!!!!) Edited by: Dargo2 on Apr 11, 2013 3:22 PM

>I never really wanted to see a photo of Costello that way. First: WHO would you rather see that way then? Second: WHAT makes you say that? And don't ask me why I'm asking this, 'cause I don't know! (...THIRD BASE!!!)

Bert Wheeler, Dorothy Lee, and Robert Woolsey in "The Rainmakers".

>It seems I had mistakenly thought the British had CLASS. Now ya see Sepia, that's a VERY common misconception that MANY Americans have. (...and of course THAT all stems from the misconception that placing that British superfluous letter "u" in words that really don't need them is somehow "classy"!)

LOL Don't look now Sepia, but the ghost of Donald O'Connor was standing behind you and making mocking faces as you recited that!!!

Oh...yeah...I forgot to mention that, didn't I. Sorry. That was Billy's first choice as an alternate title. (...but it had already been used previously as an alternate title for one of the "Thin Man" films, and so once that was brought to Billy's attention, he quickly shortened it to just "HI")

>LONHKIRBYTX007 wrote:I was wondering when was TCM going to show 12 oclock HI made in 1945. it stars gregory peck.? >TWELVE O'CLOCK HIGH was released in 1949, not 1945. Ahem...excuse me here Sprocket ol' buddy, but you're ALSO just a little off in your correction. Ya see, I'm pretty sure our new friend here wasn't talking about that 1949 WWII themed movie "Twelve O'Clock High", BUT was in fact inquiring about the 1945 movie, "12 oclock HI", which as you may know was Billy Wilder's ALTERNATE title for his film, "The Lost Weekend". Uh huh, ya see, because Ray Milland(not of course Gregory Peck...that's the OP's only mistake here) was always either trying to OR was already drunk by noon in this baby, that's why Billy actually preferred that title to the one we're accustomed to today. (...now aren't you glad I'm also around to clear up these little misunderstandings?!) Edited by: Dargo2 on Apr 10, 2013 9:07 AM

> I was about 10 when I thought he was great on Wanted: Dead or Alive and even had a toy gun modeled after the one he used in the series. Yep Gorch, I had that very same "Mare's Laig" toy gun as a kid back then, too. (...hmmmm...I wonder what that little bit of Boomer memorabilia would go for now days?)

Thanks for the link here, Dothery. Yep, after watching and listening to him sing the National Anthem and God Bless America, I gotta say Richard has a great voice, alright! (...and thankfully didn't resort to all that coloratura nonsense in order to "prove" what a great voice he has, which unfortunately seems the norm now days with people asked to sing these songs at sporting events)

Yep, I occasionally hear I resemble James Coburn. In fact, it happened just a couple weeks ago again after I parked my motorcycle in front of an Ace Hardware store and removed my helmet, and a guy walked up to admire my Triumph.

VX, according to Bob Osborne after a recent showing of this film(and after this movie finally "clicked" with me after all these years for some reason), the ending according to director Mike Nichols was supposed to represent that while certain social values may change from generation to generation, people will always tend to make the same mistakes in life as their parents had before them. (...which makes sense to me, anyway)

Yeah Char, and don't forget Conrad Veidt, another one in that scene who was persecuted by the Nazis in real life, had to hold all those tears inside.

> (Well, I have a problem with the pointless zooms that started to show up sometime in the 1960s, but that's a different story.) Yep, don't blame us American Boomers for that, kid! Nope, you can "thank" Sergio Leone for all THAT, dude! (...ah, AH, ah, AH, ah...wah, WAH, wah!)

>I met a friend of a friend..of a friend of a friend....of a friend of a friend of a friend.....who knew a friend who said he knew a guy that looked like ZaSu Pitts. Wow! Ya know that reminds me...I once knew a woman who over time separated from her husband six times before they finally worked it out. (...though I always thought it was just a coincidence that her husband looked just like Kevin Bacon)

>I dunno, Fedya. Georgie had his assets. LOL Just couldn't help slippin' that one in here, eh dp?! (...just pray Leo doesn't see this though!)

Yeah, a little I guess. Saaay, maybe the Funicellos and the Franconeros(Connie's real last name) come from the same region of Italy, eh?!

Sorry.."Puppy", I didn't mean to put words into your mouth here. LOL (...I of course was speakin' for many of us "Boomers" around here)