Dargo2

Okie-doke. And in the meantime and while we're waitin', how about a little Smokey Robinson music to pass the time here?

Would that be Lon Chaney Jr.'s dad?

Hmmmm...guess they couldn't get Frankenheimer's "Black Sunday", huh?! "Dern" IT! (...btw...my early line for Super Bowl XLVII is the Broncos by 4 1/2...because a 2nd year QB doesn't have the "right" to win it all...and probably won't)

LOL Well, I think I know most of 'em here anyway, Miles. 1- sorry don't know 2-Bill Murray 3-Jimmy Stewart 4-not sure 5-Red Skelton...I THINK 6-Judy Garland 7-Marcel Marceau 8-Dick Van Dyke 9-Larry Harmon 10-the STOOOOOOOOONES

Hi Miles. That happy couple down there(well, okay, for a short time anyway) is Linda Kaye Henning and Mike Minor of the sitcom "Petticoat Junction". And Yvonne would ultimately become Mike's Stepmother after marrying his father Don Fedderson.

OH! You mean little Rudy McGrudy? Nah, he never got any residuals for that movie, BUT because he was SO good at foretelling the IMMEDIATE future, for a short time made a name for himself as a clairvoyant in Barstow California. Word is he's now residing someplace near Fresno under an assumed name. (...don't know why)

I can't believe I don't know that one! Funny lines to be sure, but for some reason I'm envisioning the lines would have been a little more appropriate if reversed. (...so, when Johnny said that, did he say it as Groucho?...and which he often would whenever goin' a little risque)

Well, I admit I USED to. (...but once that there durma...errr..dirma...errr...that there SKIN doctor burned 'em all off with that there kawter...errr...catter...that there hot poker o' his, they're not a real big concern o' mine anymore, Mr.R!)

>No joke, I had a crush on him when I was little girl. LOL ( probably the schlemiel factor, always had a soft spot for the underdog) So then did the voice of Wally Cox always send you into ecstasy, TOO??? (...oh...wait...you didn't mean THE "Underdog" here, did ya...sorry, never mind...hey, they can't ALL be gems here, ya know!!!)

Oh, c'mon now, Sprocket, Give poor Bob a freakin' break here, will YA?! I mean, look at THIS way: This flick is set in Victorian England, RIGHT?! And so I say, IF those Brits over there always use that "superfluous letter 'u' " in all those words that really don't need 'em, then WHY isn't a good ol' American boy like Bob allowed to just OCCASIONALLY put a "superfluous letter 'H' " in a few words now and then, HUH?! (...I mean, "fair IS fair", ya know!)

Hey Tom, while I usually don't think there's THAT much a resemblance between the two, don't you also think Errol in this one still you posted below looks more than a little like Kirk Douglas?... (...weird, huh?!...or maybe I'M just weird, eh?!...and of course, and as usual, you're allowed to answer any and/or all of these questions!)

Sorry slayton, but I'm PRETTY sure that wasn't ALL of Bob's quote that first day on the job. Nope, IF I recall correctly, his very last sentence actually was: "Come join us, and see not only great films and stars from the past, but also films from recent years, featuring some of our newest and most watchable stars, though get set to especially enjoy watching Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint hanging by their fingertips off George Washington's face on a regular basis." (...ya see, THIS is what I've always liked about Bob...he's a man of his word)

Yeah...well...at least I think we can ALL agree here that without that crazy dude with the funny little mustache, we NEVER would have had the chance to watch Charlie here doin' THIS...

>The Guns of the South which is a realistic presentation of the Civil War except that in this version The South uses AK-47s to win the war. LOL Sorry Sans, I didn't mean to laugh here, but I found that "except(ion)" or yours in regard to the concept of Mr. Turtledove's book being "realistic" a major understatement. Ya see, I was all ready to read in the last clause of your sentence some more plausible "alternate history" American Civil War concept such as if, say, Lee wouldn't have won the battle of Gettysburg or something similar. Btw, this line of conversation reminds me of the 2004 British-made "mockumentary" titled, "C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America", and in which in typical Brit tongue-in-cheek fashion satirically supposes a modern world in which that war WAS won by The South. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0389828/

I don't know, but was that a white Chevy Bronco I saw pullin' away from the crime scene??? (...sorry...couldn't resist, Holden)

Very true. In most cases, a preposition must be placed before the word "whom" for it to be grammatically correct. (...though I STILL thought that Letterman joke was very funny...AND for "some" reason was immediately reminded of a particular TCM member around here whom..err..WHO goes by the name of a certain bicycle part which a chain is attached to...hmmmm, or should that be "a certain bicycle part to WHICH a chain is attached"???) LOL

BTW, this whole "correcting" thing I just mentioned has reminded me of one of Letterman's segments he had on his show the other night. One of the "Charts and Graphs" he had was titled "People who deserve a good beating", and when he revealed the pie chart it showed that 97% of those polled said, "People who correct the grammar of others"...and the other 3% polled said "Shouldn't that be 'People WHOM deserve a good beating?' " LOL

Thanks, Holden! (...yep, I've corrected many of person myself around here who somehow THINKS they hear "aboot" when in fact many a Canadian(though not ALL, mind you) ACTUALLY sound as if they're sayin' "aboat")

>I always found it strange that Walter Pidgeon often seemed to be a British resident (with nothing in the plot to suggest that he was from somewhere else) without a trace of a British accent. (...watch now as I rile-up our friends to the North here, finance... ) Yeah, and isn't it ALSO "aboat" the funniest thing ever that that host of "Jeopardy" doesn't have one of those funny Canadian accents either, "EH"?!!! LOL

My best friend's father who just passed away(errr...sorry MissW.."DIED" LOL) at age 90, was a Czech Holocaust survivor. (...and OY, the stories he could tell!)

LOL Glad to know your family made it over here, finance. (...'cause I can't and DON'T wanna imagine this TCM website without ya here, ol' buddy) Edited by: Dargo2 on Jan 19, 2014 2:24 PM

Unless I've missed it somehow, I would have thought after the thought of "the Jewish Exodus from Europe" just as that crazy dude with that funny little mustache seized power in Germany had been introduced into this discussion, that somebody would have then mentioned that IF this wouldn't have taken place, many of the great "Hollywood" directors such as Fritz Lang, Billy Wilder, Fred Zinnemann and Max Ophuls may not have ended up in Tinseltown plying their craft and elevating the art form in THAT location. (...but like I said, maybe I missed reading that somehow here)

>But it's like the old song says, "If Lubitsch doesn't have the accents he fancies, he fancies the accents he has." Or something like that. Yep, Andy. Great use of a quote here to express the thought of this thread, and maybe the best example of which might be the characters and their accents in his (Lubitsch's) "The Shop Around the Corner", supposedly set in the beautiful city of Budapest. (...'cause for the life o' me I could NEVER quite understand why that tall lanky young Gift Shop manager Alfred Kralik sounded like he was born and bred in Indiana, Pennsylvania, AND that delivery boy Pepi sounded as if he was just plucked from the streets of Brooklyn, NY?!!)

Hey finance, IF you're out there...I THINK we might've FINALLY come up with actual funny "NAZI joke" here!!! (...though of course this remains to be seen, and once the ratings come in)

>Television would have started earlier. What happened in the early 50's would have started right after 1939 after tv was introduced. Then would THIS mean that all these lousy "Reality Shows" we see today would've started YEARS before they DID??? (...well, I NEVER thought I'd hear myself say the following here, but..."THANK YOU, ADOLF!!!") LOL