Dargo2

Naaaah, even BETTER would be to say the old line..."Yep, and wherever I'll go, there I'll BE!"

While I fully realize that we wouldn't have a movie IF Fontaine wasn't the meek and timid sort, what I wouldn't give to see her...FIRST, tell that old nasty biddy she was hired to travel with to, "Go %#$&! off" after said nasty biddy is told that she and Max are going to get married...and SECONDLY, once she meets her housekeeper to tell HER somethin' like, "Why the long face here, lady? C'mon, lemme see ya smile! C'mon, I KNOW you can do it if ya just give it a SHOT!" (...yep, what I wouldn't give to see THAT!) LOL

Have to say I unfortunately missed the showing of "Quicksand" here Fred, but in the recent showing of "Detective Story", you may recall the kid who embezzles the money from his boss and who the intolerant Kirk Douglas character refuses to give a break, was prompted to his crime by such a situation as this.

What Rich? And no mention of Sheb's big '50's Rock and Roll novelty hit about that creature from another planet who developed a taste for humans here???

Wow Lavender. It sounds as if you might think Nevada Smith is one of the most underrated and under-appreciated Westerns ever made too, eh?! So many great characters fleshed out by some great actors in that one. (...love the ending especially...it's nothin' like any other Western I can recall offhand)

>Our DWIGHT is a ..'****', B-) ...... unlike the one in the pic you posted Okay Twink. Haven't I told ya already that I just CAN'T afford to keep sending you anymore of those checks in order for ya to keep sayin' all these nice things about me around here???!!! (...remember, I'm retired and livin' on a fixed income now!)

Unless of course, it would be a British movie were talkin' about here, and THEN "rubbish" would be a LITTLE more watchable than "refuse" would be. (...btw...anyone else around here think "The Carpetbaggers" might be as much of one of these "guilty pleasures" as the "The Oscar" is?...'cause I SURE think so, anyway!)

Oh, and yes John. The producers of "The Office" WOULD have to pick the name of "Dwight" for that jerk of a character Rainn Wilson played there, WOULDN'T they! HHRMPH!!!! LOL

>The bartender at the WTC was probably not a native New Yorker. Talk about the "have a nice day" crowd -- our relatively new Trader Joe's on the Upper West Side is full of them, probably none of them natives. I just returned from there. Kept earplugs in the whole time, listening to music. There's a song from Wonderful Town which describes the guy who comes to NY thinking he's going to make it big as an artist. Punchline is "Now he paints those toothpaste ads on the bus!" Those disillusioned types are the cranky ones, not the natives. My least favorite New York song is "Start spreading the news...," the anthem of the egomaniac who wants to come to NY and make it big. OK, that was a rant. Yep, ya might be right there, Swithin. Ya see, bein' that native Angeleno I mentioned earlier in this baby, I know I can at least confirm that more than few of the people I've met who came to L.A. in hopes to be "discovered" and the next big "Movie Star", once they ended up "pumping gas and parking cars"(as ANOTHER old song sung by Dionne Warwick goes) sure seemed to be a lot more disheartened and sullen than us native folks out there were! (...yep...that would be the west coast version of your story there, alright!)

Wow MissW! Gotta say I'm surprised YOU'RE surprised about this whole thing Swithin was tellin' us about here! I mean...where EXACTLY was the World Trade Center LOCATED anyway, HUH?! That's right...NEW YORK CITY!!!! **** (...sorry Lavender, I just couldn't resist goin' there YET again!)

>I'm confused by your answer. You said neither of those, but I did get one right? So is one of the names I mentioned -- or a version of it -- your name? Or maybe you are referring to Reagan's daughters, perhaps your name is Maureen, or Patti. Btw, I assume Dargo's name is Dargo. I'm pretty sure I've mentioned before around here that my given name is "Dwight"...as in Dwight Argo(yep, the last name coincidentally being the same as Ben Afflect's Oscar winning Best Picture of this year...AND of course because of that. I've heard the old Knock-Knock joke: "Knock knock...How's there..Argo...Argo who?...Argo %%#*&* yourself" MANY a time in my life!!! LOL Oh, and I'm pretty sure the reason I've mentioned this before around here that my first name is "Dwight" was to relay to you folks how I will often tell people that they can remember my first name is to just think of one "Dwight Eisenhower"...to which I always must add the qualifier now days to this that I must first take into account the approximate age of the people I'm telling that to, as I noticed in that last 20 years or so there's a FAR less chance of anybody under the age of 30 even knowing WHO President Eisenhower EVEN WAS!!! (...and to which IF I get that deer-in-the-headlights look from some kid after I tell that to 'em that, I'll THEN very often ask the kid, "So what the heck DO they teach you kids in school today ANYWAY, HUH?! 'Cause evidently it sure isn't HISTORY!".."rude" MAYBE, but it seems oh so true, wouldn't ya SAY?!) LOL

Yeah, "of course" out there in La La Land and where I grew up, we never had any bullies or gang members. (...uh huh...suuuure...why, it was a veritable "PARADISE" out that way, as maybe you've heard!) LOL

Now don't get me wrong here, Smithin my friend. I ALSO like the name, myself. In FACT, can you think of a BETTER name for an "Angel, Second Class"? Well, I suppose first class now that he has his wings and all. (...maybe the reason I first thought of that name was because I once worked with a guy at LAX who had that name and absolutely hated it, and so he always simply went by the name of his first initial of "C"...NOBODY better call him "Clarence" unless they wanted to get "that look" of his)

Ya know Joe, I like it...I LIKE it! Yeah, now THAT would've been PERFECT casting for a musical version of this baby! (...yep, it's too bad nobody ever thought about that before, as I would've paid to see somethin' like THAT!)

Btw Lavender...Aren't YOU just a little interested in what finance's given name IS?! 'Cause the more I think about this, the more I just GOTTA know! (...I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say it's somethin' like "Clarence" or somethin'...though maybe I shouldn't continue on with this line here, as I suppose it COULD be misconstrued as bein' "rude", huh)

>We all have free will to behave anyway we choose. If someone is rude or polite, they take that learned behavior with them, no matter where they llive. Truer words were never spoken...err...I guess in THIS case, never typed out on a keyboard. (...but ya HAVE to admit...err...never mind) LOL

Sorry you took my little joke based admittedly on the stereotypical here in the wrong way..."know what'm talkin' 'bout here" ? Yep, I saw your response about my earlier "hold the freakin' door pet peeve" about women(primarily, to HAVE to admit...though yeah, I suppose that TOO is based on the "stereotypical", isn't it), and am glad to hear that at LEAST you're not one of 'em! And so, pardon me here for being presumptuous, but I'm gettin' the feeling that THAT was REALLY the issue that at first got ya "a little" upset with me here, and thus when I then went on to say that thing about "Big East Coast City" denizens, you jumped to defend the honor of ALL those forks livin' back there, didn't ya?! (...btw, some of my very favorite people in the world are the "honest and forthright" folks who either live or are from those "big east coast cities", 'cause at LEAST they're not a bunch of big PHONIES like a lot of folks out there in CALIFORNIA and where I hailed from...feel better now?) LOL

>Actually, Dargo, you bring up a really good point... I'm from New York (not NYC), and whenever I hear these "How's your day goin'?" or even, "Any big plans this weekend?" lines from a stranger/clerk that sounds overly familiar and contrived, my radar goes up and I think, "You're so full of.... (fill in the blank)." Well,ya KNOW Eugenia, I "wasn't exactly" referring to how Kristen Wiig in those SNL skits where she's the "Tear-get" check-out lady is acting here... **** here

>Here's another one that I've noticed in recent years. In supermarkets, the checkers are instructed to try to be REALLY friendly to every person that goes through the line. So I am constantly barraged with such inane questions as "Did you find everything you were looking for"? (even if I am buying one item) and "How's your day going so far?". They even pick the first name off my credit card and call me by that name. (NOBODY calls me by that name.). I find this stuff to be really annoying. Anyone agree? Nope, sorry finance, but I don't agree, and I'm gettin' the impression that your "Big East Coast City" mentality, you know, the kind that looks at us "laid back" Californians and says stuff like, "Have a nice day?" What business of it is YOURS if I have a 'nice day' or not, HUH?! Mind your OWN freakin' business here! Know what'm talkin' 'bout here?!" mentality is showing here, duuuuuuude! ! LOL Uh huh, 'cause whenever those check-out folks at the supermarket ask ME that question, I just say somethin' like, "Yep, I sure did, THANKS!" Btw, you've NOW also peaked my interest about your given name and would LOVE to know what it is and why you seem so dissatisfied with it! (...aah, but maybe in THIS case it MIGHT NOT be "any of my business", EH?!) LOL

LOL Good one, Twink!

Okay folks! There's no need at all to contemplate this question ANY more, 'cause I THINK I've got the perfect answer to this question...and it came to me after I watched "TO SIR, WITH LOVE" tonight on TCM for the first time in probably 20 years. Uh huh...you guessed it, folks! The perfect "Superman" would have been SIDNEY POITIER!!! I mean the guy was PERPECT!!! I mean THINK about it! As the old folks used to say..."A credit to his race"...check. A credit to the HUMAN race...check. And THUS, the guy would be a credit to the freakin' KRYPTONIAN race for THAT matter, RIGHT???!!! (...and so I rest my case here)

WAIT now, crazyblonde, and PLEASE don't think I followin' ya around at this here website in order to pick you apart or your opinions, BUT....sandy-haired, NOT particularly physically imposing STEVE McQUEEN as SUPERMAN???!!! Now, I'm not sayin' you're wrong about the possibility of McQueen(WHO btw I think WAS a VERY good actor, AND because he had great taste in motorcycles and cars,..I'm a Gearhead TOO here ya see...though I digress) might've been considered to play the part and/or even possibly ASKED to play the part...BUT...sorry, "The King of Cool" JUST doesn't remotely look ANYTHING like that superhero did in the comics...NADA...nope...not one BIT! And so, whoever it was casting that Richard Donner flick back in the day...well..I'm sure glad Donner didn't listen to him and cast the MUCH more appropriately cast Christopher Reeve instead! (...and regardless if Steve only had a couple more years to live because of his contracting Mesothelioma or NOT!)

Well Helen, as long as I've been around here, you HAVE always struck me as the courteous sort...though a little on the "traditional" side, maybe!. And so, I suppose I can AT LEAST appreciate the idea that you AT LEAST hold those doors a jar for the next guy comin' up behind ya anyway, and aren't, as I mentioned down there, one of those "ladies" that just "blithely" go through 'em. (...and so just think of me as more the "Modern Man" type here...or say, maybe even a "FEMINIST"!...though my wife would probably tell ya I'd be stretchin' the truth a bit about callin' myself THAT!!!) LOL

I'm glad to see you took in stride my little ribbing about the idea that somehow "sounding like a NYC "street 'tough' automatically imbues some kinda "REAL toughness" or "masculinity" in a guy. though, your thought also reminds me of the very funny rebuttal to an apparently commonly held misconception that many of us Yanks seem to hold(and all over this big ol' country of ours, NOT just you New YAWKERS back there) And THAT rebuttal would be: "Nah, he's not gay! He's just BRITISH!" LOL Oh, and secondly, remember, Basil's sword would have been a heck of a lot longer than any guy's arms would have been. (...ESPECIALLY the "diminutive" Mr. CAGNEY'S!!!) LOL again

Btw crazyblonde, in MY opinion, the ONLY guy other than Flynn who might've fit the role of Robin Hood in 1938 would have been Doug Jr. (...as in Douglas Fairbanks Jr., that is... unless you might think HE was just "too feminine" TOO, of course...though I suppose he COULD have always affected some kinda NYC accent to make him seem a little more "masculine", huh?!) LOL (...sorry, couldn't resist that one...though MAYBE I shouldn't have apologized here, 'cause ya know what another "highly masculine" dude once said in "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" don't ya?!...uh huh, "Never apologize! It's a sign of weakness!") ...and now I'm **** here. Edited by: Dargo2 on Jun 25, 2013 7:09 PM