scsu1975
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5 minutes ago, calvinnme said:
So the new improved login seems to be no challenge for the Korean spammer.
Apparently "What is 5 + 3" is too simple. I suggest that new members be forced to provide a counterexample to the Riemann hypothesis.
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The Spam Who Came To Dinner
No synopsis necessary.
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On 7/27/2018 at 7:27 AM, TikiSoo said:
I watched two movies in succession....and boy were they a contrast!
First I watched 2016's HIDDEN FIGURES, the story of the group of black women who calculated all the mathematical figures for NASA's (I believe actually NACA) Mercury project, in Hampton VA. It was not explained why this particular division consisted of only women, but apparently, this is how it was. The story centers around three women -all brilliant- who carpool to work together facing sexism AND racism in the south of the early 60's. Don't worry if you don't understand their calculations...(no one does) it's just dramatic effect as they calculate in chalk on a blackboard in scenes.
You mean you never studied the Gram-Schmidt orthogonalization process when you took Linear Algebra?
I saw this film when it first came out (being a mathematician, I was naturally interested). I was surprised (and a bit disappointed) that the audience was predominantly white. I would have assumed that a film with such strong black women would have attracted a more diverse crowd ... but maybe the showing I attended was a fluke.
If you are interested in a similar theme, I'd recommend the documentary Top Secret Rosies, about women mathematicians working for the war effort during the 1940s.
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5 minutes ago, sewhite2000 said:
Was it moved to Off Topic? I haven't been able to find it in General Discussions.
Try going back one page.
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The post is still here:
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In an interview, Ken Norton said "Susan George seduces me. At first it's really hip, but after you get seduced 12 hours a day two days straight, it's kinda hard to like it."
Yes, I'm sure it was hard.
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1 hour ago, cigarjoe said:
again, somebody's is asleep at the switch.....
There is no switch. That's the problem.
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4 hours ago, LawrenceA said:
Casanova's Big Night (1954) - Silly but amusing Technicolor comedy from Paramount Pictures and director Norman Z. McLeod. In 18th century Italy, tailor's apprentice Pippo Popolino (Bob Hope) decides to impersonate notorious lover and swordsman Casanova (Vincent Price) in order to get some action. Things don't work out, but when Casanova skips town to avoid his debtors, Pippo agrees to a dubious scheme cooked up by Casanova's creditors to have Pippo masquerade as Casanova in Venice, where he will filch a valuable item that will pay off all of Casanova's debts. Pippo is accompanied by grocer Francesca (Joan Fontaine) and Casanova's valet Lucio (Basil Rathbone), and once in Venice, Pippo falls for the lovely Donna Elena (Audrey Dalton). Also featuring Hugh Marlowe, Arnold Moss, John Carradine, Raymond Burr, Hope Emerson, John Hoyt, Robert Hutton, Frieda Inescort, Primo Carnera, Frank Puglia, Henry Brandon, Paul Cavanagh, Natalie Schafer, Douglas Fowley, Nestor Paiva, Lucien Littlefield, John Doucette, Fritz Feld, Kathryn Grant, and Lon Chaney Jr.
This handsomely produced period piece has sumptuous costumes and nice sets. It's silly and uneven, like many of Hope's movies, but I laughed quite a bit, and I loved the great supporting cast. Fontaine seems like she's having fun playing in something unlike most her films, and Rathbone gets a few good scenes, as well. I liked seeing Price as Casanova in what I thought was a fun little uncredited cameo, but I learned after watching this that he was originally to be credited, only for Paramount to remove his name after he was called before the HUAC boys. (7/10)
The ending is pretty funny. I also liked the scene of Hope (disguised as a foreign woman) dancing with Moss. Moss hurls every insult at him/her he can think of, and Hope responds with gibberish like "farfer farfer piffik."
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21 minutes ago, jimmymac21 said:
This is all I get in edit profile.
Hmm... in my settings, the "member title" is just above the birthday field. Yours is missing. Maybe things changed when the boards were updated last. I also have enabled my status updates (just below birthday field). Not sure if that makes a difference, but you can try that to see if the field appears. Anyone else have any ideas?
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2 minutes ago, jimmymac71 said:
Maybe something is different now. I cannot find a place to change the Rank comment area.
Account settings/edit profile/member title. If yours says "Advanced Member" there (or is blank), type in a new quote and save it.
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19 minutes ago, jimmymac71 said:
Only takes a hand full of posts to graduate from rookie. As you know, that goes away if you put a cute quote in its place.
I don't know where in my profile to put a comment to replace 'advanced member.'
By the way, my crack about "advanced member" status was intended for the spammers. Since all these threads got merged, I can understand the confusion about whom/what I was referring to.
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14 minutes ago, jimmymac71 said:
Only takes a hand full of posts to graduate from rookie. As you know, that goes away if you put a cute quote in its place.
I don't know where in my profile to put a comment to replace 'advanced member.'
Go into "account settings." You will see a tab that says "other settings," under which you will see "edit profile." That should get you in.
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Down to 132 pages now ... and the viewing window has returned to normal. Not sure what that was all about. The other forums were not affected.
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189 pages of spam today ... those damn Russians.
Somewhere in this mess is the spam thread, but i wasn't going to go looking for it.
Oh ... and this thread (and others) have somehow been "enlarged" in my viewing screen.
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Boy, it doesn't take long to achieve "advanced member" status around here.
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1 minute ago, LawrenceA said:
Test (Trying to figure out how to quote in a different thread than the one the original post appears in)
Now this could get interesting. I've heard of quoting things out of context, but out of other threads? This opens up some wonderful possibilities for misunderstandings. Thanks. And I know you are just bored tonight.
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Try posting a nude photo of Barbara Stanwyck. That might get someone's attention.
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57 minutes ago, NipkowDisc said:
the funniest part of the movie is james mason the patriarch insisting that a young black lad lay at his feet so he can drain the gout out of his leg.
at one point the kid pretends to writhe in pain because he has absorbed so much of mason's gout but mason will have none of it and insists the lad lay back down and once again puts his feet on him.
I'm sure that when Mason read this scene in the script, his first thought was "hey, this is a movie I really want to make."
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2 hours ago, LawrenceA said:
Pony Express (1953) -
IMDb claims this is a remake of the 1925 film The Pony Express. Trust me, it's not.
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1 hour ago, TomJH said:
That woman looks deflated.
Trust me, when she's blown up, she looks pretty good.
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4 hours ago, TomJH said:
You too?
"Someone get out the fire hose! YUCK-YUCK-YUCK-YUCK!!!"
(And put it on him please).
His best work was as Lieutenant Dick Chasen (I kid you not) in The Indestructible Man. Here, he tries to arrest The Inflatable Woman.
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15 minutes ago, MilesArcher said:
Yes, Lavender, that's correct. We still need # 10. Here is a better photo of him:
Alan Rickman
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I suggest moving General Discussions to "Off Topic Chit-Chat."