FredCDobbs
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Unfriendly posters:
Hey! Which one is a photo of you??
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The punishment of a message board troll:
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A place for people who argue all the time:
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Hey! Would anyone here like to talk about old classic movies?
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Denzel Washington's Deja Vu (2006) was very good.
Based on a time travel story. Somewhat complex, but very interesting.
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With Alice White and Edward G Robinson.
Great gangster movie with a great cast. Early Friday AM.
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Aw Dobbs, coming from you means the world to me, even though we've had a few "discussions" over the years. Thanks old bud!
I've got a bad habit of reading some post or theory or idea and jumping all over it, without regard to who posted it. Consequently, sometimes I fuss at my own friends without realizing they wrote the post I complained about.
My most embarrassing moment was when I chewed some old guy out for posting a stupid post, and after I posted my rant, I looked to see who I was responding to, and it turned out to be me.!!
Seems that I had changed my mind about some idea over a couple of years and eventually I disagreed with what I had posted a couple of years earlier. -
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I used to post quite often under my previous user name. Now I feel less than welcome.
You are certainly not less than welcome.
We just have cycles here where some of the old posters go away and some new ones come on and they jump into the middle of conversations some of the rest of us have been having for years, and they don't realize we've already covered a lot of topics.
It's like the noir-newbies. "Oh, what is a noir"? "What makes a noir"? "I say that every crime film is a noir." "What the heck is German silent expressionsim?" Blah, blah, blah.
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I believe this phenomenon is akin to people rubbernecking when they come upon an accident.
At times, some message boards are like train wrecks.
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I googled "screwball." It apparently derives from baseball. "Screwball" was a term applied to a wild, erratic pitch. I'm not up on my baseball terminology and different type of pitches, but apparently a "screwball" will break away in the complete opposite direction than a curve ball typically would. In the 1930s, the term was used to describe comedies that featured eccentric and crazy characters.
I've heard that a movie reviewer in a newspaper started using the term "screwball comedy" because the term screwball had become a slang term in America and had originated with the odd baseball pitch called a screwball.
Screwball comedies were classically known as a "farce" in old 19th and 18th Century stage plays and operas.
The term "beatnik" originated with a newspaper reporter. So did "hippie".
1899 Hippie.... Known then as a Bohemian.
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screw·ballˈskro͞oˌbôl/North Americannounnoun: screwball; plural noun: screwballs
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1.Baseballa pitched ball that moves in a direction opposite to that of a curveball.
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2.informala crazy or eccentric person.
adjectiveinformaladjective: screwball1.crazy; absurd.-
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Jean Harlow in shorts:
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Hey, anyone want to talk about old classic movies??
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We're indebted to you for that, if you ask me.
I owe all my success to the little people I stepped on while on the way up.
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Warning points can do irreparable damage to a person's self esteem. Therefore, offending posters should be given a "time out."
If everyone would stick strictly to talking about old and classic movies, there would be no need for Warning Points.
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What are Warning Points? Under my name, image, etc., it says I have 0 Warning Points. Can't see where anybody else has any.
Don't recall having received any negative comments or warnings from the Moderators.
Maybe it means I have zero and everybody else has some? Is there a limit before something happens?
I have contacted moderators twice, but no response.
The Warning Points is a generous system of warning people to BE MORE POLITE. So they won't have to ban someone outright, with no warning.
If you get one or two warning points, you'd better start being very nice for a while.
Also, I think now they can ban for a few days, weeks, or months, rather than altogether.
With this new system, and the system of locking threads and deleting threads, we've had a lot FEWER fights on this board, and that is GOOD.
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Have you ever seen a film and you could have sworn it was taken from your life ?
Yes, many times.
And in reverse. Several films I saw, I went out and placed myself in similar situations, such as going on trips to Yucatan and pretend I was on Safari, or a jungle explorer, and a Jungle Jim type guy.
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I believe these are correct:
He was gritty and foul. It was not in the good way.
He was gritty and foul, but it was not in the good way.
He was gritty and foul; it was not in a good way.
I like dots that show a pause in the sentence. Orson Welles sometimes spoke like this on the radio:
He was gritty and foul....... It was not in the good way.
He was gritty..... and foul.......... It was not in the good way.
In radio scripts, different number of dots indicate different length pauses:
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Newspapers usually don't mention the ethnicity of the people involved in highway accidents.
They often DO mention it in New Mexico newspapers and TV news.
We have:
Indians
Mexicans
Anglos
Out here,
and everyone wants to know who gets killed.
For example, some Indians let their 12 year old children drive on the highway, with the whole family in the car or van. Bad idea.
Mexicans usually have the most number of people in a car or van. One time an ENTIRE Marachi band was wiped out in a van roll-over. That is sad news for everyone. They were all from Mexico, on tour here in New Mexico, and everyone here likes Marachi music, including Indians and Anglos. (Note: Jews are often called Anglos in this state. Arabs are called A-rabs.)
Anglos get killed on the highways here at an alarming rate. Most are tourists from other states, looking at the scenery instead of the road and traffic, and they run off the highway and wreck and roll over, or they run head-first into big 18-wheelers. Lots of out-of-state Anglo tourists are killed in this state.
Southwest wreck site, 5 people killed in one spot in a van roll-over:
Sunday, April 28, 2013
11 Band Members Of La Reyna de Monterrey Reported Dead After Crash
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George Bernard Shaw also disliked apostrophes.
Here is a good example of extra, but well-placed, commas from an 1840s manuscript. Just read the first several paragraphis.
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/prescott/bk01_ch03.html
THE CIVIL polity of the Aztecs is so closely blended with their religion, that, without understanding the latter, it is impossible to form correct ideas of their government or their social institutions. I shall pass over, for the present, some remarkable traditions, bearing a singular resemblance to those found in the Scriptures, and endeavour to give a brief sketch of their mythology, and their careful provisions for maintaining a national worship.
In contemplating the religious system of the Aztecs, one is struck with its apparent incongruity, as if some portion of it had emanated from a comparatively refined people, open to gentle influences, while the rest breathes a spirit of unmitigated ferocity. It naturally suggests the idea of two distinct sources, and authorises the belief that the Aztecs had inherited from their predecessors a milder faith, on which was afterwards engrafted their own mythology. The latter soon became dominant, and gave its dark colouring to the creeds of the conquered nations,- which the Mexicans, like the ancient Romans, seem willingly to have incorporated into their own,- until the same funereal superstition settled over the farthest borders of Anahuac.
The Aztecs recognised the existence of a supreme Creator and Lord of the universe. They addressed him, in their prayers, as "the God by whom we live," "omnipresent, that knoweth all thoughts, and giveth all gifts," "without whom man is as nothing," "invisible, incorporeal, one God, of perfect perfection and purity," "under whose wings we find repose and a sure defence." These sublime attributes infer no inadequate conception of the true God. But the idea of unity- of a being, with whom volition is action, who has no need of inferior ministers to execute his purposes- was too simple, or too vast, for their understandings; and they sought relief, as usual, in the plurality of deities, who presided over the elements, the changes of the seasons, and the various occupations of man. Of these, there were thirteen principal deities, and more than two hundred inferior; to each of whom some special day, or appropriate festival, was consecrated.
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I suppose he did, as he eschewed the apostrophe between the n and s in the books title.
I've read a number of different kinds of 19th Century books, and in some decades, some authors used a lot of commas to represent pauses, such as with separate phrases, and separate concepts, such as what I'm doing in this sentence.
I find them very easy to read, because I don't get phrases mixed up, and I feel like when I'm reading the book, I'm actually listening to the author speak.
A recent trend in certain media, such as Time Magazine and some newspapers, they don't use enough commas, and some of their articles are very confusing.
Such as:
"A couple from Texas was killed today in a 5 car pileup on Interstate 40 and 23 people were injured."
So, was the pileup at the intersection of I-40 and I-23? with "people injured"?, or was it somewhere along I-40, with 2 people dead and 23 other people injured? How did they get 23 people into 5 cars? Note: Out West, both Indians and Mexicans will stuff as many as 20 or more people, sometimes relatives, sometime illegal aliens, sometime Marachi bands, into one van, and none of them wears a seatbelt, and when it rolls off the highway all the Mexicans go flying out the windows and doors and get crushed when the van rolls over them. But, newspapers can't say that because it is not "PC" to say such things about Mexicans.
The "NEWS" is very much self-censored nowdays because of PC crap.
Note: White people do stupid things too, but different kinds of stupid things.
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If a schizophreniac is considered to be a split personality, one part can be a great thinker, and the other part a lousy thinker.
I call that an "idiot savant". That means stupid-genius. Many people are like that.
Sam Walton was one.
The man who started Wendys restaurant was one.
Some politicians and presidents are like that.
1: a person affected with a mental disability (as autism or mental retardation) who exhibits exceptional skill or brilliance in some limited field (as mathematics or music) —called also savant2: a person who is highly knowledgeable about one subject but knows little about anything else -
What if we got rid of General Discussions board altogether?
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Well, this is America, so we gotta call them something.