Haven’t done one of these in a bit, so here you go. Paste links, continue arguments, track Bolivian air disasters, bet on the GlibFit results…it is all up to you.
Haven’t done one of these in a bit, so here you go. Paste links, continue arguments, track Bolivian air disasters, bet on the GlibFit results…it is all up to you.
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313 responses to “Thursday Night Open Post”
First.
What was the golden decade of comedy movies? I’d still say it was the eighties, but the nineties did fairly well. Still, my guess is that at least half of the top 20 comedies of all time were released in the 80s.
The screwball comedies of the 30s?
It Happened One Night
Bringing Up Baby
Libeled Lady
My Man Godfrey
Ninotchka
That’s just off the top of my head.
The WC Fields stuff was great, but they were all formulaic. Compare them with tht likes of Blazing Saddles, Caddyshack, Animal House and Stir Crazy.
Blazing Saddles and Animal House were both 70s.
Yeah,my bad. I just remember seeing them so often growing up. I should have known Blazing Saddles was early 70s. I thought Animal House was 1980 though. Oh well. I still hand by my claim.
I still hand by my claim
Pervert! 😉
The ones above plus:
Sixteen Candles
Airplane!
Ghostbusters
Fast Times
Beetlejuice
Vacation
Ghostbusters
You needed to pad out your list by putting Ghostbusters in twice.
Unless you were including the all-woman reboot. :-p
I thought it was his short attention span.
What?
Revenge Of Tbe Nerds
Bill and Ted
Beverly Hills Cop
48 Hours
The funny thing about this list is how many of these I’ve actually seen.
Normally Sloop’s cultural references are incomprehensible.
You’ve seen some of them? Well I’ll be! I bet you even laughed once or twice.
I’ve seen all but three.
No love for A Fish Called Wanda?
1988. Good call – one of the best of the bunch.
The list was designed to start a dialogue and is not to be taken as all-encompassing.
Spinal Tap
Meaning of Life
(Maybe) Life of Brian [late 79]
Brazil, of course
and maybe Time Bandits
… I think everyone can see what kind of thing I find to be funny.
Not the Ealing comedies?
Problem with the Ealing Comedies is that they didn’t age well. So much of the humor is tied up with the pre- and post-war social stratification of the UK. It’s the same kind of thing with the “Carry On … ” movies, which were pretty much cringe-worthy at the time.
Related-somewhat are movies like The Italian Job, The Man in a White Suit, The Lady Killers and Our Man in Havana, but they were good mainly because of the acting and characterizations rather than the scrrenplay and plot.
Basically all of Eddie Murphy’s good movies.
So…. 80s?
Cannonball Run
No.
And I didn’t even mention Fields, Mae West, or any of the pre-Code comedies. Before Joe Breen, they made stuff like Design for Living, a comedy about a ménage à trois.
70s and 80s but that’s probably just my age talking. I can’t name a 90s comedy off the top of my head – but those were my college years and the poverty years that followed.
Weren’t the naked gun movies all made in the early nineties?
PCU was a great movie. It isn’t as funny as it was for some reason. Maybe because reality is so much more ridiculous.
I’ve only seen the first one and it was in 1988.
The 90s had the Farrell Brothers movies.
I’m drawing a blank.
Yes, it also had Grosse Point Blank
Not a movie, but In Living Color? The Wayans brothers at their peak, and Jim Carrey before he completely crawled up his own ass?
Are sequels allowed?
I’m on the fence.
::strokes beard::
I’ll allow it.
Surely you can’t be serious
The entire Airplane franchise is above reproach. But when we get into Naked Gun territory, I though it was best to start a dialogue.
1st and 3rd-yep. The 2nd one is really awful. I just tried watching bits of it over the weekend, and it really is as bad as I remember-nothing in it induces laughter.
I like multiplicity with Michael Keaton.
Oh shit. Mr Mom and Gung Ho were both in the 80s, IIRC.
So was the underrated Night Shift.
When was Airplane released? Because that’s all that matters.
There can be only one.
1980
The Jerk and The Three Amigo’s
If you have Netflix I recommend checking out A Futile And Stupid Gesture. Pretty funny and gives me hope that PC won’t destroy comedy.
I just finished that up on Netflix and loved it. Doug Kenney, despite his tragic flaws, was always something of a personal hero — I had a subscription to the National Lampoon for many years, and I still own several pristine copies of the National Lampoon High School Yearbook Parody, probably the greatest single parody effort ever (you see them making it in the movie, and quoting the amazing review of it, “the best collection of group writing since the Bible.”) If you liked the Lampoon, the Yearbook, early Saturday Night Live, Animal House and/or Caddyshack, all of which Kenney played a huge role in creating, you might really enjoy this behind-the-scenes story of his life.
Don’t overlook “Slapshot”
I think genres wax and wane but there really isn’t one golden age and certainly not one that fits neatly into a single decade. The Thin Man series, Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House, Christmas in Connecticut, etc. The late 60’s and 70’s was poor decade in moviemaking generally and comedies weren’t untouched by that. More recent movies are boosted by their familiarity, particularly if they’re first (and repeatedly) seen at impressionable ages. I watched Raiders of the Lost Ark recently, something I enjoyed endlessly when I was younder, and seeing it now realized what a mediocre movie it is.
Also in the overrated category: Animal House, The Godfather, and pretty much every Academy Award picture winner since 1961 and most of the nominees.
Oh my God.
Also a crappy period for clothing and hairstyles and far too often the movies reflected it. The Dirty Dozen is marred by the shaggy post-hippy hair and Vietnam era style WWII uniforms.
Except Chariots Of Fire.
I still think Raiders was ducking fantastic.
only because you own the joint
And no one mentions Fletch.
You people.
All this talk about Airplane yet no mention of the absolute cinematic triumph that is Top Secret? Sad!
What would a Glibratarian political party platform look like?
It would have piers, joists and floorboards. No railing though. Those are for pussies.
Pinewood?
Whatever the cheap shit from China is.
I would have thought it’d be set up to be carried on the backs of orphans as a multi-person palanquin.
I would prefer orphan bone concrete, with endangered tropical hardwood joists and decking.
Bone concrete sounds better than it works in practice.
Good to know…
Does anyone own a jackhammer and 5 ton of quick drying concrete. I’m buying.
It would also be large enough for the giant stone head.
Or, hear me out, we built it Atop ZARDOZ! We can then fly to the town halls and other gatherings!
No safety netting around the edges. We’re serious about personal responsibility and the freedom to plunge to our deaths.
Fuck off, slavers!
No, Fuck You, Cut Spending.
Why not both?
6 people doing all the work and 30 people criticizing them?
That’s a better ratio than other parties!
To be fair, 26 of the people bitching are Tulpa.
Would have to have some Barbary Apes running amok. Oh wait, it already does.
A gallows.
Has to have a small signal cannon. And a flag, emblazoned hookers rampant on field ochre, above crossed AR-15’s within a wreath of cannabis sativa.
Beer volcano and a hooker factory? That will pull in all of the Pastafarians
Somehow I only managed to gain 0.4 pounds from this morning to now. Normal swing from morning to evening is more than that.
I wonder if I forgot a meal or something.
Did you take an early deuce or something?
Nothing out of the ordinary.
So mostly water?
Gas?
He’s not a steam engine. I think.
You are correct, I am not.
Now I’m going to think of him as something out of China Mieville’s New Crobuzon series.
Good food, sports for all, bourbon, sexual deviancy, all while heavily armed.
Everyone else can do what the do as long as it doesn’t hurt anyone else.
Oh and decimate the fed budget in 4 years.
You’re gonna have a few dissenters if you want sports for all.
I didn’t limit my definition of “sports “
I withdraw my comment. I forgot that rolling a 30-sided die counted as a workout for some of the people here.
That and whatever sugar free is into.
Sports for all is what started all this Title IX Kangaroo Court nonsense.
Decimate the federal workforce. Like, literally, have them draw lots and one in ten gets beaten to death by the others. Then fire the others.
Eagles fans boo Santa
It was 40 years ago and Santa deserved it.
I’m contemplating a vacation to Dublin this summer. Anyone have any tips or recommendations.
I’m looking to go see some live music, sights, pubs, and meet locals. I’ll be going with my wife and a good friend.
Go to Muirfield Village and try to play golf before The Memorial. And try to get a photo with Jack. He’s not gonna be around much longer, sadly.
Then go into Columbus and tour the Horseshoe. Finish it off at Land Grant Brewing Company.
Looks great but, where are all the pale gingers, sheep, fistfights, and liquor
Just west in Indiana.
Damn, there goes my joke.
Go to Galway – City of music, pubs, fun.
In Dublin, be sure to pop by the National Museum to see the Bog People (mummies, Irish style) exhibit.
Galway was very nice. I was surprised how good the food was in Ireland.
All the potatoes died off, they had to innovate.
I’m looking to spend only about 4days. I see an arts festival there in July. I have some thinking to do.
If you do Galway, you can hit the Cliffs of Moher pretty easily.
How long of a drive from Dublin to Galway city?
No longer than the statue of liberty to the grand canyon.
Well that’s out then.
Ireland is smaller than Maine.
I know, I’m playing along.
My joke was about the tourists who underestimate the scale of other countries.
I ask because I recently went from Manila to Clark and it took 5 hours to go 100km
Drive time outside of the US and some times in the US is relative.
Dublin to Galway is about 100 miles on the M6. Maybe an hour to an hour and a half. Time it right and you can do lunch at Athlone by the lake.
Thanks.
Upland to L.A. is only 36 miles, if you time it right it only takes 90 minutes to get there,
/ First World traffic
The M6 isn’t exactly the I10, and central Ireland ain’t got the draw of San Bernadino. Last time I drove the route I was doing way over 60mph almost all the way and the Garda don’t bug you.
Weirdest thing I’ve seen on Gunbroker today:
https://www.gunbroker.com/item/743957932
And what a weird ‘Buy it now” price.
It looks like run of the mill for the products that guy sells.
What caliber?
Dinner, by Mrs Hyperion. Not mentioned, beer by Heineken.
Salada
That salad looks good. Why would you ruin it with skunk piss?
Can’t speak from experience,but I would think skunk piss has a flavor.
Skunks call it “Heineken flavor”.
I can’t figure out how skunk piss has gotten so underrated. Also, Buffalo Trace, the original, with a real buffalo on the bottle! Made from real buffalo piss!
LEAVE BUFFALO TRACE ALONE!
I would, but it’s delicious!
Hey Swiss, thank you for the evening open thread! Please feel free to do evening open threads more often. Some of us live on the west coast and can’t really get on the site until after hours for all you back east, and thus 500-post-yet-dying threads. Keep it up, and there’ll be a little something extra in your Xmas pay envelope.
Thanks,
C. A.
It’s a thing from my “youth”.
There was Heineken factory in Costa Rica when I lived there. It was dirt cheap. It got old and gross very quickly.
Nice garnish.
Wifey makes her own balsamic vinaigrette, which is damn good and she put on that salad. Very good stuff.
The best thing to come out of a wine barrel – vinegar.
SMDH
Just when you think someone’s stock has bottomed out.
I make no secret of my distain for wine.
Unoaked is no better.
That took me here:
https://i.imgur.com/6kn0LDs.jpg
BEST F*CK EVAH!
Looks tasty.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHwORSHSlVA
I made a bet on volatility. Nothing big.
Between the State Of the Union, “The Memo”, and tech earnings, I figured there’d be SOMETHING to spook the market.
So far, I’m wrong.
I hope there’s some weird stuff in the memo tomorrow. Coprophagia would be perfect.
Sorry – Page not found
Perhaps this page has been moved or the URL has been mistyped
Huh…? I tired it again and it worked.
I blame Apple.
Feature, not a bug
/Apple geek
Aliens?
*edit* Sloopy’s comment immediately below was in response to my initially not being able to get the picture to post. Thought I’d drop this line in so people don’t think he’s just screaming nonsense at me like a deranged hobo.
Well we can’t tell you here otherwise all the hoi polloi would figure it out.
To the secret lair!
Just because I can:
HOW’D YOU GET A PICTURE OF MY WIFE AND WHEN DID SHE GET BIGGER TITS???
I like to watch the two of you breathe while you sleep.
I think he might have apnea.
That still doesn’t explain where she got the tits.
She pulled them out of those genes.
If we see sub 3% growth this quarter, you might see a slight correction. I think people are pricing in that projection
I’m still expecting a significant correction, following a Fed announcement that it’s time to finally start raising the rates.
The market is bound for a correction, but I don’t think it’s going to come in the short-term. Atlanta Fed is predicting 5% GDP growth the quarter
So you’re saying that will definitely happen by next Friday?
Considering that next Friday isn’t the end of the quarter, I’d say you lose
I do. There wasn’t anything crazy in the SOTU. I was not expecting that.
Whenever Trump reads from a speech he sounds somewhat normal. The State of the Union, like his last address to Congress, was expected to be a prepared speech. The American people like normal. Normal makes investors comfortable
Wait, I thought Donnie promised to kill all the gays and non-whiteys?
Yeah, but that’s normal for ‘literally Hitler’
Moss resistant roofing is a joke. Five years max, even with regular maintenance, and it’s no better than normal shingles. Kill it, grows back, kill it, grows back, endless.
Just took advantage of slight break in the rain to spend the last two hours blowing off the roof and gutters, then spraying for moss & lichen. Starting on the g&t’s now.
Where do you live? I’ve only ever seen one house that got mossy, and no one takes precautions.
Baja Washington, on the wet side. But not the rain forest side so there’s still enough sun to raise moss.
Was it in a movie called The Hobbit?
No, they did nothing to stop a tree growing into contact with the roof and constantly leaving leaf litter on the shingles that improved the moss growing conditions.
FIRE! is the answer!
did you try having zinc sheeting under the crestline?
I considered it but let myself get talked out of it by the roofers. Only lasts a short number of years as I understand it. Same with copper strips. Maybe next time.
Spritz the roof down with zinc chloride solution once the season gets a bit drier. It doesn’t work fast, but it’ll kill the stuff off eventually. Keep it really dilute.
What do you spray with?
And that reminds me: I need to clean the solar panels; just got the trees trimmed. Melaleucas suck. Tree dandruff all over everything.
Lily Moss Out. The liquid not the granules. The granules warns against coming in contact with metal such as the gutters or the skylight.
This stuff did a pretty good job on my siding. Shady side of house.
http://a.co/ivsQD5D
So… open thread?
Basil grows faster than the government.
I’m killing my whole aerogarden tonight. I’ll start over on Monday with NO BASIL. It killed everything I cared about.
You need to start making pesto stat.
It’s getting a soldier’s death.
I had a basil plant once. It survived a week long power outage. In January, in Canada. Its stem was black, but it still had a few green shoots poking out. I gently nursed it back to health. Then the Girlfriend wanted to make pesto salad, stripped it of all its leaves and killed the thing.
There is a moral in this story.
Yeah, don’t reply to her emails when she “wants to get in touch” a decade or so later.
Canada, eh?
It’s tht kudzu of herbs.
No, that would be motherfucking oregano.
Uh. No.
Mint.
That is all.
Mint is the mint of herbs.
Fortunately, I like juleps.
Just when you think someone’s stock has bottomed out.
You salty over a poor trade on the market?
No, that somebody would insult oregano.
tastes like ditch weed, how’s that?
I’m not saying I don’t like oregano. Just that it grows like a weed.
Most herbs are pretty much weeds in their native biota.
My Lavender, Jasmine and Sage agree
My lavender took a good few years before it hunkered down and outcompeted all the other plants.
The Sage if way out of control, all clones from the first plant, now I use it down mt main drag and i have to cut it back from the street
Basil!
I once loved a girl named Basil…
That name in a limerick’s a puzzle …
and then it just had to Fizzle,…
The pattern is AABBA, not AAA, dude.
Don’t you even know how to limerick?
::wanders off to do one of those youtube videos of Hitler haranguing his generals over their freestyle rapping fails::
No, and I don’t care about you’re English Folderol anyway, Good Day Sir!
/ 🙂
so I guess Your Girlfriend doesn’t Sizzle,
/America! fuck yeah!
You think basil is bad, don’t ever let mint get a free run.
Mint came in the package. I tossed it.
Doesn’t matter now, because I’m tossing everything.
I just want fresh cilantro, oregano, parsley, thyme, and chives on demand. Is that too much to ask??????
No. Don’t harvest your own coriander. It’s not worth the effort. If the cilantro goes to seed, replant.
This is indoor. It won’t bolt.
Indeed, the cilantro took over our whole back fence line in a matter of months.
https://www.barstoolsports.com/newyork/watching-these-jeopardy-nerds-go-0-for-5-in-a-football-category-may-be-my-favorite-thing-ever
NERDS! Something tells me the one guy is still a virgin
I bet Trebek didn’t know any of the answers either.
We KNOW Wolf Blitzer didn’t know ’em.
I hear his mothers a whore
Would you say that you know him? Intimately? Better than he knows himself?
I can see into his soul
I didn’t know any of them either. But let’s let the sports bro gloat.
Come on. I got all of them and I couldn’t give a shit about football.
Is it me or is the media really pushing the whole OMG! it’s the flu headlines? Granted it’s a bad flu season but it’s not 1918. There have been worse flu seasons in the last 20 years and I don’t recall the media flipping out like they are this season.
It’s hit the NY-Tri-State area pretty hard. A lot of loss of productivity, and ERs are seemingly overwhelmed, but I blame that more on people than a virus.
I haven’t noticed it, TBH.
We have about 10% absence from our offices in Midtown, and these guys don’t slack off just before bonus time. Norwalk Hospital’s ER is overwhelmed, plus other bits and pieces of anecdotal evidence.
Reality is, we just live in healthier times where dying from complications from ‘flu ought to be rarer. I’d say it’s a bad year, but far from ‘worst’.
Luckily my office has been seemingly shielded from it. We got hit by a 24 hour bug but no flu. Our remote employees have been hit hard especially those in California and the east coast.
Same. We’ve hit over 10% absentee like 7 out of the last 10 business days, and nobody usually does that this early in the semester right after winter break.
But, you can sing it to the tune of “Speed Racer”:
Here it comes
Here comes flu season
It’s a virus that kills
It’s the worst illness I’ve had in 20 years. Last time I felt that bad was mono in college.
https://politics.theonion.com/fbi-warns-republican-memo-could-undermine-faith-in-mass-1822639681#_ga=2.107485957.667062644.1517538999-1338573309.1517538999
Actually, maybe the Onion should be the paper of record
Sums it up for sure
oh that’s good
It has to be hard for the onion these days. They can’t always be hyperbolic enough to beat reality.
OMM Returns!
OMM meets BUILDING INSPECTOR MOHAMMED
BUILDING INSPECTOR MOHAMMED: It seems that your renovation has some serious code violations.
OFFICE MANAGER MOHAMMED:What violations INFIDEL!
BUILDING INSPECTOR MOHAMMED:Well, I’m not an INFIDEL! But you know there are no Women’s restrooms and no lavatories anywhere?
OFFICE MANAGER MOHAMMED:Women Shit outside with the pigs, dogs and JOOOS, how can you be MOOSLIM and not know that?
BUILDING INSPECTOR MOHAMMED: Well, in the U.S. we have this thing called Sanitation, oh never heard of it? Why didn’t you tell me? The poop goes into a pipe and goes away somewhere, nobody knows where but whatever, it’s Code.
OFFICE MANAGER MOHAMMED:Who ever heard such a thing? Women? In a restroom? What if there are no Women here? Why waste my money in frivolities like Women’s Restrooms, and what is a Lavatory anyway?
BUILDING INSPECTOR MOHAMMED: It’s a porcelain basin for washing your hands, but that’s not important, what is would be getting these violations cleaned up, or I’ll shut you down.
OFFICE MANAGER MOHAMMED: INFIDEL! I KNEW IT! As he makes a call to his close friend ALABAMA MAN.
No poop for you pig woman!
Shouldn’t OMM be calling BIM “kafir” instead of “infidel”?
So I was told tonight that I’m a fascist for being in favor of the tax cuts. I like lower taxes. Trump lowered taxes. Trump is a fascist. I’m a fascist.
No amount of reasoning on my part could make a dent, so I said I would knock out the next person who called me a fascist. Luckily all 300 pounds of the 5 progs backed down.
It’s really getting hard to go outside without killing a motherfucker
That’s what you get for walking through downtown Seattle wearing a MAGA hat and screaming racial epithets at the homeless people you pass in between talking about how much you like the tax cuts.
I know that’s what you were doing.
Close. It was in the East Village.
Hitler was well-known for his efforts to shrink the size and reach of state and improve the economic stability of der volk. This is known.
Yes of course starting with the Reichstag fire…
Did you tell them they’re always free to donate an extra dollar amount to the government on their tax returns?
Yes I did! Along with my go to request that they give me some of their money because they make more than me.
Nobody needs a $1000 pool cue you Bernie loving douchebag!
I like lower taxes. Trump lowered taxes. Trump is a fascist. I’m a fascist.
You love dogs. Hitler loved dogs. Hitler was a Nazi. You are a Nazi.
This low level of logic is fun.
Oh look. Cops killed grandma again.
But you police haters don’t understand. She had a HIGH POWERED pellet gun. Yes, a HIGH POWERED pellet gun.
Same old story. Cops come storming in at night. It was a search warrant, not an arrest warrant. The subject of the search warrant immediately surrendered. But the cops went off to find a dog or something, woke the old lady up, old lady had no clue what was going on, grabs a bb gun, cop got an owie, and she got a hole blown through her chest.
Good shoot. Medals all around.
Hey, she pumped that shit like, three times, amigo. Good shoot.
Fuck. It’s hard maneuvering 2000 rounds of boxed bulk 9mm around the house quietly.
What are you trying to sneak up on and shoot?
Just trying to put these 4000 rounds away in my ammo closet. I live in CT, so I can’t have a 2000 mag 🙁
I’ve got between 3 and 4 thousand rounds in the house right now. I’ve lost track.
Yeah, and you’re shooting .45, aren’t you? that stuff weighs even more
9 mm
I think we’ve finally settled on a defensive round. Speer Gold Dot 124 gr JHP in 9 mm. I put 75 through both of my wife’s pistols yesterday and 75 through each of mine today. We put 50 rounds through each gun several weeks ago. So 500 total rounds without a jam.
The Federal HSTs were shit. Multiple jams in each gun when we ran 50 rounds through.
Hmm. The HSTs cycle fine for me. I guess there’s plenty of wisdom in that old advice about making sure the ammo works for you.
It seems pretty random.
I put 80 rounds of Sig Sauer VCrowns through my EMP. Then I loaded 10 rounds into the mag for by EMP-4 and loaded the gun. Shot one round and the second one jammed. In a clean gun.
Same stuff with the HSTs. Three or four magazines without a problem, the a couple of jams in one magazine. All four guns had that problem.
I have to say, if I exclude stuff like Wolf and Maxx, my CZs, BHP and Beretta chamber anything I feed them, including all the defensive stuff I’ve tried – with the exception of the Cor-Bon, which was a bit of a disappointment.
Here in DPRCT, I haven’t had the need or desire to carry, because I don’t go anywhere near Bridgeport, New London or Hartford, so my adoption of the HST is largely an academic exercise, but if I do ever need to, I’ll have to have a deep dive on defensive rounds again in whatever I get for carry, which is likely to be a G43 or a P320.
HST in a G30 is EDC for me.
I’m not a glockaholic, but it has never jammed on any ammo in any condition.
Of course, my L frame has never jammed, either 🙂
nobody needs that much ammo, Gimme some! 12 gauge please
I never had a miss feed with HST, but it was 45ACP
4000 rounds? What a bunch of slackers…
I am just getting started.
I have to condition my wife.
You just made a list buddy. I’m running out of room as well. I need to covert the wife’s shoe closet
A shoe closet full?
OK, nobody needs THAT MUCH ammo.
He just wants to keep his wife’s shoe collection in check. Ammo is the excuse.
She is slowly seeing the light. Getting a motorcycle and 1911 this year for her.
If it’s a 1911, the bike MUST be a Harley, right?
Nope. Kawasaki Vulcan S
new old news
+1 Eleanor Bumpers.
+2 for anybody who remembers that old lady murder by cop from the 80s in NYC.
That’s about right. And heavan forbid we question the war on drugs. The drug warriors willmsay she died because she let pot dealing son live with her.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-42780327
ILatest adventures of Secret Commie Pope.
Oringinal #Metoo crowd ripping him for requiring proof before he move punish a bishop in South America accused of sex abuse. A (for once) seemingly reasonable suggestion from the Red Pope, no?
Victims(?) quoted as saying: it is “offensive and unacceptable to say that we need to provide concrete evidence”.
Perfectly sums up the current Progressive mode of rhetoric on basically any subject. Schadenfreude.
Even witches got a show trial!
I finally got the entire DS9 series from a friend of mine, almost done with Season 1, going back in, See ya Tomorrow!
I just purchased the entire MTV show The State. I haven’t seen it since college so I hope I still think it is funny.
Afterwards watch Undressed and Daría?
Rufio was on Undressed…That’s all I got to say about that.
Do you have Type 13 Diabetes? Rich Evens does.
New RLM? OH F-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-UCK
What’s wrong with your FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE!?!?!?!
Gotta say, Nerd Crew is one of their best features, and I love everything they do.
As an RLM fan, I’m wondering if you viewed my fancuts of the prequels I posted in my article The Myth and The Mouse? I tried to apply stuff from Plinkett reviews to the cuts.
OH F-U-U-U-U-
yeah, you told me off in that thread. I bookmarked it again.
Sorry. *sheepish*
No problem, like I said in the thread, I waited a long time to say that. Please leave any thoughts on the cuts on that page, I check in on it from time to time to see if there are any new posts.
As for the Nerd Crew, I used to watch AMC Movie Talk regularly; It is now Collider Movie Talk and all of it’s spin-offs. Nerd Crew is spot on of what they became.
Amazong Echo: Communist Edition.
You’re link has the Wilfred Brimley’s.
Link doesn’t work.
It has Type 13 Diabetes.
That explains it.
Did Gojira ever say when another review would be forthcoming?
Since you’re Not a Naked Intruder, I’ll let you know I’ll be online for about another 20 minutes if you want to ask some questions, and I have a gun.
Dammit, I’m taking too long to read the comments…
I haven’t had a chance to watch your edits, as I don’t want to download at work.
And, why does the mention of you having a gun bring this to mind?
Dammit…took me too long to read through the comments.
Why does your mentioning having a gun remind me of this?
Well, I won’t go into High Anxiety territory.
I keep trying to link to part of High Anxiety (the obscene phone call part), but I can’t get the site to take my post.
Oh, well…
How do you find clients for your business?
I really don’t, I cut back on my video business after I had to buy out my two partners who I brought in solely to work with clients, and they both failed miserably as partners, as well as men. Right now I subsist on a few loyal customers to bring in half my income. I have not looked for new clients in a long time; even though I could bring in more money, because I’m not a front-end person, I’m the skills guy. And my attempts at bringing on front-end people failed miserably.
Ah. Well, that sucks, and sorry that you had to deal with schmucks.
Part of me wishes I had actually pursued some type of work with film/video after HS, but I don’ think I learned all that much. Plus, I’m not sure there was all that much entry-level stuff around here at the time.
Would I be correct in guessing that the stuff you still do is digital?
It is digital; but still analog. Because of archiving for clients, and the time when my company mishap happened; I work with HDV which is getting harder to come by. I already have 10TB full of client video with the few clients I have, so I’m not quite sure how archiving will work when I upgrade, since I currently have 15 years stored on HDV tapes that if only stored digitally would be another problem to archive.
Each HDV tape stores about 12GB of uncompressed video. So, you can imagine what that works out to in HD space for archiving over 15 years even with my small client base.
Especially since I work 3 camera for most shoots.
Do you have a time frame for upgrading?
It depends on how well I do in my other job I guess; I also work in radio, that is the other half of my income. If the income from that rises, I’ll have more to play around with upgrading my video equipment.
Are you on-air, or, production (or both)?
radio-wise
Apologies if I’m being…
::puts on sunglasses::
an INTRUDER
Hired as a studio engineer, but was have experience on-air. So I’m working on that at my current job, getting time to do air-checks and being on air a few times a week. This will be my last post. In the morning I actually have to do video work for my radio station, synergy I think that’s called. Hopefully we can talk again soon,
Sure thing. Good night, and thanks for the info.
OK, the site’s eaten 2 comments…
Late night skwirlz can suck it.
Maybe try pants? The squirrels could be prudes.
I HAVE pants! It’s just one of the factors that makes me NOT a naked intruder.
That, and not intruding.
See, that showed up.
Yeah, I apparently can’t link YT stuff right now, though.
If anyone is still up and is also familiar with Signal (that might be one person…maybe…), is there a way I can use it to send messages around the world like I do with Facebook Messenger? It won’t let me text the numbers of foreign countries. Messenger is pretty awesome in that I can send messages to anyone else with Facebook, anywhere, but it’s still Facebook.
I don’t know anything about Signal (or, FB, for that matter), so I can’t help.
However, since you’re around, I wanted to thanks you for your excellent article a couple of weeks back. If you’ve got more to post, I’d like to read it.
/dispatcher
You’re welcome and thank you for the kind words. I will write something else but I haven’t decided what subject I should broach yet.
Han Solo solo movie teaser has dropped.
I’m not impressed so far.
Last!
Made a meat-crust pizza last night and it was delicious. Ground beef mixed with spices and eggs, pressed out very thin, parbaked for 10 minutes @ 475° then topped with a vodka sauce, extra prosciutto, and fresh mozzarella then back in the oven @ 500° until the cheese was nice and bubbly browned.
Laster!
Lastest!! Just watched Drumphitlers speech at the retreat. Pretty much boilerplate but at the end he walks off to The Rolling Stone’s “Can’t Always Get What You Want”. President Troll rolls double sixes, yet again.