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QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Sep 15, 2005 -> 12:00 PM) Agree 100%. His passing is going to be a celebration of an amazing life, and an influential person. He had important works in all genre's. Amazing to think he worked with both Welles and Val Lewton. Yeah, he would have made an important contribution to cinema had he done nothing other than to edit the greatest folm ever made (Kane). But to have gone on to direct so many important films in so many genres over the next 50 years is pretty astounding. Kid, I'm completely floored that Day the Earth Stood Still didn't make your top 3 Wise flicks. I'd have put it above all those you listed, except possibly Curse of the Cat People. I'm among the few that thought Star Trek the Motion Picture was a quality film. That was directed by Wise as well.

QUOTE(EvilMonkey @ Sep 15, 2005 -> 09:50 AM) MAY be? I'm trying to be optimistic. To that end, I'm weighning the pros and cons of tuning into the ballgame here at work this afternoon.

No, not surprising, but not insurmountable either. The administration fought the 9/11 Commission tooth and nail but eventually had to bow to mounting pressure. I can only hope the same thing will happen here. Regardless of what side of the aisle they are on, seeing as this very strongly suggests what has long-been suspected -- that Congress was knowingly misled so that they would authorize the use of force in Iraq -- it can't go uninvestigated. The eventual ensuing investigation may be full of s*** and unwilling to probe too deeply, of course.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Sep 14, 2005 -> 12:49 AM) I got an idea............go to this website........ www.redcross.org .........and donate money or find something useful to do to help this situation rather than squabble on a message board about the defenition of a f***ing word. /rant over. Agreed, and done, and done some more, and Even as the headlines start to fade, it's important that we keep doing what we can to help the Katrina refugees.

Sunday night Mr. Farmer called Said, 'listen, son, you're wasting time, There's a future for you in the fire escape trade. Come up to town!' But I remembered a voice from the past. 'Gambling only pays when you're winning.' Had to thank Old Miss Mort for schooling a failure. (Keep them mowing blades sharp)

QUOTE(Texsox @ Sep 13, 2005 -> 12:59 PM) No personal attacks, no nudity, and you're fine. So if I come over to your house, get nekkid, and kick yer' ass I'm toast here, eh? No worries. I think I can still get the airline refund.

QUOTE(EvilMonkey @ Sep 13, 2005 -> 08:55 PM) I'm seeing alot of 'manufactured outrage' in this post. If you're referring to our esteemed colleague, Addy, I agree. One that takes refuge from a storm (or it's aftermath) IS A REFUGEE. Sucks that we're having trouble providing for our own (ZERO blame directed at any one camp over the other. Been there, done that). But the affected citizens displaced from their homes are evacuees, victims, and refugees. All are valid and appropriate terms.

QUOTE(SoxFan1 @ Sep 13, 2005 -> 10:20 PM) I'd probably start with a simple "How ya doin?" I'd go right for the 'Must suck to be you' jab. Hey, it can only get better from there.

QUOTE(Queen Prawn @ Sep 13, 2005 -> 03:30 PM) A tacky joke I saw on another board: Q: What is George W. Bush's position on Roe v. Wade? A: He really doesn't care how people get out of New Orleans

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Sep 12, 2005 -> 11:31 PM) Ummmmm, NO! Is that Subservient Chicken in your Av, Kap?" If so, I'm simultaneously impressed and very very worried.

They took all the trees and put 'em in a tree museum. And they charged the people a dollar-and-a-half just to see 'em.

Good to hear they are sounding energized. Thanks for the review.

The director is the film. No contest.

I had just gotten in to work and sat down at my computer when my wife called and told me about a plane that had hit one of the twin towers. I also figured it was a small plane and a tragic pilot error until i turned the TV on to see the second plane hit. The eerie thing for my wife was that she had te TV on and it was our toddler son that first saw the station break to coverage of the crash. We had just taken him to his first space shuttle launch a couple of weeks before that, and I remember how much he loved it and screamed "ROCKET! ROCKET!" when the boosers fired and all that flame filled the sky. Well, my wife is doing dishes or something on thw morning on 9-11 and when my son started yelling "ROCKET! ROCKET!" in seeing all the flame coming out of the WTC my wife looked up and just froze in shock.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Sep 11, 2005 -> 08:28 AM) They were $.65 when I was a little kid, how old are you again? Where's that Evil Misquoter smiley?

I heard they were going to rename themselves the Kidney Stones.

Happy Birthday, Dorothy!

Fun fact: The punch line to ANY joke involving inflatable love dolls must be, "No thanks, I gave at the orifice."

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Sep 11, 2005 -> 12:11 AM) NRBQ QUOTE(Mercy! @ Sep 11, 2005 -> 04:17 AM) Actually, Big Bill Liston (1950's) Double Bonus Points! Big Bill Liston did in fact have a minor Nashville hit with "Gimmie an RC Cola and a Moonpie." And that song achieved a slightly broader listenership when the Qs began to cober it. A guy named Edwin Hubbard also has a song celebrating that most perfect of snackfood combinations - RC and a Moonpie. Of course, when Bill Liston wrote the song you could buy an RC and a Moonpie for 10 cents.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Sep 10, 2005 -> 11:28 PM) The real key will be, of course, how these images are used. Food for thought. Once there is stock footage available it will almost certainly eventually be used down the line in negative campaign ads the likes of which we've never seen before. Can you imagine an ad with a soundtrack simply repeating Bush's "But what whent wrong" over and over as accompanyment to bloated bodies floating down the street, holed up in attics, piled up to be stuffed in body bags? Of course, precisely the same footage can be run to the tune of Nagin's "If you stay, you're on your own. . . " Lots of PACs took a lesson from the seeing the effectiveness of the Swift Bulls***ters for Defeating Kerry in Any Way Possible. Thing is, lots of the body images already exist, despite the current media gag order. Lots of people have been taking snapshots of all aspects of the carnage since day one, and those are going to get out. The images of the dead are not nearly as controllable here as they are in the case of US soldiers coming home in flag-draped caskets.

:puke :puke :puke Ugly Game.

QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ Sep 10, 2005 -> 01:41 PM) Anyone see thier performance at the football game the other night? I've been in their corner up until now. They've put on 20 years in the last 5 and they sound like it too. It's time to hang it up boys. I think Wyman had the right idea when he bowed out a few years back. But you know what Mick said, he'd rather be dead than singing 'Satisfaction' when he's forty. I mean fifty. I mean. . .

QUOTE(knightni @ Sep 10, 2005 -> 12:58 PM) This would be more worthy of a read if the girlfriend walked with him naked as well. She was: There's good naked and bad naked though, and unfortunately the folks that are usually in the biggest hurry to shed their clothes are the bad kind of naked.

QUOTE(winodj @ Sep 10, 2005 -> 12:47 PM) I get to meet John Kerry today. Cool. I met Edwards during the campaign, but he was flying solo.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Sep 10, 2005 -> 12:16 PM) RC is alive and well in the South where ordering a Royal Crown and Crown Royal is somewhat common How about an RC Cola and a Moonpie?!! (Name the band for cool points.)