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05-06-2013, 11:42 PM
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The Dark Knight Rises
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05-07-2013, 12:57 AM
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Watched "7 Days in May", 1964, with Kirk Douglas.
Excellent, excellent flick.
Check it out; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sFj7b1c60U
Dave
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05-07-2013, 07:15 PM
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Originally Posted by icenine
You just moved up a notch on my cool meter Charles. To point seven-five-0.75.
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Well, at least I ain't pickin' shit with the chickens.
Thanks for the compliment.
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05-07-2013, 07:20 PM
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Originally Posted by bobabode
Me and Charlie are 'brothers of the hammer', different lodges tho. I think he might be an 'in the closet' rigger and I'm a retired shingler . He's alright for a worm drowner.
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Hi, my name is Charles, and I'm a drunk.
Chas
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05-07-2013, 07:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Charles
Well, at least I ain't pickin' shit with the chickens.
Thanks for the compliment.
Chas
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Oh your welcome .....anyone who remembers Catch-22 is cool in my book.
I read it in 1981. Seem like Heller could not write anything else quite as good as that one.
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05-08-2013, 08:02 AM
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Originally Posted by Charles
The book is way better, read it around 1970.
Remember my old buddy (dead) amd myself discussing it in front of his father, referring to it as satire.
His dad (who actually flew on bombers in WWII) told us that is was the most realistic book that he had ever read.
And the old man was right.
While I've forgotten most of it, I still remember the old Eyetie, who, as you pointed out, simply cheered for whoever was winning at the moment, knowing that they would soon be gone...just like everyone else.
And the pilot who crashed into the sea on every sortie. How was he described, "He could make anything or fix anything, talents which guaranteed that he would be poor for the rest of his life"?
And Yossarian.
I still tell people that I feel like Yossarian, walking backwards through life with a .45 strapped to my hip...to prevent people form sneaking up behind me.
I should have learned from that book as opposed to relating to it.
But I was always jaded, even when I was a kid.
Chas
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Romney reminds me of Milo, the consumate American capitalist doing all sorts of dirty, disgaceful things; A slick talking snake, wheeling and dealing with the enemy, bombing his own base, etc., etc...... and always walking away from his own colossal shitpile smelling like a rose........Because he made his friends and flunkies rich in the process.
Ya gotta love it!
Dave
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05-08-2013, 08:27 AM
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Possibly admin. Maybe ;)
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Hi, my name is Charles, and I'm a drunk.
Chas
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ROTFLMAO!!!
Pete
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05-08-2013, 08:41 AM
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Originally Posted by BlueStreak
Romney reminds me of Milo, the consumate American capitalist doing all sorts of dirty, disgaceful things; A slick talking snake, wheeling and dealing with the enemy, bombing his own base, etc., etc...... and always walking away from his own colossal shitpile smelling like a rose........Because he made his friends and flunkies rich in the process.
Ya gotta love it!
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I particularly liked the deal with the eggs. Talk about wheeling and dealing.
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05-10-2013, 12:18 PM
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Boy's Town with Spencer Tracy with a ten minute newsreel of the real one afterwards.
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05-10-2013, 12:30 PM
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Romney as Milo Minderbinder? Ah even that is a little harsh on the Mittster.....well
maybe not
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