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RE: The Thread!!! - 6/7/2006 10:10:39 PM

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Yep. They're trying to climb from their Stealth Fighter/Transport up through the belly of the 747, and BA-WHOOSH, it goes from being a Steven Seagal movie to a Kurt Russell movie. BTW, Mr. Russell should have retired after Escape from New York, he's been on a steep downward slope since then...

Yes, this is the reason i've equipped all the P38s in my game so that they can latch onto C46s and C47s. You never know one of them might have nerve gas on board...

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RE: The Segal! - 6/7/2006 10:17:11 PM

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child molesting?

I don't think so. I heard once that he got knocked out in a sleeper hold while filming a movie, bragging that it couldn't be done. Then there's allegedly some sort of mystical mumbo jumbo that he's into. Don know. I havn't paid much attention to him since Under Siege.

The story I heard was that he was bragging on the set about how nobody could touch him and one of the stage hands (who was build like a 2 ton guerilla) put a choke hold on him. When Segal came to he threw a tantrum and left.

Never got into his movies, I'm not sure why. However as long as we're talking about wood how about other non-actors turned actors, i.e. Chuck Noris and of course governor Arnold.

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RE: The Thread!!! - 6/7/2006 10:18:22 PM

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Yep. They're trying to climb from their Stealth Fighter/Transport up through the belly of the 747, and BA-WHOOSH, it goes from being a Steven Seagal movie to a Kurt Russell movie. BTW, Mr. Russell should have retired after Escape from New York, he's been on a steep downward slope since then...

Yes, this is the reason i've equipped all the P38s in my game so that they can latch onto C46s and C47s. You never know one of them might have nerve gas on board...

Except for "The Thing" that movie ROCKED!

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RE: The Thread!!! - 6/7/2006 10:19:34 PM

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All this talk about stiff actors makes me think of great B movies. So, who was the best all time B-movie actor?

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RE: The Segal! - 6/7/2006 10:23:46 PM

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child molesting?

I don't think so. I heard once that he got knocked out in a sleeper hold while filming a movie, bragging that it couldn't be done. Then there's allegedly some sort of mystical mumbo jumbo that he's into. Don know. I havn't paid much attention to him since Under Siege.

The story I heard was that he was bragging on the set about how nobody could touch him and one of the stage hands (who was build like a 2 ton guerilla) put a choke hold on him. When Segal came to he threw a tantrum and left.

Never got into his movies, I'm not sure why. However as long as we're talking about wood how about other non-actors turned actors, i.e. Chuck Noris and of course governor Arnold.

The last two are at least capable of an occasional smile... not sure about Mr. Segal - i think his muscles have ossified into position and he might be physically incapable of moving any facial muscles more than a few millimeters.

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RE: The Thread!!! - 6/7/2006 10:27:48 PM

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All this talk about stiff actors makes me think of great B movies. So, who was the best all time B-movie actor?

Ahh, the B movies. As a kid, I used to watch a nut case who had a local show in Cleveland. He called himself Ghoul Artie. He had a frizzy wig, sun glasses with one lens missing and a white lab coat. He'd show all those wonderful B movies and insert himself while doing a voice over. Hilarious. Finally got himself kicked off the TV by sticking a firecracker in a frog's mouth and blowing it up on TV. That was pretty gross, but pretty funny when you're about 12 yrs old.

Edit: Oops, forgot about his go-tee. I don't think it was real. What a character.

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RE: The Thread!!! - 6/7/2006 10:33:34 PM

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All this talk about stiff actors makes me think of great B movies. So, who was the best all time B-movie actor?

Ahh, the B movies. As a kid, I used to watch a nut case who had a local show in Cleveland. He called himself Ghoul Artie. He had a frizzy wig, sun glasses with one lens missing and a white lab coat. He'd show all those wonderful B movies and insert himself while doing a voice over. Hilarious. Finally got himself kicked off the TV by sticking a firecracker in a frog's mouth and blowing it up on TV. That was pretty gross, but pretty funny when you're about 12 yrs old.

Edit: Oops, forgot about his go-tee. I don't think it was real. What a character.

LOL!!

Sounds like a precursor to MST3K!!

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RE: The Thread!!! - 6/7/2006 11:15:20 PM

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Yeah....probably should put Crow on the Great Planks of Acting list, too.........

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RE: The Thread!!! - 6/7/2006 11:17:49 PM

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Nick Nolte, as well...

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RE: The Thread!!! - 6/7/2006 11:27:46 PM

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All this talk about stiff actors makes me think of great B movies. So, who was the best all time B-movie actor?

Ahh, the B movies. As a kid, I used to watch a nut case who had a local show in Cleveland. He called himself Ghoul Artie. He had a frizzy wig, sun glasses with one lens missing and a white lab coat. He'd show all those wonderful B movies and insert himself while doing a voice over. Hilarious. Finally got himself kicked off the TV by sticking a firecracker in a frog's mouth and blowing it up on TV. That was pretty gross, but pretty funny when you're about 12 yrs old.

Edit: Oops, forgot about his go-tee. I don't think it was real. What a character.

LOL!!

Sounds like a precursor to MST3K!!

Indeed, that sounds more like a C- movie.

Ok, my favorite B movie actor (seriously) is not really a movie actor as much as TV. It's that guy that played McGyver and Col what's his name on Stargate SG1. Loved his irreverent since of humor.

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RE: The Thread!!! - 6/7/2006 11:32:54 PM

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Here's a particularly bad Q-Movie...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104516/

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RE: The Thread!!! - 6/7/2006 11:33:33 PM

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Ok, my favorite B movie actor (seriously) is not really a movie actor as much as TV. It's that guy that played McGyver and Col what's his name on Stargate SG1. Loved his irreverent since of humor.

That would be Richard Dean Anderson.

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RE: The Thread!!! - 6/7/2006 11:33:36 PM

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Yeah....probably should put Crow on the Great Planks of Acting list, too.........

Actually, i think Crow is capable of a lot more expression than most of these guys. Actually, not a bad actor. Gypsy maybe could qualify for Plankette.

Nick Nolte - nah, i can't say he's a Plank. Not great, but not a Plank.

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RE: The Thread!!! - 6/7/2006 11:37:05 PM

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How about Stallone? Rocky 35 anyone?

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RE: The Thread!!! - 6/7/2006 11:46:13 PM

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How about Stallone? Rocky 35 anyone?

Stallone is about with Gov. Arnold S. (imo)

Both are capable of expression, but it looks like a distinct effort to produce the facial contortions of emotion. Plankish, but not Great Planks.

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RE: The Thread!!! - 6/7/2006 11:47:45 PM

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Looks like you're putting far too much thought into this. You must be really bored.

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RE: The Thread!!! - 6/7/2006 11:56:55 PM

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Well, they're going to do a Die Hard 4...

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RE: The Thread!!! - 6/7/2006 11:58:10 PM

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Ooo, can't wait. Those Die Hard movies are lots of fun.

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RE: The Thread!!! - 6/8/2006 12:20:17 AM

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How about Stallone? Rocky 35 anyone?

As a B movie actor? I actually thought Rocky was a good flick, from an acting standpoint. He also made one of my all time favorite B movies, Demolition Man. That movie cracks me up.

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RE: The Thread!!! - 6/8/2006 12:21:21 AM

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I just want to say good luck to Terminus with his exams tomorrow. If he does a morning tithe, he should see this.

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RE: The Thread!!! - 6/8/2006 12:22:14 AM

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How about Stallone? Rocky 35 anyone?

Stallone is about with Gov. Arnold S. (imo)

Both are capable of expression, but it looks like a distinct effort to produce the facial contortions of emotion. Plankish, but not Great Planks.

I would put stallone in the over acting category. He's stone faced a lot of the time, but when you do get a facial expression, look out, someone could get hurt.

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RE: The Thread!!! - 6/8/2006 12:25:06 AM

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Ooo, can't wait. Those Die Hard movies are lots of fun.

I agree. I wasn't real big on the second one, but the first and third were great. I loved Samuel L Jackson's character. "Why do you keep callin' me Jesus, do I look Puerto Rican to you....It's Zeus, like god of olympus Zeus...don't mess with me or I'll shove a lighting bolt up your a#$, Zeus."

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RE: The Thread!!! - 6/8/2006 12:25:40 AM

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Another good B movie actor is Bruce Campbell. He did the Army of Darkness. It was a good B movie because they knew they were making a B movie and did not take themselves too seriously.

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RE: The Thread!!! - 6/8/2006 12:31:42 AM

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On the subject of movies, I was reading Time magaizine at lunch and found out they are making a WW1 movie about the Lafeyette Escadrelle (spelling?

). I think it's called Flyboys. It will use some computer generated graphics, but they have 6 flying aircraft, a couple of Neuports, a Sopwith (not a camel) and at least one Fokker DR1 triplane. It could be good. The article said it would be out in October. It's being filmed in England.

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RE: The Thread!!! - 6/8/2006 2:05:59 AM

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MENTOS AND DIET COKE REDUX

This is amazing - these two birds spent >$500 on Diet Coke and Mentos and developed some new techniques to get this terrific video:

http://eepybird.com/dcm1.html

EDIT: Size 7 Font is bigger than i remembered!!

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RE: The Thread!!! - 6/8/2006 2:11:33 AM

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Ooo, can't wait. Those Die Hard movies are lots of fun.

I agree. I wasn't real big on the second one, but the first and third were great. I loved Samuel L Jackson's character. "Why do you keep callin' me Jesus, do I look Puerto Rican to you....It's Zeus, like god of olympus Zeus...don't mess with me or I'll shove a lighting bolt up your a#$, Zeus."

i'm with you - #2 wasn't as good, plus it had a plot point that wouldn't work, and the story sort of hinged on it. It wasn't anything terribly major and was technical, but to my mind, it just sort of messed up the whole story.

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RE: The Thread!!! - 6/8/2006 2:13:06 AM

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I just want to say good luck to Terminus with his exams tomorrow. If he does a morning tithe, he should see this.

Good luck, T!!!

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RE: The Thread!!! - 6/8/2006 2:49:40 AM

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Someone mentioned Crow. I liked him in Master and Commander. This was a case of I liked the movie better than the book. I can not remember the author's name. I read 2 of his books and did not like them and did not read any more.

CS Forester was the best for naval fiction in that era. Alexander Kent was right behind. Forester also did Captain from Conneticut For the US point of view in the War of 1812.

From the WWII era he dis Sink the Bismark and 1 title I can't remember about a US destroyer doing Atlantic escort duty. I have the title downstairs if anyone wants to know what it is. It was a very good book.

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RE: The Thread!!! - 6/8/2006 2:59:16 AM

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The name of that CS Forester book in the above post is The Good Shepherd

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RE: The Thread!!! - 6/8/2006 3:29:04 AM

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The smart one generally end up as politicians or contractors.

Interesting observation Robert. Ever notice how often the two are in cahoots.

We had a big scandal in Denver not so long ago, in one of our suburbs actually. Turns out the city's board of directors, that actually run the city, had 3 of its 5 members in a partnership in a big real estate development firm. The board would direct the rezoning of land for development and somehow the real esate developers always ended up owning the land. I think one of the board memebers actualy ended up doing time and the others were simply forced to resign.

Quotes from tonight' Simpsons rerun (Don't Fear the Roofer):

Marge "... why you didn't show up to finish our roof?"

Ray the Roofer: "You forget - I'm a contractor!"

Marge : (laughter) "That's right! You're all crooks!!"

Ray the Roofer: (laughter) "Yeah, we're all crooks..."

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