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RE: OT Things to ponder - 6/22/2016 12:10:38 AM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 6/22/2016 12:38:10 AM   
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"Why?" she asked.

"I left my harp in Sam Clam's disco."

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 6/22/2016 1:08:57 AM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 6/22/2016 3:26:19 AM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 6/22/2016 3:28:21 AM   
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I have a movie idea for Disney. A sequel to Finding Nemo and Finding Dora. In it would be introduced a starfish named Hans. He would be voiced by Sir Anthony Hopkins. The working title I have is Silence of the Clams.



I forgot, there's this scallop named Clarisse who's chasing Hans around trying to stop him. She's with the FBS, Federal Bureau of Seafood.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 6/22/2016 3:30:13 AM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 6/22/2016 5:45:38 AM   
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I know this isn't out and out politics, but it's a very political topic in the US these days. Please refrain from it.

Bill

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 6/22/2016 3:53:52 PM   
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I know this isn't out and out politics, but it's a very political topic in the US these days. Please refrain from it.

Bill

My apologies. I've deleted my post , and I'd appreciate your deleting the quotes of my posts. Thank you.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 6/22/2016 9:42:17 PM   
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I have something in common with Cmdr. Spock. I am half human on the maternal side and that side is Welsh as far back as anyone knows.
Problem is whenever I visit relatives they try to make shoes or luggage out of me.


Lucky I don't have any Cajun relatives, they'd probably put me on a stick over a fire.


Is this one of your relations? I saw "her" recently on Kolchak: The Night Stalker, fighting with various researchers and govt agents, trying to retrieve her stolen eggs from an underground archive site near Chicago.






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RE: OT Things to ponder - 6/23/2016 12:44:01 AM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 6/23/2016 8:16:11 PM   
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http://www.svtplay.se/video/9142668/fagelon/fagelon




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RE: OT Things to ponder - 6/23/2016 8:18:54 PM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 6/23/2016 8:56:19 PM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 6/23/2016 9:23:45 PM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 6/24/2016 2:08:55 AM   
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Can we still refer to them as 'trannies" or is that now considered disrespectful?
Wouldn't want to say the wrong thing and get stomped like a bug!


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RE: OT Things to ponder - 6/25/2016 5:11:36 PM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 6/25/2016 5:12:42 PM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 6/25/2016 5:17:59 PM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 6/25/2016 5:24:22 PM   
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As a huge Star Wars fan, I don't think anything can be worse than the mediocre and commercially bland "Force Awakens" that JJ Abrams gave us...


Apparently you've not seen "Pearl Harbor". Oops, I promised not to mention that. My bad.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 6/25/2016 5:26:42 PM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 6/25/2016 5:55:12 PM   
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Well, besides the Pearl Harbor movie. We're not supposed to speak of that...

The-Film-That-Shall-Not-Be-Mentioned. Ever.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 6/25/2016 6:05:57 PM   
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As a huge Star Wars fan, I don't think anything can be worse than the mediocre and bland "Force Awakens" that JJ Abrams gave us...

My wife and I saw that with two friends on opening night. We hated it. They loved it. Neither of us could understand all the published accolades that followed.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 6/25/2016 6:57:22 PM   
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As a huge Star Wars fan, I don't think anything can be worse than the mediocre and bland "Force Awakens" that JJ Abrams gave us...

My wife and I saw that with two friends on opening night. We hated it. They loved it. Neither of us could understand all the published accolades that followed.


You wouldn't be Chinese, would you? The whole country hated it.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 6/25/2016 7:19:36 PM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 6/25/2016 7:31:36 PM   
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Status: offline 		A good friend of mine who is also a huge star wars nerd also hated it. Others who were no quite so fanatical about Star Wars seemed to enjoy it. This has been my anecdotal experience regarding how reactions to the movie played out.

For my part, I thought the story was bad and wholly unimaginative, not to mention illogical at points (don't get me started on the new death star attacking across the infinite distances of space in a matter of seconds). There is a republic, so why is the resistance still a "resistance" and acting like a rebellion if they won? How did this Mary Stu new Jedi girl learn all her powers and become a master jedi in a matter of seconds on a whim? If I recall Luke Skywalker actually had to go to Dagoba and learn from Yoda. That was the most contrived part of the plot I saw in a plot full of contrived developments. Etc. etc. It's been many months since I'd last watched it, so I'd need to refresh my memory of all the criticisms.

Here's a nice LA Times review of the movie: http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-star-wars-the-force-awakens-stinks-20151226-column.html

Here's a site that gives a decent breakdown on a lot of bad areas: http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/274463/episode-vii-sucks/

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 6/25/2016 8:05:12 PM   
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I just read that Ben Affleck was offered the "The Force Awakens" directing job. Hmmm, I wonder how that might've turned out?






He was too busy preparing an NFL/Goodell rant about the Patriots and Brady .... He knew ahead of time that they'd get got ... again .....

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 6/25/2016 9:18:51 PM   
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As a huge Star Wars fan, I don't think anything can be worse than the mediocre and bland "Force Awakens" that JJ Abrams gave us...

My wife and I saw that with two friends on opening night. We hated it. They loved it. Neither of us could understand all the published accolades that followed.


You wouldn't be Chinese, would you? The whole country hated it.

Me, no; my wife, from Taiwan. The couple we were with: him, no; she is ABC.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 6/26/2016 4:14:10 AM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 6/26/2016 4:57:27 AM   
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The last Star Wars movie I saw was the Return of the Jedi, the year it was released. I'm a big SF fan, but never really got into Star Wars. Nice special effects for the era, but meh story line.

Bill

Totally agree! Entertaining movies, mostly, but certainly no interesting SF there.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 6/26/2016 7:13:08 PM   
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Edit: So why did the Chinese hate it?


They didn't have that much exposure to the saga from the beginning, and don't seem to think putting the effort in to see it all worthwhile.

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