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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Jul 16, 2017 1:43:55 GMT -5
Is there any scene in all of Cinema more heart-wrenchingly sad than watching that unrealistic sentient shoe get murdered in Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
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Post by William T. Goat, Esq. on Jul 16, 2017 20:28:34 GMT -5
Welp, the 48 hours are up. Got all the filming done yesterday. I had a bit part onscreen at the end. They didn't need me for post-production, so I spent today alternately doing chores and sleeping.
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Post by MyNameIsNoneOfYourGoddamnBusin on Jul 17, 2017 18:38:41 GMT -5
Reading about Martin Landau dying this morning all I could think was how many original Twilight Zone lead actors are still alive. Besides Shatner, Bill Mumy, and Cloris Leachman (the latter two from the same episode), I can't come up with any (although there are some name bit part actors I can come up with). Considering how long ago it aired, it's likely a good number of the child actors are long dead.
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Post by Ben Grimm on Jul 17, 2017 18:46:19 GMT -5
Reading about Martin Landau dying this morning all I could think was how many original Twilight Zone lead actors are still alive. Besides Shatner, Bill Mumy, and Cloris Leachman (the latter two from the same episode), I can't come up with any (although there are some name bit part actors I can come up with). Considering how long ago it aired, it's likely a good number of the child actors are long dead. Robert Redford was in at least one episode.
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Post by Dr. Rumak on Jul 17, 2017 20:50:18 GMT -5
Looking through a list of Twilight Zone actors, apparently Shelly Berman is still alive. Although if he dies anytime in next few days, I'm going to blame this thread (and not the fact that he's 93 years old). Also, Dean Stockwell, Robert Duvall, Orson Bean, Pippa Scott, Carol Burnett, George Takei, and Ron Howard are all names I recognize from the list, and all still living.
Oddly, Landau's death had me thinking the same thing about the cast of the original Mission: Impossible TV series. There were not nearly as many as TZ, of course. But not too many are left.
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Post by chalkdevil 😈 on Jul 17, 2017 21:14:33 GMT -5
I realized that I am just as far away from my own birth, as my birth was from the end of WW2.
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Post by Dr. Rumak on Jul 17, 2017 21:28:56 GMT -5
I realized that I am just as far away from my own birth, as my birth was from the end of WW2. Aren't we all?
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Jul 17, 2017 23:14:44 GMT -5
Is there any scene in all of Cinema more heart-wrenchingly sad than watching that unrealistic sentient shoe get murdered in Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Um, so I occasionally will voice my random thoughts both on this thread and on Twitter, and the other night, I Tweeted about that unrealistic sentient shoe from Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Today, I see I've had a reply from this account, which I do not follow, and which does not follow me. So, I'm not sure what I should find most off-putting here. The fact that there is a Twitter account for what is an account for what appears to be, if memory serves, a...clan...or something, for an >10 year old MMO (Toontown was an MMO, right?), the fact that said Twitter account has over 2,000 followers, the fact that the individual who signed this Tweet assumed that the initials "SA" would mean something to me, the fact that, from a cursory overview of some of their latest Tweets, they might actually think of themselves as sentient cartoons rather than flesh and blood human beings, the fact that they must have been doing Twitter searches for any tweets about the 29 year old film Who Framed Roger Rabbit (because there's no way, with my 17 followers, that they just happened across my Tweet by chance), the fact that there are still people in the Year of Our Lord 2017 who still use the word "bub" even as an affectation to imitate Bugs Bunny, or the fact that this person assumed that my description of the sentient shoe as "unrealistic" wasn't meant to be comically redundant in the first place and that I must have been walking around these past two days deeply disturbed by the fact that the shoe had eyes and and a mouth and could move of its own volition and make squeaking vocalizations. Seriously though, I was pretty drunk when I posted this original comment and Tweet and I think I might've shed a couple of tears while watching a Youtube clip of that poor shoe getting dissolved by The Dip.
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Post by Celebith on Jul 18, 2017 1:41:42 GMT -5
Reading about Martin Landau dying this morning all I could think was how many original Twilight Zone lead actors are still alive. Besides Shatner, Bill Mumy, and Cloris Leachman (the latter two from the same episode), I can't come up with any (although there are some name bit part actors I can come up with). Considering how long ago it aired, it's likely a good number of the child actors are long dead. Bill Mumy, who played Anthony in "It's a Good Life", the boy who can 'banish people to the cornfield', is still alive. He's also part of Barnes and Barnes.
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Post by monodrone on Jul 18, 2017 4:23:32 GMT -5
Is there any scene in all of Cinema more heart-wrenchingly sad than watching that unrealistic sentient shoe get murdered in Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Um, so I occasionally will voice my random thoughts both on this thread and on Twitter, and the other night, I Tweeted about that unrealistic sentient shoe from Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Today, I see I've had a reply from this account, which I do not follow, and which does not follow me. So, I'm not sure what I should find most off-putting here. The fact that there is a Twitter account for what is an account for what appears to be, if memory serves, a...clan...or something, for an >10 year old MMO (Toontown was an MMO, right?), the fact that said Twitter account has over 2,000 followers, the fact that the individual who signed this Tweet assumed that the initials "SA" would mean something to me, the fact that, from a cursory overview of some of their latest Tweets, they might actually think of themselves as sentient cartoons rather than flesh and blood human beings, the fact that they must have been doing Twitter searches for any tweets about the 29 year old film Who Framed Roger Rabbit (because there's no way, with my 17 followers, that they just happened across my Tweet by chance), the fact that there are still people in the Year of Our Lord 2017 who still use the word "bub" even as an affectation to imitate Bugs Bunny, or the fact that this person assumed that my description of the sentient shoe as "unrealistic" wasn't meant to be comically redundant in the first place and that I must have been walking around these past two days deeply disturbed by the fact that the shoe had eyes and and a mouth and could move of its own volition and make squeaking vocalizations. Seriously though, I was pretty drunk when I posted this original comment and Tweet and I think I might've shed a couple of tears while watching a Youtube clip of that poor shoe getting dissolved by The Dip. The Toon Patrol are the secondary antagonists in the 1988 movie 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit?'. 'SA' denotes that the 'member' of the 'Toon' 'Patrol' who 'tweeted' that is the gang leader 'Smartass'. That is an exceptionally stupid twitter account and I can only applaud whoever is doing it for really committing to the bit.
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Post by Trurl on Jul 18, 2017 10:18:05 GMT -5
This morning I found an email in my inbox that was in French and seemed to be a notification that unexploded 20mm and 75mm shells had been found in Zone A4 in building 86 and that a security perimeter had been set up.
If it was spam then it may be the weirdest spam I've ever gotten.
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Post by Jean Luc de Lemur on Jul 18, 2017 10:50:39 GMT -5
Reading about Martin Landau dying this morning all I could think was how many original Twilight Zone lead actors are still alive. Besides Shatner, Bill Mumy, and Cloris Leachman (the latter two from the same episode), I can't come up with any (although there are some name bit part actors I can come up with). Considering how long ago it aired, it's likely a good number of the child actors are long dead. Robert Redford was in at least one episode. I got my Republican grandmother to watch All Is Lost by telling her the whole film was basically waiting to see whether Robert Redford dies or not.
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Post by Lt. Broccoli on Jul 18, 2017 20:21:40 GMT -5
A friend from grad school in Toronto is now doing yet another degree in the city where I live, my hometown where I went to university as an undergrad. I only have basic, paltry borrowing privileges with my alumni card, but now that she's a student here, she can order books through interlibrary loan, so she has been ordering books for me that I can't get any other way. The other day I had coffee with her in person so she could give me the books, which is the first time I have actually seen her in probably 7 or 8 years. I forgot how supremely weird she is...but we were all giant weirdos in grad school. You have to be pretty weird to study medieval history like that. I wasn't surprised, I just forgot! I wonder if I'm still that weird, if I came across as super weird to her as well.
Anyway today I picked up some more books from her, but I made my excuses and said I couldn't stay. I didn't actually have anything to do, but I couldn't handle another awkward conversation. Now I feel bad...but not too bad.
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Jul 18, 2017 21:18:27 GMT -5
I vaguely remember waking up at still dark o clock this morning, waking my girlfriend up, asking why is there ice cream truck music playing, and then saying nevermind and going back to sleep. I have no context for why I did this but I should probably apologise. Did she answer your question? Was there ice cream truck music playing? And if so, why?
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Post by Dr. Rumak on Jul 19, 2017 8:23:49 GMT -5
We're not far from cameras being installed in every airplane seat so that can airlines can "prove" that the customers were the real issue when they get kicked off of a flight.
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Post by Floyd D Barber on Jul 19, 2017 12:07:14 GMT -5
We're not far from cameras being installed in every airplane seat so that can airlines can "prove" that the customers were the real issue when they get kicked off of a flight. At least it's not like the old days, when, if you pissed off the Trailways driver, they would drag you off the bus, kick the shit out of you, leave you in a ditch beside the corn field, and drive on.* *I have no idea if anything like that ever really happened, but that's my mental image of cross-country bus travel. I imagine reality is closer to this: My dad told me he once drove a bus (I think maybe from Vandalia to Springfield) for about a week, and the passengers got on his nerves so bad that he finally stopped somewhere along the route, shut off the bus, and got out and just walked away. Now that I think about it, that in itself is sort of bad-ass.
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Post by MyNameIsNoneOfYourGoddamnBusin on Jul 19, 2017 15:55:18 GMT -5
There is no phone call in history I would rather listen to a recording of than a call to the TV Guide Crossword Puzzle Helpline.
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Post by Meth Lab Shenanigans on Jul 19, 2017 17:23:15 GMT -5
the Hashtag Resistance people are convinced that Chapo Trap House is a podcast for frat dudebros, and it's true. I love discussing Garfield canon, roasting Kevin D Williamson, and discussing trains with twenty guys named Chad at a kegger
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Post by William T. Goat, Esq. on Jul 19, 2017 18:12:10 GMT -5
pleasedon'tfiremepleasedon'tfiremepleasedon'tfireme
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Post by Lord Lucan on Jul 19, 2017 20:16:55 GMT -5
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Post by Powerthirteen on Jul 19, 2017 21:33:17 GMT -5
For someone who's constantly berating himself for needing to do more, it's amazing how little I manage to motivate myself to do.
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Post by moimoi on Jul 19, 2017 22:02:43 GMT -5
For someone who's constantly berating himself for needing to do more, it's amazing how little I manage to motivate myself to do.
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Jul 20, 2017 7:52:38 GMT -5
I have mixed feelings about John McCain as a politician, but brain cancer is a horrible thing and I wish him and his family only the best in the fight ahead.
But man, there's no small amount of irony if the whole TrumpCare debacle finally dies because McCain's not around to vote because he's using his taxpayer funded healthcare to fight cancer.
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Post by sarapen on Jul 20, 2017 9:00:45 GMT -5
Damn birds keep shitting on my hammock. I have to spot clean that you useless bastards. Also I'm pretty sure a squirrel dropped an apple on my face when I was in the hammock one time.
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Post by Floyd D Barber on Jul 20, 2017 11:00:33 GMT -5
With registration not presently required, and the threshold for TMI/Shoutbox access raised to 100 posts, should we make a thread to post teasers hinting at the riches that await those who persevere in posting? Nothing too graphic or personal (no names) or incriminating, but more vague and interesting. I'm thinking of things along the lines of:
"This Week in 'Things that Irrationally Anger Me': Librarian fight!"
I'd put some effort into sticking around if I knew stuff like that was happening..
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Post by Lt. Broccoli on Jul 20, 2017 14:58:05 GMT -5
I finally talked to the neighbour about him contributing to the payment for the fence, and we came to an agreement...but he also invited me in for tea, and I had to decline, because I was just on my way out when I noticed he was home. Now I'm worried that I have horribly offended him.
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Post by LazBro on Jul 20, 2017 15:03:11 GMT -5
I finally talked to the neighbour about him contributing to the payment for the fence, and we came to an agreement...but he also invited me in for tea, and I had to decline, because I was just on my way out when I noticed he was home. Now I'm worried that I have horribly offended him. Nah, you dodged it there. He only acquiesced to your fence request at all because he knew he was going to immediately poison your tea thereafter.
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Post by Powerthirteen on Jul 20, 2017 15:24:39 GMT -5
Today is my first of 10 days of vacation. I got up at 7 AM and spent 5 hours cooking and prepping a lunch for my team at work. It was awesome, but now I don't know what to do with myself for the rest of the vacation.
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Post by MrsLangdonAlger on Jul 20, 2017 19:54:44 GMT -5
Lee Pace is painfully attractive.
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Post by Dr. Rumak on Jul 20, 2017 21:45:31 GMT -5
Today is my first of 10 days of vacation. I got up at 7 AM and spent 5 hours cooking and prepping a lunch for my team at work. It was awesome, but now I don't know what to do with myself for the rest of the vacation. Have you considered traveling to North Carolina and cooking for some internet friends?
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