Topic: NEW GUY IN TOWN (Read 24830 times)

George · « **Reply #210 on:** May 02, 2005, 08:22:03 PM »

Welcome back DR Cillaliz and DR Ozderek and DR Rodzinski!!

George · « **Reply #211 on:** May 02, 2005, 08:24:34 PM »

Tonight (right now, actually) is the last episode of "Antiques Roadshow" from Portland, Oregon. I'm taping it and watching "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition: How'd They Do That?" I'll watch it later to see if either I or my friend Margo is in the background.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #212 on:** May 02, 2005, 08:25:47 PM »

I want to play Jack S. Phogbound....there's NO Jack S like OUR Jack S!

Jrand74 · « **Reply #213 on:** May 02, 2005, 08:26:28 PM »

Congratulations to Guy and BK on their accomplishments - and to Miss Jessica Rush on her recording studio debut!

Jrand74 · « **Reply #214 on:** May 02, 2005, 08:27:19 PM »

You think you have it bad? HERE in Indiana, THE COLOSSUS OF RHODES doesn't come on until 1 a.m.!

And it wasn't filmed in just TotalScope - it was filmed in SUPERTotalSCOPE!!

Jrand74 · « **Reply #215 on:** May 02, 2005, 08:27:32 PM »

Hi CillaLiz!

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #216 on:** May 02, 2005, 08:46:41 PM »

Good Evening!

Welcome back DR ozderek!

Welcome back DR Cillaliz!

Welcome home DR Rodzinksi! -So, was Antonia still crying when you came through the door?

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #217 on:** May 02, 2005, 08:47:03 PM »

DR Jane - Thanks for your well wishes.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #218 on:** May 02, 2005, 08:47:14 PM »

And now, I sleep...

Goodnight.

bk · « **Reply #219 on:** May 02, 2005, 08:57:11 PM »

Sleep??? We don't need no stinking sleep. It is only nine o'clock. Well, midnight where you are, but since when are you a shrinking violet or a shrinking daisy or one of those shrinking Hilton sisters.

Rodzinski · « **Reply #220 on:** May 02, 2005, 09:00:58 PM »

Gee, I miss a few days, come back, take time to read all the posts, then so many folks have disappeared!

Thanks all for the welcomes back. Antonia's tears had dried a bit. In fact she was out with friends when I got back last night. And I had been expecting a hero's welcome!

MBarnum · « **Reply #221 on:** May 02, 2005, 09:01:28 PM »

Quote from: bk on May 02, 2005, 08:14:51 PM

I've got to get a production of Li'l Abner going for me to direct so I can cast Miss Jessica Rush as Daisy Mae.

Hmm...I was thinking that Miss Jessica Skerritt would make a nice Daisy Mae.

Rodzinski · « **Reply #222 on:** May 02, 2005, 09:02:42 PM »

If you read the last few days of posts in one sitting, as I have, you just might come to the conclusion that BK has a "little problem" with EmergenC!

Rodzinski · « **Reply #223 on:** May 02, 2005, 09:03:29 PM »

Whoo-hoo! Did I mention it's great to be back!!!?

Sandra · « **Reply #224 on:** May 02, 2005, 09:07:05 PM »

Hey, Rodzinski. Having you back is like jumping rope with an electric eel while eating potato salad. (That's a good thing.) Welcome back!

bk · « **Reply #225 on:** May 02, 2005, 09:10:01 PM »

Glad Rodzinski is finally back!

I have no problem with EmergenC other than having to pee all the time from the amount of water and EmergenC I have been drinking.

I've just had my third cup of EmergenC for the day and am feeling very relaxed and actually quite nice. A bit later I shall have a steaming shower.

Rodzinski · « **Reply #226 on:** May 02, 2005, 09:11:51 PM »

War movies: JRand and MBarnum both named what I thought was a rather rare flick called BETWEEN HEAVEN AND HELL. Quite a good show. Robert Wagner is this rich Southern silver-spoon type, see. And Buddy Ebsen is in his unit and he's a real, well, hillbilly. Do you think Wagner learns the value of friendship during some rough fighting in Japan? Watch and find out.

I always enjoyed VON RYAN'S EXPRESS, but maybe its a little cheesy now.
I like the film version of CATCH-22 a lot.

A great one I saw last year was called THE LOST SQUADRON with Richard Dix, Joel McCrea and Erich von Stroheim. Three great pilots come back from WWI and can't find a job and end up as hobos till they show up on von Stroheim's movie set where he hires them as stunt pilots, but he is so crazy, he wants only the most dangerous-looking stunts he can get, so he's getting all these guys killed. The only movie I know of from that era that features somebody flipping the bird.

Rodzinski · « **Reply #227 on:** May 02, 2005, 09:15:14 PM »

Funny Sandra, potato salad with eels was one of the dishes on the menu in Montreal.

BK, glad to hear. I've heard of EmergenC addictions, people tripping out at clubs and whatnot.

MBarnum · « **Reply #228 on:** May 02, 2005, 09:20:18 PM »

Ah, one more War movie that I love...HELL TO ETERNITY (1960) starring Jeffrey Hunter, David Janseen, Miiko Taka, Michi Kobi, and the lovely Reiko Sato who the following year would co-star as Helen Chao in FLOWER DRUM SONG!

MBarnum · « **Reply #229 on:** May 02, 2005, 09:21:55 PM »

I must now peruse my new issue of CLASSIC IMAGES and then hit the hay.

bk · « **Reply #230 on:** May 02, 2005, 09:21:56 PM »

Really? I can have an EmergenC on my back?

No, no addiction, and I tell you I cannot wait until tomorrow is done because I shall not be drinking that stuff again for quite some time.

Rodzinski · « **Reply #231 on:** May 02, 2005, 09:31:11 PM »

Odd place, Montreal. Okay, I knew they speak French up there. No, this was not lost on me. But they REALLY speak it. It's not just a game to those folks! I had to remember some of the things I learned in high school and college. Came in handy when filling up the gas tank, let me tell you. Although "vingt" Canadian dollars only fills a tank less than halfway...

Anyways, to answer the question posed by TCB, I was not particularly well-behaved on my journey north. Montreal, it turns out, is a town that seems to cater to vices a good bit. Luckily, mine are not as bad as some folks. But a good time was had, I saw some things I'll not soon forget, some I'll never remember, and some I'll just TRY to never remember.

The only legal trouble we had was a ticket for someone talking on his cellphone while driving, and that was two blocks from my apartment!

Rodzinski · « **Reply #232 on:** May 02, 2005, 09:35:38 PM »

I always wanted to see D Janssen in the war movie, DONDI!

Sandra · « **Reply #233 on:** May 02, 2005, 09:38:31 PM »

The only thing I remember about my one trip to Canada when I was three was when we were in a public bathroom somewhere in Quebec and there was this girl in there talking in French to her mom. I was only three, so I didn't realize she was speaking another language and just thought she was crazy.

There's your completely random and irrelevant story for the day.

It's getting hard to tell if this paper is done or not because I'm not really sure what it's about in the first place.

Rodzinski · « **Reply #234 on:** May 02, 2005, 09:39:13 PM »

Which reminds me of two Montgomery Clift war movies that are excellent:

THE SEARCH, directed by Fred Zinneman. Really, extremely good, but inexplicably not on video. TCM shows it now and then.

And the underrated THE BIG LIFT, which is available wherever cheap public domain films are sold. I guess both of these are technically postwar films, but they both deal directly with military and the aftermath of WWII.

Rodzinski · « **Reply #235 on:** May 02, 2005, 09:50:39 PM »

Quote from: Sandra on May 02, 2005, 09:38:31 PM

The only thing I remember about my one trip to Canada when I was three was when we were in a public bathroom somewhere in Quebec and there was this girl in there talking in French to her mom. I was only three, so I didn't realize she was speaking another language and just thought she was crazy.

There's your completely random and irrelevant story for the day.

Not completely irrelevant, because I did get into some trouble at that gas station restroom. At this point, we had just arrived in the country, and all the signs were in both languages and I go to use the restroom, and some guy is standing outside, and he speaks to me in French, and I thought he was mumbling in English and messing with me, then it dawns on me, he's speaking French. So he repeats himself, and I understand, okay, his wife is in the bathroom, so all I wanted to do was say "thanks", and I draw a complete blank. I'm remembering the French word for "ski lift", "butcher shop" everything else, and I can't think of "Merci"!

Rodzinski · « **Reply #236 on:** May 02, 2005, 09:56:22 PM »

Okay, enough of my babble. I shall now babble off to sleep. Goodnight Sandra, George, Tomovoz and BK who is likely right now showering under the influence of EmergenC.

"télésiége" is "ski lift", by the way.

Sandra · « **Reply #237 on:** May 02, 2005, 10:02:32 PM »

Good night!

And I'll remember "telesiege" in case I ever find myself in the bathroom with a girl who only speaks French again. At least we'll have something to talk about.

bk · « **Reply #238 on:** May 02, 2005, 10:04:06 PM »

I might consider Miss Jessica Skerritt as Daisy Mae, but she keeps ignoring us. We've tried our best to make her a star, but she is blissfully unaware, you see, and the blissfully unaware need to be aware in order for stardom to strike.

Charles Pogue · « **Reply #239 on:** May 02, 2005, 10:09:53 PM »

DONDI?!!!!! One of the worst comic strips ever!!! Right up there with HENRY & THE LITTLE KING!

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