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  1. MikeKardec

    Opinions on small SUVs

    I believe that the 4Runner is the SUV version of the Tacoma truck. If so, guys I know and respect have taken the Tacos around the world, into the arctic and across the Andes. In the "expedition vehicle" arena they are very highly regarded for anyone who can not obtain a Toyota Land Cruiser 70...
  2. MikeKardec

    Seperating myth from reality: Nazi secret tech development projects

    Ah yes, the inevitable Toilet Death that is waiting for all too smart for their own good engineers! It's not good enough that you somehow kill yourself with the toilet but you take all your comrades with you! It's still somewhat breath taking for this reasonably well off American to see how...
  3. MikeKardec

    Seperating myth from reality: Nazi secret tech development projects

    There is a showoff-iness to a good deal of European engineering ... as an Italian (and German) car owner I can vouch for it not just being the Germans! "Ingenious solutions to non-existent problems," we used to call it. On the other hand a lot of that Captain Showoff behavior led to some...
  4. MikeKardec

    Seperating myth from reality: Nazi secret tech development projects

    I remember Harbinson's fiction made me a bit queasy. Some combination of the subject matter and his way of presenting it. It's interesting, however, for it's role in establishing the mythos. I've never tried to plot the trajectory of the development of the Nazi saucer story but for the second...
  5. MikeKardec

    Seperating myth from reality: Nazi secret tech development projects

    WAIT! Hold the phone! Here's one we forgot: The wacko yet prophetic Projekt Saucer series by W.A. Harbinson. I'm sure this has been mentioned somewhere on this site before (I did but only in passing) but I completely forgot that this dude (writing fiction) practically invented the Nazi saucer...
  7. MikeKardec

    Favorite Film Making sequences ... in FILMS?

    Yeah, and they are all pretty good! TFLW is an exception but I'm pretty sure that the issue of refusing to take film making in films seriously is a Hollywood based trait. It's interesting how many of the examples offered here come with caveats: they are not to be taken seriously no matter how...
  8. MikeKardec

    Hunting Hitler on the History Channel

    Oh and By the Way Jakes, the Hitler/Belushi cartoon is hysterical.
  9. MikeKardec

    Hunting Hitler on the History Channel

    You are absolutely right and right to not want to criticize the teamsters. I assure you that my quips came only out of (somewhat irritated) affection. I worked with a great many Teamsters and, while they were loyal to their cause in trying to get you to hire ever more of them they were always...
  10. MikeKardec

    Hunting Hitler on the History Channel

    The Teamsters are nice people ... but somehow you always end up with more of them than you budgeted for! Truly, if you buy them all copies of Shotgun News and RV magazines they'll be happy to sit in the cab of their trucks all day ... oh wait, that's what they do anyway. On the other hand, the...
  11. MikeKardec

    Hunting Hitler on the History Channel

    Very funny! Lizzie, your mind kills fascists!
  13. MikeKardec

    Seperating myth from reality: Nazi secret tech development projects

    I'm laughing at all of this though I'm sure that other militaries have suffered from the same hyperactive imagination and romantic notions. The Luftwaffe Drilling, hysterical ... though you can see the edges of typical colonial thinking and perhaps an aspect of some concept of depraved chivalry...
  14. MikeKardec

    Hail, Ceasar!

    I'm guessing they 1) liked the name, and 2) it's easier to hire a top actor when they can play a "real" character. Stars are addicted to playing something "real" (maybe because there is so little that is real in their lives!). It's kind of a common trick, not to interject a sort of faux real...
  15. MikeKardec

    Favorite Film Making sequences ... in FILMS?

    Yeah! That's a good place to start.
  16. MikeKardec

    Seperating myth from reality: Nazi secret tech development projects

    It really just seems that they weren't ready for the war they later created, once ambition got the best of them. If you think of early Nazi victories, Austria, Czechoslovakia, nudging into the borderlands of France, there was always a well prepared political component. The target was softened...
  17. MikeKardec

    Hunting Hitler on the History Channel

    I swear, every time I read the title of this post my mind transforms it into, "Hunting History on the Hitler Channel!"
  19. MikeKardec

    Hunting Hitler on the History Channel

    It's worth considering, when watching The History Channel or anything else on TV, that the executives who are in charge of these shows tend to have a great contempt for their audiences. They get excited about what they are doing but it is as a salesman helping to create a product (Geritol...
  20. MikeKardec

    Seperating myth from reality: Nazi secret tech development projects

    I've always though that if some exotic motive power had been found the logical way to use it would be to have installed it as a power source for factories or radar or headquarters buildings rather than to immediately think "Wonder Weapon." By 1945 Germany didn't really have much to lose by...
  21. MikeKardec

    Seperating myth from reality: Nazi secret tech development projects

    I agree. There is "back up" for a great deal of the rumors but can you imagine what people would think of technology in the US if it was accepted that anything that made it to the blue print stage was viable technology? Lusar's book in fascinating but some of what is in it is just crank...
  22. MikeKardec

    Favorite Film Making sequences ... in FILMS?

    Yeah ... it's that parody thing that bugs me. Why? Occasionally, I get it. Film makers take themselves way too seriously but the constant "silly world" view of film making is really odd! I'll have to take a look at Show Girl, that's kind of promising because maybe it's early enough to have...
  23. MikeKardec

    Favorite Film Making sequences ... in FILMS?

    In another thread I was just bemoaning the fact that it's only very rarely that I have seen accurate depictions of film making in movies. On top of that it is very often the case that the films being depicted in movies about movie making are terrible ... so terrible that I've always suspected...

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