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  1. Inkstainedwretch

    Your favorite movie quotes

    Pike Bishop: "Let's go." Lyle Gorch: "Why not?" The Wild Bunch
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    Ghosts, Time Travel, and Space / Inter-dimensional Neural Communication...

    My favorite VW ad line: "It makes your house look bigger."
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    old candy bars were called lunch bars?

    Speaking of discontinued candy bars, one of my favorites was the Butternut bar. It was a very simple chocolate, caramel and peanut bar, but its chocolate coating had a very distinctive flavor that I liked. It was made by the Hollywood candy company, in Hollywood, MO, not the one in CA. Hershey...
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    old candy bars were called lunch bars?

    The reason RC beat out Coca-Cola in the Depression South was value. Both cost a nickel, but Coke was in a 10-oz. bottle and RC was 12 oz., so you got more for your nickel. A Moon Pie was a nickel, too, so you got lunch for a dime.
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    What's For Breakfast...

    Hot dogs.
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    That's life!

    "You can tell it's Mattel - it's swell!" Just thought I'd throw that in.
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    The Decaying Evolution of Education...

    Where do you live that 1 1/2 lbs of grapes cost $8.79? It's a couple of bucks where I live and they don't even grow around here. If you're paying premium for "örganic" grapes I hope you're buying them from a grower you know and trust. All sorts of stuff gets labeled "organic" that is nothing...
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    Headed to CHICAGO for a couple days . . .

    Another fun tour is the Untouchables Tour. It's narrated by a couple of hammy actors in period garb who point out the great gangster sights. Actually, it's a tour of the old ethnic neighborhoods of Chicago, but you go by the Biograph Theater, the site of the St, Valentine's Day Massacre, Holy...
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    Ghosts, Time Travel, and Space / Inter-dimensional Neural Communication...

    Yet for thousands of years people have made a pretty good living out of claiming that they know exactly that, and charge for temporary salvation from it.
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    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    I didn't know that.
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    Most Over-rated Actress of the Golden Era?

    True enough. British producers take their casting more seriously than their Hollywood counterparts. Having said that, note that Judi, Hellen and Maggie were all stunning beauties in their youth, which didn't hurt their careers. Check out Olivier's "Öthello," sometime, in which young Maggie Smith...
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    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    Watching "The Godfather"I was struck by Abe Vigoda's resemblance to Boris Karloff. It's amazing to think he was only about 50 when he played Tessio. That craggy countenance will be sorely missed.
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    Headed to CHICAGO for a couple days . . .

    I forgot to add, the Art Institute of Chicago is one of the world's great art museums, and in its collection is Edward Hopper's "Nighthawks,"one of the greatest art works of the Golden Era.
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    Headed to CHICAGO for a couple days . . .

    There is a boat tour of architectural sites on the river, but I'm not sure if they have it in the winter. Also, the Museum of Science and Industry has a German U-Boat you can tour. I believe it's the only one surviving and the only enemy vessel boarded on the high seas by the U.S. Navy since...
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    If you could be born in any year

    I was born in the vintage Boomer year of 1947 and I still think I got the best deal ever, along with my whole generation. We were children and young adults in the '50s and '60s, which were great decades (for kids, not always for grownups), the new "miracle drugs"did away with the childhood...
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    Rock & Roll Oldsters

    "I Put a Spell on You,"the original by Screamin' Jay Hawkins.
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    In parts of Californis, especially the central valley, Ökie"is still used as a synonym for "redneck."
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    An Affair to Remember (The Movie and The Loss of Depth in Modern Romance Film)

    These are what I call "movies for grownups." They aren't made anymore (at least in America) because the grownup demographic is the kiss of death for Hollywood. In regard to the subject of infidelity, when the movies wanted to make the adulterous wife sympathetic, they always made her husband...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I grew up largely in Texas. There were no other states.
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    When I was a child I ran around barefoot all the time. But back then I didn't have 180+ lbs bearing down on my soles.

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