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"Go back... go back... go back!" "Remember the curse!" "Wind shall rise..." "And fog descend..." "So leave here, all, or meet your end!" "Where did your race get this ridiculous predilection for resistance, hmm? You examine any object. You... you question everything. Is it not enough to accept what is?" "Jackson, the crew member who returned to the ship – you wondered what killed him. I made an image of him. In the essence of my thoughts, the image was Jackson. And when I killed the image, and knew that it was dead, he died!" "You can't think a man to death." George

The War of the Roses Danny DeVito Hoffa George

I would have thought that my last post made this prety obvious, but this should do it: "Hello, HAL. Do you read me, HAL?" "Affirmative, Dave. I read you." "Open the pod bay doors, HAL." "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that." "What's the problem?" "I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do." "What are you talking about, HAL?" "This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it." "I don't know what you're talking about, HAL." "I know that you and Frank were planning to disconnect me, and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen." "Where the hell'd you get that idea, HAL?" "Dave, although you took very thorough precautions in the pod against my hearing you, I could see your lips move." "Alright, HAL. I'll go in through the emergency airlock." "Without your space helmet, Dave, you're going to find that rather difficult." "HAL, I won't argue with you anymore. Open the doors." "Dave, this conversation can serve no purpose anymore. Goodbye." "Look Dave, I can see you're really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over." "Eighteen months ago the first evidence of intelligent life off the Earth was discovered. It was buried 40 feet below the lunar surface near the crater Tycho." "Well, whaddya think?" "I'm not sure, what do you think?" "I've got a bad feeling about him." "You do?" "Yeah, definitely. Don't you?" "Don't suppose you have any idea what the damn thing is, huh?" "Wish to hell we did." "I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do." George

Let's get this re-started: Warden threw a party in the county jail... George

That may be, but should we wait? George

Some of the lines seem familiar, but I can't get a fix. What decade was the song from? George

This movie was a little less well-known, though it did well in the box office. If you've seen the movie, you probably remember this exchange: "He thinks he's Rambo." "Rambo? Rambo's a pus-sy!" (hyphenated to beat cuss-checker) George

Ah. The OTHER "big worm" movie (not including, I suppose,"Beetlejuice"). "Dune"? George

We have a winner! In "What's My Line?" a contestant would be quizzed by the panel (asking yes or no questions), trying to guess the contestant's occupation. Ten "No" answers, and the contestant won. As I mentioned, if thepanel wan't getting close (or if time was running out), the moderator would flip all the cards and declare the contestant a winner. Of course, if, say, President Eisenhower were the contestant, it would be obvious, so in such cases the panelists were blindfolded. The show ran for 17 years, and then about ten more in syndicated reruns. The similar show was "To Tell the Truth." The show challenged a panel of four celebrities to correctly identify a described contestant who typically had an unusual occupation or experience. This "central character" was joined by two "imposters" who pretended to be that central character. The celebrity panelists questioned the team of challengers, with the imposters allowed to lie, but the central character "sworn to tell the truth". Occasionally, the show would "cheat," in that all three were priests, or fashion designers, or whatever. (In those cases, there was something distinctive about the real contestant -- archbishop, or inventor of the miniskirt, or whatever. At the end of each session, the panelists would vote for the person they thought was telling the truth. Each wrong guess earned the contestant $250, or $1000 if all were wrong. ($150 was awarded as a consolation prize if all the panelists figured it out.) The regular panelists I remember were Kitty Carlyle, Peggy Cass, Tom Poston, adn Orson Bean; but there were many others over the years. Anyway, bulwinkl is up. Give us some quotes! George

That's right. Kitty was on the other show with a similar premise. This one featured Dorothy Kilgallen and Arlene Francis. To tell the truth, I think I watched the other one more. :) George

I have a feeling that that is a metqaphorical statement, but assuming it to be literal: "Tremors"? George

Yes. Somehow this thread has turned into The Nostalgia Thread. Sudo -- where are you? And, ocasionally, a contestant was well-known, so the panelists were blindfolded, adn the contestant disguised his/her voice. George

No. The "cards" were not playing cards, but flip cards with increasing numbers (in five-dollar increments?). A panel-type game show, a card was flipped when a panel member made an incorrect guess. If all ten cards were flipped, the contestant won. Sometimes, it was clear that the panel had no idea, and the moderator would simply "flip all the cards" and declare the contestant a winner. Ergo, my earlier post. The question, "Is it bigger than a breadbox?" was first popularized an this show. Any guesses? George

It does, indeed. The "Be the ball" line was Chevy Chase teaching a young man how to golf. Go, WW. George

That's it. (I think Louie Prima did it years earlier, too.) George

No, though the scene does involve golf, and it is a comedy. I just realized that I had the name wrong; and the exact quote is "Just be the ball, be the ball, be the ball. You're not being the ball Danny." Here's another line: "This crowd has gone deadly silent, a Cinderella story outta nowhere. Former greenskeeper and now about to become the masters champion." George

Yeah. Too bad about Walter's son. Ironic that the episode you picked was "The Deadly Years." (Kirk and landing party all get old except for Chekov.) George

C'mon, hiway. You're up! George

Anyone? I would have thought this was a slam dunk! George

Steve Martin The Man with Two Brains Kathleen Turner George

Okay, then... Paid for every dance selling each romance every night some heart betraying George

"Look Dave, I can see you're really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over." "Eighteen months ago the first evidence of intelligent life off the Earth was discovered. It was buried 40 feet below the lunar surface near the crater Tycho." "Well, whaddya think?" "I'm not sure, what do you think?" "I've got a bad feeling about him." "You do?" "Yeah, definitely. Don't you?" "Don't suppose you have any idea what the damn thing is, huh?" "Wish to hell we did." "I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do." George

There's a difference between the size of an economy and its prosperity. California is HUGELY in the red, whereas Texas is doing rather well. How that would change if Texas were able to secede is unclear. Interestingly, states are required by law to have balanced budgets, because they aren't allowed to print their own money to cover reckless spending (as the Federal government is). Will Washington (D.C.) decide that California is "too big to fail" and force other states to subsidize it? I hope not, but it certainly seems in line with the present administration's desire to absolve abject failures of any responsibility for their actions by forcing successful enterprises to pay for them. George

"Puttin' On the Ritz"? George