Pirate1974

Hey Sudo, We can't let this thread die, man. I know I don't get to check in anywhere near as much as I used to. My place of employment, in their infinite wisdom, decided a while back to block access to all message boards. I have no idea why. Seems like a pretty narrow-minded attitude to me. With a wife who's a teacher and two teenage boys at home, I don't get much computer time there these days. Anyway we got to keep it going because coming up this spring (April maybe?) this thread will have been active for: 6 YEARS Hard to believe, isn't it?

And then there's this: Personally, I thought this was the best of a very mediocre bunch. It was the only one to really get a chuckle out of our group. Some people have to work really hard at being offended.

He's the new Jean Dixon with just about the same accuracy. So what happens when his "message from God" is a miss? Did God make a mistake or was Pat just not listening closely enough? I would imagine that God knows the difference between a tsunami and heavy rains, but maybe I'm wrong.

That would be correct.

That would be Breakfast at Tiffany's Try this: You know, in the short time we've been together you have demonstrated every loathsome characteristic of the male personality and even discovered a few new ones. You are physically repulsive, intellectually retarded, you're morally reprehensible, vulgar, insensitive, selfish, stupid, you have no taste, a lousy sense of humor, and you smell. You're not even interesting enough to make me sick.

There's supposed to be 21 of me. I don't think it's much of a database so don't feel bad. There's no Tiger Woods or Shaquille O'Neal either, but there are 42 Homer Simpsons. Go figure.

And to think that when I was in college (1970-1974), the question was whether or not males and females should even live in the same building, forget sharing rooms and bathrooms. At East Carolina University, when the first co-ed dorm opened, there were folks who considered that as a sign of the complete breakdown of everything moral in society This article goes on to say that some parents welcome the arrangement so that siblings could room together, which seems more than just a little bit odd to me. When I was in high school, I read a book called "The Harrad Experiment" which proposed this idea and the relationships betwen the roommates was anything but platonic. Sounded like a great idea to me at the time. It was made into a really lousy movie starring Don Johnson that left out most of the really good stuff. Of course, this is mainly your basic Godless liberal colleges in the Northeast and California that are trying this out. I doubt Jerry Falwell will be allowing it at Liberty University any time soon. As the parent of a kid in the process of deciding where he wants to go to college, it soulds just a little bit strange. Can men and women really "just be friends" enough to share a small dorm room together?

Pirates of the Caribbean (either one) Johnny Depp Sleepy Hollow

Ford is the only president I've ever seen in person while he was actually president. A buddy and I rode our bikes about 10 miles to hear him speak at the 200th anniversary of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence in 1975. However, at the time, we were more interested in seeing his daughter Susan than him.

Is this a movie that just came out like yesterday?

Now there's a forgotten classic. Joe Namath Avalanche Express Lee Marvin

A little Christmas fun. Check it out: Pimp My Nutcracker It's Hard Out Here for a Nutcracker

Sponge Bob Square Pants!!! :blink: Say it ain't so!!

One of the other main actors was mostly famous for playing gangster parts in the movies.

Drums Along the Mohawk Henry Fonda Mr. Roberts Two of my all-time favorite movies.

Deborah Kerr From Here To Eternity Burt Lancaster

Charlton Heston The Agony and the Ecstasy Rex Harrison

The Bone Collector Queen Latifah Chicago

Will Patton Armageddon Billy Bob Thornton

It was a television show that almost never got on the air. When it was made, it's creator cringed when he saw all the mistakes in it and he almost scrapped the whole thing. The network suits who screened it before it aired were almost unanimous in their dislike for the show. It was slow, they didn't like the performers or the music and it was supposed be funny, but there was no laugh track with it. How would your average American couch potato know something was supposed to be funny if there was no 1950s-era recorded laughs to tell him? Worse than any of that, at least to the suits, was the fact the show included a reading from, of all things, the Bible. Horrors!! You can't read from the Bible on network television!! That just isn't done, especially in what is supposed to be an entertainment show. Not only was it the Bible, it was specifically the King James version, specifically Luke 2:8-14. The genius behind the creation of this show fought the suits to keep the passage in the script, and he eventually won out, probably because he was already a pop culture icon at the time. The show aired for the first time December 9, 1965 in place of "Gilligan's Island" and shocked the network exec's by getting higher ratings than any other show that week except "Bonanza." I guess even Charlie Brown couldn't beat Hoss Cartwright. Half the television sets in the U.S. were tuned in, which CBS never imagined, and the most memorable part for most people is the reading of the story of the birth of Jesus by Linus Van Pelt. Tonight at 8:00 PM, "A Charlie Brown Christmas" will air for 42nd consecutive year. I guess Charles Schulz had a pretty good idea as to what people would like. Got to get home to watch it again.

Kenneth Branagh Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Richard Harris

This is the version of that story that appeared in one of the alternative newspapers here recently:

Band of Angels Sidney Poitier In the Heat of the Night

There's no question that Richards should apologize in person to these two guys, but they don't deserve an Indian head penny in compensation for their "injuries." I find it interesting that in this group of 20 people, Kyle Doss and Frank McBride are the only two who felt "threatened" by Richards' tirade. Were they the only African-Americans in the group or just the only ones willing to play the victim card for the national media in hopes of getting a nice little settlement check, after Gloria Allred takes her 1/3 cut, of course. Doss says "To have him do what he did to me ... I can't even explain it. I was humiliated, even scared at one point." Scared? Please!! Did he honestly think a 57-year old man was a threat to him and his group? Did he think Richards might pull out an Uzi and spray the room? He couldn't do what myself and 99% of rational people would do, get up and walk out? Gloria Allred, who once sued the Boy Scouts for not admitting girls, says, "Our clients were vulnerable. He went after them. He singled them out and he taunted them, and he did it in a closed room where they were captive." Oh my gosh!! I had no idea that The Laugh Factory locked these guys in and wouldn't let them leave until Michael Richard was through with his rant. That is just not right!! Is it just the "n word" that gets everybody's panties in a wad? Andrew Dice Clay could call women in his audience "dumb c*nts" and nobody went running for a lawyer. They walked out and eventually his career went into the toilet, but I don't think anybody felt "threatened." Sam Kinison used to go on and on about the ragheads and the gooks and the f*gs. Don Rickles always talked about the "colored guy in the back of the room" in his act . I guess the "n word" is just over the edge, when said by certain people, of course.