Pirate1974

Gilbretta (Gib) McGee passed away last night. She would have been 85 years old on Sunday and she was my wife's mom.

She was diagnosed in early January with an unusually aggressive form of leukemia, brought on, in the doctor's opinion, as the result of radiation treatments she received for breast cancer 35 years ago. They gave her 3-4 months in January.

My wife and her brothers were caring for her at home during this time which meant that one of them had to spend the night at her house at least two nights every week. As you can imagine, this put a tremendous strain on everybody, especially my wife. She ended up taking on most of the responsibility for everything. Fortunately, she was fairly comfortable up until the last few days.

Your prayers would be greatly appreciated, especially for my wife who is having a really rough time right now.

Thanks

Taxi Driver

Cybill Shepherd

The Last Picture Show

#5 is Genevieve(s?) Bujold and #6 is Kate Mulgrew (I think.)

I don't know what they have in common either.

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:

HACKETTSTOWN, N.J. (AP) - A commercial for Snickers candy bars launched in the Super Bowl broadcast was benched after its maker got complaints that it was homophobic.

The ad showed two auto mechanics accidentally kissing while eating the same candy bar and then ripping out some chest hair to do something "manly." One of the alternate endings on the Snickers Web site showed the men attacking each other.

The Human Rights Campaign and the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation complained to the maker of Snickers, Hackettstown-based Masterfoods USA, a division of Mars Inc., which also makes M&M's and other candies.

The Web site also featured video of players from the Super Bowl teams reacting to the kiss.

"This type of jeering from professional sports figures at the sight of two men kissing fuels the kind of anti-gay bullying that haunts countless gay and lesbian school children on playgrounds all across the country," Human Rights Campaign president Joe Solmonese said in a statement.

GLAAD spokesman Marc McCarthy said Tuesday the group believed "this kind of prejudice was inexcusable."

Masterfoods spokeswoman Alice Nathanson issued a statement in which she said the company would stop running the ad on television and the Web site.

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.

Died January 8th at the age of 84.

Unfortunately, she'll probably always be remembered as freakish Lily Munster, but back in the 1940's and 1950's she was smokin' hot.

She never really was a big movie star, appearing in a lot of forgettable films. Her most famous movie role was probably as Moses' wife in "The Ten Commandments." She wasn't too hard to look at there either.

This shot is from the Clark Gable film "Band of Angels" in which Yvonne is supposed to be "black." Oh well, it is Hollywood.

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.

BOSTON - Janet Dewar and Matt Danzig met as college freshmen and hit it off so well they now are roommates. They share two on-campus rooms with only one doorway into the hall. That they don't share a gender doesn't give them a second thought.

"At first when I told [my parents]they said, 'We're going to have to talk to you about this,' " says Ms. Dewar, a sophomore at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. "I told them that there were two rooms, that there's nothing sexual going on between us, and that it wasn't really a big deal."

Some 20 universities and colleges have decided to allow undergraduates of the opposite sex to share an on-campus room. Most quietly made the move in the past five years, with Clark University in Worcester, Mass., deciding this month. It's the final frontier in the decades-long march away from gender separation in college dorms, hallways, and even bathrooms.

While sharing a room comes unnervingly close in the minds of many parents to sharing a bed, advocates for the new arrangements say sexual intimacy rarely plays a role with those who sign up. Instead, for a younger generation it is increasingly common for men and women to just be friends. And some gay and transgendered students welcome the chance to avoid same-sex roommates whom they may not be comfortable around, or who may not accept them.

"Men and women are becoming just as good friends as if they were with their same-sex friends. The dynamics have changed. I think the opposite sex is no longer really such a mystery as it was before," says Jeffrey Chang, a sophomore at Clark University, a school of about 2,800 students.

Mr. Chang led the effort to lift Clark's ban on opposite gender roommates for upperclassmen housing after he and his close friend Allison were barred from living together. As freshmen, the two did their homework together and ate together. So when it came time to choose sophomore housing, why shouldn't they live together?

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

DURHAM - The robber was holding a gun to 5-year-old Mary Long's head when a 3-foot-tall Mighty Morphin Power Ranger leapt into the room.

"Get away from my family," 4-year-old Stevie Long shouted, punctuating his screams with swipes of his plastic sword and hearty "yah, yahs."

The robber and his accomplice, who was waiting outside the apartment Friday night, fled with credit cards, jewelry, cash and other items that Stevie's mother, Jennifer Long, dumped from her purse.

"I scared the bad guys away," Stevie said Tuesday evening at the apartment at 901 Chalk Level Road in north Durham.

Two men had approached Jennifer Long's boyfriend and his son Friday night as they stood outside the apartments she helps manage, according to a police report. The strangers asked for pot, and then a cigarette, and as the son went to get one, both men pulled guns, police said.

One stayed with the boyfriend as the other forced the son back into the apartment, police said. Inside were Jennifer Long, a cousin, Stevie, Mary and two other children, police said.

They were forced on the floor. The robber pointed the gun at Mary and a 1-year-old girl named Sierra, said Stevie's uncle, Bernie Evans, 33, who lives above the Longs.

Enter Stevie.

"During the robbery, a ... boy snuck into his bedroom, dressed himself in a Power Ranger costume and armed himself with a plastic sword," police said. "The child then exited his room and approached the armed suspect, in an attempt to protect his family."

Relatives said the robber abandoned plans to take Stevie's mother to an ATM to withdraw cash when he saw Stevie.

"It tripped him out, and that's when they moved on," said Evans, who did not witness the incident. Jennifer Long declined to comment, saying her employers at the apartment complex would not allow it.

Stevie likes to think he cuts an intimidating figure in his red-and-black mask and foam suit that replicates the rippling muscles of the kiddie adventure show heroes. But Evans said the robber was more startled that Stevie was able to retreat to his bedroom and morph. (Raleigh (NC) News & Observer November 29)

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.