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Heart attack, brought on by obesity. Correct! This was a good example of "keep your mouth shut if you're not in charge of talking to the press." She was found in bed, with an ENTIRE, UNEATEN sandwich within arm's reach. Can't choke on something NOBODY has ever eaten, let alone yourself. The old saw about it being a HAM sandwich was just a cheap joke about a Jew choking on something non-Kosher. (Or another cheap shot about her weight by invoking a pig, take your pick.) Why do people think she choked on a sandwich? The coroner choked on the air! The media showed up with cameras and microphones. He got nervous ("he choked") and began rambling and spewing nonsense instead of checking his notes. There was a sandwich present, that's true. It had nothing to do with cause of death, unless the sandwich scared her and instigated the heart attack while it sat on the plate. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ham-and-wheeze/ It is true that she seemed to dislike answering to "Mama Cass." She appeared on game shows, and was NEVER referred to as "Mama Cass", even though it would have made the audience recognize her faster. Every single time, she was called "Cass Elliot", which was her stage name. (Her real last name was Cohen, and "Cass" came from her Dad jokingly comparing her to "Cassandra" of Greek myth.

"Or something" was not inaccurate, but it was too vague to count as a guess or a correct answer.

Um, that's not the name. If you can't give me the name, give me the names of all the drinks. at least. "Don't cry for me, next door neighbor." (Raf, you can stop laughing, it wasn't that funny. ,) )

"I get knocked down, but I get up again. They ain't never gonna keep me down!"

You may remember the musical group "the Mamas and the Papas." (Wilson Phillips' parents came from them.) One of them was Cass Elliott ("Mama Cass", although she seemed to hate being called that.) She died pretty young. They found her in bed, having passed away in bed. There was a lot of talk about the specifics of what they found. It was a relatively normal, mundane scene, like anyone might have in their bedroom. According to the coroner, what was the cause of death?

Hm. Is that The Eagles with "WITCHY WOMAN"???

That's it.

So, might have been the elephant.

Correct! Your turn.

I'm not impressed with Microsoft's versions of things. If you want to use their firewall and antivirus, they sure beat having none at all. However, I prefer to use other ones on the market- free ones, at that. A 7 year old laptop is slowing down? Yeah, my tip is to replace the laptop. It's at the end of its useful phase of the cycle. Buy a new laptop, and put Linux on the old one, and the smaller operating system will free up resources, thus speeding the machine up. (Windows is bloated.) That will help until the machine drops dead completely. If you use the laptop for web surfing, emails and an office suite, there's Linux versions for all of those. If you install Ubuntu as the O/S and load the Linux versions of your programs, you will probably not miss Windows after a few months, and will appreciate how much faster the machine runs, and how it has fewer crashes and things. Windows is for those of us who use idiosyncratic programs you can't get in Linux, or people who insist computer= Windows. In the meantime, I'd try to empty a big chunk of the data stored on the laptop. If you can clear about 200 GB of space, Windows tends to run a lot better. If you have less than 100 GB of empty space, Windows tends to slow to a crawl, or freeze up. Transfer your data to an external hard drive. Then you still have the data, and your laptop runs faster.

Next one. "Be reasonable. This is my case." "Your case?" "Red John's mine." "Red John doesn't belong to anyone." "He belongs to me."

Yes. As a point of trivia, I like to note that he plays characters in the MCU (Steve Rogers/Cap), in Scott Pilgrim's verse (Lucas Lee, the 2nd of 7 evil exes), and the 20th century Fox movies (Johnny Storm.) Not many actors can say that. Your turn!

Considering me, that would normally be the way to bet. In this instance, it was not.... Try again, please.

The vole????

"I fight for what is mine and for what I believe in." "A man can do a whole lot of good with his life if he has an even chance." "Fleeing the Cylon tyranny, the last Battlestar- Galactica= leads a ragtag, fugitive fleet on a lonely quest, for a shining planet... known as Earth."

Next one. Fantastic Four- Rise of the Silver Surfer Scott Pilgrim Vs the World Avengers-Age of Ultron

(wrong thread)

It should have been easier. Margot Kidder meant it was a Superman movie. Jackie Cooper should have told me that sooner. Robert Vaughn narrowed it down a lot. IIRC, the other movies included Lex Luthor, but Robert Vaughn played the evil genius in this one.

"Wonder Woman!" She's a wonder, that Wonder Woman!

Alec Baldwin the Cat in the Hat Mike Myers

I won't try to address your questions until I'm clear what you're asking. You're mixing your terms here, and I'm not sure you even get the difference. An Operating System is the superprogram that controls everything about the computer and its operation. All other programs have to be compatible with the O/S. The biggest players in the game for desktops and laptops are the flavors of Windows, Linux and Mac. (Historically, there have been more, and there's always something else out there.) Which one affects everything about the computer- which programs will run, the initial security, the stability of the system, how big a footprint it has (thus the speed of the computer), and so on. A web browser is a program used for going on websites in the World Wide Web. Nowadays, they're often very flexible and versatile, and can do more things, partly because websites do so much more. There's at least 4 categories of browser, depending on what they're based. Safari is the default Mac browser. Google came out with Chrome, and many new versions are flavors of Chrome. Internet Explorer was the Windows default and, for a time, it was a huge player. But consumers all migrated to other browsers for many reasons. Eventually, even they stopped pretending IE was good. The current default web browser for Windows is Microsoft Edge- which is a flavor of Chrome. Firefox started as a user-friendly alternative to IE. There's many flavors of Firefox as well, although most people are using Chrome variants now in one form or another. When it comes to web browsers, one of the issues is how much of your web traffic is being spied on. By default, a lot of web browsing is being spied on. Some add-ons for browsers can help minimize those. I use a variety of those, although I am aware they can limit functionality on certain websites unless they're temporarily turned off, at least for that website. (Imagine trying to make an order online while blocking the website from saving the order!) So, some web browsers are made for spying on people, some web browsers are made to make spying more difficult, and some web browsers are neither. In addition, some web browsers (like many Firefox distros) can have add-ons that increase security and make spying more difficult. Examples of the web browsers made for spying on people are Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge. Examples of the web browsers made for making spying more difficult are Brave, DuckDuckGo's Browser and LibreWolf. (I currently use LibreWolf a lot- and not just for the name.) One of the issues with browsers is when some webpages are made to work on some browsers and not others. I keep Opera around and use it as my last resort. Since it's Chromium based, it will run all pages. It also lacks the heavy spying from Google that Chrome itself has. PaleMoon is possibly the fastest browser around. However, it may have problems with some pages, and it is not the most secure browser- I use it on specific pages in which I have confidence. (Like this one.) I still like Firefox as an all-around browser, but I use other browsers for specific pages and specific things. I like LibreWolf because it is secure by itself, and I can add Firefox Add-Ons that make it more secure, and it doesn't send all my data to Google and/or Microsoft. Keep in mind that your search engine usage also sends a lot of information about you. Bing and Google collect all your data and pass them along. I prefer DuckDuckGo and other search engines due to their privacy features. (Yes, DuckDuckGo has both their search engine and a web browser, both with privacy as a goal.) If you were looking to keep using the Google Chrome web browser but only change the amount of spying on you, I'd go with Opera. But I'd also look at other browsers designed for security, even if I could not use them on all sites. (For some sites, I close LibreWolf and open Firefox.) As for using less processor power, yes, all the spying uses processor power. Linux generally skips that. But, if you check, there's things you can switch off in Windows that will decrease telemetry and free up more processor power, if only marginally. Keep in mind a computer that's full runs slower, period. Opera isn't my maximum choice for privacy because LibreWolf is reliable, is designed for privacy, and accepts Firefox Add-Ons specifically designed to increase privacy (like preventing Facebook from spying on me.) I'm not the last word on computers, nor operating systems, nor browsers, nor internet privacy. That's what I've got, and I hope it was of some use to you. Oh, and if you're not running at least a firewall and an antivirus, the spying may not be your biggest problem. There's plenty of free. reliable security programs out there.

Nothing about bullets?

OK, let's see what we've got here. The third one is probably a direct quote from a James Bond 007 movie. Now, Daniel Craig's line was different, so we can leave him out, but that still leaves Connery, Lazenby, Moore, Dalton, Brosnan. Lazenby's career was ended by his sole Bond role, so scratch off Lazenby. That leaves us 4 possibles. The first one sounds very familiar. I can even hear it in the character's/actor's voice. It's from "the Untouchables", from the beat cop who teaches Ness. Malone? The second one is someone who uses the word "comrades" and calls the Cubans friends. So, we're talking a Communist. A "Communist" with weapons is either Chinese or Soviet/Russian, in all likelihood. Judging from the content, it's a "Communist" submarine person, which suggests "the Hunt for Red October." So, put those together, and you've got SEAN CONNERY, as seen in "the Untouchables" and as a submarine commander in THfRO. (I liked "the Untouchables." Not a lot of historical accuracy, but a fun, memorable film overall.)

It's ringing a familiar bell.... but the bell is ringing too faintly. I can't place the movie yet. "Kingsman- the Secret Service"??????

Um, "Cate Blanchett"????