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On 11/30/2022 at 5:00 PM, BlueSkies said:
Unnecessary Roughness- an underrated movie
Is this the one with Scott Bakula?
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It took me until the end of the episode when they were watching the show to make the connection to CBBC’s Horrible Histories “Stupid Deaths”.
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11 hours ago, Blergh said:
Well, I always thought the iconic closing line of 'love means never having to say you're sorry' was utterly bogus and unreal. I mean one of the best aspects of love is making up after having been sorry!
And, I said in another thread, Carol Burnett showed more depth in her show's tiny spoof of the movie than Ali McGraw did in the entire actual movie.
Ryan O’Neal/Barbra Streisand in the 1972 movie What’s Up, Doc?
Howard declares his love for Judy and apologizes for what he said earlier.
Judy: "Love means never having to say you're sorry" (bats eyelashes)Howard: "That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard."
They kiss.
And Carol Burnett’s movie spoofs where some of the best things ever shown!
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1 hour ago, iMonrey said:
The bicycle chase scene was stupid. If the drunk driver was so desperate he wouldn't pull over for the cops chasing him why on earth would he stop for some guy on a bike?
I’m guessing it was the shock of seeing his injuries plus Chim talking to him that sobered him up enough for the rational part of his brain to kick in so he reflexively hit the brake.
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The writers heard the song, wanted to include it, said hey let’s put Buck in a bicycle chase and “hand wave” logic. With a Chimney in peril bonus!
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On 9/19/2022 at 10:29 PM, Maverick said:
I think they did. There was a scene where Athena asks "why are the police here?"
Thank you. It was not clear to me. It seems an odd choice for the next episode teaser.
On 9/21/2022 at 8:58 AM, tennisgurl said:the father and son playing golf was cute and they actually did surprise me at the son not getting his hand stuck, we even had one that seemed to be leading to a classic child in peril plot when the kid was actually fine.
Looks like I missed a good rescue by fast forwarding through the scene. I was not going to take any chances though.
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44 minutes ago, preeya said:
Until the writers conjure up the next crisis.
Let’s hope they’ll wait until next season.
39 minutes ago, possibilities said:I was expecting them to do a special event mega disaster and was happy that they just did an almost normal episode. The blimp was a big over the top thing, but not on par with the tsunami and similar such multi-episode arcs they've done before.
I was disappointed that it was not a longer part of the episode. I really could have done without that gol course rescue. So glad I tape these so I can fast forward! I was kinda expecting that there would be a rescue on the cruise but now I think they are not going at all. I thought it was odd that the preview for next week did not reference the accident with Athena’s parents.
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On 8/26/2022 at 1:46 PM, Cinnabon said:
I grew up in the Midwest with “pop,” then moved to California in my 20s. Since then I’ve always used “soda” and will never go back, lol. I live in the Midwest again now and cringe when I hear “pop.”
I grew up in the Midwest too. I feel like I used “pop” and “soda” interchangeably then, but only ‘soda’ now. I moved to the Southwest in my teens and I never got used to hearing the occasional “coke” used for any sugary carbonated drink. I think most of us were transplants so “soda” was the go to word.
On 8/26/2022 at 4:54 PM, Browncoat said:I rarely say, "ain't", and even then I'm usually quoting a movie. My favorite "ain't" quote is from "Support Your Local Sheriff" -- James Garner asks Harry Morgan why there aren't any bars on the jail cell, and Harry replies, "We had to order them, and they ain't arrove yet." I do a lot of purchasing for work, so "they ain't arrove yet" gets a lot of use.
I love this (and that movie)! How fun for you that you get to use this. Does anyone recognize the quote?
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On 8/17/2022 at 7:40 PM, Luckylyn said:
Last Holiday
There is a stunning purple gown she wears in the new clothes montage but I unfortunately can not find a photo of it.
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On 8/1/2022 at 8:45 AM, Ohiopirate02 said:
The Bath marathon will always be terrible. I get what the creators were trying to do and also how their 21st century ideas contributed to it. They were trying to show Anne exerting agency and choosing Wentworth. Anne is not going to be persuaded a second time when it comes to who she marries. A real "girl power" moment as it were. Which is what happens in the novel. It's just in Austen's time a lady would never do anything so crass as run through a major city chasing a man. She may want to do that, but she's still a lady.
What seems to escape them is the part where Wentworth appears to be waiting for, hoping for Anne to come after him. It can not be a coincidence that he just happens to be there when Anne and Charles walk out to the street.
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On 7/4/2022 at 2:06 PM, statsgirl said:
The Brights remind me very much of my in-laws,
Did you mean the Thursdays?
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2 hours ago, Zella said:
If I have your permission to steal that awesome title, I would love to be the caped Apostrophe Avenger! I feel like they are the most cruelly misused of all punctuation marks, and I try to rectify it one sign at a time . . . but stealthily because I don't want to be that asshole that makes people dread English majors.
It’s all yours! Just let us know when you make your heroic debut on a grammar themed PBS show like The Electric Company back the day. 😀
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20 minutes ago, Zella said:
There was a sign with an incorrect apostrophe at work. I didn't want to hurt any feelings, so I replaced the sign while the coworker who made it was out to lunch.
I also vandalized a few signs to correct incorrect apostrophes in college. I fixed one in a building after hours and then I also corrected some sign that my RA had out on her whiteboard. God, she was so mad. I overheard her ranting about it in the hallway the next day and pretended to be entirely innocent of all knowledge of what had happened.
So YOU are the Apostrophe Avenger! (do you wear a cape or follow Edna Mode style?)
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4 hours ago, Zella said:
On a side note, I've committed a couple of acts of grammatically motivated sabotage in my time. 😇
“grammatically motivated sabotage”
Very interesting…🤔
I think a story would help me better understand the concept.
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2 hours ago, shapeshifter said:
Apparently the "chile" spelling for the pepper is regional:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/usage-chili-chilli-chile#:~:text=Spellings and Locations
So, yes, especially with the capital letter, it seems to signify the country to me.
Perhaps also regional, my Google search results for this search show mostly the "chili" spelling for the peppers:
recipes for chile peppers or chili peppersYour search results for the same string might be different.
For me, chili is the dish my mom made with chili powder, chile is the pepper that can be used for food or decoration. When smells of chiles being roasted fill in the air, fall has arrived! Start looking for your Christmas ristras! (Not to be confused with the “Christmas” option in which you can get both red and green chile on your burrito or enchilada.)
The Spruce Eats has much of the same info including this note
Chile with an "e" at the end is the most common Spanish spelling in Mexico and other Latin American countries. and the Spanish influenced southwestern states of US, as mentioned elsewhere in the article.
So it would stand to reason that you should look for chile in Chile.
From the culinary side, I found this bit interesting, could make the difference in a recipe.
Generally, if a container says "chili powder," you're buying ground, dried chile peppers mixed with other spices. "Chile powder," on the other hand, should be nothing but dried chile peppers.
I’m sure you also ran across the other meaning for Chile/chile as a slang for the word child. Just to add the confusion.
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On 6/27/2022 at 1:29 AM, shapeshifter said:
There’s chilly, chili, and Chile.
Wrong one:
And since Weed is capitalized, it seems to reference Weed, California, which looks a lot like the background in this image.
This isn’t a real sign, is it?Is it the capitalization of chile that bothers you? The spelling is correct.
Hatch Green Chile - green or red!
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3 hours ago, JustHereForFood said:
Oh, I was scared by this one. It was the idea that you can easily end up in hell that scared me (and aside, was probably my main gripe with Christianity, but that would be a different kind of rant).
Speaking of hell, there was a movie for kids that scared the hell out of me (pun intended) which I saw as a kid, shortly before Christmas no less. I don't know the name and haven't been able to identify it since then. I think the name was translated as Tooth Fairy to my language, but that doesn't help me identify it. It was about a young woman, a dentist who dies and goes to some limbo where they decide if you go to heaven or hell. Some people tell her that because she was a dentist and therefore caused people pain, she should go to hell (yes, really), but she can change that by doing a sort of charity work, so they make her a tooth fairy. A lot of BS follows, as she befriends some kids who are losing their milk teeth, blah blah, she ends up screwing the assignment somehow and is sent to hell. At the last moment though, she is given a second chance, I don't remember why (not because someone realized she didn't actually do anything bad of course) and if I remember correctly, she is actually returned to right before she died. This was a movie for kids FFS and the whole idea about an innocent person going to hell scared the absolute crap out of me (not to mention that I had some gripes about even "guilty" people going to hell, but again, different rant). I can't believe anyone thought it was OK to make that movie. Does anyone recognize it perhaps? It had to be made before 2000, that's around the time I saw it on TV. The main character was blonde.
That sounds a lot like the movie Toothless (1997) with Kirstie Alley. It also stars the kid from Sleepless in Seattle.
— A dentist is cast into limbo after her death in a bike accident and is given the assignment to act as The Tooth Fairy as her action to be admitted into heaven. —
The key issue is that she lacks compassion, which is part of the joke of her chosen profession. I think I caught the end of it while waiting for something else to come on. It was a Disney movie, not sure if ever was the theaters.
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52 minutes ago, kariyaki said:
There aren’t any basements in Texas either. And it’s a water table thing. Any basement would automatically be referred to as an indoor pool.
This honestly stunned me when we moved from north Tornado Alley (Midwest) to the southern end or Texas. How could they not have basements?! Now I know why!
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9 hours ago, andromeda331 said:
Wadsworth's reaction after he thinks the cop saw the dead bodies. "Don't worry there's nothing illegal about of this." "Are you sure?" "Of course this is America. It's a free country don't you know." "I didn't know it was that free."
All punctuated brilliantly by Mr. Green’s expressions behind the cop.
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56 minutes ago, Wiendish Fitch said:1 hour ago, methodwriter85 said:
She did, however, submit to painful electrolysis sessions to raise her hairline to make her look less ethnic. That's also why they made her have red hair, which was her signature.
That sounds like Rita Hayworth...
I agree that it was Rita Hayworth, I don’t recall Ava having red hair in any of her movies. Good for Ava not caving to the pressure. Can you imagine tptb asking Cary Grant or Kirk Douglas to “fix” their chin dimple?
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On 3/21/2022 at 1:28 PM, Daff said:
OMG, don’t get me started! One of my all time, favorite movies! I’m convinced the road trip scenes informed those written for Sister Act 2!
With the great Mary Wickes as a nun in both sets of movies!
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1 hour ago, andromeda331 said:
The emotional beats weren't there.
So true! I recently caught the last half hour. I don’t think I would have made it through the entire movie. I let out an exasperated yelp during the “my hands are empty” scene. My DH came to check on me then had to listen to my rant about it.
Can someone explain to me why it was decided not to have John lose an arm in the war?
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3 minutes ago, Bastet said:
Ooh, finally one I like. That's really cool.
I remember the outfit from the movie but did not know it was a jumpsuit until I was looking for wedding dresses. I love her hair too. All of the clothes for Tracy (Diana Rigg) are really fun and sexy.
Another view showing off the legs and the shoes
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Two more!
Another classic dress from the 30s in Frankenstein (the length on that veil!)
And a very modern jumpsuit from On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969)
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Marilyn and Jane
Lauren Bacall - How to Marry a Millionaire
Two from Austen adaptations
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Sports Movies
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I did remember the movie then. I was confused because I could not find the right movie. I also mixed it up with the Kurt Russell movie (The Best of Times). The title is Necessary Roughness. I thought it had the “Un” too.