Small Talk: Ughngnggh! Ugghhnnn!

[nachomama]

Haha super clam is Charles ingalls. It wasn’t cold cold here but temperature did fall to like awesome! Went to Atlanta and went to Hawaiian chick fil a. Sunny and warm but not hot. 
Friday was an almost disastrous day. My air conditioner stopped working. Thought it was dead and gonna cost me $8000. Nobody was going to be able to come until Tuesday. By a miracle she sent me a guy and he stomped around in my attic and called a few dudes to see if anyone had a part on a truck, boom. Capacitor found. Costs much less than $8000. He says it could last a week or a decade. Crisis averted. 

[madmax]

On 5/27/2021 at 12:35 PM, OoohMaggie said:

My favourite scene in Manhunter was when Dolarhyde took Reba to experience the Tiger at the Zoo, was that scene in the book?

It's been so long since I've read it, I'm not sure, but I think it was.

[Nashville]

On 5/27/2021 at 11:35 AM, OoohMaggie said:

My favourite scene in Manhunter was when Dolarhyde took Reba to experience the Tiger at the Zoo, was that scene in the book?

Yup.

[Mr. Sparkle]

My 35th reunion is in the Fall. I'm still thinking about it. The group has gotten close over the last year or so, but there's still that socializing aspect... 

All I'm watching now is America's Got Talent. I am not proud of myself. 

Oh, and Loki, since it's only 6 episodes. 

[nachomama]

We had to rethink our reunion* this past summer, my own personal reunion will be in October, the only people I care to see will be there.

It's just the first reunion because I'm soooooooooo young. I'm practically a baby.

I've heard "Hacks" is good, gotta get a free preview or figure out a way to see it.

Anybody got anyone famous from where they are? Nobody from my specific home town but our celebrities from Albuquerque...Neil Patrick Harris, Freddie Prinze jr., French Stewart, Jessie Tyler Ferguson, Demi Moore was in and out of New Mexico as a child.

Edited June 15, 2021 by nachomama

[madmax]

4 hours ago, nachomama said:

Anybody got anyone famous from where they are? Nobody from my specific home town but our celebrities from Albuquerque...Neil Patrick Harris, Freddie Prinze jr., French Stewart, Jessie Tyler Ferguson, Demi Moore was in and out of New Mexico as a child.

Not my specific suburb, but Pittsburgh has tons.  To name a few: Michael Keaton, Charles Grodin, Gene Kelly, Jeff Goldblum, Joe Manganiello, Zachary Quinto, Dennis Miller, Jimmy Stewart, Tom Savini and of course, Mr. Rogers.

One of my favorite mostly no-name celebrities is Lori Cardille, who played Sarah in Day of the Dead.

Edited June 15, 2021 by madmax

[nachomama]

2 hours ago, icemiser69 said:

Mannix reruns are always fun to watch.  I don't know how he was ever able to get car insurance.  A lot of his cars have gone down ravines due to him being run off of the road.  Sometimes they end up on fire, other times completely wrecked without the fire.  And yet every week he comes back with the same car without a ding in it.

I never watched Mannix but I did watch Rockford Files with my dad and a few years ago it was playing from start to finish on some channel and so I re-watched it. And I was always struck by what a loser he was. He lost fights, always tried to run and was just really unsuccesful as a PI even though he solved the cases he just wasn't getting paid. He was always pulling over to find a pay phone and I always said him and the Charlies angels girls sure did need the cell phone to hurry up and get invented.

[Mr. Sparkle]

29 minutes ago, nachomama said:

I never watched Mannix but I did watch Rockford Files with my dad and a few years ago it was playing from start to finish on some channel and so I re-watched it. And I was always struck by what a loser he was. He lost fights, always tried to run and was just really unsuccesful as a PI even though he solved the cases he just wasn't getting paid. He was always pulling over to find a pay phone and I always said him and the Charlies angels girls sure did need the cell phone to hurry up and get invented.

Rockford Files is one of those shows, like Emergency, Starsky & Hutch and Charlie's Angels that I know I watched when they were first run, but I couldn't tell you about a single episode if you paid me. 

[nachomama]

I can recall a few episodes of Charlies Angels...Kim Basinger was a prisoner they rescued, the prison was running a gambling hall and the pretty prisoners were forced to be escorts. I don't think this is the same episode but also a prison theme...the ladies went undercover in a prison and got de-loused and it has vividly stuck with me for decades. They made them take showers and gave them their prison clothes but they had to open their towels and get sprayed with the bug spray canister. And I remember being shocked and confused, I didn't even know what delousing was and I don't even own a penis but I was kinda turned on. I really wanted to peek around that towel. Their escape involved stealing the prison potato truck and throwing boxes of potatoes at the pursuing vehicle. If only there was still a career in writing

I do recall police/mystery shows always had someone being followed in a car and their trickery involved in losing a "tail" and my whole adult life I've been disappointed that I've never had to use that skill

[Nashville]

On 6/14/2021 at 5:15 PM, icemiser69 said:

Have they rescheduled your high school reunion yet, or is it too early for that to be even considered?  I think you had posted awhile back that last year was your high school reunion, but obviously that wasn't going to take place last year.

Last year would’ve been our 40th, but we’re not doing anything until next year.  You have to have your dates nailed down pretty much minimum 6 months in advance to book venues, allow folks to put in for time off work, make travel plans, etc.  That means for a summer (no later than August) reunion, everyone and everything would need to be locked in by mid-February -  and back in January/February there was still WAY too much COVID uncertainty for folks to be comfortable with the notion of committing to long trips and big gatherings.  

So we were already talking about pushing it another year when the lady who’s been our primary (and best) reunion organizer had her husband pass away, and that kind of cemented the push.  :(

 

On 6/15/2021 at 2:51 PM, nachomama said:

I never watched Mannix but I did watch Rockford Files with my dad and a few years ago it was playing from start to finish on some channel and so I re-watched it. And I was always struck by what a loser he was. He lost fights, always tried to run and was just really unsuccesful as a PI even though he solved the cases he just wasn't getting paid. He was always pulling over to find a pay phone and I always said him and the Charlies angels girls sure did need the cell phone to hurry up and get invented.

Rockford Files was one of my favorites, for that very reason - unlike about every other detective which had been portrayed on prime time for the preceding decade or so, his character was real:

• Jim Rockford didn’t win every fight he got into; in fact, he probably lost about twice as many fights as he won.
• Rockford didn’t have a fancy office downtown; he worked (and lived) out of a mobile home which sat in the parking lot of a beachfront bar.
• Rockford didn’t kick in doors with guns a-blazing; he despised  carrying a gun at all, and only did so when absolutely necessary.  He preferred to rely more on his quick wits and quick talk to get himself out of (and sometimes into) hairy situations.
• Rockford never played the hard-boiled tough-guy - in fact, he frequently described himself as “chicken” - but his actions frequently belied his self-deprecation; he was someone you could count on when the chips were down.

The Rockford File’s challenging of trite and time-worn detective show cliches were a significant reason for the show’s popularity; it ran for several years, ending only when the toll it took on Jim Garner’s health (ulcers, plus numerous injuries because Garner insisted on doing almost all his own stunts) eventually grew unmanageable.

The wisecracking and self-deprecating characteristics of Jim Rockford were actually a signature staple of sorts for James Garner’s character portrayals - you could also see them in his performances on both TV (Maverick) and in movies (Support Your Local Sheriff!, Support Your Local Gunfighter).  
 

James Garner may not have been everybody’s cup of tea, but he was one of my unqualified favorites - as was The Rockford Files.

[madmax]

21 hours ago, Nashville said:

Rockford Files was one of my favorites, for that very reason - unlike about every other detective which had been portrayed on prime time for the preceding decade or so, his character was real:

That's why I loved watching that show.  I was young but even I understood they weren't all super tough guys.

[Nashville]

7 hours ago, icemiser69 said:

Those are two of my favorite movies. 
 

I have both on DVD.  :)

 

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Keeping Bruce Dern in a jail cell that didn't have any bars, hysterical.

And genius.

And never forget - from “Support Your Local Gunfighter”:

Jack Elam (shocked): You hit that fellow from behind!

James Garner: Just as hard as I could!

🤣🤣🤣

Edited June 19, 2021 by Nashville

[nachomama]

I loved James Garner! My father famously never watched anything set in modern times, he only ONLY watched reruns of Wagon Train, Bonanza, the Rifleman, the Virginian etc, etc on WTBS or WGN or whichever show had them all day on weekends. Maverick was a favorite so he would watch Rockford but only because he had transitioned from a western. He watched Quincy and Hawaii 5-0 which were current at the time but are quite dated now. Otherwise he was living 24/7 in 1872. You can't bring up the logic that Miss Kitty was a Madame, ahem, because he believed all those shows were so "wholesome". And game shows, lordy mercy do I hate "Wheel of Fortune" to this day. My dad would be in his room watching "wheel" and shouting out the answers to puzzles because, naturally, we were supposed to be watching the same thing in the living room. We weren't, we're watching "alf" or "Cosby Show" or "Full House" all of which he considers garbage. One of us had to be on the far side of the room and one of us had to sit "lookout" if by any chance my dad headed down the hallway we sent a signal and flipped the channel before he got there. He always told us we were stupid because we never answered the puzzle before him or answered any Jeopardy questions. In college my roommates were confused why I listened to the tv so quietly. Volume still is not high on my tv to this day and no Wheel of Fortune in like 30 years. I still shake milk when I take it out of the fridge but that's a whole nother story.

[Nashville]

On 6/21/2021 at 7:06 AM, nachomama said:

I loved James Garner! My father famously never watched anything set in modern times, he only ONLY watched reruns of Wagon Train, Bonanza, the Rifleman, the Virginian etc, etc on WTBS or WGN or whichever show had them all day on weekends. Maverick was a favorite so he would watch Rockford but only because he had transitioned from a western. He watched Quincy and Hawaii 5-0 which were current at the time but are quite dated now. Otherwise he was living 24/7 in 1872. You can't bring up the logic that Miss Kitty was a Madame, ahem, because he believed all those shows were so "wholesome".

You just described my father in the 1960s-70s to a T right there.  When I was about 17 my smart-aleck self asked Dad about the incongruity of a U. S. Marshal having a longstanding relationship with the madam of the town’s largest saloon and brothel; his response?  “Times were different back then; that sort of thing was legal, so it was all right”.  😆  My father passed away a few years ago, and to my knowledge he never cheated on my mother for the duration of their marriage - but to this day I’m personally convinced the only personality who might’ve swayed him otherwise would’ve been Miss Kitty. 

[nachomama]

I know they imagined it that Miss Kitty was his girlfriend and it was all wholesome. Real life? nuh-uh Sheriff's taking off his boots and hat. Even if she'd retired from the actual work, girl had a past. She didn't get to be in charge outta nowhere. My dad made us turn off "the Breakfast Club" because they kept saying the "f" word but I'm all "dude you know he's boinking Miss Kitty!"

[nachomama]

Guess whose car died? Guess who's renting a 10" box truck because rental cars cost $197 a day? Guess who's paid uber a lot more money than they wanted in the last 2 days until they could get said box truck? There were no just plain old uhaul trucks or vans. Anybody need anything hauled? It will cost you approximately $20,000 but I call that a bargain.

Anywho, backing out of my driveway yesterday my transmission decided it no longer exists. So I learned a new trick...if your car is now permanently stuck in reverse you cannot push it forward back into your driveway. So I keep trying to push forward and it keeps going backwards and I think I'm all right because I'll just back up to park across the street except I forgot I'm actually in the open door of my car pushing and duh the door hits your neighbors car. So then I realize if you turn the car off then it's basically in neutral and it rolls. sigh. I had a humdinger of a morning. So I write the neighbor a note, call an uber, call a tow truck etc etc. This morning the car won't start (maybe because it's not actually in park?) and won't shift at all where yesterday my shifty was all loosey goosey. I assume it will still roll if I get the tow truck. I'm just gonna deal with it on the weekend.

[madmax]

1 hour ago, icemiser69 said:

Interesting James Garner articles.

I don't know why he would be afraid of women, he was a good looking guy. 

I'm not afraid to admit I had a bit of crush on him in the 70s.

[Mr. Sparkle]

Just now, madmax said:

I'm not afraid to admit I had a bit of crush on him in the 70s.

Remember when he did those Polaroid commercials with Mariette Hartley? She made me feel kind of funny when I was 11-12. 

[madmax]

4 minutes ago, Superclam said:

Remember when he did those Polaroid commercials with Mariette Hartley? She made me feel kind of funny when I was 11-12. 

YES!  I loved those.  I thought they were married. 😄

[Mr. Sparkle]

27 minutes ago, madmax said:

YES!  I loved those.  I thought they were married. 😄

So did everyone! 

[nachomama]

On 6/25/2021 at 9:00 PM, Superclam said:

So did everyone! 

Yes she posted pictures with her children that said “he’s not my dad” I thought they had fun with it. Memes before memes were a thing. 

[madmax]

I swear they did a commercial at one point where she says "No party?" in a very sad voice and we used to use it when we were kids.  I actually went to YouTube and looked up all the commercials and didn't see it.  Does anyone else remember that?

[nachomama]

Can't help you there. But you know what did keep me up last night? aside from nausea about buying a new car...Real People. anybody remember that? IT was like "That's Incredible" and they'd take a dude and send him to Iowa to look at the world's biggest ball of twine. Sisters that could pogo stick. Real americana, slice of life stupidityeree. Skip Stevenson, Sarah Purcell, Byron Allen and For a hot minute the kid from "you'll shoot your eye out". One of these stories stuck with me, Leslie Lemke, he was blind and autistic. HIs birth mother abandoned him so Mrs. Lemke raised him and had taught him to walk by strapping him to her and his feet lifted with her feet. And turns out he was a savant, she kinda played the piano with him but he got to where he could play anything he heard. Now as a 5,6,7 year old I was not terribly impressed with his piano skills. I wanna say they made a movie about him. but why in high holy heaven did that come to my mind at 2 am?

And I remember the butter commercial "It's not nice to fool with mother nature"

Edited June 28, 2021 by nachomama

[Mr. Sparkle]

Hell yeah!! I loved both Real People and That's Incredible! 

Now if you really have a memory, you'll remember Byron Allen's light night talk show c. 1991. 

2 hours ago, madmax said:

I swear they did a commercial at one point where she says "No party?" in a very sad voice and we used to use it when we were kids.  I actually went to YouTube and looked up all the commercials and didn't see it.  Does anyone else remember that?

Like a lot of things from my youth, I know I watched them, but cannot remember a single detail. 

[madmax]

I remember both of those.  We didn't watch a lot of Real People, but we always tried to catch That's Incredible, with John Davidson and Cathy Lee Crosby. Or something like that.

I also remember one called Everyday that had John Bennett Perry and the Unknown Comic.

 

[Iguessnot]

6 hours ago, nachomama said:

 

And I remember the butter commercial "It's not nice to fool with mother nature"

But it wasn't butter, thus fooling mother nature. Was it Parkay margarine?

[Mr. Sparkle]

11 minutes ago, Iguessnot said:

But it wasn't butter, thus fooling mother nature. Was it Parkay margarine?

I think so. That was also - "butter. butter. butter. Paaaarkaaaaaay!!!" 

4 hours ago, icemiser69 said:

I have watched them both, that is about as far as I will go with that.   They were nothing to write home about.

I actually wrote my mother several letters about those shows. She never answered me. :(

[Mr. Sparkle]

1 hour ago, Iguessnot said:

But it wasn't butter, thus fooling mother nature. Was it Parkay margarine?

After a bit of investigation, it was Chiffon. I haven't thought about Chiffon margarine in decades. 

 

[nachomama]

I loved the talking parkay tub. I loved that Mother Nature lady. I was fascinated by such weird things. There was a 3rd grade teacher who I just thought was the MOST beautiful woman and super classy. She wore high heel wedge shoes and you could hear her clickety clackety coming down the hallway. And she wore a teased updo kinda messy bun. I thought she was so fancy and when I reflect back now I think she was middle aged and dressing too young for her age and kinda leftover hippie vibe but at the time I thought she was sooooooo cool. I also loved Charo. Hahaha 

John Bennett Perry is Matthew Perry’s dad! AND AND AND drumroll please…the sailor dude in the OLD SPICE COMMERCIAL!!!! like sailor man comes home from being at sea and his woman runs and jumps into his arms. I LOVED THAT COMMERCIAL. I was a really weird kid! 

[nachomama]

Also loved Mr. Whipple "Please don't squeeze the Charmin"

Oooh, OOOh OoOooOooooh so racist "Ancient chinese secret, huh?" for the laundry detergent.

[Mr. Sparkle]

It is mother-fucking hot. That is all. 

[Nashville]

45 minutes ago, Superclam said:

It is mother-fucking hot. That is all. 

[nachomama]

I see that they're asking New Yorkers to turn off a/c but they aren't shutting down times square to prevent blackouts. Be safe

IN CASE OF EMERGENCY REMOVE HARD PANTS

[Mr. Sparkle]

3 hours ago, nachomama said:

I see that they're asking New Yorkers to turn off a/c but they aren't shutting down times square to prevent blackouts. Be safe

IN CASE OF EMERGENCY REMOVE HARD PANTS

Yesterday I had to do outside work in hard pants. It was brutal. 

The funny thing about Times Square is that no one who actually lives in NY goes there unless they have to. It's for tourists only. 

I did get a few messages to lower my AC. I didn't listen. 

[OoohMaggie]

 

 

[Mr. Sparkle]

I'm pretty sure @nachomama came up with it, and it's fairly genius. 

[Mr. Sparkle]

Wow, and over a year old already! No royalties for @nachomama. 😥

[Mr. Sparkle]

I'm trying not to crawl into an Urban Dictionary hole. Yak Shaving. 

[madmax]

3 hours ago, icemiser69 said:

One of the movies that will be aired is Blazing Saddles.  I have never seen it.  If  anyone here has seen Blazing Saddles, and chooses to watch it again on IFC, perhaps you could post here and let me know if IFC has edited it for content.

I know that when I watched Planes, Trains and Automobiles, on IFC, the swearing in that movie wasn't bleeped out.

IFC does not edit movies for content.  They just add commercials.  However, with the N-word use in Blazing Saddles, they may bleep that out.

[Mr. Sparkle]

2 hours ago, madmax said:

IFC does not edit movies for content.  They just add commercials.  However, with the N-word use in Blazing Saddles, they may bleep that out.

I've seen a movie recently on IFC where they didn't bleep that word out. Maybe Pulp Fiction. 

[madmax]

2 hours ago, icemiser69 said:

I didn't know that word was in the movie.

If I remember correctly, and it's been a few years since I've seen it, it's not used a lot.  Maybe once?  Twice?  There is a scene where someone is trying to say it and other sounds keep blocking it out.

27 minutes ago, Superclam said:

I've seen a movie recently on IFC where they didn't bleep that word out. Maybe Pulp Fiction. 

That's interesting.  I would have thought that was the one word they would censor.

[Mr. Sparkle]

I was a bit surprised. I watch TV on closed-captioned, and I noticed it was fully spelled out there. 

9 minutes ago, madmax said:

If I remember correctly, and it's been a few years since I've seen it, it's not used a lot.  Maybe once?  Twice?  There is a scene where someone is trying to say it and other sounds keep blocking it out.

That did happen, but the N-word is used quite frequently in Blazing Saddles. 

[nachomama]

I don't think I invented Hard Pants, the phrase nor the actual hard pants. Although, if I could cash in on it I would.

I wish I was home this weekend, i would have checked out Blazing Saddles, don't think I've ever seen it in it's entirety. Went to Jacksonville, it was ok, they lost our hotel reservation or cancelled it under suspicious circumstances. I think holiday weekend they didnt want the cheap online discount so it mysteriously got lost and expected me to pay the extra "regular" price but the whole town wasn't sold out we just found another hotel and got refunded. The new hotel didn't have great cable or else I could have watched Blazing Saddles because the weather wasn't great. We now had no pool, sigh. but it was ok, saw some stuff, ate some bbq and it wasn't home so it counts. Plus my car kinda drives itself. My car is not that fancy, it's the cheapest/best gas mileage I could do on short notice but it has "adaptive cruise control" which I did not know was a thing. So I set my cc and I'm wondering how come I'm going so slow. Well it keeps up with whoever is in front of you. If it's a winebago going 55 you go 53, if the winebago moves boom you go back up to 70. And I swear it was staying in lanes on its own. It's got the "lane correction" if I fall asleep it beeps at me but sincerely I believe it was steering itself. Doesn't park itself, that was most def above my pay grade.

[Mr. Sparkle]

19 minutes ago, icemiser69 said:

I have this really short mail delivery person that is so short, her head is barely above the hedge as she walks down the sidewalk.  I call her Half Pint.  No, not to her face, she'd kick my ass.

Would she have to stand on a stool to kick your ass? 

[Mr. Sparkle]

As a certified Prairie-head (I don't actually have a certificate) those episodes with Nancy are awful. The show took a dive after the 7th season. 

[madmax]

5 hours ago, icemiser69 said:

I have this really short mail delivery person that is so short, her head is barely above the hedge as she walks down the sidewalk.  I call her Half Pint.  No, not to her face, she'd kick my ass.

Better than my nickname - Stumpy.  Mr. Max is a full foot taller than me, my oldest son is about 6 inches taller than me and my youngest is 13 inches taller than me.

But at least I don't have to get anything from a high shelf...

[Mr. Sparkle]

41 minutes ago, madmax said:

But at least I don't have to get anything from a high shelf...

Or deliver the mail to @icemiser69

[nachomama]

Most definitely Little house on the prairie started to jump the shark when they kept adopting kids. Jason Bateman, the crying frogface Cassandra, Nancy, Shannon Doherty over in the Wilder's clan....I guess I give Albert a pass because of his addiction to morPHINE.

[Nashville]

On 7/6/2021 at 2:29 PM, icemiser69 said:

She wouldn't have to.  She could just punch me in the nuts without having to bend over.  Use them as a speed bag.

My, isn’t that an interestingly vivid mental image....

[Mr. Sparkle]