Yup, I'm a mole for the Worker's Party International.

Give the show a second look, Muskwa. I'm not a huge fan of The Simpsons. But the Simpson family is far from liberal.

It's one of the shows you sometimes have to watch twice to catch the subtlety.

The Simpsons is the best written show on tv.

I haven't seen the Simpsons in years, but I used to like it.

Rick, I didn't watch it long enough to determine if it's liberal or conservative, and I didn't watch/not watch for any political reasons. I just think it's crude and low-brow.

But then, I watch "Survivor" religiously, so there you are :~)

This guy's a good painter

If you have a little money to spend, he does some nice outdoors art. I've met him a couple times. He has a stuido and home at Marine-on-St. Croix. A good writer too.

Bob makes plenty of money. He was a fishing guide in Argentina for several years. He has a national reputation.

The legendary photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson died today

One of the best of the last century.

Here's a link to his foundation, though the site has probably crashed

Thanks for posting Rick.

Very cool stuff

Here's a link to some of it.

http://www.magnumarchive.com/c/htm/TreePf_MAG.aspx?E=29YL53IQ1W7

Do NOT read this if you are about to eat dinner. You've been warned.

600-Pound Woman Dies After Being Surgically Removed From Couch

POSTED: 3:48 pm EDT August 11, 2004

UPDATED: 8:13 pm EDT August 11, 2004

STUART, Fla.-- A dramatic rescue ended tragically in Stuart, Florida, a rescue so difficult firefighters say they have never seen anything like it.

It happened late Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning at the home of a 600-pound woman who was having trouble breathing. Rescuers went in not knowing how difficult it would be to get her out. 40-year-old Gail Grinds was literally stuck to her couch and had to be removed surgically at the hospital.

Authorities estimate she had been on the couch anywhere from two to five years.

Martin County Fire amd Rescue crews faced what seemed to be an impossible mission. Everyone going inside had to wear protective gear. The stench was so powerful they had to blast in fresh air.

They tried to cut out the front door, but at four-and-a-half feet wide, it wouldn't work. They had to cut plywood since a normal stretcher wouldn't do.

An ambulance was too small, so they brought in a trailer to get her out. While rescue crews came up with a back-door rescue plan, detectives secured what had become a crime scene, questioning family members about how it got so bad.

Using planks, they loaded the woman on to the trailer, still attached to the couch. Removing her would be too painful, since her body is grafted to the fabric. After years of staying put, her skin has literally become one with the sofa and it must be surgically removed.

http://www.wftv.com/news/3643877/detail.html 

Damn!

 

How could her family let her stay on a couch for two to five years?
Some one should go to jail for this.

They should. I mean someone had to bring her food. Ugh it makes me sick just to think about it. I'd say the rescue workers are due for a raise.

iTunes has a series of 80 downloads called Jazz in Paris.

Ironic how the only real American music genre was probably appreciated more by the French than by Americans.

I had the good fortune to spend a fall birthday in Paris. My wife and I walked Boulevard Ste. Michel. Ate an expensive dinner and went to one jazz club after another. "It's better to spend money like there's no tomorrow, than to spend tonight like there's no money." P.J. O'Rourke

One of the downloads with Chet Baker, Django Reinhardt, Dizzie Gillespie and others is called Jazz in Paris or Blues for Zell Miller.

Now that's funny,

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Sad that Rodney Dangerfield passed away. He was one of those guys that just made you laugh just seeing him. He made Caddyshack. One of my favorite lines was from the movie where he went back to college the name escapes me. He's sitting in a hot tub with a beautiful woman. She's pouring him champagne filling his glass and says to him. Say when. He looks at her and says. Right after this drink!

He will be missed.

November 22, 1921-October 5, 2004

I said to one girl, "Come on, honey, I'll show you where it's at." She said, "You better, 'cause the last time I couldn't find it."

I tell you, I'm not a sexy guy. I was the centerfold for Playgirl magazine. The staples covered everything!

I once stuck my head out the window of our car and got arrested for mooning.

One time my whole family played hide and seek. They found my mother in Pittsburgh!

Oh, when I was a kid I was poor. We were so poor, when my father died; they asked my mother, "Paper or plastic?"

I tell ya, my wife was never nice. On our first date, I asked her if I could give her a goodnight kiss on the cheek - she bent over!

You wanna have laughs? Do what I do. When I go through a tollbooth, I keep going. I tell the guy, "The car behind me is paying for two."

I could tell that my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.

When I was born ... the doctor came out to the waiting room and told my father, "We did everything we could ... but he pulled through."

Once when I was lost ... I saw a policeman and asked him to help me find my parents. I said to him, "Do you think we'll ever find them?" "He said, "I don't know kid ... there are so many places they can hide."

I asked my old man if I could go ice-skating on the lake.  He told me, "Wait til it gets warmer." 

I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent back a piece of my finger to my father.  He said he wanted more proof.

My uncle's dying wish was to have me sitting on his lap.  He was in the electric chair.

My marriage is on the rocks again.  Yeah, my wife just broke up with her boyfriend.

I'm making a lot of assumptions about his life that I don't know (he may have had a perfectly normal and happy life), but Dangerfield seemed to me like one of those funnymen who used humor to hide his pain.

Kinda like W.C. Fields.

Anybody remember his part in Natural Born Killers?

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Yeah, poor Rodney. He was great.

I wonder if you guys would post so affectionately, if he was a Democrat?

 

 

doesn't matter what his Political stance is....he wasn't a politician...
I like the "grateful dead"  even if they are almost all democrats (dead or alive)....

 

"I like the "grateful dead"  even if they are almost all democrats (dead or alive)...."

Liberal, I suppose, but a Democrat? That seems way too Establishment.

 

doesn't matter what his Political stance is....he wasn't a politician...

This is supposed to be a non political thread anyway.

Anybody remember his part in Natural Born Killers?

Wasn't he a child molester?

I hated that movie.

It wasn't the feel-good movie of the summer.

It actually could have been a good movie.

Wasn't that an Oliver Stone flick?

Was Rodney a molester in the movie?

Yeah, he was. What could Oliver Stone have done to make a good movie, in your opinion?

It wasn't realisitic.

It was stupid.

That's not what I asked.

Yeah, poor Rodney. He was great.

I wonder if you guys would post so affectionately, if he was a Democrat?

Guess what...?

First of all this is a non political thread. But I assume he was a Lib like most in entertainment. Doesn't matter, the guy was funny. That's all it's about Bill.

He could have started by making it more realistic.

I realize that in a movie they exagerate for effect, but he exagerated to the extent that the characters were just plain stupid and unbelievable.

The idea of two young adults growing up in crappy environments and turning psycho killer was good.

What could Oliver Stone have done to make a good movie, in your opinion?

Platoon was a great movie.

Most overrated movie of all time other than Titanic (and I know I'll get lambasted) Pulp Fiction. I thought it sucked. Some people would watch it every day. My wife and I walked out of the theater it was so bad. It was I think the only movie I've ever walked out of.

So, what's your type of movie Rob? What filmmakers do you like?

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I like movies of every kind. Although I'm not a big fan of horror movies. I like anything from drama to scfi Fi to comedy. I do enjoy movies that are more plausible and the ones based on real people and events are ususally the ones I enjoy most. Action films are o.k as long as they don't get too ridiculous ie: DIe Hard etc. As far as filmmakers I like. Spielberg has to be at the top of my list. Ron Howard is no slouch either.

Anybody remember his part in Natural Born Killers?

One of the greatest movies ever made. IMO  If you watch the directors cut you'll see where Stone was trying to go.  He omitted many outlandish scenes that would have made his humorous point a bit better.  The original edit could have been taken either way. Kinda like the Mona Lisa (is she smiling or not) -That comparison is for you JT ;-)  But I mean come on.  How can you take any movie serious that has the phrase "If I was going to be a mass murderer, I'd want to be just like Mikey and Malory" or the fact that Rodney played a sadistic bastard.  The weird thing was that he played it well.

And my opinion is pretty much the same for Pulp Fiction.  Both movies were the first of their kind and were the stepping stones for many that followed.

Incidently, Tarantino's sick mind was part of both of them

 

 

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And my opinion is pretty much the same for Pulp Fiction.  Both movies were the first of their kind and were the stepping stones for many that followed.

Unfortunatley. (Sorry, just my opinion)

Unfortunately. (Sorry, just my opinion)

I'd actually tend to agree since you can never duplicate an original anyway.  That genre had nowhere else to go but down.  I keep waiting for a NBK2 type of movie and never quite get it.  From Dusk to Dawn and the Kill Bill movies tried but didn't make it.

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I just heard one of those "Lesko" commercials. You know the guy with all the questionmark suit selling the same book for years on how to get millions from uncle Sam. Is it just me or does anyone else have a desire to smack the crap out of him ?

 

Is it just me or does anyone else have a desire to smack the crap out of him ?

I can sell you a book that shows hundreds of ways to smack an annoying person. ;-)

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LOL. I always love people who sell books to tell you how to get rich. Page one. Write a book and get a bunch of suckers to buy it.

A friend of mine sent $20 to an ad so he could find out how to make money in the mail order business.  They sent him a letter telling him to copy their ad, put it in the want ads and send the people who send him money a letter telling them to do the same thing. There are way to many of these scams out there.

A friend of mine sent $20 to an ad so he could find out how to make money in the mail order business.  They sent him a letter telling him to copy their ad, put it in the want ads and send the people who send him money a letter telling them to do the same thing. There are way to many of these scams out there.

He omitted many outlandish scenes that would have made his humorous point a bit better.

You mean there were even MORE outlandish scenes?

A poodle named Peter struts his stuff at the World Dog Exhibition in Beijing, China.

 

That's an avatar picture just begging to be used.

I did not need to see that.

That dog just screams "Pride Parade".

His name is Peter :)

You mean there were even MORE outlandish scenes?

There was a wrestling twins scene where Mickey and Mallory are busy hacking the legs off of two victims when Mickey suddenly realises they are wrestling hero’s of his and so they leave them alive. The scene plays out to show the now legless wheelchair bound twins praising Mickey and Mallory.

Sorry buddy, but that's just sick.

Sorry buddy, but that's just sick.

Exactly!  ;-)

But hey, In contrast, I think West Side Story and The Color Purple are two of my favorite movies as well.

That might show a little more of my bipolar problem than I care to share

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