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1/30/2021 5:24:46 PM
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Daddy Week starting a day early, due to winter storm in the forecast. (Which would have complicated they usual pick up scheduled for tomorrow.) On thhe way back from his moms, we saw a couple of flights of Canada geese passing overhead. I commented that it seemed very late in the season for them to be heading south. Little OR sagely observed: "maybe they are confused geese."
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Kosh's Shadow
1/30/2021 5:33:33 PM
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Reply to Occasional Reader in 2: We had a standard poodle who would look at the flocks of geese flying by, and then at me, as if to say "Shouldn't you be shooting them for me to retrieve?" (His uncles were hunting dogs, and poodles were bred as retrievers.) We just played fetch with a Dead Fowl Trainer. He loved it.
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Occasional Reader
1/30/2021 6:35:41 PM
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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 4:
how on earth did you remember that?!
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Kosh's Shadow
1/30/2021 6:45:17 PM
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Reply to Occasional Reader in 5:
I have not heard that song in over 40 years, but it stuck in my mind all this time
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Kosh's Shadow
1/30/2021 7:21:28 PM
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Reply to @PBJ3 in 8: We have a parakeet in the upstairs bathroom, with 24 hour a day classical music on a clock radio. She often chirps along with the music - and not the easiest music. She likes symphonic dances by Leonard Bernstein, thus I call her Leonora Birdstein.
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buzzsawmonkey
1/30/2021 7:37:43 PM
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Just watched a film I'd never heard of until last week, "Pimpernel Smith." Amazingly, the whole film is available free on YouTube. Leslie Howard, who played the Scarlet Pimpernel in the movie of the same name, in which he's an Englishman rescuing victims of the Reign of Terror, reprises that role as a Cambridge archaeology professor who is involved in rescuing arrestees of the Third Reich just prior to the invasion of Poland. It's a long film---almost 2 hours---but an interesting relic of the time, the more so as it appears that Leslie Howard, while not Jewish according to Jewish law, would have been considered a Jew under the Nuremberg Laws (his mother had one Jewish grandfather, his father was Jewish). Howard apparently served in WWI, and returned to England when war broke out. He died in 1943, when his plane to Lisbon was shot down by German fighters under the mistaken impression that Churchill was aboard the plane.
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@PBJ3
1/30/2021 7:48:33 PM
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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 9: She sounds talented! What a cute name for her.
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@PBJ3
1/30/2021 7:55:32 PM
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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 10: It sounds like that was a pretty good old movie. I would have probably liked it.
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@PBJ3
1/30/2021 8:02:51 PM
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In #13 Kosh's Shadow said: The Scarlet Pumpernickel
LOL!
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Occasional Reader
1/30/2021 8:03:21 PM
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In #10 buzzsawmonkey said: archaeology professor who is involved in rescuing arrestees of the Third Reich “Nazis!... I hate these guys.”
/wait, sorry, wrong archaeology professor
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buzzsawmonkey
1/30/2021 8:05:22 PM
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In #12 @PBJ3 said: It sounds like that was a pretty good old movie. I would have probably liked it.
Again, you can see the entire film for free on YouTube.
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@PBJ3
1/30/2021 8:06:07 PM
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In #16 buzzsawmonkey said: Again, you can see the entire film for free on YouTube.
Maybe I will check it out!
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buzzsawmonkey
1/30/2021 8:17:15 PM
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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 18:
Indeed it is. Sorry, should have included the link in my own comment.
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Kosh's Shadow
1/30/2021 8:21:22 PM
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Reply to Occasional Reader in 20: I will read the review later. Saw the movie in grad school, but as part of the school's students showing of old movies. It was not relevant to my field, particle physics.
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buzzsawmonkey
1/30/2021 8:25:58 PM
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Reply to Occasional Reader in 20: Several things about Grand Illusion: The "Marseillaise scene" in Casablanca is an "hommage" to---or ripoff of, if you will---of a scene in which back-and-forth news from a battle at the front in which the French prisoners and their German guards sing their competing patriotic songs. The final scene, in which the aristocrat de Bouldieu sacrifices himself by distracting the guards so that the lower-class officers can make good their escape plan, shows the German commandant mystified at why his fellow-aristocrat should be willing to sacrifice himself for mere commoners.
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@PBJ3
1/30/2021 8:33:52 PM
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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 18: Thanks!
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@PBJ3
1/30/2021 8:35:44 PM
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In #19 buzzsawmonkey said: Indeed it is. Sorry, should have included the link in my own comment. Not to worry.
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Occasional Reader
1/30/2021 8:36:38 PM
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In #22 buzzsawmonkey said: The "Marseillaise scene" in Casablanca is an "hommage" to---or ripoff of, if you will---of a scene in which back-and-forth news from a battle at the front in which the French prisoners and their German guards sing their competing patriotic songs. I believe we’ve had this conversation before. Personally, I find the two scenes dissimilar enough that I would at the very least certainly not call the latter a “ripoff“ at the former.
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buzzsawmonkey
1/30/2021 8:42:13 PM
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In #25 Occasional Reader said: I believe we’ve had this conversation before. Personally, I find the two scenes dissimilar enough that I would at the very least certainly not call the latter a “ripoff“ at the former. Well, I admit I've not seen "Grand Illusion" for at least 35-40 years, but there is, at least a similarity to/echo of the one in the other.
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Occasional Reader
1/30/2021 8:50:34 PM
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In #26 buzzsawmonkey said: I admit I've not seen "Grand Illusion" for at least 35-40 years That’s longer than I’ve been alive!!!!
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