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vxbush
10/3/2022 6:37:57 AM
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Today seems like a lazy Monday to me. 
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Occasional Reader
10/3/2022 7:42:27 AM
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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 2:
Tell the TGNCNBI that TANSTAAFL.
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buzzsawmonkey
10/3/2022 7:47:46 AM
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Reply to Occasional Reader in 3: BTW, I replied to your post from a day or two ago in yesterday's thread.
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Occasional Reader
10/3/2022 7:51:34 AM
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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 4:
Thanks, I saw that. I was not really "shocked" that Newsome is positioning CA as the One Stop Shop For Getting Your Junk Chopped... more Capt. Renault "shocked".
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buzzsawmonkey
10/3/2022 8:03:22 AM
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Reply to Occasional Reader in 5: There were ads for a doll called "Poppy, the Fashion Model" on TV when I was a kid. The doll had different hairdos that could be changed along with its outfits---I assume that the hairdos were designed like the pop-beads that kids play with, so that you could pop the hair on and off. It wouldn't surprise me to see a line of dolls come out where kids can pop breasts or genitalia on or off the dolls so that they can play a form of "doctor."
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JCM
10/3/2022 8:24:42 AM
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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 2: How homophobic! The exclude gay and lesbian!
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Occasional Reader
10/3/2022 8:33:40 AM
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So, Bolsonaro has survived the first round vote in Brazil, and will face Lula again in a runoff (which he, Bolsonaro, will likekly lose). Bolsonaro is sometimes called "the Trump of the Tropics". But conservative Brazilians really need a De Santis at this point.
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lucius septimius
10/3/2022 8:57:22 AM
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Starting sine, cosine, and tangent the kids today. They have no idea how fortunate they are never, ever to have to use a log chart.
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buzzsawmonkey
10/3/2022 2:15:12 PM
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Reply to Occasional Reader in 12: Thanks! Good review, and good commentary; I hope it inspires some in our dwindling throng to actually see the film, which is superb and hilarious. I do wish he'd put scare quotes around "fortune teller" when describing Esther Howard as Madame LaHoya. When McGinty is persuading her to pay up her protection-money arrears, he asks, "Do you want the fire inspector telling you your place is a trap? Or the plumbing inspector saying that your pipes stink?" In Dos Passos' "Manhattan Transfer," there's a scene in which one character tells another that they found out the pipes in the building were stinking because the woman on the other floor had been doing "illegal operations, i.e., abortions. Since Madame LaHoya's "fortune-telling parlor" is clearly a workhouse, the "stinking pipes" reference is intended to underscore that fact.
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buzzsawmonkey
10/3/2022 2:51:46 PM
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I mention the above cross-connection in "McGinty" because I once showed a friend who is NOT a film-watcher a scene from that movie that I thought he'd find amusing. In it, McGinty as mayor is upping the bribe ante on a bus-franchise holder, and rather than name a dollar figure he invites the franchisee to guess the number of people attending a baseball game in a photo on the wall. "Oh, I don't know," the franchisee says, "Ten thousand?" "Guess again," says McGinty. "Fifteen thousand?" the franchisee guesses. "You're not even close," says McGinty---at which point the franchisee realizes what they're actually talking about. It's a beautiful scene, but also, my friend didn't get it, and had to have it explained.
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Occasional Reader
10/3/2022 3:41:14 PM
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Oh, damn.
RIP, my Uncle Bob; who just passed from Covid (at age 91).
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buzzsawmonkey
10/3/2022 3:46:21 PM
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Reply to Occasional Reader in 16: May his soul be elevated, and may you and your family find comfort.
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lucius septimius
10/3/2022 3:50:47 PM
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Reply to Occasional Reader in 16: Very sorry to hear that.
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Occasional Reader
10/3/2022 4:03:35 PM
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Thank you.
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Kosh's Shadow
10/3/2022 5:55:59 PM
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In #16 Occasional Reader said: RIP, my Uncle Bob; who just passed from Covid (at age 91). My condolences.
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@PBJ3
10/3/2022 7:09:01 PM
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Reply to Occasional Reader in 16: I'm so very sorry for your loss.
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Kosh's Shadow
10/3/2022 7:30:03 PM
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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 24: HE USED THE WRONG PRONOUN!!!!!!!!! //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
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Occasional Reader
10/3/2022 9:01:26 PM
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Thanks to all for your condolences. Good night.
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