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posted 04-10-2009 12:55 PM
Kurt Russel I love the bit part Billy Bob Thorton plays as a smart a** card dealer when Kurt dares him to draw saying "Skin it! Skin that smoke wagon!"
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Tails
I always habitually call tails and I always lose coin tosses. What a ridulous and self defeating habit that is.
on warbirds: props or jets
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posted 04-10-2009 03:45 PM
Why would calling tails everytime be self-defeating. If all other varibles are equal, calling all heads, all tails, 50% heads/50% tails, or even a self determined "random" selection will not increase or decrease your odds of being correct. However I have found that if the same person flips the coin over the short term, you can increase your odds by watching which side is up when he flips because the coin will tend to make the same number of rotations when flipped by the same guy.
Props, they are easier to shoot down from the ground WHICH IS WHERE I WILL BE WHEN BULLETS ARE FLYING
More great engines means more choices i.e. 327, 350, 383, 400, 454, 455 (pontiac), 500, and the jack hammer of them all, the 572. Ford, while making some great engines of their own, have fewer choices, more expensive components, and some might express great disappointment with them sticking with their 302 in all of the mustang gt's (for decades)--it sounds great and can be equiped with great power-adders, but ultimately, when on a drag strip, the damn engine block splits like a nut when you pour the coal to it.
hyper-tension or depression?
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posted 04-21-2009 06:18 PM
Great one---maybe the best yet!
FILM
Although the pervasive use of digital pics has made taking precious pics in high volumes a wonderful thing----afterall, more great pics of the kids when they're young and silly is better, right? Well, ultimately you still have to convert the pics to a paper product, as viewing pics on a disc is far less tactile than the shuffle, or better yet, the big albums. This means all that snapping which at first seems too easy, becomes a matter of clicking dollars by the hundreds in say, a given year. Consequently in our house we are over-run with digital form pics---and what I'm finally getting to--is the tragic LOSS of pics via a lost camera, a crashed hardrive, or lost memory card---a card the sizeof a postage stamp but holds 2 christmas's and 6 birthdays worth of images. True, we needed to back up our data---but when you lose pics on say, a 4 gig disc----you lose HUNDREDS or even a thousand forms of irreplaceable images-----forever. This one was personal. When film was pricey, you made sure that each frame counted----because it had to.
Anyone read today's story of Edgar Mitchell's(Apollo moon astronaut)UFO statement? Made Gordon Cooper's statement seem trivial and speculative.
Extraterrestrials or Interdimensional entities?
and/or if that's too far-fetched;
guitars;
Acoustic or Electric
....before you answer electric (you rockers out there) look at this rising star named Andy McKee and what he's doing with the acoustic;
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Arguably the adventure/thriller of its day, and more engaging controversy than TS - which degraded into a franchise almost as long as the Rocky movie series.
William or Edward (or Miguel) (only because yesterday was 4/23)
------------------ "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here. This is the war room." --(Stanley Kubrick/Peter Sellers - Dr. Strangelove, 1964)
posted 04-25-2009 12:28 PM
Ray, you must be friends with Edward Miguel(or he was your econ prof in college?)---as I doubt many people are familiar with either authors. Having two step-sisters who spent many years in Latin America studying for grad degrees, I recall one of them citing Edward Miguel as being wrong about his broad strokes and blaming curruption of regional governments for the sole reason for 3rd world's (Africa and Latin AM)obsene poverty. Reagan's Latin American policy alone set nearly an entire continent of people into arrested development with a sustained and severe distrust of us---let alone the rise of moron populist dictators like Chavez and others. Sorry for the rant.
posted 04-28-2009 07:41 AM
"confesses a boone" maybe means "bone"
if so, I don't want a bone after 3 hours,
stat, I don't know Edward Miguel - or economiczzzz
was obscure reference to 4/23 the date recorded as the death of both Shakespeare and Cervantes (also suspected to be WS's birthday 'cause his baptism was 4/26). Some years ago a few people speculated that Cervantes may have written Shakespeare - because WS seems to not have had access to the education or knowledge/experience necessary to do so. A lot of people are now convinced it was Edward DeVere who wrote the Shakespeare material. (so much for obscure literary allusions)
zzz
dogs or cats
r
------------------ "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here. This is the war room." --(Stanley Kubrick/Peter Sellers - Dr. Strangelove, 1964)
I preferred living in the country personally, but many womenfolk don't like being so far from discount boxes, the gym, and of course, their mothers----which is the whole point of living in the sticks in the first place, eh? Solitude isn't for everybody.
Horrific sunburn ---the oozing kind where a bath in jet fuel would feel better
or
Poison Ivy attack that causes you to contemplate suicide by stuffing yourself in an ice chest.
posted 05-05-2009 10:38 PM
I think the poison ivy. As suicide would not even take away that horrific sunburn. Have had both, and the poison ivy was a walk in the park.
posted 05-06-2009 05:06 PM
dry erase----cause you get to chuckle at the people who accidentally use a permenant marker and need to use an industrial sandblaster for erasure. There must be a race of gnomes who plant those perm markers on the ledge in the wee hours.
it'd give me better reason to attend car shows than walking around in my normal pathetic and dreamer state. I'd swap the batmobile for something more my taste though;
Now,
Drum Battles;
(this is arguably the three greatest drummers of the last 30 yrs
or Accordion Battles;
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posted 06-29-2009 03:40 PM
No question Gadd is a great drummer, but that is classic, almost cliche, Steve Gaad. Weckl is amazing. All these guys play traditional grip.
More importantly, they all had great hair.
You can hear people with this kind of chops on Lou Rovner's jazz CD.
I'll pick the the amazing accordion filth-fest because it was pretty amazing and very different.
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German Polka or Mexican Polka?
r
------------------ "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here. This is the war room." --(Stanley Kubrick/Peter Sellers - Dr. Strangelove, 1964)
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posted 07-04-2009 03:29 PM
Most know I (like Ray and some others) am a lifelong musician. I have never heard of "Mexican Polka." I have not done any searches on it---and to be honest, I take issue with pairing the words "Mexican" and "polka". While I suppose there are plenty of latin-loving German musicians, I doubt that you would readily describe their take on say, the Beguine--as a "German Beguine" or "German Salsa." That's just weird. I vote German Polka---although even that is improper as the German "polka" (Hungarian?)is more properly called Bavarian half-step, or Bavarian Dance music. I suppose if Mexican half step music's proponents want to call it "polka"--a Slavic word for half step (and also "torture sound"), than okeedokee. Regardless, none of it sounds good unless you are either wasted or 120 years old ......OR you are a wasted 120 yr old.
On L.A. Hard Rock Bands;
Van Halen or Motley Crue?
PS I remember hearing a record of a band that did an album of nothing but polka-ized Rolling Stones Songs. I laughed for about 2 minutes at the novelty, which soon turned to agitation and eventually feelings of suicide and hopelessness. Polka hurts these ears---and I wasn't surprised to learn they used it at Gitmo.
Happy 4th y'all!
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posted 07-04-2009 11:16 PM
Two of my favorite bands.
Original Van Halen: David Lee Roth-lead vocals Eddie Van Halen-guitars, piano, synthesizers Alex Van Halen-drums, percussion Michael Anthony-bass, background vocals
David Lee Roth is probably the greatest 'rock' frontman of all time, so Van Halen wins that category. Nikki Sixx is a great songwriter and 'rock star,' so Crue wins that one. Eddie Van Halen is a great guitar player and wins that one. Tommy Lee is probably a more influential drummer in that genre than Alex Van Halen, so Crue wins that category. I have seen Crue in concert, but always wanted to see the original Van Halen. So overall, I would have to say Van Halen.
Lou Gramm----one of my alltime favorite singers--seen 'em live--loved it. BUT, having always loved Journey, but not as much as Foreigner, ya may ask why C. It's because I happened upon a video of a full length concert from Journey from the eighties (frontier?) and watched Steve Perry sing his absolute guts out for 90 or more minutes---working the crowd---wailing at the fast songs, and crooning on the ballads like it was his final curtain call. 5 yrs later I'm still stunned at what a treasure Steve Perry was. It is now no surprise how he ruined his vocal chords---by giving his entire self to those crowds. Lou Gramm however was a notorious drunken jerk--who transposed his songs to lower keys even in his youth, while Steve Perry was known for being a great guy, a charitable man, and a show-must-go on type a guy.
it takes a bit to get past the rediculously tight clothes (don't pretend in '83 ya didn't wear em too)but the talent is there.
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posted 04-09-2009 09:43 PM
