Back in the late 80s, I was going to visit some friends who had recently moved to Denver. They told me I should bring an extra (empty) suitcase. They took me to Tattered Cover. They were right. What a great bookstore!
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Back in the late 80s, I was going to visit some friends who had recently moved to Denver. They told me I should bring an extra (empty) suitcase. They took me to Tattered Cover. They were right. What a great bookstore!
I hate those.
Cute Cute!
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C’mon guys, be fair - you know he shot a 47 for a course record but is just too modest to have the pictures published. /s (just in case)
You mean these? Yeah, the drive is around here somewhere, too. Yes, I’m an old fart with minor hoarding issues, why do you ask?
Wordle 1,534 3/6 🟨🟨🟩🟨⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 A 2 yesterday and almost a 2 today. Whee!
I’m glad I kept my slide rule and CRC log tables. If the arithmetic is gone, what hope is there for long division? And thank you to my HS chemistry teacher for insisting all his science students buy CRC books for college. RIP, Mr Brehmer.
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… and that those people will actually argue with you about it.
Sauce for the goose…
Eating Raoul (1982) Weird. Weirdly funny, too. For Trek folks, it stars a very young Robert Beltran (Chakotay from Voyager).
The Natural Hoosiers The Longest Yard And a special shoutout to The Harlem Globetrotters On Gilligan’s Island. Only a TV movie, but still… can’t let that masterpiece be forgotten.
How sad that we need that chant again.
Not just you. We always count noses before leaving and tell them we'll be back. We usually throw in a “don’t pester the senior cat” to the younger cats, too.
Yeah, you should.
Beyond Antares, performed by Nichelle Nichols. Trekkers will know it, but probably no one else. It’s really quite lovely. I quoted it in my high school yearbook. Once a nerd, always a nerd.
No doubt they will tell you that you have apnea or worse, because you couldn’t sleep well with wires strapped to you, monitors tracking your movements, and getting woken up to leave the lab before 5am. I wish you a much better night tonight.
Countdown to insurance companies refusing to cover shots - 3, 2, …
Well, that was several $M in consultant fees and marketing money well spent, not to mention the signage, menus, uniforms, and anything else that had a logo on it - all likely printed before the first change announcement. Bet the franchise owners are happy with the expenses. All over hurt fee-fees.
Love how he remembers right at the end that he shouldn’t be showing his hands… and then woosh, under the table.
From Your mouth to Your ear.
Good god.
Joann’s did that, too.
Give him time… he’ll claim things that happened before his lifetime, too.
“Why didn’t the critical employee leave instructions on how to do the critical task?” Well, when s/he tried to write those instructions, you told him/her that was a waste of time. “Nobody needs procedures any more. Just google how to do it.” Direct quote from my last director (who was fired.)
Just back from a cruise to the Bahamas. Some folks onboard were having a very serious conversation about Amelia Hart crashed her plane in the Bermuda Triangle, but not many people remember that now. Gee, I wonder why not? 🤦♀️
Yuck.
Didn’t know you had been a tech writer, too! Maybe there’s hope for me yet.
Maybe the producers should try slavery on for size. Wonder how they’ll like it, if it wasn’t so bad?
Logan’s Run!
Contact.
Another mass delusion, huh? We didn’t hear what we recorded him saying.
Do we still teach significant digits? I remember when we first got calculators in school and some kids listed out every digit that appeared on the calculator display every time. Not the same as the calculations you’re talking about, but just curious.
Yes yes yes!!!
On The Beach (1959). Nothing you can do, no miraculous last-minute save. It works for me.
No backsies on Palin.
The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming: “Egermency! Every body out from street!” It just comes in handy a lot.
I won free movie passes to Moonstruck when it first came out (a radio trivia contest). I was so disappointed.
Patron saint of television. (Seriously.)
Fox “News” reunion.
She’s Having A Baby (1988)
Lots of the old ones, from when we still had attention spans. My Fair Lady The Sound of Music The King and I The Ten Commandments How The West Was Won True Grit (1969) 2001: A Space Odyssey The Shawshank Redemption Jaws The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming
That boosts my confidence immensely.
Thank you - and back to you!
My date and I were watching When Worlds Collide together. When the nasty rich man stood up from his wheelchair to walk toward the departing spaceship, we simultaneously blurted out, “Mein fuhrer, I can walk!” from Dr Strangelove. Yesterday was our 23rd anniversary.
Goodbye to Love - The Carpenters
Such a neat show! Congrats on the lunchbox.
We have a shelter cat that we adopted when she was about 5. One of the things that attracted us to her was that she’d been in the shelter about 6 months. She pretty much claimed my husband when she saw him. She’s about 17 now and is head cat in the household.
Testament is another one. It’s so good, but an update and re-release would bring it to new audiences.
The Stand - King The Source - Michener Stranger In A Strange Land - Heinlein On The Beach - Shute
“Deserve.”
The 10 Commandments (the one with Heston). Hear me out… It is unintentionally hilarious. So over-acted, so over the top with the narration, so silent-movie-like with the broad gestures… DeCarlo staring into the camera, Price’s slithery threats, Brynner just being Brynner. Bring popcorn and laugh.
Too polite
Math is hard.
Very obedient milk, I must say.
At a showing of 2001: A Space Odyssey, during the opening sequence, my grandmother loudly said, “I don’t want to see a movie about monkeys!” The audience laughed. Eight-year-old me wanted to hide under the seats.
“Pierogiless.” 🤣🤣🤣
Two wrongs may not make a right, but it also isn’t right to let the person doing the first wrong get away with it.
Love watching the heads all pivoting in synch.
You lost the GOP at “that’s true.”
Such a cool thread! Thank you, darth!
Try the Deutsches Museum in Munich. They have a huge collection of computers and calculators from that era.
Batman (1966) Don’t Drink The Water (1969) Divorce American Style (1967) Cactus Flower (1969) The Great Race (1965) The Trouble With Angels (1966) My husband says I have terrible taste in comedies 🤷🏻♀️
My university once ran Psycho at midnight on Halloween weekend. A group came in pretty drunk. Whenever the violins began to screech, a woman in the group would scream - before anything had happened. Only time I ever saw Psycho with people laughing during the scary bits.
Well, 29 times would have been vulgar over-reach… 🙄
It’s actually called “Somewhere Down The Road” - oops
We Had The Right Love At The Wrong Time - Barry Manilow
Math is hard.
Witness.
35, plus some drive-thrus.
Film - Bicentennial Man Song (album, actually) - Alan Parsons Project: I, Robot
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Don’t stop caring. We need to keep caring and keep pushing back.
The Omen (1976). I can still see the last shot of that kid turning to the camera and smiling.
The Americans.
“Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.” ― H.L. Mencken
Star Trek The Americans Everybody Loves Raymond (it’s a series of childhood memories) Lucifer (and some reality shows too embarrassing to admit to)
“Privilege.” What more needs to be said about his morals?
She’s Got A Way About Her
Yup - and I still listen to them. I was in my University’s choir when we were chosen to sing backup for him on tour (about 1980-81). He was really nice and welcoming to us, and we were each given an autographed album.
Math is hard.
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Emma cruises.
Not what - who.
Or not just hate - like “How To Murder Your Wife” (1965)
Sending good thoughts and hugs your way.
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You voted for it. You trusted a serial liar and got screwed. Why did you have to take so many people down with you?
Krapopolis.
He'll have the worst memory in history. “State your name for the record.” “I don’t recall.”
The Bob Newhart Show (the one where he’s a psychologist).
Probably not what you have in mind, but for supernatural - Bewitched.
Nice picture - hello from a fellow WashU grad.
SWAT - 1975. Crazy and really violent at the time, but it did have a great theme song - made the charts!
Who bought and sold on that curve?
The Handmaid’s Tale (Hulu) The Man In The High Castle (Prime) Dystopia, yay?
My husband and I found an orchestral version of Picard’s flute tune and it was our first dance at our wedding. That episode is very special to us.
age matches a different part of a character’s life, I feel the character differently. Some of the re-reads have let me notice the little “Easter eggs” and foreshadowings I didn’t notice the first time. And some have shown me a nuance from the author I was too caught in the plot to see before.
I have a number of books that I’ve re-read many times. There’s a comfort in knowing I can pick up one of those books, open it anywhere, and just fall into it. I have several of them on my iPad so I’ll always have them available while traveling. Some I’ve re-read as I’ve aged, and since my “now”