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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,027
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    daddyjt wrote: »
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    UFO 54-40...

    Do the Canadians know about this?

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  • mhardy6647
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    halo wrote: »
    FestYboy wrote: »
    Now wait a second there @halo, the first iteration of HGTTG was actually quite watchable and enjoyable, the remake however...

    The first iteration wasn’t a movie, as I recall. It was an English/British made for TV movie broken up into different parts, was it not? Forgive my memory, the last time I saw that I was probably only 8 or 9 years old. I agree that the series was very well done.

    However, the latest version was complete and total trash that a Vogon wouldn’t bother to deficate on.

    I remember identically one thing about the feature-length movie version:

    https://youtu.be/h4kklZxLFK0

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  • Hermitism
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  • mhardy6647
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    mmm -- I am older than some of y'all, as I remember with great pleasure this V (which, admittedly, had some age on it when I first read it in the 1970s).

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  • Hermitism
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  • Hermitism
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    And from my own personal collection...

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  • Viking64
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    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    UFO 54-40...

    Do the Canadians know about this?
    That's the slogan that helped get Matthew Polk elected president of Polk Audio! He must have been very insistent in regards to his capacitor values. :p
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  • Viking64
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,092
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    Hermitism wrote: »
    The violent Bugs Bunny cartoons were pretty darn good, too. The ones they aren't allowed to air today.

    Yep... can't have the little ones watching Wylie Coyote using that ACME crap blowing things up, or Bugs Bunny stuffing a carrot down the barrel of Elmer Fudd's shotgun... way too violent.


    Let's let them learn how to feel nothing when shooting and blowing things up while playing Grand Theft Auto X. No violence there right?<insert eye roll here>
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  • nooshinjohn
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    I had the exact same hockey game...
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  • Clipdat
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    Our society revolves around sex and violence. The sooner they understand that the better. Why try to shelter them from it and pretend it doesn't exist?
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  • Hermitism
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    Yep, I guess society was afraid some child was going to mail-order a dynamite filled ACME rocket and use it on their neighbor's pet roadrunner.
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  • nooshinjohn
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    Clipdat wrote: »
    Our society revolves around sex and violence. The sooner they understand that the better. Why try to shelter them from it and pretend it doesn't exist?

    I hope you are being funny... either that or you are NOT the father.

    I will shield my son from anything I feel he has not shown himself to be ready for. It is my job as a parent to do nothing less.
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  • verb
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    Let's not forget about these classics!
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 49,787
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    The Three Stooges are still the best thing that was ever on TV......yuk, yuk, yuk
    Political Correctness'.........defined

    "A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."

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  • nooshinjohn
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    The Honeymooners ranks near the top for me, along with Groucho Marx
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  • nooshinjohn
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    Can't believe 10 pages in and nobody had one of these...

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    “When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.”— Thomas Jefferson
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  • pitdogg2
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    nooshinjohn wrote: »
    Can't believe 10 pages in and nobody had one of these...

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    I wish I had 10 of them they are worth a mint. The Jaclyn Smith poster was pretty awesome as well. I had both
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  • Derf
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    ^^^Yep! And Cheryl Tiegs, and Heather Thomas, and Cowboys Cheerleaders, and . . . .
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  • teekay0007
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    daddyjt wrote: »
    I used to love reading these as a kid...

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    Is that Jay Leno, back from the future, with one of his flying cars?

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  • daddyjt
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    Hermitism wrote: »
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    How could I forget! That show was killer! I tried watching the new one, but it just didn’t hold my interest... and Starbuck as a woman?? C’mon... I know, toxic masculinity... :wink:
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    “Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.”
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  • Hermitism
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    I didn't have high hopes for the "reimagining" remake of BSG, but I gotta tell you, it ended up being really good once it got going. It was about the only Scifi show on TV for adults. They didn't add "comedy" for the little kids. Plus, Number Six/Tricia Helfer was hot.
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  • Hermitism
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    Conjunction junction what's your function?
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  • nooshinjohn
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    Lol... and Morgan Freeman on The Electric Company.
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  • halo
    halo Posts: 5,616
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    11 pages in and no one's mentioned D&D?!?

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  • audioluvr
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    Viking64 wrote: »
    I wanted one of these, but my father said: "Only hippies ride bikes like that!" :(

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    Your dad must have gone to the same buzz kill school as mine...
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    There is about a 5% genetic difference between apes and men …but that difference is the difference between throwing your own poo when you are annoyed …and Einstein, Shakespeare and Miss January. by Dr. Sardonicus
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  • lunazul
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    <https://youtu.be/1MG69Dc0zbs?t=157
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  • audioluvr
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    Still playing with cranes... Albiet much larger.

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    Harman Kardon T65C w/Grado Gold. (Don't laugh. It sounds great!)

    There is about a 5% genetic difference between apes and men …but that difference is the difference between throwing your own poo when you are annoyed …and Einstein, Shakespeare and Miss January. by Dr. Sardonicus
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  • Nightfall
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    halo wrote: »
    11 pages in and no one's mentioned D&D?!?

    It's the nerd stigma. I'm proud to be a nerd! ;)

    Second Edition was the latest when I started.

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    I never really got into seriously though. I mostly prefer my RPG's in video game form.

    Dragon Warrior 1, 2, and 3 complete in box for NES. Still haven't ran into the rare Dragon Warrior 4 complete in box yet.

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    Phantasy Star 4 on the Sega Genesis as well as Final Fantasy 3 and Chrono Trigger on Super Nintendo.

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    afterburnt wrote: »
    They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.

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  • Hermitism
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    Here's a couple I can barely remember when I was really young. The witch's castle, which I think was made out of vinyl. I remember it having a rubbery smell. I remember that movie coming on TV every spring, it was an event. That was the only movie that ever truly scared me because I saw it at such a young age. And yes, I have it on Blu-ray and DVD.

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    Winnie The Poo... Weebles wooble but they don't fall down. They do however break when thrown as a projectile.

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