Off topic question, your fav movie scene?

[John 3rd]

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

Okay, I admit it:  My first post (#3 or so) was a trap meant to entice CapMandrake into participating in this survey.

For great scenes (not just lines, as my first post suggested) in a movie, how about when "Boy" returns to his home in the Shenandoah Valley after being mistaken for a Confederate soldier and taken prisoner.  The remnant of his family, which has suffered immensely in the war, is gathered in church that morning.  The Boy walks into the church, the service suddenly halts as they see him, and then the congregation begins singing the Doxology ("Praise God from whom all blessings flow...") as the Boy hobbles up the aisle on his crutch to his father's side.

The movie is Shenandoah with Jimmy Stewart.

That film is one of my Father's favorites!

How about the river crossing of the 82nd to capture Niimegen Brigade in Bridge Too Far? "Hail Mary!" That location is one of the 'must see during my life' spots for me.

[RUPD3658]

Any scene with boobies[:D]

[Misconduct]

ORIGINAL: RUPD3658

Any scene with boobies[:D]

Edited: Any scene with Angelina Jolie's boobies.

[Ol_Dog]

Tora Tora Tora
It's a hell of a way to fly into a war - unarmed and out of gas.

They Were Expendable
Those enemy transports will land. Neither you nor I can stop them. We are professionals. If the manager says sacrifice, we lay down a bunt and let someone else hit a home run.

Patton
... let no man come back alive
General, some times the men don't know when you are serious.
It's not important for them to know. It only important for me to know.

[Canoerebel]

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ORIGINAL: RUPD3658

Any scene with boobies[:D]

Edited: Any scene with Angelina Jolie's boobies.

Ordinarily, I'd agree with you. But Jolie's father is Jon Voight of Deliverance fame, and therefore he and all his offspring shall forever be tainted by his association with that grim, disturbing movie.

Besides, don't you guys think many of these modern actresses have been touched up a bit? Don't you prefer the old-fashioned actresses of the past? They were classy and beautiful. Three cheers for: Ingrid Bergman, Donna Reed, Julie Christie, Audrey Hepburn, Olivia DeHaviland, and the like.

[John 3rd]

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

ORIGINAL: Misconduct

ORIGINAL: RUPD3658

Any scene with boobies[:D]

Edited: Any scene with Angelina Jolie's boobies.

Ordinarily, I'd agree with you. But Jolie's father is Jon Voight of Deliverance fame, and therefore he and all his offspring shall forever be tainted by his association with that grim, disturbing movie.

Besides, don't you guys think many of these modern actresses have been touched up a bit? Don't you prefer the old-fashioned actresses of the past? They were classy and beautiful. Three cheers for: Ingrid Bergman, Donna Reed, Julie Christie, Audrey Hepburn, Olivia DeHaviland, and the like.

Should we also add the word...natural to that description? No...ahhh...cosmetic enhancements...

How about Hudson? "Game OVER man. GAME OVER!"

[Hornblower]

Gettysburg “Fix Bayonnets!!”  Jeff Daniels.  Long live the 20th Maine. And the 140th NY for that matter!

[Misconduct]

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

ORIGINAL: Misconduct

ORIGINAL: RUPD3658

Any scene with boobies[:D]

Edited: Any scene with Angelina Jolie's boobies.

Ordinarily, I'd agree with you. But Jolie's father is Jon Voight of Deliverance fame, and therefore he and all his offspring shall forever be tainted by his association with that grim, disturbing movie.

Besides, don't you guys think many of these modern actresses have been touched up a bit? Don't you prefer the old-fashioned actresses of the past? They were classy and beautiful. Three cheers for: Ingrid Bergman, Donna Reed, Julie Christie, Audrey Hepburn, Olivia DeHaviland, and the like.

Extremely right so, women back then were real women, I mean i grew up in the 90s with women like courtney love who has seen more coke lines then john belushi. Most women today are fragments of what real women were back then, all the plastic and no inner beauty at all. But hey more power to them if it only requires 10k for a boob job to make it big and rich by all means go for it they still do look good. Even if they melt under the sun.

[Canoerebel]

ORIGINAL: Hornblower

Gettysburg “Fix Bayonnets!!”  Jeff Daniels.  Long live the 20th Maine. And the 140th NY for that matter!

Nah, Jeff Daniels spends the entire movie clapping men on the shoulder. Besides, he's a Yankee. The real hero of that movie is James Longstreet.

[Hornblower]

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

ORIGINAL: Hornblower

Gettysburg “Fix Bayonnets!!”  Jeff Daniels.  Long live the 20th Maine. And the 140th NY for that matter!

Nah, Jeff Daniels spends the entire movie clapping men on the shoulder. Besides, he's a Yankee. The real hero of that movie is James Longstreet.

I thought Old Pete was born a Gamecock and not a Bulldog??

[Canoerebel]

Naw, Old Pete was a Bulldawg.  I think he was born in South Carolina, but spent much of his early life in NE Georgia, then after the war owned a hotel (and served as postmaster, I think) in Gainesville, Georgia.

When Lee surrendered at Appomattox, his two ranking lieutants were Georgians:  Longstreet and John Brown Gordon (who took over for Ewell after his capture).

After the war, Longstreet became involved in Republican politics, a big no-no for a Southerner.  He was also ostracized for criticizing Lee's choices at Gettysburg.  Longstreet was married to Julia Dent, a relative of U.S. Grant.  Longstreet also served in the govenment under Grant.  By the 1880s, Longstreet had become a bit of a pariah in the South.  He wasn't invited to a big Confederate veteran reunion, but showed up anyway.  When he entered the hall and people realized who it was, he received a rousing welcome.  He was "back in the family."  Longstreet (and Gordon, too) died in 1904.  Longstreet is buried in Alta Vista Cemetery in Gainesville.

[bradfordkay]

Dan, should we tell these guys about the double barreled cannon in Athens?

Not one of the finest moments for any Bulldawg... 

[Hornblower]

Thanks, i didn't know all that.  [&o]

[Canoerebel]

ORIGINAL: bradfordkay

Dan, should we tell these guys about the double barreled cannon in Athens?

Not one of the finest moments for any Bulldawg... 

Shhhh, I think John's engineers have rigged up somthing similar on his remaining CAs in our Forlorn Hopes game. He must be desperate...

Okay, Brad, but if yer gonna tell 'em about the double-barrelled cannon, you'll also have to mention the tree that owns itself, the Normaltown Flyers, REM, and Miss Nancy Jo Whitingslow.

Miss Nancy Jo was in two of my classes my second year at UGA. Everyone, including our Poli Sci professor, was in love with her. But li'l ol' innocent (and handsome, of course) me was dating a young lass from Warner Robins, so I kept my eyes to myself. Well, it seems that being the one guy who didn't pay any attention to Nancy Jo got her attention, so eventually she asked ME out.

A few months later, she won some beauty contest and appeared in Playboy. I told my mom about it, so she bought that issue for me while I was in the hospital recovering from minor surgery. (How many of you guys have had your mother buy you Playboy? She is, by the way, a classy and very conservative Southern lady; my mother I mean.)

Nancy Jo was classy too, but I don't know whether or not she was conservative, because I declined her offer of a date. I was, after all, involved with that young lass from Warner Robins.

How many of you guys declined a date from a Southern Belle who appeared in Playboy?

Alas, that's probably my sole claim to fame.

[John 3rd]

I have never heard that story from you  (I think) and after all the time we spent together with our campaigns in UV and here.  I am hurt MISTER!

As normal Allied Intelligence has the new Japanese invention all wrong.  Those ARE actually hundreds of tree trunks painted black or grey at Hyderabad, Banglaore, and we are aggressively advancing are tree cannon army towards Madras and Bombay!

I think Longstreet was was one of the best the South had.  He didn't have many bad days in the Fields and if Lee had listened to him at some Pennsylvania town in July of 1863 things might have been downright interesting.

[Hornblower]

i'm rather fond of General George H. Thomas myself..

[Canoerebel]

My wife (who is even prettier than Nancy Jo, but also very, very, VERY conservative) will kill me if she finds out I told that story.  But we're guys, right?  We gather together collegially to play this wonderful game, smoke an occasional stogey, and tell tales (some tall, some true, but always in good taste) from our past.  Say, I WOULD enjoy an evening spent in conversation with some o' you characters....as long as Tom Label and Elf bring their avatar "babes" too.

[bradfordkay]

Well Dan, you'll always have the story about "the one who got away"...

Athens was a fun town in those days.

Here's a pic of our famous cannon:

[whippleofd]

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

How many of you guys declined a date from a Southern Belle who appeared in Playboy?

I'm Texan and this I know: Southern Belles don't appear in Playboy, or anyother skin magazine for that matter. A southern lady has manners and class. This person may have talked southern and may have been southern born, but she was no lady.

Whipple

[Canoerebel]

Naw, Nancy Jo she was a young lady.  She won some beauty contest in a honky tonk bar and as such her photo appeared in Playboy.  But she wasn't unclothed (I forgot to mention that little tidbit).