Tokyo Rose was a Hussy! Chez (J) vs. Canoe (A)

[vettim89]

Chickenboy you disappoint me. Upon further reflection, I realized it was a reach that our knuckle-dragging friend from south of the Mason-Dixon Line would be able to appreciate fine art. But to have a fellow Yankee and professional collegue join in the denigration of one of the finest movies released in the last week of September of 1987, I SMH.

Ok, so its not a thetrical masterpiece, but it is one of the most quotable movies ever produced.

[Canoerebel]

[:D]
 
Love your replies, gents!  Cribtop and I were separated at birth.  And I've always felt a particular comradeship with PoultryLad and the Moose even though they are mired down in Glacier Country.  (I wonder what Bullwinkle thinks of the movie?  I bet John III loves it.  What about Miller?  How about Nemo?  And, gracious, GreyJoy????)
 
Vettim, I watched the movie enough that I can quote some lines.  I even like a few of the lines.  It's just the movie I hate.  Go figure!  (But I hate TMTSNBM far, far more than I hate The Princess Bride.  The latter I can ignore.  The former I would gladly serve on an execution squad to take out the producer, the director, and the two idiot American pilot actors.)

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: vettim89

Chickenboy you disappoint me. Upon further reflection, I realized it was a reach that our knuckle-dragging friend from south of the Mason-Dixon Line would be able to appreciate fine art. But to have a fellow Yankee and professional collegue join in the denigration of one of the finest movies released in the last week of September of 1987, I SMH.

Ok, so its not a thetrical masterpiece, but it is one of the most quotable movies ever produced.

Dude...I ain't no Yankee! I'm a Californian. Insanity explained... [;)]

[vettim89]

Upon reflection I realized I probable don't really like the movie as much as I

A. Like certain characters (Fezzig and Inigo)

B. Like certain scenes (The show down between Vicini and The Man and Black and the Miracle Max scene)

Like I said, one of the best movies released in the last week of September 1987.

[vettim89]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: vettim89

Chickenboy you disappoint me. Upon further reflection, I realized it was a reach that our knuckle-dragging friend from south of the Mason-Dixon Line would be able to appreciate fine art. But to have a fellow Yankee and professional collegue join in the denigration of one of the finest movies released in the last week of September of 1987, I SMH.

Ok, so its not a thetrical masterpiece, but it is one of the most quotable movies ever produced.

Dude...I ain't no Yankee! I'm a Californian. Insanity explained... [;)]

Berkley Grad? (That would explain a lot [:D])

[HansBolter]

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

[:)]

The Princess Bride has taken on legendary status in my family.  We heard about the movie for years.  Everybody - included beloved family members who have impeccable taste - loves it.  Finally, my family of five (dad, mom, three children who then ranged in age from about 14 to about 8) sat down to watch it.  All five of us hated it.  Nobody believed us.  So we started a tradition of asking everybody we met, "Do you like Princess Bride"?  Over the years, we've only found about three or four other folks that feel the same way about it that we do.  It was so refreshing to find these few, and they were so much like us in temperment, that we felt like adopting them.

I had a similar experience with the woman I almost married 25 years ago. For much of my youth I was constantly quoting Monty Python and the Holy Grail. She asked me one day where I got all those silly sayings from so I rented the movie and she absolutely hated it........[8|].....go figure......

The key qualifying phrase in the story above is "I almost married" ......


btw: I'm HUGE Princss Bride fan as well...............I can remember when Inigo Montoya was one of the most used character names in MMORPGs

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: vettim89

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: vettim89

Chickenboy you disappoint me. Upon further reflection, I realized it was a reach that our knuckle-dragging friend from south of the Mason-Dixon Line would be able to appreciate fine art. But to have a fellow Yankee and professional collegue join in the denigration of one of the finest movies released in the last week of September of 1987, I SMH.

Ok, so its not a thetrical masterpiece, but it is one of the most quotable movies ever produced.

Dude...I ain't no Yankee! I'm a Californian. Insanity explained... [;)]

Berkley Grad? (That would explain a lot [:D])

You Misspelled "Davis". [:'(]

Tim: You know what a Buckeye is, doncha? It's a large, worthless somewhat hairy nut. Hard external shell-pretty 'thick', no redeeming commercial features. [:'(]

[obvert]

As a teacher of film, I can understand why someone would find The Princess Bride badly made. But it's a MASTERPIECE of cult film material. The kind of film you can't help but quote, because it's simply so ridiculous. And how can you not love a film with Andre the Giant, may he rest in peace?

He didn't take Paramushiro before Nov 1st? INCONCEIVABLE!!

(You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means).

[vettim89]

Tim: You know what a Buckeye is, doncha? It's a large, worthless somewhat hairy nut. Hard external shell-pretty 'thick', no redeeming commercial features.

We proudly embrace our nutiness. That said we are truly unique. I beleive we are the only major college program using the Buckeye for our school mascot. Just think of us as your odd uncle: eccentric, a bit nutty but you can't help but like him.

As to the lack of commercial value, here is where the genius of Ohioans escapes you. You have a state filled with these trees that produce an inedible, somewhat toxic fruit. No moentary valaue attached. So what do you do? You make said nut the school mascot of the lead university in the state. Suddenly there is a huge market for the "worthless" nuts for fan apparel, jewelry, etc. See? Pure genius!

[Nemo121]

Thankfully she who must be obeyed has not been exposed to The Princess Bride. I plan to keep it that way.

I've never seen the movie, only clips, and I must admit I don't see the fuss. Love Monty Python and most things iconoclastic and not hewing to societal norms but Princess Bride just leaves me cold whenever I've seen a clip.

With that said I actually really like Legally Blonde after a mate and I went to the cinema, had missed the movie we wanted to see and figured we'd go to "the next movie on", not knowing anything about it. We went in while the lights were down and the movie was just starting, actually found it quite funny and at the end realised we were the only guys there who weren't part of a couple --- although we're fairly sure that everyone else there figured we were our own couple [:D]. We both quite enjoyed that movie ( and our usual fare was various horror movies like the Puppetmaster series etc ) so what the hell do I know?

[EUBanana]

Admiral Kimmel says, "Japanese warships of unusual size and strength approaching Pearl Harbor? I don't believe they exist."

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: vettim89
That said we are truly unique. I beleive we are the only major college program using the Buckeye for our school mascot.

Hmmm...you may have a point. In the same way that UC Santa Cruz's mascot is the Banana Slug. I believe that they are the only major college program using the banana slug for their school mascot...[:'(]

[Cribtop]

We use a big steer. Two advantages - First, it's the largest mascot by weight (second place is the CU Buffalo, then the Baylor Bear), so the whole "Bigger and Better in Texas" is met in accordance with the prophesies. Second, we can always have a brisket after the game. [:D] I suppose we should really use an Oil well or something, but the UT campus does have Santa Rita No 1, the first well that began the accretion of vast wealth to UT, prominently displayed on campus. We used some of that wealth to create Godzillatron, at the time the largest big screen on Earth, at our football stadium. Then Jerry Jones outdid UT with the big screen at Jerry World. Not that we take football seriously or anything.

[Canoerebel]

Doesn't Alabama's pachyderm weigh more than a li'l ol' steer or a buffalo?

[Cribtop]

Alabama's Elephant is a 155 pound guy in a 45 pound Elephant suit. Not even close. [:D]

That said, the psychic power of Alabama is extraordinarily great. That defense could stop the Red Army circa 1978. As our local sports columnist recently said "It's an SEC world. We just live in it."

[bradfordkay]

ORIGINAL: Cribtop

Alabama's Elephant is a 155 pound guy in a 45 pound Elephant suit. Not even close. [:D]

That said, the psychic power of Alabama is extraordinarily great. That defense could stop the Red Army circa 1978. As our local sports columnist recently said "It's an SEC world. We just live in it."

That columnist is a smart man...


Go Dawgs! [:D]

[witpqs]

Hate Princess Bride, so does the wife. People at work used to go on and on about it, when I finally saw it... 'what's all the fuss about'?

[Cribtop]

PS - since my second fav team is the SC Gamecocks and my family is from the SE, I can sort of live with the SEC. Texas will be back if we can find a QB, though. Our D was getting SECish by the end of the year, our RBs are great (hampered by minor injuries this year) and the whole team is very young.

[John 3rd]

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

It has surprised me to this point that the Allies haven't needed Merak.  Allied access to the Java Sea through the Sunda Straight has been unimpeded.  So Merak hasn't been a priority.  But I keep worrying that something might happen to change the equation.

I can tell you this, though. A strong Allied lodgement in Merak would probably draw far more attention from Japan than the Allies would need to commit.  IE, I think it would prove more of a distraction to Japan than the Allies.  If Japan were to mount a huge campaign for the base, the Allies would in all likelihood shrug and use the diversion to advance elsewhere. 

Take it. You need the strait to lunge further into the DEI.

[Canoerebel]

Georgia opens with Missouri this year.  That would be fine as an unusual intersectional matchup that doesn't occur often...except it won't be unusual any more since Mizzou is in the SEC now.  That should not be!  I feel badly for the Mizzou folks, who should be getting their fill playing teams like Kansas, Iowa, Arkansas, Illinois and the like...not Georgia, South Carolina, Vanderbilt, and Ole Miss every year.  Arg!