Subdeacon Joe
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I don't expect movies to be 100% accurate. That's why the movie "Patton" doesn't bother me.
Now, they can't be too outrageous, e.g. showing Soviet soldiers storming Iwo Jima, or a Black Queen Elizabeth.
If it's "based on" a novel I'd like it to have more in common than the title and the names of the characters. That's why movies based on Clancy novels irk me. And "Srarship Troopers " is unwatchable.
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13 minutes ago, Rip Snorter said:
Hey, the guy made money off his persona despite obvious issues. Give him a couple of points, no you don't have to watch.
Yeah...but I don't understand how. Other than the perception that anyone who had been on Saturday Night Live is automatically funny for some reason.
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The Indiana Fever have officially signed Gertrud Schlaghammer, a 6'8" former Olympic Greco Roman wrestling silver medalist and ex-German special forces operative best known for her role in Operation Quiet Fist that eradicated an invasive species of bears from the Alps without weapons.
Schlaghammer, 39, has not played organized basketball since middle school.
Known in international combat sports circles as "Esel-Halsschlag" (“Donkey throat puncher”), Schlaghammer isn't expected to get many minutes until Clark is hard fouled. Then the plan is for her to not leave the court until she's ejected.
“She doesn’t speak much English,” said Caitlin Clark, while removing an ice pack from her eye. “But when we first met she told me ‘No one touch you now tiny sexy bird lady.’ I cried.”
Schlaghammer will make her debut Thursday night against the Valkyries, assuming their players show up.
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Does anyone over the age of 13 really like any of his films?
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1 hour ago, Creeker, SASS #43022 said:
It's a Union Jack flag.
It is not nor is intended to be interpreted as an arrowhead.
Intended or not, when it's blinking it looks like a backwards directional arrow.
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One of my mom's sisters could never agree with anyone about anything. Mention that it was a nice day and she'd go on about it being too hot or too windy or too cold. Tell her that the dinner was excellent, and be prepared for a half hour critique of every imagined flaw in it.
We called her Aunty Thetical.
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It took me a long time to appreciate his acting. I started "getting " Bogart when I saw 'Dark Passage" in my late teens, followed a few months later by "Sabrina" with Audrey Hepburn and William Holden.
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I didn't get the camera going in time, but the right side brake light also points in.
Come on people! If you're going to have a brake light/turn signal that looks like an arrowhead, make the blasted thing point outwards. Seeing a flashing right arrow for a left turn really messes with the mind.
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Remember, during Ramadan, to say a Bismillah before drinking water, because water contains 3 jinn
2 Hydrojinn and I Oxyjinn.
Thank you, thank you. I'm here all week. Try the cabbage rolls, Remember to tip your waitress.
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Well, the Froars avoided the sweep. But DANG!!!! did they try hard to blow a 5 - 0 lead in the 9th!.
And what an interesting 9th it was. Tatis hit by a pitch for the 3rd time in the series, benches cleared, both managers ejected. Ohtani hit, pitcher ejected. Low pitch that bounced, got caught under the catcher's chest protector, which brought in a run on the umpire's call. 2 out, 2 on winning run at the plate, and the pitcher with control problems.
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1 hour ago, Alpo said:
Really? I thought I was pretty plain. I will try again.
I no longer live on a septic system. I used to. 35 years ago. The house I live in now I'm on city sewer.
But back 35 years ago, when I had a septic tank, whether it went down the toilet or the bathtub drain or the kitchen sink drain or the washing machine it all went into the septic tank.
In the OP
2 hours ago, Alpo said:I don't have a septic system - I'm on city sewer. But I used to have a septic system. And I'm pretty sure it all goes to the same place.
I run water in the kitchen sink, and it goes into the septic tank. I take a shower and it goes into the septic tank. I flush the toilet and it goes into the septic tank. I do a load of laundry and it goes into the septic tank.
Mixing tenses. You USED to have, but NOW you RUN water in some part of your house now and it all goes into the septic system. But, yeah. you cleared it up for me.
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Sailor training with a Colt "ACE" at Fort Hamilton in Brooklyn New York - 1941Between April 1931 and July 1941, a total of 10,745 "ACE" pistols in .22 LR were manufactured by Colt.The majority of the “ACE” pistols were purchased for use by US Military Organizations and R.O.T.C. units.Fort Hamilton is still open, and its current mission is to provide the New York metropolitan area with military installation support for the Army National Guard and the United States Army Reserve.Thanks John Klear for his assistanceLIFE Magazine Archives - Dmitri Kessel Photographer WWP-PD
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1 minute ago, Boggus Deal #64218 said:
He’s not saying his septic goes into the city sewer. He’s saying if he’s on a septic, everything goes into the septic, laundry, shower, dish soap.
Damn, is it bad I understand Alpo????Sort of hard to tell exactly what he means.
1 hour ago, Alpo said:I don't have a septic system - I'm on city sewer. But I used to have a septic system. And I'm pretty sure it all goes to the same place.
City sewer? Tank and leach field? Tank hooked to City sewer?
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During the shooting of "To Have and Have Not" in 1944, a tragedy struck the set that most never even heard about. One of the lighting crew members received a phone call during a break that shattered his world. His wife had been killed in a car crash back home. The man collapsed onto the floor of the Warner Bros. lot, cradled by colleagues who tried to comfort him in silence. In the midst of the chaos of filming and production schedules, very few paused to think about what would happen to his two young children now suddenly without a mother.
Humphrey Bogart, the film's lead actor, quietly stepped away from the set later that day. Without drawing any attention, he called his personal assistant and gave instructions. The funeral arrangements were to be handled discreetly and covered in full, including casket, transportation, burial, and service. He told his assistant to never mention his name to the family. A few hours later, he spoke privately to a friend in casting, asking for help arranging temporary child care for the grieving crewman’s kids until more permanent arrangements could be found.
What stood out was not that he helped, but how he did it. No producer, no fellow actor, not even the director Howard Hawks ever learned about it at the time. Bogart returned to set the next morning as though nothing had happened, performing his scenes opposite Lauren Bacall with his usual calm precision. He never asked if anyone noticed, and no one realized what he had done.
Over the next several years, long after the shoot had wrapped and the crew had scattered across different studios, something extraordinary happened behind closed doors. Every month, a check arrived at the lighting technician’s home, enough to cover food, clothing, schoolbooks, and later, college application fees. The envelopes had no return address, and the bank routing was impossible to trace back to any personal account. Only after the technician passed away in the early 1970s did his children, now adults, open a locked box in his study and find a letter with Humphrey Bogart’s name signed at the bottom. In it, he had written, “What you gave to the film helped me shine on screen. What I can give your family will never repay that, but I hope it eases your days a little.”
This was not a one-time act. According to a former Warner Bros. accountant who spoke anonymously decades later, Bogart often gave private financial support to the families of set builders, assistants, and drivers who faced hardships. He preferred working-class people who never made the front page but made the movies possible.
Lauren Bacall once hinted at this side of him in a rare quote: “People saw Bogie as tough, maybe a little cold. But he carried burdens no one saw, gave love where no one looked. He’d take care of a man’s family, pay the doctor bills for a sick mother, and never ask for thanks. He did it because he believed that was what decent people did, even if the world didn’t care.”
During the filming of "The Big Sleep" in 1946, a grip whose wife had tuberculosis received a quiet visit from a nurse who offered home care, completely paid for. She never said who sent her. The crew guessed, but no one said anything aloud. It was understood that Bogart was doing something again, and speaking it aloud felt like disrespecting the silence he chose.
Humphrey Bogart’s image was built on hard edges, dry wit, and trench coat cool. But the real man, the one who watched over the quietest workers on set, carried a heart so heavy with loyalty that it spoke most loudly when it said nothing at all.
He never wanted his name attached to those acts. But the families remember. And the lives that moved forward because of those silent kindnesses carry his signature far more meaningfully than any role ever could.
In a world built on credits and headlines, his finest roles unfolded in shadows where no applause could reach.
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1 hour ago, Dapper Dave said:
Babbit metal?
That was my first thought, and I think the most common. There is also While Metal, Bearing Metal, and something called Magnolia Metal.
All are variations of copper, lead, tin, and antimony alloys.
The high copper content is why it's heavier than you would think it should be, copper being about a third more dense than iron.
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Future SASS pistol!
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I thought Steampunk died a couple of years ago.
I like it!