Subdeacon Joe
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Nothing like a little assault with a deadly weapon to support your candidate.
It's a great ad in favor of gun bans.
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1 hour ago, Alpo said:
I wanted to see him take it off. See if it come off in one piece or if it came off in chunks.
At about 2:55 when he checks both sides the plates lift up cleanly. It should lift off cleanly.
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Ray Milland actually checked himself into Bellevue Hospital with the help of resident doctors, in order to experience the horror of a drunk ward, in preparation for his role in "The Lost Weekend" (1945). Milland was given an iron bed and locked inside the "booze tank." That night, a new arrival came into the ward screaming, an entrance which ignited the whole ward into hysteria. With the ward falling into bedlam, a robed and barefooted Milland escaped while the door was ajar and slipped out onto 34th Street where he tried to hail a cab. When a suspicious cop spotted him, Milland tried to explain, but the cop didn't believe him, especially after he noticed the Bellevue insignia on his robe. The actor was dragged back to Bellevue where it took him a half-hour to explain his situation to the authorities before he was finally released.
When the film was given its first public showing at a sneak preview in Santa Barbara, CA, the audience reaction to the intense film was not good--they laughed. Director Billy Wilder recalled, "The people laughed from the beginning. They laughed when Birnam's brother found the bottle outside the window, they laughed when he emptied the whiskey into the sink." The theater lost viewers like a broken sieve. Preview cards were handed out, and the opinions of the flick ranged from "disgusting" to "boring." Wilder even claimed that one patron left the theater proclaiming, "I've sworn off. Never again." "You'll never drink again?" he was asked. "No, I'll never see another picture again." Another preview card said that the movie was great, but that all the "stuff about drinking and alcoholism" should be omitted.
Milland only got the lead role in the film because Paramount vetoed writer-director Wilder's first choice for the role, Broadway actor José Ferrer. Hedging its bets, Paramount demanded the casting of a star to headline the risky production, but Cary Grant and most of the other leading male stars of the day turned Wilder down. Milland got the role by default and was nominated for an Oscar.
On the day of the ceremony, Milland said afterwards, "I knew I couldn't face it and made up my mind not to attend. At breakfast, I hesitantly told Mal [his wife] of my decision. She slowly put down her fork and just examined me. I didn't know where to look. Then she said, 'I know that you're erratic, volatile, and the possessor of a foul temper. But I never thought you were a coward!' Then with a look as cold as a Canadian nun, she said, 'You'll go the that ceremony tonight if we have to put you in a straitjacket.'" Milland would win the Oscar that night.
It was only in later years that Wilder discovered that the title of Charles R. Jackson's novel is actually a typo. It was supposed to have been called "The Last Weekend."(IMDb)
Happy Birthday, Ray Milland!
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22 minutes ago, Rip Snorter said:
Mystery solved! That waffle iron on the gas has always been very tricky. Reason being that i am missing the bottom portion. I had thought it was from wood stove days and you just got to the right ring size.
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10 minutes ago, Linn Keller, SASS 27332, BOLD 103 said:
I was also looking for something airborne ... but I was hooked inside of six seconds ... until it sunk through my thick skull De Plane was the woodshaving variety, my thoughts were "Now these fellows know how to take care of their tools!"
Duh ...... sorrry, I'm slow ...
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39 minutes ago, Pat Riot said:
Most of those prices are in cents.
I remember a teacher telling us that a slice of pie with a hot beverage would cost 1¢ in the late 1700’s. Now it’s about a thousand times higher.https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951d029289565
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1 hour ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:
I never heard of round waffles before. Do they taste any different?
They have a more balanced, well rounded flavor and aroma.
It sort of depends on what history you want to believe.
Some trace waffles back to the pizzelle and other embossed/debossed cookies
https://www.biscuitpeople.com/magazine/post/pizzelle-traditional-biscuit
Which were almost universally round.
Smithsonian says that some sort of waffles baked in iron can be traced back to classic Greek culture.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/brief-history-waffle-iron-180972980/
From what I get from the Smithsonian piece medieval European waffle irons tended to be rectangular, long handled affairs meant to be held in the open hearth or fireplace.
Our modern waffle iron was patented in 1869.
And one from the 1920s
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4 hours ago, Abilene Slim SASS 81783 said:
Says I have to sign in to watch. No thanks.
Weird, it's YouTube.
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5000 years ago, the Neolithic people of Dartmoor, UK cut and placed this 27 feet high standing stone of granite where The Oxenham Arms pub is now located.
The pub was built around it about 800 years ago, the stone goes all the way down into the foundation’s in the cellar.
#ushistory #history #americanhistory #worldhistory #historyfacts
https://www.legendarydartmoor.co.uk/2022/11/21/oxenham-arms/
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20 minutes ago, Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 said:
Scared the dickens outta me when I was a little kid!
Couldn't remember Oliver? Or your Christmas Carol?
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8 hours ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:
Maybe some chip dip or different spreads and butters.
Whip up some cream cheese with sour cream or yogurt and add it in for a spread.
I like mixing a jar of this, with about 1/4 cup of the juice into about 2 pounds of cream cheese. I bet that garlic stuff would punch it up.
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4 hours ago, Cactus Jack Calder said:
the CITY
There is only one, and that is Constantinople (not Istanbul).
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Yes, I know, the title of the video is wrong, those are some version of APC and not main battle tanks. Deal with it.
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Now, I will say that charged is not the same as convicted.
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4 minutes ago, Pat Riot said:
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On 11/2/2024 at 1:52 PM, Cactus Jack Calder said:
I will say that the DOT plans have been presented at public meeting. They look like a disaster to me. I am not a Traffic Engineer, just an Electrical Engineer, but their plans are going to be very confusing to drivers.
I'd swear that Traffic Engineers do their surveys of traffic patterns at 0300 on Wednesdays. "Yeah, this proposed 200 unit apartment complex will have no effect on the traffic here. I say we approve it. No need to upgrade the roads, either."
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Garlic for breakfast?
in SASS Wire Saloon
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Cabbage, garlic, cured pork fat, and bread.