Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984

People no longer ask you to be a pallbearer.

On the set of The Great Escape. James Garner and Steve McQueen starred together in the mega hit and perennially popular, The Great Escape, 1963. Although Steve was the bigger movie star he was paid $87,500 to James’ $150,000. James obviously having the better agent. According to many people working on the movie, including the director John Sturgess, Steve was unpopular with lots of them. James said of him, "Like Marlon Brando, he could be a pain in the ass on set. Unlike Brando, he wasn’t an actor. He was a movie star, a poser who cultivated the image of a macho man. He had a persona he brought to every role and people loved it but you could always see him acting. That’s the kiss of death as far as I’m concerned.” However, they got along and became friends. The film was huge at the box office and the two were to work together again. For about three seconds. James, Steve and Sam. In 1972 Steve was working on The Getaway directed by Sam Peckinpah when James visited the set. As the movie had scenes dealing with fast cars James, having experience of racing cars, was asked by Sam, or one of the stuntmen, to drive one of them in a scene. James agreed and his car, an orange Beetle, can be very briefly spotted. When the scene concluded James approached Sam and asked, with tongue in cheek, how much he was to be paid for his work. Sam took out his wallet and handed James the princely sum of one dollar. James wrote in his biography that he had so much fun doing the scene he would have paid Sam for the privilege. Ali McGraw, Steve, and James in the orange Beetle.

If you’re not in the witness box, no.

Senior moments. my dermatologist calls them “maturity spots”.

The people don’t want to pay for all the trials that would be needed.

It’s easy in Russia, everybody who protests disappears.

I’ve seen a number of times that lead me to believe “duration of the trial”.

One could pay extra to get a customized listing. I would have written “Ask Alfred”. Or Alfred Thaddeus Crane Pennyworth

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Audrey Hepburn was born to a Dutch noblewoman, while her father, Joseph Victor Anthony Ruston, was born in (then) Czechoslovakia. After her parents' divorce, Audrey went to London with her mother (pictured below with her) where she went to a private girls school. She later moved back to the Netherlands with her mother where she continued her education in several private schools. She and her mother were holidaying in Arnhem, Netherlands, when Hitler's army took over the town. From thereon, both mother and daughter lived through the hard times of World War II while secretly helping the Dutch resistance. Both Hepburn and Anne Frank were born in 1929 and actually lived within 60 miles of each other but never met. Ms Hepburn spent World War II with the Dutch resistance and also arranged illegal dance performances, which raised money to support local families who were hiding Jews. After the war, Otto Frank reached out to Hepburn asking if she would play the role of his daughter for the movie adaptation of the well-known diary, but she declined. Hepburn herself had had a traumatic experience living through the war and didn’t feel she could manage playing a role so close to what she had gone through. She said to Frank:

So you need the bathroom type of sheet rock everywhere.

Crocodiles can’t stick their tongues out!

Thought it was about Widder’s wife or somethin’.

Aquafaba,the throw away liquid in a can of chickpeas and other legumes, has some magical egg white like properties. I make my chickpeas from dry beans but the cooking liquid qualifies as aquafaba. Experiments continue. wikipedia and Americas test kitchen can tell you more.

A few real AHs there.

Jeep was the only coyote who flew in combat during WWII. After graduating from high school, Bill joined the USAAF and prepared to fight for his country. One day, during his pilot training, he found a little coyote, which he named "Jeep", and the pair became inseparable. In a world ravaged by war, Bill couldn't wait to go overseas and confront the forces of tyranny...but not without his four-legged friend, so he smuggled Jeep aboard the RMS Queen Elizabeth and they both went to England. The coyote became a formal member of the 356th Fighter Group, had his own dog tags, and accompanied Bill on five combat missions.

I’m too lazy to go look too.

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The hundred is to cover the whole event, site rental, ports potties, …

Pilot Douglas Corrigan sought permission from the Civil Aviation Authority to fly across the Atlantic from New York to Ireland, but he was turned down on the grounds that his plane was in poor condition. Corrigan seemed to accept the ruling, but when he took off from New York on July 17, 1938, he banked sharply to the east and headed out over the ocean. Twenty-eight hours and 13 minutes later, Corrigan landed in Ireland, innocently explaining that his 180-degree wrong turn must have been due to a faulty compass. No one believed Corrigan’s explanation, especially the aviation authorities in both Ireland and America, who suspended the rebellious pilot’s license and ordered his aircraft dismantled. Upon his return to America, ‘Wrong-Way’ Corrigan was greeted as a hero. More than a million people lined New York’s Broadway for a ticker-tape parade honoring the man who had flown in the face of authority.

He was never an Alfred Hitchcock body type.

I guess I really shoul put this in the classifieds but I have a box of stuff I’m selling and you can have it for $25. BUT WAIT, there’s more. I’ll throw in another matching mystery box for just an additional $15. Imagine that, two mystery boxes for less than the price of one.

Five-zip is definitely a trend.

Just my thought, if you have $50 to throw away, don’t.