I really hate those channels that used to be commercial-free now have gone to the barrage mode. AMC is worst. It really gets annoying when they come up with one of those disclaimers saying they had to edit the movie for the “time allotted.” Right! Take a two-hour movie, schedule it for a two-hour time slot then whack it up enough to allow 30 minutes worth of ads. Most often it’s so mutilated that there’s no plot to recognize and minor characters don’t even appear at all.
And it’s even worse when theaters and DVD’s start with the ads. What hath God wrought?
I spent two weekends rescuing the wrought Iron rail on my front porch. It took 4 drill wire brushes and a lot of hand wire brushing and then 6 cans on Black Rustoleum and a couple of old sheets. It looks great and has held up for 3 years so far.
Old sheets are great for covering the floor when you’re repainting a room. Of course, it’s best if it’s a nice cheerful paint color, not like that ugly pale green my husband used for the woodwork in the dining room.
Just for the record, some of those bright, cheerful color combinations designers are so fond of look really heinous to those of us who are color-blind.
Do you think advertising agencies and the like have someone on staff who is color-blind for that reason?
I realize that the word I’ve bolded in the quoted passage is a typo, but I was reminded of “La Llorona”, the weeping phantom woman occasionally spotted in the city of Gary, Indiana.
Okay, you have Indiana and Illinois, two states whose names start with the same letter, and they touch each other in a non-biblical way. How many other such pairs of states can you name? I’d start looking at the M states since there seem to be a lot of them, and maybe S states later. Since Tennessee and Missouri border the most states (as well as each other) maybe that’s a helpful starting place, too.
One of the things about Christmas is that, since my wife and I always stay in a hotel in Indiana (not Gary ) with the two young kids for Christmas, Mrs. Pagan and I cannot touch each other in a biblical sort of way.
Re-hijack to Zeldar’s question – not only does Illinois border Indiana, it also touches Iowa. There was a minor-league baseball Three-I League that featured teams from the Prairie, Hoosier, and Hawkeye States.
You also have New York abutting New Jersey, and the adjacent (to each other, not to NY and NJ) Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.
I loved the charater Alan Alda played on MASH. But I don’t think his name was Hawkeye States. Anyway, the best episode on MASH was the one where Tuttle is “killed”
I get the feeling that the West Wing writers are trying to structure Alan Alda’s character so that it will be obvious who is the more popular opponent in the race, but that Smits manages to pull off some last minute rally to win the majority of the hearts of the country. The live debate is what I’m basing this opinion on.
My cousin is a lawyer. He says it was the only job he was qualified for after his accident. His skull was cracked and he had to have surgery to remove the ethical center of his brain.
Does anybody remember a comic strip character named Open-mind Monty from old Dick Tracy strips? I recall he had a knife blade sticking out of his forehead. Man, there were some sleazy looking characters in that old strip. The movie capitalized on the ugliness, I submit.
Which reminds me – Monty Hall is 83, so he might be a good candidate for your Death Pool list if you have yet to submit one. Of course, the Monty Hall problem will long outlive him.
Have you ever been to Carnegie Hall to see a concert? It’s supposed to be a wonderful place to hear music performed. I’ve walked past it many times but have never been it.
Half brothers by a different mother perhaps. I always thought Monte Video was a cool stage name but Monte Hale and Monte Hall sort of wore out the Monte thing. In case you’re not up on B Westerns, Monte Hale was not all that bad. In fact, I can’t think of any of those old guys at Republic that were all that bad. Maybe Sunset Carson, who was probably Johnny’s half-brother.
) with the two young kids for Christmas, Mrs. Pagan and I cannot touch each other in a biblical sort of way.