Actually, this is why more people need to switch to decaf. Or Martinis. Or lay off the gin, regardless of what you mix it with. One or another of those.
Umm, no. Both movies are about U.S. Navy jet pilot training. TOPGUN is the official name of the Navy’s Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor program, not just a catchy title.
You may have described an actual movie. I kinda sorta don’t quite remember a movie like that from that time. It can’t be ‘Top Gun’, because, although that’s how that particular flic ended (If we substitute Navy for Air Force), that was somewhere around the mid to late '80s, so by Czarcasm’s criteria, I must be totally wrong, but since your time period is earlier than that and I can’t remember a movie that fits, you must be totally wrong, so “Never go against a Sicilian when death is on the line”! Ha Ha Ha!!!
ETA: again, I see I’m behind. I suck.
In science, there is no “partially right”. There is only observed data, and failure can be as enlightening as success.
Oh, WHY don’t other people behave exactly as I want? This must be their problem, not mine.
(For those playing at home, that was sarcasm. Sarcasm.)
I’ve done plenty of crosswords where I was certain I had enough correct answers to provide two letters in another clue (such as M & T in OP’s example) but then it turned out one was actually wrong and I was really looking for a word that started with another letter. Of course, I’m not infallible like czargasm.
Or, it’s vanity on your part.
If, in some other life, I ask “How much property tax do I owe on the capital gains on my W-2 if I own a house?” I’m asking a specific question. I’m not asking the question you think I should ask… well, you’re welcome to add a quick note that I’m an idiot after you answer the specific question asked. As far as I’m concerned, people who give actual answers to specific questions are entitled to add any amount of politics, religion, education, analysis or personal opinion, after they’ve answered the actual question, and on those terms I’ll be grateful for whatever I get.
Sigh. I know it’s Navy. I meant that to the average moviegoer/forum respondent, a movie with jets is about the Air Force. Whatever it is officially doesn’t much matter to the memory of the average person. Jets = Air Force.
Melbourne, dracoi’s point is that there isn’t a simple answer to that question. He (or is dracoi she?) would have to ask you a number of other questions to understand what you really want to know. It’s not a matter of “politics, religion, education, analysis or personal opinion,” it’s because the question is difficult on a technical level. If you want the correct answer, you will have to give much more detail.
Look, I understand Czarcasm’s original point. Too many people post a reply without thinking through the question of whether their reply makes any sense and whether it’s adding anything to the thread. They are wasting our time and annoying everyone. On the other hand, try to understand our frustration with an OP that is not well-phrased or which contains mistakes. Sometimes we have no alternative after the replies which assume the OP is correct in its details have been posted and which aren’t the desired replies but to then try some replies which assume that there is some vagueness or mistake in the conditions of the question.
Exactly…
Jets = Air Force
Gun = Assault Rifle/AK47
Biting Dog = Pit Bull
I knew that the movie was about Navy Pilots, and I knew Tom Cruise is short (although camera angles can do wonders to cover that up), and I knew the scene was in a factory instead of an office. What I didn’t realize was that I was confusing two different but similar movies… which makes my example work even better. Partially wrong is often very helpful because even when we think we remember things clearly often we don’t.
I don’t know how much the OP is paying for each proposed answer s/he gets, but it strikes me that neither of her/his examples does the OP much credit. In the first one, I s/he posits an answer that satisfies some of the conditions and explicitly outlines which criteria it does not meet-sounds like a courteous and non-demanding response to me, even if not ultimately useful. The crossword is tougher, and I can see how a good speller might not understand how a poor one could make a good faith effort without having counted letters first. But for a crossword enthusiast, rejecting wrong answers, again, usually isn’t that taxing.
The OP wants, essentially, for people to verify their suggestions themselves before bothering him/her with them, and s/he’s willing to miss out on correct suggestions from those who aren’t willing to take the trouble. That’s reasonable, but the OP would do well to make that clear at the beginnings of threads in which s/he is offering up the honor of accepting our help
Sorry, I didn’t realize you were expressing the outlook of the average person.
“What was that movie with the jets?”
“Top Gun? An Officer and a Gentleman? Firefox? Iron Eagle?”
“No, it was older.”
“Jet Pilot? Strategic Air Command? The Starfighters?”
“No, it wasn’t any of those either.”
“Do you remember anything else about the movie?”
“Well, the jets fought another gang called the sharks.”
Bravo. 
This deserves a :golfclap:.
If it really was a tricolor male, you had one of the rarest cats known.
How’s that for close, no cigar?
In cats, color is coded on the X chromosome; each X can carry a max of 2 colors, hence, a cat requires two X’s to be a tri-color. 2 X’s almost always = female *
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- info good as of 1973, know of no updates. At that time, there had been (IIRC) a total of 3 tri-color (Calico and Tortoiseshell) males which were fertile. None threw tri-color males
If you still have him, ask the vet about cats and color chromosomes - I’d love to hear the explanation.
Note that I DID SAY XX ALMOST always = female; there are some weird chromosome structures running around, as we are learning as we delve into the world of trans-sexuality.
But yes, the OP is correct that these boards are starting to look like 100’s of little HANDY’s have taken root - people who know next to nothing are cluttering GQ to the point that an hour spent on google is now a break-even on asking that forum. I’d much rather have one response which is correct than 3 pages of WRONG compounded by absolute certainty on the part of the WRONG poster.
As for the cat and it’s colors - yes, dilutes can do some strange things - if a cat displays both the full and the dilute of a given color, you could count them as different colors quite easily.
Callers. Your entire topic is now invalid.
Now that you mention it…
wasn’t the Martini Enfield a British rifle? So the drink can’t be Italian can it?
And there is a Martini on this board who is a Kiwi, so now I’m thinking that Martini is either a british-ism or kiwi slang. I’d better shut the fark up.
Yes; people told us he was rare. Opinions differed, though, as he had a little patch of tiger tail on the end of his tail. Otherwise white with black and orange. A charllie chaplin mustache. He was a great cat.
We were told he was probably sterile, which made us feel like idiots for having him fixed. On the other hand, why take chances? (To get back to the thread, that would have been 100% wrong.)
The origin of the name isn’t clear. It may, despite my joke, be Italian as one possible origin is the cocktail was named after Martini vermouth. But there’s also evidence the cocktail might have been named after the town of Martinez, California. Others claim it was invented by a New York bartender named Martini or a New York judge named Martine. Early references refer to the cocktail as Martini, Martina, Martine, Martigny, Martineau, and Martinez. (The cocktail itself appears to have originated in America which strengthens the claims to it having an American name.)