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It was starting to bug me, so I looked it up… the CDC says that routine immunization of children against smallpox ended in 1971. I’m trying to find a cite on how old a child had to be to receive the vaccine, because if memory serves, it used to be given to teenagers during my mom’s era, but then was refined and began to be given to older children, but never to very young kids.
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I had one, and I believe my younger brother did, too, before first grade. Then there was a booster before fifth, and one before high school. Brother’s would have been 1964. I’d think the last children to get the routine ones would have been born about 1965. So apparently Mr. Pitt was really close to the end on that.
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It’s been a while since I’ve seen the movie, but I remember thinking that as David explained it, you only needed three symbols to find the location in space
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Actually, that’s another mistake; in real life you need 3 scalars to define a point in space, but in the movie he explains why they need 6 symbols by drawing a diagram of a cube and connecting points from the centers of the 6 faces. The 7th symbol is for the point of origin. Needless to say, that’s not how it would really work.
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That’s not nitpicky at all. It’s majorly negligent on the part of the director. Too many people have experience in that matter, and depending on the movie, screwing it up could ruin an ending especially. Maybe studios should do screenings further away from Tinsel Town.
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Does this mean I get to mention all those times that glasses in spectacles are completely flat? You can get regular glass without graduation but apparently in Hollywood it’s easier or cheaper to use window glass.
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Not really, they didn’t know that the seven symbols meant at all. They were simply running random combinations. The symbols are based on constellations at the point of origin. Which means that different stargates on different planets would have completely different constellations. The DHDs make that all “idiot-proof” but Daniel was needed.
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You might be right but I’m not going to argue the movie Stargate because, well, that would be kind of silly.
I seem to recall they had the coverstone which had 7 symbols. They found all but the point of origin symbol on the Stargate. When Daniel points out the earth symbol, the 7th symbol, they say “but that’s on on the Stargate”. He goes and looks and finds a slightly different version of the symbol. When they lock in the 6th symbol someone says “this is as far as we’ve been able to get.”
It doesn’t really matter.
Of course, the point still stands for coming back after they find the coverstone missing the 7th symbol.
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And of course, the Wizard Chess scene in Harry Potter is still problematic, in that a capturing piece doesn’t occupy the space of the piece it captured.
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Huh? Isn’t that exactly what it does?
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Does this mean I get to mention all those times that glasses in spectacles are completely flat? You can get regular glass without graduation but apparently in Hollywood it’s easier or cheaper to use window glass.
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It is actually possible to get prescription spectacles with lenses that have flat fronts - I’ve seen it in the real world with a friend’s glasses - he was mildly short sighted.
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In Dragonheart the female lead is a beautiful peasant girl with stunning hair.
I want to know where she got the shampoo, not to mention the hair crimper.
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A health program in Spanish TV ran a small experiment a few years ago. Small because it only involved one woman. She didn’t wash her hair for three months and it looked just great! She’d used to wash it daily; claimed it itched terribly after three days but about one week it stopped itching. It had been quite limp for a few weeks and then somehow returned to looking pretty much as she did with the daily washing.
While not ever washing isn’t very healthy, we do overwash.
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It is actually possible to get prescription spectacles with lenses that have flat fronts - I’ve seen it in the real world with a friend’s glasses - he was mildly short sighted.
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Yes but they shine different and when left on a flat suface they still distort the images slightly.
While I understand that Lost In Translation was never intended to be viewed by a Japanese audience, the geography of Tokyo was majorly fugged up. The neighborhood that they show the karaoke bar as being in is very close to where the hotel is, yet coming home by taxi they cross the Rainbow Bridge which not only is located on the opposite side of the city, it would take them almost into a whole separate prefecture. Either Bill asked for the really scenic route home, or the taxi driver decided to screw them and they never noticed it took ten minutes to get to the club but two hours to get home. I know, I know, it looks nicer.
Also, no sushi chef is going to look that impassive at someone putting their bare feet on his counter. Wasabi is even worse, with the ‘leave Tokyo at 2am, get to Kyoto by morning, go find a single prayer board with the magic clue at the right temple, then get back to Tokyo by 8am to save the day’ ending. Compared to that, the fact that they keep referring to Akihabara as Shinjuku is trivial.
[QUOTE=Nava]
A health program in Spanish TV ran a small experiment a few years ago. Small because it only involved one woman. She didn’t wash her hair for three months and it looked just great! She’d used to wash it daily; claimed it itched terribly after three days but about one week it stopped itching. It had been quite limp for a few weeks and then somehow returned to looking pretty much as she did with the daily washing.
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I remember seeing a similar experiment on a British TV programme (can’t remember what it was though) - the results were similar (in fact the subjects complained they ‘smelled like sheep’ for a week or two; after that, everything apparently balanced itself out just fine and they had very healthy-looking hair.
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I had one, and I believe my younger brother did, too, before first grade. Then there was a booster before fifth, and one before high school. Brother’s would have been 1964. I’d think the last children to get the routine ones would have been born about 1965. So apparently Mr. Pitt was really close to the end on that.
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Could the scar on the arm seen in the film be the BCG tuberculosis vaccination rather than smallpox?
It is still widely administered around the world, although not much in the US. We were quite surprised that one of our children who was born there, did not get the BCG. Apparently it is only given to people in high risk groups. Elsewhere it is given as a teenager or a few months after birth.
Anyway it leaves a small round lump on the upper arm.
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Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves, OK, an easy movie to criticise on many, many levels and for many, many details that they simply didn’t bother to get right. But you know, the only thing that I really can’t overlook in that movie is the wedding scene at the end. It is in every respect a modern American outdoor wedding - there’s even a little gazebo made of twigs.
I can confirm, however, that I am 36 and born in th U.S., and my wife is 30 and born in Malaysia, and we both have that scar. It seems (as others have confirmed) that the last babies given this vaccination in the U.S. were born around 1971 – but it was still given in certain other countries for at least several years after that date.
Probably already been mentioned… but… just watched “Superman Returns” last nite…
So, his suit…that can withstand bullets, extreme heat, etc… cannot apparently withstand being stabbed with a shiv, a puncture from a crystal… and even a doctor can just “rip it right off”…
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I can confirm, however, that I am 36 and born in th U.S., and my wife is 30 and born in Malaysia, and we both have that scar. It seems (as others have confirmed) that the last babies given this vaccination in the U.S. were born around 1971 – but it was still given in certain other countries for at least several years after that date.
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I also have the scar – I was given the vaccine sometime around 1974-76 in a U.S. elementary school.
There was a Superman episode where the baddie empties the pistol on him and he just lets the bullets bounce off his chest, but when the baddie runs out of bullets and throws the gun at him, he dodges it!
In Shrek 2, when Donkey drinks the potion, the Dragoness (who is at the moment flying in their direction with a host of baby dragon-donkey mutants) is either not affected or affected in a way that doesn’t prevent her from flying and doesn’t traumatize the babies.
Oh and, of course, in every movie out there, the characters see friends and foes killed in gruesome manners and escape death by the skin of their teeth one time after the other and, in the end, a hug and a “it will be alright” is all it takes to fend off Post-traumatic Stress Disorder.
I guess “The Dukes of Hazzard” was the most egregious offender, but I can recall plenty of other shows where you hear car tires squealing while driving on a dirt road.
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There was a Superman episode where the baddie empties the pistol on him and he just lets the bullets bounce off his chest, but when the baddie runs out of bullets and throws the gun at him, he dodges it!
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I think this is apocryphal. I’ve been watching a lot of the old (George Reeves) Superman TV show episodes lately, and I haven’t seen this scene.
I did, however, see the opposite–a scene in which the baddy runs out of bullets, and prepares to throw his gun at Superman. Superman fixes him with a steely gaze and asks if he really thinks that’s going to do any good.
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I guess “The Dukes of Hazzard” was the most egregious offender, but I can recall plenty of other shows where you hear car tires squealing while driving on a dirt road.
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I can deal with that, so long as I could get a self-repairing, self cleaning car!
