I think it would be quite entertaining if this conversation from Demolition Man turned out to be prescient.
Cafe Society isn’t exactly the place to discuss this thoroughly and we can argue endlessly about the definition of “most” and “dangerous”. However, bisphenol-A and BPA show effects that are … troubling (though we still don’t know enough yet) and phthalates, used to make plastic flexible, are banned or restricted by more and more countries in Europe, with good reason.
And most, pretty much all, studies released so far have failed to investigate the combined effects of plastics. The few ones I have read so far (mostly published by Danish and French researchers) all agree on one observation: doses, considered absolutely safe when animals are exposed to one plastic alone, show effects when combined with equally safe doses from other plastics.
What it means for us is still unknown, but at least the hormone-altering effects are already known to be … disadvantageous.
The 61st Amendment? Jeez, we’d better get cracking if Ahnuld is ever going to be President. We only have 27 right now.
I was in a hotel room in Vegas, watching a rerun of ‘Maude’ (featuring the incomparable Bea Arthur) at about 3am in the morning. Don’t ask me why. Because I don’t know why.
They were talking about the 1976 election. Her neighbor, or friend, or whomever the character was - it was the guy who played the father in Diff’rent Strokes - said he supported Ronald Reagan for President.
The laugh track came on for about 3 full seconds. Great scene.
I sent the link to some friends and one of them thinks its a post-date edit, anyone know how I can prove it is a original piece?
In Superman’s first appearance in Action Comics #1 )June 1938), the name of the murdered man is “Jack Kennedy.”
In an episode of Bonanza, DeForest Kelly plays a drunk surgeon who says “What do you want me to do? I’m a drunk, not a surgeon.”
The Onion exists as an old-fashioned printed newspaper. So you might be able to find a paper copy in a library archive of that issue to show your friend. Although he may still believe it was made up after the fact and I don’t know how many libraries devote space to an archive of The Onion. Perhaps the publisher itself would sell you a back issue.
Actually, the headline had the Cubs winning the 2015 Series by beating Miami.
That would place a team in the American League going by “Miami” and not “Florida.” (This is probably more likely to happen by 2015 than the Cubs winning the World Series…)
nitpick: thalidomide is an FDA approved drug, currently in use, that has one famously bad side effect.
www.archive.org should have the archive from when it was published online.
Or they could just ask around. I remember reading it the first time it was printed.
George Bailey’s friend Sam Wainright got into plastics on the ground floor, remember? In ‘It’s a Wonderful Life.’ 1946. Somewhat predates ‘The Graduate.’
From Videodrome:
Max Renn: Do you know a show called ‘Videodrome’?
Masha: Video what?
Max Renn: Videodrome. Like video circus, video arena. Do you know it?
Masha: No.
Max Renn: It’s just torture and murder. No plot, no characters. Very, very realistic. I think it’s what’s next.
Masha: Then God help us.
Cal wins.
Coming this fall to Fox!
Beautiful Girls
Natalie Portman to Tim Hutton:
"I’m going to be a babe when I grow up. I might just grow to be five-ten. I’ll be hot. "
Both Tom Clancy and Dale Brown (I think it was Brown but I can’t remember which book) had commercial airliners used as weapons. Both had D.C. as the target. Clancy’s hit the Capitol Building and Brown’s was shot down just short of its target.
In the pilot of Fox’s Lone Gunmen show, a plane was supposed to crash into the World Trade Center. (Except it was supposed to be done by remote control, and nobody would ever be crazy enough to believe that.) Hitting a building with a plane isn’t a very hard idea to dream up.
Not uttered words as such, but the plot to Escape from New York includes terrorists steering hi-jacked planes into the WTC. The movie was filmed in 1981.
Interesting simul-post there.
Not sure if it counts, but from Disney’s Hercules:
“Indoor plumbing - It’s gonna be big.”
One of my favoite lines.