Balderdash.
I’ll have you know that those boxes are indeed full and capable of stopping multiple high powered rifle rounds should they (the boxes) be shielding our heros/damsels in distress. *nrs
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You could make a whole movie just out of spoofing every Hollywood cliché we’ve come up with here.
BBBS was never great on accuracy, physical or otherwise.
What kind of seaplane was it? I’d be surprised if it was a Catalina.
My mother (may she rest in peace) used to use the term:…“Cincinnati Roll” . She was from Chicago
so true
That reminds me of another trope I’ve never seen in real life: in old movies that played in a grocery store or supermarket, you often saw a tower/pyramid of stacked tin cans. Of course it was always inevitable that someone or something bumped into it, the tower collapsed and hilarity ensued. But did stores really ever display canned goods this way in real life?
Unless it collapsed because a shopper took a single can from the bottom of the tower.
I’ve seen displays that looked like can towers but they were actually cardboard stands with cans just on the outside. I guess an actual can tower would tie up too much merchandise.
A lot of floorspace, too.
In real life did any kid ever wear a dunce cap in school for poor grades?
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I’m pretty sure it was a JF2 Duck.
Correction: That’s Gaudere .
An interesting article, but it’s concerned with the ancient origins of the dunce cap, not its more recent classroom history.
Here’s a wiki article that gets into the 19th and early 20th century classroom use of the dunce cap.
That’s a pretty small plane. How many 400 lb barrels of oil could it carry?
Yep, back in the day.
Must have been before my time, or it was never a custom in Germany.
It was. The pilot was scrawny too.
I’m surprised they didn’t use at least a Widgeon or a Goose. An Albatross would be best if they couldn’t get a Catalina.
There was an episode of 12 O’Clock High in which Gen Savage was rescued by an Albatross after being shot down over the North Sea. I was 10 or 11 at the time, and I already knew it was an anachronism.
850# payload, so two of those drums.