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I went back and asked if I could have one of the bricks, if I can't keep my old home I can at least keep a bit of it.

Was Walt Disney a sadist? Animating a dog would kind of suck. Animating a Dalmatian, with all its spots, would really suck, right? I know! Let's do an animated movie with 101 Dalmatians!

whisky said:

I went back and asked if I could have one of the bricks, if I can't keep my old home I can at least keep a bit of it.

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Paint the brick to look like the building.

Dr Dave said:

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Probably the same people who can't tell the difference between a bird, plane, and Superman.

HOW HAS NO ONE DONE THE ICONIC FARRAH FAWCETT POSTER WITH MISS PIGGY!?

MILF should be all capitals right? I saw it lower case and it just looked wrong.

whisky said:

MILF should be all capitals right? I saw it lower case and it just looked wrong.

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When I see MILF, I sometimes read it as MLK. Then I start thinking of MLK's sexy mama and that seems wrong.

Some smart guy with too much time on his hands made this end credit sequence for the latest Dune movie, but styled it based on the 1984 David Lynch version of Dune. I've always loved Lynch's end credits for that movie, and this looks great. Watching it, I'm reminded that the ONLY bad casting in the latest version was Zendaya; all others were well casted. Even Christopher Walken as the Padishah Emperor was good but had room for improvement if he were given more screen time and better costuming.

The movie "M*A*S*H" is so much better than what the TV series quickly became.

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The movie "M*A*S*H" is so much better than what the TV series quickly became.

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They are different animals. They both started out as darkly comic satires in the era of the Vietnam War, but we pulled out of Vietnam while the TV show was still running, which is when it became more generically humanist and melodramatic in its later seasons.

Tina Fey is brilliant. She's currently starring and is co-creator of the Netflix TV remake of Alan Alda's The Four Seasons, and before that, she also cast Alda in several episodes of 30 Rock as Jack Donaghey's estranged father. In the episode "Kidney Now!" (possibly my favorite of them all), Alda returns to tell Jack that he is ill and needs a kidney transplant from a compatible donor. Instead of offering his kidney, Jack arranges for a "We Are The World" type musical plea for a kidney (resulting in an endless stream of celebrity rock cameos).

In the episode, Tina also slips in one joke that took some viewers YEARS to catch up with (I spotted it right off being obsessed with MASH and especially its epic movie-length finale episode)...

Volpone said:

The movie "M*A*S*H" is so much better than what the TV series quickly became.

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I love M*A*S*H, all of it. The very latter years of the show got a little preachy for my taste and had kind of worn out its welcome after 11 years, but I don't think there were many actual duds in there and it's all still enjoyable to watch decades later. Interesting to watch the show and characters evolve over the seasons.

I remember the night the series finale aired and then the local CBS affiliate showing it did their half hour news thing afterward, and then aired the movie UNCUT after that. It was a pretty huge deal back in February 1983.

The MASH finale still holds the record for the most-watched US TV show ever. 106 million* people tuned in the night it aired. No other scripted TV show has come close, and since TV is so much more fragmented now (and measured differently), no TV show ever will. Only live "events" like Super Bowls or the Moon landing have had bigger audiences.

*106 million watched the whole 2-1/2 hour show. 125 million people tuned in for all or part of it. That's like two-thirds of the country at the time.

Thought it was 3, but 4, possibly 5 four leaf clovers, found on this morning's dog walk: (there's one top center that is pretty beat up and may not be 4 leaves)

Usually you have to be inside a building to see a lift door, I don't know why it rotated.

How times have changed. When I started college, the biggest, fanciest TV you could practically get was a color 24" console. Oh, a bar might have a projection TV or something, but for practical purposes, the 24" (26? I forget) was it. And I don't even know what one cost. In 2000 a 55" flat panel would set you back $5-6K. I don't remember what my VCR cost in 1999--hundreds, I'm sure. Eventually you couldn't get tapes anymore so I had to buy a DVD player in 2002 or so. The nicest, most expensive one at Target was under $100. But back to TVs. When I had the bright idea to live at the house I'm fixing up, it occurred to me that I could take my TMobile Internet device over there for broadband and bring an antenna and some co-ax for TV, but I don't know if I feel like the hassle of taking my TV out of its bookcase and unwiring it from the DVD and VCR so just for fun I had a look at what a new TV costs. $68. For $68 you can get a 34" TV at Wal*Mart. That's as crazy as computers. I'm sure my first and second laptops cost well over $1,000 each. My 3rd and 4th were a couple hundred each--and way more capability. Crazy.