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This is way too much head-canon for an intentionally pulp-y movie but... In "Raiders of the Lost Ark," Indy has the revolver in a holster on his belt--but he also has a Browning Hi-Power that he uses in the shootout at Marion's bar (he also carries it when the Germans board the steamer). Why 2 guns?

"Raiders..." is set in 1936. The Browning Hi-Power wasn't released until 1935*. So it is a brand new, relatively unfamiliar gun. Indy maybe keeps the revolver because he doesn't quite trust the new-fangled autoloader. And it must be in his satchel*, possibly because it is so new a gun that he hasn't found a decent holster for it.

*We can't put too much into historical accuracy. As mentioned, the movie is set in 1936 but Indy's satchel is a British WWII gas mask bag that wasn't produced until 1941.
 
Somehow I acci...I make stir-fry for dinner. I'm lazy so instead of buying a bunch of veggies to chop up, I buy a frozen bag of pre-cut stir fry veggies. Somehow I accidentally got stir fry veggies with...CORN in them. WHO PUTS CORN IN STIR-FRY!?!?. That said, for some reason it was unusually tasty. So now I gotta wonder if corn belongs in stir-fry. (I used a big bag of frozen salad shrimp for the meat/protein.)
 
Volpone said:
Somehow I acci...I make stir-fry for dinner. I'm lazy so instead of buying a bunch of veggies to chop up, I buy a frozen bag of pre-cut stir fry veggies. Somehow I accidentally got stir fry veggies with...CORN in them. WHO PUTS CORN IN STIR-FRY!?!?. That said, for some reason it was unusually tasty. So now I gotta wonder if corn belongs in stir-fry. (I used a big bag of frozen salad shrimp for the meat/protein.)
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Must have been Birdseye. Corn is such a huge American crop that it has ended up in lots of places it didn't belong.

Especially as a sweetener in the form of corn syrup, which is the single-biggest contributor to American obesity.
 
Volpone said:
This is way too much head-canon for an intentionally pulp-y movie but... In "Raiders of the Lost Ark," Indy has the revolver in a holster on his belt--but he also has a Browning Hi-Power that he uses in the shootout at Marion's bar (he also carries it when the Germans board the steamer). Why 2 guns?

"Raiders..." is set in 1936. The Browning Hi-Power wasn't released until 1935*. So it is a brand new, relatively unfamiliar gun. Indy maybe keeps the revolver because he doesn't quite trust the new-fangled autoloader. And it must be in his satchel*, possibly because it is so new a gun that he hasn't found a decent holster for it.

*We can't put too much into historical accuracy. As mentioned, the movie is set in 1936 but Indy's satchel is a British WWII gas mask bag that wasn't produced until 1941.
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I think it was probably intended to be a 1911 but there was a mix up
 
"If only Mr. Rogers and Bob Ross had a tik tok, I'd be in heaven. I mean like literally, since they are both dead, if I were looking at their tik Tok pages I would know I was dead too."
 
Bob Barker, Alex Trebek, and Richard Dawson are all in heaven too, so the TV game shows are much better up there too. Probably Monty Hall and Chuck Barris too, if I think about it.
 
I realize one of the reasons I prefer Sudoku to solitaire is that it is always solveable if you're smart enough. And selecting a higher or lower difficulty level makes it easier or harder to solve. Fucking solitaire, you can play a brilliant game and lose. Or you can get a game so easy you literally just have to move the cards where they belong and win. OR! You can get a game that is so easy you can just need to move the cards where they belong--and then find out the last 3 cards are in the wrong order and there is no way to win. Very annoying.
 
Volpone said:
I realize one of the reasons I prefer Sudoku to solitaire is that it is always solveable if you're smart enough. And selecting a higher or lower difficulty level makes it easier or harder to solve. Fucking solitaire, you can play a brilliant game and lose. Or you can get a game so easy you literally just have to move the cards where they belong and win. OR! You can get a game that is so easy you can just need to move the cards where they belong--and then find out the last 3 cards are in the wrong order and there is no way to win. Very annoying.
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Are you playing wordle or quordle or connections or any of the other New York times games? Some of them are kind of fun.
 
Mirah said:
Are you playing wordle or quordle or connections or any of the other New York times games? Some of them are kind of fun.
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For some reason word puzzles just don't appeal to me. I should probably do them but I don't want to.

On an unrelated note, I'm at a point in my life where I don't feel terribly bad that I may miss "Nosferatu" and would much rather see "Paddington in Peru."
 
If you don't enjoy it, you don't enjoy it. Nbd
I get invited to play pinochle every week and every week I turn it down.
I went once ( well twice)
And I just didn't enjoy myself.
The one time I went and thought I could get away with watching someone's kid they convinced me to play.
 
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