Remember I was helping a lady from the church look for a phone? Well, I gave her my recommendation. Which she has so far ignored.
If you want to know more, it’s over at my little blog. If not, well, like I said, she hasn’t paid much attention to my recommendations either.
Here, it’s time for Wednesday Night Open Thread. Share what’s been going on with you. Or what’s on your mind. Or anything at all, really.
Who wants to start?
wow grey screen popups????? Your site deleted from my list.
Me, me, me!
Please Mister sir, what can’t I embed videos anymore Sir!
You must be able to; otherwise these threads may become too silly.
Zoom in on me. Cue Cine.
Get on with it.
Get On With It!!
What? No embedding of videos?
This will not stand!
Maybe I’ll watch a movie again. Let’s see. What’s one i’ve seen that I will enjoy seeing again?
Hooray! Basil is back!
Oddly, the old-school look of IMA is back as the same moment.
I don’t know if you like puzzles or not, but for some twenty-four hours the Posting boxes, for me at least, have shown
Reply-name-email-website-Preview-post [auto-filling your name and email address]
and now they are back to the traditional:
Reply-email-website-[no preview offered]-Post [not auto-filling your name and email address]
Only computer geeks would wonder why the difference occurred: the rest of us don’t know or care. But it is weird.
Basil:
You’ll be glad to know,
the embedding worked.
#1: “King Kong” on the list (in the video) disrupted the stream of consciousness.
At least for me. “Rewatchable”? After all those great movies? C’mon.
The term “Rewatchable” is a perhaps-deliberately ambiguous term.
Choosing a John Oliver-sounding narraror is a perhaps-deliberately ambiguous choice, too, I guess.
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Movies I COULD watch again:
Star Wars
Raiders
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Movies I WOULD watch again:
Citizen Kane
Godfathers 1 and 2
Casablanca
The Maltese Falcon
The Big Sleep
1776
To Kill a Mockigbird
The Lilies of the Field
Jaws
Anything by Keaton
Anything by Chaplin
Anything by The Marx Brothers
I can’t believe you left Manos the Hands of Fate off your list. MST3K version of course.
I remember the orginal opus on all the phones and phone plan options you evaluated for her, in detail, with consideration and with consideration (both meanings) for her, and seeking the the expertise of us ex partes.
Charitable works do not go unrewarded.
She makes her choices; you make your gifts. Both are as they should be.
Frank’s Random Thoughts are what keep this blog alive.
Mine are lethal to it.
His are the lynchpin. Mine are lynch puns.
See, I can’t get the wording right. There is where Frank’s and Harvey’s geniuses make their marks.
Illustration: mine, which F. and H. could have improved upon:
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“No progress will be made until high-school students are challenged to bite Tide Pods into the shape of a gun.”
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“There was a typo someone made on a web forum: ’emocrats.'” Talk about serendipity!”
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“Remember that bizarro universe with Bearded Spock? What happened in the one with Bearded Ryan?”
I tried this once before. I try again.
For the record, it appears again as an image of her doing Tina Turner.
For the record, also, I am going to watch it again — making the same face as the giant King Kong in the background.
For the record:
What a beautiful woman!
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So, am I the only one who experienced a 24-hour weirdness in the posting screens since last night?
Uh-oh..
It’s working now. If you keep mentioning it, someone’s gonna start Basilsplaining what happened.
I want all my hookers to be wearing that outfit from the KISS portion. All of them.
The Inspector strikes again……………………..
Ruggiero Leoncavallo was born March 8, 1857, in Naples, Italy. He wrote I Pagliacci, one of the greatest and most-often-performed operas, best known for the great tenor aria “Vesti La Giubba”, whose melody I first encountered in a radio commercial for Clark gasoline in northern Illinois in the early 1960s. Here is Placido Domingo performing it:
With regard to Basil’s help offered to the woman looking for a phone, Alan Jay Lerner said it well in My Fair Lady:
She will beg you for advice,
Your reply will be concise,
And she will listen very nicely,
Then go out and do precisely what she wants!