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By the way, that print sucked, but I know it wasn't your fault. From what I saw of it, that thing had a lot of runs on it. The projectionist was wondering why some reels were heads up and some were tails up. Any particular reason?

And when do we get pictures of your booth???

BTW, this thread hasn't wandered enough yet. Can someone please chime in with another topic?

What happened was that UPS lost that can, delivering only 4,5,6. So the distrib rushed in new reels 1,2,3 (on cores & plastic cans, in a cardboard box) and that's what I ran. The box with the new 1,2,3 and the can with 4,5,6 were couriered to a local theatre. UPS finally delivered the missing can on Thursday and per the distrib I FDX'd it to Houston but I thought I set it for Monday delivery. I'd bet they had the local theatre send the down the 4,5,6 can so as to keep the same print together and sent them a new set of reels 4,5,6 to match the other new ones.

I only generally put labels with distributor, title and format info when the existing labels are a mess or non-existant. But I may need to rethink that on prints that I cannot attest to the condition of!

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>And when do we get pictures of your booth???

Maybe when Dubber #2 is back on platform level. It went out last month to do a test preview of some film about a school for wizards and I'm too lazy to put it back on station until I need it.

>BTW, this thread hasn't wandered enough yet. Can someone please chime in with another topic?

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"Besides there's just SO much in your own post that can be taken in a different manner than intended: train buff, air brakes, shutoff valve, 45° bend angle cock, etc. Besides, you're pointing at the Weenie Man."

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My answer is:

"Hey!"

And, yes. Steve is correct. I, too, am a train buff, but probably not as much as Steve is. The cylinders on the steam locomotive have cocks, too. The engineer usually closes the cocks with a foot lever when all the wet steam is expelled from the cylinders. As a young teen-ager, I hung around the rail yards. I remember many times the engineers would yell at me, "Stand clear of the cocks" just before the engineer would get his locomotive underweigh. Those words were accepted by all without any giggles from anyone.

When I worked at a gas station when I was 12 years old, part of my duties were to help the owner clean the lube room floor every Friday night. He would say, "Paul, open the cock on the air compressor" just before he thought it was time to scrub the floor.

Today, you just mention that word, and everyone within earshot giggles! Times have changed, I guess...

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