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Jesse Skeen
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1517
From: Sacramento, CA
Registered: Aug 2000

posted 06-06-2002 02:26 PM

I wanted to change "Mighty Ducks" to "Mighty Dicks"; also I was holding the ladder for someone taking down "Final Analysis", and I told them to make sure to take off the "ysis" part first

Btw the forthcoming movie "XXX" ISN'T about porn???

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Christopher Duvall
Jedi Master Film Handler

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From: Denver, CO
Registered: Dec 1999

posted 06-06-2002 05:26 PM

I remember the fun we had when "Dick" and "Shaft" were out. We would get questions about the running time..."How long is Shaft?" or "How long is Dick?". The box cashiers would lose it every time. It was also fun to watch the customers butcher "Too Wong Foo, Thanks for everything, Julie Newmar". No could even get part of the right.

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Adam Wilbert
Jedi Master Film Handler

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From: Bellingham, WA, USA
Registered: Mar 2002

posted 06-06-2002 05:31 PM

xXx - from the writer/director of Fast and the Furious. Looks like F&F meets Bond. Not porn, but if you like cars, its close enough.

Our roof marquee is accessible by high-school kids who climb up the drain pipe every now and then. Early one morning our GM got a call from the local police (who are on friendly terms with him) and asked what time ASS PARK III and FINAL FAT ASS was playing. (from jurassic park III and final fantasy.) They had to have brought the extra "S" with them and they took all of the letters that they didn't use, presumably for the next time. I'm kind of leery of putting XXX up on the marquee though. I think i'll spell out "triple X" instead!

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Bobby Henderson
"Ask me about Trajan."

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From: Lawton, OK, USA
Registered: Apr 2001

posted 06-06-2002 06:09 PM

Frank Zappa came up with a funny name for his album:
Sheik Yerbouti

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David Stambaugh
Film God

Posts: 4021
From: Eugene, Oregon
Registered: Jan 2002

posted 06-06-2002 06:10 PM

Long time ago I worked as a bench tech for an electronics mfr. There were many Asians working there. One day I came in and a note on my bench said to go to the Test Engineering Dept. and get the latest version of some test program from an engineer named Hung, whom I had never met. I to ask someone in that department "Who's Hung?"

I knew a girl in grade school named Denise Pencilknob.

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Mike Blakesley
Film God

Posts: 12767
From: Forsyth, Montana
Registered: Jun 99

posted 06-06-2002 06:45 PM

There's a lady here in town, Cheryl Brown, who married a guy with the last name Dickie, and then for some amazing reason she decided to hyphenate her name, so now she's Cheryl Brown-Dickie! I kid you not!

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Paul Harnden
Expert Film Handler

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From: Chandler, AZ, USA
Registered: Oct 2001

posted 06-06-2002 07:23 PM

Was a girl back in high school who went by the name of Sarah Shoepisser

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James R. Hammonds, Jr
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 931
From: Houston, TX, USA
Registered: Nov 2000

posted 06-06-2002 07:35 PM

Back when my mother was in school, she was working in a mall (as a movie theatre box office cashier, i believe) and while on her break she was in one of the department stores when she hears this woman's voice say "Caucasia. Caucasia, come here."
When she turned around to look at who was saying it, she saw a little black girl running towards her mother.

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Thomas Procyk
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1842
From: Royal Palm Beach, FL, USA
Registered: Feb 2002

posted 06-06-2002 10:22 PM

Back in Elementary school, we had these two kids in class: Lisa White and Jason Black.

Lisa White was Black, and Jason Black was White. Kids would ask them why they don't trade names.

=TMP=

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Paul Mayer
Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under!

Posts: 3836
From: Albuquerque, NM
Registered: Feb 2000

posted 06-06-2002 10:51 PM

Movie name: (More than) a few years ago we were running Beavers at the Caesars Palace Omnimax. I think you can imagine what the Caesars animated marquee looked like when it displayed in three-story high font: "Caesars Omnimax now showing Beavers." At night both the Olympic box office and the theatre entrance would be mobbed with drunken perverts wanting to know about Beavers.

And to think I didn't think to grab a shot of that marquee...

Person name: The network maintenance guys at my last job concocted a scheme to keep a spare cubicle in their area from being assigned. They threw a bunch of unused PCs and test equipment in there and generally made the place look like it was being lived in. And they printed up an official name slide to put into the cubicle's ID holder: Richard Smokar. The VP-level management there was so clueless that this scam ran for many many months and was still going when I left there.

Paul
Still Gimpy Projectionist, Pseudo Theatre Tech and Senior Vidiot
Crown Neonopolis 14
Neon National Forest, NV USA
"Pain is weakness leaving the body!"
"If A base is kissing, and B base is petting, then C base must be...
YEESSS!!! I LOOOVE PROGRAMMING!"

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Bobby Henderson
"Ask me about Trajan."

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From: Lawton, OK, USA
Registered: Apr 2001

posted 06-06-2002 11:25 PM

There's an auto dealership in Oklahoma City using the name Knipplemeier. That's not enough for me. I have to know if it is a "puffy" knipplemeier.

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Peter Kerchinsky
Master Film Handler

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From: Seattle, WA, USA
Registered: Jan 2002

posted 06-07-2002 02:06 AM

I worked as projectionist for a small drive in west of Portland, OR. some years ago. They used to run a different double feature on Sunday nights of smaller/lesser known films and called it Buck Night. (You can see where this is going).
One early Sunday morning...about 5:30 am... I got a call from the sheriff's office asking if I had keys to the theatre, which I did, and could I come down and fix the marquee. Some teens apparently got up on the walkway in front of the marquee where all the letters where kept and replaced the B with an F. The sheriff's office was concerned that church going people that morning might be offended and wanted it changed ASAP.

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Jesse Skeen
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From: Sacramento, CA
Registered: Aug 2000

posted 06-07-2002 01:48 PM

At the now-closed single-screen theater in Davis, someone found an easy way to get to the marquee letters and mess with them. My favorite was seeing DISCLOSURE changed to DISCO RULES, they also changed BRAVEHEART to BEAVER HART and a little less creatively knocked down some letters so SPEED became PEE. I read that at a drive-in on the way out, someone stopped and removed the "UP" from HONEY I BLEW UP THE KID.

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Ken Lackner
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1907
From: Atlanta, GA, USA
Registered: Sep 2001

posted 06-07-2002 02:11 PM

Paul M, you worked at Omnimax? I'm jealous!

There is a car dealership in Vegas by the name of Cheap Chitty Auto Sales. I wonder how they pronounce the "ch"?

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Gracia L. Babbidge
Jedi Master Film Handler

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From: Bowdoin, Maine
Registered: Aug 2000

posted 06-07-2002 02:50 PM

Funny things I've seen with movie titles on a marquees (sign was very easy to access - even for children - with many titles):
Saving Private Ryan -> Shaving Ryans Privates
Simon Birch -> Simon Bitch
Thirteenth Floor -> Thirteenth Fool
Election -> Erection

Ways I've seen or labelled prints (that only projectionists see):
Glad He Ate Her (Gladiator)
Scream If You Know What I Did Last Halloween (Scary Movie)
Scream If You Still Know What I Did Last Halloween (Scary Movie 2)
E.T. - the Extra Testicle
Britney Sucks! (Crossroads)
Where The Monkey Is (Where the Money Is)
Where The Fart Is (Where The Heart Is)
Annoying Moose And Squirrel (Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle)
...and so on

Strange people names I've encountered:
my own (see left) - has been mispronounced in a ridiculous number of ways!
Jedediah Georgitis - was sometimes referred to as 'Gingivitis'
Michael Oikle - his parents must like to rhyme!
Tom Collins - drinks, anyone?

...I know I've forgotten others!

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