Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: The Fabric of Time

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Posted by Ian Price (Member # 14) on 10-29-2000, 01:34 PM:

Today we dumped the 10:00 PM show time for our film. Nobody came because it was too late. Only 2.5% of our attendance was for that show.

But today, the powers that be, changed the very fabric of the space-time continuum. In other words, daylight savings time is over and we have moved our clocks back an hour.

So have we dumped the 10:00 PM show? Or have we dumped the 1:00 PM show and renamed all the others? Is the 9:00 PM showing now the 10:00 PM show?

I haven't asked such stupid questions since giving up pot ten years ago.

Hmmm! I wonder?

P.S. The staff all arrived at the appropriate time. I, the owner, was the only person not clued in to the time change. I arrived an hour early. I wondered where my staff was. I only realized my error when I turned on my computer and it greeted me with the time change.

P.P.S. The 200 people who attended our first show today, didn't seem to have a problem figuring out the time change either.

Posted by Steve Scott (Member # 630) on 10-29-2000, 02:49 PM:

Ian,
2 questions:
1. Do you eat popcorn or other food from your theater?
and 2. Is it within the date?

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Posted by Ian Price (Member # 14) on 10-29-2000, 04:42 PM:

2 Answers

1. Yes, I am a walking advertisement for popcorn and theatre food. My diet is hidious. I drink 2, 32 oz. Cokes per day. I usually have a child's size popcorn with butter. I have been known to steal a Haggen Daaz ice cream bar. Nuke up a Bagel Dog and just perhaps sneak a candy bar. They don't call me large for nothing. I don't usually do all this in one day. Then I go home and have a Swansons Hungry Man Dinner and a bag of Pepperage Farms, Gold Fish.

I call this the Diet of Champions!

As you all know, the projectionist breakfast of champions is a large Coke and left over popcorn.

2. Yes, concessions don't get old in my theatre.

Don't you just love the smell of rancid popcorn and half empty Cokes in the morning? It smells like...Victory!

Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 10-30-2000, 01:34 AM:

Ian, your diet does NOT have enough Coke in it. What you need to do is get yourself your own brixing kit for the Coke machine. Once you start tweeking the mixture of the Cokes to be "just perfect", you'll drink even more of them.

Posted by Steven Gorsky (Member # 603) on 10-30-2000, 03:25 AM:

I'm still trying to convince management to put a soda fountain right in the booth.

The only problem I have with our soda fountains are it doesn't seem like the mixture is right, it doesn't have the same taste as when I get it from a fountain anywhere else.

Steven Gorsky

Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 10-30-2000, 10:28 AM:

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Once you start tweeking the mixture of the Cokes to be "just perfect", you'll drink even more of them.

That's fer sure! I long ago lost track of my Pepsi consumption... I have what's known as the "continuously-refilled 16-oz cup of caffeine!"