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Posted by Paul Cassidy (Member # 951) on 07-04-2002, 12:07 AM:
Hope everyone is enjoying a safe and peaceful Celebration in the U.S.A home of the Brave. 
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A KIWI eats,roots & Leaves.
Posted by Paul G. Thompson (Member # 655) on 07-04-2002, 12:15 AM:
Thank you, Paul. You have a good one, too. 
Posted by Kat Baggett (Member # 1154) on 07-04-2002, 01:10 AM:
Hope everyone I have met thru here has a great one tomorrow!!!!Kat
aka 
's girlfriend
Posted by Steve Scott (Member # 630) on 07-04-2002, 01:10 AM:
I'll send that greeting too Have a great one everybody, don't forget the fireworks 
Posted by Thomas Procyk (Member # 1170) on 07-04-2002, 02:56 PM:
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee BAM!Been hearing that since last week! 
HAPPY 4TH EVERYONE!
=TMP=
Posted by Scott Norwood (Member # 30) on 07-04-2002, 09:57 PM:
Ditto. Happy fourth to all. The fireworks in Boston were great tonight!
Posted by Josh Jones (Member # 447) on 07-04-2002, 11:25 PM:
Ah, the 4th of July, the one holiday of the year when the entire town turns into a bunch of pyromaniacs, including myself. 
Josh
Posted by Paul G. Thompson (Member # 655) on 07-05-2002, 01:03 AM:
Does my .44 Clint Eastwood Special count as fireworks? Happy 4th to all!
Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 07-05-2002, 02:18 AM:
Or a vault full of rotting nitrate?Hope you had a good one...
Posted by Sean McKinnon (Member # 612) on 07-05-2002, 02:21 AM:
Happy 4th it was fun watching the fireworks from the roof of the theatre... wait! WHO'S RUNNING THE THEATRE!!!
Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 07-05-2002, 03:11 AM:
Does throwing used xenon bulbs around count as fireworks? Ken???
Posted by Adam Wilbert (Member # 1184) on 07-05-2002, 03:33 AM:
Sean: thats been tradition at every theatre i've worked at on both the 4th and new years. Normal people (ie, people that don't work on holidays) don't have nearly as good a seat as the one I have for the big show! -adam
Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 07-05-2002, 01:52 PM:
I used to help out a friend of mine at a drive-in here in town in the '70s....one 4th of July we set off a huge repeating fountain from the top of the projection booth between movies. The owner was pissed, but the crowd loved it!
Posted by Steve Guttag (Member # 268) on 07-05-2002, 02:47 PM:
Ditto? Ditto? I hate that cliche`Speaking of which, what is a ditto? It's sad but it too someday will have no meaning....ah the fumes!
Steve
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"Old projectionists never die, they just changeover!"
Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 07-05-2002, 03:44 PM:
Ditto to your Ditto, Steve. That always distracted me and made me laugh during "Ghost". Oh well, word up!
Posted by Gracia L. Babbidge (Member # 582) on 07-05-2002, 10:31 PM:
Ever since I was abroad on July 4th, I've never quite looked at the day the same...Allow me to expound...
Now, this was when I was between my sophomore & junior year of high school, and participating in a short-term student exchange program. Ipso est, I spent three weeks in Costa Rica.
On July 4th, the US ambassador to Costa Rica hosted a party at their residence ... BIG party. Lots of free or at least very cheap 'adult beverages'. Thus, a large crowd of people were half in the bag before noon even rolled around.
At noon, they played the 'Star Spangled Banner' and hoisted up the US flag - for this the crowd was dead silent.
Immediately following that, the Costa Rican national anthem was played, and the Costa Rican flag was hoisted - the crowd was buzzing with conversation, and practically no-one paid any attention to what was going on.
I was flat out disgusted.
It was so unbelievably rude behavior, en masse.
*sigh*