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Posted by Kyle McEachern (Member # 2250) on 03-04-2005, 07:00 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 03-05-2005, 04:48 AM:
 


Taken at Pinewood Studios, near London, during production of The Red Shoes in 1947. The camera operator is Jeff Seaholme... assisted by a Technicolor colour consultant, perhaps?
 

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Posted by Dan Lyons (Member # 1454) on 03-06-2005, 05:42 AM:
 


A piece I used to own. The more you look at it, the filthier it seems. ewwwwwww.
 

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Posted by Floyd Justin Newton (Member # 1316) on 03-06-2005, 09:06 AM:
 
Dan--

What!? The 'ruler' or the 'bottle'?
 

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Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 03-06-2005, 01:37 PM:
 

quote: Dan Lyons

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A piece I used to own.

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What happened to it? Radical surgery?
 

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Posted by Dan Lyons (Member # 1454) on 03-06-2005, 01:41 PM:
 
There are many ways to look at it! oh my!

I sold it. I needed money, and it took up too much wall space (20"x36" if i remember correctly)

That sign was a rare piece too, many prominant collectors had never seen that one before. Unfortunately when i sold it, USPS managed to break it in half according to the recipient.

Fortunately they paid my claim in full; USPS will insure antiques and artwork, where FEDEX and UPS will not. So if you're going to be mailing something valuable like film prints or antiques, keep that in mind.
 

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Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 03-06-2005, 02:17 PM:
 
I know exactly what you're talking about. A colleague at another English regional film archive had a 1934 16mm Dufaycolor reversal element deposited. That film contained footage of of a village which was later submerged by a reservoir built after the war. She scanned a few film frames, established that the film was incredibly unique, packaged the element up and sent it by Royal Mail special delivery (i.e. packages are barcoded and tracked, supposedly) to a lab in London for duplication. It never arrived. The Royal Mail lost it, and those scanned frames are now all we have from the film.

After hearing that story I will always telecine a unique (or suspected to be unique) film element before taking it to a lab, if I feel that it is in a good enough state to withstand a trip through our Rank Mk. II. At least if the worst happens, we'll still have the video. Then I take the thing myself to the lab. If it's nitrate I drive it, if not I usually fly. When I get to the lab I give them instructions that the dupe neg and digibeta (we usually can't afford to have a viewing copy made on film, though on some rare occasions we can) should be sent as a separate package, and only after we've acknowledged safe arrival should the original element be sent on. The lab I normally use (this one) knows the drill, and I gather that they now suggest this procedure to anyone else who sends them original elements for preservation copying.
 

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Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 03-06-2005, 11:00 PM:
 
Now if you boys will just sit tight till we get this thing wound up.....


 

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Posted by Emma Tomiak (Member # 1862) on 03-15-2005, 02:00 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Scott Norwood (Member # 30) on 03-16-2005, 06:03 PM:
 
Boston University Bridge. This is apparently the only place in the world (?) where a boat, train, car, and airplane can be in vertical alignment.


 

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Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 03-16-2005, 06:30 PM:
 
Beautiful B&W Scott!!!!!!!!!! Did you use a red filter on the lens..... Fill us in please.....

Mark
 

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Posted by Scott Norwood (Member # 30) on 03-16-2005, 08:58 PM:
 
Thanks, Mark. No filters...I was pleasantly surprised at how well the sky came out without a red filter, actually.

I took that picture about two weeks ago (March 5) with a Yashica twin-lens reflex camera (sort of a cheap copy of a Rolleiflex) which I picked up recently. It was shot on 120 format (2 1/4" square) Tri-X Pan (not TXP) at f/16 and 1/500th (I think).

The print was made by a local lab. on Ilford paper and scanned on my el-cheapo Epson flatbed.

Here's another shot that I took on the same day:

 

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Posted by Jennifer Pan (Member # 2035) on 03-16-2005, 09:35 PM:
 
Wow, that really looks awesome, I love the contrast. Great job Scott!
 

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Posted by William Hooper (Member # 71) on 03-17-2005, 02:10 AM:
 
Great pictures!
 

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Posted by Carl Martin (Member # 1146) on 03-17-2005, 03:47 AM:
 
nice pics and all, but i'm sure there are many bridges with a car deck over a train deck. the one between sweden and denmark comes to mind. that one turns into a tunnel halfway so you could have either plane-car-train-boat or plane-boat-car-train. also, the bart transbay tube passes under the s.f. bay bridge, so you could have plane-car-boat-train there.

carl
 

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Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 03-17-2005, 07:22 AM:
 
There's one in the centre of Newcastle Upon Tyne, in north-east England, with a train deck over a car deck.
 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 03-18-2005, 12:41 AM:
 



 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 03-18-2005, 12:51 AM:
 
Oh My! That reminds me of the Seinfeld "Ass Man" episode when Kramer got the wrong license plate that was meant for a proctologist.
 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 03-18-2005, 11:24 PM:
 
Here's a great way to promote a product...



Anyone hungry?


 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 03-18-2005, 11:27 PM:
 
A great ad for the glass. But I'm wondering how well the mount for the display is secured? I have this vision of a big ol' chain wrapped around that display and attached to a Hummer or some other big truck... Gone!

That burger must be one of those double double double double double double double doubles from In-N-Out...
 

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Posted by Jennifer Pan (Member # 2035) on 03-18-2005, 11:35 PM:
 
All I can say is... groooosssss...
 

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Posted by Kyle McEachern (Member # 2250) on 03-19-2005, 01:49 AM:
 
The first theatre I worked at was about a 8-minute drive from an In 'n' Out, so invariably 5 out of 7 days someone would take a half-hour break and go to get food for whomever was working. After a while it got a bit repetetive, so I decided to see how big of a burger I was capable of consuming...after about 2 weeks I made it to a "10 by 10" (10 patties/10 slices of cheese)...after that experience I decided to never ever ever ever make that attempt again. Finished the burger though!
 

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Posted by Mike Olpin (Member # 1115) on 03-19-2005, 01:51 AM:
 

quote: Jennifer Pan

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All I can say is... groooosssss...

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What are you talking about? In-n-out is great no mater what the portion size!

That looks like their 20 by 20 (20 meat, 20 cheese).

Once I knew two guys who came in to in-n-out weekly. Each week they would add another patty and another slice of cheese to their order. The game was that the first person who could not finnish their burger lost.

Anyway.. never heard how high they got. Last time I saw them they were at 9 by 9. I guess i should ask them who won and at what point.
 

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Posted by Jennifer Pan (Member # 2035) on 03-19-2005, 01:56 AM:
 
Mike, I haven't had the pleasure of consuming an In-N-Out burger. But you have convinced me to at least try. Of course not that particular burger. I've heard it's good... I guess.

I don't see how someone can actually handle that without making a mess. Hopefully there are plenty of forks.
 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 03-19-2005, 02:03 AM:
 
Well I think that's a 8X one...

KY-le... Hubba hubba!

BTW Jen: I've had the pleasure of many In-N-Out things including Ummm, burgers... All were very good!
 

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Posted by Betsie Beadling (Member # 591) on 03-19-2005, 06:45 AM:
 
Whooooaaahhh
Barf

That is the Hugest Burger
I have ever seen!!!
 

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Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 03-19-2005, 11:53 AM:
 

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Once I knew two guys who came in to in-n-out weekly. Each week they would add another patty and another slice of cheese to their order. The game was that the first person who could not finish their burger lost.

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I guess another stipulation for that game would be whoever dies of heart failure loses by default.
 

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Posted by Floyd Justin Newton (Member # 1316) on 03-19-2005, 02:56 PM:
 
You COULD at least hear your arteries crackle!!

 

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Posted by Thomas Jonsson (Member # 1902) on 03-19-2005, 02:57 PM:
 
That giant hamburger looks like something one of my
employees would have appreciated.

The Hazardous materials data sheet - very funny!!!

Thomas
 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 03-19-2005, 04:48 PM:
 
If one of these babies will drive a stud through 1" thick steel plate I don't see why it wouldn't punch a hole through a piece of laminated glass.



Just punch about 6 studs through the glass in a circle then smash the middle with a sledge hammer.

If I remember correctly, that's how the crooks that tried to steal the diamonds from the Millennium Dome did it.
 

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Posted by Christian Volpi (Member # 2370) on 03-20-2005, 12:36 AM:
 

quote: Randy Stankey

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tried

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Well it didn't work for them.
 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 03-20-2005, 01:06 AM:
 
They got through the glass case pretty quickly. Driving in through the front of the building on a bulldozer and tossing smoke bombs all around didn't hurt either.

Once they were in, several guys attacked the case with stud drivers and sledge hammers. The way I remember, two guys each drove about a half dozen nails through the glass then ducked out of the way. Then two more guys with sledge hammers took their place. The glass crumbled like a soda cracker! When those guys had their turn, they ducked out of the way to let a few more come along and scoop up the diamonds.

They actually make it in and out of the place in a very short time. They appearently sneaked in as tourists and took detailed photographs and videos of the place before executing the heist.

They two things went wrong, though:

1) The getaway was supposed to be in a boat. They were supposed to speed across the Thames and be gone before anybody knew what hit them. The problem was that the tide was out and the getaway driver couldn't dock the boat where they had planned. What guys didn't get caught looking for their getaway ride scattered like roaches, only to be picked up by the cops in a short time.

2) The authorities had gotten wind of the heist but they didn't know the exact day. They put fake diamonds into the case. If the crooks actually had gotten away with it they would have ended up with nothing more than a few hands full of glass!

I remember seeing the tapes of it on the TV. I was amazed at how fast they got through the supposedly impenatrable glass barrier! Once those nails pierced the glass it had no integrity. The actual glass smashing took only, maybe 30 seconds!

So, Brad, how much cash in actually in that case?
If it's full of Benjamins I'll be on a plane to Texas in the morning! A few hundred clams for a ticket and a few hundred more for the tool would be a worthwhile investment.

Anybody wanna' come be my sledge hammer man?


 

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Posted by John Hegel (Member # 628) on 03-20-2005, 01:58 AM:
 
I'm a Sawzall sort of guy, but willing to help for a cut.



A cutting torch is also a favorite tool of mine.
 

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Posted by Carl Martin (Member # 1146) on 03-20-2005, 06:10 AM:
 

quote: Randy Stankey

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how much cash in actually in that case?

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at least $14. but i think $280 would be the best compromise between "isn't actually that much money" and "doesn't look like just a bunch of small bills".
 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 03-20-2005, 12:08 PM:
 
From 1954 to 1959, then from 1964 to 2000 the Horseshoe casino had one-million dollars (100 $10,000 gold certificates) on display. It was encased in plastic and you could get your picture taken standing next to it.



Glad to see so many people here are into "master keys." Here's some of my favorites:


 

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Posted by Adam Martin (Member # 641) on 03-20-2005, 05:19 PM:
 
These two photos were on the wall at the Burbank Airport Hilton. Any guess as to what plane(s?) it is and what exactly are we viewing in the second photo? The (now) Bob Hope Airport opened in 1930.




 

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Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 03-20-2005, 05:47 PM:
 

quote: Randy Stankey

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If one of these babies will drive a stud through 1" thick steel plate I don't see why it wouldn't punch a hole through a piece of laminated glass.

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Remembering a recent post about a rather, erm, 'unusual' application for a bottle of Filmguard, let's just hope that anyone who buys one of those sticks to knocking off safes with it!
 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 03-20-2005, 05:58 PM:
 
Adam's plane looks like a Gulfstream 2. Not sure about the second photo. Is that a crack in the fuselage skin patched with a piece of 200mph tape???
 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 03-20-2005, 07:41 PM:
 

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... let's just hope that anyone who buys one of those sticks to knocking off safes with it!

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But he doesn't NEED another hole there! Does he?! Maybe a hole in the HEAD but not there!

But, if he DOES need another hole in that location, I would think that this tool would do a better job.



I would think that the display would be in a pretty secure location by itself. Maybe some place like right in front of Corporate Headquarters where it's within sight of the security desk. I can't imagine somebody would be so stupid as to think nobody would actually take a crack at it!

Loss of the money notwithstanding, loss of reputation would be FAR more damaging than losing a few thousand dollars. (Even if all of it IS real money.) I can just see a salesman out on a call, trying to push the product when the customer says, "Didn't some asshole from Pennsylvania just bust through your "unbreakable glass" in about 45 seconds with a nail gun?!"

I'd love to see somebody double-dog dare them to fill that case with real bills then, right while the suits are standing in front of them, open up the trunk of his car, pull out his trusty gunpowder-actuated stud driver and... "POP!! POP!! POP!!"... Bust that case wide open! Just seeing their chins hit the sidewalk would be worth the price of admission!

I just can't imagine that a manufacturer like 3M wouldn't know that their products are vulnerable to that kind of attack. Especially in the face of the knowledge that a similar attack has already taken place. They just can't be THAT stupid... Can they?
 

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Posted by Adam Martin (Member # 641) on 03-20-2005, 08:34 PM:
 

quote: Paul Mayer

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Is that a crack in the fuselage skin patched with a piece of 200mph tape???

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No, it's a reflection of a hanger, I think. I couldn't really tell.

I just couldn't really tell what I was looking at in the second photo. Is that a wing above or what?
 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 03-20-2005, 09:58 PM:
 
I swear, yous and your tools...
 

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Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 03-21-2005, 04:02 PM:
 
On the subject of slightly less dangerous tools, I was playing with my new film scanner this evening and found these slides, which I took on Kodachrome 200 in July 1998.





This is the 'airport' on the Isle of Barra, off the western coast of Scotland. The island's first claim to fame is that it has (what is claimed to be) the world's only commercial airport runway which is on a beach. I'd been forewarned about this before my visit and so knew what to expect, but as we came down the person sitting next to me thought that we were about to make a forced landing! Its second is that the film Whisky Galore (released in the US as Tight Little Island) was filmed there. The event on which it was based (the sinking of a shipload of whisky and its subsequent plundering by islanders during WWII) took place in the Sound of Eriskay, just to the north-east of where these pics were taken. Fortunately there was no whisky shortage during my visit!
 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 03-21-2005, 05:25 PM:
 
Ah, a twatter on the beach! Looks like fun Leo.

Adam, your second pic looks like it might be under the trailing edge of the right-hand engine pylon, but I'm not sure. Never been around Gulfstreams--that is another world in a galaxy far far away. I take it there were no captions for those pics. Will have to look for them the next time I'm in Burbank.

How 'bout having this stare at you while waiting to board your flight? Last year JAL commemorated 50 years of flying by painting five of their 747s in various Disney-themed liveries. The Disney characters are very popular in Japan--their closest rivals amongst the homegrown anime product being Pokemon and Studio Ghibli's Totoro.


 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 03-24-2005, 08:26 PM:
 
Robot Wars:


 

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Posted by Dustin Mitchell (Member # 372) on 03-24-2005, 10:14 PM:
 
Sorry kids, Easter is canceled .


 

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Posted by Rachel Gilardi (Member # 1016) on 03-24-2005, 11:56 PM:
 
That is just wrong.
 

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Posted by Emma Tomiak (Member # 1862) on 03-25-2005, 01:22 AM:
 
Amen Rachel.
 

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Posted by Jennifer Pan (Member # 2035) on 03-25-2005, 01:26 AM:
 
Yes, agreed.
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 03-25-2005, 04:42 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Adam Martin (Member # 641) on 03-26-2005, 01:23 PM:
 
Cook Inlet, Turnagain Arm near Portage, Alaska. March 24, 2005


 

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Posted by Mike Heenan (Member # 392) on 03-27-2005, 12:50 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Jennifer Pan (Member # 2035) on 03-27-2005, 12:56 AM:
 
Adam, that's breath taking.
 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 03-27-2005, 11:57 PM:
 
KGAY-FM. 95.7 Los Angeles...


 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 03-28-2005, 04:25 AM:
 
Gay people require their own radio stations? Is there "gay" music? I don't understand why everyone just can't listen to Snoop Doggy Dogg.
 

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Posted by Mark J. Marshall (Member # 1409) on 03-28-2005, 08:45 AM:
 
Just need a little neon and a "Mister Fusion" on the back of that thing, Mike.
 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 03-28-2005, 05:26 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 03-28-2005, 05:28 PM:
 
This one's for Greco. (warning: nudity)

link
 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 03-28-2005, 06:14 PM:
 
Joe, KWER is the "gay" radio station. KGAY is just a "happy" place that plays a variety of music. There are many specialty stations with call letters suggesting their content.

Some examples: KHIC is a Country & Western music station. KOCK is porno talk radio. KICK is a talk radio format for alcoholics and those wanting to quit smoking. One that you would be interested in is KDOG... 24/7 Snoop Dogg songs.

(Cool link, Brad. But shouldn't it be posted in the "Link" thread?)
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 03-28-2005, 07:06 PM:
 
I can't believe all the pandering! I DEMAND a radio station ONLY for white non-religious politically unafilliated single heterosexual 31-year-old males with a small mole on their tummy-tum-tum. I'm sick of the discrimination!
 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 03-28-2005, 07:25 PM:
 
No you silly coot.

It's hosted on the FT server, but I placed it on a seperate page since it had nudity so it wouldn't just display. I wonder how long it will take for it to become Richard's desktop image?
 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 03-28-2005, 07:52 PM:
 
Ummm... hot tip Grand-Poo-BAH, it's STILL a "link".
 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 03-28-2005, 08:31 PM:
 
So was the "link" to get to your post on page 5, Cootzilla!
 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 03-29-2005, 03:34 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 03-29-2005, 03:36 AM:
 
Another link for Cootzilla...this time a picture of him (but can you guess which one?)
 

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Posted by Stephen Brown (Member # 292) on 03-29-2005, 06:55 AM:
 
An image from my Nikon D70 using a Tamron 70-300mm lens. Focal length about 190mm.


 

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Posted by Michael Schaffer (Member # 1204) on 03-29-2005, 07:06 AM:
 

quote: Joe Redifer

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Gay people require their own radio stations?

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quote: Grand Pooh-BAH!

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...I placed it on a seperate page since it had nudity so it wouldn't just display.

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Oh, the irony.


 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 03-29-2005, 06:12 PM:
 
Check out the brows!



This one is for anyone who gets the joke.

 

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Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 03-31-2005, 05:03 PM:
 
That's an outrageous ripoff. A pound is currently worth $1.87.
 

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Posted by Rick Raskin (Member # 1561) on 03-31-2005, 06:53 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Wayne Keyser (Member # 2420) on 03-31-2005, 08:21 PM:
 
You wanna check the "web hoax debunking" site snopes.com on that - they have the original pix this was photoshopped from (sorry).
 

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Posted by Aaron Sisemore (Member # 145) on 04-01-2005, 01:39 AM:
 
Totally fake!: What the fuck would the Golden Gate Bridge be doing on the South African coast???
 

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Posted by Brian Michael Weidemann (Member # 2243) on 04-01-2005, 05:47 AM:
 
This is totally real! Really!



Oh, and on a totally unrelated note: Happy April Fools' Day!
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 04-02-2005, 04:17 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Scott Norwood (Member # 30) on 04-04-2005, 06:57 PM:
 
Ashland Theatre, Ashland, VA.:


 

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Posted by John Walsh (Member # 168) on 04-05-2005, 11:40 AM:
 
I did some work at a theater, and saw this. I asked the guy if I could take a picture because this is one of the neatest laid-out EMT jobs I've seen in a long time.


 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 04-05-2005, 03:40 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 04-05-2005, 11:14 PM:
 
An ashtray for all your "smoker" friends...


 

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Posted by Allison Parsons (Member # 2728) on 04-06-2005, 12:43 AM:
 
a REALLY old picture of my robot collection. That picture is probably about 80% of what I have now

 

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Posted by William Hooper (Member # 71) on 04-06-2005, 02:01 AM:
 
What, no Zeroids?
 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 04-06-2005, 02:51 PM:
 
Satellite photo of the house I'm staying at (dead center) courtesy of the new free service at http://maps.google.com :


 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 04-06-2005, 06:35 PM:
 
My house is the one just below the red dot in the center of the pic...about a mile north of the Capitol Record's building and a mile SW of the "Hollywood" sign.



Maybe we should start a "FT Member Satellite House View Thread"?
 

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Posted by Paul Konen (Member # 41) on 04-06-2005, 09:34 PM:
 
I'm hoping that I get this to work.


 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 04-06-2005, 10:03 PM:
 
I noticed that Google maps doesn't always get the address right. Type in my place and instead you get my neighbor's marked by the map. Type in Brad's and you're about a quarter mile away from the real thing. Oh well, it's still in beta. Still mega cool, though!
 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 04-06-2005, 10:10 PM:
 
I agree Joe... It's sorta like MapQuest... it sux!

The USGS or Terraserver sites are THE way to go...

That's where I got my pic from...and it's free!

However, the latest pics are not always available. Some may be a few years old and not show the current developments.
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 04-06-2005, 10:46 PM:
 
What are the links to that site? Your pic seems to be pretty detailed.

Figured out the URL. Terraserver sux ass b-cuz u need 2 be a subscriber and it suXorZ.
 

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Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 04-06-2005, 11:58 PM:
 
I remember trying to find my theatre in Mapquest a long time ago and it was off by 45 miles (and in a different town). Tried it with this new thing, and now it's only 28 miles off (but still in a different town). They got the phone number, address and website correct though so that's something.
 

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Posted by Stephen Furley (Member # 1277) on 04-07-2005, 10:35 AM:
 


A typical bit of American electrical installation. Looks very strange to us from this side of the water. This was in Jersey City, in the road leading to my hotel. Nikon F, Fuji Sensia 100.
 

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Posted by John Pytlak (Member # 331) on 04-07-2005, 01:00 PM:
 

quote: Stephen Furley

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Fuji Sensia 100.

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Shocking photo! But I'm not GREEN with envy.
 

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Posted by Stephen Furley (Member # 1277) on 04-07-2005, 04:01 PM:
 
John, I tend to use:

Fuji for colour slide film,

Kodak for colour negative annd various technical materials.

Ilford for black and white negative

and Agfa Scala,

So that should keep everyone happy.

I don't often get the time to do any photography now. One day I'll have to post a few of my decent shots that I've taken in the past.

I used to do a lot of colour printing, back in the days of Ektacolor 37 and 74 RC papers, all processed in open dishes. I used to soak my hands in the stuff for hours on end, with no ill effects. Suddenly I developed a serious allergy to it, and I have to be careful even processing film now. I've recently done a bit of black and white printing again, but for colour prints I scan the negative or slide, and have a print made digitally at a local shop.

I think some of the overhead cabling is incredible, I saw one pole with over a hundred cables attached to it.
 

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Posted by James R. Hammonds, Jr (Member # 673) on 04-07-2005, 04:55 PM:
 
Hope this isn't too political


 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 04-07-2005, 05:39 PM:
 
I don't get it.

Also, that wiring isn't too typical. Around here all of the wiring is undaground.
 

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Posted by Adam Wilbert (Member # 1184) on 04-07-2005, 06:16 PM:
 
I love when people complain about "unsightly" cell phone towers, while ignoring the tangled nest above their heads.
 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 04-07-2005, 06:45 PM:
 
Glad to see the "Political" board is open again...

Stephen, if you think that pole wiring is bad, you need to visit Japan and/or Taiwan. Now there's a couple of "modern" countries that are in tune to "do as I say, not do as I do". Fire/electrocution wiring is worse than places like Jakarta.

[ 04-07-2005, 08:03 PM: Message edited by: Phil Hill ]
 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 04-07-2005, 09:24 PM:
 
To wit:



This is typical practice, though certainly not the worst I've seen, in Japanese neighborhoods.
 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 04-07-2005, 09:52 PM:
 
Paul, that's one of the more "safe" distributions. I just love how Japan has both 50Hz and 60Hz power at various voltages depending on where the site is located. Some installations I've done have 5 different voltage/freq requirements depending on which contractor.

Plus most installation voltages vary like:


 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 04-07-2005, 11:32 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 04-08-2005, 12:13 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 04-08-2005, 12:18 AM:
 
Ok...I get it...Joe is gay and is in the closet and this is his way of coming out...

Is that like a priest and an altar boy? hhot!
 

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Posted by Jennifer Pan (Member # 2035) on 04-08-2005, 04:25 AM:
 
Phil, you are so awesome! I could not have said it any better than you have.
 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 04-08-2005, 04:26 AM:
 



 

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Posted by Jennifer Pan (Member # 2035) on 04-08-2005, 04:31 AM:
 
Brad, those were hilarious. The second one is a must... I would definitely want to ride .
 

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Posted by Rick Raskin (Member # 1561) on 04-08-2005, 12:44 PM:
 
This is from Bangkok:


 

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Posted by James R. Hammonds, Jr (Member # 673) on 04-08-2005, 01:58 PM:
 


 

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Posted by John Pytlak (Member # 331) on 04-08-2005, 02:20 PM:
 
James: Is that your "day job" location, or do you work in a high-rise theatre?
 

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Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 04-08-2005, 04:39 PM:
 
I wonder how often those pics on maps.google.com are updated. My wife and I were looking at places in her former hometown, and the images are obviously months old.
 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 04-08-2005, 10:42 PM:
 
Is that Michael Jackson in the duck suit?

Looks like those Keyhole images can be quite old. The Las Vegas ones are at least a year old, still showing houses that were bulldozed in April 2004 to make way for the widening of US-95.

How 'bout this for a muzzle flash?


 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 04-08-2005, 10:48 PM:
 

quote: Paul Mayer

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Is that Michael Jackson in the duck suit?

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Oh PUHLEEZE Paul, he only likes little boys...
 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 04-09-2005, 04:00 AM:
 
The new Wonder Woman movie, starring Phil Hill.


 

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Posted by Sam Graham (Member # 2889) on 04-09-2005, 08:36 PM:
 
(DISCLAIMER: This is not a photo tour, which would be a bad thing to post here because the Upload policy says so.)

Two images I took this morning...



This is the all new Wallace Hollywood 14 in Topeka, Kansas. It is located at The Shops at Riverhill development.



Now, if only they could build some actual SHOPS...
 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 04-09-2005, 09:00 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 04-09-2005, 09:10 PM:
 
Not exactly a "matched pair" is that Phil......
 

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Posted by Jacek Dejnarowicz (Member # 3062) on 04-10-2005, 09:05 AM:
 
The daily routine

 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 04-10-2005, 05:52 PM:
 
Sam, now THAT's some parking!!!
 

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Posted by Brian Michael Weidemann (Member # 2243) on 04-10-2005, 09:45 PM:
 
Yes, these are fairly old. Not only is the north side parking structure, currently under construction, not visible ... but the south side parking structure, COMPLETE for some time now, isn't even a hint of in progress.

Also, the employee parking on the other side of the street (not visible in this shot anyway), is still a field. I'd say this is a year-and-a-half to two years old, if not more.


 

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Posted by Emma Tomiak (Member # 1862) on 04-10-2005, 09:56 PM:
 
Kitteny goodness!


 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 04-10-2005, 10:26 PM:
 
Emma...that is too cute!
 

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Posted by Josh Jones (Member # 447) on 04-11-2005, 08:17 PM:
 
Phil, looks like an Audio Arts R55 console, as someone else said EV RE-20 mic, Some sort of audio vault system?? Phone appeared to be regular PBX, not a gentner.

JJ
 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 04-11-2005, 09:38 PM:
 
Josh, correct on all...


 

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Posted by Wayne Keyser (Member # 2420) on 04-12-2005, 12:12 AM:
 
Phil - WHERE DID YOU PHOTOGRAPH THAT?

Unless I am mistaken (or unless someone has built another) that is one of Kenneth Strickfaden's wonderful movie "mad lab" props. He rented them out of his garage to pictures from BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN all the way up to YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN, but they've been little seen since he died in 1984.

What can you tell us? (Correct me if I'm wrong - it's a semi-spherical mirror … Strickfaden was always cobbling these things together from surplus-store stuff … and the arcs just go from the edge of the opaque center disc straight to the inside surface of the mirror, and it has to be shot exactly straight-on to get the effect)

[ 04-12-2005, 06:46 PM: Message edited by: Wayne Keyser ]
 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 04-12-2005, 09:02 AM:
 



 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 04-12-2005, 05:48 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 04-12-2005, 08:27 PM:
 
Actually Wayne, that's a flat-glass disc capacitor that the HV exceeded it's insulating distance and therefore arced to (and around) the edges of the glass. (Although Ken's had a metal ring around the circumference attached to the opposite pole).

Being an HV nut, I am on many HV/Tesla websites and built a few devices myself.

That pic is NOT from any of Strickfaden's original electrical equipment. He had a name for each of his devices, but I have forgotten them.

I first met Ken when I worked at Panavision and helped him to restore his old electric devices for use in "Young Frankenstein". They were all dusty and dirty and in disrepair. They were stored in his garage and needed much work to be operational again. Mel Brooks was intent in using the original "Frankenstein" equipment for his comedy take-off. Since I loved that kinda stuff, I volunteered.

Years later, there was a special tribute to Ken and his electrical devices at (I think...again I forgot. They say memory is the 2nd thing to go...) the Academy Theatre here in Hollywood. They showed (sections of) "Young Frankenstein" and the original "Frankenstein" followed by a live demo by Ken of his equipment.

Below is a pic of me (in the light-colored shirt) and my son (wearing "Vans" ) in the front row just behind the rope for the demo. It was cool and so was he.



 

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Posted by Scott Norwood (Member # 30) on 04-12-2005, 08:58 PM:
 
You were involved in the production of Young Frankenstein? Very cool!
 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 04-12-2005, 09:17 PM:
 
Working on many big-time films as a behind-the-scenes-flunkie for ABC, Panavision, AstroVision, Iwerks, etc... "I got no screen credit"... since it was not "allowed" by the company. I was there as a corporate consultant and advisor. But, I really did have a lot of fun!

I was thinking someday, I'll make a list of all the films I worked on...
 

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Posted by William Hooper (Member # 71) on 04-13-2005, 03:33 AM:
 
Besides their looking so cool, face it, they're art, that's why they were used in the movies, the thing I've always liked about them is that they're almost all actually doing something functional. The sparky things were rotary & static spark gaps actually hooked up to & part of the big induction coils, etc. It fits in perfectly with the set dressing of stuff that is actually supposed to be doing something. I don't know if it was Strickfaden's, but one of my favorites is in Bride of Frankenstein: they're monitoring a disembodied heart on a huge meter that's straight off the shelf. You can see the manufacturer's name on it.

I never liked the little neon spiral that whirled around. It seemed just silly.
 

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Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 04-13-2005, 05:15 AM:
 
Phil,
Way cool! When you get the list made up be sure to post it over at IMDB.com. You should get some sort of recognition after all.... and you might get more calls......

Mark
 

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Posted by Mark J. Marshall (Member # 1409) on 04-13-2005, 02:38 PM:
 
My brand new (and so far, first and only) nephew, Charles Paul O'Melia, II.


 

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Posted by John Pytlak (Member # 331) on 04-13-2005, 03:48 PM:
 
My father's cousin, Cleveland Indians catcher Frank Pytlak, on the mound with Baseball Hall-of-Fame pitcher Bob Feller (circa 1938):



And catching as Joe Dimaggio bats:


 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 04-13-2005, 05:14 PM:
 
I can see the resemblence... honestly! The Pytlak family must have strong genes that override the others that are introduced, making everyone look similar.

That bottom picture must have been taken before stadiums were invented.
 

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Posted by Scott Norwood (Member # 30) on 04-13-2005, 05:41 PM:
 
Nice pictures, John!
 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 04-13-2005, 05:50 PM:
 
Yeah, John. I agree with Scott. That pic with Dimaggio is really priceless. Very cool!

William: The EFX that bug the heck outta me is the "do-nothing" lights as in that scanning/scintillating board in "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" or the pulsating/pegging milliamp meter array. How stupit!

Since I like neon... even if cheesy...I like it!

Mark: No thanks.
 

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Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 04-13-2005, 07:10 PM:
 

quote:

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My father's cousin, Cleveland Indians catcher Frank Pytlak, on the mound with Baseball Hall-of-Fame pitcher Bob Feller (circa 1938):

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quote: Phil Hill

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Mark: No thanks.

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Phil, Gee, why not ? Nothing wrong with doing that..... we'd all love to know what films you've worked on...... or you could list em here too..... I find it interesting to know who from this site worked on what movie and so on.

Mark
 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 04-13-2005, 07:43 PM:
 
Mark,
That was then, this is now. All that and a buck 50 would buy me a good cup of coffee. I really have no interest in getting back in the biz. I'd much rather loaf and do what "I" want to do. I'm now officially a "Slacker" and enjoying it!

The only "value" to all of that past stuff would be anecdotal...as in my above post. Or things like during the filming of "Jaws" when a Panaflex camera, lens, head, tripod, etc fell into the ocean...it was in shallow water and recovered...but still really funny at that time.

Those types of things of which there are many.

I always tried to get some "souvenir" from most all the pics I was involved with, no matter how small the part. I still have my "Lifeclock" hand crystal from "Logan's Run" ...and YES! It blinked RED a long, LONG time ago!
 

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Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 04-13-2005, 09:39 PM:
 
Yea, I remember Speilberg on a TV talk show way back when telling about how that barge sank and the camera got wet. Also how that magazine was hand carried in a bucket of water on a plane flight back to the lab in hollywood for processing. Would they allow that today....? Panaflex magazines are probably on the list of hazardous materials not allowed on plane flights any more. Perhaps he better stay near "west coast" water in the future..... Anyway its fun to hear these stories from you once on a while . I can't blame you for wanting to slack off. We have too many slackers at work that I have to tow the load for..... so I know all about slackers .

Mark
 

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Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 04-13-2005, 09:51 PM:
 

quote: Phil Hill

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I still have my "Lifeclock" hand crystal from "Logan's Run"

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quote: Joe Redifer

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That bottom picture must have been taken before stadiums were invented....

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quote:

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Logan's Run" ...and YES! It blinked RED a long, LONG time ago!

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"Question" - is it true that they shot most of "Logan's Run" in a closed down mall in Dallas?
"Question" - since you're lifeclock long since expired, you've must have survive carrousel then. What was your secret in surviving carrousel?

-Monte
 

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Posted by Emma Tomiak (Member # 1862) on 04-14-2005, 12:47 AM:
 
Part of "Logan's Run" was filmed at the Fort Worth Water Gardens, specifically the active pool:

 

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Posted by Scott Norwood (Member # 30) on 04-14-2005, 07:34 AM:
 
Phil -- you really should write a book or article about some of those experiences working on some great films. I'd buy it.

I used to think that I would enjoy getting into the production end of the film business. That was before I found out how many highly talented people end up spending their lives making television commercials and B-grade movies. Some people might enjoy that, but I think I'd go insane.

I've enjoyed being involved with film festivals, but it really is depressing in a way. The few great films usually never get distributed and the majority of films that get shown are crap and are a huge waste of time and money on the part of not-very-talented filmmakers.
 

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Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 04-14-2005, 08:16 AM:
 

quote: Emma Tomiak

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Part of "Logan's Run" was filmed at the Fort Worth Water Gardens

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That's one of my all-time favorite pictures. My son got his middle name from the title character.


 

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Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 04-14-2005, 08:37 AM:
 
Scott, Perhaps if all of us here prod him a bit...... we can get it sentence by sentence....

quote: Phil Hill

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I was at Panavison in early 1974 until late 1979.

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Could we add an "I was at Iwerks from ???? to ????...... ?

Well, he does claim that he IS slacking around most of the time so I donno about this ever happenning......

Mark
 

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Posted by Monte L Fullmer (Member # 2797) on 04-14-2005, 02:15 PM:
 
I have a great experience with "Logan's Run" when it came out in 1976:

That summer is when this movie came out and I was living in SLC. The Centre theatre downtown was having a special premiere screen that Thursday night before regular engagement. To be admitted to that screening, one would have to head on down to "Stereo Warehouse"-a HiFi shop and get your "LifeClock" ticket, which was a stick-on of the jewel that you place in the palm of your hand. You showed your lifeclock and you were in the doors.

Place pretty well filled up and the presentation of "Logan's Run", which was presented in 70mm. This place had Bauers(can't remember the model no.) and Futura II's...and a FLAT screen-not curved like the Villa on Highland Dr.

Yep, Logan 5, Jessica 6, and Francis 2 lives on.

-Monte
 

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Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 04-14-2005, 03:58 PM:
 
That's pretty cool, Monte.

Btw, it was Francis 7.
 

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Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 04-14-2005, 06:58 PM:
 

quote: Monte L Fullmer

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This place had Bauers(can't remember the model no.) and Futura II's...and a FLAT screen-not curved like the Villa on Highland Dr.

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The Centre had Bauer U-2s on Bauer bases, not on the NTS bases. The Highland drive in in SLC also had Bauer U-2's but never ran any 70mm. ONe of my co-workers was the operator there for many years.

Mark
 

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Posted by Christian Volpi (Member # 2370) on 04-14-2005, 07:12 PM:
 


This is me (the good looking guy in the front row on the far right) with Motley Crue in Omaha on Tuesday night. A good friend of mine works for Z-92 and was able to hook up with free tickets and a back stage pass!
 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 04-15-2005, 04:12 AM:
 
To be honest, "Logan's Run" was not one of my favorite pics... just like I thought "Wild in the Streets" sucked. I have yet to see "Logan's Run" in a theatre. I'm just not interested... it's not even on my DVD list. It's one of those "OK, I'll watch it on DirecTV" films.

Perhaps it may have been the fact that at that time I was in my 20's with 30 not all that far away is why I didn't like the premise of those films. Just thought it was a stupid re-hash of an old and redone many-times premise. New sets, time, etc...but SOS. (Sorry Tim, but...)

Interesting about the give away for the tickets/crystals...being in the production side of things, I had no clue about those promotions.

During the filming at the MGM stages (If I remember the studio/lot right), those crystals were ALL over the stage floors... just for the "taking"...

The only thing that sticks out in my mind about the sets was how physically small the "carousel" was....it was like 15 ft in diameter but look much bigger in the film.

Mark: I was at Iwerks from early 1989 until late 2001.
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 04-15-2005, 04:23 AM:
 
Why do people who enjoy metal always make those little "devil horns" hand gestures? Don't they realize how freakin' lame they look? Anyone who does that is a poser. I can easily enjoy metal without the [word removed by forum filter] hand gestures!
 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 04-15-2005, 04:34 AM:
 
Joe, they are making the "phone" hand-signal saying to call them for phone sex.

BTW: Who's the QT in the 1st row on the far left? hhot!
 

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Posted by Jennifer Pan (Member # 2035) on 04-15-2005, 04:54 AM:
 
Christian, I like the uploaded picture more than the FT member pic.

People will see more of that similar hand gesture especially coming from Texas Longhorns fans. I never liked those hard core kids in high school always sayings how they are "SO" big fans... And then turning around with a vast amount of "Aggies"(A&M) doing their hand gestures. (College is overrated)

Then again I do admit getting into a hand gesture phase whenever I was at Pep rallies. Representing the '03! I despised underclassmen. The very little school spirit I had, I wish I went to more of the games. Especially the football games during my Freshmen or Sophomore years. My school was actually in the playoffs back then.

[ 04-15-2005, 01:59 PM: Message edited by: Jennifer Pan ]
 

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Posted by Monte L Fullmer (Member # 2797) on 04-15-2005, 05:00 AM:
 

quote:

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The Centre had Bauer U-2s on Bauer bases,

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...like this one below?



thx-Monte
 

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Posted by Christian Volpi (Member # 2370) on 04-15-2005, 01:34 PM:
 

quote: Joe Redifer

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Anyone who does that is a poser.

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quote: Jennifer Pan

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Christian, I like the uploaded picture more than the FT member pic.

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quote: Christian Volpi

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Yet another positive comment brought to you by Joe.

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Yes, and truthful as well!
 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 04-15-2005, 05:17 PM:
 





 

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Posted by Chris Brown (Member # 2800) on 04-15-2005, 07:21 PM:
 
Brad- that last set made my night!
 

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Posted by Alexander Smith (Member # 1769) on 04-15-2005, 07:42 PM:
 
I scanned this in a couple of months ago. Whenever BVI
released "Pooh's Heffalump Movie" here in the UK.

Nobody told BVI that the predominant language is English
in the UK. I understand a little French but not alot of
the vocabulary. If it wasn't about RED LEDs and cyan
tracks I would not have understood it.


 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 04-16-2005, 01:24 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Brian Michael Weidemann (Member # 2243) on 04-16-2005, 02:24 AM:
 
Um, the missing apostrophe?
 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 04-16-2005, 02:59 AM:
 
Nope! Try again.
 

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Posted by Brian Michael Weidemann (Member # 2243) on 04-16-2005, 03:06 AM:
 
Oh, I see it now ... they're in a room that is NOT my bedroom! How could I have missed it?

I came across this a few weeks ago ... I forget the original article, but the photo just needed to be pondered further.

 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 04-16-2005, 03:08 AM:
 
Nope. Try AGAIN!
 

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Posted by Jennifer Pan (Member # 2035) on 04-16-2005, 03:22 AM:
 
The black dude looking all weird at the bottom of the picture!
 

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Posted by Brian Michael Weidemann (Member # 2243) on 04-16-2005, 03:39 AM:
 
Well I'll be darned. I consider myself a pretty perceptive person, but that one slipped right by me. Good one, Jen! I must have been distracted ... by something.
 

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Posted by Jennifer Pan (Member # 2035) on 04-16-2005, 04:06 AM:
 
Brian are those handcuffs on Mr. M&M or is that *Bling Bling*?
 

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Posted by Brian Michael Weidemann (Member # 2243) on 04-16-2005, 04:08 AM:
 
I'm pretty sure it's just the cape fastener. That's a lot of peanut M&M to secure a cape around.



This one is regarding the new line of Mr. Potato Head "Vader" edition toy attachment things. It's all about Darth Potato Head Tights!
 

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Posted by John Pytlak (Member # 331) on 04-17-2005, 10:32 AM:
 
Another baseball-themed Pytlak picture: My Dad had several full-frame close-ups as a cheering fan in the 1984 feature "The Natural". Look for him in the climatic scenes during the final playoff game against Pittsburgh. This clip is just before Robert Redford hits the home run into the exploding stadium lights that wins the game.

He was 78 years old when these scenes were shot at the old War Memorial baseball stadium ("The Rock Pile") in Buffalo NY.


 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 04-17-2005, 06:28 PM:
 
Very interesting, John. Also, that pic looks like you pointed a camera at a TV and took the pic. True?
 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 04-17-2005, 06:35 PM:
 
And all this time I thought that he was Jimmy Durante...


 

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Posted by John Pytlak (Member # 331) on 04-17-2005, 08:14 PM:
 

quote: Joe Redifer

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Very interesting, John. Also, that pic looks like you pointed a camera at a TV and took the pic. True?

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Yep. I don't have video capture software on my home system.

Phil: Yes, Jimmy Durante (the "Schnozz") must be in our family tree.

 

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Posted by William Hooper (Member # 71) on 04-18-2005, 02:01 AM:
 
What kind of format was this? Did Phil Hill do this one?


 

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Posted by Mark Lensenmayer (Member # 134) on 04-18-2005, 10:36 AM:
 
I think I saw a presentation at the Cleanerama one time. It must have been a roadshow film, as it was in two parts with an intermission. First part was really wet, sort of like being underwater. The second act was hot and dry, Reminding me of Lawrence of Arabia.

All I remember was that it was very very repetitious.
 

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Posted by Wayne Keyser (Member # 2420) on 04-18-2005, 05:42 PM:
 
I know a few things about Cleanerama -

All prints produced by wet-gate optical printing, all films rated "G" and THEN edited for offensive content by "CleanFlicks" (the maker of re-edited dvds for "family viewing"), all theaters thoroughly vacuumed and the carpets steamed between each showing, and - finally - all prints treated with FilmGuard!
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 04-18-2005, 07:41 PM:
 
The latest ads from SMART advertising their cinema products:






 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 04-18-2005, 09:32 PM:
 
Oh geez, Smart is STILL trying to sell sound products based upon sex??? Now they've gone and thrown guns and leather in there too. This is really sad.

(Or is this a Joe Redifer joke based upon their old ads?)
 

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Posted by Steve Guttag (Member # 268) on 04-18-2005, 10:35 PM:
 
Yeah, don't they know it is more PC to use walkie-talkies instead of guns in all advertising? Sheesh!
 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 04-18-2005, 10:40 PM:
 
It's actually a Joe Joke based on this old ad:

"Think BIG and think SMART!"

 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 04-19-2005, 06:42 AM:
 
Sometimes a small detail can be so distracting!






 

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Posted by Wayne Keyser (Member # 2420) on 04-19-2005, 08:15 AM:
 
Was it ABSOLUTELY necessary to post that?
 

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Posted by Jason Miller (Member # 2341) on 04-19-2005, 08:55 AM:
 
a friend sent this to me...



I know some of these monkeys...
 

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Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 04-19-2005, 09:12 PM:
 
What the hell's on these duck heads?



I've never seen ducks with mohawks. Guess it's the new fashion it takes these days to chase the ladies.
 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 04-19-2005, 09:14 PM:
 
That's hilarious, Bobby... Punk Ducks! Too funny!
 

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Posted by Mark J. Marshall (Member # 1409) on 04-19-2005, 09:57 PM:
 
They must be chiefs.
 

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Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 04-19-2005, 11:31 PM:
 
That photo is not doctored either. I took that this afternoon at Elmer Thomas Park. My reaction was definitely: WTF!?

I'm glad I had my camera. I mainly had it to try to get good photos of baby prairie dogs. There's lots of those little buggers scrambling all over that park.
 

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Posted by Scott Norwood (Member # 30) on 04-21-2005, 06:01 AM:
 
This guy should be the next Dunkin Donuts spokesman (note the coffee cup):


 

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Posted by Ethan Harper (Member # 472) on 04-22-2005, 02:37 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Jennifer Pan (Member # 2035) on 04-22-2005, 02:41 PM:
 
Wow! I look so hot with glasses on! Thanks Ethan. Too bad when I told you to add a gotee you already posted the picture.
 

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Posted by David Stambaugh (Member # 1102) on 04-22-2005, 03:54 PM:
 


Wendy's Chili Finger Lady Arrested

By CHRISTINA ALMEIDA, Associated Press Writer

LAS VEGAS - The woman who claimed she found a finger in a bowl of Wendy's chili has been arrested, the latest twist in a case that has become a late-night punch line and forced the fast-food chain to check its employees for missing digits.

Anna Ayala, 39, was arrested late Thursday at her home outside Las Vegas.

Authorities would not provide details until a news conference Friday afternoon in San Jose, Calif. — the city where Ayala claimed she bit down on the well-manicured, 1 1/2-inch fingertip in a mouthful of her steamy chili on March 22.

Ayala had hired a lawyer and filed a claim against the Wendy's franchise owner, but dropped the lawsuit threat soon after suspicion fell on her.

She was arrested on a warrant alleging grand larceny and attempted grand larceny.

The grand larceny count is not related to the discovery of the fingertip, but the attempted larceny charge is, according to a person knowledgeable about the case who spoke on condition of anonymity.

The charge stemmed from San Jose police interviews with people who said Ayala described putting a finger in the chili, the person said, adding that investigators still did not know where the finger came from. The person said the interviews were with at least two people who did not know each other and independently told similar stories.

Ayala has denied placing the finger in the chili.

"We're thrilled that an arrest has been made," Tom Mueller, president and chief operating officer of Wendy's North America, said in a statement.

During the investigation, police and health officials failed to find any missing digits among the workers involved in the restaurant's supply chain. Wendy's hired private investigators, set up a hot line for tips and offered a $100,000 reward for information leading to the finger's original owner.

The furor caused sales at Wendy's to drop, forcing layoffs and reduced hours in Northern California.

Earlier Thursday, Ohio-based Wendy's announced it had ended its internal investigation, saying it could find no link between the finger and the restaurant chain.

Ayala has a litigious history. She has filed claims against several corporations, though it is unclear whether she received any money. She said she got $30,000 from a Mexican food chain after her 13-year-old daughter got sick at one of the restaurant, but the chain denied it paid her anything.

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Associated Press writers Josh Dubow in San Francisco and Ken Ritter and Joe Cavaretta in Las Vegas contributed to this report.
 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 04-25-2005, 09:16 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Richard Hamilton (Member # 321) on 04-25-2005, 12:41 PM:
 
Brad,
That is too funny!!!!
Everyone knows that 50 Grams = 1.76 Oz

What a bunch of dumbasses!!!
 

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Posted by Christian Volpi (Member # 2370) on 04-25-2005, 12:44 PM:
 
Spicy Jamaican Cock...sounds like a porno title.
 

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Posted by Adam Wilbert (Member # 1184) on 04-25-2005, 06:44 PM:
 
Being from Jamaica, wouldn't that make it Jerked Cock?
 

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Posted by Mark Ogden (Member # 43) on 04-26-2005, 06:53 PM:
 
Never a doubt . . .


 

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Posted by Adam Wilbert (Member # 1184) on 04-27-2005, 06:28 PM:
 
I took this while doing some thesis research on Whidbey Island. The patchy cloud coverage was absolutely amazing!


 

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Posted by Mike Heenan (Member # 392) on 04-30-2005, 12:41 AM:
 




Britney Spears exiting the salon next to our theater just a few hours ago... we had fun, she came out the back entrance while her hair was all messed up with the foil thingies, look for those photos in the next Enquirer I'm sure!
 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 05-03-2005, 11:28 AM:
 



 

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Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 05-03-2005, 12:11 PM:
 
I like those pictures of Britney. Her maternal glow is showing through her usual ditziness and sluttiness.

Seriously, why does the press have to follow her around whenever she so much as takes a crap? I just don't get it.
 

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Posted by Mike Heenan (Member # 392) on 05-03-2005, 09:28 PM:
 
She looked really really good I was surprised. Yeah the paparazzi fellows were a hoot to watch, having finally seen them in action, I can't understand it either.
 

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Posted by Sam Graham (Member # 2889) on 05-10-2005, 07:33 PM:
 
While I was posting this, my wife walked by and saw Brad's "Blonde" post. Her thought: "I don't get it."



I might have eaten here, but the owner's such an ass...
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 05-10-2005, 09:04 PM:
 
WTF is a gyro? I don't think I would feel comfortable eating a gyroscope.
 

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Posted by Brian Michael Weidemann (Member # 2243) on 05-11-2005, 06:48 PM:
 
Don't get out much, do you Joe?
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 05-11-2005, 07:20 PM:
 
I don't get out to the parts of the country which have things called "Gyros". I assume you can only find gyros in Hicksville or trailer parks (and surrounding areas).
 

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Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 05-11-2005, 08:47 PM:
 
Joe, You will find GYROS where there are Greeks. And there are Greeks in Denver..... Nasty looking stuff while its on the spit cooking if you ask me... lots-o-grease dripping out and stuff . I won't eat it. It HAS to be bad for you......

Mark
 

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Posted by Rachel Gilardi (Member # 1016) on 05-11-2005, 08:55 PM:
 
Gyros are yummy! And for the record, I live no where near hicksville! Gyros are also found anywhere there are Italians, and where I'm from there are many MANY Italians.

I've seen Gyros where I live now in MA, where I used to live in MA (complete other side of the state), and I also saw them out in WI. They're around.
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 05-11-2005, 09:17 PM:
 
So what is a gyro?
 

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Posted by Adam Wilbert (Member # 1184) on 05-11-2005, 09:45 PM:
 


meat + salad stuff + pita bread
 

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Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 05-11-2005, 10:02 PM:
 
If you saw the meat-a-cookn away no one here would even go near it...... Come to think of it this might not be meat.... but it does resemble Soylent Green somewhat.
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 05-11-2005, 10:43 PM:
 
That looks freakin' nasty. I do not approve.
 

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Posted by Brian Michael Weidemann (Member # 2243) on 05-11-2005, 10:43 PM:
 
Meat + salad stuff + pita bread ... known to most other Americans as a "[Whatever] Wrap®". Fancy names will just confuse us.

Now, it's this "Phillies" thing that gets me ... it's got to be some horse meat something, right? haha

I'd be weary just eating at a place with its mascot being the backside of a claymation gorilla.
 

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Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 05-12-2005, 01:15 AM:
 
Hey, Gyros (YEH-ros) are great! You can find them in little hick towns like New York, Boston, and Chicago.

I lika de sauce!
 

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Posted by William Hooper (Member # 71) on 05-12-2005, 02:13 AM:
 
Mmmmm, & where there are gyros, there's baklava!

quote: Tim Reed

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You can find them in little hick towns like New York, Boston, and Chicago.

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And in New Orleans at a restaurant off Canal Street which is one of my favorite places with thought-provoking signs: Dixie Gyros
 

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Posted by Floyd Justin Newton (Member # 1316) on 05-12-2005, 10:22 AM:
 
William... now, THAT's the PERFECT COMBO!!
 

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Posted by Christian Volpi (Member # 2370) on 05-12-2005, 10:43 AM:
 
Gyro meat is lamb. Il Forno's on South Wabash in Chicago has the best Gyro's!
 

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Posted by Jeremy Fuentes (Member # 2135) on 05-12-2005, 10:47 AM:
 
I think these are used for Gyros...what the hell are they??


 

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Posted by Mike Olpin (Member # 1115) on 05-12-2005, 04:45 PM:
 
I'm not so much worried about their Gyros as I am their Phillies. I mean eating people is just sick.
 

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Posted by Mark J. Marshall (Member # 1409) on 05-12-2005, 10:05 PM:
 
That picture doesn't compute.
 

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Posted by Joshua Waaland (Member # 287) on 05-12-2005, 11:21 PM:
 
My parents own a concession stand that they take to nearby city festivals and county fairs in the summer. One summer when I was working in it, my dad made friends with another concessionaire who was Greek and had a Gyro stand. He said the proper way to pronounce it is "hero". It sounds nothing like it is spelled. So there ya go.

They are really good if made correctly and really bad if not. The Greek guy's gyros were the best I have ever had to this day. Most places use watered down cucumber sauce (the white sauce that is on it) or cook the lamb way too long. Then it is dry and has no flavor. The secret is fresh cold vegetables, soft bread, good creamy cucumber sauce and moist cooked lamb. Anything else will taste like shoe leather.

We got so hooked on them that when we got to a new festival I always made sure to find his stand and we had a steady diet of them all week.
 

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Posted by Bernard Acero (Member # 3102) on 05-12-2005, 11:50 PM:
 


Star Wars Episode 3 Screening May 3, 2005
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 05-13-2005, 12:18 AM:
 
Why have you not reviewed it in the reviews forum? Please do. You even got to see it before the legendary Brad Miller (who does not have the POWER to see the movie this early). Brad is jealous. You should use this against him somehow and take over Film-Tech.
 

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Posted by Gordon McLeod (Member # 33) on 05-13-2005, 11:57 AM:
 
The sauce is called tzatziki and here is a receipe for it though i prefer it with a bit more garlic
Tzatziki Sauce
Yogurt Cucumber Sauce
2 Small Cucumbers, Peeled, Seeded & Diced
1 1/4 cup Yogurt
2 Tbls Olive oil
Juice of 1 lemon
4 Garlic cloves, minced
1 Tbls Fresh dill, chopped
White pepper
Salt



1) Combine yogurt, olive oil, lemon juice, garlic and pepper in a bowl. Cover and refrigerate for one hour.

2) Blend yogurt mixture with a whip until smooth.

3) Dry cucumbers by patting with paper towels.

4) Add Cucumbers and dill to yogurt mixture.

4) Salt and pepper to taste.

5) Serve with Gyros or as a dipping sauce.
 

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Posted by Bernard Acero (Member # 3102) on 05-14-2005, 02:42 AM:
 
I REALLY wanted to, but I didn't wan't to give away too much and possibly ruin the movie for someone else.
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 05-14-2005, 02:43 AM:
 
Review it anyway. It's not like any of us are gonna see it.
 

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Posted by William Hooper (Member # 71) on 05-16-2005, 02:37 AM:
 
Well, I finally got around to cleaning up the shop, as the "After" picture below shows!



It really wasn't *that* messy before, but someone made the "How do you walk in here?" crack, so I decided to tidy up. It was probably just the usual sort of busy shop look you usually see, but I guess I got guilted out. Here are the "Before" pictures:




 

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Posted by Floyd Justin Newton (Member # 1316) on 05-16-2005, 08:39 AM:
 
William--

Wouldn't it be easier to have the shop condemed !
 

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Posted by Kyle McEachern (Member # 2250) on 05-16-2005, 11:18 AM:
 
Am I the only one who thought that the first picture was the "before" picture before scrolling down and seeing the wasteland that is the ACTUAL "before" pictures?
 

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Posted by Jason Miller (Member # 2341) on 05-16-2005, 05:05 PM:
 
It looks like the ceiling caved in... was there a tornado? or do you have ferrets that trash your place as well?
 

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Posted by William Hooper (Member # 71) on 05-17-2005, 02:11 AM:
 
Well, there *is* a big hole in the floor that is convenient when cleaning up.

We don't have ferrets in coastal areas, we have nutria, an incredibly prolific invasive species.

Say 'Hi!', Mr. Nutria!



Or rather, we have nutria for now, since they will probably soon be hunted to brink of extinction like the redfish, as the state of Louisiana has discovered that the solution to the nutria population problem is to tell people to Eat Mo' Nutria.
 

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Posted by Michael Schaffer (Member # 1204) on 05-17-2005, 04:22 AM:
 

quote: Joshua Waaland

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He said the proper way to pronounce it is "hero". It sounds nothing like it is spelled. So there ya go.

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quote:

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Well, I finally got around to cleaning up the shop, as the "After" picture below shows!

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quote: Anslem Rayburn

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If the grease is dripping off of it, then their is not much grease left on it, right?!? I wouldn't eat a gyro every day, but they are a nice treat once in a while.

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Thhats one of my main dislikes about them.... no grease.... the meat seems strange without it. Anyway, one needs at least some grease on that sort of thing so it makes it all the way through with out that dreaded clogging effect .

Mark
 

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Posted by William Hooper (Member # 71) on 05-18-2005, 12:22 AM:
 

quote: Michael Schaffer

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are nutrias very nutritious?

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quote: Monte L Fullmer

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What did you do with those two AMPEX PR-10's transports in that second picture that are mounted on that rack?

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quote: Monte L Fullmer

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What is that transport on the floor that I couldn't see the front of?

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The thing that looks like an old rack-mount cart deck, or the thing that looks like an old Ampex 350 with the head guards off?
 

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Posted by Jennifer Pan (Member # 2035) on 05-23-2005, 03:11 AM:
 
(Preparing for the WAR) At a birthday party last weekend, went to the neighborhood park/jungle gym and ran around shooting each other. BB guns are awesome, I got shot on the forehead... that was pretty sweet. I was armed with a rifle and a hand gun in my back pocket... they couldn't see that coming... I really want to try paint balling someday though.



We played in teams of 3 and 1 person was keeping score of who was taking over the goal base. The timer would be set at 5 minutes and the goal was for at least one team member to make it to the base without getting hit. If they did get hit they would have to go back to their original teams station and then try to get to the goal again. There was also a reload station where we weren't allowed to shoot anyone who was reloading.

An extremely fun game and a really nice workout. Too bad some little kids kept getting on the jungle gym. Even though we could have scared them off by shooting at them but their parents were there...
 

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Posted by Monte L Fullmer (Member # 2797) on 05-23-2005, 03:51 AM:
 

quote: William Hooper

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the thing that looks like an old Ampex 350 with the head guards off?

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quote: Michael Schaffer

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This may come as a shocking revelation: some people in other parts of the world actually speak different languages which are spelled differently and sometimes, like in this case, even use different letters.

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Well, if the populations of some less enlightened nations will insist on using non-standard and inefficient languages, I guess they're entitled to make life difficult for themselves. There are a few obsessives around who still manufacture their own 9.5mm film stock, too.
 

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Posted by Alan Dallas (Member # 2537) on 05-23-2005, 07:32 AM:
 
Jennifer I sure hope you guys at least used Eye Protection if yer blastin each other with the Plastic pellet BB guns. "You'll Shoot your eye out!!"

BTW, if memory serves there are some Paint ball ranges up here in the Prescott area if you feel like driving up here out of the Valley of the Sun. Common up, I'll give ya tour of my booth.
 

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Posted by Christian Volpi (Member # 2370) on 05-23-2005, 10:28 AM:
 
**WARNING** THE FOLLOWING IMAGE MAY BE GRAPHIC TO SOME VIEWERS!

Is this real or photoshopped??

The story goes that this guy wiped out on his motorcycle and landed on an old wooden fence post.

CLICK TO VIEW

[ 05-23-2005, 05:46 PM: Message edited by: Joe Redifer ]
 

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Posted by Jennifer Pan (Member # 2035) on 05-23-2005, 10:43 AM:
 
Alan, some of us did use some type of eye protection. But I wasn't fortunate to have any. In the event of when I do go paint balling I'll definitely get some protection for that.


 

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Posted by Michael Schaffer (Member # 1204) on 05-23-2005, 01:50 PM:
 

quote: Leo Enticknap

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Well, if the populations of some less enlightened nations will insist on using non-standard and inefficient languages, I guess they're entitled to make life difficult for themselves. There are a few obsessives around who still manufacture their own 9.5mm film stock, too.

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Actually, in this particular case, that language is very standard and efficient, because it's Greek which had a massive influence on all other European languages.
But you are very right in principle: Look at the European Union. There are some less enlightened nations which insist on using non-standard and inefficient measurement and monetary systems to make life for themselves and all other more difficult than necessary.
 

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Posted by Jason Black (Member # 684) on 05-23-2005, 08:29 PM:
 
Christian,

That's a real photo. I've seen even worse types of impalement.. nasty stuff, no matter how you look at it...

Jen,
Please... WEAR EYE protection when shooting BB guns. Air rifles,of any sort, can be deadly, especially when there are multiple persons involved in a 'playtime' sport. I'd hate to hear that you are unable to persue your love of art because you can no longer see out of your left eye... or that you can't hear due to having a BB rupture your eardrum...

Get out into Paintball.. it's much more fun... just wear the proper headgear/eay protection and call it a day..
 

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Posted by Lee Michael Breese (Member # 3056) on 05-25-2005, 04:00 AM:
 
Jason what kinda gun do you shoot in Paintball? And yes eye protection is a must for people playing paintball or airsoft. I use to ref at a field for a long time and tell people the effects of getting shot in the eye by a paintball was the same as getting stabed in the eye by a hot needle.



This one always makes me laugh.
 

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Posted by Jason M Miller (Member # 2597) on 05-25-2005, 09:32 AM:
 
This is a picture I took out side of the theater I work at.


 

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Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 05-26-2005, 11:32 PM:
 

quote: Leo Enticknap

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There are a few obsessives around who still manufacture their own 9.5mm film stock, too.

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Hahaha!!
 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 05-27-2005, 12:37 PM:
 
Repent ye sinners!





Nasty clouds in Joplin, MO on Wednesday. Can you tell I'm already working on visuals for my weather class in the fall? Some other really wierd clouds from the same system here:

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1568989

http://www.ksntv.com/news/coolwxpics/default.asp
 

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Posted by Jeremy Jorgenson (Member # 2989) on 05-27-2005, 01:08 PM:
 

quote: Michael Schaffer

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There are some less enlightened nations which insist on using non-standard and inefficient measurement and monetary systems to make life for themselves and all other more difficult than necessary.

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awesome.
 

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Posted by Dan Lyons (Member # 1454) on 05-27-2005, 08:26 PM:
 
1946 Cyan track

 

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Posted by Floyd Justin Newton (Member # 1316) on 05-27-2005, 08:57 PM:
 
Dan-

I remember those days very well.
 

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Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 05-29-2005, 01:25 AM:
 

quote: Paul Mayer

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Repent ye sinners!

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Paul, you're great!
 

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Posted by Jason Miller (Member # 2341) on 05-29-2005, 04:19 AM:
 

quote:

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Nasty clouds in Joplin, MO on Wednesday. Can you tell I'm already working on visuals for my weather class in the fall? Some other really wierd clouds from the same system here:

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wow... I was actually supposed to drive through that but instead went to Austin by plane. I kinda wish I coulda seen it.
 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 05-29-2005, 10:30 PM:
 
Today's FoxTrot:


 

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Posted by William Hooper (Member # 71) on 05-30-2005, 07:42 AM:
 
Before there was Film Guard in the booth, there was....


 

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Posted by Adam Martin (Member # 641) on 05-30-2005, 06:27 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Mike Williams (Member # 1140) on 05-31-2005, 05:28 AM:
 


 

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Posted by Floyd Justin Newton (Member # 1316) on 05-31-2005, 01:31 PM:
 
Uh..........
 

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Posted by Jeremy Jorgenson (Member # 2989) on 06-01-2005, 12:02 AM:
 
Sharapova gets attention for her serve, right?


 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 06-01-2005, 11:23 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Adam Wilbert (Member # 1184) on 06-01-2005, 11:47 PM:
 
Get it while its hot:


Too Late..

 

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Posted by William Hooper (Member # 71) on 06-02-2005, 01:56 AM:
 
Woo hoo! The trucking company just delivered the new equipment for the new install to the site!




 

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Posted by Mark J. Marshall (Member # 1409) on 06-02-2005, 12:07 PM:
 
That's great, Randy
 

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Posted by German Marin (Member # 918) on 06-02-2005, 01:03 PM:
 
This is the balcony of Juliet in Verona, Italy (Romeo and Juliet).

German.
 

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Posted by Mark J. Marshall (Member # 1409) on 06-02-2005, 03:42 PM:
 
An underwater nuclear test. I'm not sure if I'd want to be on that boat or not.


 

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Posted by Floyd Justin Newton (Member # 1316) on 06-02-2005, 04:36 PM:
 
PITY the poor fish!
 

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Posted by Adam Wilbert (Member # 1184) on 06-02-2005, 08:15 PM:
 
if you're interested in test photos, I highly recommend the book 100 Suns by Michael Light.


 

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Posted by William Hooper (Member # 71) on 06-03-2005, 12:44 AM:
 
Having taken this photo for later study, I have ascertained that the flambeau is made from a cheese grater.
I'm can't figure out anything else in the picture, though.


 

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Posted by Bernard Tonks (Member # 809) on 06-03-2005, 04:32 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Jennifer Pan (Member # 2035) on 06-03-2005, 11:19 AM:
 
Oh man, that was awesome! I needed a good laugh.
 

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Posted by Mike Williams (Member # 1140) on 06-03-2005, 03:52 PM:
 
This would be a good one for theaters that have bathrooms up in the booth....

 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 06-03-2005, 04:22 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 06-03-2005, 05:46 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 06-03-2005, 08:58 PM:
 
Where's that, Phil?
 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 06-03-2005, 10:22 PM:
 
It's just ahead. On the left.
 

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Posted by Mark J. Marshall (Member # 1409) on 06-03-2005, 11:01 PM:
 
That's funny... I saw that exact bumper sticker yesterday. The "Dirty Dick's" one that is.
 

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Posted by Mark Lensenmayer (Member # 134) on 06-04-2005, 07:55 PM:
 
Dirty Dick's Crab House Online

quote:

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If you are ready for the meal of a lifetime, visit our award winning (Taste of the Beach - People's Choice Award - 2nd Year in a Row) restaurant in Kill Devil Hills (ByPass at Mile Post 9.5) or south in Avon (Avon Pier area) or our Virginia Beach location at Rudee Inlet. The new Panama City location has seating for 325 -- indoor seating and outdoor seating with smoking. We accommodate large groups and feature kids menus. At Dirty Dick's Crab House, we are all about fun -- the only serious thing here is our food -- we make ALL soups, dressings, sauces and just about everything in-house daily. Check out our Menu for mouth-watering items served at each location and our Carry-Out Menu to take home some Dirty Dicks for take out. Please call ahead for large orders.

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 06-06-2005, 04:30 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 06-06-2005, 06:39 PM:
 
The sign said, "if you haven't eaten it, please don't drop it down the tube." So what do we do with the used toilet paper? Throw it in the garbage can?

 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 06-06-2005, 07:07 PM:
 
Maybe they expect for you to eat some toilet paper after your meal as a chaser.
 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 06-06-2005, 08:25 PM:
 


WXYZ-TV Channel 7 Detroit

More on Soupy & channel 7 .
 

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Posted by Kenneth Wuepper (Member # 1174) on 06-06-2005, 08:41 PM:
 
Phil,

Is that you there with Soupy?

I was across the street at LIT 58-60 in the shadow of the CH 7 tower.

KEN
 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 06-06-2005, 09:03 PM:
 
OMG Ken... small world. I got my EE & BA from LIT. Ummm.... MUCH later then when you were there...

I worked with Soupy in his later shows. That is an old pic of him with Clyde Adler that played "White Fang" and "Black Tooth". He also did "Pookey", etc. Those guys were crazy and a lot of fun to work with.

BTW: That tower was 1070 ft tall. A thousand feet of tower with an internal "open-frame" 2-man elevator and a 70 ft antenna mast on top.

Being the dumbass 20 y/o I was and willing to try MOST anything, I used to con the maintenance guys into a ride up the tower. It was a lot of fun until one time the elevator control failed and it took almost 4 hours to get down! HA!

You could only go up there if the wind was not excessive... If the tower swayed less than 20ft side to side at the top, it was OK... YIKES!
 

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Posted by William Hooper (Member # 71) on 06-07-2005, 01:23 AM:
 
Scoot over, lemme show you how to drive this streetcar.


 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 06-07-2005, 03:30 PM:
 
Hot or not?



I think not. Somebody please feed her! (The one in the foreground, that is.)
 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 06-07-2005, 03:33 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 06-07-2005, 03:46 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Josh Jones (Member # 447) on 06-07-2005, 05:54 PM:
 
ROFL!! Thats Awesome
 

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Posted by Kenneth Wuepper (Member # 1174) on 06-07-2005, 09:12 PM:
 
Phil,
Did you get to work with the bread boards with the tip jacks in the EE Electronics lab? I built them when I was there. Also built the screen room for low level audio measurements because we were so close to the big transmitters.

We also had an old 1KW AM Broadcast rig there which made 3 500 watt bulbs glow pretty well as a dummy load. That stuf was mostly for the night classes of the Technical Institute. Arthur Hart was the man I worked for and he was head of the Technical Institute Electronic programs.

KEN
 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 06-08-2005, 04:17 AM:
 
Ken,
I don't specifically remember those breadboards or transmitter. I was a full-time day student... I worked after classes at WXYZ-TV and WLDM-FM. I do remember the screened room. I have 7 "precious" memories of LIT:

1) My Physics instructor... A Hungarian (Mr. Ernaman?) guy that used to always say "cent-ta-pedal" when he meant "centripetal" force. (It took me 3 weeks to figure that one out!)

2) Mr. Knowles, my chemistry/physics instructor that was demonstrating static electricity by stroking a very old rabbit pelt on a big black plastic rod. When it shed and the hairs stuck to the rod his comment was: "Look at my hairy black rod"! Of course we all laughed at his naive comment! Hahahahaha

3) Many hours of Fortran programming on the IBM 1620 (I think that was the one)

4) My HATRED of calculus!

5) My being president of the Ham Radio Club and building up the membership and equipment and working "Field Day".

6) My putting on film shows at lunchtime for the whole school using my own equipment.

7) My selling the winning ticket for the grand prize...a car... for the LIT fair.

BTW: At the risk of pissing off Manny, my film degree is from UCLA...
 

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Posted by Matthew Peters (Member # 1495) on 06-08-2005, 06:13 AM:
 
Fortran! gee you must be old
 

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Posted by Jonathan Worthing (Member # 803) on 06-08-2005, 06:18 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 06-08-2005, 03:21 PM:
 
Hot tip Matthew: I am.

We even used Hollerith Punch Cards to enter the programs.


 

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Posted by Richard Hamilton (Member # 321) on 06-08-2005, 04:01 PM:
 
shit Phil, your as old as my dad!!! I remember going to his office on the weekends and playing with those cards!
 

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Posted by John Walsh (Member # 168) on 06-08-2005, 04:26 PM:
 
I feel old, too.... I used the same punch cards for BASIC programming. Had to wait my turn to have the cards loaded, the program run, and results returned. Turn-around time was three days, so if you made a dumb mistake, you found out three days later. I remember how happy I was when we got 'modern' ACSII -paper tape punch/readers. Raise your hand if you remember the 'Kansas City' standard.
 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 06-08-2005, 06:15 PM:
 
What's wrong with this picture?


 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 06-08-2005, 06:16 PM:
 
Oh yeah...Phil should totally do his hair up like this.


 

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Posted by Roger Manning Jr (Member # 1560) on 06-08-2005, 07:39 PM:
 
Well it looks like #456 has his boy's out for a walk!
 

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Posted by Dan Lyons (Member # 1454) on 06-09-2005, 01:06 AM:
 
Hot.
I never knew that runners don't wear underthings
 

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Posted by Jonathan Worthing (Member # 803) on 06-09-2005, 06:42 AM:
 


Not that Starwars fans would have any use for it.

& someone who did not need it.

 

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Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 06-09-2005, 10:16 AM:
 

quote:

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& someone who did not need it.

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...and probably couldn't afford it after paying the insurance premium and petrol costs for that thing!
 

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Posted by William Hooper (Member # 71) on 06-10-2005, 03:08 AM:
 
Let's stay here! Let's stay here!
STOP, STOP, STOP, let's stay HERE!


 

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Posted by Monte L Fullmer (Member # 2797) on 06-10-2005, 03:56 AM:
 
Disney artists had their fun as well....


 

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Posted by Jonathan Worthing (Member # 803) on 06-10-2005, 06:17 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Adam Martin (Member # 641) on 06-12-2005, 02:14 PM:
 
Interesting uses of video in Hollywood. No audio, but still pretty effective.








 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 06-12-2005, 03:04 PM:
 
So, is this a new form of commando style advertisement where they find some blank wall in a high traffic area, drive up, open up the back of the SUV and fire up the Barco?

It's simultaneously IMpressive and DEpressing!
 

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Posted by Adam Martin (Member # 641) on 06-12-2005, 03:59 PM:
 
The SUV setup looked pretty commando, but the Entertainment Weekly thing was in conjunction with an event being held in the building.
 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 06-12-2005, 04:56 PM:
 
The people who own the buildings are hiring you to do the video, then?

That's not so bad, I guess.
 

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Posted by Jason M Miller (Member # 2597) on 06-12-2005, 05:09 PM:
 
Got a cat? Like your cat? Want to take your cat every where you go?

 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 06-12-2005, 05:33 PM:
 
Looks like it's got a left-hand thread. Doesn't it?
 

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Posted by Josh Jones (Member # 447) on 06-12-2005, 09:11 PM:
 

quote: Dan Lyons

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Hot.
I never knew that runners don't wear underthings

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I never did...

JJ
 

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Posted by Paul J. Neuhaus (Member # 3205) on 06-13-2005, 05:22 PM:
 
This is a one of Sadam's palace's in Iraq. It was his pride and joy until we strategically dropped a JDAM missle onto the back side of it. A JDAM is a 2000 LB bomb!
It is now called the JDAM palace.

 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 06-13-2005, 11:15 PM:
 
Tie a few of these balloons to your bumper and see how well the traffic flows:


 

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Posted by Paul J. Neuhaus (Member # 3205) on 06-13-2005, 11:37 PM:
 
That's one way to deal with tailgaters!!!!!
 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 06-15-2005, 01:49 AM:
 
Not sure who would have a drink here...



BTW: That's our Grand-Poo-BAH leaning on the sign...
 

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Posted by Paul J. Neuhaus (Member # 3205) on 06-16-2005, 12:31 AM:
 
AAAAGGGGGHHHHH!!! Your shorts are burning my eyes !!!
 

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Posted by William Hooper (Member # 71) on 06-16-2005, 01:09 AM:
 
It's those hooligans in the balcony!


 

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Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 06-16-2005, 02:37 PM:
 
Bagging their limit.


 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 06-16-2005, 10:14 PM:
 
Uh huh...



Oh look, the drive-thru is open!

 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 06-16-2005, 10:18 PM:
 
My picture is the most random!


 

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Posted by William Hooper (Member # 71) on 06-17-2005, 03:00 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Brian Michael Weidemann (Member # 2243) on 06-17-2005, 03:38 AM:
 
I don't know about you guys, but I NEVER wear pants when taking pictures of my pets! What's wrong with you pants wearers?

As for the Drive-Thru shot ... I'd veer off the road, too, if I was seduced by "Full-On value"! Wouldn't you? I mean, can anyone resist the temptation?
 

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Posted by John Hegel (Member # 628) on 06-17-2005, 10:25 PM:
 
MMMMM, well done.


 

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Posted by Jeremy Jorgenson (Member # 2989) on 06-18-2005, 07:02 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Paul J. Neuhaus (Member # 3205) on 06-19-2005, 12:28 AM:
 
That stormtroopers a bit confused I'd say!
 

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Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 06-19-2005, 09:45 AM:
 
Apparenly the guys in control of the USS San Fransisco were also a bit confused.......


 

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Posted by Jonathan Worthing (Member # 803) on 06-20-2005, 07:10 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 06-22-2005, 05:06 AM:
 
This one is for Josh and Jason...may you both one day be able to be as freakin' cool as this guy!


 

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Posted by Monte L Fullmer (Member # 2797) on 06-22-2005, 12:30 PM:
 
That's one SERIOUS "Trike" (Mark would love to own that one too..)
 

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Posted by Ethan Harper (Member # 472) on 06-22-2005, 07:10 PM:
 
Was that taken locally? I think I know that guy.
 

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Posted by Josh Jones (Member # 447) on 06-23-2005, 05:44 AM:
 
In front of the Bay Theater in Seal Beach, CA
 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 06-23-2005, 05:02 PM:
 
Speaking of CA... A fantastic sunset over the Pacific Ocean as seen from my balcony.


 

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Posted by Jennifer Pan (Member # 2035) on 06-24-2005, 02:34 AM:
 
That is one amazing view Phil
 

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Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 06-25-2005, 10:26 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 06-25-2005, 04:04 PM:
 
Confucius say: Lady who fly up-side-down in airplane have hairy crack up.
 

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Posted by Mike Heenan (Member # 392) on 06-25-2005, 04:30 PM:
 
Sad but true.


 

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Posted by Dan Lyons (Member # 1454) on 06-25-2005, 10:40 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 06-25-2005, 11:08 PM:
 
OK
 

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Posted by Sam Graham (Member # 2889) on 06-26-2005, 12:04 AM:
 
I am at a complete loss as to why I am laughing so hard at Dan's picture..but I am.
 

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Posted by Edwin Schwing (Member # 1270) on 06-26-2005, 12:44 AM:
 
Is that a great big pot plant in the background???

E
 

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Posted by Allison Parsons (Member # 2728) on 06-26-2005, 02:09 AM:
 
Mike: yes, that is the awful truth unfortunately

Dan: If that was a picture of you taken by Brad, your penis would be secretly hanging out like the other two photo's he's uploaded a few weeks ago.
 

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Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 06-26-2005, 02:27 AM:
 

quote: Mike Heenan

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Sad but true.

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Looks like a Photoshop job to me.
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 06-26-2005, 03:26 AM:
 
It is obviously a Photoshop job, and a very bad one. Look how huge those "scan lines" are!
 

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Posted by Mark Hajducki (Member # 1732) on 06-26-2005, 06:52 AM:
 
found on another forum

 

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Posted by Mike Heenan (Member # 392) on 06-26-2005, 10:18 AM:
 
Yeah it is a photoshop job, obviously, it's meant as a joke of course but it's the truth when you think about it!
 

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Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 06-26-2005, 10:20 AM:
 
Okay. I guess we don't get the joke, then.
 

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Posted by Mike Heenan (Member # 392) on 06-26-2005, 10:27 AM:
 
Well one other person did so that's good enough for me.
 

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Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 06-26-2005, 11:17 AM:
 
That guy manning the fire truck in the lower right is about to be a VERY busy fireman!



F-16 mishap at Mountain Home AFB Air Show.
 

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Posted by Michael Schaffer (Member # 1204) on 06-26-2005, 01:11 PM:
 

quote: Mark Gulbrandsen

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F-16 mishap at Mountain Home AFB Air Show.

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Maybe the USAF should get themselves some good old reliable MIGs.
 

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Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 06-26-2005, 03:51 PM:
 
MIchael,
You mean like this reliable MIG 29 crashing into the ground at the Paris Air Show? The pilots chute doesn't seem to be working too good though.....

Mark


 

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Posted by Mike Olpin (Member # 1115) on 06-27-2005, 12:27 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 06-27-2005, 12:46 AM:
 
Is that supposed to be a shrug, or are you holding the boobies of your two imaginary girlfriends which are next to you?
 

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Posted by William Hooper (Member # 71) on 06-27-2005, 03:29 AM:
 

quote: Michael Schaffer

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Maybe the USAF should get themselves some good old reliable MIGs.

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To weld that thing back together again?

Dan Lyons' new picture should be on the sleeve of any re-release of that Ashford & Simpson song that Ray Charles recorded.
 

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Posted by Dieter Depypere (Member # 3184) on 06-27-2005, 04:21 AM:
 
For some of you these might be the perfect panties



just kidding
 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 06-27-2005, 09:20 PM:
 
From 25 ft. with a Glock 9mm.

There's 30 rounds in there somewhere. None of them went off the paper.

The "3 Ring" is just a little bit bigger than a CD. The black circle in the center is the same size as the clear part in the center of a CD.


 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 06-27-2005, 11:23 PM:
 
Don't Glocks misfire quite a lot? Bad choice of weapon. While you're busy dealing with the new hole in your leg when your Glock went off, I'm gettin' ready to go Feng Shui (sp?) on your face with my baseball bat!

Get a different brand.
 

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Posted by Paul J. Neuhaus (Member # 3205) on 06-27-2005, 11:37 PM:
 
No Joe They do NOT.
Beretta's missfire and Jam sometimes. Really, was that a question or a comment. It was like listening to the evening news. "maybe you should feel this way".......or NOT

Awesome shooting Randy DANGEROUS!!!
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 06-28-2005, 12:37 AM:
 
Hmmm, I guess that cop who said his Glock went off when he just set it down on a shelf or table must have been lying, then. I know gangs like Glocks. The name "Glock" seems to be thrown around as if it were more of a status symbol than anything else.
 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 06-28-2005, 01:26 AM:
 
Just because the guy is a cop, it doesn't mean he's not a retard. What the heck was he doing laying a "locked and loaded" weapon on the table... AND pointing it at himself?!

I throw my head back and laugh at him like Geoffrey Holder! (The voodo man in the James Bond movie.)
The guy got what he deserved!

Okay... Seriously, now...
Most semi-auto handguns can be finicky if not taken care of well enough. (i.e.: Kept clean.) Glocks are no exception. The main thing about a Glock is that it has no discrete safety lever like most guns do.

They've got this funky trigger-safety thingy.

http://www.glock.com/_safe_action_.htm

If you pull the trigger, even by accident, the gun WILL go off if there is a round in the chamber.

Glocks are made by Austrians. They get some strange ideas, sometimes. You know... goofy ideas like, "People should be careful with guns."

But don't worry, Joe. I have a backup gun.


 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 06-28-2005, 01:59 AM:
 
I never said he shot himself.
 

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Posted by Dieter Depypere (Member # 3184) on 06-28-2005, 04:13 AM:
 
Something went wrong didn't it?:

 

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Posted by David Stambaugh (Member # 1102) on 06-28-2005, 02:45 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Dieter Depypere (Member # 3184) on 06-28-2005, 04:10 PM:
 
Found another one


 

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Posted by Jeremy Jorgenson (Member # 2989) on 06-28-2005, 09:17 PM:
 
I missed Millions when it played here... at least I know I can see it in Corvallis... even if it takes me 10 years to get there.
 

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Posted by Dieter Depypere (Member # 3184) on 06-29-2005, 12:08 PM:
 


Sweeeeeet
 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 06-29-2005, 09:54 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Joshua Waaland (Member # 287) on 06-30-2005, 12:40 AM:
 
Here ya go Mark. My buddy sent me this one. Notice the flaps up on the plane on the left.



Here is one from a Barenaked Ladies concert I went to a few years ago at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. My wife and I are on the far right and BNL is in the back. I won a radio contest and got to meet them.....well if you call shaking the drummer's hand right before the picture was taken meeting them. They were running behind that day so our meet and greet got cut short.



This is one that I took on my honeymoon in October of 2002. I use it for my desktop and love the picture but the crooked horizon drives me nuts.


 

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Posted by Kyle McEachern (Member # 2250) on 06-30-2005, 01:26 AM:
 
Photoshop is a magical thing...



Hooray!
 

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Posted by Dieter Depypere (Member # 3184) on 06-30-2005, 03:22 AM:
 


Only 600 metres from our house away. It should originally spell "KANAL" which means sewerage system.
 

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Posted by Joshua Waaland (Member # 287) on 06-30-2005, 07:50 PM:
 
Kyle,

You're the best!

I had to scale the picture down in Windows Paint to get it onto the page. If I sent you the original version could you fix it for me? I do not have photoshop.
 

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Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 06-30-2005, 08:55 PM:
 
I've got it, if you don't hear back from Kyle. Photoshop CS2 (aka, Photoshop 9.)

PM me, and I'll email ya back.
 

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Posted by Kyle McEachern (Member # 2250) on 06-30-2005, 11:12 PM:
 
Sure Joshua, it's a really quick fix, especially the second time around. I'll PM you with the information.
 

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Posted by Joshua Waaland (Member # 287) on 06-30-2005, 11:30 PM:
 
Thanks guys!
 

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Posted by William Hooper (Member # 71) on 07-01-2005, 12:50 AM:
 
I like some pictures a little crookedy.

 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 07-01-2005, 03:12 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Adam Martin (Member # 641) on 07-01-2005, 03:29 AM:
 
Welcome to Hereford, Texas, where they spell it like they say it.

 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 07-01-2005, 03:35 AM:
 
Cool Adam! Texas! Land of steers and queers.
I'm headed back to Hollywood where there are NO steers!
 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 07-01-2005, 05:02 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 07-01-2005, 05:19 AM:
 
Phil - I'm not sure who that's supposed to be in the picture YOU posted. But I suggest that his new name be Mr. J. Peg Artifact, or JPA for short.

Brad - Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to have your next photograph taken with a different shirt!
 

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Posted by Dieter Depypere (Member # 3184) on 07-01-2005, 05:32 AM:
 
Since there is still no member photo of me on the left side I think I should submit some picture of me here:


 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 07-01-2005, 05:09 PM:
 

quote: Joe Redifer

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... Mr. J. Peg Artifact ...

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That's hilarious!

You know Joe, from looking at those pics of FT members in front of that house, I guess I should go there sometime and take a pic.
 

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Posted by Josh Jones (Member # 447) on 07-01-2005, 05:26 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 07-01-2005, 06:06 PM:
 
Everybody's member picture should be in front of that house. Or they should not be allowed to have a member picture.
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 07-01-2005, 08:24 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 07-01-2005, 09:30 PM:
 
Joe, I just saw Josh's post that obviously was referring to you. I'm shocked that he would intimate such a condescending gesture towards you...no matter how accurate.
 

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Posted by Scott Norwood (Member # 30) on 07-01-2005, 09:46 PM:
 
Joe--mine's bigger:


 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 07-01-2005, 10:05 PM:
 
Nice try Scott. Joe's is much bigger 16x9 while yours is JUST ... ummmm "flat".
 

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Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 07-01-2005, 10:58 PM:
 
Scott,
Thats my old BNCR! I sold it to Tim, How'd you get ahold of it?

MArk
 

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Posted by Adam Martin (Member # 641) on 07-02-2005, 12:17 AM:
 
About 15 minutes before the stupendous motel photo, taken one-handed while I was driving:


 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 07-02-2005, 12:43 AM:
 
Cinemascope photography by Adam Martin, ASC
 

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Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 07-02-2005, 01:23 AM:
 
Mark, I sold everything to him lock, stock, and barrel for $20,000.
 

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Posted by Adam Martin (Member # 641) on 07-02-2005, 03:05 AM:
 
Unfortunately, some dumbass director insisted on Super35. And presented by Regal, apparently, cropped to 2.27.
 

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Posted by Scott Norwood (Member # 30) on 07-02-2005, 05:48 AM:
 
Ha! It's not really "mine"--I just wanted to pose for a picture of myself next to a Mitchell! Tim took the photo and it turned out to be one of the better shots taken of me (I don't photograph well).

It's still bigger than Joe's, though, regardless of what Phil says.
 

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Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 07-02-2005, 09:34 AM:
 

quote: Tim Reed

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Mark, I sold everything to him lock, stock, and barrel for $20,000.

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Geez, and with the tidy profit that I made selling it to you I was able to buy a nice Arrl BL4....... What went wrong with your sale?


Mark
 

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Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 07-02-2005, 01:35 PM:
 
Heee-heh-heh-heh! Scott, when I saw Joe's pix above, I had the exact same thought... with the exact same line!

quote: Mark Gulbrandsen

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What went wrong with your sale?

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I dunno. Vegas... Reno... I don't remember much after this:


 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 07-02-2005, 07:39 PM:
 

quote: The Mighty Joe Redifer

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Brad - Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to have your next photograph taken with a different shirt!

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There. Happy now? I even went back to the coveted house to do it!
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 07-02-2005, 09:10 PM:
 
That does make me happy now. Now I can finally sleep at night, you skinny freak!

Tim, bigger isn't always better. I can't imagine many handheld shots with Scott's crappy camcorder.
 

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Posted by Adam Martin (Member # 641) on 07-02-2005, 09:48 PM:
 
Why are Brad's hands always in his pockets? What's he got in there?
 

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Posted by Jennifer Pan (Member # 2035) on 07-03-2005, 02:53 AM:
 
You guys need to get out in the sun just a little bit longer... too dang pasty white!!
 

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Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 07-03-2005, 03:05 AM:
 
Jen... you 'n' me, baby. Let's go! I'm ready for a day in the sun.

quote: Joe Redifer

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I can't imagine many handheld shots with Scott's crappy camcorder.

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Who says?


 

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Posted by Jennifer Pan (Member # 2035) on 07-03-2005, 03:20 AM:
 
Tim, I'm already tan just driving from work everyday. What's funny is that my left arm and left side of my face is getting darker than my right side. I'll probably look like Roy Neary from Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind in just a couple more weeks.

The great thing about living in this part of the AZ is how fast you can get a tan... the worst is that you feel like you are being broiled... not baked... actually broiled!
 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 07-03-2005, 04:47 AM:
 
What's the temperature been there Jen?
 

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Posted by Monte L Fullmer (Member # 2797) on 07-03-2005, 12:18 PM:
 
I've noticed on weather.com that PHX hit 114 the other day...a bit toasty. thx goodness that's just dry heat, with very little humidity in the air.

TX, OK, KS, and MO can get miserable with their high humidity when temps hits in the 90's.
 

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Posted by Ethan Harper (Member # 472) on 07-03-2005, 12:28 PM:
 
Still not Hot enough!!!
 

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Posted by Scott D. Neff (Member # 185) on 07-03-2005, 02:38 PM:
 
I didn't know it was a trend to take pictures in front of that house. I've been there once or twice without meeting the occupant...

Now I know that I need to make photographical proof!!
 

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Posted by Jennifer Pan (Member # 2035) on 07-03-2005, 02:45 PM:
 
Dry heat is still bad heat... especially when its an average of 113 or so... and the "lo" average is in the mid 80's. I hung out with my friends the other night walking in the streets of downtown Phoenix around midnight and it was still friggin' hot!

Honestly I'd rather be in Texas right now than here.
 

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Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 07-03-2005, 03:13 PM:
 

quote: Jennifer Pan

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What's funny is that my left arm and left side of my face is getting darker than my right side.

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I hear ya. I've got "trucker's arm," too!
 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 07-03-2005, 04:20 PM:
 
Indeed you do Scott. But don't worry about not getting into the coveted house, the place is like a fortress. NOBODY gets in (unless you meet special "criteria" ).
 

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Posted by Scott D. Neff (Member # 185) on 07-03-2005, 06:33 PM:
 
Now where did I put my street-walkin clothes?
 

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Posted by Dan Lyons (Member # 1454) on 07-03-2005, 06:37 PM:
 
You guys are just jealous because I'm the only one here who's been inside.
 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 07-03-2005, 06:47 PM:
 
You were the only one who met the requirements!
 

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Posted by Mike Heenan (Member # 392) on 07-03-2005, 08:25 PM:
 
Hey, we're the sweatiest city in America! Lol. The worst part of the day for me is getting in my car after I've left the windows rolled up; it takes a minute or two for the AC to get cold and it's like 30 degrees hotter inside... ugh.
 

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Posted by Sam Graham (Member # 2889) on 07-03-2005, 08:41 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Allison Parsons (Member # 2728) on 07-03-2005, 08:55 PM:
 
Ok, did I miss a post or something? What's so special about that damn blue house.
 

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Posted by Dan Lyons (Member # 1454) on 07-03-2005, 09:27 PM:
 
time to adjust your monitor; the house is grey.
 

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Posted by Scott D. Neff (Member # 185) on 07-03-2005, 11:59 PM:
 
It looks kinda blue in that last pic.

It is truly a house of ill repute...
 

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Posted by Monte L Fullmer (Member # 2797) on 07-04-2005, 12:07 AM:
 
That's a great pict: sitting outside at a drive-in just before screentime and playing on FT on a laptop using D-Link ....

We need a new sublink in the Forums for a list of games to play as we idle by for something more important to do ...lol
 

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Posted by John Hegel (Member # 628) on 07-04-2005, 12:16 AM:
 
Is this house deserving of a name?

The house of the rising sun
Hell’s house
Neverland ranch annex...

If I were to put on my old pizza delivery uniform, should I expect to gain access?

[ 07-04-2005, 03:38 AM: Message edited by: John Hegel ]
 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 07-04-2005, 12:58 AM:
 
Oh my, I'm soooooo not touching this one!
 

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Posted by Josh Jones (Member # 447) on 07-04-2005, 11:25 PM:
 
Start with the usual Italian delivery getup

JJ
 

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Posted by Dan Lyons (Member # 1454) on 07-05-2005, 12:39 AM:
 
The sushi-delivery uniform will also work, whatever that looks like.
 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 07-05-2005, 01:12 AM:
 
I'm sure the "Madame" of that house will take you in no matter what you're wearing.
 

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Posted by John Hegel (Member # 628) on 07-05-2005, 01:47 AM:
 
I'll try my luck with the "Pizza Ranch" pride killer. I might even be able to dig up the green cowboy hat that went with it.
 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 07-05-2005, 02:34 AM:
 
What I find interesting about all the comments on that gray/blue house is that those that covet but have not yet gained entrance have NO idea of what is really inside nor what goes on inside. They speculate and make lame comments as *IF* they are "in the know." For example; comments of it being a house of ill-repute or only gaining entrance by being a "certain type" of individual. That is pure horseshit! In their feeble minds, they have to make up some fantasy bred out of pure jealously.

Also, I'm beginning to think that Photoshop is at play here.

I, for one, can speak the truth as I have been privileged to have been inside and have known the owner for many years. As Dan Lyons mentioned, I personally have seen him, as well as at least 6 other FT members inside at one time or another. I can honestly say there is NOTHING sinister or illegal going on there.

Also, while I have seen the Pizza boy, I've not seen the Sushi delivery person....if there is such a person.

Yours in Christ...
 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 07-05-2005, 03:44 AM:
 
But Phil, history speaks the truth. The owner of that house is definitely picky as to who is permitted inside and will go to great lengths so that visitors "not on the list" do not gain access. I guess you met the criteria.
 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 07-05-2005, 05:47 PM:
 

quote: Brad Miller

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...visitors "not on the list" do not gain access.

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I really doubt that...it's all a fragment of your imagination... However, to get this thread back on track:


 

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Posted by Steve Anderson (Member # 364) on 07-06-2005, 09:56 PM:
 
What's with all the pics removed?
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 07-06-2005, 10:50 PM:
 
Huh?
 

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Posted by Scott D. Neff (Member # 185) on 07-06-2005, 11:46 PM:
 

quote: Joe Redifer was the last to post

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Huh?

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quote: Allison Parsons

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What's so special about that damn blue house.

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It's designed to make everyone burn with curiousity, and ask questions about it.
 

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Posted by Monte L Fullmer (Member # 2797) on 07-07-2005, 04:18 AM:
 

quote:

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"....However, to get this thread back on track:...."

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Ummmmm! Two-toned pussy with a fluid drive!
 

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Posted by William Hooper (Member # 71) on 07-08-2005, 12:31 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Michael Schaffer (Member # 1204) on 07-08-2005, 01:01 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Adam Wilbert (Member # 1184) on 07-08-2005, 03:23 AM:
 
aren't steps three and four redundant?
 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 07-08-2005, 11:06 AM:
 
Only if you want to make a mess. Different types of knives are used for those steps. The knives themselves are not shown as any properly trained kiwi chef would know which types to use.
 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 07-09-2005, 06:16 PM:
 
He wants you Phil.



 

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Posted by Adam Wilbert (Member # 1184) on 07-09-2005, 07:10 PM:
 
is that dave chapelle in the background? I'm sure glad that captain faggo is enjoyng a tasty beverage, or
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 07-09-2005, 08:37 PM:
 
Brad, what the hell are you doing visiting the sites which would host such an image?!!
 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 07-09-2005, 09:55 PM:
 
I stole it from www.joerediferkicksass.com ya doof!
 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 07-09-2005, 09:59 PM:
 
Doof, or poof???
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 07-09-2005, 10:17 PM:
 

quote: Brad Miller

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I stole it from www.joerediferkicksass.com ya doof!

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quote: Grand-Poopie-BAH

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He wants you Phil.

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While that may be true, the feeling is ***NOT*** mutual. I'm not N2 face hair or fright wigs. Also, looking at his tight, form-fitting getup, I would bet one can tell his religion...

The below pics illustrate a basic truism in the clubbing/dating/looking-for-love world no matter which team you're on.

...
 

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Posted by Adam Wilbert (Member # 1184) on 07-10-2005, 03:49 PM:
 
wait, i'm confused. Why would the same fat guy be looking for both women and gay men? That picture makes no sense.
 

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Posted by Jennifer Pan (Member # 2035) on 07-10-2005, 04:04 PM:
 
Adam... Just nod and smile.
 

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Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 07-10-2005, 06:24 PM:
 
And unless the bloke on the left is bisexual, half the people 'looking for' him are likely to end up disappointed.
 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 07-10-2005, 09:22 PM:
 
Me thinks there are a few dense people around that don't get it's not about the individuals in the pics...they're symbolic. JEEEZE!
 

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Posted by Scott Norwood (Member # 30) on 07-10-2005, 10:51 PM:
 
Picture of my desk at home in its naturally messy state:



The computer on the desk (underneath the monitor) is one of Film-Tech's DNS servers.

Yes, Joe/Bobby/etc., I know that the color balance of the photo is off. I used daylight-balanced film, but the desk lamp is an incandescent, and I don't care enough to attempt to correct the scanned version.
 

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Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 07-10-2005, 11:30 PM:
 
The only complaint I have to make is Sun Microsystems having such a boring case design for expensive workstations. Gosh, I thought that was some old PC at first! Don't they care about Silicon Graphics selling cases rounded like river-polished stones?
 

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Posted by Kyle McEachern (Member # 2250) on 07-11-2005, 04:36 AM:
 

quote: Bobby Henderson

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Don't they care about Silicon Graphics selling cases rounded like river-polished stones?

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Some examples, for those who haven't seen any...






 

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Posted by Scott Norwood (Member # 30) on 07-11-2005, 05:19 AM:
 
There is a gumdrop-like SGI O2 under the desk:



It's about the same vintage as the Sun next to it. Someone paid about $8k for that O2 when it was new (!); I think I paid $50 for it on Ebay a year ago.
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 07-11-2005, 07:26 AM:
 
Those SGI computers look horrendous. It looks like they were designed for Windows XP or something.
 

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Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 07-11-2005, 07:51 AM:
 
For some reason the SGI Terzo model makes me think of the heel of a tennis shoe. But overall their systems have been pretty slick.

I don't like how the current Apple G5 case tower looks. Their previous cases looked better. The new one appears very plain and looks as if it were covered with electric shaver foil. Perhaps someone might find some of Steve Jobs' beard trimmings in there, presumably for cloning purposes. It's the new app: "iJobs." Make your very own computer tycoon.

Hopefully Apple will come up with something pretty cool and different when those first Intel boxes start rolling out sometime next year.

Alienware has pretty decent looking case designs.
 

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Posted by Stephen Brown (Member # 292) on 07-11-2005, 07:56 AM:
 
I think the G5's look like Deep Fryer Baskets....
 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 07-11-2005, 02:50 PM:
 
This one is for all you biker guys / bear lovers.


 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 07-11-2005, 05:30 PM:
 
I don't think that's a bear, I think that's an orangutan. I don't know what the thng sitting on the back of the bike is.
 

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Posted by Scott Norwood (Member # 30) on 07-11-2005, 09:13 PM:
 
Focus loop for "Brooklyn Rules" (working title: "Nailed Right In"):


 

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Posted by Daryl C. W. O'Shea (Member # 1303) on 07-12-2005, 05:05 PM:
 
This thread reminded me of...


 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 07-13-2005, 03:12 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 07-13-2005, 05:05 AM:
 
Gene Wilder kicks ass. But who is that guy to the right in the sunglasses? That guy from CHIPS?
 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 07-13-2005, 05:42 AM:
 
HTF do I know? I was cruising Hollywood Blvd for a male hooker for a quickie when I stumbled on that shoot.

(But of course I was new to the area at that time and didn't realize all the hhot male hustlers were on Santa Monica Blvd...I now know better)

Seriously, I have no clue. It's a scan of some photo I took many moons ago when working on some feature while I was at Panavision.
 

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Posted by Emma Tomiak (Member # 1862) on 07-13-2005, 04:21 PM:
 


These tomatoes are the very first "harvest" from the tomato plants I planted earlier this year (and thankfully haven't managed to kill yet). Unfortunately for them, they met their demise about three minutes ago. Mmmmmmmmm.
 

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Posted by Ethan Harper (Member # 472) on 07-14-2005, 12:18 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 07-14-2005, 01:10 AM:
 
NO Madamn Moderator, this tomato is NOT from **MY** plant!



 

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Posted by Dick Vaughan (Member # 540) on 07-14-2005, 02:18 AM:
 

quote:

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NO Madamn Moderator, this tomato is NOT from **MY** plant!

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You can tell that by the lack of fungal growth
 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 07-14-2005, 04:27 AM:
 
Hey Dick, what's your problem lately with your dumbass comments to me?
 

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Posted by Dick Vaughan (Member # 540) on 07-14-2005, 04:50 AM:
 
Apologies

[ 07-14-2005, 06:23 AM: Message edited by: Dick Vaughan ]
 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 07-14-2005, 05:24 AM:
 
"easy target" huh? Drugs/booze or not, let me make this VERY clear to all:

While I totally enjoy (and deserve) public "good-natured" ribbing and fun-poking, I DO NOT tolerate mean and/or degrading comments towards me. If you feel that you MUST harass me, please send me private email. I've got plenty in the past about my comments and shenanigans on FT. (...and I'm sure Brad has too about me. )

If someone feels they must publicly be an asshole towards me, I WILL call them on it and reply in like kind and kick their sorry ass from one screen side to the other.

'Nuff said!

Yours in Christ...
 

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Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 07-14-2005, 09:44 AM:
 
Came up on this deer while on a short hike late yesteday in the Beartooth Mountains in Montana. She didn't seem to mind us very much and we followed her for a short while before she finally took off.

Mark


 

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Posted by Mark Ogden (Member # 43) on 07-14-2005, 03:46 PM:
 
Here's a photo that will break Thomas Haverslev"s heart: an AA2, stripped, broken, filthy and on display for the world to see in Mann's Chinese Theatre Gift Shop in the Hollywood and Highland Mall on Hollywood Blvd in, you guessed it, Hollywood, California. This machine apparently came from either the old #2 or #3 screen when they were torn down to make way for the new multiplex behind the original theatre. I know that one of those screens had an original Michael Todd "TODD-AO" projector. I hope to God it wasn't this one. It's pedestal #59-168. I e-mailed Thom with these shots and asked about the history of the machine but have not heard back yet.



Something tells me that this sign may not be entirely accurate.


 

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Posted by Dan Lyons (Member # 1454) on 07-14-2005, 04:09 PM:
 
What a mess. What's a perfectly good Neumade splicer doing sitting there? I had no idea that was there; I'll have to go look for it next time I'm up there having my picture taken in front of that gray hill house.
 

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Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 07-14-2005, 06:53 PM:
 
I was in booth 1 in about 1989 and thats got to be out of either 2 or 3 as booth 1's machines didn't have that nigger rigged tilt adjuster on the back end of the lamphouse table, at least back then. Actually the xenon lamphouse table is worth more than the entire mechanism is. I never did hear if the original DP-70s from booth 1 were moved upstairs or if the booth had been "Stronged" .

Mark
 

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Posted by Scott Norwood (Member # 30) on 07-14-2005, 07:13 PM:
 
Is it just me or is the film threaded incorrectly (soundtrack reversed)?

Isn't that a 70mm Neumade splicer?

They should clean that machine up and put an Ashcraft, Strong, or Peerless arc lamphouse on it.
 

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Posted by Jon Miller (Member # 163) on 07-14-2005, 07:45 PM:
 
"Kenoton"? Is this a new version of a casino game? Since when were new projectors "re-produce[d]"?



Soemone needs to check their facts (Philips, not "Kenoton" [Kinoton], at the time) and their grammar and spelling...
 

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Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 07-14-2005, 10:58 PM:
 

quote: Jon Miller

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Kenoton

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Thats how thay say it in Baston.....

Mark
 

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Posted by Wolff King Morrow (Member # 2226) on 07-15-2005, 03:20 AM:
 
Has anyone else noticed Joe Redifer looks like a Baldwin brother in most of his pics? He could pass for a younger Stephen Baldwin I swear...
 

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Posted by Monte L Fullmer (Member # 2797) on 07-15-2005, 04:41 AM:
 

quote: Scott Norwood

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Isn't that a 70mm Neumade splicer?

They should clean that machine up and put an Ashcraft, Strong, or Peerless arc lamphouse on it

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quote: Mark Gulbrandsen

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machines didn't have that nigger rigged tilt adjuster

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Wow I can tell that you are from Utah.
Roger
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 07-15-2005, 07:46 PM:
 
Baldwin? I don't think so.



I have been told that I resemble Harrison Ford in this pic. Again, I don't think so.
 

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Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 07-16-2005, 07:39 PM:
 

quote: Monte L Fullmer

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Kind of a shame for MANN to have a display in public view in presenting a machine that is in such unpresentable condition as such

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quote: Mark Gulbrandsen

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Thats how thay say it in Baston.....

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Hey! I resemble that remaaake...
 

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Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 07-17-2005, 05:27 PM:
 


Room 26 in the Harley Hotel, Glossop Road, Sheffield, UK, at around 8am this morning. I stayed there last night while doing the archive print projection for an academic film conference at the University of Sheffield. Call me a paranoid wuss if you like, but I removed the fuse from the connection unit during the night I stayed in that room! Thankfully this weekend was one of the hottest in Britain so far this year, so I didn't need to use the electric radiator. But the sight of that didn't exactly inspire confidence. It looks like Basil Fawlty is alive and well...
 

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Posted by Jeremy Jorgenson (Member # 2989) on 07-17-2005, 08:54 PM:
 
Just don't mention the war... I did once, but I think I got away with it.
 

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Posted by Jennifer Pan (Member # 2035) on 07-18-2005, 12:11 AM:
 
I wonder what Britney Spears is up to...
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 07-18-2005, 12:12 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Jeremy Fuentes (Member # 2135) on 07-18-2005, 06:21 AM:
 
Frickin hilarious!
 

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Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 07-18-2005, 01:19 PM:
 
It was funny up until the 7-11.
 

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Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 07-18-2005, 10:47 PM:
 
The new Film-Tech technical disclaimer......


 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 07-18-2005, 11:47 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Dieter Depypere (Member # 3184) on 07-19-2005, 08:31 AM:
 
Pacman rulez!
 

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Posted by George Roher (Member # 91) on 07-19-2005, 09:27 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 07-20-2005, 01:38 AM:
 
Here's a cool "Do Nothing", just-for-fun project. It's one of those things ya build when yur bored.

A frictionless magnetic bearing, floating armature, solar-powered motor. Put it in a sunny window and just let it do it's thing.


 

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Posted by Mark J. Marshall (Member # 1409) on 07-20-2005, 01:16 PM:
 
Interesting Pac Man pic...

A bunch of dots have been eaten, you just got a power up, all the ghosts are blue, and somehow, you died anyway... the game is now over, AND you have no score whatsoever.

Neat trick!
 

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Posted by Jason Miller (Member # 2341) on 07-20-2005, 03:16 PM:
 
I think its a picture of the stuff that occurs in between games. the game plays itself (or a playback of some previous game). the score would be 0 if the game hadn't been played since being turned on.
 

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Posted by Mark J. Marshall (Member # 1409) on 07-20-2005, 07:42 PM:
 
Shhhh! Don't blow the illusion!
 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 07-21-2005, 12:02 AM:
 
Just for Joe and his Macintrash...


 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 07-21-2005, 03:09 AM:
 
OBTW Mark, just to burst your bubble and "illusion"... as Jason mentioned, that screen was displayed after a power-up.

Ummm...it's one of several display screens known as the "Attract Mode"...
 

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Posted by Brian Michael Weidemann (Member # 2243) on 07-22-2005, 03:35 AM:
 
I tend to burst my bubble, too, when I'm in Attract Mode. (rim shot)
 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 07-22-2005, 03:40 AM:
 
Finger-licking good:


 

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Posted by Jason Miller (Member # 2341) on 07-22-2005, 06:14 AM:
 
she is lucky she didnt get charged extra for that.
 

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Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 07-22-2005, 12:21 PM:
 
I didn't know McD's sold chicken wings.
 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 07-22-2005, 01:17 PM:
 
Oh, I'm sure there are wings (and heads, and feet, and...) in those McFused McNugget McThings.
 

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Posted by Darryl Spicer (Member # 711) on 07-22-2005, 01:22 PM:
 
How could one not realize that there was a chicken head in the batch of chicken nuggets that they just fried up.
 

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Posted by Aaron Sisemore (Member # 145) on 07-22-2005, 02:04 PM:
 
The 'chicken head' is still undetermined, according to Snopes... Five years and no official testing on the 'head' and no lawsuit or settlement???? sounds like BS to me...

-Aaron
 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 07-22-2005, 11:19 PM:
 
Just for Mark and Paul...


 

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Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 07-23-2005, 12:11 AM:
 
Yeah. Don't you just hate it when the tower won't let you land on your favorite runway and tell you to use the flood control canal instead?
 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 07-23-2005, 12:37 AM:
 

quote: Joe Redifer

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I have been told that I resemble Harrison Ford in this pic. Again, I don't think so.

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Joe, you make it so easy!
 

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Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 07-23-2005, 05:59 AM:
 
I take it they breath-tested the pilot after he climbed out...
 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 07-23-2005, 12:27 PM:
 
Yes, and piss tested too. Don't remember if they also draw blood on an accident investigation.

Wait a minute, what accident? By definition, that's a Great Landing as the aircraft is still usable.

But that one was a parking accident. The brakes let go during the night and the aircraft wasn't chocked, so it just rolled back into the ditch. Then they had a Saab story to tell. But N366PX was repaired and returned to service.
 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 07-23-2005, 02:44 PM:
 
I'll keep an eye out and see if it lands in Erie!
 

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Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 07-23-2005, 10:13 PM:
 
Thats a good one Phil! Only those guys at Northworst could pull that one off. They probably came straight from the cocktail lounge!

Paul, Still usable? I don't think ANY of their planes are really usable.....

Mark
 

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Posted by Daniel Wright (Member # 1983) on 07-24-2005, 12:59 AM:
 
I flew on Northworst to Calcutta India. We had to make an emergency landing in Deluth Minnisota. Nothing is more assuring then smellng smoke and watching the captain bang on something under the galley with a flashlight.
 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 07-24-2005, 02:28 AM:
 
Well, the only thing "Northwest" about the Saab in Phil's pic above is the paint job--the aircraft itself is owned and operated by Express. Ain't code sharing marketing agreements great? Unknowing pax think they're riding on a big airline's plane (it's got the livery, it's got the flight number), but the reality is they're riding with a puddlejumper company.

Maintenance, like pilot training, is more than likely as good it needs to be, right to the letter of the law and not one cent past that.

As for Express pilots emulating certain NWA pilots' drinking-then-flying abilities, it ain't gonna happen. Express doesn't pay their guys enough to be able to afford a pint, let alone enough to get polluted.

I've only ridden on the real NWA a few times (once to MSP, once to YWG, once to NRT) and had no problems with them.

For some grisly fun go google "Northwest Airlink Pinnacle 3701 dude" and read the cockpit transcript of a couple of losers that decided to play around with their jet on a ferry flight and paid the ultimate price. Dude!
 

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Posted by Aaron Sisemore (Member # 145) on 07-24-2005, 05:40 AM:
 
After eight years of waiting, tonight I finally got to see something for the first time:



-Aaron
 

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Posted by Brian Michael Weidemann (Member # 2243) on 07-24-2005, 06:17 AM:
 
You, too, have been waiting to find someone who can drive a Ford 1912!? Kick ass!

That's pretty cool.
 

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Posted by Steve Guttag (Member # 268) on 07-24-2005, 06:41 AM:
 
Why? Was it the three pedals that threw you?
 

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Posted by Gordon McLeod (Member # 33) on 07-24-2005, 09:04 AM:
 
Congrats on screen recognition Aaron
 

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Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 07-24-2005, 09:10 AM:
 
Come on Aaron, the high pay one gets for doing dailies and the equipment rental is ALOT better than any screen credit


Mark
 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 07-24-2005, 12:13 PM:
 
While it's true credits don't buy you groceries, it's still nice to get them when you can.
Congratulations Aaron!

Here's my one and only:


 

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Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 07-24-2005, 01:13 PM:
 
Great, Aaron and Paul! What pictures are those from?

Here's mine, from the Showbiz Clock, on the screen at Becky's Drive-In, Berlinsville, PA:


A little prison love...

 

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Posted by Aaron Sisemore (Member # 145) on 07-24-2005, 03:39 PM:
 
It was this filmed-in-1997 and released on DVD in 2002 'blockbuster'



After finally watching it, I realized... OMG, this show was BAD.

-Aaron
 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 07-24-2005, 04:22 PM:
 



 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 07-24-2005, 04:56 PM:
 
Well, this sucks...


 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 07-24-2005, 10:18 PM:
 
My first and last was Casino, filmed from SEP 94 to JAN 95 and released in NOV 95.
The 10th anniversary DVD just came out.

My caption for Phil's latest, "Hey captain, #3 is sure idling hot for some reason..."
 

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Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 07-25-2005, 12:27 PM:
 
Or how about: 'I'm sorry, Mr. Bloggs, but I have to tell you that you haven't passed your fork-lift truck driving test on this occasion. The cargo hold door is over there, to your right.'
 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 07-26-2005, 05:55 PM:
 
Please note: I only post these pics for the heck of it, not for a caption... there's another thread for that.

(Howerver, I do feel that the one of the jumping naked guy that the Grand-Poo-BAH posted here should have been for captioning.)


 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 07-28-2005, 06:01 AM:
 
JFC! I didn't mean to scare yous all away from commenting on the pics!

The above is one of my FAVORITE "guy" pics...
 

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Posted by Jeremy Jorgenson (Member # 2989) on 07-28-2005, 07:16 PM:
 
balls
 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 07-30-2005, 01:57 AM:
 
Darn it Tim, I TOLD you to bring a 150-watt bulb!


 

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Posted by Wolff King Morrow (Member # 2226) on 07-30-2005, 02:15 AM:
 
Here's a pic of my first tattoo. It's just the outline, but I'll be getting the color and shading filled in on Aug 10th.


 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 07-30-2005, 02:30 AM:
 
Gargoyle's Quest?
 

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Posted by Wolff King Morrow (Member # 2226) on 07-30-2005, 06:00 AM:
 
Nope.
 

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Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 07-30-2005, 08:42 AM:
 
Tatoos are about the most stupid thing ever ! Pictures ON people are about the dummest idea anyone has ever had...... but those suckers that get them cetainly provide an income for those that do them. Its also a health risk and for some people can affect your health over the long haul as well.... Have an uncle that had health problems AFTER getting a tatoo. He eventually had it removed.
 

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Posted by Wolff King Morrow (Member # 2226) on 07-30-2005, 08:44 AM:
 
Hey Mark, what are some of your hobbies? I need to know so I can call them the dumbest things ever.
 

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Posted by Mike Heenan (Member # 392) on 07-30-2005, 12:52 PM:
 
Yeah... tell those tough old war veterans I see on occasion with their Navy tattoos and whatnot that their tattoos are stupid. Right. Personally I dont think I'd ever get a tattoo, but don't have a problem with them. I think the lamest one is the barbwire around the bicep though. George Carlin did a funny joke about that, lol.
 

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Posted by Fred Georges (Member # 505) on 07-30-2005, 01:08 PM:
 
I was projecting the underground film fest in Chicago several years back. At their concession counter stood a beautiful, statuesque Women who was wearing a tube top. I could see She had a full blown Octopus tattooed on Her back which I began admiring. We struck up a conversation and She asked if I would like to see where two of the tentacles reached. I'm no fool & said "SURE"! She pulled up Her top to reveal a tenticle on each side tickling the bottom of each (Beautiful) breast! SOLD! WHOOPIE! I LOVE TATOOS'!!
 

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Posted by Kyle McEachern (Member # 2250) on 07-30-2005, 02:23 PM:
 
Let's see...I don't drink, and drinking causes liver problems and other health issues...

Drinking is the stupidest thing ever!

Wait wait...I don't smoke, and smoking causes cancer...

Smokers are complete retards who contribute nothing to society!

Umm...I don't ride a motorcycle, and I know a story about a guy I used to know who got a hangnail as a result of his motorcycle and had to sell it...

MOTORCYCLES ARE A SCOURGE UPON THIS PLANET AND MUST BE ABOLISHED!

At least we're all open-minded and accepting of others here, huh?
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 07-30-2005, 02:25 PM:
 
Tattoos aren't really a hobby, unless you collect and trade them with your friends.

Personally I think tattoos look kind of trashy (as in "white trash"), but whatever. To each their own. Tattoos definitely look better on a guy than a girl. I think Brad should get a tattoo.
 

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Posted by Allison Parsons (Member # 2728) on 07-30-2005, 02:44 PM:
 
Two of 4 robot tattoo's I have (the other ones are 'the robot' from Lost in Space and a favorite toy robot of mine Toby from the 1980's) Couldn't include them 'cause it's a bit hard to take pictures of the back of my arm. These pictures weren't an easy task as it was.




 

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Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 07-30-2005, 03:24 PM:
 

quote: Joe Redifer

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Tattoos aren't really a hobby, unless you collect and trade them with your friends.

Personally I think tattoos look kind of trashy (as in "white trash"), but whatever. To each their own. Tattoos definitely look better on a guy than a girl. I think Brad should get a tattoo.

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I certainly agree with Joe on all accounts. Tatoos can't be a hobby unless you're covered in them. Sorry but one tatoo doesn't make it any sort of hobby. Now the tatooist's job can certainly be a hobby. They do sort of place someone over on the "white trash" arena as Joe mentioned .

Brad is too small to get any tatoo! If he could It would be a tatoo of a JJ projector with a lightning bolt through it or some obscure frame from a 70mm film sort of thing......

quote: Mike Heenan

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Yeah... tell those tough old war veterans I see on occasion with their Navy tattoos and whatnot that their tattoos are stupid.

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quote: Mark

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[Brad could get] a tatoo of a JJ projector with a lightning bolt through it

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That would be far too awesome for mere words!
 

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Posted by Steve Guttag (Member # 268) on 07-30-2005, 05:13 PM:
 
Oddly enough...I have much less of an issue with tattoos than with piercing. I can see Tattoos as art and could understand why some would want that...though it is certainly NOT for me.

Piercing..that I don't get...punching holes in oneself to dangle stuff or merely stick a stud on just makes no sense to me.

However...to each their own...there is much more in the world to worry about than what one finds appealing or not.
 

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Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 07-30-2005, 07:43 PM:
 
Donno Steve, Some how I could imagine the Uptown theatre tatooed on your left bicep and an FP30E on the right.

I agree with the piercing thing though. Even guys wearing earings in their ears to me is a somewhat girly trait. One day back when I worked at GTS I looked up from my desk only to see a punker with a zillion rings in his chin and cheeks. Now I just couldn't contain myself and I had to ask him what it was like when he took a mouthful of water....... I could only imagine that he looked like a sprinkler head!

Allison, The "Robbie The Robot" one is ok but the other needs to be upgraded for sure..... I think Robbie is saying "Danger.... Allison Parsons" .

Mark
 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 07-30-2005, 11:31 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Allison Parsons (Member # 2728) on 07-31-2005, 02:07 AM:
 

quote: Mark Gulbrandsen

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Allison, The "Robbie The Robot" one is ok but the other needs to be upgraded for sure..... I think Robbie is saying "Danger.... Allison Parsons"

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Yeah Mark, my Maxamillian one (robot from the Black Hole FYI) does need some retouching. Plus, it doesn't help that that tattoo looks a bit distorted since my arm was in a weird position when I took the picture. Just be glad I didn't take a picture of my piercings haha
 

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Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 07-31-2005, 03:39 AM:
 

quote:

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Wait wait...I don't smoke, and smoking causes cancer...

Smokers are complete retards who contribute nothing to society!

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No offense meant to smokers -but those who are militant to defend the filthy and expensive habit YOU ARE A FUCKING RETARD!!!!!

I work for a company with fewer than 20 employees. Our health insurance premiums this year just for employees (and not any family members included) topped $50,000. That's thanks largely to selfish fucking smokers and people who insist on eating all kinds of fatty fucking shit.

Between 70% and 80% of people admitted to hospitals are there for reasons they could have prevented. Smoking and eating wrong are the main faults.

I swear, Ron White -the guy from the Blue Collar Comedy Tour sensation- may be funny. But he sure as fuck needs to pay 100% of the tab when he needs a quadruple fucking bypass surgery because he ate too much meat. Yeah sure, vegetarians may be pussies. But they aren't going to bankrupt a Goddamned business via really fucking irresponsible, selfish assinine lifestyles. Ron can laugh all he wants. But he needs to pay his own way to back up the bullshit he spouts, the fat fuck.

Over 2/3 of obese people in the United States have NO health insurance. Most smokers have no health insurance as well. When they have a heart attack, a stroke or get lung cancer. WE pay for it. Our employers pay for it. Our insurance premiums skyrocket. It gives those greedy fucking hospital administrators an excuse to give all their folks another 20% pay raise every damned year. Everyone else who doesn't work for a hospital gets bent over for another fist fuck.

I'm sorry, but I simply will not be made to have any acceptance for anyone who chooses in this day and age to smoke by choice or eat all kinds of filthy fatty shit by choice. Fuck them.

Just about every selfish macho asshole in that category has no means to cover the costs for his bullshit. He lets the rest of us pick up the tab for his "lifestyle choice." Fuck all that.

 

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Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 07-31-2005, 05:35 AM:
 
In Britain we force smokers to pay for it by slapping an enormous tax on each packet of fags. The idea is that this money goes into our state funded healthcare service, the National Health Service, so that when smokers do get ill, they've already been forced to pay their dues. The same applies to alcohol, too; although the tax isn't as big.

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Let's see...I don't drink, and drinking causes liver problems and other health issues...

Drinking is the stupidest thing ever!

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quote: Kyle McEachern

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At least we're all open-minded and accepting of others here, huh?

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quote: Bobby

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those who are militant to defend the filthy and expensive habit YOU ARE A FUCKING RETARD!!!!!

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quote: Bobby

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I simply will not be made to have any acceptance for anyone who chooses in this day and age to... eat all kinds of filthy fatty shit by choice. Fuck them.

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As opposed to eating it by force? That's such a conceited, narrow-minded and intolerant statement. We love you, too.

Back to topic: We can all learn a lesson from this guy. He didn't drink, smoke, cuss, or have any tattoos; he protected us from the bad guys who did! Brownie points for those under 40 who can name him!


 

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Posted by Michael Schaffer (Member # 1204) on 07-31-2005, 01:27 PM:
 
But he looks like he might be into small boys and wouldn't have any problem distributing polio-infected blankets to natives...

Smoking is definitely a nasty habit (which I also have), but what cracks me up, especially here in California, is how so many people are so militantly anti-smoking, then they get into their massively oversized cars and proceed to exhale more toxic waste into the athmosphere than an army of chain smokers. If they were really that conerned about the side-effects, then they would campaign for people to drive smaller cars and organize a vast net of public transport. Most people drive around in big trucks and SUVs, but they don't haul anything around except for themselves.
 

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Posted by Jeremy Jorgenson (Member # 2989) on 07-31-2005, 01:53 PM:
 
I know this is from the last page, but I'm curious how "aviation and space" can be a hobby while "tattoos" can't? There are plenty of magazines/journals, trade shows, chat rooms ... etc for each. If a hobby is only something that one can actively "collect and trade with their friends" (and I'm assuming printed materials about the subject are not allowed to be included in the trade ... otherwise there would be no problem with tattoos as a hobby) then ... hmmm, I'll trade you Haley's comet for the ring around Uranus.
 

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Posted by Mike Heenan (Member # 392) on 07-31-2005, 01:59 PM:
 
Wasn't that Buffalo Bill (Bob?) character from Silence of the Lambs a collector of tattoos? Lol. Ok bad joke as he just collected women's skin but still.
 

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Posted by Fred Georges (Member # 505) on 07-31-2005, 02:34 PM:
 
"But he looks like he might be into small boys and wouldn't have any problem distributing polio-infected blankets to natives..." Ohhhhh Boy! That's a pic of William Boyd as Hopalong Cassidy. From accounts I've read Mr.Boyd was a VERY moral 2-fisted type a guy and would have cleaned Michaels' clock with lightning speed for even whispering the above!
 

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Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 07-31-2005, 03:47 PM:
 

quote: Leo Enticknap

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In Britain we force smokers to pay for it by slapping an enormous tax on each packet of fags.

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quote:

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I know this is from the last page, but I'm curious how "aviation and space" can be a hobby while "tattoos" can't?

Well, one tatoo hardly constitutes collecting anything. So having just one is not really a hobby. I have tons of books on Space and Aviation and used to fly on a pretty regular basis, so yes, its definately a hobby! Also Wolf coulda been drunk at the time and his buddies put him up to it.... like those two late WW-2 vets that I knew.

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quote: Bobby Henderson

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I swear, Ron White -the guy from the Blue Collar Comedy Tour sensation- may be funny. But he sure as fuck needs to pay 100% of the tab when he needs a quadruple fucking bypass surgery because he ate too much meat. Yeah sure, vegetarians may be pussies. But they aren't going to bankrupt a Goddamned business via really fucking irresponsible, selfish assinine lifestyles. Ron can laugh all he wants. But he needs to pay his own way to back up the bullshit he spouts, the fat fuck.

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quote: Leo Enticknap

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In Britain we force smokers to pay for it by slapping an enormous tax on each packet of fags.

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Homophobe!
 

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Posted by Richard Fowler (Member # 893) on 07-31-2005, 07:21 PM:
 
William Boyd was also a smart business man. He owned his feature films and made a mint re-editing them for television
 

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Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 07-31-2005, 10:29 PM:
 
Richard,

I think you'll find that most of the old cowboy actors were good people overall ad then there was also Will Rodgers too.

Mark
 

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Posted by Wayne Keyser (Member # 2420) on 07-31-2005, 10:49 PM:
 
I think somebody ELSe should take control and move that discussion somewhere more private - not that I can't take seeing expressions of strong feelings, but, please, a little decorum?
 

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Posted by Jeremy Fuentes (Member # 2135) on 08-01-2005, 08:55 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Gordon McLeod (Member # 33) on 08-01-2005, 09:21 AM:
 
Bobby said "No offense meant to smokers -but those who are militant to defend the filthy and expensive habit YOU ARE A FUCKING RETARD!!!!!"

Well I have been and will probably remain a confirmed pipe smoker and pay the taxes that go with it

"I work for a company with fewer than 20 employees. Our health insurance premiums this year just for employees (and not any family members included) topped $50,000. That's thanks largely to selfish fucking smokers and people who insist on eating all kinds of fatty fucking shit."

Basic health care in Ontario is paid for with a payroll tax and your employere should wish it was that small and then to get quality employees most employers offer supplimental dental and drug coverage which isn't part of the basic state system

"Between 70% and 80% of people admitted to hospitals are there for reasons they could have prevented. Smoking and eating wrong are the main faults."

No more so than the lack of exercise or many other causes some enviromental pollution that seem to have more impact in poorer neighbourhoods

" Yeah sure, vegetarians may be pussies. But they aren't going to bankrupt a Goddamned business via really fucking irresponsible, selfish assinine lifestyles. Ron can laugh all he wants. But he needs to pay his own way to back up the bullshit he spouts, the fat fuck.'

One must take the good with the bad not the otherway around

"Over 2/3 of obese people in the United States have NO health insurance. Most smokers have no health insurance as well. When they have a heart attack, a stroke or get lung cancer. WE pay for it. Our employers pay for it. Our insurance premiums skyrocket. It gives those greedy fucking hospital administrators an excuse to give all their folks another 20% pay raise every damned year. Everyone else who doesn't work for a hospital gets bent over for another fist fuck."

If 2/3 of the US population are in that situation in one respect or another then maybe they represent the majority and the health concious are the minority

"I'm sorry, but I simply will not be made to have any acceptance for anyone who chooses in this day and age to smoke by choice or eat all kinds of filthy fatty shit by choice. Fuck them."

It is my body and my life and I have a bigger problem with anyone telling me what to do with it

"Just about every selfish macho asshole in that category has no means to cover the costs for his bullshit. He lets the rest of us pick up the tab for his "lifestyle choice." Fuck all that.
[fu]"

And am sure you have no vices either I believe eutopia is two streets over from where you live So lets get this back on topic and post more x rated pictures
 

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Posted by Jeremy Fuentes (Member # 2135) on 08-01-2005, 10:41 AM:
 

quote: Gordon McLeod

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post more x rated pictures

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Posted by Gordon McLeod (Member # 33) on 08-01-2005, 10:49 AM:
 
That is better see post pix of beautiful women and there is peace and harmony in film-tech land
 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 08-01-2005, 11:41 AM:
 
The man said "X rated" not PG13...
 

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Posted by Jeremy Fuentes (Member # 2135) on 08-01-2005, 11:55 AM:
 
I dont wanna get banned!!
 

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Posted by Mike Heenan (Member # 392) on 08-01-2005, 12:15 PM:
 
For those who think vegetarians are healthy, wholesome people leading clean lifestyles, check this out....



And the AFTER pic is on the left!

But seriously, and it may seem like an attack on Mark G but it's not intended to be, anyone who uses the excuse that they simply can't avoid eating healthy or somewhat healthy because of job/lifestyle is just making excuses for themselves. That's the way I thought for many years and why I was such a lard ass till 2003. These days I'm pretty sure every single fast food place serves something somewhat healthy, or at least better than a burger and fries. Chicken sandwiches, salads, you name it. I'm sure even at Uncle Moes Family Feedbag in Podunk, Idaho has something good to eat rather than a 1 pound hamburger and plate full of fries. If you wanna be a fatass, then go right ahead, but don't cry there's nothing healthy to eat and you have no time while on the road to eat healthy.
 

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Posted by Jeremy Fuentes (Member # 2135) on 08-01-2005, 12:39 PM:
 
All this bickering about smoking and overweight people is boring me to tears.....


 

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Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 08-01-2005, 01:48 PM:
 

quote: Mike Heenan

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That's the way I thought for many years and why I was such a lard ass till 2003. These days I'm pretty sure every single fast food place serves something somewhat healthy, or at least better than a burger and fries.

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quote: Brad Miller

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take this discussion ... offline into private email.

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What was complicated about that? Or at least to that thread about things that make you ANGRY? Seems appropriate. But hey, last time I checked, this was a thread about POSTING YOUR RANDOM PICTURES, not POST YOUR RANDOM BITCHING ABOUT CRAP THAT IS GOING TO ANNOY PEOPLE.

That's just me though. I could be wrong!

p.s. I'm not wrong.
 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 08-01-2005, 06:44 PM:
 
Oh my! KY-le! You make me sooo hhot when you role-play a top...

Hugs!
 

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Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 08-01-2005, 06:49 PM:
 
Now now Phil don't get him excited.
 

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Posted by Monte L Fullmer (Member # 2797) on 08-02-2005, 02:02 PM:
 
..as I was wandering through SLC yesterday, I ran into this guy....



...and watching him doing his work....



..but still one of the best to have around.

thx-Monte
 

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Posted by Jeremy Fuentes (Member # 2135) on 08-02-2005, 02:23 PM:
 
I think we can figure out Montes favorite shirt.
 

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Posted by Monte L Fullmer (Member # 2797) on 08-02-2005, 02:32 PM:
 
..I was waiting for that one...LOL (just a coinsidence that I had on the same shirt when I was there - kinda like with Brad wearing his favorite shirt...lol)
 

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Posted by Rachel Gilardi (Member # 1016) on 08-02-2005, 04:21 PM:
 
Jeez, men and their clothes... You need more then one shirt!
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 08-03-2005, 01:45 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 08-03-2005, 02:32 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Monte L Fullmer (Member # 2797) on 08-03-2005, 02:45 AM:
 
do you see the young girl, or the old woman ...


 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 08-03-2005, 02:49 AM:
 
Monte... I see the Grand-Poo-BAH!

(C'mon! I saw that when I was 10. We've ALL seen THAT one! ...the old lady/young girl thingie...JFC!)
 

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Posted by Monte L Fullmer (Member # 2797) on 08-03-2005, 03:59 AM:
 
Bummer ... it was new to me..and maybe a few others as well ...

.... oh well, I tried.
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 08-03-2005, 04:28 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 08-03-2005, 05:29 AM:
 
Joe, you ASS! I was going to post that but I'm sure I sent that to you ages ago with a "special" caption relating to a *certain* FT member. Ask The Grand-Poo-BAH...or perhaps JJ may have a comment.
 

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Posted by Dan Lyons (Member # 1454) on 08-03-2005, 11:08 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 08-03-2005, 05:12 PM:
 
That's too funny Danny! All the times I was driving, I never knew it was called "road head"...


 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 08-03-2005, 05:14 PM:
 
Phil, if you sent me that pic, then I have long since forgotten. I actually grabbed that image from another forum last night.
 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 08-03-2005, 05:31 PM:
 
Joe, actually I stand corrected. I checked back and saw that at that time I didn't think you were worthy of my December 2004 email.

However, I have reconsidered and have forwarded it to you just now.
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 08-03-2005, 10:47 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Mike Heenan (Member # 392) on 08-03-2005, 11:34 PM:
 
I met this guy in a factory that makes miniature models of factories.


 

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Posted by Will Kutler (Member # 770) on 08-03-2005, 11:58 PM:
 
Hey Monte,

Ya notice in that pic you posted of you and Mark, that Mark resembels Richard Karn...aka Al Borland from "Home Improvement"!

Hey Mark...errrr...Al Jr.....JUST DONT LET TIM ALLEN TOUCH THAT ENCO LATHE OF YOURS!


 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 08-04-2005, 02:58 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 08-04-2005, 04:00 PM:
 

quote: Monte L Fullmer

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I was waiting for that one...LOL (just a coinsidence that I had on the same shirt when I was there - kinda like with Brad wearing his favorite shirt...lol)

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quote:

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Hey Monte,

Ya notice in that pic you posted of you and Mark, that Mark resembels Richard Karn...aka Al Borland from "Home Improvement"!

Hey Mark...errrr...Al Jr.....JUST DONT LET TIM ALLEN TOUCH THAT ENCO LATHE OF YOURS!

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Yea, we were just rehearsing for the first taping of "This Old Cinema" to be aired on the Film-Tech Channel later this year.....

That lathe has a very loooooong story behind it......

Mark
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 08-04-2005, 05:16 PM:
 
The pictures that I post are better than the ones everyone else posts, yet nobody even acknowledges the ones I post. Stop being so boring! I demand everyone be amused by my pictures.


 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 08-04-2005, 06:19 PM:
 
Meh. How 'bout a little St. Elmo's fire?


 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 08-04-2005, 06:48 PM:
 
My picture is better. Everyone hates Emilio Estevez and now you have reminded them of the sad truth that he is, in fact, still a part of humanity and must be stopped at all costs.
 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 08-04-2005, 06:50 PM:
 
Paul: WOW! What a really, REAAAALY cool picture! I LUV it!

Oh, BTW... nice picture Joe.
 

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Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 08-04-2005, 10:56 PM:
 
Yea, Paul.... Keep em comming!

Joe,
Your photos are starting to get a little better so pleeze keep trying......

Mark
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 08-05-2005, 01:16 AM:
 





 

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Posted by Wayne Keyser (Member # 2420) on 08-05-2005, 01:32 AM:
 
"Joe ... pal ..." [taking him gently by the arm and looking straight into his eyes] "...some of us were eating dinner, and that didn't help."

Question: can the pudgy guy in the bottom photo please feed the girl in the top photo ... maybe if he'd give her some of the twinkies he was going to eat?
 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 08-05-2005, 02:14 AM:
 
Cosplayers have no shame. These three are trying to dress (not very hard either) as Spike Spiegel, Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivrusky IV (yes, a girl named Ed), and Faye Valentine (that's the infamous Man-Faye) from the anime series and movie Cowboy Bebop.
 

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Posted by Rachel Gilardi (Member # 1016) on 08-05-2005, 02:55 AM:
 
I HAVE to send that to one of my best friends, he's obsessed with his anime, including Cowboy Bebop, thats just going to piss him off!
 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 08-05-2005, 06:56 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 08-05-2005, 07:00 PM:
 
Here is something else to look at while you are eating:



And yes, it is REAL. Both people and the horse are real dead bodies donated for this "ART" project. I'm not sure if I've posted this before. Isn't art great?
 

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Posted by Kyle McEachern (Member # 2250) on 08-05-2005, 07:55 PM:
 


Sound barriers are fun!
 

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Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 08-06-2005, 02:55 AM:
 

quote: Monte L Fullmer

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do you see the young girl, or the old woman ...

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I see a young girl with her throat slit, and an old woman with no neck.
 

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Posted by Floyd Justin Newton (Member # 1316) on 08-06-2005, 09:58 AM:
 
This is PRICELESS toay the least!
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 08-06-2005, 06:00 PM:
 
Now since we are on page 41 I will post kindler, gentler, cute pictures for all the people here who can't stand anything that isn't politically correct like my previous pictures that weren't commented on (you pussies).




 

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Posted by Floyd Justin Newton (Member # 1316) on 08-06-2005, 07:03 PM:
 
Poor pussies.
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 08-07-2005, 12:43 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Stephen Brown (Member # 292) on 08-07-2005, 06:26 AM:
 
Thats some of the worst photoshopping I've ever seen.
 

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Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 08-07-2005, 02:14 PM:
 
Yep. Joe probably anticipated this.
 

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Posted by Rachel Gilardi (Member # 1016) on 08-07-2005, 02:22 PM:
 
This one belongs to me... As you can see, someone took over my dinner.


 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 08-07-2005, 02:24 PM:
 
"Took over" or "shat on"?
 

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Posted by Rachel Gilardi (Member # 1016) on 08-07-2005, 02:30 PM:
 
A little of both... It wasn't edible anymore.
 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 08-07-2005, 05:29 PM:
 
Hate to tell ya Rach, but it didn't look too edible B4 the birdie num num....


 

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Posted by Brian Michael Weidemann (Member # 2243) on 08-07-2005, 05:37 PM:
 
Ooh, how convenient! I wouldn't have had the time to see anything amusing in there without the clear and distictive red oval drawn in. Thank the gods for that! Spoon-fed humor is so tasty!
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 08-07-2005, 06:28 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Rachel Gilardi (Member # 1016) on 08-07-2005, 07:02 PM:
 

quote: Phil Hill

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Hate to tell ya Rach, but it didn't look too edible B4 the birdie num num....

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Anthonys favorite, chicken with salsa and cheese on top, corn, and potatos of some kind (this particular time it happened to be potato au gratan). Not my favorite meal... hense the leftovers!
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 08-07-2005, 07:10 PM:
 
I thought Anthony was permanently BANNED!
 

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Posted by Rachel Gilardi (Member # 1016) on 08-08-2005, 01:15 AM:
 
His food isn't...

And I think Brad took that ban away.
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 08-08-2005, 01:29 AM:
 
I will reinstate it. Nobody posts under my name in the chat room! I will be watching you, Anthony, looking for excuses to BAN you for any little slip on your part!
 

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Posted by Jeremy Jorgenson (Member # 2989) on 08-08-2005, 01:32 AM:
 
Hey Phil,

re: the image of that Super Test machine on page 40 that you posted... is the printed language above where it says "Super Test" Finnish?
 

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Posted by Rachel Gilardi (Member # 1016) on 08-08-2005, 02:21 AM:
 
He didn't post under your name...
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 08-08-2005, 03:18 AM:
 
Yeah he did, in the chat. I was there. He hacked the program and made it look like I was actually saying the words he was typing. He did that with a lot of people who were in there.
 

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Posted by Rachel Gilardi (Member # 1016) on 08-08-2005, 04:24 AM:
 
Emailed you.
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 08-08-2005, 12:53 PM:
 
Crap! You did!
 

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Posted by Jeremy Fuentes (Member # 2135) on 08-09-2005, 06:45 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Jeremy Jorgenson (Member # 2989) on 08-09-2005, 02:43 PM:
 
Now that's a pinker!
 

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Posted by Chris Mosel (Member # 1451) on 08-09-2005, 03:42 PM:
 
"Stinky-Pinky"!!!!!
 

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Posted by JC Cowles (Member # 914) on 08-09-2005, 05:15 PM:
 


BTW, I love this thread.
 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 08-10-2005, 02:18 PM:
 

quote: Jeremy Jorgenson

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is the printed language above where it says "Super Test" Finnish?

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I have no clue, Jeremy...sorry. Perhaps someone else recognizes that language?

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Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 08-10-2005, 02:45 PM:
 


This looks like it should be a Gary Larson cartoon, but it isn't: this picture was taken in Erwin, Tennessee, on 13 September 1916. It looks like Edison wasn't the only one with a disposing of elephants fixation...
 

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Posted by Gunnar Johansson (Member # 1661) on 08-10-2005, 06:55 PM:
 

quote:

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quote: Jeremy Jorgenson is the printed language above where it says "Super Test" Finnish?

I have no clue, Jeremy...sorry. Perhaps someone else recognizes that language?

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Yeah, that´s Finnish alright. But I´m not fluent enough to tell you what it says. I basically just know what _every_ swede knows: Ei Saa Peitää, which means don´t cover (the radiators).
 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 08-10-2005, 08:48 PM:
 
My buds and me at the Temple in a 1984 road trip...


 

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Posted by Floyd Justin Newton (Member # 1316) on 08-10-2005, 09:54 PM:
 
Gosh, Phil. That's a BIG one.
 

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Posted by Jeremy Jorgenson (Member # 2989) on 08-11-2005, 12:06 AM:
 
Phil & Gunnar, thanks for responding.
 

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Posted by Bernard Tonks (Member # 809) on 08-11-2005, 05:02 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Janne Salminen (Member # 3162) on 08-11-2005, 07:34 AM:
 

quote: Jeremy Jorgenson

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re: the image of that Super Test machine on page 40 that you posted... is the printed language above where it says "Super Test" Finnish?

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Hello Jeremy!
Yes,that language is Finnish. Would you like a translation ?

Gunnar, How come every Swede knows that phrase?
Do you have a lot of Finnish made radiators in Sweden, or what?
 

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Posted by Gunnar Johansson (Member # 1661) on 08-11-2005, 08:21 AM:
 
Dubbelpost, because I made a mistake...
 

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Posted by Gunnar Johansson (Member # 1661) on 08-11-2005, 08:22 AM:
 

quote: Gunnar Johansson was the last to post

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Gunnar, How come every Swede knows that phrase?
Do you have a lot of Finnish made radiators in Sweden, or what?

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On a specific type of radiator (electrical) there is a sticker with that text in Swedish, Danish, Norwegian and Finnish. The one I remember used to be right next to the toilet in my childhood home, so you had plenty of opportunity to study it closely. I don´t think they were finnish-made though.
 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 08-11-2005, 04:31 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 08-11-2005, 04:43 PM:
 
70's TV flashback Phil? Look at the size of that lavalier!
 

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Posted by William Hooper (Member # 71) on 08-12-2005, 01:45 AM:
 
Taking out the trash Sunday morning at Club Fabulous


 

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Posted by Jeff Stricker (Member # 224) on 08-12-2005, 07:04 AM:
 
OK Phil, I'm gonna guess that's Ernie Anderson, aka Ghoulardi. Right?
 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 08-12-2005, 10:01 PM:
 
Close Jeff, but no cigar.

That's actually Ron Sweed who, in the 1970's (Good eye, Paul!), created "The Ghoul" on WKBF-TV in Ohio...an imitator of the original Ernie Anderson's "Ghoulardi" when Anderson moved to Hollywood and became an announcer for ABC-TV.

When Sweed's Ohio show got cancelled in the mid 70's, he left Ohio and moved to WKBD ch 50 in Detroit...where I first knew him. His format was hosting cheesy "B" sci-fi movies and then doing funny bits at commercial breaks... sorta the forerunner to MST2000.

He used to like torturing a character known as "Froggie"... a doofus-looking, foot-tall, plastic frog in a tux ... I remember one night he put an M-80 firecracker in "Froggie" and lit it Live on TV. It was hilarious... the color TV camera couldn't deal with the concussion and freaked out into separate R,G, B images and then finally regained it's registered pic... too funny!
 

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Posted by Jeremy Jorgenson (Member # 2989) on 08-13-2005, 01:28 PM:
 

quote: Janne Salminen

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Hello Jeremy!
Yes,that language is Finnish. Would you like a translation

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Hello Janne... certainly
 

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Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 08-13-2005, 05:34 PM:
 
All dogged out.......

 

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Posted by Monte L Fullmer (Member # 2797) on 08-15-2005, 04:07 AM:
 
Mark..doing his favorite thing - ripping into a STRONG setup ..

..in which I'm now baby-sitting to keep these "boat anchors" running ...



-Monte
 

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Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 08-15-2005, 07:05 AM:
 
Monte,

There's just something that scares me about a picture in which the platter is falling over

Mark


 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 08-15-2005, 01:34 PM:
 
Speaking of optical illusions, check out this picture which was recently posted on the front page of the site. It is some crappy theater that Gordon took pictures of:



Look at the column that the arrows are point at. For the sake of argument, let's say that the Coke tower in the pic is to the EAST of the photographer. Look at the top of the column and it looks like it's surface or reflection or whatever the hell it is faces WEST. Look at the bottom and it's surface faces SOUTH! What the hell? And there is a staircase in this 1-foot wide hallway as well! (Hint: It's all just a reflection)














AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!!!!!!
 

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Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 08-15-2005, 07:52 PM:
 


No, that stairway comes from up above....
 

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Posted by Monte L Fullmer (Member # 2797) on 08-16-2005, 01:13 AM:
 
..Mark hard at work in '99 ....



Guy can't quit...

-Monte
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 08-16-2005, 04:41 AM:
 
But we all wish he would.
 

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Posted by Jeremy Fuentes (Member # 2135) on 08-16-2005, 09:19 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Jason Miller (Member # 2341) on 08-16-2005, 02:13 PM:
 
Anyone else think Monte is stalking Mark?
 

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Posted by Monte L Fullmer (Member # 2797) on 08-16-2005, 02:19 PM:
 
..nah. Would never do such a thing.
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 08-16-2005, 05:24 PM:
 
Stalking? No. Overly obsessed with? You betcha! Just like Mark is overly obsessed with me.
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 08-16-2005, 05:33 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 08-16-2005, 05:45 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Mark Lensenmayer (Member # 134) on 08-16-2005, 06:11 PM:
 
It's remarkable how much John Cameron Mitchell looks like Rachael Griffiths on SIX FEET UNDER in that picture.
 

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Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 08-16-2005, 11:45 PM:
 

quote: Joe Redifer

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Stalking? No. Overly obsessed with? You betcha! Just like Mark is overly obsessed with me.

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 08-17-2005, 12:15 AM:
 
Let me see if I have this right:

Monte is infatuated with Mark.
Mark is infatuated with Joe.
Joe is infatuated with himself.

Well, from all that, I can see their (they're) nuts!
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 08-17-2005, 12:19 AM:
 
they're.

Fool.
 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 08-17-2005, 12:21 AM:
 
HEY! Cut me some slack! I was editing the correction to EXPLAIN IT to you dense ones that didn't get the joke even with the smilies! HA!
 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 08-17-2005, 12:23 AM:
 
What? Do they all wear fishnet briefs or somethin'?

Actual warning sign on some trains in Tokyo: "Beware of perverts"


Copyright © J-List
 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 08-17-2005, 12:55 AM:
 
You know Paul, some of us DO read and know the Japanese language... That text actually sez:

"Attention Ladies! Beware of the American Pervert Known as 'Professor Paul'. He is known to frequent Gaijin bars."
 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 08-17-2005, 01:30 AM:
 
Nope. They won't let me in. Either too gaijin or not gaijin enough since I'm a half-n-half:

A recent wave of nationalism is causing signs like this to show up more and more, even in the tourist areas:



[ 08-17-2005, 03:23 PM: Message edited by: Paul Mayer ]
 

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Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 08-17-2005, 08:10 AM:
 

quote:

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Well, from all that, I can see their (they're) nuts!

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Phil,

Please be careful what you say about my n#ts on this site. As you know my n#ts were recently surgically hoisted back into place after hanging around for many years and they are very sensitive!

Thanks!
Mark
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 08-17-2005, 12:54 PM:
 
オープニングとエンディングをyzさんが担当されるそうで、
作品の発表だけでなく二重にびっくりです。
ゲーム中の音楽は別の方なんですかね？

yz = Yuzo Koshiro, famed person.
 

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Posted by Mike Olpin (Member # 1115) on 08-17-2005, 01:21 PM:
 
Suprise duplexes?
 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 08-17-2005, 03:17 PM:
 
Game music? Meh. Unless it's played by a real orchestra or band like the FF7 concerts that are making the rounds.

Automated translation still has a long way to go.

Kitten porn:


 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 08-17-2005, 07:06 PM:
 
I have no idea where you get "suprise duplexes", Mike. My Japanese is as good as any slack-jawed delinquent Japanese teenager! Anyway Paul, most game music use real instruments, and synthesizers are real as well. Only stuff for wimpy portable systems like the Gameboy rely on MIDI-based stuff anymore. Get with da program. Also, FF sux.
 

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Posted by Jennifer Pan (Member # 2035) on 08-18-2005, 12:00 AM:
 
I was not at all prepared to see kitty porn...
 

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Posted by Adam Martin (Member # 641) on 08-20-2005, 03:27 PM:
 
In suburban Chicago, they're pretty up front about what you can get in their stores.



I wonder if that gal is a client or a customer service rep?
 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 08-20-2005, 04:09 PM:
 

quote: Mark

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...my n#ts were recently surgically hoisted back into place...

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Mark, you make it sound like they used a chainfall!

quote: Adam

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...that gal...

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Ya know Adam, I'm totally shocked and dismayed at your use of the word "gal". Since that word is soooo out-of-date, you must be MUCH older than you say. I myself only hear that in "old" movies...

I'm surprised you didn't use: Hired hand, right-hand girl, bird, babe, dame, or even madam or broad or hussy!

Ya NEED to get with "modern" times, bub!

This bud is for you in your "gal" search... she wants you, Adam!


 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 08-20-2005, 05:50 PM:
 
That individual's eyes look like severely bruised anuses.
 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 08-20-2005, 09:19 PM:
 
And Joe knows a thing or two about the look of bruised anuseseses.

A tribute to Phil's keyboard:


 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 08-20-2005, 11:51 PM:
 
JFC Prof! I quit smokin' cigs when I was 12!

OBTW: I agree... Joe, HTF do YOU know about bruised ass holes? Speaking from personal knowledge, bub?

I was going to post that pic in the look-alike thread since for some reason it reminded me of Jeremy...
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 08-21-2005, 12:19 AM:
 
Hell most female porn stars have bruised anuses. I hate people who have eye sockets that look like brusied anuses. They do not deserve to be alive.
 

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Posted by David Nightingale (Member # 3250) on 08-21-2005, 12:58 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Allison Parsons (Member # 2728) on 08-21-2005, 01:07 AM:
 
I was watching an episode of Doctor 90210 on the E! channel a while back and they were talking about a new product on the market that literally bleaches your (too put it nicely) anus. It's some sort of paste that they apply with a painters brush. A porn star client went in for a 'treatment' and they somewhat showed the procedure being done. I guess it works and it doesn't burn but my ass will never find out if thats true or not.
 

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Posted by Wolff King Morrow (Member # 2226) on 08-21-2005, 02:12 AM:
 
Hey Joe,

Yuzo is awesome. Did you ever listen to his orchestra version of actraiser soundtrack? Its got some decent moments. Although I will admit Yuzo flipped out and sucked major ass on his soundtrack for Beyond Oasis.

Best work of his: Super Adventure Island and Streets of Rage.
 

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Posted by Dan Lyons (Member # 1454) on 08-21-2005, 05:39 PM:
 

The saucers have landed and brought new types of plant life.
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 08-21-2005, 06:07 PM:
 
Wolff, Yuzo is back up to his usual awesomeness with Wangan Midnight 1 and (especially) 2. I have Actraiser Symphonic Suite and it is great. I converse with the fella sometimes. His English has greatly improved this past year. Yuzo's favorite work of his own is Streets of Rage 2.
 

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Posted by Jeremy Fuentes (Member # 2135) on 08-21-2005, 07:33 PM:
 

quote: Phil Hill

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I was going to post that pic in the look-alike thread since for some reason it reminded me of Jeremy...

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 08-21-2005, 08:14 PM:
 
Hahahahahahaha... Sorry bud, I haven't yanked yur chain in a long time and couldn't resist!
 

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Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 08-22-2005, 04:56 AM:
 

quote: Allison Parsons

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I was watching an episode of Doctor 90210 on the E! channel a while back and they were talking about a new product on the market that literally bleaches your (too put it nicely) anus.

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Shouldn't that be the 'Ewwwwww!' channel?
 

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Posted by Jeremy Jorgenson (Member # 2989) on 08-24-2005, 01:18 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Frank Dubrois (Member # 3042) on 08-24-2005, 03:19 AM:
 
Allison, wheres the pictures??
 

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Posted by William Hooper (Member # 71) on 08-24-2005, 03:22 AM:
 
Obviously some team sponsored by Kodak.
 

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Posted by John Pytlak (Member # 331) on 08-24-2005, 08:07 AM:
 
The LA Kings hockey team is owned by Philip Anschutz, not Kodak.

http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=6&id=346013

quote:

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Japan national team goaltender Yutaka Fukufuji signed a contract Tuesday with the Los Angeles Kings in a move that will make him the NHL's first Japanese player.

The 22-year-old Fukufuji put pen to paper on a two-year deal with the Kings and will join the team's training camp with an eye on getting a place on the bench for the opening day of the North American pro ice hockey league season Oct 5.

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Posted by Stephen Furley (Member # 1277) on 08-24-2005, 04:28 PM:
 
Would anyone who doesn't already know care to guess the function of this rather splendid building currently, for at least the last twenty years, undergoing restoration in London. Those from this side of the water will probably recognise it.









Answer at the bottom of the page, but meanwhile, not far away is this rather sinister looking estate. It looks a bit like something out of 1960s Russia, but it's not. It was used as the location for a brief shot in a famous film, and probably other less famous ones. Does anybody recognise it?



Answers:

The building is a sewage pumping station. It's situated at Crossness, on the South bank of the river Thames, to the East of London. It still contains the four original beam engines, out of use for many years. One of them was last run during flooding in 1955. They were out of regular use long before that. One engine has recently been restored to working order, though the pumps are no longer connected to it. The engine house looks very like contempory railway architecture. Crossness has a web site
here:

It's open for visits on certain days during the year, but these have to be booked in advance, except for London Open House day in September, when you can just turn up.

At Crossness the replacement Diesel and electric pumps were installed in other buildings nearby on the vast site, but at the station on the North side of the river, at Abbey Mills, the engins were removed and replaced by electric pumps in about 1930. These are still there on standby, and were in regular use until a new station was built nearby, about five years ago. Abbey Mills is an incredible building, quite different to Crossness on the outside. It's recently been partly restored, but it's very difficult to get inside the place, though I did manage it once.

It seems rather odd that they should make these places so ornate, when nobody but a few engineers would see the inside of them, but they did that sort of thing then. Crossness opened just as the American Civil War was ending.

The pictures are on Kodak Royal Gold 100 Nikon F, 35mm lens. Lit by a single No. 5 flashbulb; needed more light than my small electronic flash puts out.

The estate is Thamesmead South, built on former marsh-land. It was intended to be the answer to London's housing problems when it was built in the '60s, but the 'dream' turned into more of a nightmare, though I believe things have improved somewhat in recent years. The water is not the river, but a lake, formed from an old gravel pit.

The film location? It was where Alex lived, in 'A Clockwork Orange'
 

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Posted by William Hooper (Member # 71) on 08-25-2005, 02:05 AM:
 
There's a really Jekyll & Hyde aspect to Victorian architecture. I'm one of the people who really dislike brick, mortar, & wood Victorian architecture; the people who are really fans of it are probably also fans of Japanese movie monsters. Residential homes, factories, etc., blecch.

But outside of the brick, mortar & wood structures, all the ironwork from the era is really beautiful, often understated, & almost poetic. Lamp posts, fences, gates, that really nuts byzantine interior of the sewage pumping station, posts supporting interior ceiling beams & outside galleries, framework for car barns, staircases, etc.; they're beautiful. It's worth noting also that the exterior design of an ugly Victorian building is not predominantly functional, but handsome Victorian ironwork, whether a fence, garden chair, lamp post or whatever, *is* primarily functional.

There's the bombastic, chunky, psychotic, ugly brick, mortar, & wood Victorian architectural case:


and the handsome Victorian ironwork case:



Hard to believe they're of the same parent, family, or whatever.
 

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Posted by Stephen Furley (Member # 1277) on 08-25-2005, 04:40 AM:
 
Wiliam, I partially agree with you. The picture you posted of Crossness seems to be a very early one; indeed the building on the right seems to be incomplete. There have been a lot of changes since then, the chimney was demolished when the steam plant was de-commishioned, the Mansard roof on the main engine house has gone, replaced at some time by a flat concrete one, the boiler house (the three-gabled low building at the front) was stripped out, and converted into workshops and facilities for staff, which it still is, plus an exhibition and display area, and small lecture room, for visitors. The main entrance Was on the opposite side of the engine house, facing the river. This can no longer be seen from the outside, as another, smaller, engine house was built on to this side in about 1900 to house additional engines while the main ones were re-built and upgraded. These were later removed and replaced by two Diesels, still there, but dis-used for many decades. I think that part of the problem with Victorian buildings is the changes that get made to them over the years; they often don't fit in with the original structure.

Another problem is that many of these buildings need a bloody good clean. Over 100 years of soot and grime make them look very dark and heavy. One wing of Abbey Mills pumping station was cleaned up, and some paint of a really horrible shade of green was replaced before the money ran out, and that wing looks vastly different to the other three. The Crystal Palace looks much better in photographs when it was first built than it does in ones taken just before it burned down, in 1936. Borough Market, near London Bridge, looks much better since it was cleaned, and the roof re-glazed. Glass roofs were intended to let the light in, but many are so dirty that they make the buildings really dark. Also, brick buildings tend to look dark in old photocraphs, due to being taken on orthochromatic plates. Of course, in the case of pumping stations, massive brickwork is necessary to support the load of the engines.

Most of Crossness doesn't look like the photos I posted; the ironwork is rusty, and the brickwork dirty. The place was in a terrible state, it's taken them over twenty years to get it back even to the state it's in now. If you look through the left and right arches in the second picture, you can see some similar engine parts, restored on the left and un-restored on the right.

One engine, and the octogon is about all that's been re-painted. If you look at the octogon, one of the 'MBW' (Metropolitan Board of Works) monograms looks rather faded; this is the best of the original paintwork which remained; the other has been re-painted to match.

On the Crossness site is a picture of Sir Joseph Bazalgette, the engineer responsible for the building of the London sewerage system. His great-great grandson, Peter Bazalgette, is a member of the trust which is restoring the place. He is a television producer, responsible for, anongst other things, the 'Big Brother' programme. A non-fan of Big Brother once remarked that 'Joseph pumped it, and Peter produces it'

William, where is your bottom picture? It looks exactly like Dulwich Park, near where I used to live.
 

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Posted by William Hooper (Member # 71) on 08-25-2005, 06:15 AM:
 
The bottom picture is Hyde Park; I pulled them all off the web.

Even cleaned up, the Victorian commercial & residential architectural styles are still sort of unappealing to me. Believe it or not, it was not localized to England, but was/is a common style in the US. Here's the Jax brewery in New Orleans:

If they hadn't put those trees on the roof, it would be insufferable.

It's all a matter of taste, of course. I know folks who go nuts over Victorian commercial architecture, the more baroque the better. After admitting to dislike of the exteriors, I must also admit to really liking the interiors of Victorian commercial buildings: high ceilinged, open, very nice cast iron posts, very classical. Victorian residential interiors on the other hand to me look like horrible home furnishings landfills that it would be impossible to walk through.
 

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Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 08-27-2005, 10:25 AM:
 


This building is on the edge of the university campus on which the archive I work for is located; in case it's a bit fuzzy, the second line of the banner says 'quality student homes'. The (I suspect, new) owners clearly believe that students aren't a very fussy bunch!
 

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Posted by Oscar Neundorfer (Member # 458) on 08-28-2005, 06:04 AM:
 


Picture taken on Aug 24 at the new Chattanooga,Tennessee Aquarium in the butterfly garden



My current office and lab setup in my basement.

[ 08-28-2005, 07:29 AM: Message edited by: Oscar Neundorfer ]
 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 08-29-2005, 01:45 AM:
 
Alltogether now: "Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!"


 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 08-29-2005, 07:49 PM:
 
More "Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!"'s

Corky: "Get outta MY bed!"



 

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Posted by Jennifer Pan (Member # 2035) on 08-29-2005, 09:09 PM:
 
Phil , do they respond when you call out their names?
 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 08-29-2005, 10:03 PM:
 
They used to, Jen. They have both passed on to ferret heaven...
 

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Posted by Jennifer Pan (Member # 2035) on 08-29-2005, 10:11 PM:
 
Awww... Sorry to hear that.
 

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Posted by Mark J. Marshall (Member # 1409) on 08-30-2005, 04:30 PM:
 
It's nice to know that if you're failing basic English like Mr. Gay obviously did, you could always become a correspondent for the Associated Press. (Read the caption.)



PS - Do you have to be a cop to own a "shoot gun"? If not, where can I get one?
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 08-31-2005, 06:20 PM:
 
I saw this on another forum and I just had to post it here so everyone could laugh.


 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 08-31-2005, 08:20 PM:
 
Joe, you FINALLY have posted a pic worth commenting about!

Not that I really care, but I wonder if that BIG belt-buckle makes up for some small "thing" that guy is hiding?

Also, what's with the pearl (or poca shell) necklaces? Perhaps K-Y(le) could answer that?
 

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Posted by Clint Koch (Member # 1179) on 08-31-2005, 09:27 PM:
 
What kinda forum did that picture come from? I'd like to know so I can avoid it at all cost!
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 08-31-2005, 10:04 PM:
 
It was a videogame forum with a thread on current teen trends and why people hate them. I just love the expression on the left guy's face. Seriously, what the hell?
 

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Posted by Monte L Fullmer (Member # 2797) on 09-01-2005, 01:00 AM:
 
Yea, what's the BS with the pants hanging down below the butt with the boxers showing - some sort of gang/drug mating ritual?
 

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Posted by Aaron Sisemore (Member # 145) on 09-02-2005, 05:09 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Steve Scott (Member # 630) on 09-03-2005, 11:50 AM:
 
And 9/10ths of a what the fuck!
 

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Posted by Mike Heenan (Member # 392) on 09-07-2005, 01:35 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 09-07-2005, 07:13 PM:
 
"It was soooo scary, I... "

...
 

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Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 09-08-2005, 10:31 AM:
 
Ah-HAA! The true design objective of one of Phil's rides!

(BTW, Mike... that is absolutely HILARIOUS!)
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 09-08-2005, 01:50 PM:
 
Yesterday's Family Circus.


 

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Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 09-08-2005, 04:49 PM:
 
That coaster in Phil's pic is the Top Thrill Dragster at Cedar Point, in Ohio. 120mph and over 400 feet tall. The ride lasts about 20 seconds but I understand it's the most intense 20 seconds of your whole life.

It's since been beaten in height by a similar ride called Kingda Ka at Six Flags Great Adventure, in New Jersey.
 

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Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 09-08-2005, 05:53 PM:
 
Here's a listing of the fastest coasters in the U.S..... I still prefer wooden coasters to todays modern ones. Some of the wooden coaster structures are in themselves incredible wonders..... each also has its own creaks and groans thrown in as though its talking to you.
Fastest Coasters Site

Approximately 5 minuites from my home here in Utah we have a very old Theme park called Lagoon. It opened up in the late 1800's and today is a huge very popular place. The 107 year old Herschell Spillman Carousel and the 1921 wooden roller coaster still remain. The front of the wooden coaster and a great majority of the park was destroyed in a big fire back in 1953. The carousel was saved by fireman pouring a constant stream of water over the top of it... it survived but most of the park did not. It was rebuilt bigger and better and they seem to add a new high tech ride to it every year. If you're in this area its worth a visit .
Lagoon Park

Mark
 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 09-08-2005, 06:49 PM:
 
Being a rollercoaster freak, I've been fortunate to be able to ride all sorts of coasters all over the world since my job took me all over and I certainly took advantage of it.

I've enjoyed not only coasters, but bungee jumps, sling-shots, barf rides, etc. THE ONLY rides I cannot stand (AND WILL NOT RIDE) are those that move one backwards and loop or corkscrew. I get really disorientated and become a dizzy bitch! HA!

I agree with Mark about the wooden coasters... they are my favorite as well. While there may be other woods (HA!) that are bigger, faster, etc, "Colossus" at Magic Mountain in Valencia, CA is my favorite.

Mike is correct in naming that coaster in my pic... but as cool as it looks... I DON'T have the balls to ride it. While that girl pee'd her pants, I'd shit mine!

(I probably would have ridden it my younger days, but the stupidity of my youth has FINALLY given way to common sense and now want to live a little longer...)
 

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Posted by Steve Guttag (Member # 268) on 09-08-2005, 07:44 PM:
 
My favorite coaster is also a wooden one..."The Grizzly" in Kings Dominion (Doswell, VA).

Pictures of the Grizzly

The loops, corkscrews, and even most drops don't bother me much...though being afraid of heights, the drops do give me the willies...but if there was no excitement...where would the "thrill" be? The Grizzly doesn't have any of those...it is just beats the livin Q$%#@% out of you. It also has a part that makes you think it is going to decapitate you too.

I think they rig it to have boards drop off through out the day to give it more charm (faux boards...not actual support members).
 

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Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 09-08-2005, 11:40 PM:
 
During the Great States convention last month, some friends and I went to Silverwood, a theme park 20 miles north of Coeur d'Alene. They have not one, but two big wood coasters -- Tremors and Timber Terror. Both were excellent. My favorite wood coaster is the Twister II at Elitch Gardens, in Denver. It's fairly new but has the classic look & feel. And beats the crap out of you while scaring the shit out of you.
 

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Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 09-08-2005, 11:48 PM:
 

quote: Mike Blakesley

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It's since been beaten in height by a similar ride called Kingda Ka at Six Flags Great Adventure, in New Jersey.

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Yeah, I keep seeing billboards about it. You're absolutely right, Mike.
 

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Posted by Daryl C. W. O'Shea (Member # 1303) on 09-09-2005, 01:57 AM:
 
I've heard of marking splices, but this guy is dedicated:


 

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Posted by Dan Lyons (Member # 1454) on 09-09-2005, 02:57 AM:
 
ahh, poor bug.
 

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Posted by Monte L Fullmer (Member # 2797) on 09-09-2005, 03:12 AM:
 

quote: Mark Gulbrandsen

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...we have a very old Theme park called Lagoon.

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quote:

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I DON'T have the balls to ride it. While that girl pee'd her pants, I'd shit mine!

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Phil,

At least "Shittin" in yer pants is not as obvious as peeing in yer pants...... Bings to mind the tilt-a-whirl scene in "Sandlot".

Mark
 

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Posted by Steven Privett (Member # 718) on 09-09-2005, 07:54 AM:
 
That does look like one hell of a coaster Phil!! I must be brainless because I will ride any of them. I

Is that snow on the ground? Looks like it is freezing there.. What would the wind chill factor be on that coaster?? And why is that girl in a short sleeve shirt? All of them for that matter..
 

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Posted by Mark J. Marshall (Member # 1409) on 09-09-2005, 09:46 AM:
 
I remember when The Grizzly opened in Kings Dominion. I was a young whipper snapper back then. I remember riding it with my grandfather, who at the top of the first hill practically stood up and said, "Where the hell does it go??" We all grabbed him and pulled him back down into his seat. I agree, that is a very cool coaster, and one of my all time favorites as well.

I also enjoy riding the backwards train on the Rebel Yell. When you get two operators working the forwards and backwards trains in sync with each other so that they are trully "racing"... well, that's a blast looking over at the folks in the other train.
 

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Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 09-09-2005, 10:53 AM:
 

quote: Steven Privett

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Looks like it is freezing there.. What would the wind chill factor be on that coaster?? And why is that girl in a short sleeve shirt?

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I'd say the shot of the coaster was probably not taken at the same time the girl peed herself. But you have a point - she may not have even been there.
 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 09-09-2005, 07:21 PM:
 
Gosh Steven, I don't think I said those pics were related... Wait! Let me go check my post!

Gee, I didn't! The pics were from different sources to illustrate a point... guess you didn't get it, huh?

The coaster pic was the one I thought best to convey the magnitude of that coaster since MOST all others are taken from the ground and are lame like this one that looks like a giant penis:




As far as that girl pic goes... It's from HERE and is meant to illustrate my point of HOW FUCKING SCARY that ride is.

I'm sorry you didn't get it.

Yours in Christ,
 

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Posted by Allison Parsons (Member # 2728) on 09-09-2005, 10:31 PM:
 
Thats a nice penis...whoops, I mean rollercoaster.
 

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Posted by Charles Phillips (Member # 2594) on 09-10-2005, 01:24 AM:
 
The "Gemini" at Cedar Point is my favorite wooden rollercoaster. It's the one behind the Top Thrill Dragster (penis) in Phil's picture. Trains go through there so quickly, you don't even have to wait in line. No matter how many times in a row I go, it never seems to get boring.
 

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Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 09-10-2005, 01:46 PM:
 

quote: Steven Privett

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Is that snow on the ground? Looks like it is freezing there.

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That IS snow on the ground. The picture was taken from the air, in the winter. In all likelyhood, it WAS freezing there at the time since Cedar Point is in northern Ohio. The park is closed in winter.
 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 09-10-2005, 08:04 PM:
 
"Drive on by, Martha. That place doesn't look too appetizing..."


 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 09-11-2005, 07:02 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Steven Privett (Member # 718) on 09-12-2005, 08:33 AM:
 
Oh I got it Phil... You found another lame reason to unleash one of your sick fetishes onto the Film-Tech community.
And then that last one, I hope you wash your hands before you touch the film.
 

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Posted by Jeremy Fuentes (Member # 2135) on 09-12-2005, 08:50 AM:
 
Phil runs an Adult Video theater. They havent used film since the late 70's.
 

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Posted by Steven Privett (Member # 718) on 09-12-2005, 11:18 AM:
 
Well that explains the perversions.
I lost my job to video back in '83 at Stars Theatre in Houston. 35mm shared the screen with video until our contract ran out. Twelve hours of film and twelve hours of video.
 

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Posted by Tommie Evans (Member # 2674) on 09-12-2005, 02:44 PM:
 
Lamphouse

Xenon Bulb

3D model of Cinemeccanica lamphouse and OSRAM bulb I am working on. Created using CINEMA 4D 9.0 and a Digital SLR (texture maps).

Would have posted the pic but it's my own website and not a server?
 

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Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 09-12-2005, 03:19 PM:
 
Tommie - why not upload the pic to Film-Tech dot com? It makes no difference where it comes from -- the system copies it onto the F-T server. Look at the FAQ to find out how to do it. It's easy.
 

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Posted by Tommie Evans (Member # 2674) on 09-12-2005, 03:37 PM:
 
Mike - Thank you!



 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 09-12-2005, 04:59 PM:
 
My my my Steven, I was stupefied by your asinine comments.

You certainly have a way with words and have re-affirmed to everyone by your vulgar, half-witted posts just how feebleminded and moronic you are as a person.

Chill out... have some more Kool-Aid.

BTW Jeremy: I've never owned or operated a "Porno" theatre. I only produced, directed, and/or filmed/taped "Adult" entertainment.
 

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Posted by Matthew Bailey (Member # 601) on 09-12-2005, 09:40 PM:
 
Want one of these MG's for you carbon arc booth? They're 275 kw & 5 tons each.
 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 09-12-2005, 10:09 PM:
 
I've been doing some 3-D stuff lately. Yours looks pretty good, Tommie.

I've been doing it with Blender. The program is pretty tough to use. If you want to check it out: http://www.blender.org
 

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Posted by Tommie Evans (Member # 2674) on 09-13-2005, 10:56 AM:
 
Thank you Randy, may have to add Blender to my collection when I have the cash. I have started to build a Vic 5, although not happy with it. . . .be interesting to see your models?

Maybe i'll be approached by a leading cinema technology company, but for now i'll stay as a humble old projectionist


 

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Posted by Dieter Depypere (Member # 3184) on 09-13-2005, 01:39 PM:
 



 

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Posted by Richard Fowler (Member # 893) on 09-13-2005, 02:22 PM:
 
Cinemeccanica of France had a Powerpoint program with 3D images in motion of projection equipment very similar to your stills.
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 09-13-2005, 03:46 PM:
 
Dieter I used to have a Dolby Digital shirt that had that cartoon on the front, in color (like me).
 

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Posted by Mike Heenan (Member # 392) on 09-13-2005, 04:00 PM:
 
Soccer hooligan in training, I think


 

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Posted by Matthew Bailey (Member # 601) on 09-13-2005, 04:58 PM:
 
Check this out Tommie & everyone 3D Quake Arena 3 version of Bewitched TV house along with Auto Cad models,floor plans & elevations & old drawings. http://www.1164.com/quake/index.html
 

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Posted by Dieter Depypere (Member # 3184) on 09-14-2005, 01:43 PM:
 
I have decided to play a little bit with auto-cad 2002 and these are the results:








 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 09-14-2005, 02:12 PM:
 
Blender is FREE!

Back in the day when video games were young, there was a system called "NeoGeo". Of course, they went under. However they took the program used to design their games, worked on it, repackaged it, improved it and released it as an Open Source program.

The ineterface is rather difficult to wrap your brain around but, once you do it's pretty easy.

I don't have a lot of free time. I work with it only when I get time.
I'll be able to do some good things with it soon.
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 09-14-2005, 03:18 PM:
 
I don't think Blender had anything to do with the Neo Geo (designed by Japanese developer SNK using the same architecture and chipset as a Sega Genesis, only with some more speed, memory, colors, and more sound channels) since the Neo Geo was not capable of 3D graphics. Unless they added that part completely and just kind of left the 2D graphics and sound stuff stuffed away in the back of the program somewhere.
 

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Posted by Tommie Evans (Member # 2674) on 09-14-2005, 04:20 PM:
 
Randy,

I've also been working on an 3D animated version of the xenon lamp. First one shows the inlet current in action and the second shows the lamp illuminating. You may need the current DivX drivers to view them. Enjoy.

www.gomusicinc.co.uk/Xenon001c

www.gomusicinc.co.uk/Xenon001d
 

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Posted by Wolff King Morrow (Member # 2226) on 09-14-2005, 04:50 PM:
 
Joe, you forgot about the Micheal Beard factor of the Neo Geo.

I still remember shelling out $215 bucks for Fatal Fury 2 back when I had a Neo Geo home console. In comparison, my arcade 2-slot only set me back $400 bucks (got a great deal from a private owner).

Since then, I now use FBA and Powerstrip for my Neo Geo gaming.
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 09-14-2005, 07:13 PM:
 
Michael Beard is dead. I have the PC Engine Arcade Card version of Fatal Fury 2 which is better than the Neo Geo version and has more Michael Beard. Wolffff, check your private messages.

I read the history and the guy who started Blender named his company NeoGeo. He was a fool.
 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 09-14-2005, 07:26 PM:
 
Lord of the Rings -for Martha.
 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 09-14-2005, 07:30 PM:
 
That is hilarious!
 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 09-14-2005, 07:36 PM:
 
Well, Joe, Instead of listening to what other people tell me I should have just read the bio that they post on their own website.

Blender Bio Page

I didn't realize it was another NeoGeo.
I stand corrected.
 

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Posted by Adam Martin (Member # 641) on 09-14-2005, 08:34 PM:
 
Evil windmills in Minnesota


 

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Posted by Scott D. Neff (Member # 185) on 09-14-2005, 08:41 PM:
 
Oh great -- now all we need is a picture of a damned water tower.
 

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Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 09-15-2005, 02:20 AM:
 
There is a "wind farm" under construction in central Montana that will have 90(!) of those towers. They are nearly 400 feet tall. The blades are 120 feet long. It's supposed to be done next month.
 

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Posted by Edwin Schwing (Member # 1270) on 09-15-2005, 11:34 AM:
 
Adam,

Those evil Minnesota windmills bought my Dad a new pickup! My Dad has 3 of them on his farm. They also employ alot of people in my hometown. (population 693)

What a nice picture!

E
 

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Posted by John Pytlak (Member # 331) on 09-15-2005, 12:16 PM:
 


Robert Moses Generating Station, Niagara Falls NY

http://www.nypa.gov/facilities/niagara.htm

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When the Niagara project produced its first power in 1961, it was the largest hydropower facility in the Western world at the time. Today, Niagara is the biggest electricity producer in New York State, generating 2.4 million kilowatts—enough power to light 24 million 100-watt bulbs at once! This low-cost electricity saves the state's residents and businesses hundreds of millions of dollars a year.

In 1991, the Power Authority began a $300-million upgrade and modernization at the project’s Robert Moses Niagara Power Plant. All 13 turbines are being replaced and other improvements are being made to generating equipment in the power dam, with completion scheduled for 2006.

Here's how it works:
The Niagara project, located about 4 1/2 miles downstream from the Falls, consists of two main facilities: the Robert Moses Niagara Power Plant, with 13 turbines, and the Lewiston Pump-Generating Plant, with 12 pump-turbines. In between the two plants is a forebay capable of holding 164 billion gallons of water; behind the Lewiston plant, a 1,900-acre reservoir holds additional supplies of this liquid fuel.

Put very simply, we divert water from the Niagara River—up to 375,000 gallons a second—and convey it through conduits under the City of Niagara Falls to Lewiston. From there, water flowing through the Robert Moses plant spins turbines that power generators, converting this mechanical energy into electrical energy.

At night, when electricity demand is low, the Lewiston units operate as pumps, transporting water from the forebay up to the plant's reservoir.

During the daytime, when electricity use peaks, the Lewiston pumps are reversed and become generators, similar to those at the Moses plant. In this way, the water can be used to produce electricity twice, increasing production and efficiency.

To balance the need for power with a desire to preserve the beauty of Niagara Falls, the United States and Canada signed a treaty in 1950 that regulates the amount of water diverted for hydroelectricity production. On average, more than 200,000 cubic feet per second (cfs), or 1.5 million gallons of water a second, flow from Lake Erie into the Niagara River. The 1950 pact requires that at least 100,000 cfs of water spill over the Falls during the daylight hours in the tourist season, April through October. This flow may be cut in half at night during this period and at all times the rest of the year.

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In order to preserve the scenic beauty of the Falls, the Niagara River Water Diversion Treaty of 1950 stipulated that no water diversions for power generation would be allowed that would reduce the flow of water over Niagara Falls as follows:


no less than 100,000 cubic feet of water per second (cf/s) From April 1st to September 15th (inclusive) between 8 a.m. and 10 p.m.

no less than 100,000 cubic feet of water per second (cf/s) from September 16th to October 31st (inclusive) between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m.

no less than 50,000 cubic feet of water per second (cf/s) from November 1st to March 31st (inclusive)

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quote: filler

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This flow may be cut in half at night during this period and at all times the rest of the year.

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People always think I'm crazy when I tell them you can hear them turn the falls off at 8 or 10pm.

I passed this prop blade (which was doing 100 km/h) going north bound on the 400, heading home from a theatre, at 6:48am on Sept 2:

quote: Edwin Schwing

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They also employ alot of people in my hometown. (population 693)

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A nuclear power generating facility could employ everyone in town!
 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 09-15-2005, 05:04 PM:
 
While hydro green power is esthetically pleasing, it's not available if ya don't have the water.

Edwin, I totally agree with Adam about those evil wind mills. While these are really cool:



These are just plain ugly and noisy...especially when you get HUNDREDS of them in a farm like along I-10 near El Paso Texas and in California. YUK! Here we have a nice scenic view from I-10 of the mountains in California...if ONLY we could see them.



Oh, and don't forget to f*ckup the coastlines...



Or other scenic places....


 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 09-15-2005, 05:55 PM:
 
Phil your pics have been utterly RUINED by some form of evil watermark. I could remove them but I am too lazy.
 

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Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 09-15-2005, 08:04 PM:
 
John..... that barely qualifies as hydro anymore... might light up a couple of florescent work lights though...

While your "baby" sized hydro generating station may be older and more famous ours is much more stately, has an incredible bridge with a 700 foot drop in front of it, and has caused far more political trouble and unrest with those that claim to be ecolgically minded(they claim that until you shut off their power ). I find it hard to beat Lake Powell and Glen Canyon Dam for visuals or specs.



Glen Canyon Dam


Glen Canyon Dam is the second highest concrete-arch dam in the United States (Hoover Dam, which stands 726 feet (221 meters) above bedrock, is 16 feet (4.9 meters) taller)


Type ................................................................................................................................. Concrete arch

Construction period .................................................................................................................. 1957-1964

Prime contractor ............................................................................... Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation

Height above bedrock ............................................................................................... 710 feet (216 meters)

Height above original river channel ............................................................................. 583 feet (178 meters)

Thickness at lowest point of foundation ........................................................................ 300 feet (91 meters)

Maximum thickness (right abutment) ......................................................................... 350 feet (106 meters)

Thickness at crest ...................................................................................................... 25 feet (7.6 meters)

Crest length (arc at axis of dam) ............................................................................. 1,560 feet (475 meters)

Volume of concrete

Dam only ................................................................ 4,901,000 cubic yards (3,750,000 cubic meters)
Powerplant only ............................................................ 469,000 cubic yards (359,000 cubic meters)
Total concrete ......................................................... 5,370,000 cubic yards (4,110,000 cubic meters)

Capacity of bucket used to pour concrete ............................................................... 24 tons (22 metric tons)

Number of buckets of concrete poured to construct the dam ...................................... approximately 400,000

Total rock and sand excavated ............................................ 5,509,484 cubic yards (4,212,551 cubic meters)


(This includes 18,000 feet (5,486 meters) of tunnels and 127 feet (38.7 meters) below the original river channel)


Cost of dam ........................................................................................................................ $187,000,000

Cost of dam, powerplant, switchyard, town of Page, and other associated facilities ................... $314,000,000

Cost of recreational facilities ................................................................................................. $ 28,000,000

Cost of environmental studies (1983-1995) ............................................................................. $104,000,000


(Power revenues continue to fund monitoring and research activities at a cost of about $8,000,000 per year)



River Outlet Works


Number of outlet pipes ........................................................................................................................... 4

Size of each outlet pipe ................................................................................. 8 feet ( 2 meters) in diameter

Combined discharge capacity ............................ 15,000 cubic feet per second (420 cubic meters per second)


Spillways


Number of spillway openings .................................................................................................................. 2


(Each spillway tunnel reduces in size from 48 to 41 feet (15 to 12 meters) in diameter)


Elevation of spillway crest ................................................................................... 3,648 feet (1,112 meters)

Combined discharge capacity ....................... 208,000 cubic feet per second (5,890 cubic meters per second)


Glen Canyon Powerplant


Number of generating units .................................................................................................................... 8

Nameplate capacity .................................................................................................... 1,296,000 kilowatts

Number of penstocks ............................................................................................................................ 8


(Each penstock reduces in size from 15 to 14 feet (4.6 to 4.3 meters) in diameter)


Combined discharge capacity ........................... 33,200 cubic feet per second (940 cubic meters per second)

Hydraulic turbines ................................................................................................................. Francis-type

Cost of powerplant ................................................................................................................ $97,000,000


Milestones


Construction authorized ...................................................................................................... April 11, 1956

First construction contract awarded (right diversion tunnel excavation) ................................. October 1, 1956

Diversion of Colorado River around dam site .................................................................... February 11, 1959

First bucket of concrete ...................................................................................................... June 17, 1960

Last bucket of concrete ............................................................................................. September 13, 1963

First power generation ................................................................................................. September 4, 1964

Dedicated by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson ........................................................................ September 22, 1966

Glen Canyon National Recreation Area established .......................................................... October 27, 1972


Glen Canyon Bridge


Glen Canyon Bridge is the second highest steel-arch bridge in the United States

Type ....................................................................................................................................... Steel arch

Prime contractor ....................................................................................... Kiewit-Judson & Pacific-Murphy

Construction period .................................................................................... February 1957 to January 1959

Height above river .................................................................................................... 700 feet (213 meters)

Span of bridge arch ................................................................................... ........ 1,028 feet (313.3 meters)

Length of deck ................................................................................................... 1,271 feet (387.4 meters)

Vertical rise of arch ................................................................................ ................ 165 feet (50.3 meters)

Width of roadway (including sidewalks) ........................................................................... 30 feet (9 meters)


Lake Powell


Start of storage ............................................................................................................... March 13, 1963

Completion of initial filling ................................................................................................... June 22, 1980

Total capacity when full at elevation


3,700 feet (1,128 meters) .................................... 26,215,000 acre-feet* (32,336 million cubic meters)


Surface area when full ......................................................................... 266 square miles (68,900 hectares)

Surface acres when full .................................................................. 61,390 surface acres (65,315 hectares)

Length of lake .................................................................................................. 186 miles (299 kilometers)

Miles of shoreline ....................................................................................... 1,960 miles (3,150 kilometers)

Depth of water at dam when full ................................................................................ 560 feet (171 meters)


*An acre-foot of water = 325,851 gallons (1,233,350 liters); enough to supply an average family of four for one year
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 09-15-2005, 10:17 PM:
 
Please start posting interesting things again k thanks.
 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 09-15-2005, 10:49 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 09-15-2005, 11:48 PM:
 


Sorry about the watermark, but I didn't want to have sleepless nights worrying about my hard work being stolen and everything I worked for flushed down the drain and my life ruined forever. Now I can rest easy since I watermarked the image like the pansie-assed corporate pussyfuck that I am.
 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 09-16-2005, 12:02 AM:
 
Hahahahaha Ok, I might have known you couldn't let it go...

Since I lifted those pics from some website; I didn't have control over the watermarks but thought the pics illustrated my point the best.

BTW: I see your doggie is pissing on a mac? Smart dog.

Oh, AND, why is MY pic on that screen at pissing-time? HUH?
 

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Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 09-16-2005, 12:49 AM:
 

 

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Posted by William Hooper (Member # 71) on 09-16-2005, 01:14 AM:
 

quote: Daryl C. W. O'Shea

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I passed this prop blade (which was doing 100 km/h) going north bound on the 400

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I can't imagine why they'd build such a huge prop. That's exactly the sort of thing that's usually CGI'd these days.
 

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Posted by Daryl C. W. O'Shea (Member # 1303) on 09-16-2005, 01:16 AM:
 
If you look at the hundreds of identical blades in the pictures before and after the one I posted it might not be too hard to imagine.
 

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Posted by Adam Martin (Member # 641) on 09-16-2005, 05:50 AM:
 
Downtown Pella, Iowa (the home of Pella windows and doors!); the Pella Opera House; and another evil windmill.


 

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Posted by John Pytlak (Member # 331) on 09-16-2005, 08:06 AM:
 

quote: Mark Gulbrandsen

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John..... that barely qualifies as hydro anymore... might light up a couple of florescent work lights though...

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DAM NAME
RIVER
LOCATION
Power Output (MegaWatts)

Grand Coulee
Columbia
Washington
6180

Chief Joseph
Columbia
Washington
2457

John Day
Columbia
Oregon
2160

Bath County P/S
Little Back Creek
Virginia
2100

Robert Moses - Niagara
Niagara
New York
1950

The Dalles
Columbia
Oregon
1805

Luddington
Lake Michigan
Michigan
1657

Raccoon Mountain
Tennessee River
Tennessee
1530

Hoover
Colorado
Nevada
1434

Pyramid
California Aqueduct
California
1250

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Glen Canyon doesn't even make the top 10 list for power output:

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John,

You missed the point...... I wasn't comparing output of the two.... Of course both are small hydro and both really are miniscule in comparison to the top ten in the world. Of that list only Grand Cooulee is large enough to be a member... I was comparing the visual, astetic, and political aspects of the two. Today no one would ever attempt to build a dam like Glen Canyon. But it is interesting that Nevada is building a bridge thats very similar to Glen canyon Bridge to bypass Hoover Dam.... BTW: Grand Coulee Dam just doesn't have that take your breath away visual impact even though its as larges as it is. Its just another dam across another river.

I watched them build the Ludington Pumped Power Projecto back in the late 60's and early 70's. Was a very novel way to generate power but its use is strictly for use only during peak demand periods. It replaces networks of gas turbine "peakers" that were used before theis project was completed. Since there are no pumps that use LESS electricity that they can generate the resiovoir is only pumped full during non-peak demand times. The neat thing is that the pump motors which are reversable are also the generators.

Mark
 

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Posted by Daryl C. W. O'Shea (Member # 1303) on 09-16-2005, 04:07 PM:
 
The pumps don't use less power, they just use excess power.

The pumps are run at night, when demand is low and there is excess generating capacity, to fill their 27 billion gallon reservoir.

During the day, when there is no excess capacity (they would rather run hydro electric at full power than to use more coal power), the pumps are reversed (becoming generators) and the reservoir is drained.

They do the same thing at many hydro electric stations, including the Niagara generating stations.

In any case, they'd be better utilized to pump cooling water through a nuclear generating facility.
 

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Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 09-16-2005, 04:11 PM:
 
Agreed Daryl and I corected the post to that accord. It still does eliminate all the messy high maintainance peaking stations that were once scattred all around Michigan. Someplace I have some neat photos I took back during the construction.

Speaking of Nuclear Power.... Remember that 1974 book "We Almost Lost Detroit"?

Mark
 

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Posted by Daryl C. W. O'Shea (Member # 1303) on 09-16-2005, 04:15 PM:
 
Yeah, you'all should'a bought some CANDU reactors (which conveniently don't require enriched uranium).
 

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Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 09-16-2005, 04:27 PM:
 

quote: Daryl C. W. O'Shea

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Yeah, you'all should'a bought some CANDU reactors

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Well, the U.S. wouldn't allow that since Imax owns all the patents to them .

The idea in the FBR-1 was to make more fuel than it consumed, quite a few countries have them operating today with China being the latest to start constructuion on one. FBR-1 did operate sucessfully from 1962 to 1966... suffered the partial core meltdown in 1966 and is in stages of dismantlement today. Used liquid sodium to act as a moderator as do many of those in operation in other parts of the world. Liquid sodium is almost as dangerous as hypergolic rocket fuel and combusts on contact with air. Neato!

Mark
 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 09-17-2005, 01:03 AM:
 
The most appropriate name EVER for a sushi/seafood establishment.


 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 09-17-2005, 01:22 AM:
 
JFC Grand-Poo-BAH, I think that was posted ages ago in the Joke Forum... Ummm by me! Or at least I sent it to Mr. Maartini and "The Group", which included you, for posting.

You REALLY NEED to get with it! Oh, and get a new writer too...
 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 09-17-2005, 02:02 AM:
 
Oh, so sorry Phil. I'll post something that I know hasn't been posted yet...this "artistic" picture of you in front of a waterfall.


 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 09-17-2005, 02:06 AM:
 
You mean when I was at your house?
 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 09-17-2005, 02:18 AM:
 
No silly, that's the picture you were all proud of because you were able to Photoshop out the tattoo you supposedly have on your ass. I'm not sure where or who took it (and I don't want to know!)
 

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Posted by Aaron Sisemore (Member # 145) on 09-17-2005, 02:54 AM:
 

quote: Brad Miller

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The most appropriate name EVER for a sushi/seafood establishment.

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Too bad its a Photoshop job. The real name of that establishment is FU KIM. It's in Webster, TX.

-Aaron
 

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Posted by Mark J. Marshall (Member # 1409) on 09-17-2005, 10:58 AM:
 

 

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Posted by Mike Heenan (Member # 392) on 09-17-2005, 01:17 PM:
 
Lol, that's gotta be one of those reverse Nigerian scam pictures.
 

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Posted by Aaron Sisemore (Member # 145) on 09-17-2005, 03:38 PM:
 

quote: Mike Heenan

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that's gotta be one of those reverse Nigerian scam pictures.

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My thoughts exactly.

-Aaron
 

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Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 09-17-2005, 08:12 PM:
 
Ditto. Btw, I LOVE 419eater.com! There's some hilarious stuff there.

quote: Aaron Sisemore

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The real name of that establishment is FU KIM.

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That's even better: FUKIM!
 

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Posted by Mark J. Marshall (Member # 1409) on 09-17-2005, 08:45 PM:
 
You guys are correct... 419eater.com is just about the only site that is guaranteed to make me fall out of my chair laughing every time I go there.

I can't resist posting just one more...

(Last one, I promise The rest, eighty some pages worth, are in the trophy room on 419eater.com)


 

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Posted by Allison Parsons (Member # 2728) on 09-18-2005, 12:30 AM:
 
I'm so not understanding the reverse Nigerian picture thing. Someone explain.
 

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Posted by Mike Heenan (Member # 392) on 09-18-2005, 01:19 AM:
 
It's hilarious what they do, click on the link Mark provided and read the FAQ and the Home link, it explains a little of the story behind the site and the scams that the Nigerians pull on people.
 

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Posted by Kyle McEachern (Member # 2250) on 09-18-2005, 01:39 AM:
 
Basically to summarize..."419 scams" are those email scams saying "Your uncle died and left you 150 million dollars, you just have to claim it, and to do that, send a $10,000 deposit and proof that you're you and we'll get the money right to you" sort of things, and a lot of them are run out of Nigeria...so what these people do is say "Sure, I'll send that money right over, but as a sign of good faith, hold up this ridiculous sign and send a picture of it to prove that you're you!" and then once they send it, post it online, laugh, and never talk to them again. Just saying "screw you" to the guys trying to cheat people out of money.
 

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Posted by Allison Parsons (Member # 2728) on 09-18-2005, 10:08 AM:
 
ahhh, I see now. I knew about the money scam, I just had no clue how that was tied in with those pictures. N
 

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Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 09-18-2005, 12:33 PM:
 
The really good reverse-scammers have even gotten the scammers to send them money! It's fantastic.

The Nigerian Scam has become the third-largest industry in that country.
 

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Posted by Gerard S. Cohen (Member # 994) on 09-18-2005, 12:52 PM:
 
The state just installed one of these in front of my house.
Did you get yours yet?


 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 09-18-2005, 01:18 PM:
 
Soon Gerard. Very soon.
 

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Posted by Monte L Fullmer (Member # 2797) on 09-19-2005, 04:49 AM:
 
..that 419eater site is friggen hilarious...with some of those scambaiter stories (like the Church of the Red Breast..LOL .. that was some excellent BS'ing that I've ever read...). True though, don't try to yank any money out of these clowns, but mess up their mind and have fun with them is good enough for them to leave you alone.. - Monte
 

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Posted by David Stambaugh (Member # 1102) on 09-20-2005, 05:54 PM:
 
The old Montgomery-Ward store at Eugene's Valley River Center, soon to be Regal Valley River Stadium 15:




 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 09-20-2005, 07:49 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Aaron Sisemore (Member # 145) on 09-20-2005, 08:19 PM:
 
a magical drinking bird?
 

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Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 09-23-2005, 12:43 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 09-23-2005, 03:57 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 09-23-2005, 06:20 PM:
 
So Joe, rather than being scary and threatening, it looks like Rex is either scared shitless and putting up a front and shivering in his boots, or he's having a seizure...
 

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Posted by Mark J. Marshall (Member # 1409) on 09-23-2005, 08:13 PM:
 
That's awesome, Joe!
 

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Posted by Edwin Schwing (Member # 1270) on 09-24-2005, 04:44 AM:
 
Speaking of "random" pictures...

Has anyone else noticed that Phil Hill has a new "random" pic?

Maybe comments about Phil's new pic should be posted under the "caption that pic" post...

Maybe Brad will post the pic of Phil for us to caption....LOL

E

HOT PIC PHIL!!!

Winkey, Winkey!
 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 09-25-2005, 02:48 AM:
 
This one is for Joe.

Click here as it's too big for the forum.
 

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Posted by Tommie Evans (Member # 2674) on 09-26-2005, 02:26 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Floyd Justin Newton (Member # 1316) on 09-26-2005, 04:00 PM:
 
Phil--

Your new pic is soooooooo becoming!

, !!
 

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Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 09-26-2005, 05:13 PM:
 
Phil, I LOVE it!!
 

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Posted by David Nightingale (Member # 3250) on 09-26-2005, 09:55 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Mike Heenan (Member # 392) on 09-28-2005, 05:22 PM:
 
Nigerian scammer doing the "Lynndie", lol.


 

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Posted by Mark J. Marshall (Member # 1409) on 09-29-2005, 12:12 AM:
 
hahaha
 

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Posted by Tommie Evans (Member # 2674) on 09-29-2005, 10:33 AM:
 


Cutting from a UK local newspaper.

[ 09-29-2005, 12:35 PM: Message edited by: Tommie Evans ]
 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 09-29-2005, 05:19 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 09-30-2005, 02:10 AM:
 
How the hell did he manage to go undetected for an entire month???!!! At pretty much every cinema I ever worked at, it was standard procedure for the last person to leave to do a 'walk around' of the entire building immediately before setting the alarm and locking up the building. Admittedly that didn't always include the screen voids, but I still find it very hard to believe that this man could have lived undetected in the building for that long.

quote: article posted by Tommie

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Despite wandering around the cinema at night...

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quote: Article posted by Tommie

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...he never stole food.

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Odeon

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How the hell did he manage to go undetected for an entire month???!!!

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Hmmm, maybe he lived off the food (popcorn, drinks etc!) left in the screen over night. Most cinemas don't have alarm sensors in the screen itself, only on the doors. If your desperate, have no money and not supposed to be there it figures.
Also he could have wondered around the cinema at night (suggesting he was eventually spotted on the CCTV system) depending on the alarm system, having access to the toilets etc in the public areas. Also there is no suggestion that he didn't move about during the day, being very elusive! Or may be he got sick of the presentation quality and moved on
 

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Posted by Adam Martin (Member # 641) on 10-02-2005, 07:04 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Floyd Justin Newton (Member # 1316) on 10-02-2005, 07:53 PM:
 
Adam--

Is the above booth a 'Phantam Booth'?
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 10-03-2005, 12:31 AM:
 

quote: Adam Martin

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Oh yeah? I'll raise you with a:


Bet you don't feel so special now, do ya?
 

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Posted by Aaron Sisemore (Member # 145) on 10-03-2005, 02:40 AM:
 
OK, Adam- I'll bite:

Whats so special about the #6 booth in Los Banos?

-Aaron
 

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Posted by William Hooper (Member # 71) on 10-03-2005, 02:43 AM:
 
Installation error: they forgot to duct the cooling fan from the amp.
 

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Posted by Dominic Espinosa (Member # 2122) on 10-03-2005, 02:49 AM:
 

quote: William Hooper

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Installation error: they forgot to duct the cooling fan from the amp.

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What, are you kidding me?
 

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Posted by Daryl C. W. O'Shea (Member # 1303) on 10-03-2005, 08:12 PM:
 
Here's some pictures for everyone who thought it was prudent to send me mail claiming I was full of when I said that the landing of the A320 on the 21st wasn't a miracle or anything incredible or anything that hasn't happened before (it fact it happened on Nov 21, 2002 at O'Hare to an A319).

http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief2.asp?ev_id=20021125X05520&ntsbno=CHI03IA027&akey=1





 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 10-03-2005, 10:01 PM:
 
Daryl, why would you waste your time reading the email of uninformed and obviously inferior ground pounders? We, quite literally, are above them.

And for the record, jetBlue's A320 nose gear problem was a complete non-event, despite the hysterical live TV news coverage. Shoot, they didn't even grind their nose gear down as much as that United ship Daryl posted. There have been at least six reported occurances of stuck-sideways nose gears on Airbus A320's over the years. But I guess the ignorant, especially the media, have to make a big deal of it.

Have to admit, the live TV pictures were great if one kept the sound muted. Lots of sparks to keep the kiddies entertained.





More pics courtesy of AvWeb:

http://www.avweb.com/newspics/jetbluegearcomp.jpg
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 10-03-2005, 10:09 PM:
 
They should fix the inferior design of that Airbus model if it happens that much.
 

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Posted by William Hooper (Member # 71) on 10-04-2005, 12:53 AM:
 

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quote: William Hooper
Installation error: they forgot to duct the cooling fan from the amp.

What, are you kidding me?

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Posted by Wolff King Morrow (Member # 2226) on 10-04-2005, 03:54 AM:
 
So in other words, you are kidding him.
 

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Posted by Adam Martin (Member # 641) on 10-04-2005, 04:05 AM:
 
William, your design left out the slide projector. I bet 100 cfm would make those damn lamps last longer.
 

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Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 10-04-2005, 07:08 AM:
 

quote: Joe Redifer

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They should fix the inferior design of that Airbus model if it happens that much.

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Agreed. Unless I'm overlooking an important factor, six incidents should be enough for engineers to identify the cause and come up with a fix. I hope the issue is not simply that these six incidents haven't killed anyone, and therefore they'll wait until one does before spending the money on developing a fix.

Even when the undercarriage works, A320s are dreadful things. I got one for the first leg of my trip home from California, and the legroom was so stingy that I had a backache for hours afterwards. The DC10 which took me the rest of the way might be a rust-eaten relic from the 1970s, but it was a hell of a lot more comfortable. My only previous encounters with the A320 had been on Leeds to London flights, and since those only take around half an hour I hadn't noticed the poor legroom that much. But after last month's experience I'd try to avoid one for a four-hour flight unless the only alternatives were a lot more expensive. Even the 737s which the 'no frills' airlines use give you more legroom than those things. No wonder the new Airbus megajumbo is claimed to be able to carry 850 people if they pack 'em in at that density.
 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 10-04-2005, 10:42 AM:
 
In defense of the A320 (and as a patriotic red-blooded American I can't believe I'm doing this ), seat pitch is entirely at the discretion of the operating airline. Airbus just builds them the way the airline customers want them. So Leo, just send your chiropractor and thrombosis treatment bills to the airline that packed you like a sardine into their flying aluminum tube.

There have been several service bulletins issued by Airbus for this nose gear problem on the A320. These bulletins are considered a relatively low priority so it can take a while for airlines to comply with them. In the mean time the FAA and other governmental aviation oversight agencies may issue ADs (Airworthiness Directives) for a fix. ADs are mandatory items and depending on the severity can have very short compliance timelines. Like the emergency AD issued just last week against the latest rev of the flight control software on the Boeing 777. That AD requires reverting back to the previous rev. It's got bugs too, but those bugs are understood and there are workarounds. I'd stay off that airplane for the next couple of weeks.

This A320 nose gear issue is not that big a deal (no one has been killed or likely to be killed in any of these nose gear incidents) so I don't see the FAA doing much more about it than they already have.
 

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Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 10-04-2005, 02:11 PM:
 

quote: Paul Mayer

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So Leo, just send your chiropractor and thrombosis treatment bills to the airline that packed you like a sardine into their flying aluminum tube.

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I'm on them again at the end of November (conference in Austin),

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You coming to Texas Leo?
 

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Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 10-04-2005, 04:14 PM:
 
'Fraid so - to this conference. Don't worry; I don't bite!
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 10-04-2005, 06:55 PM:
 
I agree with Paul that not much, if anything will be done to fix the airbus. The airline industry is so fucked up that is does indeed take a death or deaths to get anything changed. They wait until the death actually happens instead of fixing it in advance, even if they know there may be a potential problem with something that will cost a lot of money to change. I think most of the money goes to the pilots (from what I hear their union is quite evil, greedy and VERY controlling), then the next amount of money goes to airplane maintenance.
 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 10-04-2005, 09:46 PM:
 
...at least the dumbass engineers had the common sense to make the gear strong enough so as NOT to collapse when it skidded along the runway w/sparks...
 

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Posted by Daryl C. W. O'Shea (Member # 1303) on 10-04-2005, 10:07 PM:
 
Unfortunately that's better than what can be said about a lot of design problems in both domestic and imported passenger vehicles sold by the 100s of thousands.
 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 10-04-2005, 10:16 PM:
 
I agree Daryl. But what I meant was, I was really impressed with the strength of the front gear of the Airbus.

It makes me wonder if THEY knew the weakness of that gear system design and thought to beef it up...just in cae???? (I don't think so...)
 

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Posted by Daryl C. W. O'Shea (Member # 1303) on 10-04-2005, 11:10 PM:
 
I knew what you meant -- I agree.

The nose gear is, by design, one of the strongest components of the entire aircraft. After all, it has to withstand the force of a push truck pushing on the nose gear with the main gear braked or chalked. Not too mention landings by AA pilots.
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 10-04-2005, 11:16 PM:
 
I agree Daryl about cars and such. It's all about money. Money is the most important thing in the entire world and absolutely nobody can argue any differently. Human life simply does not compare.

It's funny that money actually isn't anything.
 

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Posted by William Hooper (Member # 71) on 10-05-2005, 02:36 AM:
 

quote: Adam Martin

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William, your design left out the slide projector

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Suiting up to change the lamp:


 

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Posted by Aaron Sisemore (Member # 145) on 10-05-2005, 02:48 AM:
 
Oh, jeez....
 

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Posted by Dominic Espinosa (Member # 2122) on 10-05-2005, 02:56 AM:
 
Jeez. That guy's prepared!
All I got is that lame blue vest and headgear!
 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 10-05-2005, 05:25 PM:
 
So, like, how does the poor guy prevent his brain from getting sucked out the ventillator stack?!

At 100 cubes/min. that rubber suit should be almost totally evecuated in just a few seconds!


 

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Posted by Patrick Dunn (Member # 3333) on 10-05-2005, 05:48 PM:
 
Theres one prepared projectionist for you.
 

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Posted by William Hooper (Member # 71) on 10-06-2005, 03:10 AM:
 
A Visit To Olde New Orleans

There is no more delightful place to spend a hurricane than Mobile







but you begin to feel that afterwards a change of scenery from the old hometown might be nice, to see new things, go new places, eat at new restaurants (especially if your nearby favorites may be closed for a while)

So it's hop in the car, & off from Mobile to New Orleans like Bienville & the Cowbellion de Rakins before: to see old friends, see new things, help start up some stuff; it's a tradition.

Besides, Mobile is stuffed with evacuees, & New Orleans is locked down - lots of room to move around there!

(Continued after the immediate reply thing fades..)
 

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Posted by Jonathan Worthing (Member # 803) on 10-06-2005, 06:38 AM:
 

 

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Posted by John Pytlak (Member # 331) on 10-06-2005, 12:44 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 10-06-2005, 05:00 PM:
 
Shouldn't there be about a dozen kids instead of just one? Just one kid is incredibly unrealistic.
 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 10-06-2005, 05:20 PM:
 
I suppose it depends on when the frame grab that became that sign's graphic was made. If they are almost across the highway the other kids have probably been run over already.
 

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Posted by William Hooper (Member # 71) on 10-07-2005, 01:46 AM:
 
Tarps are gold after a hurricane, because with parts of the roof gone, rain can get in & quickly cause damage that will result in having to raze the building. The best, if you can get them, are from billboard companies: billboards now are mostly digitally printed on heavy vinyl sheets that are now known to be excellent, sturdy tarps, better than hardware store tarps! So let's mooch a van, & load it with about 30 14x40 outdated-billboard tarps otherwise marked for disposal by the outdoor sign company. Look at the tires bulge & squat now! It's riding on the sidewalls, & handles at speeds over 35 mph like a pat of butter on a hot skillet! Wooo-hoo, let's go!

Let's drive through coastal Long Beach, MS to visit my friend Leo.


I always thought Leo was smarter than me, but he sent his family to Kentucky & stayed at his house 4 blocks from the beach during the hurricane. Everything in front of his house, down to the beach, was completely smashed. he now owns beachfront property. There's a good picture of Long Beach on TerraServer; what looks the separate path of a tornado running down the center is actually the frontier of the storm surge pushing the debris which once was all the construction atop the stripped foundations to the right. It stopped right at the road in front of Leo's house. They've only just bulldozed the roads, & have not yet been able to pull from the debris the bodies of the people Leo has listed as staying in the houses that were in front of him.

Lost your chimney & some roof? Want some tarps, Leo? Here, take a couple more in case somebody nearby needs one.


Bye, Leo! Love ya like a brother, but now everybody who knows you stayed knows you're a dumbass! Every cell, every molecule in your body is just et up with dumbass! If your storage sheds hadn't been cast to the winds, I would stop by to get one of your Simplex pedestals to beat you with.

The interstate over Pontchartrain has been destroyed, but coastal Hwy 90 is reported passable to New Orleans, but the coastal bridge to Bay St. Louis is destroyed. So it's up to the interstate, then back down towards Bay St. Louis to get on 90. Heading west, we find that today they've opened a bridge for repairs, so now 90 won't go into New Orleans. The folks wave us on northbound roads back up to the interstate again, picking a route through roads that have been cleared enough to let a car through. The inland MS coastal cities west of Bay St. Louis aren't even recognizable as places where there was once civilization: it looks like somebody put a bunch of houses & trees in a blender & just troweled it down for miles. It's nonsensical: no houses are standing, but there are people here & there. There's a huge school that someone's cleared around with a tractor, a marquee tent is up, & a couple hundred people are there, like druids that come out of the forests to assemble or something. I don't take any pictures, because it feels like taking tourist photographs at a funeral. It's like nothing I'll see anywhere else.

Back to the interstate, through smashed & sodden Slidell, onto the old Hwy 11 bridge across Pontchartrain! My, the traffic is light; it's just me! On the other side is a military checkpoint: Nobody is allowed into New Orleans except the screwdriver people, the media people, & the people who shoot everybody who isn't one of the above. Let's not to take these guys' picture.

Down Hwy 11 to Hwy 90, then back up to the interstate, & into New Orleans! Off on Canal Street, another checkpoint, Show Us Your Papers, get out, everyone who enters must have a hepatitis & tetanus booster shot. The military guy says sign here, picks up a syringe, I ask "Do you have grape?", he says "Sir?", "Uh do you have grape, or are they all the same?", "They're all the same sir", "Uh, okay". Matinee audiences are always tough.



They have done a LOT of work in the six days since the hurricane: almost all the debris downtown has been removed. It looks like their plants are drooping though; maybe if they watered them they would perk back up. A couple of the larger, least damaged hotels have been patched up & powered up to house the screwdriver people & the media people. However, I know a couple of more exclusive places with 4 or 5 floors of rooms where I can stay.

SUV's whiz by every now & then. An SUV with an "Animal Rescue" magnetic & Tennessee tag goes by, then comes back again the other way, then comes back up another street, & finally slows down to ask, "Excuse me, where is Rampart Street?" "That's Rampart Street." "That?" "Yes, that." "Well, where is Basin Street?" "There is Basin Street, that is Rampart, this is Canal." "Ummm, okay." Off they go.

New Orleans is never easy to get around in for new people; the streets change names at Canal, outside of downtown the streets follow the river instead of a grid, people become very disoriented, & I notice that the storm has rotated all the street signs 90 degrees.



Canal is identified as Rampart, Rampart is identified as Canal, Basin is now Canal, round & round adding to the whimsy! I feel a little sorry for the Animal Rescue people though because I feel a sort of kinship: I have just been performing Alphabetical Rescue, pulling out a massive clot of plastic marquee letters & 6' plastic shelving units that have floated up & jammed the entry to a mechanical room.

The hardest part here will be figuring out where to start fixing things:

 

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Posted by Gerard S. Cohen (Member # 994) on 10-07-2005, 08:16 PM:
 
William--
Thanks for your riveting eye-witness account. It surpasses most of the journalism I have read in expressing the actual conditions the returnees will be facing.
Gerard
 

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Posted by Michael Schaffer (Member # 1204) on 10-08-2005, 12:35 AM:
 
That "family crossing" sign looks like the ones we have here around Camp Pendleton and along I-8 which runs parallel to the border. At first I found it curious and a little funny, but then I learnt the sad background: often, the "coyotes" (people smugglers) bring people across the border and then leave them to cross the mountains by themselves because there are several checkpoints on the freeways, promising to pick them up on the other side but, of course, disappearing forever. Then the illegals wander around aimlessly, and sometimes they try to cross the freeways and there are accidents. So far, I have never actually seen any crossing families though.
 

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Posted by William Hooper (Member # 71) on 10-10-2005, 02:48 AM:
 
Yay, the lantern is still on top of the Hibernia Bank building

Notice the fun continues with the street signs, as Canal Street is now Camp Street, & vice versa. All these people rushing around in SUV's, with maps spread out over the dashboards...


I just like this building. I like taking pictures of it.


The Joy is for sale. Won't someone buy the Joy? It's a beautiful theatre inside, & the outside when its neon & chasing incandescents are lighted is spectacular at night - it just screams "HERE'S A BIG OLD HOLLYWOOD MOVIE INSIDE!" The Joy's roof had no damage, but like everything else, it's full of water to the sidewalk. The theatres have 12'-15' basements, & the auditoriums are excavated.


Pumping at the Orpheum! That's 2 diesel pumps (one behind the other) pumping for 3 days, 7am to 4pm, to empty the basement at the Orpheum. It's important to get the water out as soon as possible: the electrical service entrance for all the buildings is in the basement, usually adjacent to a transformer vault beneath the sidewalk. Especially important for the theatres is the huge problem with the humidity while the water is in...& after the water is removed. The humidity gets in the drapes, the drapes become very heavy, & in a couple of the theatres, the weight of the drapes with the added humidity has caused them to start to tear horizontally. Even after the water gets out, it's still humid, but then the power can be turned on (when the power company gets this far up Canal Street) & the AC units can be turned on to help drive out the humidity. But for now, the only electricity is in just a couple of blocks down toward the foot of Canal Street. The power company guys (Entergy, plus trucks from Con Ed, etc.) are busy sending folks out who are pumping out manholes, transformer vaults, etc. before the wire-twisting guys can even start in to work.

State Palace still standing, too. Flooded basement, roof damage, some windows (and steel casements) blown out, and the external fire doors from the pipe chambers (& the above blower room) blown out too. The State Palace is luckier in that, even though it has an excavated floor, all the seats on the floor forward of the balcony rail have been removed for the theatre's festival seating/dance floor/mosh pit configuration.
 

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Posted by William Hooper (Member # 71) on 10-11-2005, 04:16 AM:
 

Oh, no, the hurricane blew out the panels from the vertical sign on the Basin Street side!



OH NO, the hurricane also blew out the panels from the marquee on Canal Street! Unbelievably, they are found neatly stacked inside! The only thing we can figure is that the hurricane blew out the panels from all the marquees, then when the flooding came, they all washed into the building somehow! STRANGE THINGS happen during the hurricanes!

The Saenger is lucky in that it was in the middle of a summer renovation project, & all the seats on the floor were out when Canal Street flooded. Very unluckily, though, a new roof was being put on when the hurricane came: the whole roof is bare to the flapping tarpaper & broken sheathing. Leak, leak, pour. A front door is broken out, unquestionably where the looters tried to get in & steal the panels from the marquees.


The basement of the Saenger, as seen through the sidewalk elevator. The water's already down, but it's still about 8 - 10 feet deep -- all through the block-wide basement. That's the elevator itself; it's tall enough to stand up in below the top of the water.

A contractor friend who was overseeing a lot of other work at different sites came by to talk. Besides the immediate problems associated with the floodwater like humidity in the building, soaking all the equipment in the basements (the main AC units, boilers, etc. are down there, & anything with a motor down there will need the motor replaced or rebuilt), entering conduits, etc., the water itself is bad. The water in the basements is floodwater from the breaking of the levees, which also had an associated sewer failure. It is contaminated with E. coli, other bacteria & parasites, petroleum products, etc. We are told that its technical name is "The Poo-Poo Water". Anything that has been in The Poo-Poo Water must be cleaned & sanitized before anyone can touch it. The same for the surfaces down there. Chemical-resistant gloves must be worn, & if by accident your hands come in contact with The Poo-Poo Water, they must be immediately washed with antibacterial soap & bottled water, then washed with hand sanitizer or bleach followed by a rinse of bottled water. If The Poo-Poo Water gets in a scratch, under the cuticles, or if you rub your eyes, lightning-fast infection results. Lots of bleach is around. Washing gloves after a day results in little bleach splashes on clothes, etc. You never get it all out, & you get caustic burns when you put the gloves back on & work for a while. Respirators must be worn because of mold & contaminants in the air. Freakin respirators!

Let's walk down Canal Street & see what's going on!

Nobody here but the screwdriver people & some media people. All the screwdriver people are busy, busy, busy doing different things, but they've all been told the same thing "Just jack that mother up & make it work!"



Here's a nice collection of the regular guys. Generator, portable Air conditioning unit, Dehumidifier. After a building's basement has its water pumped out, the dehumidifier pumps air dried by heating it to ~140 deg. F into the building. After it's dried out, if the building doesn't have commercial power, the external AC is pumped into the building. AC units have been blasting away for days at stores selling furs, etc., & for some reason a store selling children's clothes. Maybe they've got some kinda biological collection in there too; it seems like the cost of the AC unit for days would be more than just writing off the stock. Buildings are mainly dehumidified & AC'd ASAP to stop mold growth.
 

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Posted by William Hooper (Member # 71) on 10-12-2005, 01:29 AM:
 
Walking on down Canal Street:


"I'm going downtown to get a carload of bricks!" "Hold on, I'll go with you!"


The new streetcars are not as pretty as the old ones.


Go on and park where the sign says No Parking! Go on and see what happens!


Courtesy Pirogue for guests of Harrah's.
 

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Posted by Michael Schaffer (Member # 1204) on 10-12-2005, 02:15 AM:
 
None of your pictures show any people. Is downtown New Orleans completely empty of people now? Aren't there many people there who clean up the devastation and start the rebuilding?
 

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Posted by William Hooper (Member # 71) on 10-12-2005, 06:59 AM:
 
These pictures were all taken in the week starting 6 days after the hurricane. The additional post-hurricane mandatory evacuation had been ordered, sending almost everyone out of New Orleans. It was pretty empty, except for infrastructure workers, business owners who could get back (which were very, very few, about 1 business every 3 blocks was unboarded & under repair), media, police, & military. Admission into the city was not allowed except for those folks. Those folks were spread out, but there was a sort of clot near the foot of Canal Street, where a few (about 4) hotels had been made operational to house the workers & media. Some, very few folks stayed in the French quarter. There was 1 bar open (the proprietors had stayed & were 'grandfathered', & 1 corner-type store open for the same reason. A vehicle went by on Canal Street about every 40 minutes. Very empty.

But if you keep walking down to the foot of Canal Street:


An oasis! A gathering of a few people! What can this wonder be?


THE BUDWEISER HURRICANE KATRINA RELIEF TENT!
IS THIS A MIRAGE?

No, but they've got no damn beer! Budweiser provided the tent & funding, & someone is coordinating the dispersion of donated relief food items for the remaining residents & folks working in New Orleans. Lots of corporate donations from bottled water co's, cereal companies, bleach, cereal, Welch's juice, etc. in bulk packaged for takeaway by residents, & laid out on tables buffet-style for the folks working down there to get meals (since no restaurants are open). Not just bulk commodity food from corporate donors:



The banner in the back behind the barbecue grills is from the Elberta, AL Little League, who'd bought a lot of candy bars to sell for their annual fundraiser, then donated them all to Katrina Relief. Elberta is very near the coast, & is still recovering from several storms: Ivan, Dennis, & a very bad tropical storm (Cindy?)


Serving it up every few shifts are four or so folks volunteering their time from Pensacola, FL. Pensacola is STILL very much staggering & trying to get it together from the last three hurricanes, going back to last year's Ivan.

Yum, home cooking - sausages, fried eggs, steaks (when some are donated), juice (come on give it up, Budweiser, nobody's looking!), corn, beans, etc. You can't believe how incredibly good it is at the end of the day - especially after a shower in the portable showers built in trailers brought in & parked nearby. The word on the municipal water was TFN don't drink it, don't wash in it, & we were a little hesitant to poop in it in case something might FLY OUT & attack. Yay portable showers & Budweiser Katrina Relief Tent!

Walking down Decatur, there are two huge adjacent lots which are usually empty, but are now populated with military in tents, etc. Many of the out-of-towners are basing in the area of the French Quarter next to the river, since there's space (usually open green spaces like parks, etc.) - Firemen from Decatur, IL, etc.

Walking back up through the French Quarter to get back before curfew:



1. I have never seen the French Quarter so empty.
2. I have never seen the French Quarter so clean.



[ 10-13-2005, 02:15 AM: Message edited by: William Hooper ]
 

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Posted by John Pytlak (Member # 331) on 10-12-2005, 07:24 AM: