Random photos, comics, etc.

[Leo Enticknap]

I hope Christie is better at projectors than geography!

image.png

[Tim Reed]

...so she had to take our word for it that xenon arc lamps emitted low level radiation that could be harmful to a fetus. Worked like a charm. Never saw her or any of her irritating friends in the booth again, and we were left to get on with building up and tearing down prints on Thursday nights.

I used to tell kids who tried to stick their hands in the projection beam at drive-ins, that the light was rich in UV radiation and would give them cancer. At one drive-in, the carbon arc cooling water emptied into the ground in front of the booth. Kids climbing around in there I'd tell them the water was energized and they needed to get out now or risk electrocution.

[Leo Enticknap]

At one theater in my (thankfully) dim and distant past, there was a duty manager who had a habit of giving her friends and relatives tours of the projection booth, usually during the Thursday evening buildup/teardown hell when visitors were least welcome. This was essentially a power play "I'm in charge of the whole building and don't you forget it" exercise. Anyways, one day she announced (in a staff meeting!) that she was expecting, whereupon one of my co-workers who was even less able to tolerate her than me procured some of these and stuck them on the doors to all the booths:

image.png

Thankfully, this was in the days before Google or ChatNFG, and so she had to take our word for it that xenon arc lamps emitted low level radiation that could be harmful to a fetus. Worked like a charm. Never saw her or any of her irritating friends in the booth again, and we were left to get on with building up and tearing down prints on Thursday nights.

[Randy Stankey]

It needs a (fake) bloody hand print next to the door handle and/or some fake bullet holes in the door panel.

[Jim Cassedy]

The staff was decorating the theater lobby for Halloween last week. This is how
I found the projection room door when I came back from my weekend break:
BoothCrimeScene.jpg

-jc-

[Frank Cox]

Oh deer.

3571391.jpg

[Ed Gordon]

4F62454CAB5A4B499CE3A0583626A758.jpg
..........

[Leo Enticknap]

image.png

An NC3200 with all the xenon arc lamphouse, power supply, and cooling components removed. Taken while I was being trained to install the GDC ZN232L25-30 laser retrofit.

[Ryan Gallagher]

The Studio also plays up making bad movies simply as product placement money makers, guess which brand they picked on. ;-)

[Harold Hallikainen]

meaning to be easily persuaded or deceived by a charismatic individual with a seriously bad idea.

Which reminds me of a great movie: A Face in the Crowd

[Leo Enticknap]

"Drink the Kool-Aid" is certainly a well known phrase.

Sorry if others didn't get the reference. I've just looked up the history again, and discovered that ironically, it was a case of the brand becoming a victim of its own success.

In 1978, a psycho, wack job cult leader by the name of Jim Jones coerced 909 of his followers into committing "revolutionary suicide" by drinking what was widely believed at the time to be Kool-Aid mixed with cyanide. "Drink the Kool-Aid" thus became a dysphemism, meaning to be easily persuaded or deceived by a charismatic individual with a seriously bad idea.

The weird thing is that it wasn't actually Kool-Aid that Jones's followers drank, but a cheaper, knockoff product called Flavor-Aid. It wasn't even misreported (at least, not in the mainstream media) as being Kool-Aid, either: photos of Flavor-Aid containers at the site of the massacre were published in the newspapers and on TV. The problem for Kool-Aid was that it was such a widely known brand that informal discussion of the Jonestown Massacre across the country used the name, and the next they knew, "drink the Kool-Aid" was in the dictionary.

What surprises me, and I'm guessing that this must be covered as a case study in business schools somewhere, is why the brand was not retired when the negative connotation became so firmly established in popular culture. Its owners toughed it out, and it's still there. All I can guess is that now, so few people know about the Jonestown Massacre that it's effectively a non-issue from a marketing perspective. No way could they have decided to go ahead with the "Ghoul-Aid" promotion if their market research was showing that a significant number of supermarket customers still associate the brand with that event.

[Randy Stankey]

Everybody knows it's the same silly, over-hyped marketing that goes on Kool-Aid packaging and advertising. Didn't they have a flavor called "Sharkle-Berry Fin?" It's just whatever kids' fads happen to be hot at a particular time.

I loved Koo-Aid every since I was a kid and still do. Everybody always knew that the stuff was completely artificial since the beginning and it still is. There have been all these different changes to formulas of Kool-Aid that have been needed or allowed that have been made. The modern formulas are likely better than ones of old but they are still artificial. Artificial is artificial. Right?

Everybody knows that you aren't supposed to drink it all the time. For the family picnics or camp outs? "Bug Juice!"
How many times has your mother yelled at you, "Don't drink too much Kool-Aid!"

I love Kool-Aid, even after all these years. Just don't drink too much of it!!

My favorite Kool-Aid flavor? Red!... Just red! Yes! Red is a flavor unto itself.
It taste a like cherry but not quite. It's kind of like strawberry but not quite. Is it raspberry?
It's sweet! It's tangy! It's fruity... soft of. It's undoubtedly artificial!
Whatever the flavor actually tastes like it's... RED!

Yes! Red Kool-Aid! With a shot of Everclear!

Just don't drink too much of it!

[Harold Hallikainen]

"Drink the Kool-Aid" is certainly a well known phrase.

[Leo Enticknap]

image.png

Any relation?!

image.png

Possibly not the most tasteful promotion they could have come up with, given what this brand is most widely known for. Maybe the red guy is supposed to be Jim Jones?

[Frank Cox]

So much for the "infinite amount of care", though.