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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2021 21:50:56 GMT
Burns' series on the War Between the States (not a Civil War) was OK, not great. Shelby Foote saved it and was the highlight of the series, but honest folks like him would be forbidden by the purge-happy leftists of today. Burns has already been criticized for actually including a Southerner *GASP* in his project.
If you want to read the real history, skip that brown nosing faux hero worship book about Grant and read Foote's trilogy of books about the war.
I will never heed the advice of an unreconstructed rebel like Poopeo.
And I'll never interfere with your choice above to remain stupid. Fixing that is a bridge too far anyway. Grant sucked as a military tactician. His orders killed so many of his own bluebellies that I sometimes wondered which side he was really on. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2021 21:54:20 GMT
Burns' series on the War Between the States (not a Civil War) was OK, not great. Shelby Foote saved it and was the highlight of the series, but honest folks like him would be forbidden by the purge-happy leftists of today. Burns has already been criticized for actually including a Southerner *GASP* in his project.
If you want to read the real history, skip that brown nosing faux hero worship book about Grant and read Foote's trilogy of books about the war.
You sure do have a thin skin about pretty much everything, don't ya snowflake? Aw, is the truth too much for you to bear? Yes, I have a very low tolerance for leftist morons. Perhaps that's why you're getting on my nerves.
You seem to have it backwards....do you think it takes any courage at all to repeat the Northern lies about that time period. Takes a far thicker "skin" t oresist those lies as I have done above.
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Post by bama beau on Feb 9, 2021 5:19:35 GMT
You sure do have a thin skin about pretty much everything, don't ya snowflake? Aw, is the truth too much for you to bear? Yes, I have a very low tolerance for leftist morons. Perhaps that's why you're getting on my nerves.
You seem to have it backwards....do you think it takes any courage at all to repeat the Northern lies about that time period. Takes a far thicker "skin" t oresist those lies as I have done above.
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Post by Odysseus on Feb 9, 2021 19:46:06 GMT
Aw, is the truth too much for you to bear? Yes, I have a very low tolerance for leftist morons. Perhaps that's why you're getting on my nerves.
You seem to have it backwards....do you think it takes any courage at all to repeat the Northern lies about that time period. Takes a far thicker "skin" t oresist those lies as I have done above.
Love your avatar.
Yes, the anti-American sentiment his avatar expresses fits Poopeo to a "T".
I expect nothing better from a traitor like him.
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Post by Odysseus on Mar 21, 2021 4:23:17 GMT
Local PBS station is playing the great movie "Michael Collins" as its "Saturday Night Movie" tonight. It is of course about the leader of the Irish Revolution in post WWI Ireland. I happened to be working in Ireland at the time of its release, and saw it in a movie theatre in Cork. It is nice to finally see it with subtitles here. I had difficulty in Dublin figuring out the dialog then, and the audience was in a jovial and talkative mood, making my comprehension even more difficult. "So that's the joke" I thought early on.
The most chilling scene so far is when a British armored vehicle pulls into a packed soccer match and opens fire on the players and crowd. Despicable.
While I was in Ireland I made a trip out to the location where Michael Collins was assassinated. It was a bleak place, sort of in the middle of nowhere. In the distance at a farm a dog kept barking. Eerie.
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Post by Odysseus on May 16, 2021 7:43:17 GMT
Local PBS station played the classic film "Lawrence of Arabia" (1962, Oscar winner) tonight.
I planned to record it to DVD and then remembered I have a store-bought copy already. So I put the copy into the player in the LR and then set the DVD recorder to record it off the air anyway.
It is one of the all time great films, about a legendary historical personality. It is also a bit of a study of TE Lawrence's psychology. Great performances by Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Alec Guiness, Anthony Quinn, and more.
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Post by bama beau on May 17, 2021 18:48:24 GMT
Local PBS station played the classic film "Lawrence of Arabia" (1962, Oscar winner) tonight. I planned to record it to DVD and then remembered I have a store-bought copy already. So I put the copy into the player in the LR and then set the DVD recorder to record it off the air anyway. It is one of the all time great films, about a legendary historical personality. It is also a bit of a study of TE Lawrence's psychology. Great performances by Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Alec Guiness, Anthony Quinn, and more. Arguably the greatest movie ever. |
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Post by johnnybgood on May 23, 2021 10:52:13 GMT
On HBO, "The Iceman" Biography.
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Post by Odysseus on May 23, 2021 22:45:47 GMT
On HBO, "The Iceman" Biography.
Ice-T?
Vanilla Ice?
Isopropyl Alcohol?
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Post by johnnybgood on May 24, 2021 4:52:03 GMT
On HBO, "The Iceman" Biography.
Ice-T?
Vanilla Ice?
Isopropyl Alcohol?
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Post by Odysseus on May 24, 2021 5:48:51 GMT
Ice-T?
Vanilla Ice?
Isopropyl Alcohol?
Richard Kuklinski Biography
Who is he?
(I'm too lazy to google it)
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Post by Odysseus on May 24, 2021 5:53:08 GMT
Never mind. What a charmer he was.
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Post by Odysseus on Jun 22, 2021 18:39:04 GMT
This morning I'm watching a re-run of an American Experience two hour show on the inimitable Joseph McCarthy, which I have successfully avoided until now. He seems to have been a real schmuck. His name is forever linked to his special brand of deception and witch hunting against innocent Americans who only wanted to voice their political beliefs. McCarthyism should never be forgotten as the evil that can seep into American politics.
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Post by Odysseus on Oct 24, 2021 3:43:25 GMT
The Manchurian Candidate
Our local PBS station is airing this right now, commercial-free.
Been a while since I've seen it.
While I find the premise a bit unbelievable, and I'm not a particular fan of Sinatra, it's well produced and acted. It's also a defacto documentation of the insanity that gripped our world in the three decades after WWII.
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Post by Odysseus on Oct 24, 2021 3:49:02 GMT
Local PBS station played the classic film "Lawrence of Arabia" (1962, Oscar winner) tonight. I planned to record it to DVD and then remembered I have a store-bought copy already. So I put the copy into the player in the LR and then set the DVD recorder to record it off the air anyway. It is one of the all time great films, about a legendary historical personality. It is also a bit of a study of TE Lawrence's psychology. Great performances by Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Alec Guiness, Anthony Quinn, and more. Arguably the greatest movie ever. Oddly, I remember a scene in the Lawrence of Arabia movie where Lawrence kills the Turkish commander who is trying to get him to do something unspeakable. But that scene wasn't on the DVD set I have on the shelf. I don't know if it was in the broadcast version either. But I distinctly remember Lawrence pushing the Turk against a wall and impaling the back of the commander's head on a coat hook, killing him.
Odd that it isn't in the store-bought DVD version.
Anybody else remember that scene?
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Post by Mercy for All on Dec 22, 2021 20:55:11 GMT
Arguably the greatest movie ever. Oddly, I remember a scene in the Lawrence of Arabia movie where Lawrence kills the Turkish commander who is trying to get him to do something unspeakable. But that scene wasn't on the DVD set I have on the shelf. I don't know if it was in the broadcast version either. But I distinctly remember Lawrence pushing the Turk against a wall and impaling the back of the commander's head on a coat hook, killing him.
Odd that it isn't in the store-bought DVD version.
Anybody else remember that scene?
I saw it years ago, and before that, years and years ago. I don't remember that. But it was years ago, and years and years ago. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 22, 2021 22:46:31 GMT
Arguably the greatest movie ever. Oddly, I remember a scene in the Lawrence of Arabia movie where Lawrence kills the Turkish commander who is trying to get him to do something unspeakable. But that scene wasn't on the DVD set I have on the shelf. I don't know if it was in the broadcast version either. But I distinctly remember Lawrence pushing the Turk against a wall and impaling the back of the commander's head on a coat hook, killing him.
Odd that it isn't in the store-bought DVD version.
Anybody else remember that scene?
I once saw a porn version and that scene wasn't there either. |
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Post by Odysseus on Dec 23, 2021 2:22:05 GMT
Oddly, I remember a scene in the Lawrence of Arabia movie where Lawrence kills the Turkish commander who is trying to get him to do something unspeakable. But that scene wasn't on the DVD set I have on the shelf. I don't know if it was in the broadcast version either. But I distinctly remember Lawrence pushing the Turk against a wall and impaling the back of the commander's head on a coat hook, killing him.
Odd that it isn't in the store-bought DVD version.
Anybody else remember that scene?
I saw it years ago, and before that, years and years ago. I don't remember that. But it was years ago, and years and years ago.
Yeah, I only saw that once, and it seems like the Turkish commander, by the name of Kassim Bey (?) tried to get Lawrence to "service" him during an "interview". But I couldn't find any references to the coat hook through the back of the Bey's head, which I do remember seeing. Might have been in a one-off showing at the UC Theater in Berkeley. Oh well, at least they didn't show the actual sexual assault, either. There's also a lot of controversy about what experiences TE Lawrence actually had in that conflict, and who did what to whom, with lawsuits flying all over the place by various parties angry at how they were portrayed in the movie. And the Bey character was more or less fabricated, too. Still, a great flick, and O'Toole gave an epic performance, as did Omar Sharif.
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Post by Mercy for All on Dec 23, 2021 2:27:16 GMT
I saw it years ago, and before that, years and years ago. I don't remember that. But it was years ago, and years and years ago.
Yeah, I only saw that once, and it seems like the Turkish commander, by the name of Kassim Bey (?) tried to get Lawrence to "service" him during an "interview". But I couldn't find any references to the coat hook through the back of the Bey's head, which I do remember seeing. Might have been in a one-off showing at the UC Theater in Berkeley. Oh well, at least they didn't show the actual sexual assault, either. There's also a lot of controversy about what experiences TE Lawrence actually had in that conflict, and who did what to whom, with lawsuits flying all over the place by various parties angry at how they were portrayed in the movie. And the Bey character was more or less fabricated, too. Still, a great flick, and O'Toole gave an epic performance, as did Omar Sharif.
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