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| sleepyirv: Liked the pun, thought the movie was very exciting till the end, didn't care for the game. Congrats to whatthefat! |
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| gtgloner: Does anyone remember seeing the press conference before the start of this match where Fischer is holding (I think it was) the U.S. government sanction letter in his hand? I seem to remember him spitting on it, throwing it to the ground and stomping on it right in front of the cameras. Vintage Bobby Fischer! |
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Jun-01-09
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| Eyal: The origin of the expression is the first line of W. B. Yeats' "Sailing to Byzantium" (http://www.online-literature.com/ye...), btw, to which the title of Cormac McCarthy's novel alludes. |
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Jun-01-09
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| talisman: <abstraction> cormac mccarthy is one of the very few american novelists with a chance to win the nobel prize. he is an artist and always with a vision. research him. blood meridian has been called the next moby dick. |
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| WhiteRook48: probably #10 pun |
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Jun-01-09
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| ChessYouGood: Fischer loses again |
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Jun-01-09
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| abstraction: <talisman <abstraction> cormac mccarthy is one of the very few american novelists with a chance to win the nobel prize. ... research him..> I have -- in the best possible way: I've read nearly all of his work. Blood Meridian is a fine book, but for me The Road is his masterpiece. |
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Jun-01-09
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| kevin86: In effect,this was a real match in exile between two disposed-of war horses. The players and the country were a perfect "match for one another. Like the joke about the guy who bought a Yugo-it soon broke into seven pieces and became a Croat,a Bosnian,etc... |
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| AnalyzeThis: The other detail about this match is that the entire world watched it. |
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| chillowack: <But I found the movie rather dull and predictable. Heartless psycho on the loose, and in the end the good guy wins, *yawn*.> One wonders if Sneaky even saw the movie. |
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| DLev: The game title is not a pun, and it refers to the entire match, not just this specific game. It does not deserve such a high score in the pun contest. |
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Jun-01-09
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| HeMateMe: I think the psycho walked, Javier Barden. His last evil deed was killing the sherrifs wife, a Scottish lass adopting an american accent for the film. He is never captured. AND he lives with Penelope Cruz! Life aint fair..... |
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| Jun-01-09 |
| moi: yup, what would be the problem if 37...Nb7 pls? |
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Jun-01-09
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| WannaBe: If this is number 10, I can't wait for number 1!! |
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Jun-01-09
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| wanabe2000: Tommy Lee Jones is great in the movie, however, to really understand the pun one must read Cormac McCarthy's novel about generational differences. McCarthy is one of my favorite writers. BTW the game was great play by two old men. |
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Jun-01-09
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| weisyschwarz: <blacksburg: am i the only person in the world that didn't like that movie?
<anti-climactic> is the best term i can think of to describe it. my GF and i walked out of the theatre saying <that was the dumbest ending ever>.> Actually, <Fargo> was worse. |
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| Jun-01-09 |
| square dance: people who dont like non-typical endings like that in No Country, or the Blair Witch Project have dull taste in films. i like it when the occasion movie doesnt spoon feed me the hollywood happy ending. the worst thing a story teller can do is not leave anything up to your imagination. unless of course you dont have one. but that is what michael bay is for. |
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| Yodaman: Great movie, great game. |
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| AnalyzeThis: It is a great game. Spassky's exchange sac here was profound. |
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| Jim Bartle: <my GF and i walked out of the theatre saying that was the dumbest ending ever>. I bought a DVD of "No Country for Old Men," and actually took it back to the dealer, saying it was incomplete, that the ending was missing. |
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Jun-01-09
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| Calli: Good joke, but where is the pun? |
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| VaselineTopLove: I would have liked this pun had Spassky not been old himself. |
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| Jun-02-09 |
| Imposter: <the worst thing a story teller can do is not leave anything up to your imagination.> Guillermo del Toro's Spanish films are great for ambiguous and interesting endings. Two that spring to mind are Pan's Labyrinth (was the girl fantasizing or not and does it matter etc), and The Orphanage (ditto as a ghost story and how strong is the power of a mother's love). Hellboy 2 seems more like a money making scheme to fund his more serious projects. And just to stay on topic, this game was classic, or should I say vintage, Spassky. |
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Jun-03-09
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| blacksburg: <people who dont like non-typical endings like that in No Country, or the Blair Witch Project have dull taste in films.> that's like saying <people who don't like what i like have bad taste>. i'm all for a good non-typical ending. i hate cookie-cutter spoon-fed endings as much as the next guy. but <No Country> ended, and then there was another hour of pointless drivel. |
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| Jun-08-09 |
| square dance: <that's like saying <people who don't like what i like have bad taste>.> only if you misinterpret it that way. A) i didnt mean those two movies specifically.
B) i think its a fair and valid opinion to say that people who dont like something a little different from time to time have dull taste in anything. conversely, i only ever have ketchup on my hamburgers. |
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