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Feb-15-23
 | | OhioChessFan: We'll put the Handmaid's Tale in the top 1000. Not essential, but really good. I just finished The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho. I was greatly disappointed. It shows up in many top 100 lists, but I didn't care for it. Only 171 pages, it still managed to be annoyingly repetitive, really preachy, and bipolar in its lurches from reality to fantasy. It's okay, but nothing special. |
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Mar-08-23
| | OhioChessFan: A new record: I read 2 pages of A Clockwork Orange and gave up. The British vocabulary was like reading in a different language and there's no way I was going to suffer through that. I'll watch the movie instead. |
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Sep-22-23
 | | Stonehenge: I could have sworn last time I popped in, his bio was still there. |
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Sep-22-23
| | OhioChessFan: I think it was. I am guessing <AnnieK> set up a semi-permanent account, intending to keep renewing it, and it happened to run out in her absence. |
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Sep-23-23
 | | Check It Out: That's a shame. Can we get it back? |
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Jan-09-24
 | | offramp: I have been thinking about 3 boot-tapping songs. The three songs are connected. <The Gap Band - Oops Upside Your Head>
https://youtu.be/IeHDnF7MU90?si=suX...
In the UK this song involved an unusual "dance", whereby one sits on the floor and makes rowing motions.
At 2:40 there is a fanfare sample from the song
<Brides Of Funkenstein "Disco To Go">
https://youtu.be/2RY0nlEfXUo?si=_Wc...
Perhaps George Clinton wrote that song.
The Gap Band had another great floor-filler:
<Gap Band - Burn Rubber On Me.>
https://youtu.be/tmcncGirAU4?si=W4W... These songs were big hits. |
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| Jan-09-24 | | stone free or die: <Check It Out: That's a shame. Can we get it back?> There's always <Wayback>: First archived version from 2008-04-29:
https://web.archive.org/web/2008042... Last archived version from 2020-09-23:
https://web.archive.org/web/2020092... (They're different - but I haven't checked any of the in-between dates) |
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Jan-10-24
| | offramp: I saw a very funny film last night on Channel 4 (Film 4). It was called <Night Class> with Kevin Hart. There were some hilarious scenes.
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Jan-11-24
| | offramp: I can't believe that I got out of bed at 12:30. I think it was because last night was cold. I put the telly on and I saw the old film <Carry On Admiral> with Frankie Howerd. A non-Carry On film <with> Frankie Howerd. No - wait a minute - I mean a Frankie Howerd film with a film NOT with the Carry On team... |
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Jan-12-24
| | offramp: On telly is <Worzel Gummidge> with Jon Pertwee. I didn't like the programme much at the time but it is pretty good nowadays. Whenever I see Jon Pertwee I want to give him a really massive kick up his arse. |
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Jan-17-24
| | offramp: Last night I watched <A Kiss Before Dying> (1991) on Legend TV. It starred Matt Dillon, and above all Sean Young, who looked fantastic. I really liked the film all the way through except for the last 10 minutes, when the ending was a bit crap. ⭐⭐⭐⭐. There was another actor, the guy who played Ming the Merciless in Flash Gordon...the same guy who played the exorcist in The Exorcist. That film was made in 1956 with Robert Wagner, same title. I'd like to see that. |
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Jan-17-24
| | offramp: I go to a website that has ideas for people to gamble. I very rarely betted before Covid. There was a serious Lockdown, and a friend phoned me his bets from foreign countries. I bet small amounts. Bettings shops have closed down. Pre-covid I felt self-conscious place very small bets on, but now I bet entirely online, and I put on bets of £0.05p! It's pretty funny. There is one guy who is insistent with a load of TIPS for the Israel League.
Maccabi Petach v MS Ashdod, for example.
He reckons that in that game,
Both teams will score,
Over 2.5+ goals
Home win
MPT will win and BTTS
MPT v MSA 2-1 correct score
I didn't know that Israel was running a football league - I mean a war is going on.
I'll have a few of these bets, and see how they get on. |
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Jan-18-24
| | offramp: Maccabi Petach v Ashdod was 1-2. |
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Jan-19-24
| | offramp: I had a haircut yesterday. £9, + £1. As usual I wanted my hair cut as fast as possible, about 10 minutes. Some barbers seem to take ages to cut my hair, as if that justifies the amount they charge. I think it's an inverse cost-price, like Australian sheep-shearers: they can shear a sheep in 2 minutes flat.
It doesn't matter how barbarously the shearers shear sheep, or barbarous barbers barb, it's cheap. |
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Jan-29-24
| | offramp: I was really annoyed about <The Beverly Hillbillies> (1993). I have always really liked Jim Varney. In the opening scenes I saw the <superb> Erika Eleniak who looked a $1,000,000. Unfortunately, there was a total twit, Dietrich Bader as complete twit Jethro. Oh gawd - forget him. Lily Tomlin was good.
The producers had the location, most of the cast, all of the budget - but they definitely forgot to pay for a screenplay. Jim Varney was a huge plus, but the nonsensical plot was a big minus. Eleniak really was a stunner. Where is she now, 31 years after the film? 👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👍 |
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Jan-29-24
| | offramp: My mother was born as Katherine Barbara Gibson. My mother's father was Ernest Gibson.
Ernest Gibson had married Barbara Mustard, and the pair of them had three children, all girls. So I am a grandson of a Mustard.
So Miss Scarlett is related to Colonel Mustard. |
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Jan-29-24
| | offramp: Thankfully, nuns are no longer a plot crux. Nuns have disappeared, at least in the UK. They used to be seen walking in pairs along the high street. |
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Feb-02-24
| | offramp: Last night I watched the start and end of
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4264426/
BITE (2015). Three women went on holiday but one of them were bitten by an aquatic creature. Back home, she becomes the vehicle for the creature's progeny. The film became hugely gruesome. I think it's called <body horror>; John Carpenter does that stuff.I had watched that film about a year ago, so I watched
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092627/
The Bedroom Window (1987) with Steve Guttenberg (a big surprise) and a very sexy Elizabeth McGovern. This was a film with lots of early Hitchcock and a bit of Orson Welles's aquarium scene from <the Lady from Shanghai>. The film was a load of twaddle but it was all well done, and I liked it. BITE (2015)👍👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻
The Bedroom Window (1987)👍👍👍👎🏻 |
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Feb-02-24
| | offramp: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empty... |
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Feb-03-24
| | offramp: I watched <The Onion Field> (1979) and it was very good all the way through. I had a shock when I saw the actor and I thought, "No way that is Ted Danson". Then I saw another actor and I thought, "Absolutely that is NOT James Woods - it can't be!!" But they were Danson and Woods.
Woods was, as usual, really good. An Oscar-worth actor almost always. Like he said in that episode of the Simpsons ("Did I get that across?"). Woods is also famous from his cameos in the Family Guy (especially his trail of sweets). The film reminds me of the play by the famous W Shakespeare, <Julius Caesar>. The assassination happens in Act 1.
In this film the best part is the various Courtroom dramas. I like them! The film description said neo-noir and it really was like that, the director got that feeling from the 1940s and 1950s. I think the Germans invented that. Did you know that Alfred Hitchcock learnt his trade in Germany?
There is an interview on YouTube of Hitchcock in German. The Onion Field 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👎🏻 |
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Feb-11-24
| | offramp: Photographers like to get pictires of chess players with head buried in hands, whole face covered. THOSE pictures end up used on profiles. |
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Feb-14-24
| | offramp: One of my favourite beers is HOBGOBLIN. They have their own website but YOU can't go there because you have to pass the homepage. Hobgoblin RUBY is the beer that I like, it's 4.5%. As I get older I drink slower and slower. |
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Feb-14-24
| | offramp: Gregory Peck starred in the film <The ********>. Set in Mexico. It's hard to get hold nowadays because of that bad word. |
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Feb-15-24
| | offramp: Last night I saw <Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things> (1972).
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068370/
It was okay. It wasn't a disaster. I wouldn't watch it again. 👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👍🏽 |
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Feb-15-24
| | offramp: At my nearest M⁂Hall I know that a separate order called <"Hermetic Order of SK">. I have never heard of that. At first I guessed SK stood for "Solomon the King", but no one says "Solomon the King". On the spreadsheet there isn't enough room in one cell for that name, that's why they are using the abbreviation for SK. BTW there are many secret orders that don't appear in books or online. |
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