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  1. The song is familiar, but I don't remember a TV show with it as the theme. George
  2. Of course, if you're looking for BAD animation, I have two words for you: Clutch Cargo. Rather than have animators work at making lips move, they actually filmed actors speaking the lines and superimposed their lips on the characters. Even that wouldn't have been so bad had the lips been facing the same way as the cartoon character! Oh, and did anyone else watch the old Krantz cartoons featuring Marvel super-heroes? They were more slide shows than actual cartoons, with the same scenes being used repeatedly and characters moving against backgrounds as if they were one picture sliding over another. Ah, to be a kid again, where such things didn't matter! George
  3. "Yummy, Yummy, Yummy, I've Got Love in My Tummy" by the 1910 Fruitgum Express? George
  4. A fine cartoon, for sure. (I had a Latin teacher in high school that sounded just like him.) I thought the movie adaptation was too serious, but Brendan Fraser was ideally cast. George
  5. Right you are, Mr. P.! I still remember the scene: Gable goes through his whole set of hitching-a-ride strategems without success. Claudette Colbert sticks out a leg, and the next car comes screeching to a halt. As CC explains, "It proves the limb is mightier than the thumb!" George
  6. And since hiway mentioned the Fleischer studios, how about those wonderful Superman cartoons from the 40's? I still think those wer the best cartoons made. George
  7. At least in the Chicago area where I grew up, the Rocky and Bullwinkle show began and ended with (5 min.?) R&B clips, with a Peabody and Sherman and either a Fractured Fairy Tales or an Aesop's Fables, along with assorted commercial intros. ("A message in a bottle!" "Fanmail from some flounder?" "NO! Areally IMPORTANT message!" Cut to commercial.) I don't remember where I saw Tooter Turtle, though it might have been coupled with Tennessee Tuxedo or ... Magilla Gorilla? George
  8. Rocky and Bullwinkle could appeal to kids with its goofiness and adults with its double-entendres and satire. I mean, "Boris Badenov" was funny enough until I found out that a czar of Russia (the successor of Ivan the Terible) was Boris Gudonov! And let's not forget Capt. Wrong-way Peachfuzz! George
  9. Here's an easier clue (same movie, of course): Why didn't you take off all your clothes? You could have stopped forty cars. George
  10. Doesn't he go back and find out that the girl has been dead for several years? George
  11. I loved the Tooter Turtle cartoon. "Help, Mr. Wisard! Help!" "Oh, Tooter...Trizzle Trazzle Truzzle Trom, time for this one to come home!" George Oh, and Moony.. I KNOW the "It was the best..." line was the opening to "Tale of Two Cities." It was the "It's a far better thing I do.." line that I thought was from Shakespeare.
  12. Darn! This is one of those "ghost lover" songs like "Teen Angel" but I know I won't get it without googling! George
  13. I guess with the BOT being the only actual "members," WW's statement is true. Howevr, it's my impression (from the few that I've talked with) that the rank-and-file TWI'ers aren't fanatical. They're carrying out the motions without the emotions. George
  14. That's interesting. I recognized the quote from the audio clip, but I thought it was Shakespeare (Hamlet, or one of those other dreary tragedies). George
  15. Since I posted other clues for "Sleeper" a few weeks ago, that shouldn't come as a surprise! This movie isn't my usual fare, but I thoroughly enjoyed it: What she needs is a guy that'd take a sock at her once a day, whether it's coming to her or not. If you had half the brains you're supposed to have, you'd done it yourself, long ago. George
  16. Well, at least now I understand what you meant about the last picture possible representing the whole title. George
  17. Sounds like "Sleeper" right before Woody explains that Howard Cosell was a form of capital punishment! George
  18. GeorgeStGeorge

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    I don't know ... how about the "Changed" film? ;)--> George
  19. After praying for a day or two, I started e-mailing and calling my friends in Louisiana and Mississippi. Most came out of it relatively unscathed. One old friend, Andy Stone, who performs as "Vince Vance" (Vince Vance and the Valiants perform all over the country, though they're best known in Texas and the Gulf Coast), had his home and office completely wiped out. (He lived in Waveland, MS.) Fortunately, the group was performing in Indiana when the storm hit, so all the people are fine, and most of his equipment, costumes, etc., are intact. But I'm sure lots of mementos are irretrievably lost. And a lot of upcoming gigs on the coast have, of course, been cancelled. But did Andy sit around bemoaning his fate? No, he got out and entertained the evacuees in Dallas. He's keeping a very positive face on this, and I love him for it. George
  20. GeorgeStGeorge

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    Perhaps it's the term "Quackwatch" that David found insulting. Honestly, one of the best, scientifically tested cancer remedies IS "herbal-based." Paclitaxel (more commonly known by the trade name Taxol ™) is from the bark of the Pacific Yew tree. (Semisynthetic production methods based on renewable Yew needles have been developed more recently.) I'm certainly also aware of the good, synthetic chemicals developed to combat cancer; e.g., cisplatin and carboplatin are inorganic compounds, not found in nature, that have been very effective in cancer treatment. That doesn't mean that an herbal remedy is out of the question. I haven't read the links here, so I don't know if someone is espousing green tea to cure all one's ills, but let's not rule out a natural product as a cancer cure unless it's been tested. George
  21. Thank you SaintGeorge and if you lived in the Columbus Ohio area right this second you would not be breathing. (ohio and texas) I watched the game here until Ohio State blew it near the end. I'm a Big Ten boy myself. Fortunately, MY alma mater, Illinois, won its game handily. (Though, in all fairness, their opponent wasn't of the calibre of UT.) And I still don't know the film, boob or not! George
  22. "Bonne chance" is French for "Good luck." I don't recognize the movie from any of the clues. George
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