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  1. I was reminded of that with this thread. I was open to discussing, or reading along and changing my mind, but not so much when the posts read a little like "Why can't you chowderheads see this?"
  2. Rocky once said that people don't change their minds with logical posts. Not entirely true. On one thread, I completely reversed my position on something based entirely on the discussion. The other side of the discussion had a lot of good points. The side I agreed with didn't, and didn't have any answers for any of the good points on the other side. I couldn't think of any defense, and there wasn't any post of "You've failed to consider this.." with a point I couldn't find. In fact, when I mentioned that, the poster who was really obfuscating and fuzzing the discussion insisted I should post an example- meaning I should post something I NEVER THOUGHT OF- which would be a good trick since I'd have to think of it before actually posting it. However, I didn't follow the discussion at all when the initial poster looked like he was venting rather than presenting his point. It was after he calmed down, took things less personal, and calmly made his points that I started to reconsider everything and review his points- which got better as he went along.
  3. "You better make your face up in Your favourite disguise, With your button down lips and your Roller blind eyes With your empty smile And your hungry heart. Feel the bile rising from your guilty past With your nerves in tatters As the cockleshell shatters And the hammers batter Down your door." " keep your dirty feelings Deep inside. And if you're Takin' your girlfriend Out tonight You better park the car Well out of sight 'Cause if they catch you in the back seat Trying to pick her locks They're gonna send you back to mother In a cardboard box."
  4. Not yet. But you've heard this song before, I'm reasonably sure.
  5. Looks like someone who used to be Center Square on Hollywood Squares. IF that's Shadoe Stevens, then, knowing this bunch, this is PROBABLY "TRAXX."
  6. Next song. " keep your dirty feelings Deep inside. And if you're Takin' your girlfriend Out tonight You better park the car Well out of sight 'Cause if they catch you in the back seat Trying to pick her locks They're gonna send you back to mother In a cardboard box."
  7. Less likely with just a handful of players, but 3 days have passed. Dan Ackroyd Trading Places Eddie Murphy
  8. I'm not sure. I posted 2 links to 2 different sets of instructions. I'd try those.
  9. Knowing this bunch, was this "AMAZON WOMEN ON THE MOON"??
  10. Thanks. This may be a moment to give it another shot.
  11. That IS Edward James Olmos. This IS "Stand and Deliver." That IS a classroom. This was the story (Hollywood-style) of real life math teacher Jaime Escalante, who taught in a barrio school in LA and got his math class to pass the AP Math exam for college. I have to hand it to Escalante AND his students, that exam is incredibly hard. In this scene, Escalante had been making a point about enough education to flip burgers, thus the burger-flipping, complete with burgers, spatula, and Mc Donalds HAT. He still had it on while talking to a 'too cool for school" type who didn't bring a pencil to class. Escalante claimed the guy thought he could do the math just with his hands, then showed a trick for remembering the 9 times table using 10 fingers, since the totals of the digits (under 100) equal 9- 09, 18, 27, 36, 45, 54, 63, 72, 81, 90 (pattern ends here since the next number is 99.) So, he moved a finger over each time, making 1 and 8, 2 and 7, 3 and 6.... Unfortunately, Imdb does NOT have the image I really wanted, the "put the cuffs on me" moment. Lou Diamond Phillips played one of the students. When the class PASSED the exam, the Board assumed they were all cheating since they responded lockstep the same way. (They were taught lockstep by the same teacher at the same time in the same style.) When an investigator showed up to try to get a confession from the students, he blew off their claims of passing honestly. Eventually, LDP's character confessed. He said he'd gotten the answers for them ahead of time from a school janitor. *investigators write this down* "Where can I find this janitor?" "I strangled him. His body's decomposing in my lockerr." *holds out his wrists for handcuffs as the class laughs*
  12. This is definitely Led Zeppelin. Is the title "Black Dog" ?
  13. That voice you're hearing is Robert Plant.
  14. Or go to imdb, look up the movie you want, and see if they have an image that you're looking for.
  15. You're way off. This one took place in the US, and you have the wrong ethnicity. Look closely at the actor in-frame, you've heard of him. Look closely at the foreground- where, generally, is this taking place? BTW, if you knew the movie, you might remember exactly when this was, due both to the hat he's wearing and what, exactly, he's doing with his fingers.
  16. https://www.lifewire.com/take-screenshot-windows-7-8-10-4049964 https://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-to-take-a-screenshot-in-any-version-of-windows/
  17. 1) Lots of people throughout history can say the same. The SS wore belt buckles that said "God is with us". Religious wars usually have both sides say it at the same time. 2) For that matter, there's probably some sincere, nice stuff in among the "I'm in this for me" stuff- but it's like leaven- a little corruption is all you need to poison a religious organization. 3) There were discussions post-lawsuits about how twi suddenly made a bunch of sweeping changes that brought them into conformity with legal requirements, like work hours a week and so on. I don't remember a specific thread dedicated to it, so I'll have to hunt for them when I can.
  18. Oops. That can happen when posting close to dawn.
  19. Hey, George, since I posted the answer on the wrong thread, was it invalidated, making Raf's the first correct answer?
  20. Mark Hamon? (In Spanish, "jamon" with a sound like "hamon" means "HAM" in English. In Spanish, the letter 'j' has a sound like a hard h.) Mark the Ham? As for the current round, no need to jump to the obvious answer. "Arnold Strong" was the original billing for Ah-nuld when he played this role. The studio didn't think "Schwarzenegger" would work for US audiences. They dubbed his voice, too. Then again, I heard Jean-Claude Van Damme's voice as the Canadian Frank Dux in " Bloodsport", and perhaps the studio was on to something with dubbing AS. This role is "HERCULES." AS was introduced to US audiences, IIRC, in this role. Kevin Sorbo played him in "Hercules- the Legendary Journeys. I'm sure Lou Ferrigno played him in some version, but I don't know which. I don't know about the other actors. Disney had a movie and animated series, so that's room for 1 or 2, and Trans-Lux (who brought you "Speed Racer" had a Hercules cartoon I used to watch.
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