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South Austin

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  1. 26 minutes ago, Knoxtnhorn said:

    Would trying to pay cash and not go through insurance screw you 11 months from now if the girl decided she had some sort of health issue stemming from the collision?  

    I believe it would.  So pay cash and keep the girl as part of your threesome for the next two years until the statute of limitations runs.

  2. 2 minutes ago, JimmyHoffa said:

    Steve Martin's performance in the Hotel Rant is one I don't think many other actors could pull off. The amount of disgust and disdain in his facial expressions as he rips Del is pretty amazing and John Candy is standing there delivering assist after assist. 

    Spot on.  And the incredibly vulnerable response from Del ("I like me.  My wife likes me."  Which is so painful when you realize his situation at the end), followed by the visible guilt and regret Neal feels, is a fantastic scene. 

  3. Just now, Al_4_ISU said:

    There are some really good songs on the first couple Coldplay albums, but they went off a cliff pretty quickly, and have been pure trash for over a decade

     

     

    I generally agree. I actually liked some of the stuff of Viva La Vida, but it continued a direction of the band that was such a departure from what I loved with that first album. 

  4. This is hands down the best scene of the movie, and the best scene of any John Hughes movie.  It does a great job of capturing the evolving emotions Steve Martin's character feels.  There's reconciliation and gratitude when he and Del are saying goodbye, a sense of relief when the train pulls away, the anticipation of seeing his family, looking back on the past days' events with laughter, and the sudden realization that Del might not have a family to go home to. 

    It still gets me.

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  5. On 11/22/2019 at 10:05 AM, MoJames said:

    Will spin Coldplay next, but my expectations are low based on the singles already released.

    You know how I know you’re gay?*
     


     

     

    *Parachutes kicked ass.

  6. And I really don't care for the way your company left me in the middle of fucking nowhere with fucking keys to a fucking car that isn't fucking there. And I really didn't care to fucking walk down a fucking highway and across a fucking runway to get back here to have you smile at my fucking face. I want a fucking car...right...fucking...now.

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  7. Such a tough read.  Suicide and depression among our children's generation is a growing epidemic, and I shudder at the likelihood my kids will have to deal with it sometime in their youth in a away I never did.  God willing not directly, but the odds are decent they'll know someone who takes their own life before they graduate from college. 

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