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Bama Llama

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  1. I got a preadolescent thrill when as an 11-year old my mother forced me to go with her to From Russia With Love. Get this - she thought it was a travel documentary! When the belly dancer came bopping out with a jewel in her navel, she said, "Oh son, what I brought you to!" And started to get up to leave. My eyes were popping out of my head. I kept telling her the Scenic steppes and onion domes would probably be coming up in a minute or two - and I conned her into watching the whole film. Hey, it was 1963. You had to be there.
  2. He's still unctuous. And a weasel.
  3. And Simcoe's quasi-falsetto voice only added to the menace. You're right, an excellent, vicious villain. His superior, Major Hewlett, who had the hots for lovely Anna, was a very sympathetic character. This series really brought the Revolutionary War to life.
  4. If Nick Saban quit tomorrow and personally endorsed him, Urban Meyer would never be considered. Alabama would rather have Bear Bryant's hat than that unctuous weasel, 97% winning percentage be damned.
  5. Someone explain to me why Bama/OU are playing in Miami rather than Jerrahworld. Does or does not the 1 seed get shortest travel distance? Dallas is 100 miles closer to Tuscaloosa. No sir, I don't like it. Dallas would be a home game for OU, so if someone fucked up, fine with me. Or was this like one of Bill Muuray's "more like a guideline" things?
  6. Should've punted. Still, his teams have dominated six out of the last eight quarters vs Bama.
  7. And he did it without seeking publicity, so there's that. Total silence from Steve. Not a word. See how YOU like it.
  8. I enjoyed the attention to period detail and class-distinct manners of speaking in Turn: Washington's Spies. The actor who portrayed GW looked as if he just walked off the front of a dollar bill. Several other excellent casting choices. Historical adventures, count me in, from Rapa Nui to Dunkirk. Barry Lyndon would be an example of how to transport a viewer through history.
  9. College? No, carnival.
  10. With apologies to Jurassic Park commenters, I must join those above who commented on Saving Private Ryan. I first saw it in a packed house, maybe 300 people, on a Friday night. When it ended and the credits began to appear, for at least ninety seconds no one spoke or got up or even moved. It was totally silent. Slowly, silently, the theater emptied. It sad by far the most powerful, gut-wrenching film I have seen. Leave it to Speilberg. All I could think was, the best war is a very bad thing and the worst peace is very good indeed.
  11. A running plot line in Deadwood always vividly reminded me of Mel's great line in "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore": Vera, the neurotic mouse of a waitress, was nowhere to be found. Diners were asking for her over and over and when Mel had heard "Where's Vera?" one time too many, he came barging out of the kitchen waving his spatula and yelled, "She went to shit and the hogs ate her!"
  12. Dear Ten Bears: Did you knock? Regards, Shep Proudfoot
  13. The Coens had me at Blood Simple and it shall continue as long as I can find their work. 34 years - so hard to believe. This antholgy is no exception. I'm still savoring every chapter, a veritable feast for the senses. It's hard to watch Stephen "Pan Shot!" Root without flashing back to the blind deejay.
  14. And very little, if any, CGI and special effects. When will the studios and indie producers realize it's about storytelling and characters, not plugging photogenic humans into video games? Send us more like Breaking Bad, and we will watch. 'Sall good, man.
  15. Self-styled missionary kayaks to forbidden island + hostile islanders armed with bows and arrows = https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/21/world/asia/american-killed-andaman-island-tribe.amp.html
  16. Good, long episode series on AMC running these past few days and winding up Saturday, I think. Coen-style directing and camera work, and some pretty dang nice acting jobs from a young Brit actress and Michael Shannon as lead Mossad guy. John Le Carre his own self, who wrote the original novel, does a cameo as a waiter in an outfoor cafe. Scene 1 of episode 1 starts everything off with an example of how gullible people were in the innocent days of 1979.
  17. Ad nauseum use of "dial up," as in "Coach Smegma dialed up more pressure." Just stop it with the dialing up already. I'm talking to you, Herbstreit.
  18. Assholes using the COMMERCIAL CUSTOMERS ONLY line at the bank drive-up for their piddly-ass personal shit.
  19. Bama Llama

    UCF

    UCF has already beaten Bama, in Tuscaloosa, no less, 40-38 in 2000. I loved it when they humiliated Auburn last year in the Whatever Bowl. Each of the P5 should have a wheel of fortune spin to pick a team to go home & home with UCF over the next couple of years, and drop a few paycheck games. Memo to UCF sports marketing wonks: get a better logo. The current one reminds me of a muffler shop.
  20. That's what _she_ said.
  21. Take UAB and the points. Here's why: https://theathletic.com/656972/2018/11/16/uab-blazers-football-return-defense-second-year/ "UAB’s 9-1 record this year has been fueled by one of the best defenses in the country. Its 13.2 points allowed per game trails only Clemson, Alabama and Michigan. Its 3.8 sacks per game leads the nation. The Blazers have three shutouts and have allowed points in only eight of 28 quarters in conference play."
  22. Jayhawks press conferences just got a lot more interesting. And mysterious.
  23. The shooter never even _looked_ into the dashcam vehicle. The cop whose voice we heard must've thought he was a dead man.
  24. We hereby revoke your avatar and declare you daft. Sincerely yours, The Beatles
  25. "Louisville football is on a collision course with the national championship. The only variable is time." - Howard Schnellenberger, 1985
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