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Liquor and Poker

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  1. Two dudes in my neighborhood growing up had custom vans. 

    One had a mural of a Valkyrie (wings and barely covered tits and all) about to be sacrificed over a rock by a dude with a sword in a loincloth.

    The other had a mural of the comic strip character B.C. riding one of those stone wheels.

    The B.C. van was much cooler inside.  And it got rocked a lot more.

    I miss 1981.

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  2. On 6/7/2018 at 10:15 AM, Johnny Sack said:

    Road House

    WTF??

    On 6/7/2018 at 10:02 AM, Parliament said:
    On 6/7/2018 at 9:52 AM, Brisketexan said:
    What I like are the ones that go full circle: you thought it was awesome at the time, and now see that it’s SO bad...that it’s awesome.

    See: Iron Eagle.

    Starship Troopers

    You realize that Starship Troopers is meant to be satirical, right?  It's actually a sendup of militarism and military culture.

    I get that it has no real connection to the book, which is militaristic and reactionary itself.

  3. 2 hours ago, Loco said:

    Thor Ragnarok  - Am I the only one who knows the difference between thunder and lightening?

    i-feel-like-im-taking-crazy-pills.gif

    I get it.  "Lightening" is what happens when you remove some weight.  It can also mean you made things less dark.

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  4. 7 minutes ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

    I've never liked 2001. Slow, plodding story line with bits of interesting stuff thrown in. Not my favorite Kubrick film by a long shot.  You have to keep it in the Persective of the time it was released however. 

    But that doesn't mean it didn't hold up.  It's always been an "acquired taste."  In 1968, the New York Times said the film was “so completely absorbed in its own problems – its use of colour and space, its fanatical devotion to science-fiction detail – that it’s somewhere between hypnotic and immensely boring.  The uncompromising slowness of the movie makes it hard to sit through without talking – and people on all sides when I saw it were talking almost throughout the film. Very annoying.”

     

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  5. 4 hours ago, texasstrong12 said:

    Pretty sure Graham was hired by Del Conte at Rice. Not to mention Graham hired Applewhite as his OC at Rice. 

    There's certainly connections to Texas. 

    I don't think Todd Graham and Major Applewhite are exactly fishing buddies.

  6. 24 minutes ago, Parliament said:

    We could do an entire thread on time and age.  The Wedding Singer came out in 1997, and was set 1985, 12 years prior.  Remember how cheesy 1985 was, as shown?

    Well, a sequel/reboot today, with the same time gap would be set in 2006.  

    Jesus.  The difference between 1985 and 1997 seems much more stark than 2006 to 2018.  Other than phones, what's really different?

  7. 1 hour ago, wreckatx said:

    Ah Tarrytown...

    "Not resorting to judegement here, but a dark skinned man in pink collared shirt and ill fitting outfit soliciting "F2 Connections"?? Polite at first, although he was testy I didn't give him much attention (baby and dinner going on) and smartly rang my doorbell to avoid doorbell camera and stayed 10 feet back. Then scolded me for "looks like someone gave me a chance in life". I was polite as I could be, and hoping this wasn't sketchy, but thought I would give everyone a heads up."

    Actually, you are resorting to judgment

    The poster didn't say he/she wasn't resorting to judgment.  Just not to "judegement."

    Words matter, dude.

  8. 16 minutes ago, Tex Pete said:

    So you've literally not said a word about what difference natural grass makes. It's completely irrelevant and it makes no sense why people whine about it.

    The last grass we had was always torn up. It was awful. 

    Torn up grass (mud, as I call it) is still better than plastic.  If you don''t agree I just don't know how to argue with you.  To me it's like saying "you've literally not said a word about what difference there is between Shiner Bock and warm Buckhorn."  

    I get that it's not as important as whether we win football games or not but it's not trivial.

    I was really hoping that MRSA scare a few years back was going to kill off plastic grass forever.  

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  9. More obscure stuff:

    It got lukewarm reviews, but if you liked those N64 3d platformers, Yooka-Laylee takes up a lot of my time.  It is desperately unfair and brutally difficult, though.

    Subsurface Circular is a good cheap game to play on a long plane flight.

    Never Stop Sneakin' is good and funny.

    If you liked Zelda-LttP on SNES, Blossom King is a complete ripoff of that game.  In a good way.

     

    For some weird reason the indie stuff seems to play better on the Switch screen and the big-time, first party Nintendo stuff plays better on the TV.

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