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rass wrote: Wed Nov 04, 2020 8:24 am Same dude that Rex just appropriately posted in the thread from Hell, from a Hallmark Christmas movie made 6+ years ago
Let me guess, he was really Santa Claus? I think I saw that one, but it could be any of 5 or so movies, I can't place which one. Is it the big city doctor who gets a job in Alaska where Santa has his workshop? Or the big city business woman who inherits her aunt's Christmas village in rural Western New York? Or was he the big city mega toy store chain owner encroaching into the small town with 2 Mom and Pop toy stores?
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The one with Candance Cameron Bure...

As a redhead!
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At some point, my wife will stop find it amusing when I inform her of whom the movie's lead actress is a knockoff ("91% A-List Actress", etc.).
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Pruitt wrote: Mon Aug 31, 2020 9:42 am Never been big Bob Seger fan, but always liked the song "Night Moves."

Listened to it this morning and the damned thing choked me up.
I woke last night to the sound of thunder
How far off I sat and wondered
Started hummin' a song from 1982
Ain't it funny how the night moves
When you just don't seem to have as much to lose
Strange how the night moves
With autumn closin' in
Old...
Shouldn’t that read “2006”?
And his one problem is he didn’t go to Russia that night because he had extracurricular activities, and they froze to death.
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Steve of phpBB wrote: Wed Nov 04, 2020 9:27 am
Pruitt wrote: Mon Aug 31, 2020 9:42 am Never been big Bob Seger fan, but always liked the song "Night Moves."

Listened to it this morning and the damned thing choked me up.
I woke last night to the sound of thunder
How far off I sat and wondered
Started hummin' a song from 1982
Ain't it funny how the night moves
When you just don't seem to have as much to lose
Strange how the night moves
With autumn closin' in
Old...
Shouldn’t that read “2006”?
I was 42 in 2006. Can still feel the memories from my teenage years, especially as conveyed in that song.

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rass wrote: Wed Nov 04, 2020 9:01 am The one with Candance Cameron Bure...

As a redhead!
Of course! Damn, I should have joked that CCB stared in it, because she actually did. (I looked up the movie, it was my first guess). My wife watched these movies without me for years, but now that she got my daughter into them, they became family events last year. They are truly all the same damned movie with slight modifications, like the main characters' jobs and whether the single father just got a job in Colorado or Seattle where he falls in love with his kids teacher or the mother of the kids nemesis. After 2 or 3 movies, my daughter started to proudly announce the entire plot within the first 2 minutes of every movie. They are truly that transparent and cookie-cutter. At first she was proud to figure it out, then it became a joke, because they are all the friggin same!
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Pruitt wrote: Wed Nov 04, 2020 11:06 amI was 42 in 2006. Can still feel the memories from my teenage years, especially as conveyed in that song.

My teenage crushes will soon be grandmothers...
Except the ones who have died from natural causes.
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The Sybian wrote: Wed Nov 04, 2020 11:11 am
rass wrote: Wed Nov 04, 2020 9:01 am The one with Candance Cameron Bure...

As a redhead!
Of course! Damn, I should have joked that CCB stared in it, because she actually did. (I looked up the movie, it was my first guess). My wife watched these movies without me for years, but now that she got my daughter into them, they became family events last year. They are truly all the same damned movie with slight modifications, like the main characters' jobs and whether the single father just got a job in Colorado or Seattle where he falls in love with his kids teacher or the mother of the kids nemesis. After 2 or 3 movies, my daughter started to proudly announce the entire plot within the first 2 minutes of every movie. They are truly that transparent and cookie-cutter. At first she was proud to figure it out, then it became a joke, because they are all the friggin same!
I've mentioned it here before, but the podcast "Dave and Jeb aren't mean", featuring David Roth (from the Defector) and Jeb Lund (@mobute on twitter), break down Hallmark movies. I've never watched one of the movies, but its still pretty damn funny. One of the bits they do is to try and describe the plot in 60 seconds or less.
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Watching certain Swamper’s kids get older on FB. Makes me realize how long I’ve been here.
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The Travolta as Santa and SLJ as SLJ commercial where even SLJ looks his age.
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And just heard that one of the MmmBop Hanson brothers turned 40 today.
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rass wrote: Tue Nov 17, 2020 7:26 am The Travolta as Santa and SLJ as SLJ commercial where even SLJ looks his age.
My brain glitched and translated this as Sarah Louise Jessica.
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A couple days ago, while I was researching a narrow point of law, I ran a Westlaw search and saw that one of the cases that came up was something I had briefed and argued in 2005. I opened the case and not only had I completely forgotten that my case had dealt with the particular issue I was researching, but I had to read the opinion twice to figure out whether I had been on the winning or losing side of the issue.
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Steve of phpBB wrote: Tue Nov 17, 2020 9:50 am A couple days ago, while I was researching a narrow point of law, I ran a Westlaw search and saw that one of the cases that came up was something I had briefed and argued in 2005. I opened the case and not only had I completely forgotten that my case had dealt with the particular issue I was researching, but I had to read the opinion twice to figure out whether I had been on the winning or losing side of the issue.
I'm going to say it. I fucking hate reading opinions. They are so rarely easy to understand and offer confusing guidance at best. Sure, they're written to deal only/mostly with the issues in that case, but god damn if they aren't a slog. It's always like plowing through Ta-Nehisi Coates, David Foster Wallace, and James Joyce at their most verbose.
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Len Bias would have turned 57 today
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Been watching a bunch of episodes of Taxi recently and Danny DeVito as Louie DePalma was 10 years younger than I am today and he seemed old as shit on that show.
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Watched the first MI movie with the kids tonight and Jon Voight,
[+] spoiler
who played an IMF agent who turned against his country because he felt like he was old and, post-Cold War, obsolete,
was 57 when that movie came out. Cruise is currently 58.
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rass wrote: Fri Nov 20, 2020 9:36 pm Watched the first MI movie with the kids tonight and Jon Voight,
[+] spoiler
who played an IMF agent who turned against his country because he felt like he was old and, post-Cold War, obsolete,
was 57 when that movie came out. Cruise is currently 58.
Now I feel bad for not including spoiler tags in my movie thread discussion.
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Just make sure you include one for the dog if you watch the second movie.
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rass wrote: Sat Nov 21, 2020 11:07 am Just make sure you include one for the dog if you watch the second movie.
That definitely happened in the one i watched.
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A_B wrote: Sat Nov 21, 2020 11:29 am
rass wrote: Sat Nov 21, 2020 11:07 am Just make sure you include one for the dog if you watch the second movie.
That definitely happened in the one i watched.
I definitely saw Road Warrior (part 2) first when I was a kid and it made a bigger impression on me. Did the dog die in both?

Plus side to my maybe being wrong here is that I just went on a quick little George Miller YT jaunt and rewatched the end of Babe and goddamn is that still great.
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rass wrote: Sat Nov 21, 2020 11:50 am
A_B wrote: Sat Nov 21, 2020 11:29 am
rass wrote: Sat Nov 21, 2020 11:07 am Just make sure you include one for the dog if you watch the second movie.
That definitely happened in the one i watched.
I definitely saw Road Warrior (part 2) first when I was a kid and it made a bigger impression on me. Did the dog die in both?

Plus side to my maybe being wrong here is that I just went on a quick little George Miller YT jaunt and rewatched the end of Babe and goddamn is that still great.
"Road Warrior" and "Babe" are two of my top 20 movies of all time. And the first "Mad Max" and "Fury Road" are also fantastic films.
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Paula Abdul doing commercials for arthritis medication has got to be up there.
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Johnny Carwash wrote: Sun Jan 24, 2021 6:43 pm Paula Abdul doing commercials for arthritis medication has got to be up there.
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This type of stuff gets me every time

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EdRomero wrote: Mon Feb 01, 2021 1:41 pm This type of stuff gets me every time

It's probably my age, but I swear the world changed so much more between the 60s and 80s than it has in the last 20 years. In some ways, the 80s seem more relatable today than the 60s did in the 80s.
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I think we are very similarly aged and I have the same feeling. Kind of a lame example, but watching the new Wonder Woman movie, there weren't these crazy technological items that seemed so anachronistic. But if you look at 70s and then 60s? VERY different in tech and aesthetically.
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Shirley wrote: Mon Feb 01, 2021 1:47 pm
EdRomero wrote: Mon Feb 01, 2021 1:41 pm This type of stuff gets me every time

It's probably my age, but I swear the world changed so much more between the 60s and 80s than it has in the last 20 years. In some ways, the 80s seem more relatable today than the 60s did in the 80s.
I have the same perception, but it's got to be because we weren't alive in the 60s. I think if our kids watched a show from or about the 80s, they couldn't relate. If you think about it, life has changed drastically since the 80s. Cell phones, internet, streaming TV, flying cars... Our kids can't fathom the way we lived as kids.
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OTOH, I feel like very little has changed between today and 2001, but maybe living through it seems like a slow progression, not a sharp contrast. I wonder if our parents felt the same way in the 80s looking back to the 60s. As a matter of history, the 60s just seem like such a stark contrast to any other period in American history, but living through it, if you weren't a hippie or protesting or whatever, I wonder if it felt as different as it seems looking back, or if it was just a side story to your every day life.
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The Sybian wrote: Mon Feb 01, 2021 1:52 pm
Shirley wrote: Mon Feb 01, 2021 1:47 pm
EdRomero wrote: Mon Feb 01, 2021 1:41 pm This type of stuff gets me every time

It's probably my age, but I swear the world changed so much more between the 60s and 80s than it has in the last 20 years. In some ways, the 80s seem more relatable today than the 60s did in the 80s.
I have the same perception, but it's got to be because we weren't alive in the 60s. I think if our kids watched a show from or about the 80s, they couldn't relate. If you think about it, life has changed drastically since the 80s. Cell phones, internet, streaming TV, flying cars... Our kids can't fathom the way we lived as kids.
Yup, that's all true. It may be that I'm feeling is more the cultural shift that started in the late 60s. I mean, Mad Men is iset n the 60s, but that's a whole other world. The 60s and the explosion of rock music and the hippie movement changed the culture in a way that has never gone back.
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I truly go back and forth in evaluating the 60s as either (a) a deeply transformative, tumultuous time in America, (b) a slight outlier of other decades that was examined through the lenses of Baby Boomers, the dominant-sized age group in 20th Century America.
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Even into the 1990s, you couldn't find out the score of a game as it was happening if you weren' watching or listening.

The exception was that if you were near a TV with cable, you could catch Headline News at 25 and 55 past the hour, when they did the sports update.
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The Sybian wrote: Mon Feb 01, 2021 1:56 pm OTOH, I feel like very little has changed between today and 2001, but maybe living through it seems like a slow progression, not a sharp contrast. I wonder if our parents felt the same way in the 80s looking back to the 60s. As a matter of history, the 60s just seem like such a stark contrast to any other period in American history, but living through it, if you weren't a hippie or protesting or whatever, I wonder if it felt as different as it seems looking back, or if it was just a side story to your every day life.
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govmentchedda wrote: Mon Feb 01, 2021 2:23 pm
The Sybian wrote: Mon Feb 01, 2021 1:56 pm OTOH, I feel like very little has changed between today and 2001, but maybe living through it seems like a slow progression, not a sharp contrast. I wonder if our parents felt the same way in the 80s looking back to the 60s. As a matter of history, the 60s just seem like such a stark contrast to any other period in American history, but living through it, if you weren't a hippie or protesting or whatever, I wonder if it felt as different as it seems looking back, or if it was just a side story to your every day life.
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Yeah, I was thinking of cultural differences in this post, then tech in my next post. It's weird, culture doesn't seem so different looking backwards in my life time. Maybe the 60s really were as big a cultural upheaval as it seems, and everything was different post 60s, but I do think to those who lived it, it didn't seem like such an enormous change. I think what we experienced the past 4 years is as big a cultural shift as anything. Pre-Trump, we had a growing divide between Left and Right and people living under different facts, but now there is just no way to even have a conversation between Left and Right. Our culture is consumed with social media political fights and tensions.

I also realized I originally compared the 80s to today, while The Wonder Years was only looking back 20 years. We tried introducing the show to my kids a couple years ago, but I think they were just too young. I see it's on Hulu, so I'm tempted to try it again. I was in the same grade as Kevin Arnold through the run of the show, so I really connected to him and the show as a whole. Plus, I've always been fascinated by history and the 60s in particular, so it really connected. I think my kids will be surprised to learn why their rocking horse from when they were little is named Little Winnie Cooper.
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L-Jam3 wrote: Mon Feb 01, 2021 1:58 pm I truly go back and forth in evaluating the 60s as either (a) a deeply transformative, tumultuous time in America, (b) a slight outlier of other decades that was examined through the lenses of Baby Boomers, the dominant-sized age group in 20th Century America.
I go with c) all of the above, but forced to choose, it's b). Fucking Boomers go on and on as though Woodstock solved the world's problems, and "Laugh In" was actually funny.
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Yeah, as noted above, in 2001, we had no smartphones. No wifi. Most people were on super slow dial-up modems for their computers, so websites were prehistoric. CDs were still state of the art for music acquisition. More people still used VHS than DVDs.
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sancarlos wrote: Mon Feb 01, 2021 4:06 pm Yeah, as noted above, in 2001, we had no smartphones. No wifi. Most people were on super slow dial-up modems for their computers, so websites were prehistoric. CDs were still state of the art for music acquisition. More people still used VHS than DVDs.
I’ll push back a bit on 2001 being state of the art for music acquisition. I was downloading SHN and FLAC files from concert sharing sites like bt.etree.org way back into the late 90s. Damn it took a long time to pull those shows down (DSL). Also, I had an 802.11b wifi router too circa 1999. Lousy range, but it allowed me to use my laptop on my couch as the modem was about 8 feet away on my desk. It operated on the 2.4 Ghz band, which meant whenever you microwave stuff, or your wireless phone rang, down went your connection.

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EnochRoot wrote: Mon Feb 01, 2021 4:26 pm
sancarlos wrote: Mon Feb 01, 2021 4:06 pm Yeah, as noted above, in 2001, we had no smartphones. No wifi. Most people were on super slow dial-up modems for their computers, so websites were prehistoric. CDs were still state of the art for music acquisition. More people still used VHS than DVDs.
I’ll push back a bit on 2001 being state of the art for music acquisition. I was downloading SHN and FLAC files from concert sharing sites like bt.etree.org way back into the late 90s. Damn it took a long time to pull those shows down (DSL). Also, I had an 802.11b wifi router too circa 1999. Lousy range, but it allowed me to use my laptop on my couch as the modem was about 8 feet away on my desk. It operated on the 2.4 Ghz band, which meant whenever you microwave stuff, or your wireless phone rang, down went your connection.

Oh..and damn that was a small apartment.
Yeah, state of the art was an incorrect term, but CDs were as good as most people had it. it was a minority of people had DSL or access to servers, and were were actually going on Napster or what have you to download music. I tried downloading on Napster and it took all night to grab a few songs.
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