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Re: News in General
« Reply #915 on: August 17, 2022, 11:09:47 PM »

Alligators are eating people in South Carolina.
Another person was eaten *today*...an 88 yr lady who was gardening and slipped into a pond.
Some wetlands or something.
Where was the fence?
The lady was in some sort of retirement complex.
Totally horrible, and totally preventable.
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« Reply #916 on: August 17, 2022, 11:27:29 PM »

You old ladies got to stick together.
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« Reply #917 on: August 17, 2022, 11:54:38 PM »

You old ladies got to stick together.

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I've been called an "old woman" more than once...for fussing, being particular, doing things the way I want to, having things how I like them
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Elderly people in retirement complexes should not be able to be eaten by alligators.
There oughta be a law.
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« Reply #918 on: August 18, 2022, 12:09:54 AM »

"Don't go into the pond where the alligator lives."
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« Reply #919 on: August 18, 2022, 12:10:24 AM »

We have to let the alligators know that DeSantis keeps his office in Tallahassee.
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« Reply #920 on: August 18, 2022, 10:48:11 AM »

Alligators are eating people in South Carolina.
Another person was eaten *today*...an 88 yr lady who was gardening and slipped into a pond.
Some wetlands or something.
Where was the fence?
The lady was in some sort of retirement complex.
Totally horrible, and totally preventable.

https://youtu.be/u4csFnpZXek

Polk salad Annie, the gators ate your granny...

Elvis explains it for you.
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Mr. Hoover was an engineer. He knew that water trickles down... But he didnt know that money trickled up. Give it to the people at the bottom and the people at the top will have it before night, anyhow. But it will at least have passed through the poor fellows hands.

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« Reply #921 on: August 18, 2022, 10:58:57 AM »

That's really Tony Joe White's song. Accept no substitutes (even Elvis'):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCSsVvlj6YA

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« Reply #922 on: August 18, 2022, 12:08:23 PM »

"Don't go into the pond where the alligator lives."

"Don't go into the ocean. That's the shark's house!"

https://www.newsweek.com/great-white-shark-size-four-wheel-drive-attacks-teen-fishing-1734376


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« Reply #923 on: August 18, 2022, 02:43:02 PM »



Didnt see the first shark for about a half-hour. Tiger. 13-footer. You know how you know that in the water, Chief? You can tell by lookin afrom the dorsal to the tail. What we didnt know, was that our bomb mission was so secret, no distress signal had been sent. They didnt even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, Chief, sharks come cruisin by, so we formed ourselves into tight groups. It was sorta like you see in the calendars, you know the infantry squares in the old calendars like the Battle of Waterloo and the idea was the shark come to the nearest man, that man he starts poundin and hollerin and sometimes that shark he go away, but sometimes he wouldnt go away.

Sometimes that shark looks right at ya. Right into your eyes. And the thing about a shark is hes got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a dolls eyes. When he comes at ya, he doesnt even seem to be livin ... til he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then ...ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin.  The ocean turns red, and despite all your poundin and your hollerin those sharks come in and
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« Reply #924 on: August 18, 2022, 03:05:03 PM »

they rip you to pieces.

You know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men. I dont know how many sharks there were, maybe a thousand. I do know how many men, they averaged six an hour. Thursday mornin, Chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player. Bosuns mate. I thought he was asleep. I reached over to wake him up. He bobbed up, down in the water, he was like a kinda top. Upended. Well, hed been bitten in half below the waist.

At noon on the fifth day, a Lockheed Ventura swung in low and he spotted us, a young pilot, lot younger than Mr. Hooper here, anyway he spotted us and a few hours later a big ol fat PBY come down and started to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened. Waitin for my turn. I ll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went into the water. 316 men come out, the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945.

Anyway, we delivered the bomb
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« Reply #925 on: August 18, 2022, 03:23:47 PM »

The trump org is a cess pit according to the mea culpa of its CFO.
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« Reply #926 on: August 18, 2022, 06:02:38 PM »

they rip you to pieces.

You know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men. I dont know how many sharks there were, maybe a thousand. I do know how many men, they averaged six an hour. Thursday mornin, Chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player. Bosuns mate. I thought he was asleep. I reached over to wake him up. He bobbed up, down in the water, he was like a kinda top. Upended. Well, hed been bitten in half below the waist.

At noon on the fifth day, a Lockheed Ventura swung in low and he spotted us, a young pilot, lot younger than Mr. Hooper here, anyway he spotted us and a few hours later a big ol fat PBY come down and started to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened. Waitin for my turn. I ll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went into the water. 316 men come out, the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945.

Anyway, we delivered the bomb

Dialogue by John Milius...
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« Reply #927 on: August 18, 2022, 06:49:44 PM »

I have been seeing photos from the UNICEF camps for refugees around the world, it is horrible, they have tents as far as the eye can see and none of those people can take care of themselves, they are all depending on other people for aid. They cannot even feed themselves.

My advice for the Muslims is to go to Abu Dhabi, and to Dubai, and get a job as an essential worker there, they can support families, and they can have a life. It is better than living at a refugee camp.

For the Christians, they can come help to grow food in the USA, they can grow mustard in Montana, and they can raise pork and beef in Nevada, and they can grow oranges and avocados in California, and they can make wine, etc. In Hollywood the immigrants can live with 10 people in a one bedroom apartment and they can all work at In N Out Burger while they take Acting classes, etc. In Hollywood it is all about serving the tourists, food, sunglasses, theme parks, etc. And meanwhile California has great schools, the immigrants can study while they work serving the tourists. We also need nurses, psychiatrists, and doctors.

Acapulco is a good spot for the refugees too, and Elvis made a movie there. Acapulco is a nice spot, people need to just protect it and make it nice again.

Salute,

Tony V.
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« Reply #928 on: August 18, 2022, 06:54:47 PM »



Dialogue by John Milius...

There is quite the debate about that.  Will post something in the Movies thread if I can dredge it up from the web.

Milius is held to be an inspiration for Walter, in The Big Lebowski.  Partly for Milius well known love of toting guns.

The debates about Milius are so fierce that his wikipedia article gets wiped every so often.  Just checked, all the subcategories have been deleted in the past week.
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« Reply #929 on: August 18, 2022, 08:26:48 PM »



Dialogue by John Milius...

There is quite the debate about that.  Will post something in the Movies thread if I can dredge it up from the web.

Milius is held to be an inspiration for Walter, in The Big Lebowski.  Partly for Milius well known love of toting guns.

The debates about Milius are so fierce that his wikipedia article gets wiped every so often.  Just checked, all the subcategories have been deleted in the past week.

Spielberg clarified who did what in an interview a few years back. I
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