THAT'S who Amy Klobuchar reminds me of. Every time she speaks I'm like.... .... ??? But I couldn't bring her up....until now.
Meg Swan from Best in Show!
Meg Swan from Best in Show!
Parker Posey
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SamSpade
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Hey, 60 is the new 40.
But one, yeah, you're a kid. Bet I'm older than your dad. Well, close.
But for another - I don't get this idea of, if something is 20, 30, 40 years old or more - it's ancient AND - irrelevant.
Growing up, a great deal of my favorite movies WERE from - before I was born. (Hence, the avatar).
My favorite music was from the time when I was in kindergarten - and honestly - those guys are timeless.
I watched the Stooges, the Bowery Boys, Our Gang and Abbott and Costello - and some of that actually predates MY parents.
The books I read were from the turn of the century or prior - and I love American history from pre-revolutionary America.
Make a cultural reference to some expression from the 1930's or the war - and yeah, I know it. And I am not even close to that old.
I became a dad at a much older age - and you know what? My pre-teens love 80's music - and I don't even have any.
So actually, when I'm somewhere and make a cultural reference to Casablanca or Streetcar - I roll my eyes when I hear "before my time".
Because it's before MY time, too, but I know about it.
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Yep ... Channel 5 and 20
hell Saturday Morning Cartoons - Bugs Bunny and the Road Runner Show were cartoons that originally played before MOVIES and a News Reel in the theater
Channel 5's line up - Dick Van Dyke Show, Lucille Ball Show, Happy Days ... Andy Griffith [I think Lavern and Shirley were in there somewhere as well ]
Channel 20 was a host of Japanese Imports - Marine Boy, Ultraman, Speed Racer
on the weekends .... old Westerns
my Grand Parents in PA got that Chicago TV channel that replayed a different set of shows ... The Lone Ranger, Gun Smoke ... etc
SamSpade
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Well - yeah. I actually have a GREAT book about that era - called "Of Mice and Magic". One of my favorite books.
Among the interesting things was - besides performing the function that trailers do nowadays - they were fairly specific to studios.
So - Warner Bros was Bugs and Porky and Daffy - MGM was Tom and Jerry - and -
They only made about a dozen or so per year, because they put together cartoons the hard way - drawing the whole thing and extensive storyboarding. It was only when TV came along, and Hanna/Barbera would churn out a few hundred a year that they started doing the whole cel animation, where they only draw about a dozen or so pieces of a character and move it around on a background cel. My biggest objection however was that - these cartoons, being aimed entirely at children - were of exceedingly poor quality.
Every once in a while, someone will say something - partly - accurate and say there's a lot of adult humor in these cartoons. Of course it does. They WERE designed to get the movie going public in their seats. It's not a stretch to say, they were WRITTEN for adults, mostly. When I watch old Looney Toons with my kids, I will tend to tune out if it's obvious it's circa early 60's and after. The quality is significantly less.
As Sam pointed out, 60 is the new 40. I'll add that 40 is the new 20, because you express yourself much as I did before I joined the real world of working for a living and seeing first hand what you have to do to reap the rewards.
It's funny you should put this site and us fogies down, yet here you are, sharing your wonderful insight into what we did wrong and condemning us for it. We didn't have these things handed to us. We got what we have by fighting for them. If you ever have the joy of working with/for DoD contractors, you'll learn very quickly when to keep your mouth shout and eyes open. The world is filled with varying degrees of unpleasantness, but sometimes you have to realize that you're not going to change every single wrong, and just go with the flow.
I'm not belittling you for your ideals, but just sharing what I've learned by observing the world that I know. Others' stories will vary I'm sure, but basically we all had to choose which hills to die on and which ones to cede to the enemy. You show potential. I hope you discover it and run with it.
GregV814
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Trubby, I personally want to thank you for paying my way for that old stupid social security!! But, at the same time, I pity you as the generation behind you is probably going to be bigger slackers than you, worship Socialism more, set up “hearth committees “ and you, yes YOU will be sent to a geriatric camp at 55.
Hijinx
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Or have her health care rationed so at 55 she won't need a new hip or knee or open heart surgery because she is too old to be worth while to save.
GregV814
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Or remove those rose colored glasses.
SamSpade
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Before anyone gets the wrong idea - I am not "offended" by someone who reacts with this "before my time" reaction. I've been seeing it since at least the late 80's. It's like when someone says "the die is cast", "crossing the Rubicon" "cut the Gordian knot" "met his Waterloo" and a kid will say must be before my time. Hell, all but one of those dates back two thousand years. It's history.
I am not offended. I sort of feel a kind of pity for someone who thinks that anything that predates their existence is irrelevant.
I am not offended. I sort of feel a kind of pity for someone who thinks that anything that predates their existence is irrelevant.
It's not a new phenomenon but it has become disturbingly "fashionable" by the current Gens.
GregV814
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Best in Show is a timeless classic. It's just as funny today as it was 20 years ago. I challenge you to watch it.
AND:
I have not called you a kid since I learned you were 40. 40 is a full adult, likely with teenage kids and an adult career. At least that was me at 40, so that's how I relate to it.
Before you divulged your age I'd have guessed early to mid 20s, because that's how you present yourself. I was indulgent of your youth, but now that I know you're middle-aged I'm not inclined to encourage your immaturity.
Your refusal to acknowledge that there was life before you were born is another one of those kid things that made me think you were younger.
I have not called you a kid since I learned you were 40. 40 is a full adult, likely with teenage kids and an adult career. At least that was me at 40, so that's how I relate to it.
Before you divulged your age I'd have guessed early to mid 20s, because that's how you present yourself. I was indulgent of your youth, but now that I know you're middle-aged I'm not inclined to encourage your immaturity.
Your refusal to acknowledge that there was life before you were born is another one of those kid things that made me think you were younger.
jrt_ms1995
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For a more up-to-date version of Parker, see her as Dr. Smith in Netflix' remake of "Lost In Space".
Grumpy
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And surprisingly, not only here on the forums, "Boomer" is now a derogatory word.
Auntie Biache'
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These two were my favorite storyline in the movie.
So much of that movie was improvised and those two nailed it. Her Busy Bee meltdown was a work of art.
"I know a man who has a van and he will take you back to wherever you came from! "
