Dagwood222
@Dagwood222@lemm.ee
- Comment on What do zoos do with dead animals? 6 days ago:
Sounds like the start of a Tony Hillerman [author] Joe Leaphorn mystery. Someone finds a body that looks like it’s a Native American ritual burial, but it’s not…
[see TV show ‘Dark Winds’]
- Comment on What do zoos do with dead animals? 6 days ago:
There’s an urban legend in New York City.
One day, a patrol car in the Bronx finds a headless body laying in the street. The victim’s hands, feet, and skin was removed. There’s a massive response to find the deranged killer. Everything gets called off in a few hours, after the coroner realizes that it’s the body of a gorilla.
There was a hot dog factory in the area.
- Comment on Bond Producers On Next 007 Qualities - Dark Horizons 1 week ago:
Modesty Blaise was supposed to be a ‘refugee’ raised in ‘the Middle East.’ She could be Kashmiri, Afghan, or Iraqi.
I’d do it with two actresses; a fifty-something Modesty narrating her life story and a younger actress for the early years.
- Comment on Bond Producers On Next 007 Qualities - Dark Horizons 1 week ago:
Quentin Tarantino and I [and probably a lot of other folks] came up with the idea of setting the next Bond back in the 1960s.
- Comment on Im flyinf to the USA from england 1 week ago:
There really is no such thing as ‘The USA.’
I live in New York City and what’s cool here will get you arrested in other places.
Some towns are fine with you having a rifle on open display. Some towns are fine with you smoking pot on the street.
- Comment on Did binders used to be called tablets? 1 week ago:
yourdictionary.com/…/transparent-translucent-opaq…
All of you have the same misunderstanding.
“Opaque” is not a color, but you can have a color that is opaque.
A white canvas sheet will stop light from going through; it’s opaque white.
- Comment on Did binders used to be called tablets? 1 week ago:
[off topic]
We were in a class talking about X-rays. One young woman kept insisting that ‘opaque’ was a color. We finally figured out that she had seen opaque pantyhose and been confused.
- Comment on How Hollywood Shot Actors with Arrows before CGI 2 weeks ago:
Never did it myself, but I heard of a club called ‘Dual Cool’ that does it recreationally.
Search and see.
- Comment on How Hollywood Shot Actors with Arrows before CGI 2 weeks ago:
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Same effects with spearguns
My favorite Bond movie is Thunderball. It was made back in the day, so when you see 100 guys jump out of an airplane and scuba dive into a battle with another undersea army you know that it was all real people.
- Comment on I'm going to try not to swear when you're around. Is this a good apology to a coworker? 2 weeks ago:
“I’ll try and be more professional in the future.”
This way you’re not judging them or yourself, you’re saying you understand that there’s a code of behavior the bosses expect everyone to follow.
- Comment on But count is in the name 2 weeks ago:
The “?” candle is obviously for a gender reveal party.
Fight me!
- Comment on Chemistry Jokes 2 weeks ago:
Na.
I’m too salty
- Comment on Why is the term "bloodline" often used instead of "family tree"? 3 weeks ago:
That was a pleasure to read.
- Comment on Indiana Jones doesn't "endorse" Nazis, Bethesda assure, just in case you were confused by him repeatedly murdering them 3 weeks ago:
Apparently, Miller had some serious problems that he’s been dealing with.
I give the guy who created Martha Washington a lot of leeway.
- Comment on Indiana Jones doesn't "endorse" Nazis, Bethesda assure, just in case you were confused by him repeatedly murdering them 3 weeks ago:
You picked the wrong guy to ask.
- Comment on Indiana Jones doesn't "endorse" Nazis, Bethesda assure, just in case you were confused by him repeatedly murdering them 3 weeks ago:
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One of the biggest mind fuck novels I ever read was "The Iron Dream’ by Norman Spinrad.
On one level it’s a ‘hero’s journey’ story about an exiled prince who returns to his homeland and defeats a bunch of evil mind controlling wizards. Lots of excitement and adventure and terrific battles.
The fucked up part is that it’s the last novel Adolph Hitler wrote after migrating to America in 1921.
Hitler was a popular illustrator who eventually felt confident enough to start writing in English. He was a popular figure at conventions and had a huge fandom.
- Comment on How do I tell Pennsylvania I no longer live there? 3 weeks ago:
As far as voting goes, you’re fine. I’ve lived at my current address for over a decade and still get letters for the prior resident.
The State of Pennsylvania knows you’ve moved and the spammers are just sapmmers.
- Comment on anonette doesn't want to admit she's wrong 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think society has much to do with it.
There are depictions of alcoholism in the Bible, and there are people in AA from all classes and backgrounds, from all over the world.
It looks as if a lot of people are born with a high potential to become addicted.
- Comment on anonette doesn't want to admit she's wrong 4 weeks ago:
For most alcoholics and addicts, drinking was never a choice. I’ve heard people call drinking “gravity,” some thing that was there all the time. Sobriety is “anti-gravity,” a system that must be vigilantly maintained
- Comment on Which adjective should come first, modular or versatile? 4 weeks ago:
Putting the shortest word first sounds better.
‘Men and women’ is the usual order, as is ‘ladies and gentlemen.’
I’d go with modular first. imho
- Comment on Honey 4 weeks ago:
Dude, language!
/s
- Comment on Science or some other arcane wizardry PCM 5 weeks ago:
As an electron , I have never been so offended by something I agree with
- Comment on How did Marvel get away with not starting "Avengers: Endgame" with the Marvel intro? 5 weeks ago:
There’s no legal requirement for a movie to have anything.
Most people contract for certain things, but it’s all negotiable. Say a big time director like Nolan wanted to have no credits at all; he’d have to make a lot of concessions to the Screen Actors Guild and the other unions, but he could do it if he really wanted to.
- Comment on puts hair on ya chest 5 weeks ago:
Great novel “The Thin Man” by Dashiell Hammett.
After the narrator’s wife does something particularly brave a witness remarks admiringly “That’s a dame with hair on her chest!”
- Comment on Hungry Lions 5 weeks ago:
“New” is a relative term.
- Comment on Hungry Lions 5 weeks ago:
repository.up.ac.za/…/Loarie_Lion_2013.pdf?sequen…
New evidence suggests that the old ‘male lions just eat what the females provide’ trope is inocrrect.
- Comment on How do I... Do court? I didn't realize my license was expired and got pulled over. Now I have court tomorrow. 1 month ago:
Get there as early as you can. They may have free legal aid on hand.
- Comment on How modern is it to have "sympathetic" portrayals of Hell? 1 month ago:
I remember reading an old fantasy set in Hell. The joke was that when souls come to Hell they bring their expectations with them. The older demons are sick of all the changes the new dead people bring with them.
- Comment on What's a good gift for a 2-year old? 1 month ago:
groovebags.com/products/blue-world-map-area-rug
I did a search.
- Comment on What's a good gift for a 2-year old? 1 month ago:
Serious.
World map for their room. First teaches colors and shapes, then numbers and letters, and then history.