There’s not one scene I recall as one of my favorites, but the opening still gets me… greatness.
oh… and Happy Valentine’s Day!
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The (f) greatest scene (i) from The Six Million Dollar Man (r) had to be when he (s) ripped Bigfoot’s arm off (t) to reveal that it was an android.
I’m with Floyd on too many scenes for one fave, but anything Bigfoot-related ranks high on the list … except that tunnel scene with the wacky lights and droning SFX. That gave me nightmares for years.
The video clips reveal to me that Floyd is a romantic, hopeless romantic.
You am not first! Very smooth try there young lady! I am not susceptible to subliminal messages…messages…messages…mes. . . . TILT!!!
Why am I in trouble? Helm started it. I’m innocent (as always).
Helm was good, but you were more subliminal! Or sublime, or somethin’ like that!
I hit ‘n’ ran yesterday (sorry, Rufus). My tenant called to report his refrigerator on the blink, so I had to drive to the ocean, about an hour away. Upon my arrival to meet the repairman, my tenant told me the fridgey was working again. The repairman found nothing wrong, even checking the “mother board.” So, I paid him his $65 service call fee and drove home. It is a good thing that my tenant of 51/2 years is very reliable otherwise and that the repairman was an absolute hunk. Oh, ya – and I don’t have to buy a new fridgey (yet).
It was nostalgic to see my old house. I waxed melancholic. It is where I raised my sons. Maybe I’ll move back there next year. It’s only 16 miles from San Francisco.
Good news for me & my refrigerator. It was the circuit board. So, I dodged the bullet for $290. I bought a home warranty policy today. ‘Bout past time.
Yes, HOWs are good, as in my case, paying nearly 3 years worth of premiums, and a $75 co-pay for a pool pump repair the tech said I could have done myself for $25!
I hear that, but my house has a 30 year old furnace that I “can’t fix myself.” Just in case. Insurance: it’s a gamble.
Oh, I know. I was being facetious. One neighbor of mine just had to replace their furnace/AC unit on their roof. Cost her $9000 because they had to have a crane lift the unit up onto the roof on the back of the house. She had no HOW!
Coffee, krullers, and celebration! The fortunate Mrs. -fritz- and I have been married for 9 years today! You know that to put up with me, she has to be absolutely extraordinary!
I always think of her as “Saint Mrs. -fritz-.” Happy Anniversary!
True that!
Married on V-Day! You are a romantic, Colonel.
Happy Anniversary to you & the Mrs!
Thanks, Wanks! We met on V-Day and married a year later on V-Day! It’s good for me…that way it’s nearly impossible for me to miss our anniversary!
Happy anniversary to youze guys. Clever move, getting married on V-day so that you can get all the mushy romantic stuff for the year out of the way on one day.
And save on flowers.
German Engineering: And the autobahn is useful for the family weekend picnic get-away und to move artillery to the eastern front quickly. No fools they!
Well played -fritz-, you romantic devil!
They invented MP3′s and Glockenspiels and gas engines and rockets and carabiners and Protestants, too.
I thought the chinese invented protestants!
Dang! I didn’t know that.
Yeah, Marco Polo brought them to Europe, with their eyes closed, Marco?
But… the Chinese also gave him spaghetti, so the Italians could be real Italians!
Mama Mia
Eyes closed and noses held.
That’s not nice to say about Rufus’ wife even if her name is Cathy from Cathay.
I didn’t. I just don’t want to get chlorinated.
There’s worse things, ya know.
Not to mention the Lovely Mrs. Firefly! Sie ist eine hubsche Frau!
What are the Jimmy Cs’ plans for today?Got a baby sitter yet?
We got one for tomorrow night. Gotta put off the V-day celebratin’ for a day, but it’s worth it.
Yup, gotta love that German ingenuity and flair for streamlining. Congratulations, -fritz- and Mrs. -f-!!!
Thanks all! Mrs. -fritz- appreciates it, as do I!
Yay for you!! Congratulations!
Happy V Day to you and Zoon,Tracy!
Here’s to the one couple that can actually lay claim to the sentiment of the day! Happy anniversary!
Happy Anniversary! My parents were married on this day as well.
Congrats to them for me, Outlaw!
I appreciate it, but they aren’t with us anymore.
Sorry to hear that.
Obama…the President of the United States of America.
Good at it? Naw!
Worthy of it? Naw!
Worthless as boobs on a borehog? Yaw!
Part of the reason? Right here!
http://news.yahoo.com/fort-hood-hero-says-obama-betrayed-her-other-152920702–abc-news-topstories.html
Bet Hasan’s got a good shyster lawyer.
Rembrandt,”Aristotle with a Bust of Homer”
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/rembrandt/1650/aristotle-homer.jpg
Like.
Velasquez,”Pope Innocent X”
http://elusiv.com/arthistory/bacon/images/velazquez.innocent-x.jpg
Majesty and authority,almost scarily so.
In honor of the day…bite me.
Thanks, but if I’m gonna bite another dude, it’ll be John McClane, thank you. http://uk.movies.yahoo.com/chocolate-bruce-willis-statue-unveiled-in-japan-121114760.html
Awww … “stifle-the-conversation” hearts. What a ‘sweat’ gesture.
I’m
celebatecelebrating 5 yearssobersingle!A good regime to build the character, clear the mind.
“That’s why I’m so lucid and moral,” she said.
I’m 54 years single!
We note that you didn’t mention the “sober” part.
gooz’s been through diamonds, he’s been through minks … and presumably more than a few of these (and beyond).
Thanks for the Weird Al, but the tunes in your other link wouldn’t even make my Top 50 (Adam Sandler’s “Somebody Kill Me” notwithstanding…)
Here’s my Top 5 True Love’s a Lie playlist:
The 77s — “Frame Without a Photograph”
The 77s — a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy
The 77s — “Alone Together”
The 77s — “Unbalanced”
Fold Zandura — “Please Believe”
Oh, Ed…Ed! Can you please clean up the broken formatting on the second link when you get around to clearing my post? Chanx!
Ed: “You want fries with that?”
oops…the second link should be titled “Kites Without Strings”.
Yeah, alt-rock a more fun (and anti-fun) place to be today.
goozer, this is my favorite I’m getting dumped song.
Virtual tears in my near beer.
Dang, I aint that old, but you youngins t’aint got no memory, no how! The saddest EVAH!
That is profoundly painful! I love the Everly Brothers! And I am so glad my name’s not Cathy. I just hate her!!
You know a man can’t crawl…
That borders on the country genre, so let’s get un-documented here and go for the throat I bet her name was Cathy!
I clicked on that but had to hit the back button. I don’t think I’m emotionally stable enough to listen to that right now, what with my refrigerator trauma the past two days.
Now this here is pitiful sad.
Yeah, I like the GJ. I had looked Here for him and that Cathy chick.
And Here , Cathy done messed up a bunch of brothers, what a bench!
You see goozer, if you know your country, you know the best and worst of life!
My very first Girlfriend was a Cathy. She dumped me really bad too! I got over it, but it was traumatic for a few weeks!
Yeah, she got around, Here she’s got some guy named Conway all torn up. And I thought Conway was a truckin’ company! Wow, she really was a slot!
Did he invent “Twitter?”
Did a little bird tell you that?
Yes, he did!
Oh, BTW, you just killed me on getting a 10-peat!
That tune was on constant rotation in my head back in my junior/senior years in high skrewl, thanks to an unrequited love for one Kathy Kotzar. I was her confidant, shoulder, and Algebra tutor — and for one week after a long talk and a slow kiss her ‘boyfriend’. I still remember the very first and very last lines in the 3-page letter she gave me the next day as we passed in the hall. That was also the last time I saw her that week, until Friday, when she told me after school that she was getting back with the boyfriend she had broken up with that had brought about the need for my shoulder just 6 days earlier. This song was the A-side afterwards.
The next woman I fell for was Catherine Lee — who became my X1. I broke the record after that.
A few howlers from the SOTUS
http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/021313-644354-accidental-humor-in-state-of-union.htm
Clean energy in China!I have a friend in Beijing(a Chinese woman who teaches English to police cadets at their academy)who tells me that on many days people have to wear facemasks to breathe.Obama is a total idiot.
True that. I watched a program a week back, that was about the Three Gorges Dam, and the industrialization of China. They said that China and India are the two biggest polluters on the planet. They also stated your fact as well and showed the lingering haze over China’s largest cities! Obi’s been smoking too much of the wacky weed and has a case of CRS(Can’t remember sh*t!)!
Well,this is sad
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/-olympics/news/20130214/oscar-pistorius-arrested-shooting-killing-girlfriend.ap/?sct=hp_t2_a2&eref=sihp
Inspired a lot of people in London last year.
Most celebrities get at least one free murder these days. I think it’s written into their contracts. At least he didn’t get caught doing something really terrible, like drinking out of a water bottle.
Yep. Career ending. We need to just have ubama appoint hill-de-beast in 2016 and get it over with.
LOL, hill-de-beast!
That’s not original. I stole it from a right-wing radio host whom I cannot recall. It fits her so well.
Wow.
Repubs are filibustering Hagel confirmation. Harry Reid, hardest hit.
I’d hoped for this, but hadn’t expected it. Groovy!
WOO HOO!
Nice to see the Nuge left directions to their cojones during his Beltway visit this week.
Quotable quote o’ the week!
Yeah! Cat scratch fever!!
http://media.salon.com/2012/04/ted-nugent-illegal-kill.jpeg.jpg
I’ve been told Ted Nugent musk has been known to be effective for up to 6 months in a 15 mile radius. Let’s hope that’s not an apocryphal story … and he makes February and August Beltway stops a regular part of his schedule for many, many years.
His musk has affected me for years (is that what you’re talking about?).
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/02/14/stranded-carnival-cruise-expected-to-dock-in-alabama-after-four-days-with/
Anyone ever been on one of these things?I’m not nautically inclined.
I have friends who live to take cruises. They take one yearly. I’ve never been and have no desire to go, despite being naughtily inclined myself. There’s no escape once embarked and a’sail. I do fly as necessity, but that’s a means to a destination. The ferry system in the Bay Area is great, but if the vessel should stall out, rescue is within hours, not FOUR f-in’ days!!!
“Ferry system in the Bay Area”…good ‘un,Texi!
You didn’t know they have their own navy now??
Not to mention the YMCA…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InBXu-iY7cw
“Thet thail Boyth!”
A valentine I could use
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2013/02/what-sports-can-do-for-you-and-humanity.php
Am I the only one here experiencing internet trouble here? I keep getting “oops”-ed.
Nope — it’s been giving me fits since yesterday. Mr. Holder must be jiggling the cable or something…
Racist.
Me too,hun.
As in “Attila”? Thank you!!!!
Attila died on one of his wedding nights,as I recall.
La petite mort.
le golf clap.
Texacalirose now, too!
I do not have the clap. Don’t start spreading lies about me unless they’re true.
Please, don’t be a crab!
What Goozer said…Bush’s fault!
Not alone TCR. I keep getting “cannot show webpage” notices.
V Day for Texi!
http://www.saveur.com/gallery/Best-Chocolate-Desserts/1
This. I made it & it’s delish.
gulp!
Seller’s Remorse
http://pjmedia.com/ronradosh/2013/02/14/the-new-new-republic-house-organ-of-the-obama-administration-and-martin-peretzs-forthright-condemnation/
The New Republic under Martin Peretz was a very worthwhile read.It was liberal,but hearkened back to principled liberalism,Zionist and anti Communist(that meant supporting Reagan’s efforts in Central America,which enraged the Left).All gone now.
Hooray for Sherman:
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/sherman-enters-meridian-mississippi
That’s my Mom’s and my late Dad’s hometown.
Only Hunt’s in this house…
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323478004578303733925078030.html
Advance Australia Fair
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2013/02/what-sports-can-do-for-you-and-humanity.php
Moan.
A shitload of dimes,maybe
http://news.investors.com/photopopup.aspx?id=644434
A trillion dollar coin!! We want it now!
A Reichsmark,a Reichsmark there…
Get drunk,get in your car,mow down 3 women(mother,daughter,niece)…face 12 years in jail
http://www.ocregister.com/news/mendoza-495689-sheyla-three.html
“So will the water drinking thing have more or less an effect on Rubio’s career than Ted Kennedy drowning a woman and fleeing the scene?” – Frank J. http://www.imao.us/
Just w.o.w. And “A” stands for “awesome,” too.
Rufus! When will we become privy to a return of “The mind of Rufus?”
“A mind is a horrible thing to waste!” I’m living proof of that!
Oh Brother! Just remember, you asked for it!
Mind of Scott M. is bad enough…
Not to mention Texicalirose
A mind is a terrible thing to make up.
I can only imagine. Actually, I’d rather not imagine.
“Hail,New Mexico!”
At least Rubio’s water did not contain government Kool-aid!
Shocking news: Muslims continue to not like us even less than they did under Bush. Guess our president still hasn’t apologized hard enough. Come on Barack, time to get with the bowin’ and scrapin’!
Bin Laden spelled it all out with his “strong horse/weak horse” analogy. A raving, murderous scumbag, but he knew a thing or three about the Arab world.
Like you pointed out on yesterday’s Open Thread, it’s a big mistake to project our values onto our enemies. When we hear Islamic fundamentalists say that they’re at war with us, that they want to wipe out Israel and establish a worldwide caliphate that will force us all to adopt Sharia Law at gunpoint, we should take that very seriously. Instead we shrug it off and say, “well, if we just change our own foreign policy, that will change their minds for them.” Arrogant and naive.
That Nobel Peace Prize went to his head.
Call me an old weirdo, but I think I’m going to like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKi5XoeTN0k
You’re an old weirdo.
Oh, puhleeze! I like fast cars and movies with sleazy looking women fighting, so now I’m weird? I mean, you must like it with The Rock and Vin Diesel both in the same movie!
Ahhhh… Old guy in the comic book section, buy something and leave, you’re scaring the kiddies.
Where does he think he is? Barnes and Noble?
You told me to call you a weirdo, so I did. What movie?
In the link…Fast & Furious 6!
OK. Perfect timing —–> Middle East and movies ——>
I just saw Argo. It is my current favorite movie ever. It kicks the others’ you-know-whats, including Zero Dark Thirty.
Things I knew before I saw it:
There is a Jimmy Carter sin of omission prologue.
Things I didn’t know:
Co-producer – George Clooney.
Ben Affleck is my boyfriend (glad he divorced the “them apples” guy).
Even a know-nothing such as I saw why Hollywood liberals are ignoring it.
Let’s get a law to enforce the borders of language against Illegal Idioms
What a Richard Cranium he is! Holy Cow!