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- Tue Apr 23, 2024 10:52 pm
- Forum: The Bar
- Topic: ...It is to weep...
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1037
Re: ...It is to weep...
If it helps lessen the blow, $1,000 in 1946 is equivalent to about $16,000 today.
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 3:29 am
- Forum: The Bar
- Topic: Happy Birthday, Bob....
- Replies: 6
- Views: 490
Re: Happy Birthday, Bob....
Happy Birthday!
- Tue Jan 16, 2024 11:29 pm
- Forum: The Bar
- Topic: ‘Sherlock’ Creator Wants To Write A British Version Of ‘The West Wing’: “It’s Necessary”
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1646
Re: ‘Sherlock’ Creator Wants To Write A British Version Of ‘The West Wing’: “It’s Necessary”
The West Wing was an idealization of the Clinton Administration. A British version would need to go back to Blair or perhaps Wilson.
- Wed Dec 20, 2023 4:40 am
- Forum: The Bar
- Topic: British Army Pranks
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1114
Re: British Army Pranks
The para delivery one is kinda annoying. It's not just a prank on the officer, which would be a little funny, but on the troops as well.
- Thu Dec 14, 2023 11:24 pm
- Forum: The Media Center
- Topic: Andre Braugher, ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ and ‘Homicide: Life on the Street’ Star, Dies at 61
- Replies: 1
- Views: 786
Re: Andre Braugher, ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ and ‘Homicide: Life on the Street’ Star, Dies at 61
Haven't seen Brooklyn Nine-Nine much, but I do recall him from Glory and Homicide. A very fine actor who will be missed.
- Thu Dec 14, 2023 11:21 pm
- Forum: The Media Center
- Topic: Napoleon
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1341
Re: Napoleon
Mind you, Bondarchuk had a literal Army's worth of trained extras to reenact that campaign. That option wasn't available to Ridley Scott as the folks who provided Waterloo's extras are too busy badly re-enacting the Great Patriotic War to help out.
- Fri Dec 08, 2023 11:15 pm
- Forum: The Bar
- Topic: House explosion in Arlington VA
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1119
Re: House explosion in Arlington VA
Was it one of the non-Terminator Arnie movies where flustered 'Arm Candy' unfolds and fires 'bazooka' the wrong way ?? Down-side, takes out a shop-front and parked car. Upside, this sufficiently distracts her intended target, whose driver swerves, crashes... Commando . Rae Dawn Chong fires a four b...
- Thu Nov 23, 2023 3:21 am
- Forum: The Bar
- Topic: I left Hope Behind
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1717
Re: I left Hope Behind
Caerbannog?Jeff Thomas wrote: ↑Sun Nov 19, 2023 3:04 am No I am not making this up.
A long time ago my wife lived next door to a family with three children, two boys and a girl. Their names were Peter, Jack and Bunny. Anybody want to guess what the family name was?
- Thu Nov 23, 2023 3:20 am
- Forum: The Bar
- Topic: I left Hope Behind
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1717
Re: I left Hope Behind
I once worked with a guy named Richard Head. Yes, he went by "Dick:.
- Thu Nov 16, 2023 4:53 am
- Forum: The Bar
- Topic: Candidate for a Darwin award
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2597
Re: Candidate for a Darwin award
There's a more reasonable explanation that that the driver was an idiot. He may not have been trained in hazardous material transportation or been given any information on what was in his tanker. Just told to get in his cab, drive to this spot, pick up a trailer, and take it to that spot. When it s...
- Fri Oct 27, 2023 9:06 pm
- Forum: The Media Center
- Topic: 'Star Trek: The Silent Skies'...
- Replies: 1
- Views: 565
Re: 'Star Trek: The Silent Skies'...
That's some really good B&W cinematography!
- Sat Sep 16, 2023 1:52 am
- Forum: The Bar
- Topic: A reminder - Don't be sleeping in the Orangutan's nest
- Replies: 5
- Views: 668
Re: A reminder - Don't be sleeping in the Orangutan's nest
Did the possum call him the "M" word?
- Sat Sep 16, 2023 1:50 am
- Forum: History and Warfare
- Topic: If it doesn’t make you more lethal, ditch it, says top Army officer
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1077
Re: If it doesn’t make you more lethal, ditch it, says top Army officer
That sounds good, so long as it doesn't mean he thinks time spent on learning why White people suck and walking a mile or two to the mess hall in 112 degree weather makes one more lethal.If it doesn’t make you more lethal, ditch it, says top Army officer
- Fri Sep 08, 2023 1:42 am
- Forum: The Bar
- Topic: An odd request...
- Replies: 4
- Views: 555
Re: An odd request...
There is this footage of the planning for the Moon landing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_M50Fd3gXvM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_M50Fd3gXvM
- Fri Jul 21, 2023 3:28 am
- Forum: The Bar
- Topic: Products launched in Japan
- Replies: 5
- Views: 710
Re: Products launched in Japan
Harley Quinn's smile makes you shudder? Yeah, I can see that.Nik_SpeakerToCats wrote: ↑Thu Jul 20, 2023 3:08 pm Will Whatsername, the actress, need physiotherapy to un-fix that smile ??
Like dancers, skaters, synchronised swimmers and clone-zone reception-desk workers, that expression makes me shudder...,
- Thu Jul 20, 2023 12:54 am
- Forum: The Bar
- Topic: Etiquette Question For Our Cousins...
- Replies: 5
- Views: 750
Re: Etiquette Question For Our Cousins...
Would tend to say X served the Crown for Y years and maybe state it spanned two monarchs. That would tend to be how it would be put here. More likely it would be "I was in the Forces/Ministry of x/whatever for y years". One might also say something like "When I ws in, [Name} was Prim...
- Tue Jul 18, 2023 3:30 am
- Forum: The Bar
- Topic: ...From our Correspondent in France....
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1671
Re: ...From our Correspondent in France....
You really don't want a cat annoyed with you. They get right vicious and those little razors are sharp!Those same dogs are all currently sleeping in the library, although in fairness the cat is looking a little irritated so anything could happen.
- Sat Jul 15, 2023 1:45 am
- Forum: History and Warfare
- Topic: US Army News
- Replies: 94
- Views: 35620
- Thu Jul 13, 2023 12:44 am
- Forum: The Bar
- Topic: True Fact About July 4th....
- Replies: 5
- Views: 874
Re: True Fact About July 4th....
...The Declaration of Independence was actually signed inside a B-52. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F0OyApFWwAEhVZz?format=jpg&name=small Mike Captain's Log, Stardate 43125.8. In preparation for the decommissioning ceremony for the USS Enterprise NCC-1701D, we have the exceptional honor of being ...
- Thu Jul 06, 2023 12:59 am
- Forum: The Media Center
- Topic: Star Trek: Picard - Season 3
- Replies: 144
- Views: 25441
Re: Star Trek: Picard - Season 3
I can’t imagine either as admirals! :lol: Maybe they’d have been promoted through length of service to lieutenant, but further? Star Fleet has survived a great deal, but could it survive either Mariner, or Boimler as flag officers? :) Perhaps npt Becket, she's kind of a loose cannon, but Bradward h...