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#62282
Topic
BaseBall talk
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/62282/action/topic#62282
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Yep, Dusty's still here. Unfortunately, he's not exerting his control the way he should be. If he was, Sosa would be on the bench or batting ninth in the order. Sosa still has too much control on the team and he's such a crybaby.

Wah, feel bad for me, I can't hit for shit now that I'm not roiding it up.

Cry me a flippin' river. Amazing how so many Cubs fans are now united in their disgust with Sammy. Now that we've got a legitimate superstar in Nomar, we don't need Sammy's antics and lack of production. Lose him!!
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#62188
Topic
Who Here has a Home Theather Setup.
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/62188/action/topic#62188
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I've got a 27" Sharp flat screen TV (not flat panel or plasma, mind you). Phillips 5 disc changer and a Sony surround receiver with Dolby something or other. I live in an apartment and cannot properly mount the speakers so the surround sound kinda goes by the wayside. When my wife and I get a place that we own, we're having her father install the surround sound properly (he's an electrician and knows how to set them up through walls and under carpets and all that jazz).
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#62158
Topic
The Things We Hate And Love Thread .
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/62158/action/topic#62158
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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
You'd be surprised Luke. The ones with no worries are the ones that don't graduate.


I had no worries and I graduated just fine. Top 10% of my class. Moved on to college and got both a BA and an MA with a high GPA.

I don't think either of us mean taking a slacker attitude towards it all. Just don't let things bother you and get in the way of your goals. Too many people freak out over the little things and it stops them from being able to move forward in the completion of their goals. What happens, happens. You can't control everything. Accept what happens and move on. Learn from mistakes. Improve on them. Accept success without flaunting it (it will bite you in the ass later). See what we mean? When I was an RA in college, I had a bit of a laissez-faire attitude to it all. Most of the rest of the RA staff freaked out over every little thing. We had several quit, several on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Me? I had one of the best years of my college life. I was balancing a senior year classload (upper level business and foreign language classes), working as an RA, and was part of an honor fraternity. If you accept what's handed to you and use it to your advantage, you will succeed.

Enough pep talk. Ick.
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#62171
Topic
Lost Boys: 2 Disc Special Edition
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/62171/action/topic#62171
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I just watched this with my brother last night and I have to comment on one topic... just how terrible they made Corey Haim's character. I had realized this to some degree before, but last night just completely reaffirmed my opinion and allowed me to share it with my brother who never considered it before.

Haim (for those not in the know) plays the younger son in this family (Sam) that has moved to the "Murder Capital of the U.S." and kid brother of Jason Patrick (Michael). I would estimate by the lack of a driver's license but judging on appearance, he would strike me as 14 to 15 years old in this movie. Despite his supposed age, I just want to say how infantile and otherwise "different" he comes across and for no apparent reason. I don't know if this was intentional or not, but allow me some room to offer examples of said behavior.

1. His mom talks about how one of the reasons she left her husband was his unwillingness to accept his son's fear of "the closet monster" spoken in a "spooky" voice by the mom that would usually be reserved for a child.

2. When he's scared, he asks to sleep in his mom's bed with her. How old were all of you when you gave up this habit?

3. He takes bubble baths and sings bad 50s pop rock while styling his hair in swoops and mohawks with shampoo, comb, and bubbles. Again, how old were all of you when you gave up this habit?

For the most part, his character comes across okay. He delivers verbal jabs back and forth with his brother that are appropriate for his age, dresses like a teen of the mid 80s, and has a seemingly good knowledge of the era's pop culture. So why the infantile behavior. It serves no purpose. The scene referring to the closet monster could have been replaced with the mom's explanation that she and husband fell out of love. Show some concern between the characters that is appropriate for their ages. The scene with Sam asking to sleep in his mom's bed could just be cut entirely. Show the garlic necklace reference at some other point when they are just up and moving about the house. For #3, if you need a scene to show Nanook the dog protecting Sam from Michael to establish plot, then have Michael about to attack him while he's asleep in bed. Sam would be the unsuspecting near victim in either situation, wouldn't he?

My final complaint, why do they (the filmmakers) make some allusions to Sam's sexuality? There are a couple of items on display in his bedroom that hint to this. One is a poster that my brother thinks could be either Molly Ringwald or Ralph Macchio depending on how you look at it. But, even if this is Molly, there is a poster on his closet door that is clearly a shirtless Rob Lowe. I'm sorry, but if that poster was put up by a previous boarder in the house, it would have been taken down so quickly by me and neatly rolled and put in a closet until such time that you should put it back up upon your leaving the home. Hell, the two brothers and their mom are moving in at least semi permanently due to divorce. Even if I was just staying very temporarily, I would not want to be looking at a poster of Rob Lowe across from my bed. I have no problem with gay characters at all, but if you are going to allude to the topic, it should be expanded upon instead of left hanging (no pun intended).
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#62154
Topic
The infamous chest grope
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/62154/action/topic#62154
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Originally posted by: Starboy
Have you all noticed, in RotJ, when Leia gets shot, Han puts his hand on her shoulder, moves it over to her breast, and moves it back? Always a shocker.


I know it's not Star Wars, but another blatant breast groping scene is in Ghostbusters when Dana (Sigourney Weaver) is pinned to her chair and the chair gets dragged through her apartment into the kitchen. Remember that scene? Watch one of the creature's hands. It practically pulls her sweatshirt down to expose her breast. Wanna talk about shocker.
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#61968
Topic
U.S. Presidential Trivia
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/61968/action/topic#61968
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Starkiller, that is correct. Presidents could run for as many terms as they wanted. Just nobody wanted to. There weren't too many presidents before FDR that really served more than one term. And many who did, did so reluctantly (Washington) or died in office (Lincoln, et al). The Constitution was amended (I believe this is in the Constitution) to not allow for any more than two terms by one person as President be they consecutive or spread out.