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SilverWook

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#1102276
Topic
Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo
Time

Warbler said:

Well, a local college has decided to remove bust of a founding father. The reason? He was slave owner, just like Jefferson and Washington.

http://www.philly.com/philly/education/stockton-u-removes-statue-of-slave-holder-namesake-20170825.html

What I want to know is why the they are removing the bust, yet keeping the school named after him.

Is it really too far fetched to think that maybe statues of Jefferson and Washington might also have to go?

From the article:

“Lori Vermeulen, Stockton’s provost and vice president for academic affairs, said Thursday in a letter to the campus community that the bust’s removal was temporary, and that there are plans to incorporate it in an exhibit that will show Richard Stockton’s role from a more historical perspective.”

I do think they are overreacting. Trumpy will probably unfortunately exploit this. Not that he ever heard of Stockton before.

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#1102271
Topic
Kennedy worse than Lucas.
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DuracellEnergizer said:

TV’s Frink said:

ray_afraid said:

Every time John Landis is brought up in this, it makes me laugh.
"But John Landis said! And he couldn’t possibly have some info wrong or have been misled! I mean, it’s JOHN freakin’ LANDIS we’re talking about here!"
I don’t mean to sound mean, but ALLOL!

This.

Well, except for the part where you didn’t want to sound mean.

John Landis killed three people out of negligence. He deserves to be meaned to.

Okay, we’re not going to have that discussion in this thread.

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#1102195
Topic
Info: Deleted Scenes from Films that ended up in Other Films or TV shows Archive List
Time

Well, that copter was expensive to fly. It got even worse with the final shot on the cheap in Canada season. They often matted in a cheap model!

I caught Knight Rider recycling an entire sequence where KITT breaks into a jail to free Michael. 😉

IIRC, Galactica built up a library of shots they could combine in different ways. This did lead to at least one shot of a group of shuttles where two seemingly were going to collide before they cut to another scene.

I think there were different angles on Spock’s coffin, but that may have been new footage. Speaking of Kahn, the starfield from the opening credits is supposed to have been recycled as a rear projection outside a window on the Enterprise in TFF.

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#1102191
Topic
Info: Deleted Scenes from Films that ended up in Other Films or TV shows Archive List
Time

Ronster said:

Hmmmm. It could be the re-used klingon bird of prey explosion? Sounds like there is something fishy no new special effects either. I don’t have the final frontier to check.

You’re thinking of the Bird of Prey explosion in The Undiscovered Country that was shamelessly recycled in Generations.

ILM was busy on Last Crusade and Ghostbusters 2, so most of the effects in The Final Frontier were done by a smaller company with mixed results.

The only thing I think I can spot so far from screenshots is the shot of the Enterprise A in spacedock from The Voyage Home was recomposited for TFF and the Excelsior in the foreground is gone.

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#1102086
Topic
Return of the Pug (ROTP) - webpage and screenshots (Released)
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CatBus said:

No angle button?!? How do you watch… er… documentaries?

You have to pop up the on screen display and navigate to it. Pain in the ass. Even my Toshiba HD-DVD player has those buttons.
The remote for my JVC DVD recorder is slightly worse. The angle and audio buttons are hidden behind a little door at the very bottom of the remote making one handed use awkward. Not that I ever use it for watching stuff anyway.

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#1101904
Topic
Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo
Time

I don’t care what side of the aisle one is on, to pull the rug out from under anyone serving our country like this is morally wrong. Going to get really awkward if a transgendered soldier is up for a medal usually bestowed by a President.

And by all accounts Arpaio is a racist shack of you know what. At least he’s 85 and unlikely to ever be hired again by anyone. I thought one actually had to start serving a sentence before one could get a pardon?

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#1101798
Topic
Random Thoughts
Time

Bingowings said:

SilverWook said:

Saw a huge flash in the sky around 10:50 pacific time this evening. Scared the crap out of me and no idea what it could have been.

Sounds like summer lighting. First time I saw it I thought they had dropped the bomb.

I suppose, as I saw that sort of thing living on the East coast as a kid. Saw even stranger things after a violent storm back then too. It would be a pretty rare phenomenon out here. I checked the weather radar and there was no storm activity anywhere in Southern California last night as far as I can tell.

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#1101766
Topic
Episode III: Revenge of the Ridiculousness
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TV’s Frink said:

Not sure exactly how…

Although I’d love to figure out a way to have Palps say it and lay it over an instrumental version of the song.

Palpy has enough dialog across five movies you can probably build it. And & He chopped together to form Ani. He says oh in Jedi, so all you need is a K sound. And have a musical sting from Smooth Criminal when he says it.

He could say it to Vader on the operating table.