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#202473
Topic
Worst Cliches in Films
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/202473/action/topic#202473
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Originally posted by: ADigitalMan
Fearful Silence: Courageous What's My Line? contestant (Leonardo DiCaprio) refuses to answer panelist questions in this gameshow drama set against the McCarthy-blacklist era. With William H. Macy as Bennett Cerf and Kevin Spacey as Kitty Carlisle.

Someone's got there wires crossed...
Bennett Cerf was indeed on What's My Line in the 50's and 60's, but Kitty Carlisle was on To Tell the Truth. She was a guest on What's My Line a few times, but not enough to be included in a movie.

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#202218
Topic
MSN's "Do nice guys always finish last?"
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/202218/action/topic#202218
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PeculiarSatyr,
See, I don't drink, by choice. I just do not like alcohol. Makes "social drinking" difficult.

As for the girl at the ballgame, who knows. I don't have any idea that she even met up with the guy.

Rotten Johnny,
I can't disagree with monetary benefits of being single. I've got more money in the bank than a lot of the other people I know.
However, I feel as though there is something missing from my life and money cannot make up for that.
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#202093
Topic
MSN's "Do nice guys always finish last?"
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/202093/action/topic#202093
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Originally posted by: Switch Radic
Well, I also consider myself a nice guy. The problem with me, at least I think it is, seems to be that I can't tell when a girl actually likes me. I never could pick up the "signals' and all that stuff. Besides, after seeing the way some girls treat guys, it almost seems like it would be better not to be around them and just enjoy my own company.
That is another of my (many) problems.

About a month ago I was at a Dave and Busters with a couple of my friends (the only 2 people from high school I see regularly anymore). I don't recall the exact phrasing they used, but they essentially told me our waitress was 'into me'. I responded that its a waitress' job to be cordial...that's how they keep their jobs and receive decent tips.

So, let's sum this up:
1. I don't know how to pick up on the subtle signals I might be getting.
2. I would consider it rude/presumptuous to make the first move. Even the thought of doing that makes me break into a sweat.
3. I would consider it a violation of my personal code to say anything to a library patron while on the job.
4. I'm a combination of
- Stanley Ipkis (Jim Carrey from The Mask)
- George McFly (Back to the Future)
- Cliff Clavin (Cheers)
and now I think I have to add
- Adrian Monk (TV show Monk).
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#201243
Topic
Worst Cliches in Films
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/201243/action/topic#201243
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Originally posted by: Han Solo VS Indiana Jones
TIME

* Movie timing is always exact. If a phone trace will take two minutes, for example, you can be sure that that means 120 seconds, not a fraction more or less. Same for bombs, amount of time to get to a destination, etc.
However, that movie timing is exact ONLY IN THE MOVIE.

Example: The beginning of Batman Forever, when Two-Face has the bomb at the circus. If you count along with the timer from the beginning, the bomb actually takes something like 30 seconds more to actually explode.
Even if you revise your counting every time you see the countdown clock, its still a second or two off. (Couple of my high school friends were big fans of the movie, and every single time they watched it, they had to do that count.)

TIME

* Movie bombs are required to have a visible timer.
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#201227
Topic
It's Investigavite, It's Ignorant, It's Idiotic, It's The News!!!!!
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/201227/action/topic#201227
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Originally posted by: Devilman-1369
OK so we've all seen it...sitting at home, watching (insert favorite prime time show here), and during the commercial, they run a promo for that nights newscast, and they mention The Investigative Report a "shocking" expose of the latest thing that could kill/harm you or your kids

"...they say 'an apple a day will keep the doctor away' but it might warrant a trip to the coroner, find out why at 11 with our investigative report APPLES: THE TOXIC FRUIT..." (yes, it was an actual newscast detailing the shocking discovery that apple seeds naturally contain trace amounts of cyanide) Well, so do peach pits, where's the big shock in that? I learned it from Diagnosis Murder.
Originally posted by: Devilman-1369

99.9% of the time these reports are ludicrous, misinformed, and years out of date (a month ago, I saw a report about a 'new' drug that has "just hit the streets" called Ecstasy...i was doing Ecstasy back in high school over a decade ago!!!)
I'd echo your comments, except that this is how journalism is nowadays. They need to draw people to their news for ratings, and they'll overhype things to get you hooked.
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Have you ever seen a news report about "Dihydro Monoxide"? A taste-less, smell-less clear liquid that kills in minutes.

I recall several years ago while listening to Rush Limbaugh hearing that the Los Angelos Times had a multi-paragraph (7, 9, 10, I don't recall the exact number) news article about the dangers of...get this...poisoning yourself by swallowing your own spit.
Rush was ranting that the LA Times had done this article, rather that cover important news.
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#201223
Topic
MSN's "Do nice guys always finish last?"
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/201223/action/topic#201223
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Originally posted by: ricarleite
Originally posted by: starkiller
I have to face facts.
My grandmother is right.
Its going to take a woman asking ME out for anything to start.


Yeah but it starts to get sad when you be alone for such a long time your family starts rumors that you're gay. And it's even sadder when you begin considering that alternative.

Women who want bad boys! Blame youselves for the emo trend!
Thank goodness I'm not to THAT point yet. The particular suburb of Cleveland I'm in has a reputation for having the highest percentage of gay population in the United States outside San Fransisco.
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#201181
Topic
MSN's "Do nice guys always finish last?"
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/201181/action/topic#201181
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I would definitely consider myself a nice guy, and I think I saw a perfect example of what sets me apart just last night.

I attended the Cleveland Indians game last night with my father. We picked up some food and went to the park to eat it, arriving shortly before the gates opened. Jacob's Field has a picnic plaza just beyond its center field wall, so we ate while we watched the visiting team (Seattle Mariners) batting practice. Shortly after we got there, in came this quite attractive (well, except the excessive eye shadow) woman. Tanned/Italian dark skin. Shirt tied of in the back to show her stomach. Long dark hair.

Now, I would consider it presumptuous, forward and bordering on rude to say anything (plus who's going to try to pick up a woman in front of their own father?). She wasn't there 5 minutes when a guy roughly 50 feet away yelled "How old are you?" Once she figured out it was directed at her, she responded that she was 22 and asked if that was alright. I believe his response was "Perfect." or something to that effect.

Later, after her friend had showed up, I heard her talking about "hooking up" after the game with this guy and his friends, then the friend said they shouldn't commit to anything.

I don't know how to describe what I felt.
Part of it was that the question "Its that easy?" ran through my head.
Another was that a woman would show so little respect for themselves that they would consider meet up with a complete stranger like that.

Maybe I'm living in a fantasy world, but I don't think it should be like that. I know I couldn't do it that way. I think I've said it here before, but there is more than a handful of women who visit the library work that I would love to get to know better (some of them I already know better than they would think, thanks to my very strong powers of observation), but I, as I mentioned above, would not dare be that presumptuous in saying something to them, especially at the library. Maybe, MAYBE if I saw them on the street...

I have to face facts.
My grandmother is right.
Its going to take a woman asking ME out for anything to start.
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#200090
Topic
Super Smash World Leaders Melee
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/200090/action/topic#200090
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Tough call there.

Eric Idle was involved in some of the best sketches.
Terry Jones had a unique presence that I always found amusing.
John Cleese had probably the most successful on-screen work post-Python.
And, of course, I don't think we can discount the fact that Carol Cleveland, often called the last Python, was in fact, female, which wins her a few points right there.

I think I have to go with Cleese.
1. In the Steve Martin/Goldie Hawn version of "The Out-Of-Towners", Cleese does a magnificent dance, complete with Ministry-of-Silly-Walks-esque kicks to the song Bad Girls.
2. A Fish called Wanda.
3. Live Vault web-commercial The Institute for Backup Trauma.
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#199978
Topic
Super Smash World Leaders Melee
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/199978/action/topic#199978
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Originally posted by: ricarleite
Originally posted by: starkiller
Originally posted by: ricarleite
Nice Monty Python sketch. Although I prefer the ones in which Marx, Mao and Che Guevara answer questions about songs and soccer.
I don't recall anything about songs...just soccer.

Oh, I'm sorry that was a trick question. They never won the cup.


Eric Idle: Teddy Johnson and Pearl Carr won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1959. What was the name of the song?

Mao Tse Tung: (after some silence) Sing Little Birdie?

Eric Idle: Yes it is!
That's right...
Well, you pluralized 'songs' and I didn't remember there being multiple questions about music.
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#199642
Topic
MLB
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/199642/action/topic#199642
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Originally posted by: ricardo
Originally posted by: Warbler
No one here said what they think of Bonds situation.

I say he cheated. He and anyone else who used steroids should be thown out of the game and their stats shoud an asterisk placed next to them. It needs to done for the integrity of the game, and also to teach a lesson to kids might be thinking about using steroids.


How do you feel about Pete Rose, arguably the best baseball player who ever lived? do you believe he should be banned from the hall of fame because of a gambling problem?
1. Rose broke the rules of the game and was punished for doing so.

2. Bonds is legally innocent until proven guilty. However, in the eyes of the fans, he's guilty as sin without anyone needing to prove anything. Now, if he's guilty, he deserves it. If he's innocent, there is nothing he will be able to do to get away from it because there will always be those people with some shread of doubt.

Now, personally:
1. I picture him as a Pittsburgh Pirate in the 80s, then I look at him now and the bulk he's put on, I have my doubts.
2. Then I think about the baseball statistics, and I have more doubts.
3. Then his personal trainer is caught involved in a steroid sting.
4. Jose Canseco, for what its worth, has his book.

All indications point to him doping up. If he didn't, its one masterfully done snow-job someone has done on him.
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#199611
Topic
Violence in Video games a fad?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/199611/action/topic#199611
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Originally posted by: Number20
I remember hearing someone say once that if video games had influenced kids behaviors, then everyone who was a kid in the early 80's would love to run around and munch on pills in dark rooms. (Pac-Man and its sequels)
What about playing tennis...thanks to Pong.

Anyways, weighing in on the topic, you cannot blame kids violence solely on video games, just as you cannot lay the blame entire on rap music, parents or any number of other sources.

I do, however, believe that violent video games help to desensitize kids to the consequences of their actions.
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#199591
Topic
Super Smash World Leaders Melee
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/199591/action/topic#199591
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Greek Philosophers vs. German Philosophers
...wait, we already know that the greeks won by a score of 1-0, despite arguements by the Germans with referee Confucius.
"Hegel is arguing that the reality is merely an a priori adjunct of non-naturalistic ethics, Kant via the categorical imperative is holding that ontologically it exists only in the imagination, and Marx is claiming Socrates was off-sides."
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#199394
Topic
Super Smash World Leaders Melee
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/199394/action/topic#199394
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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
Who the fork is Dr. Laura?

Although I'm tempted to agree with you on Franken's lack of power, he's the only rough equivalent I could think of.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/24/Dr-Laura_Schlessinger.jpg/200px-Dr-Laura_Schlessinger.jpg
Dr. Laura Schlessinger

Syndicated radio host 'available to help people with a wide range of personal, work, and familial problems. She "preaches, teaches, and nags about morals, values and ethics."' (from her FAQs). In November 2003, she was on 275 stations (Wikipedia).

WTAM in Cleveland carried her from 9AM-11:30AM for a few years, until shortly after 9/11 when they went with local programming for a couple weeks, then changed over to Glenn Beck. She could get QUITE annoying and I very much appreciated the change to Glenn Beck (who was dumped by WTAM for Jerry Springer...who lasted just a few months before they dumped him. His ratings were abyssmal).
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#198524
Topic
Violence VS. Non-Violence ~~~ Debate
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/198524/action/topic#198524
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Originally posted by: Jagdlieter
Originally posted by: ADigitalMan
As we look at history, the dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima remains justified, as the massive death was still paltry compared to the amount of death that would have been caused by a protracted invasion of Japan. Sometimes violence is supported by bean counting. Doesn't mean we will rest easy with the thought, and it doesn't mean the afterlife will be any kinder to us for making those kinds of decisions, but this is perhaps the ultimate example that answers the question.


Your argument may be that a lesser evil can be justified by a greater good, but isn't NO evil the greatest good of all?
In a perfect society, of course it is.
However, we do not live in a perfect society. There will always be evil in our world.
Evil would win out if it were not for the good choosing to "do evil things" to eliminate them.

You know, this makes me think of EP3. Anakin went to the DS (evil) because he wanted to eliminate evil (CIS) and protect good (Padme). His problem was that he could not return from it until ROTJ.