but what if

@Great-Big-Stees said
But what if? We have a group hug. 🤔👍

Maybe we really ought to, while we're all still here.

@rookie54 said
@diver
you are wiser than you first appear

Only took 17 years 😄

@rookie54 said
i remember that movie
i remember thinking at that time that cowboy jack palance could make goo out of cityboy billy crystal without breaking a sweat
and yet the comedy was near to perfection

now to the one thing on which we all could possibly agree

*crickets*

edit
skip to 2:05 for the "one thing"
for context, watch the whole clip

https://youtu.be/PunAKEccqyU


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@diver
you are wiser than you first appear

One thing, ok , I get it now. Pure Zen.

But the thing I don't get is, how did the ash not fall off Jack's fag while he was riding and doing all that talking?

@moonbus said
One thing, ok , I get it now. Pure Zen.

But the thing I don't get is, how did the ash not fall off Jack's fag while he was riding and doing all that talking?

I thought exactly that as I was watching it 😂

@diver said
I thought exactly that as I was watching it 😂

Probably a prop, not a real fag.

@moonbus said

But the thing I don't get is, how did the ash not fall off Jack's fag while he was riding and doing all that talking?

Yeah, a real smoker back then might have used tapping off the ashes as a form of punctuation.

But very nice to have Jack Palance given a mention. I have seen his turn as Dracula, and have also watched "Bagdad Cafe" (which might be adjacent to this topic, whatever it is).

@Arkturos said
Yeah, a real smoker back then might have used tapping off the ashes as a form of punctuation.

But very nice to have Jack Palance given a mention. I have seen his turn as Dracula, and have also watched "Bagdad Cafe" (which might be adjacent to this topic, whatever it is).

A fine actor. I remember him from my childhood in the TV series, Have gun, will travel.

@moonbus said
A fine actor. I remember him from my childhood in the TV series, Have gun, will travel.

Most likely older than me, then. My earliest TV memories involved the 6 AM farm report (in southern Michigan), followed by Johnny Quest.

@Arkturos said
Most likely older than me, then. My earliest TV memories involved the 6 AM farm report (in southern Michigan), followed by Johnny Quest.

Uuuuuh, Johnny Quest! You might just remember Sky King too, he had a private plane and his adventures always involved him flying to some remote place to sort out some problem. Or you might remember the Lloyd Bridges series in which he always violated the first rule of scuba diving, which is never scuba dive alone.

@moonbus said
Uuuuuh, Johnny Quest! You might just remember Sky King too, he had a private plane and his adventures always involved him flying to some remote place to sort out some problem. Or you might remember the Lloyd Bridges series in which he always violated the first rule of scuba diving, which is never scuba dive alone.

That robot laser spider was the best! Plus I had an early introduction to komodo dragons from that show.

However, nope re: Sky King, and as for Lloyd Bridges, it seems that was a little before my time.

But as for memories from the single digits, I do remember some scenes from the Buster Crabbe "Flash Gordon" serial and probably my first memory of people dematerializing on the transporter pads of Original Star Trek.

@Arkturos said
That robot laser spider was the best! Plus I had an early introduction to komodo dragons from that show.

However, nope re: Sky King, and as for Lloyd Bridges, it seems that was a little before my time.

But as for memories from the single digits, I do remember some scenes from the Buster Crabbe "Flash Gordon" serial and probably my first memory of people dematerializing on the transporter pads of Original Star Trek.

As the year 1 CE separated for Christians the sacred from the profane, so too 8th Sept. 1966 (when I was 11 and a half) is the demarcation between thoughtless and thoughtful television -- "to boldly split infinitives where no man had gone before."

@moonbus said
Probably a prop, not a real fag.

I think it was possibly stuck to his lip also.

@moonbus said
As the year 1 CE separated for Christians the sacred from the profane, so too 8th Sept. 1966 (when I was 11 and a half) is the demarcation between thoughtless and thoughtful television -- "to boldly split infinitives where no man had gone before."

Approximate happy birthday to you, then!

If I'm doing the math right, I was born a few years later, toward the end of 1959.

What a difference a few years might make, though.

To asymptotic slopes!

[As long as they all keep pace with one another -- and if they cannot, then gradual slopes might be better. Actually, in general I imagine gradual slopes could be better in some cases. I wonder how many other species might have rushed their development, hyper-ascended, and then (if they could even still think in such terms) regretted that they didn't take the long road.]

@diver said
I think it was possibly stuck to his lip also.

It was probably either that or a rubber chicken.