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  1. MikeKardec

    Commonly available jeans - higher waist?

    Some of the Carhartt's jeans have about as high as waist as you can get without saying, "Those look like they have a pretty high waist!" Honestly they are higher than some of the chinos I have and like most Carhartt's stuff they are totally indestructible.
  2. MikeKardec

    The End of Bond? A long post on Spectre.

    From an over 50 bachelor: Very lucky! My parents were always very expressive of how much they appreciated one and other, it's a beautiful thing.
  3. MikeKardec

    The End of Bond? A long post on Spectre.

    Luckily, the issue of campus sensitivities and such is getting a great deal of attention from a fair number of people who still believe in freedom and openness. Many of the academics who may have gotten the current issues started have been bitten by their on-time pets. They are now rethinking...
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    The End of Bond? A long post on Spectre.

    When dealing with written material this is very important. Though it doesn't superficially seem like it, everybody experiences prose really differently. We believe we have "read the same book" as other people but much of the time that combination of author/reader imagination has created...
  5. MikeKardec

    The End of Bond? A long post on Spectre.

    Oh Yeah. You are so right. You have to be VERY productive and kind of bullet proof popular when the fan fic starts. If you don't stay ahead of it creatively and productively it will eat you alive. It's one of the odder signs that someone has "made it." But you really can't let down your...
  7. MikeKardec

    The End of Bond? A long post on Spectre.

    Umm, I think I spoke too quickly or not completely enough. I completely agree with you. I should have said something like: they want to pick and choose where they commit versus where they hang back from the story material. It's more complicated than the simple "not TOO close, please" of...
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    The End of Bond? A long post on Spectre.

    There is an issue I see played out in both fiction and film in other works that might be in effect here: In the differences between the Superman vs fallible human Bond. Some audiences, possibly an attribute of certain generations (though I doubt it's totally that clear cut), like greater...
  9. MikeKardec

    The End of Bond? A long post on Spectre.

    To each, his own ... and more power to you!
  10. MikeKardec

    The End of Bond? A long post on Spectre.

    We must also never forget that Ian Fleming wrote Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. In fact I believe it was his final novel ... that puts a WHOLE other light on the guy!
  11. MikeKardec

    The End of Bond? A long post on Spectre.

    Cute kid! Nice watch! Hope the kid doesn't fall in a lake or anything, it might take him right to the bottom. I love the part where Craig is ironing his jacket. Hysterical. I actually got to meet Sean Connery when I was about his age. He didn't give me a watch and I didn't know who either...
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    The End of Bond? A long post on Spectre.

    I suspect that each change in the Bond franchise seemed like a good idea at the time and fit the temperature of movie making in its era. The shifts after Connery seemed very much like "studio mentality" even including the Brosnan era "let's just keep doing it even if we don't know what IT is...
  14. MikeKardec

    The End of Bond? A long post on Spectre.

    The guy I heard that "Trip to the supermarket" comment from (though I may be butchering it a bit) was Edward Zwick back in the "Thirty Something" days. It really opened my eyes as a writer, though he was just saying it, not giving me advice (I've been able to be on the edges of a lot of...
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    The End of Bond? A long post on Spectre.

    It seems we are at the end of a run. What follows is my opinion only (as if it could be anything else!). This film: Nice pieces but they don't fit together all that well. On the up side, many threads from the beginning of the Craig Bonds are looped through this story in order to tie it up...
  16. MikeKardec

    1940s/1950s cars vs. 1960s cars

    I'm sure everyone has noticed how territorial dogs are when they are in cars? Weird that people can behave in exactly the same manner. I used to think that people's exaggerated behavior behind the wheel was because in their deep unconscious they were nervous about the process of driving...
  17. MikeKardec

    Is "yanks" an offensive title

    As I pointed out to my South American friend, if you are from Peru you are Peruvian, if you are from Canada you are Canadian, if you are from Mexico you are Mexican ... all of these roll off the tongue. "United States-ian" is a garbled mess. They should feel lucky that they have a good...
  19. MikeKardec

    1940s/1950s cars vs. 1960s cars

    The best way to get to know someone you are going to invest time in, like dating or a business partnership, would be to go for a drive with them. People's hidden but inherent personalities just come out ... enough time behind the wheel and you truly have seen the real person behind the mask...
  20. MikeKardec

    Is "yanks" an offensive title

    When I lived in Australia I was often called a Yank but then the Aussies would rush to apologize as if they had caught themselves saying something derogatory or wanted to prove how PC they were or something ... after awhile I started to suspect that they were doing it all on purpose and the...
  21. MikeKardec

    When did the penny drop?

    Now that I've thought of it some more, my opinion is that while Germans who were in the know may have worried at earlier times, the real moment that made the difference was when the Russians went on the offensive. That's kind of a no brainer from this vantage point, but historically very very...
  22. MikeKardec

    When did the penny drop?

    Excellent!
  23. MikeKardec

    Toilet back-fires, sinks U-Boat

    And add this to the picture: 30 men plus or minus. Two Heads. One possibly so packed with food that it can't be used or (scarier) partly packed with supplies yet beginning to be used because there's just enough room to squeeze in. Frightening conditions, the sort that make a visit to the...

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