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  1. ChiTownScion

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Just saw '71, a 2014 British film about "the Troubles" in Northern Ireland set in Belfast, 1971. Private in the Paras gets separated from his unit and has to survive. Quite intense, very well done.
  2. ChiTownScion

    The general decline in standards today

    I remember the "Hey Kids!" spiel that was employed on television in the 50's. My mom used to complain about commercials telling kids to ask their parents to buy products, but the show that really used to get her seething was a pre-Sesame Street production geared for preschoolers called "Ding...
  3. ChiTownScion

    The general decline in standards today

    Well stated, sir.
  4. ChiTownScion

    The general decline in standards today

    I do remember telling one particularly sweet but incredibly naïve young lady that I attended "The First Church of the Gooey Death & Discount House of Worship" in beautiful downtown Del Rio, Texas (thank you, Imus) : she thought I was serious and that was the name of an actual church.
  5. ChiTownScion

    The general decline in standards today

    It isn't "friendliness" in the minds of most people in the North, the UK, and western Europe, although no doubt it is to some well meaning buffoons, bless their hearts. Seriously, and all sarcasm aside, I understand the fact that cultural norms vary in different locales, and that what is...
  7. ChiTownScion

    The general decline in standards today

    Bringing Up Father // Maggie and Jiggs took on a life of its own with my grandparents and their siblings. Upwardly mobile Lace Curtain Irish putting on airs were all around them......... not that they'd ever do that sort of thing, of course....
  8. ChiTownScion

    The general decline in standards today

    To try to steer this to another area in which standards have declined: presumed familiarity. Borrowing from Lizzie a bit and focusing on those Boys From Marketing: where does this "all your favorite ________" and "your friends at ________" bilge come from? These advertisers don't even know my...
  9. ChiTownScion

    The general decline in standards today

    I've worked construction, and I've worked in large law firms. No question as who I'd rather go out and have lunch with (as a general rule: the book is filled with exceptions), bearing in mind that the most obnoxious thing you can do with me in a restaurant is to stiff the waitress/ waiter on...
  10. ChiTownScion

    The general decline in standards today

    With the Props Department providing the sufficient number of rolling pins, of course.
  11. ChiTownScion

    The general decline in standards today

    I can't imaging a woman in her right mind wanting to end up with something like this, even back in the day: For the record: Cagney never said this, in character or in real life. It's an ongoing joke between one of my best friends and lodge brother, and our wives. We both married educated...
  13. ChiTownScion

    The general decline in standards today

    Aside from a really corny John Wayne impression, I usually reserve that term of address for the daughters of friends who are under the age of four. I'd say that there's at least one plumber in the state of Maine who needs to learn more than "hot on the left, cold on the right, and s*** flows down."
  14. ChiTownScion

    The general decline in standards today

    Original intent is one of the most intellectually dishonest shibboleths ever fabricated. If it were applied to the Free Exercise clause of the First Amendment, for instance, only those who adhere to a form of religious belief that existed in the United States in 1789 should be entitled to its...
  15. ChiTownScion

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    What? And spoil the movie for you by revealing the ending? [huh] Esmerelda she's not, though: Vivianne's antagonists are not evil and she's not the pitiful victim.
  16. ChiTownScion

    The general decline in standards today

    I thought he was terrific in that role as well. You see J. K. Simmons on a screen, and your first thought is that he's that lovable guy from the Farmers Insurance commercials and the guy who played the nice dad in Juno.. but in Whiplash he played such an unmitigated sh**heel that you're seething...
  17. ChiTownScion

    The general decline in standards today

    I remember that: I was ten years old at the time and my parents and their contemporaries spoke of it for weeks. The conversation usually included at least one comment as to how cold and indifferent New Yorkers were-- a comment inevitably proffered by someone who'd never even been to New York...
  19. ChiTownScion

    The general decline in standards today

    Start with the principle that we are not to commit combat military forces absent a declaration of war, a power reserved to Congress and last exercised against Italy and Germany in 1941. The Founders likewise did not believe in maintaining a standing army: that ideal was jettisoned as soon as...
  20. ChiTownScion

    The general decline in standards today

    Quite the contrary. It was upheld, as I noted, in Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. Federal Communications Commission, 395 U.S. 367 (1969). The decision was 8-0: Douglas did not participate in the opinion, but it's doubtful that he would have dissented. Claims that the Fairness Doctrine was an...
  21. ChiTownScion

    The general decline in standards today

    It would only work if the entire electoral system were overhauled. Abolish the electoral college, and require that "None of the Above" be placed on the ballot in all states. If "None of the Above" were the choice of 50% of all voting nationwide, plus a single voter, the election would be...
  22. ChiTownScion

    The general decline in standards today

    I'm not trying to silence anyone. But they all can learn to put on their big boy/ big girl pants and learn to deal with different viewpoints, and the likelihood of being held up to ridicule- if they deserve it- before their constituent audiences. As I said: the airwaves are a public...
  23. ChiTownScion

    The general decline in standards today

    It was always about money, but there were restraints- both internal and external. We did ourselves a great disservice by allowing Ronald Reagan to abolish the FCC Fairness Doctrine, which was unanimously ruled as constitutional (Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. Federal Communications Commission, 395...

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