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    Just when you think you'd heard the worst of it ...

    I agree too. So it boggles my brain that countries like Iran can actually host a conference on holocaust denial and invite other countries to participate! I mean, with evidence-based practice being standard format, as conferences go, you'd have to think it's a rather short program but long on...
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    Han Solo's leather jacket in SW7

    1982
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    Just when you think you'd heard the worst of it ...

    I have to say, this has proved a most insightful thread so far! I put the OT up to show others the link and have ended up learning sooo much more myself! Thanks to all. Your insights are truly interesting, Big J - and may I ask a question please? Some years ago (early noughties), a couple of...
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    Han Solo's leather jacket in SW7

    Couldn't agree more. As I said, I went downtown to see a 2K presentation of Blade Runner: The Final Cut on Friday night. It is, as you say, a sci-fi film-noir masterpiece. I've seen it sooo many times and to see it on the big screen again (as I first did in 1982 - and the then-supporting feature...
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    Han Solo's leather jacket in SW7

    I did - once. An inferior film IMO and it's a perfect example of how a remake can sometimes be a good thing. It was vastly improved having been given the Hollywood treatment. I mean, the original had a lead actor with quite ordinary looks who wasn't very charismatic to speak of, and when he had...
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    Han Solo's leather jacket in SW7

    PS. I said Vanilla Sky's my favourite. I just saw Bladerunner: The Final Cut at the TIFF Lightbox on Friday night. A masterpiece!
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    Alexander Leathers opinion needed.

    I love a happy ending. Beautiful!
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    Han Solo's leather jacket in SW7

    Thanks Otter. I know - it was utterly incredible and I didn't see it at the cinema as, from the trailers, I somehow thought it'd be formulaic somehow. WRONG! Jack Reacher was the same. I should have known better - Tom Cruise is my favourite actor and he doesn't make bad films (as he's a control...
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    Han Solo's leather jacket in SW7

    Some great comments here. I have to say that I feel sorry for youngsters today who are seeing the SW movies fresh - they've no sense of appreciation for what it is they're seeing. Back then, as i said, I was 10 and loved good sci-fi and was brought up on a delicious diet of Stingray...
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    Han Solo's leather jacket in SW7

    No, not just the theme. It's the sound of the TIE fighters and the blasters and the Falcon … and those three words from Han Solo. You look quite young on your avatar there, Navetsea, but it transports me right back to 1977 (when I was 10) when the film first came out amid massive hoopla and it...
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    What do you do for Living?

    Wot'cha mean? It's all just eggs, bacon and beans and a fried slice! Sorted. If it's any consolation, I had to occasionally watch The Wire with subtitles. And the odd line in NYPD Blue. It works both ways!
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    Han Solo's leather jacket in SW7

    I just watched the trailer. Apparently it's a full 1' 50" long … and it's the fastest 1'50" I can ever recall. Fantastic!!! Wow. It's so amazing how such simple - and yet familiar - things as sound effects of things that aren't real and Harrison's voice saying just three words can give me...
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    What do you do for Living?

    And I have to say that I think this is a great thread. I've enjoyed every single post so far and not skipped over any reply. Some great stories ... And yes, there's a place for this question elsewhere in the Observation Bar or whatever, but I recently did something unusual and ventured out of...
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    What do you do for Living?

    The crotchetiness could well have been his Alzheimer's kicking in - and he and his son did a good short feature for the Alzheimer's Society detailing his journey with it before his end and you can see it online … I was so glad to have met him well before all that at a Fanderson conference that I...
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    False Valor/ Walter Mitty

    I love the air force squadron/group patches of that whole era and, as you say Big J, some of them are artful and have meaning - and as stated, I think it's a good way to remember the many guys who dutifully served and strived and suffered, many making it and many not, so they aren't otherwise...
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    Just when you think you'd heard the worst of it ...

    Glad for your perspectives there, Big J. And I hear you about Japan (I sent you an interesting article by Stratfor via PM) and one can get a good sense about Japan's changing mood when it wants to remove the D from JDF - Japanese Defense Force (something that was an agreed criteria after WWII)...
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    What do you do for Living?

    That's great work, HD! Very unique and beautifully done.
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    What do you do for Living?

    Hi guys - and a good idea for a thread, Ben! After all, we all spend soooo much time here (and my girlfriend laments that I don't "make any real friends!" I'm David and 48 next month. I can't believe that number! It feels like a typo but it's not. When I left school in 1985, I had NO idea what...
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    Patch placement on MA-1 jackets?

    Oh, I'm certain that they're faithful stitch-for-stitch copies of an original - the Japanese are great copiers and are quite OCD about that sort of thing. Which is good for us!
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    Patch placement on MA-1 jackets?

    As I said, the Buzz catalogues feature plain MA-1's every year plus a patched-up version - and each year the patched version changes (so they're limited editions of a sort - available until they sell out, then that's the end of that run), so picking up the catalogues is always good for reference...

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