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  1. Effingham

    Film Noir?

    I think I agree. I have a friend from grad school of whom I greatly despaired. She would NOT watch a black-and-white movie. No matter what it was. Wouldn't do it. Said she didn't like it. Imagine a life with no Maltese Falcon, no Casablanca, no Captain Blood, no Birds, no Metropolis, no...
  2. Effingham

    Stetson Employee Handbook

    What's your field? My specialty is that really employable "medieval Japanese history." :eusa_doh:
  3. Effingham

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Man. I'm really sorry to hear that. A very good friend's father was also zapped by a hospital infection. Now I think I appreciate the hospitals' intention to get patients back out and home asap.
  4. Effingham

    Film Noir?

    Definitely. Marlowe was not that long in the tooth; Mitchum was.
  5. Effingham

    Film Noir?

    The sales point (for me, lech that I am) for Mitchum's "Big Sleep" is all those scenes of Sarah Miles in see-through blouses. Ah, the seventies... :)
  7. Effingham

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Eep! Hope mom is doing okay! Have you ever heard of anyone billing a doctor's office for wasted time? I hear jokes about it from time to time, but I don't think I actually know of any instances where it's actually been done.
  8. Effingham

    Favorite type of Steak

    Personally I like medium. Warm and pink, just like a lady's cheek. And just as yummy. Ummm.... wait. Did I just out myself as a cannibal? That's not what I meant...
  9. Effingham

    Stetson Employee Handbook

    Thanks for this. Dang. I've just decided that my next hat is going to be a Stetson. Thanks for that, too. Tony
  10. Effingham

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    The irony here is the number of times *I* waited in a doctor's waiting room -- half an hour, 45 minutes, more -- beyond the time I'd scheduled an appointment with the doctor.... ;) Tony
  11. Effingham

    The Declining Popularity of the Necktie

    John, I like the cut of your jib. I agree with you 110 percent.
  13. Effingham

    Film Noir?

    I tend to agree -- I think the marketers like to have their product identified as a popular genre, and thus force a stretching of the definition of noir. That said -- is noir still being made today? Can it *be* a color film and still noir (not counting remakes of classics, or recasting of...
  14. Effingham

    Film Noir?

    Although even Chandler himself was not sure who killed the chauffeur. Now *THAT* is what I'd call a convoluted plot. :) My noir touch this week: My replica of the "dingus" from "Maltese Falcon" has arrived, and will have place of honor on the mantel when I finally move into the new house. :) Tony
  15. Effingham

    Berets, Anyone?

    This is a part of why I've always thought the British "touring cap" was an attempt to overcomplicate the beret. ;)
  16. Effingham

    Favorite type of Steak

    I just have to throw in something a friend once said: "A good steak is properly cooked when a good vet can still save it."
  17. Effingham

    Star Trek

    My first *real* convention was the 1974 International Star Trek Convention, held over the Valentine's Day Weekend (the con was a birthday prezzie from mah mom!) at the Americana Hotel in NYC. Everyone was there but the Roddenberrys (Majel gave birth to Gene Jr that week). Met David Gerrold, De...
  19. Effingham

    Spats!

    Notes to self: (1) Order spats (2) Check airlines for next flight to Denver
  20. Effingham

    Star Trek

    The line frequently quoted in fandom is, "My Jeffrey is a MOVIE STAR." Big Trekfan here. Started with TOS, still largely *is* TOS. The movie last year? An abomination. Well-cast though it was, it was... NOT Trek. IMHO, of course.
  21. Effingham

    The Kings Speech - a Critique

    Hear, hear.
  22. Effingham

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    "An Affair to Remember." Man, Cary Grant had style. And hey -- Deborah Kerr. Woof.
  23. Effingham

    Whatever happened to "coat and tie required"?

    People of Walmart is one of those things that absolutely blows my mind. Seriously... what can those people be thinking? I can only hope the problem is organic, as I really hate to think that those clothes are the product of a properly functioning mind.

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