Re: Stay Classy

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CHeck this out. At this very moment, TNT is showing "Air Force One", and TBS is showing "The Perfect Man". And A&E is showing "Flight 93".

What does it all mean?


Posted by: peter | Link to this comment | 09- 6-08 9:56 PM
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What this country needs is another attack on American soil, to separate the men from the boys liberals, and show the terrorists what an American patriot bed-wetter looks like.


Posted by: Mary Catherine | Link to this comment | 09- 6-08 10:00 PM
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2: Sexist.


Posted by: M/tch M/lls | Link to this comment | 09- 6-08 10:08 PM
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On the night of 9/11/01, our local TV station showed Alive.


Posted by: A White Bear | Link to this comment | 09- 6-08 10:10 PM
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3: Don't you think it's a little early in the thread to go meta?


Posted by: Mary Catherine | Link to this comment | 09- 6-08 10:11 PM
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What this country needs is a good five-cent cigar.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 09- 6-08 10:13 PM
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5: So now you're telling us we should just be quiet and wait our turn? Typical.


Posted by: M/tch M/lls | Link to this comment | 09- 6-08 10:14 PM
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What this country needs is a good Broca's Area joke.


Posted by: M/tch M/lls | Link to this comment | 09- 6-08 10:15 PM
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"So, did the fall hurt him?"

"Hurt him? It damn near Broca's Area!"


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 09- 6-08 10:17 PM
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If, like me, you haven't seen Air Force One, you should treat yourself to the plot synopsis in the link. The movie sounds masterfully idiotic.


Posted by: Jesus McQueen | Link to this comment | 09- 6-08 10:18 PM
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If, like me, you haven't seen Air Force One, you should treat yourself to the plot synopsis in the link. The movie sounds masterfully idiotic.

It's on right now! You owe it to yourself to watch this movie. And the rise of Russia as an eeevil power again makes it more relevant than ever.


Posted by: Matt F | Link to this comment | 09- 6-08 10:20 PM
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The movie sounds masterfully idiotic.

And I, for one, welcome our new Alaskan overlords.


Posted by: Mary Catherine | Link to this comment | 09- 6-08 10:24 PM
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Mercifully, I don't even have cable.


Posted by: Jesus McQueen | Link to this comment | 09- 6-08 10:24 PM
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This is an example of an "open thread" I suppose. Therefore I will report that my iTunes just segued (alphabetically by artist) from Britney Spears's "Boys" to Bruce Cockburn's "If I Had a Rocket Launcher").

Sometimes segues like that make me laugh out loud, and yet it's hard to create one intentionally, it has to be random.


Posted by: peter | Link to this comment | 09- 6-08 10:49 PM
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I still remember the day when XMMS segued from Thinking Fellers Union Local 282's "Guillotine", to Talk Talk's "Taphead", to Univers Zero's "Complainte".


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 09- 6-08 10:52 PM
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I have gotta say, there are just some songs that sound great segueing out of ANYTHING. like Fifty Tons of Black Terror's "Creeper's Reef". or the Cure's "Why Can't I Be You".


Posted by: peter | Link to this comment | 09- 6-08 10:53 PM
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14: Wait, how is that alphabetically?


Posted by: Witt | Link to this comment | 09- 6-08 11:04 PM
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There's nothing between "Bri" and "Bru".


Posted by: peter | Link to this comment | 09- 6-08 11:06 PM
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Bro.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 09- 6-08 11:13 PM
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Oh, by first name. How peculiar.


Posted by: Witt | Link to this comment | 09- 6-08 11:15 PM
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Oh, by first name. How peculiar.

That's the way I've always seen it. For instance, Ted Leo is followed immediately by Teenage Fanclub in my music library. It can't tell that "Ted" is a first name but "Teenage" isn't, so it just goes by straight alphabetical order (though it does ignore "the" if it's present in a band name).


Posted by: Matt F | Link to this comment | 09- 6-08 11:42 PM
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(though it does ignore "the" if it's present in a band name)

"The The" is treated as a single space.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 09- 6-08 11:51 PM
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It would be REALLY classy if they showed United 93 on one of those basic cable shows like "USA Up All Night" and "Dinner and a Movie", where the movie hosts act out funny little skits and cook recipies in between the movie and the commercial breaks.


Posted by: Gaijin Biker | Link to this comment | 09- 7-08 4:03 AM
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A couple weeks back, Making Light ran a reappraisal of Air Force One. The President surrenders to the turrarists!


Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 09- 7-08 7:27 AM
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I was going to bring up Air Force One in that discussion about whether the Presidency requires physical courage. To which the answer is: HELL YES! In fact, Presidents today require ever more physical courage, as thanks to feminism there are more and more women staffers around them who need protection from terrorists.


Posted by: PGD | Link to this comment | 09- 7-08 9:54 AM
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Remember Bush's macho moment when he manhandled Chilean security at some conference he was at? DAMN! I wish that they had shot him. What a lowlife creep.


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 09- 7-08 10:25 AM
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