Jazzmoose

The Sheriff The Deputy Marge Schott

In my opinion, at least on first viewing, Airplane is indeed the funniest movie ever. There's no way to isolate it from the slew of imitations that followed, none of which came near (it's a 'funny once' joke), but caught by it unexpectedly, it was absolutely hilarious. That's a questionable way of determining the 'funniest' film IMHO - the quality of the laugh (volume, duration, sincerity) should be taken into account. Not to mention the fact that a laugh is not the only way of displaying amusement - I rarely laugh in a cinema and prefer to just smirk, and then maybe laugh later when I'm walking home (which raises another problem - how do they know that people are laughing at the film playing, and not at the memory of another, funnier film) We're not talking amusement here, we're talking laugh-out-loud funny. Completely different animal. As far as amusement, just watching the scenes of Casablanca with Claude Rains is more amusing, but for funny, I'll take Airplane.

Gee, thanks. O. Henry S. Frog H. P. Lovecraft Damn; didn't wait long enough...

It wouldn't surprise me to see this end with the golden goose slain, plucked and baked...

Cigarette?

Glad I got that "undefeated season" thing over with quickly before it became a big monkey...

Janet Watson made me like math. None of you can top that. I went from automatic brain shutdown whenever the word 'algebra' is mentioned to someone who actually enjoyed solving math problems. If she had been Catholic, she'd already have one miracle in the bag.

a fine bunch of Ruebens Mary George M. Cohan

Yeah, that happened to me. The weird dreams were almost as good as the smoking anyway; I just went to bed earlier! (Which is not to confirm or deny the existence of any such smoking at this stage of my life...) Strange to see this thread up at this time; I've been having medical problems lately, and the doctor's suspicion is indigestion (although it sure as hell isn't the 'take a tums' stuff I remember!) Now, I know cigarettes aggravated my heartburn way back then, so I figured, just in case, I'd knock off the cigars and pipe for a while, at least until I know what's going on. I was certainly glad to find out that the "cigars and pipes aren't like cigarettes" line was true; put 'em down two weeks ago and quit, simple as pie. Cigarettes I remember being a hell of a lot tougher.

I didn't know preseason had even started; I'll thank anyone involved to mess up my picks.

I give up. It's always the suave, sophisticated ones that get the chicks. I just can't compete.

One of the biggest.

Not to turn this into a 'rate the author' thread, but I wouldn't put Farmer anywhere near second tier. While I enjoyed some of his books when I first tried them (decades ago), I recently tried a few and find him to be unreadable from the start, and even when I liked his stuff there was certainly no payoff. Just meandering nonsense. Kind of the Kenny G. of SF...

Same here. I did go on a Harrison binge earlier this year, going through the Deathworld Trilogy, most of the Stainless Steel Rat books, and a few scattered novels. I guess he was never one of the "big names", but he was a favorite of mine.

That's an unfair connection. The first one was retired. Challengers of the Unknown Guardians of the Galaxy Masters of the Universe

I'll check some out; I think I've got another week and a half before my cancellation finalizes...

I don't remember any of the SCTV episodes. Were they as funny without weed as with?

I'm pretty sure he meant a reboot of the series rather than the remake of Casino Royale.

I would imagine that quite a few of their players, and not just in football, wish they were elsewhere already.

I agree completely. Assuming it plays here.

Don Cornelius Don Pardo Don Corleone

Fred Blassie Barnes & Barnes Dr. Demento

Danish name dropping? How Bohring...

-The announcement of John F. Kennedy's death by Walter Cronkite as his voice broke, November 1963. -The Watts Riots in the Summer of 1965. -The My Lai Massacre; March 1968. -Watching as Robert Kennedy was shot to death as he arrived to speak in LA; April 1968. -The news report on the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr; April 1968. -The 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention riots. -News of the Watergate break-in and susequent conspiracy against McGovern presidency; June 1972/July 1973. -Nixon's resignation; August 1974. -Watching as the second plane crashed into the WTC; September 2001. Have trouble counting to two? Mine would be the second plane, which I can't get past apparently; I still have to check the news immediately before leaving home, just in case, and the moon landing, which I refuse to get past.

Thank goodness! I've spent the offseason in fear so far, worrying that the Sharks would make give up Setoguchi plus who knows who for Nash. You're not being serious are you? FYI Setoguchi played the entire 2011 season with the Wild after being traded away last year! Sorry; posting while drunk... I meant Couture.