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On back-to-back days this week I watched Lee give Will hell during his Thanksgiving meal prep, then worry about her Mother Rose's heart surgery.

Take... those chicken wings... and learn to fry again...

You're welcome, you overrated Japanese import.

When I was a teen, The Exorcist was re-released. A bunch of us from my neighborhood went. For some reason, the theater broke it up with an intermission. All the girls wanted to leave at that point because they were so scared, but all of us guys thought it was one of the best comedies we'd ever seen, and wanted to see how it ended. THE SIMPSONS' version of that (Cape Feare) was hilarious. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOgUGwFKchQ THE SIMPSONS version. She was a real wimp. :cool:

I heard they're gonna do a remake, only now the tomatoes will be drizzled with balsamic vinegar. This version promises to be much more palatable.

I had disc fusion surgery on my neck in 2003 & 2012, and 2 mini-strokes in May, 2017 (just over a week after I joined this site, not that I'm assigning any blame...), so my sister has my medical power of attorney.

I loved that movie. The sight of Vincent D'Onofrio as a bleached blonde just made me laugh. (His cousin dated the friend I walked out of the Yankee game with... who was also one of the two who walked out of Jerome Robbins' Boredway.) It's a shame Elizabeth Shue's career never again reached such dizzying heights. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

It wasn't the violence that got to me, it was the boring last 14 hours after the interesting first hour. I saw it many months after it came out. I was on a business trip in Connecticut & had nothing to do one night, so I went. The theater was packed. I sat in an aisle seat. By the end, I was desperate to go back to my hotel room and stare at the four walls. The end of the film seemed to have several 'false endings'... I remember being ready to stand up several times, only to have the boredom continue. When it was FINALLY over, I saw a crowd reaction I'd never seen at a movie before... The second the closing credits came on, every single person stood up and exited silently. Nobody stayed through the credits. Nobody discussed anything. Everybody was probably saying silent prayers of thanks that it was over. I never understood all the hoopla over Tarantino's talent until I saw his legendary appearance on THE GOLDEN GIRLS.

I was dying to walk out of Grease, but the friend I was with didn't want to walk home alone. I absolutely hated Close Encounters of the Worst Kind, but stuck it out through all 15 hours. I walked out of Down & Out in Beverly Hills and Blade Rudder (coincidentally [perhaps?] both those theaters have been torn down) and Punch-Drunk Love (got my $ back for that one). On Broadway I've walked out of HurlyBurly and Jerome Robbins' Boredway (I walked out at intermission; the two friends I was with walked out a few minutes into Act II). My friend and I walked out of a Yankee game in 1998 because it was broiling hot & muggy that night. On the way home, we were listening to the game and it turned out we missed an infamous brawl:

Mexico City bans use of attractive models at city events They’ve long been an unmissable part of public events in Mexico, from soccer matches to trade fairs: attractive women hired to be greeters or simply as eye candy, sometimes scantily clad in short skirts and high heels or crop-tops and hot pants emblazoned with corporate logos. Now Mexico City has prohibited the use of models known in local parlance as “edecanes” at events sponsored by the local government, breaking new ground for a country where deeply entrenched gender stereotypes often continue to relegate women to supporting roles in the workforce. “This job should not exist,” the capital’s mayor, Jose Ramon Amieva, said in announcing the ban last week. “It goes against policies of gender equality.” In 2014, a group of female politicians organized a forum on the topic that concluded the edecan industry sometimes is a cover for prostitution and that the models face precarious employment conditions. It estimated more than 1 million Mexicans work as hostesses or hosts, most of them in the informal sector. Online job postings for hostesses offer salaries ranging anywhere from 5,000 pesos ($260) to 30,000 pesos ($1,560) per month, well above the current minimum wage of about $4.60 per day. While edecanes’ presence at corporate and government events tends to be more demure than elsewhere — think blazers, high heels and slacks or knee-length skirts rather than skin-tight bodysuits — there have been some instances that attracted criticism. In perhaps the most notorious one, the electoral institute hired a Playboy model to hand out envelopes at the first presidential debate ahead of the 2012 election. Julia Orayen emerged onstage in a tight white dress with a plunging neckline that revealed lots of cleavage, in sharp contrast to the button-up dress shirt and black suit donned by the lone female contender for the presidency, Josefina Vazquez. Julia Orayen, second from right, carries a box to presidential candidates containing paper for them to take to assign their speaking order at the start of a presidential candidate debate in Mexico City, Sunday, May 6, 2012. And in 2016, the New Alliance party held a campaign event featuring several women in tight white stretch pants and topless save for body paint in the party’s signature turquoise and white. At Mexico City government events, models have generally been hired to greet guests, pass microphones around for questions or simply smile onstage alongside mostly male speakers. Indra Rubio, who coordinates the gender justice program for Oxfam in Mexico, called the capital’s model ban a “small but very important step” for a country that’s “still macho.” “We need to question as a society: Why is a woman’s body seen as an object?” Rubio said. “This places the woman always at a disadvantage, if her participation in the workforce is subject to her physical appearance.” Rubio said she would like to see the model ban extend to other local governments and also be adopted at the federal level, arguing that taxpayers’ money should be spent to empower women, not objectify them. “Women aren’t seen as having rights, as equals,” she said, “and I think this generates violence against women.”

This city is suggesting residents cool it with the sex. The health secretary of Santa Marta, Julio Salas, advised locals to abstain from sex to stay cool during an intense heat wave, according to Colombia Reports. Santa Marta, a popular tourist destination on the coast of Colombia, has seen temperatures rise higher than 104 degrees Fahrenheit, according to the Associated Press. Recently, medical facilities in the coastal city have been flooded with patients complaining of heat stroke symptoms, the AP reported. For those who cannot contain their sexual urges, Salas says they should wait until night when the temperature is lower, SkyNews reported. “If you have a good air conditioning, there is no problem,” he added. Salas issued the advice as part of a list of other recommendations for combating the heat wave, include taking cold showers, staying hydrated, and avoiding prolonged exposure to the sun.

Sounds like a potential TLC program... Little Person, Big Penis :rolleyes:

Because their daddies loved their little girls a little too much. Oh... you mean the guys? Who cares?

It must be nice to have a few million $ spare pocket change to invest... An investment made by Kobe Bryant has yielded more than 30 times its money in fewer than four and a half years. On Tuesday, Coca-Cola announced it had purchased a minority stake in sports drink BodyArmor. Bryant made his first investment in the brand, for roughly 10 percent of the company, in March 2014, putting in roughly $6 million over time. Based on the valuation of the Coca-Cola deal, his stake is now worth approximately $200 million, sources told ESPN. Bryant is now the fourth-largest investor in the brand, marketed as a healthier competitor to Gatorade, behind the brand's co-founder Mike Repole, Coca-Cola and Keurig Dr Pepper. When Bryant invested in BodyArmor, the brand had just come off a year of $10 million in sales. BodyArmor is projected to top $400 million in sales in 2018. And the rich get richer...

Good quote

Sometimes posted comic strips stay for a long time, sometimes they disappear fairly quickly. It's the same thing in the 'good pun' thread.