Posts by BatjacAuburn

Country singer George Jones has died...

I guess He Stopped Loving Her Today. RIP Possum, these kids can't Fill Your Shoes...

Yes this is LBJ's hat. I stole it

A little boy got on the bus, sat next to a man reading a book, and noticed he had his collar on backwards. The little boy asked why he wore his collar backwards.

The man, who was a priest, said, 'I am a Father..'
The little boy replied, 'My Daddy doesn't wear his collar like that.'
The priest looked up from his book and answered, ''I am the Father of many.'
The boy said, ''My Dad has 4 boys, 4 girls and two grandchildren and he doesn't wear his collar that way!'
The priest, getting impatient, said. 'I am the Father of hundreds', and went back to reading his book.
The little boy sat quietly thinking for a while, then leaned over and said,"Maybe you should wear a condom, and put your pants on backwards instead of your collar.."

Hey, maybe later I can wear a bed pan on my head like these guys.

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Annette Funicello Dies at 70 After Long Battle with MS

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20201344,00.html

I was a big fan when I was a little girl. I named a doll after her. It makes me feel old. She was sick for a long time. Now she is at peace.

I was in love with her from watching re-runs of teh Mickey Mouse club 15 years after it went off the air. I didn't realize then that she was in her late 20s in real life. RIP Annette.

I know she is not universally revered in the UK but this Yank will always have a grea deal of respect for her. The Iron Lady and Ronnie Ray-gun were the right leaders at the right time for both our countries IMHO.

I'm not falling for that "20 Mexicans behind you trick" again!

Finally watched the blue ray last night. I meant to do it on Sunday but my family is watching "The Bible" every Sunday night and I couldn't. Anyway, the blue ray is an obvious step up from the Special Edition DVD I have but after reading everything here I guess my expectations were too high. I only have about 10 BluRay's and most of teh others have been hugely better than the DVD. This one was better and I'm glad I did it but again, slightly disappointed.

It's an "Ike Jacket". Color would indicate Air Force. Could have been worn by any number of people in lots of different movies. I'll guess Duke and Jet Pilot, especially since he wore both Army and Air Force uniforms in the movie.

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of course it's a lot easier if you check the properties of the picture and it tells you. :^)
http://i1269.photobucket.com/a…PilotJohnWaynejacket3.jpg

I knew when I wore these pants something bad was going to happen

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I had seen this a long time ago, I think , but watched it again today. I enjoyed it, it reminded me a little of a type of Scooby Doo Western Style adventure. Spooky town, spooky house, people sent mysterious letters, strange going ons. Even a ghost causing trouble, well,a phantom !!! Plenty of action, great level of creepiness from the supporting cast, too. Blue Washington, was good, and I agree that you wouldn't see this type of role being played today, for obvious reasons.....

Duke saves JW from a certain death, hanging from the cable mining car after a good fight scene !!!

Dee x

I watched this last week maybe for the first time ever (might have seen it years ago but don't remember). I immediately thought it was a western Scooby Doo as well. It was just as corny/creepy with a surprise, well sort of, person turning out to be the Phantom. I enjoyed it and these old Bs are the perfect length for an eliptical workout.

Mary, it's Duke. Will you come and get Pappy and get him out of my hair?

Hi kids. Is Mommy going to tell you which one of these guys is Daddy?

Who is Ed McMahan and what is Publishers Clearing House?

The book on which the movie is based, The Killer Angels, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1975. It has been required reading off and on for many years in various Army leadership courses and is one of my favorite books of all time.

If you're going to have a Comedy/Light list, Red Skelton did a farce called Southern Yankee in the 50s about him being a union spy

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how about these ones

birth of an nation
Quantrill's Raiders
Alvarez Kelly
red badge of courage
major dundee
to appomattox a new tv mini series coming in 2013

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Your mention of Quantrill also brings Dark Command into the conversation. Though fictional characters are involved, it mirrors the guerilla fighting in Kansas and Missouri during the CW.

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Thanks for these, we do have
Classic Movie Westerns- The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
but it is based after the War!

However I will include all the others, thanks

Down here we kinda roll the war and reconstruction together. As for the movie itself, at least the first 20 minutes is set while the war still raged in Kansas and Missouri. Up until the "they were decently fed and decently shot". And Lone Wadi said he never surrender, they took his horse and made him surrender.

Rio Lobo also spends a significant amount of time during the movie during the war while The Undefeated spends very little.

Josie Wales Eastwood
Beguiled, Eastwood
Blue and Gray TV in the early 80s
The General- Silent Film from the 20s
Great Locomotive Chase- same story as The General but done by Disney in the 50s

There is a rather obscure 1954 move called "The Raid" with Van Heflin and a bunch of then young actors who would become stars. Anne Bancroft, Lee Marvin, Peter Graves, and Richard Boone were all in it. It is loosely based on an actual raid executed by escaped Confederate POWs on a town in Vermont called St Albans. Their intent was to rob banks and funnel the money into purchasing war materials for the South. They organized in Canada and came across and executed the raid. Canadian authorities arrested them when they recrossed into Canada and none of the money made it to the south. I have a very poor VHS copy of this mostly because my great-grandfather was one of the 25 Saint Albans Raiders.