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Mike Rogers is a Republican from Michigan who is a member of Congress and head of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Apparently you don't have to have a lot of intelligence to rise to that position based on this exchange (the key moment comes after 2:20 in the tape):
The head of the most powerful committee that deals with U.S. intelligence gathering just said "you can't have your privacy violated if you don't know your privacy was violated" and I find that truly offensive. If a woman is given GHB and then raped, she didn't know she was raped. So in the mind of Mike Rogers, Republican from Michigan, she wasn't raped.
Using the supremely twisted pretzel logic of Congressman Rogers, if I steal someone's wallet, they weren't robbed until they discover it missing. If someone were to murder someone else, they aren't a murderer unless and until they are caught. What makes this even more frightening and offensive is that prior to being elected to serve in Congress, Rogers was an FBI Special Agent. Before that, he was a commissioned officer in the U.S. Army.
At what point did his moral center dissolve? At what point did he become Oliver North?
Unless there's another translation to his comments that someone can offer.
* * *
I was able to join one of my good friends for an evening of trivia last night and I brought some of the questions home to share. The answers will follow the questions.
1. Name one of the two teams that competed for the 2013 American League Championship Series.
2. Name the Swedish wrestler who appeared in a number of movies directed by Ed Wood.
3. When Charlie Brown went trick-or-treating during the special "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown", what did people put in his bag instead of candy?
4. The Duke boys drove the General Lee on the TV show "Dukes of Hazzard". What kind of car did their sister, Daisy Duke, drive?
5. In which decade was the very first Presidential election?
6. What is the most popular Halloween candy?
7. What is the longest running public service announcement campaign focused on safety?
8. What are the four main components of human blood?
9. What is the name for the group of animals that begin life breathing through gills and later on use lungs to breathe?
10. What was the last National Hockey League Team to win both the Stanley Cup and the President's Trophy in the same season?
11. Name the Oscar winning film in which Jessica Lange goes nuts while Tommy Lee Jones detonates nukes.
12. In what meter were most of William Shakespeare's works written?
13. What maker of alcoholic beverages opened their first brewery in 1759 at St. James Gate, Dublin?
Don't cheat. :)
Answers:
1. The Boston Red Sox or the Detroit Tigers
2. Tor Johnson or Tor Johansson (either is acceptable, the first one was his stage name)
3. Charlie Brown received rocks.
4. Daisy Duke drove a Plymouth Roadrunner for a few episodes in season 1 before switching to a Jeep.
5. George Washington was elected in 1788, making the decade the 1780s.
6. Candy corn is the most popular Halloween candy.
7. The answer is the Smokey the Bear campaign
8. Red blood cells (erythrocytes), white blood cells (leukocytes), platelets (thrombocytes), and plasma.
9. Amphibians
10. The Chicago Blackhawks (last season)
11. "Blue Sky"
12. Iambic Pentameter
13. Guinness
* * *
A number of people who are receiving Social Security benefits think that the upcoming 1.5% Cost of Living Adjustment is not enough.
They're entitled to that opinion. I don't agree with it. The cost of things isn't going up by more than 1.5% from the start of 2013 through January 1st of next year. It just isn't. Adjusted for inflation, the price of gasoline on average has risen only two cents since 2008. Milk prices in October of 2013 are down from those in January of the same year.
Yes the 1.5% increase is lower than last year's. But at least it is an increase.
* * *
Random Ponderings:
I got a phone call today from one of the other instructors in the area. Turns out during her first year with the company, I was her first instructor. Once she reminded me of that fact, I was very jazzed to hear she'd become an instructor. I just love seeing my former students doing well. It makes me feel the work I put into teaching is well worth it.
Loretta Lynn cancelling two shows due to exhaustion isn't surprising. She's 81 years old. Anyone who moans or otherwise complains because they don't get to see her show needs to chill out.
The residents of Irwindale complaining about the "odor" from the plant that makes Sriracha sauce must have sensitive snouts.
How ironic is it that the Navy's newest destroyer, the USS Zumwalt (first in a new class of guided-missile destroyer) will be commanded by Captain James Kirk? Wonder if "T" is his middle initial? And no, his executive officer is not named Spock. It's Commander Jeffrey Hickox.
I think the woman who cashed in her winning lottery ticket for $100,000 in Virginia with only four hours before the jackpot would have expired will keep better track of her tickets in the future.
Considering that the Boston Red Sox haven't won a World Series at home since 1918, I'm not surprised that scalpers are getting huge prices for tickets to Game 6.
Job applicants who list references without knowing that the individual/company listed will give them a good recommendation deserve what they get. I read one anecdote where the hiring manager called for a reference on someone they were about to hire and was told "....we canned that guy three years ago."
Wonder if any of the "Barker's Beauties" who sued him for sexual harassment or discrimination will be there when The Price is Right celebrates his 90th birthday later this year?
* * *
This Date In History:
758 – Guangzhou is sacked by Arab and Persian pirates.
1137 – Battle of Rignano between Ranulf of Apulia and Roger II of Sicily.
1226 – Tran Thu Do, head of the Tran clan of Vietnam, forces Ly Hue Tong, the last emperor of the Ly dynasty, to commit suicide.
1270 – The Eighth Crusade and siege of Tunis end by an agreement between Charles I of Sicily (brother to King Louis IX of France, who had died months earlier) and the sultan of Tunis.
1340 – Portuguese and Castilian forces halt a Marinid invasion at the Battle of Río Salado.
1485 – King Henry VII of England is crowned.
1501 – Ballet of Chestnuts – a banquet held by Cesare Borgia in the Papal Palace where fifty prostitutes or courtesans are in attendance for the entertainment of the guests.
1657 – Spanish forces fail to retake Jamaica at the Battle of Ocho Rios during the Anglo-Spanish War.
1806 – Believing he is facing a much larger force, Prussian Lieutenant General Friedrich von Romberg, commanding 5,300 men, surrendered the city of Stettin to 800 French soldiers commanded by General Lassalle.
1831 – In Southampton County, Virginia, escaped slave Nat Turner is captured and arrested for leading the bloodiest slave rebellion in United States history.
1863 – Danish Prince Wilhelm arrives in Athens to assume his throne as George I, King of the Hellenes.
1864 – Second Schleswig War ends. Denmark renounces all claim to Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg, which come under Prussian and Austrian administration.
1864 – Helena, Montana is founded after four prospectors discover gold at "Last Chance Gulch".
1888 – Rudd Concession granted by King Lobengula of Matabeleland to agents of Cecil Rhodes led by Charles Rudd.
1894 – Domenico Melegatti obtains a patent for a procedure to be applied in producing pandoro industrially.
1905 – Czar Nicholas II of Russia grants Russia's first constitution, creating a legislative assembly.
1918 – The Ottoman Empire signs an armistice with the Allies, ending the First World War in the Middle East.
1920 – The Communist Party of Australia is founded in Sydney.
1922 – Benito Mussolini is made Prime Minister of Italy.
1925 – John Logie Baird creates Britain's first television transmitter.
1929 – The Stuttgart Cable Car is constructed in Stuttgart, Germany.
1938 – Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing anxiety in some of the audience in the United States.
1941 – World War II: Franklin Delano Roosevelt approves U.S. $1 billion in Lend-Lease aid to the Allied nations.
1941 – 1,500 Jews from Pidhaytsi (in western Ukraine) are sent by Nazis to Belzec extermination camp.
1942 – Lt. Tony Fasson, Able Seaman Colin Grazier and canteen assistant Tommy Brown from HMS Petard board U-559, retrieving material which would lead to the decryption of the German Enigma code.
1944 – Anne Frank and sister Margot Frank are deported from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
1945 – Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs signs a contract for the Brooklyn Dodgers to break the baseball color barrier.
1947 – The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which is the foundation of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), is founded.
1950 – Pope Pius XII witnesses the "Miracle of the Sun" while at the Vatican.
1953 – Cold War: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally approves the top secret document National Security Council Paper No. 162/2, which states that the United States' arsenal of nuclear weapons must be maintained and expanded to counter the communist threat.
1960 – Michael Woodruff performs the first successful kidney transplant in the United Kingdom at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
1961 – Nuclear testing: The Soviet Union detonates the hydrogen bomb Tsar Bomba over Novaya Zemlya; at 50 megatons of yield, it is still the largest explosive device ever detonated, nuclear or otherwise.
1961 – Because of "violations of Lenin's precepts", it is decreed that Joseph Stalin's body be removed from its place of honour inside Lenin's tomb and buried near the Kremlin wall with a plain granite marker instead.
1965 – Vietnam War: Just miles from Da Nang, United States Marines repel an intense attack by wave after wave of Viet Cong forces, killing 56 guerrillas.
1970 – In Vietnam, the worst monsoon to hit the area in six years causes large floods, kills 293, leaves 200,000 homeless and virtually halts the Vietnam War.
1972 – A collision between two commuter trains in Chicago kills 45 and injures 332.
1973 – The Bosphorus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosphorus for the second time.
1974 – The Rumble in the Jungle boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman takes place in Kinshasa, Zaire.
1975 – Prince Juan Carlos becomes Spain's acting head of state, taking over for the country's ailing dictator, Gen. Francisco Franco.
1980 – El Salvador and Honduras sign a peace treaty to put the border dispute fought over in 1969's Football War before the International Court of Justice.
1983 – The first democratic elections in Argentina after seven years of military rule are held.
1985 – Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off for mission STS-61-A, its final successful mission.
1987 – In Japan, NEC releases the first 16-bit (fourth generation) video game console, the PC Engine, which is later sold in other markets under the name TurboGrafx-16.
1991 – The Madrid Conference for Middle East peace talks opens.
Famous Folk Born On October 30th:
Julia the Elder
Emperor Chukyo
John Adams
Martha Jefferson
William Halsey, Jr.
Ezra Pound
Charles Atlas
Ruth Gordon
Bill Terry
Joe Adcock
Louis Malle
Dick Vermeil
Grace Slick
Ed Lauter (RIP)
Henry Winkler (one of my favorite people)
Harry Hamlin
Kevin Pollak
Diego Maradona
Michael Beach
Gavin Rossdale
Ben Bailey
Nia Long
Edge
Amanda Swofford
Kareem Rush
Ivanka Trump
Today we get two sets of movie quotes because I couldn't decide between Ruth Gordon and Louis Malle, both nominated multiple times for Oscars (Gordon eventually won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar) and both worthy of recognition:
From Malle's masterpiece, "Atlantic City"
(referring to Atlantic City)
Lou: Yes, it used to be beautiful - what with the rackets, whoring, guns.
#2
Lou: I'm a lover!
Grace Pinza: Numbnuts!
#3
Chrissie: Oh, I never use seatbelts. I don't believe in gravity.
And now, from my favorite film appearance of Ruth Gordon (I know, it's lowbrow):
Cholla: [the Black Widows have shown up at Philo's home, Ma Boggs is on the porch, they pull their bikes into her yard and Cholla pulls up on the porch] Say, old lady, where's Philo Beddoe?
Ma Boggs: How the hell do I know? Get off my porch with that thing. Get off my property!
Cholla: You're uh... you're not very hospitable.
Ma Boggs: Hospitable my ass. Get off my porch!
Cholla: Very well, if you insist.
[Cholla chains his bike to a support on the front porch, pulling it down... bikers laugh, Ma pulls out a pump-action shotgun]
Woody: [seeing the gun] Alright lady... put down that gun now!
[bikers dive out of her way]
Woody: I'm warning you lady! Put down that gun now!
[Ma fires and bike next to Woody explodes... she shoots several other bikes as they're attempting to flee]
Ma Boggs: [during a recoil] Oof!
Woody: [running after his gang on foot] Wait for me!
Ma Boggs: [seeing the flaming bikes on her lawn... to herself] First the police, and I told those boys not to leave a vulnerable old lady all alone!
[goes inside with gun]
Ma Boggs: Hospitable? Horseshit!
#2
Waitress: [to Elmo after the Widows question her about Philo's whereabouts] You want to talk, take a walk. You want to eat, take a seat.
[diner erupts into laughter]
Frank: [to fat man at counter] What're you laughing at, lard ass?
Fat Man: [fuming] I tell you what. You turn around and walk out that door, and I'll forget what you said.
[looks up at Frank, grinning]
Fat Man: And I won't tell everybody you drink horse piss!
[waitress and patrons giggle]
Frank: Elmo, Cholla, did you hear what he just said?
Cholla: [fiercely] I heard it.
Waitress: [taking fat man's plate] I'll just keep this warm for you, Lester.
Frank: Okay bigmouth, let's go.
Waitress: [to fat man] You want me to keep a piece of that lemon merangue?
Fat Man: Yeah, this won't take but a minute.
[to Frank]
Fat Man: Let's go, cutes!
[all exit to watch the fight]
#3
Ma Boggs: [Ma has just learned of Philo and Orville's trip plans... turning to Philo] What're you gonna do with the baboon?
Philo Beddoe: Orangutan, Ma. Clyde's an orangutan.
Ma Boggs: [scoffs] Well, what's the difference?
Philo Beddoe: 12 ribs. Just like you and me.
Ma Boggs: [persistent] What're you gonna do with him?
Philo Beddoe: He's coming with me. Come on, Clyde!
[Clyde enters back of camper]
Ma Boggs: Well, when are you comin' back?
[turns to Orville and repeats same question]
Orville Boggs: Whenever it's time, Ma!
Ma Boggs: [shruggs, exasperated] It just don't seem right to leave an old lady alone. And what about my goddamn license?
[they drive off... to herself]
Ma Boggs: This is... it's just...
[walks off]
Ma Boggs: Twelve ribs... I don't believe any of that shit!
#4
Ma Boggs: Twelve ribs, my ass!
The head of the most powerful committee that deals with U.S. intelligence gathering just said "you can't have your privacy violated if you don't know your privacy was violated" and I find that truly offensive. If a woman is given GHB and then raped, she didn't know she was raped. So in the mind of Mike Rogers, Republican from Michigan, she wasn't raped.
Using the supremely twisted pretzel logic of Congressman Rogers, if I steal someone's wallet, they weren't robbed until they discover it missing. If someone were to murder someone else, they aren't a murderer unless and until they are caught. What makes this even more frightening and offensive is that prior to being elected to serve in Congress, Rogers was an FBI Special Agent. Before that, he was a commissioned officer in the U.S. Army.
At what point did his moral center dissolve? At what point did he become Oliver North?
Unless there's another translation to his comments that someone can offer.
* * *
I was able to join one of my good friends for an evening of trivia last night and I brought some of the questions home to share. The answers will follow the questions.
1. Name one of the two teams that competed for the 2013 American League Championship Series.
2. Name the Swedish wrestler who appeared in a number of movies directed by Ed Wood.
3. When Charlie Brown went trick-or-treating during the special "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown", what did people put in his bag instead of candy?
4. The Duke boys drove the General Lee on the TV show "Dukes of Hazzard". What kind of car did their sister, Daisy Duke, drive?
5. In which decade was the very first Presidential election?
6. What is the most popular Halloween candy?
7. What is the longest running public service announcement campaign focused on safety?
8. What are the four main components of human blood?
9. What is the name for the group of animals that begin life breathing through gills and later on use lungs to breathe?
10. What was the last National Hockey League Team to win both the Stanley Cup and the President's Trophy in the same season?
11. Name the Oscar winning film in which Jessica Lange goes nuts while Tommy Lee Jones detonates nukes.
12. In what meter were most of William Shakespeare's works written?
13. What maker of alcoholic beverages opened their first brewery in 1759 at St. James Gate, Dublin?
Don't cheat. :)
Answers:
1. The Boston Red Sox or the Detroit Tigers
2. Tor Johnson or Tor Johansson (either is acceptable, the first one was his stage name)
3. Charlie Brown received rocks.
4. Daisy Duke drove a Plymouth Roadrunner for a few episodes in season 1 before switching to a Jeep.
5. George Washington was elected in 1788, making the decade the 1780s.
6. Candy corn is the most popular Halloween candy.
7. The answer is the Smokey the Bear campaign
8. Red blood cells (erythrocytes), white blood cells (leukocytes), platelets (thrombocytes), and plasma.
9. Amphibians
10. The Chicago Blackhawks (last season)
11. "Blue Sky"
12. Iambic Pentameter
13. Guinness
* * *
A number of people who are receiving Social Security benefits think that the upcoming 1.5% Cost of Living Adjustment is not enough.
They're entitled to that opinion. I don't agree with it. The cost of things isn't going up by more than 1.5% from the start of 2013 through January 1st of next year. It just isn't. Adjusted for inflation, the price of gasoline on average has risen only two cents since 2008. Milk prices in October of 2013 are down from those in January of the same year.
Yes the 1.5% increase is lower than last year's. But at least it is an increase.
* * *
Random Ponderings:
I got a phone call today from one of the other instructors in the area. Turns out during her first year with the company, I was her first instructor. Once she reminded me of that fact, I was very jazzed to hear she'd become an instructor. I just love seeing my former students doing well. It makes me feel the work I put into teaching is well worth it.
Loretta Lynn cancelling two shows due to exhaustion isn't surprising. She's 81 years old. Anyone who moans or otherwise complains because they don't get to see her show needs to chill out.
The residents of Irwindale complaining about the "odor" from the plant that makes Sriracha sauce must have sensitive snouts.
How ironic is it that the Navy's newest destroyer, the USS Zumwalt (first in a new class of guided-missile destroyer) will be commanded by Captain James Kirk? Wonder if "T" is his middle initial? And no, his executive officer is not named Spock. It's Commander Jeffrey Hickox.
I think the woman who cashed in her winning lottery ticket for $100,000 in Virginia with only four hours before the jackpot would have expired will keep better track of her tickets in the future.
Considering that the Boston Red Sox haven't won a World Series at home since 1918, I'm not surprised that scalpers are getting huge prices for tickets to Game 6.
Job applicants who list references without knowing that the individual/company listed will give them a good recommendation deserve what they get. I read one anecdote where the hiring manager called for a reference on someone they were about to hire and was told "....we canned that guy three years ago."
Wonder if any of the "Barker's Beauties" who sued him for sexual harassment or discrimination will be there when The Price is Right celebrates his 90th birthday later this year?
* * *
This Date In History:
758 – Guangzhou is sacked by Arab and Persian pirates.
1137 – Battle of Rignano between Ranulf of Apulia and Roger II of Sicily.
1226 – Tran Thu Do, head of the Tran clan of Vietnam, forces Ly Hue Tong, the last emperor of the Ly dynasty, to commit suicide.
1270 – The Eighth Crusade and siege of Tunis end by an agreement between Charles I of Sicily (brother to King Louis IX of France, who had died months earlier) and the sultan of Tunis.
1340 – Portuguese and Castilian forces halt a Marinid invasion at the Battle of Río Salado.
1485 – King Henry VII of England is crowned.
1501 – Ballet of Chestnuts – a banquet held by Cesare Borgia in the Papal Palace where fifty prostitutes or courtesans are in attendance for the entertainment of the guests.
1657 – Spanish forces fail to retake Jamaica at the Battle of Ocho Rios during the Anglo-Spanish War.
1806 – Believing he is facing a much larger force, Prussian Lieutenant General Friedrich von Romberg, commanding 5,300 men, surrendered the city of Stettin to 800 French soldiers commanded by General Lassalle.
1831 – In Southampton County, Virginia, escaped slave Nat Turner is captured and arrested for leading the bloodiest slave rebellion in United States history.
1863 – Danish Prince Wilhelm arrives in Athens to assume his throne as George I, King of the Hellenes.
1864 – Second Schleswig War ends. Denmark renounces all claim to Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg, which come under Prussian and Austrian administration.
1864 – Helena, Montana is founded after four prospectors discover gold at "Last Chance Gulch".
1888 – Rudd Concession granted by King Lobengula of Matabeleland to agents of Cecil Rhodes led by Charles Rudd.
1894 – Domenico Melegatti obtains a patent for a procedure to be applied in producing pandoro industrially.
1905 – Czar Nicholas II of Russia grants Russia's first constitution, creating a legislative assembly.
1918 – The Ottoman Empire signs an armistice with the Allies, ending the First World War in the Middle East.
1920 – The Communist Party of Australia is founded in Sydney.
1922 – Benito Mussolini is made Prime Minister of Italy.
1925 – John Logie Baird creates Britain's first television transmitter.
1929 – The Stuttgart Cable Car is constructed in Stuttgart, Germany.
1938 – Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing anxiety in some of the audience in the United States.
1941 – World War II: Franklin Delano Roosevelt approves U.S. $1 billion in Lend-Lease aid to the Allied nations.
1941 – 1,500 Jews from Pidhaytsi (in western Ukraine) are sent by Nazis to Belzec extermination camp.
1942 – Lt. Tony Fasson, Able Seaman Colin Grazier and canteen assistant Tommy Brown from HMS Petard board U-559, retrieving material which would lead to the decryption of the German Enigma code.
1944 – Anne Frank and sister Margot Frank are deported from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
1945 – Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs signs a contract for the Brooklyn Dodgers to break the baseball color barrier.
1947 – The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which is the foundation of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), is founded.
1950 – Pope Pius XII witnesses the "Miracle of the Sun" while at the Vatican.
1953 – Cold War: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally approves the top secret document National Security Council Paper No. 162/2, which states that the United States' arsenal of nuclear weapons must be maintained and expanded to counter the communist threat.
1960 – Michael Woodruff performs the first successful kidney transplant in the United Kingdom at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
1961 – Nuclear testing: The Soviet Union detonates the hydrogen bomb Tsar Bomba over Novaya Zemlya; at 50 megatons of yield, it is still the largest explosive device ever detonated, nuclear or otherwise.
1961 – Because of "violations of Lenin's precepts", it is decreed that Joseph Stalin's body be removed from its place of honour inside Lenin's tomb and buried near the Kremlin wall with a plain granite marker instead.
1965 – Vietnam War: Just miles from Da Nang, United States Marines repel an intense attack by wave after wave of Viet Cong forces, killing 56 guerrillas.
1970 – In Vietnam, the worst monsoon to hit the area in six years causes large floods, kills 293, leaves 200,000 homeless and virtually halts the Vietnam War.
1972 – A collision between two commuter trains in Chicago kills 45 and injures 332.
1973 – The Bosphorus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosphorus for the second time.
1974 – The Rumble in the Jungle boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman takes place in Kinshasa, Zaire.
1975 – Prince Juan Carlos becomes Spain's acting head of state, taking over for the country's ailing dictator, Gen. Francisco Franco.
1980 – El Salvador and Honduras sign a peace treaty to put the border dispute fought over in 1969's Football War before the International Court of Justice.
1983 – The first democratic elections in Argentina after seven years of military rule are held.
1985 – Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off for mission STS-61-A, its final successful mission.
1987 – In Japan, NEC releases the first 16-bit (fourth generation) video game console, the PC Engine, which is later sold in other markets under the name TurboGrafx-16.
1991 – The Madrid Conference for Middle East peace talks opens.
Famous Folk Born On October 30th:
Julia the Elder
Emperor Chukyo
John Adams
Martha Jefferson
William Halsey, Jr.
Ezra Pound
Charles Atlas
Ruth Gordon
Bill Terry
Joe Adcock
Louis Malle
Dick Vermeil
Grace Slick
Ed Lauter (RIP)
Henry Winkler (one of my favorite people)
Harry Hamlin
Kevin Pollak
Diego Maradona
Michael Beach
Gavin Rossdale
Ben Bailey
Nia Long
Edge
Amanda Swofford
Kareem Rush
Ivanka Trump
Today we get two sets of movie quotes because I couldn't decide between Ruth Gordon and Louis Malle, both nominated multiple times for Oscars (Gordon eventually won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar) and both worthy of recognition:
From Malle's masterpiece, "Atlantic City"
(referring to Atlantic City)
Lou: Yes, it used to be beautiful - what with the rackets, whoring, guns.
#2
Lou: I'm a lover!
Grace Pinza: Numbnuts!
#3
Chrissie: Oh, I never use seatbelts. I don't believe in gravity.
And now, from my favorite film appearance of Ruth Gordon (I know, it's lowbrow):
Cholla: [the Black Widows have shown up at Philo's home, Ma Boggs is on the porch, they pull their bikes into her yard and Cholla pulls up on the porch] Say, old lady, where's Philo Beddoe?
Ma Boggs: How the hell do I know? Get off my porch with that thing. Get off my property!
Cholla: You're uh... you're not very hospitable.
Ma Boggs: Hospitable my ass. Get off my porch!
Cholla: Very well, if you insist.
[Cholla chains his bike to a support on the front porch, pulling it down... bikers laugh, Ma pulls out a pump-action shotgun]
Woody: [seeing the gun] Alright lady... put down that gun now!
[bikers dive out of her way]
Woody: I'm warning you lady! Put down that gun now!
[Ma fires and bike next to Woody explodes... she shoots several other bikes as they're attempting to flee]
Ma Boggs: [during a recoil] Oof!
Woody: [running after his gang on foot] Wait for me!
Ma Boggs: [seeing the flaming bikes on her lawn... to herself] First the police, and I told those boys not to leave a vulnerable old lady all alone!
[goes inside with gun]
Ma Boggs: Hospitable? Horseshit!
#2
Waitress: [to Elmo after the Widows question her about Philo's whereabouts] You want to talk, take a walk. You want to eat, take a seat.
[diner erupts into laughter]
Frank: [to fat man at counter] What're you laughing at, lard ass?
Fat Man: [fuming] I tell you what. You turn around and walk out that door, and I'll forget what you said.
[looks up at Frank, grinning]
Fat Man: And I won't tell everybody you drink horse piss!
[waitress and patrons giggle]
Frank: Elmo, Cholla, did you hear what he just said?
Cholla: [fiercely] I heard it.
Waitress: [taking fat man's plate] I'll just keep this warm for you, Lester.
Frank: Okay bigmouth, let's go.
Waitress: [to fat man] You want me to keep a piece of that lemon merangue?
Fat Man: Yeah, this won't take but a minute.
[to Frank]
Fat Man: Let's go, cutes!
[all exit to watch the fight]
#3
Ma Boggs: [Ma has just learned of Philo and Orville's trip plans... turning to Philo] What're you gonna do with the baboon?
Philo Beddoe: Orangutan, Ma. Clyde's an orangutan.
Ma Boggs: [scoffs] Well, what's the difference?
Philo Beddoe: 12 ribs. Just like you and me.
Ma Boggs: [persistent] What're you gonna do with him?
Philo Beddoe: He's coming with me. Come on, Clyde!
[Clyde enters back of camper]
Ma Boggs: Well, when are you comin' back?
[turns to Orville and repeats same question]
Orville Boggs: Whenever it's time, Ma!
Ma Boggs: [shruggs, exasperated] It just don't seem right to leave an old lady alone. And what about my goddamn license?
[they drive off... to herself]
Ma Boggs: This is... it's just...
[walks off]
Ma Boggs: Twelve ribs... I don't believe any of that shit!
#4
Ma Boggs: Twelve ribs, my ass!
posted by me at 3:06 PM
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