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Topic Started: Mar 2 2006, 04:59 PM (54,675 Views)
Bonga
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I just saw in Costco a 35-film Clint Eastwood collection, for the amazing price of $120. Less than 4 bucks a film--worth the price for any ten favorites, then you get 25 more movies. Covers his whole post-spaghetti western career. Spendy, but I'm sorely tempted.
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Yesterday, received Gabriel Over the White House and The Tall Target from Warners.
"I'm glad that this question came up, because there are so many ways to answer it that one of them is bound to be right." - Robert Benchley
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marlin lee
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Operating on the premise that any Marvel release recommended by a DC hero must be worth getting I picked up Planet Hulk.
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Zodiac
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We have a small retail chain here in NC called Edward McKay and they sell used books, CDs and DVDs and games.

I picked up Spartacus ($5), Ten Commandments ($7), Boris Karloff set ($8), Invisible Man Universal set ($7), Lara Croft Cradle of Life ($3)

They are all good copies, come with a 7day full refund if damaged and every once in a while you find a gem.
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panzer the great & terrible
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Where in N.C. are you, zode? I lived in the Asheville area for 20 years before I moved out here, and liked it better there. Something about cops who have seen too many movies and shoot to kill innocent people who are "off their meds" or "have a gun" (in the car hundreds of yards away) just puts me off. The landscape is pretty, but the people are strange.
Life is just a bowl of cherries, it's too mysterious, don't take it serious...
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I live in the Winston Salem area- Lived in Charlotte and Greensboro too- we have moved 18 times all over the US

your reference to the cops- is that here or there?

20 years ago, us Yankees ( I was born and raised in NY) were not always welcome- but that is no longer the case

The people down south can be very friendly and accommodating- but being a stranger, you have to earn a certain amount of trust and that takes time- the biggest mistake, IMO, is to move here and then tell the locals how NY or wherever was better. Their feeling is simply the door swings both ways
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marlin lee
Feb 26 2010, 07:34 PM
Operating on the premise that any Marvel release recommended by a DC hero must be worth getting I picked up Planet Hulk.

I hope you enjoyed PH, Marlin. Please let me know.

Once in a while, the "other guy" gets it right.

Always be yourself! Unless you can be Batman...then always be Batman!
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zode, I was talking about Chico. As far as I know California is the only state where policemen are taught to shoot and kill people who haven't been found guilty of anything (which explains the anti-cop bias of many movies, especially odd in kid movies like E.T.). North Carolina was one of the most civilized places I ever lived in, almost totally lacking the crazy extremes of both political parties here, the weird sense of entitlement and the jarring smartass attitude many of the more naive citizens show: people who know little or nothing but think they know it all -- the letters to the editor are dumber than anywhere else, and the political commentators out of touch with reality (try reading Thomas Sowell). I can't wait to get back to the Midwest or the East, where people are polite and food fit to eat.
Life is just a bowl of cherries, it's too mysterious, don't take it serious...
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Arriving in the post over the weekend was the 1917 serial Judex. It's the perfect compliment to Les Vampires, which I am currently watching.
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panzer the great & terrible
Mar 1 2010, 10:13 AM
I can't wait to get back to the Midwest or the East, where people are polite and food fit to eat.
Hey, you dissing Carl's Jr.???
"Nov Shmoz Ka Pop."
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panzer the great & terrible
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I'm dissing western fast food in general. To me it's bland. Love some of the pizza, especially the ones billed as "New York Style," love the Thai food and dim sum, but I haven't had a decent hot dog since I was in Virginia two years ago, and the less said about Carl's Jr. burgers, the better. Like their shakes, though -- hold the whipped cream.

Well, actually I do have one nice thing to say about Carl's Jr. -- it's better than In and Out.

Maybe it's just what you grew up on. I grew up on food with flavor.
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panzer the great & terrible
Mar 1 2010, 10:13 AM
zode, I was talking about Chico. As far as I know California is the only state where policemen are taught to shoot and kill people who haven't been found guilty of anything (which explains the anti-cop bias of many movies, especially odd in kid movies like E.T.). North Carolina was one of the most civilized places I ever lived in, almost totally lacking the crazy extremes of both political parties here, the weird sense of entitlement and the jarring smartass attitude many of the more naive citizens show: people who know little or nothing but think they know it all -- the letters to the editor are dumber than anywhere else, and the political commentators out of touch with reality (try reading Thomas Sowell). I can't wait to get back to the Midwest or the East, where people are polite and food fit to eat.
We get Mr. Sowell in our Richmond, Va. newspaper. We have our own resident nutcase commentator who is even worse than Mr. Sowell because he engages almost exclusively in ad hominem attacks against any person or thing that is remotely hints at anything that is not way far to the right end of the political spectrum.
TANSTAAFL!
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mort bakaprevski
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Hmmmmm, I used to visit Chico frequently (back when I worked for the Cal State Univ. system). As I recall, the cuisine was somewhat similar to dining in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. Or, closer to home, taking a few hours to drive up north for a gourmet treat in Fellows!!
"Nov Shmoz Ka Pop."
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That has changed a little, Mort. In the last six years sophistication has reared its head. We have four good sushi places (and two more I wouldn't eat in on a bet), an excellent Thai place (and two others), one fine creative, modern Mexican place, one sensational Chinese joint and one Chinese "deli" with Taiwanese food (plus plenty of mediocre Chinese stores), two good steak houses, an OK Syrian place and a passable Turkish one, one good Italian place (plus two more that are just OK), a fine pizza joint that belongs to the same folks as the good Italian place, and of course a wealth of plain Mexican food, taco wagons, and so forth. One branch of the Casa Ramos chain happens to have a decent chef now, but they'll surely send him to another branch before long. There are also two fine dining establishments that didn't impress me in the least. Nothing like Los Angeles, which I consider one of the country's best restaurant scenes, but a damn sight better than Red Bluff or Reading, where you can go to eat the kind of food you used to get in Chico -- or you can go to Carl's Jr. The In and Out made me sick so I don't go there. There are, of course, all the usual frozen food chains too, but I don't eat in 'em. There's also the single worst barbecue place on earth -- with three sauces: disgustingly sweet, too sweet, and I can't believe anything's sweeter than sugar, but here's living proof. They serve the sauces on roast pork and call it barbecue. Ugh.

Reading what people wrote about Chico on the chowhound site made me quit going there. Most contributors are bone ignorant about food (and here we are, only 3 hours from Chez Panisse and even closer to Napa). But decades of dismal food here have had their effect, and I find I can't trust the locals' recommendations.
Life is just a bowl of cherries, it's too mysterious, don't take it serious...
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Bonga
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The police in Oregon are trained to shoot and kill innocent people too, as long as they are mentally ill.
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