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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Apr 22, 2018 14:00:27 GMT -5
Im watching this Twilight Zone episode with Percy Heltonin it. Not a man I recognize but a man whose voice sounds really familiar. Yet the only thing I can glean from his Wikipedia page is he played a minor role in my favorite western The Sons of Katie Elder. Still he sounds familiar. Hmmm.
Also interestingly when I was watching another episode I heard another man's voice whose face I didn't recognize. Sterling Halloway. He voiced Kaa in Disney's Jungle Book. A voice you don't really forget once you've heard it.
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Post by Prince Hal on Apr 22, 2018 20:03:15 GMT -5
Im watching this Twilight Zone episode with Percy Heltonin it. Not a man I recognize but a man whose voice sounds really familiar. Yet the only thing I can glean from his Wikipedia page is he played a minor role in my favorite western The Sons of Katie Elder. Still he sounds familiar. Hmmm. Also interestingly when I was watching another episode I heard another man's voice whose face I didn't recognize. Sterling Halloway. He voiced Kaa in Disney's Jungle Book. A voice you don't really forget once you've heard it. His voice was permanently damaged after he returned home WW I to resume his career when he took a Broadway role in which he had to yell constantly. Left him with his trademark high rough voice. Often played shifty characters. Here he is: ![](https://travsd.files.wordpress.com/2017/01/percy-helton-03.jpg)
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Apr 23, 2018 8:40:26 GMT -5
Im watching this Twilight Zone episode with Percy Heltonin it. Not a man I recognize but a man whose voice sounds really familiar. Yet the only thing I can glean from his Wikipedia page is he played a minor role in my favorite western The Sons of Katie Elder. Still he sounds familiar. Hmmm. Also interestingly when I was watching another episode I heard another man's voice whose face I didn't recognize. Sterling Halloway. He voiced Kaa in Disney's Jungle Book. A voice you don't really forget once you've heard it. His voice was permanently damaged after he returned home WW I to resume his career when he took a Broadway role in which he had to yell constantly. Left him with his trademark high rough voice. Often played shifty characters. Here he is: ![](https://travsd.files.wordpress.com/2017/01/percy-helton-03.jpg) One of my favorite things about watching old shows like this, now with the internet, is all the interesting things you can read about people. I was watching the episode The Encounter yesterday (really good episode) with George Takei (who I would be thrown to the wolves in my family if I didn't know who that was) and Neville Brand. I had never seen anything he was in that I can recall, but he looked and sounded somewhat familiar, so I read his wikipedia page, and he actually was (not just the fictional character he portrayed in the episode) a highly decorated WW2 veteran that was an avid reader that amassed a library of over 30,000 books. That's a lot of books.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Apr 23, 2018 20:46:52 GMT -5
A human piece of $&# murdered 10 people and injured 16 driving a van over a sidewalk in Toronto. That waste of DNA really tried to get the cops to shoot him, too, repeatedly pointing what looks like a gun at them when they got him... but they kept their cool and managed to get him alive. I’m glad the coward didn’t get the easy way out he was obviously looking for.
That loathsome monster encompasses all the cowardice, aggression and weakness that a human can harbor. That’s as evil as evil can be.
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Post by Prince Hal on Apr 23, 2018 21:24:05 GMT -5
His voice was permanently damaged after he returned home WW I to resume his career when he took a Broadway role in which he had to yell constantly. Left him with his trademark high rough voice. Often played shifty characters. Here he is: ![](https://travsd.files.wordpress.com/2017/01/percy-helton-03.jpg) One of my favorite things about watching old shows like this, now with the internet, is all the interesting things you can read about people. I was watching the episode The Encounter yesterday (really good episode) with George Takei (who I would be thrown to the wolves in my family if I didn't know who that was) and Neville Brand. I had never seen anything he was in that I can recall, but he looked and sounded somewhat familiar, so I read his wikipedia page, and he actually was (not just the fictional character he portrayed in the episode) a highly decorated WW2 veteran that was an avid reader that amassed a library of over 30,000 books. That's a lot of books. Knew Brand had been highly decorated in WW2, but not that he had such an enormous library. Classic character actor. Loved him in Laredo when I was a kid.
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Post by Prince Hal on Apr 23, 2018 21:26:23 GMT -5
A human piece of $&# murdered 10 people and injured 16 driving a van over a sidewalk in Toronto. That waste of DNA really tried to get the cops to shoot him, too, repeatedly pointing what looks like a gun at them when they got him... but they kept their cool and managed to get him alive. I’m glad the coward didn’t get the easy way out he was obviously looking for. That loathsome monster encompasses all the cowardice, aggression and weakness that a human can harbor. That’s as evil as evil can be. Saw the cop wrestling him down on the news. Unbelievable. Based on what we've seen in previous instances like this, can't help thinking that the guy would have been cut down ASAP down here. As you say, it's what he wanted and it was denied him.
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Post by The Captain on Apr 24, 2018 15:41:24 GMT -5
Had a really difficult conversation with my wife last night, moreso for her than for me.
My wife is the youngest of four children, and the only girl; her brothers will be turning 60, 52, and 48 this year, while she is only 46. Both of her parents have passed, her father in 2006 shortly after the birth of our first daughter and her mother in 2008 just two months before the birth of our second daughter. Growing up, she was very close with her grandmother, aunts, uncles, and cousins, but many of them are either gone as well or are much older, and she is feeling very disconnected from her remaining family, as her brothers and cousins all are in different places, both physically and life-wise than she is.
Over the years, as her grandmother and then her parents passed, she has accumulated things from their homes, either things that were theirs or even hers, such as some toys that she played with at her grandmother's house when she would visit (which was often, because they only lived a couple of blocks apart). The problem is that these "things" have zero utility, and they are just taking up space in our house. When I said something to her last night about maybe getting rid of some of them, she started to cry and said that she was hoping to pass these "heirlooms" down to our girls so they would feel connected to her family.
I understand that she is losing her family due to age and distance, and also that she puts her family, their stories and memories, and their history on a high pedestal in her life. The issue is that my girls don't know these people, and they aren't going to want to take some old plastic doll toys or half a box of dominoes that their mother played with at her great-grandmother's house, a great-grandmother who was deceased before their parents ever met.
The other problem is how she views these items. We have an antique sewing machine in our dining room from her grandmother that is a lovely piece, we have a cedar chest in our living room from her mother that is both beautiful and functional, and we have a bunch of old toys stuffed in the cedar chest and a cardboard box in the basement that no one has touched in a decade. She's talked about getting rid of the sewing machine and moving the cedar chest to the basement, but whenever I mention ditching the toys, she breaks into tears. For some reason, she doesn't see that two of these things are actually heirlooms and the things that she considers to be such are just junk that no one is going to want, not ever her, because if she did, they wouldn't be shoved into the storage space in our basement to collect dust.
I don't know if I'm looking for anything here, other than a place to get this off my chest, since bringing it up to her again doesn't seem like the smartest play on my part. Thanks.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Apr 24, 2018 15:56:17 GMT -5
Had a really difficult conversation with my wife last night, moreso for her than for me. My wife is the youngest of four children, and the only girl; her brothers will be turning 60, 52, and 48 this year, while she is only 46. Both of her parents have passed, her father in 2006 shortly after the birth of our first daughter and her mother in 2008 just two months before the birth of our second daughter. Growing up, she was very close with her grandmother, aunts, uncles, and cousins, but many of them are either gone as well or are much older, and she is feeling very disconnected from her remaining family, as her brothers and cousins all are in different places, both physically and life-wise than she is. Over the years, as her grandmother and then her parents passed, she has accumulated things from their homes, either things that were theirs or even hers, such as some toys that she played with at her grandmother's house when she would visit (which was often, because they only lived a couple of blocks apart). The problem is that these "things" have zero utility, and they are just taking up space in our house. When I said something to her last night about maybe getting rid of some of them, she started to cry and said that she was hoping to pass these "heirlooms" down to our girls so they would feel connected to her family. I understand that she is losing her family due to age and distance, and also that she puts her family, their stories and memories, and their history on a high pedestal in her life. The issue is that my girls don't know these people, and they aren't going to want to take some old plastic doll toys or half a box of dominoes that their mother played with at her great-grandmother's house, a great-grandmother who was deceased before their parents ever met. The other problem is how she views these items. We have an antique sewing machine in our dining room from her grandmother that is a lovely piece, we have a cedar chest in our living room from her mother that is both beautiful and functional, and we have a bunch of old toys stuffed in the cedar chest and a cardboard box in the basement that no one has touched in a decade. She's talked about getting rid of the sewing machine and moving the cedar chest to the basement, but whenever I mention ditching the toys, she breaks into tears. For some reason, she doesn't see that two of these things are actually heirlooms and the things that she considers to be such are just junk that no one is going to want, not ever her, because if she did, they wouldn't be shoved into the storage space in our basement to collect dust. I don't know if I'm looking for anything here, other than a place to get this off my chest, since bringing it up to her again doesn't seem like the smartest play on my part. Thanks. I'm not sure I have an answer...and you're probably not really looking for one. There's probably not a lot you can do about it. As long as the junk isn't overtaking the house it's probably not a problem. And it will all go away eventually. My Dad saved a lot of crap. Not to hoarder levels, but just a lot of stuff that wasn't possibly useful, though he thought it would be. I attribute this to an extent with growing up in the depression. When my parents moved from the house I grew up in my brother and I took two pick-up loads of crap from the attic and the barn and the shop to the dump. In the ensuing ten years that my Dad lived he missed exactly one thing that we hauled off. My Mom didn't have nearly as much stuff to deal with because she lived in a tiny apartment when she passed away. But there were still things that had zero meaning to me or any of my siblings and pictures of people I don't know...so it's a sure bet none of my kids will know them. I guess my point (wishing a long life to you and your wife) is that as long as it's not becoming a hoarding situation it's not that awful. And it's the job of kids to throw away their parents crap.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2018 16:48:02 GMT -5
The Captain ... I know this feeling my brother and I had to do the same thing with our parents stuff when my Dad passed away two years ago and we got emotional figuring out what to do with it. About a year ago; I wanted my Dad's Boeing Pins collection and I've didn't expect a war with my brothers that wanted that. Since, I was my Dad's only child that worked at Boeing also; and my three older brothers that had a discussion that led the executor of the estate that he felt that I get the pins and so forth. I've was speechless and most importantly it's connected my relationship with my Dad. Your wife needs to take her time to go over the stuff that she needs to find "the right connections to" and most importantly it is best to have a family meeting to go over it and proceed the right thing to do. You need to check the will to see who gets what and that's important too. It is not an easy thing to do and I hope your wife (and other parties as well) will handle this with tender loving care and most importantly work this out and decides what best for it. It's took us 2 full years to dispose all of my Parent's stuff and it's wasn't an easy thing to do. It's takes the whole family to work this out and make sure that everyone is in the communication loop and on the same page and that's alone makes the disposal of this stuff runs smoothly. Good Luck and hope your wife finds peace in this process and that's very important for all parties and that's goes double to you and your wife. Good Luck! ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png)
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Post by Mormel on Apr 25, 2018 2:35:43 GMT -5
A human piece of $ murdered 10 people and injured 16 driving a van over a sidewalk in Toronto. That waste of DNA really tried to get the cops to shoot him, too, repeatedly pointing what looks like a gun at them when they got him... but they kept their cool and managed to get him alive. I’m glad the coward didn’t get the easy way out he was obviously looking for. That loathsome monster encompasses all the cowardice, aggression and weakness that a human can harbor. That’s as evil as evil can be. Saddened to read about this, RR. That's ten people lost forever and 16 who will live on with a traumatizing experience not to mention everyone who witnessed this. I don't understand how anyone is capable of something so reprehensible.
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Post by Cei-U! on Apr 25, 2018 20:11:40 GMT -5
I'm not suggesting I've been working on this book a little too long BUT I spent twenty minutes this morning laughing hysterically after realizing the original Wonder Woman artist's name is Harry Peter.
Cei-U! I summon the 7th grade flashback!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2018 23:04:13 GMT -5
This a big nope, nope, nope... ![](http://allthatsinteresting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/titanoboa-view.jpg) btw that's a full grown alligator it's swallowing whole... Titanoboa was the giant 50 foot snake of nightmares... ![](http://allthatsinteresting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/titanoboa-model.jpg) more in article linked... Again, nope, nope, nope! -M
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Post by BigPapaJoe on Apr 26, 2018 8:14:16 GMT -5
Go see Infinity War. That's an order.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Apr 26, 2018 8:15:55 GMT -5
No matter how big at least a snake either constricts you or poisons you. Unlike the fictional giant anaconda of 1997's Anaconda, they do not consume their prey alive. Which cannot be said for spiders. So let's keep giant spiders in fantasy fiction where they belong.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2018 11:21:47 GMT -5
No matter how big at least a snake either constricts you or poisons you. Unlike the fictional giant anaconda of 1997's Anaconda, they do not consume their prey alive. Which cannot be said for spiders. So let's keep giant spiders in fantasy fiction where they belong. Except that's exactly what the titanoboa did. If was a surprise predator based on all evidence, that would surprise it's prey, swallow it whole and crush it inside it's digestive tract from tightening its muscles (a type of constriction). As snakes got smaller, they adapted constricting prey in its coils or developing venom to weaken prey. Just because it's that way now, doesn't mean it wasn't different in the past. We have no flying reptiles now, but there were in the past for example. So yes, there were giant snakes that consumed their prey whole, it's not movie fantasy but evidence based extrapolation. -M
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