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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jun 17, 2022 10:24:47 GMT -5
My wife and I forgot about something this morning... Our 33rd anniversary!
Looks like we're both sleeping on the couch tonight. Which is fine, as we'll be together.
Happy Anniversary. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2022 10:47:48 GMT -5
My wife and I forgot about something this morning... Our 33rd anniversary!
Looks like we're both sleeping on the couch tonight. Which is fine, as we'll be together.
Happy Anniversary! -M |
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Post by impulse on Jun 17, 2022 11:11:42 GMT -5
Happy Anniversary!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2022 11:12:21 GMT -5
My wife and I forgot about something this morning... Our 33rd anniversary!
Looks like we're both sleeping on the couch tonight. Which is fine, as we'll be together.
Happy Anniversary! |
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Post by Prince Hal on Jun 17, 2022 11:47:06 GMT -5
My wife and I forgot about something this morning... Our 33rd anniversary!
Looks like we're both sleeping on the couch tonight. Which is fine, as we'll be together.
I believe the traditional gift for a couple's 33rd anniversary is this:  Pretend you're surprised! |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jun 17, 2022 12:33:29 GMT -5
My wife and I forgot about something this morning... Our 33rd anniversary!
Looks like we're both sleeping on the couch tonight. Which is fine, as we'll be together.
I believe the traditional gift for a couple's 33rd anniversary is this: Pretend you're surprised!
Harh!!! I think buying yet another edition of a Robert Howard book might be a cause for divorce in this house!!!  (But darn... That's a great cover, isn't it? Those Gnome Books were the stuff of legend back when Savage Sword of Conan hadn't reached double-digits yet...) |
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Post by Prince Hal on Jun 17, 2022 12:42:28 GMT -5
I've never seen one in the wild...
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jun 17, 2022 13:30:50 GMT -5
I just checked on Abebooks, and a copy retaining its dust jacket sells for at least several hundred dollars (which in Canadian money translates as a kidney, my entire pension fund and my firstborn). Ah, well... Collectibles only gather dust anyway. The "real" first Conan book to me will in any case always be the French version with a Philippe Druillet cover!
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Post by impulse on Jun 17, 2022 13:33:17 GMT -5
Why does this exchange happen anywhere anytime someone expresses disappointment with some material being left out of a movie adaptation of another work?
Person A: "Man, I really wish this specific scene was included because it's a good character moment/good atmospheric detail/critical to the plot and what were they thinking, etc.
Person B: Hurr durr, film is a different medium so you can't have every scene verbatim
No one asked for every scene verbatim. They wondered why that one specific scene was omitted. Most people would likely agree a word for word recreation wouldn't translate most of the time.
I'm a huge fan of the Lord of the Rings movies. That is probably my favorite film series. They left a ton of material out, and I agree with basically every single decision.
Contrast with the Harry Potter movies where I think they cut out each page and pasted it to the wall, blindfolded a drunk chimpanzee and gave him half as many darts as pages. Whatever he hit made it into the movies.
I digress.
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Post by impulse on Jun 17, 2022 13:35:23 GMT -5
My wife and I forgot about something this morning... Our 33rd anniversary!
Looks like we're both sleeping on the couch tonight. Which is fine, as we'll be together.
I believe the traditional gift for a couple's 33rd anniversary is this: Pretend you're surprised! I can't help but notice how impractical the sword holster is. There's not even enough to call it a scabbard, so a sword ring? If he trips on a rock while walking he's likely to slice his little barbarian off, maybe a leg or two. |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jun 17, 2022 13:44:19 GMT -5
Why does this exchange happen anywhere anytime someone expresses disappointment with some material being left out of a movie adaptation of another work? Person A: "Man, I really wish this specific scene was included because it's a good character moment/good atmospheric detail/critical to the plot and what were they thinking, etc. Person B: Hurr durr, film is a different medium so you can't have every scene verbatim No one asked for every scene verbatim. They wondered why that one specific scene was omitted. Most people would likely agree a word for word recreation wouldn't translate most of the time. I'm a huge fan of the Lord of the Rings movies. That is probably my favorite film series. They left a ton of material out, and I agree with basically every single decision.
Same here. What's more, a lot of the "extra" dialogue is actually taken from elsewhere in the movie (like Galadriel's opening lines in the first film, which are taken from something Treebeard said later in the books).
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Post by tartanphantom on Jun 17, 2022 14:04:25 GMT -5
Hmmm... for some reason, somebody told me that the appropriate anniversary gift for the 33rd anniversary was 33 1/3 LP records...
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jun 17, 2022 14:06:16 GMT -5
Trying to turn this thread back to a music one, I see!!!  |
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Post by The Captain on Jun 17, 2022 21:12:46 GMT -5
My wife and I forgot about something this morning... Our 33rd anniversary!
Looks like we're both sleeping on the couch tonight. Which is fine, as we'll be together.
Congrats! |
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Post by codystarbuck on Jun 17, 2022 21:17:12 GMT -5
I believe the traditional gift for a couple's 33rd anniversary is this: Pretend you're surprised! I can't help but notice how impractical the sword holster is. There's not even enough to call it a scabbard, so a sword ring? If he trips on a rock while walking he's likely to slice his little barbarian off, maybe a leg or two. That's a "hanger," which would wrap around a scabbard (at least, that's what it looks like). On the wrong side, though, for someone who wields their sword righthanded. Sticking with the Roman look, he would probably have a belt across his chest, with scabbard in a hanger, on his left side. Of course, it might just be a Hyborean cup-holder. |
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