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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jan 1, 2024 13:15:09 GMT -5
Happy Public Domain Day to those who celebrate!
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Post by Prince Hal on Jan 1, 2024 13:42:06 GMT -5
I’d rather see Alfred vs Jarvis in a cookery competition, presided over by Gordon Ramsey! C'mon, I thought this was a wrestling thread! |
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Post by impulse on Jan 1, 2024 15:22:14 GMT -5
Happy New Year! What's this about a wrestling musical?
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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 1, 2024 16:25:30 GMT -5
I’d rather see Alfred vs Jarvis in a cookery competition, presided over by Gordon Ramsey! C'mon, I thought this was a wrestling thread! You keep baiting the trap… |
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Post by codystarbuck on Jan 1, 2024 16:55:02 GMT -5
Happy New Year! What's this about a wrestling musical? Would you believe a Broadway play?  It was originally written in 1978, by Claire Luckham, as Trafford Tanzi, The Venus Flytrap, and presented by the Everyman Theater, in Liverpool. It then moved to Manchester and then a successful run in London. On April 20, 1983, a Broadway version, starring Debbie Harry, of Blondie, alternating the role with Caitlyn Clarke, of Dragonslayer fame, debuted and closed, after 2 performances (Playbill has it wrong, as there was a matinee performance and an evening performance, before it closed). Andy Kauffman played the referee, since he had been doing his "intergender" wrestling gimmick, leading to his infamous match with Jerry "The King" Lawler, in the Memphis Mid-South Coliseum. Harry was supposed to alternate her role (as did the male lead), with Clarke, because of the physicality of the wrestling scenes. The wrestling action was choreographed by Brian Maxine, a noted British wrestler of the 1970s. Aside from trying to break into acting (she appeared in Videodrome, the same year), Harry was also a big wrestling fan, as can be seen here....  ...as she wears her Doctor X t-shirt. Doctor X was Dick Beyer, aka the Sensational Intelligent Destroyer, in Los Angeles, who used a different name and mask while wrestling for the Minneapolis-based AWA, in the late 60s/early 70s). He sold Doctor X t-shirts, at arenas and via mail order, in wrestling magazines. There are several pictures of Harry at WWWF shows, in Madison Square Garden, alongside wrestlers, like Andre the Giant. |
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Post by codystarbuck on Jan 1, 2024 17:01:42 GMT -5
ps a news report, on opening (and closing) night....
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Jan 1, 2024 20:21:17 GMT -5
Started off the year playing D&D with some friends. Ran a few folks through White Plume Mountain. It was the first funhouse dungeon for some of them. They rescued one of the three artifacts and want to play through the rest of it, even though today was intended as a one-shot, so we'll see about scheduling a second session at some point soon.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jan 1, 2024 21:37:08 GMT -5
Started off the year playing D&D with some friends. Ran a few folks through White Plume Mountain. It was the first funhouse dungeon for some of them. They rescued one of the three artifacts and want to play through the rest of it, even though today was intended as a one-shot, so we'll see about scheduling a second session at some point soon. -M Great classic dungeon crawl. But those weapons were game-breaking. |
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Post by shaxper on Jan 1, 2024 21:51:36 GMT -5
Now for something completely different:  Love so much about this, but that "ALF RED" logo is bugging me immensely.  |
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Post by Cei-U! on Jan 2, 2024 4:42:51 GMT -5
I've been thinking about getting life insurance so my family won't have to resort to stuffing my corpse into a burlap bag and tossing it off a cliff when I die, so I decided to check out Colonial Penn, whose ads for their $9.95/month plan are constantly playing on the channels I watch. Man, talk about bait-and-switch! Yes, they have a $9.95/month plan but that only buys you a payout of $896. If you want enough to actually cover your final expenses, you're gonna pay a f**kload per month in premiums. Guess it's gonna be the burlap bag after all. Grrr!
Cei-U! Screw you, Corporate America!
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Post by driver1980 on Jan 2, 2024 5:30:34 GMT -5
I've been thinking about getting life insurance so my family won't have to resort to stuffing my corpse into a burlap bag and tossing it off a cliff when I die, so I decided to check out Colonial Penn, whose ads for their $9.95/month plan are constantly playing on the channels I watch. Man, talk about bait-and-switch! Yes, they have a $9.95/month plan but that only buys you a payout of $896. If you want enough to actually cover your final expenses, you're gonna pay a f**kload per month in premiums. Guess it's gonna be the burlap bag after all. Grrr!
Cei-U! Screw you, Corporate America!
False advertising is frustrating, but I’m not sure regulatory bodies aren’t toothless dragons; are ads like that ever held to account? |
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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 2, 2024 5:56:48 GMT -5
I've been thinking about getting life insurance so my family won't have to resort to stuffing my corpse into a burlap bag and tossing it off a cliff when I die, so I decided to check out Colonial Penn, whose ads for their $9.95/month plan are constantly playing on the channels I watch. Man, talk about bait-and-switch! Yes, they have a $9.95/month plan but that only buys you a payout of $896. If you want enough to actually cover your final expenses, you're gonna pay a f**kload per month in premiums. Guess it's gonna be the burlap bag after all. Grrr!
Cei-U! Screw you, Corporate America!
Someone should report that. They keep saying something like 25k in the commercial. |
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Jan 2, 2024 10:21:38 GMT -5
Using phrases such as "up to" 25K and for as low as $9.95 a month covers their ass legally from claims of false advertising. They do have plans for as low as $9.95, and they do have plans that pay out as much as $25K, they're just not the same plan, but the commercial never technically says they are. It just says they have those things.
Misleading, yep, but technically not false advertising. They're not legally responsible for people's assumptions. It sucks, but that's the way the laws are "written" but as we all know, "the Law is an ass" and its buyer beware.
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Post by shaxper on Jan 2, 2024 10:33:37 GMT -5
Guess it's gonna be the burlap bag after all. Grrr! Wouldn't the thriftier option be taping a bunch of comics around you? Solves the problem of having to unload your collection. Heck, maybe just staple some long boxes together... I honestly and truly don't think I care what happens to my body once I'm gone. I'm obsessed about being remembered and having mattered and all that, but having a physical resting place where I continue to "exist" seems to run contrary to this idea. I want my loved ones to carry me with them, not pay a fortune to leave me somewhere in the ground. Seems like a big waste of resources. So cremate my ass and throw a big party to remember me. I don't think that would cost too much, would it? |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jan 2, 2024 14:46:39 GMT -5
Guess it's gonna be the burlap bag after all. Grrr! Wouldn't the thriftier option be taping a bunch of comics around you? Solves the problem of having to unload your collection. Heck, maybe just staple some long boxes together... I honestly and truly don't think I care what happens to my body once I'm gone. I'm obsessed about being remembered and having mattered and all that, but having a physical resting place where I continue to "exist" seems to run contrary to this idea. I want my loved ones to carry me with them, not pay a fortune to leave me somewhere in the ground. Seems like a big waste of resources. So cremate my ass and throw a big party to remember me. I don't think that would cost too much, would it? Direct cremation (just cremating the body and putting it in some sort of vessel) is going to average around 2 grand. It can definitely be less, if you really shop around, but most people in that situation just don't do it. I really hate the funeral industry...not quite as much as the insurance industry, but almost. |
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