Re: Top 25 Funniest Movies -- Old Fart Edition
 

I was with you until you started shitting on Better Off Dead. Love that movie. It's hard to say how much is related to nostaligia, but I could watch that movie many times. A Japanese guy who learned English by watching Howard Cosell exclusively? That's gold, Jerry!

(Clerks fucking sucks.)

TM

General announcement and warning
 

For any of you who chat with me on IM on occasion, you may be surprised to hear from me sometime soon. It will surprise you that I am such a slow typist, that I have suddenly become enamored of lots of extraneous punctuation and that I make such atrocious spelling errors.

Don't be alarmed! Most likely, it is my 6-year-old son who has taken to sitting at my computer if I'm not there and starting up chats.

He ran downstairs today when I got home and said, "Mama! Good news! I'm finally talking to someone on your computer!" I said, "Oh? Who is that?" (It was sebby.)

His older brother said, "But you don't even know him!", which protest was met with "I DON'T CARE!!!"

I then explained (by IM) to Sebby what had happened (i.e., that it was my 6-y-o), and my 6-y-o was furious!

So, if you're ever in doubt, and are wondering if it's truly me, I'll have to utter the password, which will be... um... PINTO.

No one will ever crack that code!


ETA: But please, keep it clean.

Re: Top 25 Funniest Movies -- Old Fart Edition
 

Stop following me.

TM

Re: General announcement and warning
 

I'd be more worried about what Sebby shared with your 6yo.

Re: Top 25 Funniest Movies -- Old Fart Edition
 

I think it's brilliant! What an idea! And I was there! He took the idea! He saw it ripe on the tree, he plucked it, and he put it in his pocket. It's, it's, dare I say... genius? Ah, no, no! But maybe, ooh! ah! maybe it is! Maybe I'm in the presence of greatness, maybe I just don't know it. But I saw it...

Re: Top 25 Funniest Movies -- Old Fart Edition
 

I cannot watch this scene without laughing out loud (yeah, I said it) when (i) the one guy drops his gun after Nordberg finally breaks in and (ii) when he leans against the door with the wet paint.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTF7ABnxX-g

Poor OJ. From airport slave to Naked Gun victim to excused murderer to convict. He's just so misunderstood.

TM

Re: Top 25 Funniest Movies -- Old Fart Edition
 

I loved Being There, and had forgotten about it, thanks.

But it isn't a comedy, and if you put it on, becasue it has funny parts, then Diner, the best movie overall of all time, is also a comedy, so it will be Best comedy.

I saw an obscure but pretty funny 60s movie call The Party, with Peter Sellers. pretty funny, but maybe a little dated. But if you see it on cable worth a watch (of course Seller's indian accent it a bit incorrect for today).

Re: Top 25 Funniest Movies -- Old Fart Edition
 

Don't normally like Chase but he was great in that one. The hell with movies....there should be a list of 25 funniest SCENES from a movie. This one would be my number one hands down (or off). (Fast forward to about 2:45 as the early part isn't funny). The rib scene is good too. The rest of the list would be heavy with Woody Allen and Monty Python scenes.

Re: General announcement and warning
 

Many of my posts, incl. all of the sucky ones, are made by my assistant, when I am out on my balcony relaxing or out of the office at the gym or the massuesse.

Re: Top 25 Funniest Movies -- Old Fart Edition
 

Did he fall yet?

TM

Re: Top 25 Funniest Movies -- Old Fart Edition
 

Your breasts, they're like melons. No, no, they're like pillows! Can I fluff your pillows?

Re: Top 25 Funniest Movies -- Old Fart Edition
 

clerks can't be on Blu-Ray can it? it was shot on toilet paper.

Re: Top 25 Funniest Movies -- Old Fart Edition
 

I have Clerks and the rest of the View Askew titles on DVD, and have watched them more than once. Again, though, maybe it is a juvenile thing.

But I agree that Elf is not worthy of more than one watching (if it even merits one).

Re: Top 25 Funniest Movies -- Old Fart Edition
 

Spies Like Us is Chevy and Akroyd at their best.

This is why I could not make a list.

Re: Top 25 Funniest Movies -- Old Fart Edition
 

I think about as much planning went into that bust as the one where he tried to get back his stuff.

Re: Top 25 Funniest Movies -- Old Fart Edition
 

We have found common ground. I love I'm Gonna Get You Sucka (not top 25, but still high enough to almost put on my list).

"So, it's just you 57 cops against Kung Fu Joe? Master of Kung-Fu! Karate! Jiu- Jitsu! And all kinds of other shit you ain't never heard of!"
______
Willie: I heard you screamin' from all the way over there, and...
Leonard: I wasn't screamin', all right?
Willie: But I heard you...
Leonard: I wasn't screamin'! I was whistling!
Willie: You was whistling "Willie, help get this bitch off of me"?
Leonard: Yeah!
_______
John Slade: What these fancy medals for?
Jack Spade: Well, this one is, uh, shorthand. And, uh, this one over here is M.V.P. And, uh, this is surfing.
_______
John Slade: Sam, hold it man, you told me you served in Nam!
One Eyed Sam: I did, Saigon.
Jack Spade: Well, how'd you lose your eye?
One Eyed Sam: Fu**in' 'round the office. We were shooting paper clips at each other, and one of the damn fools hit me in the eye!

(I can't find the follow-up quote for when Slade and One Eyed Sam are comparing medals. But I know One Eyed Sam says something like, "This medal here is for typing..." And Spade cuts him off and says, "I got that one too! Right here! Right here!"

And finally, the scene when they're in the big shoot-out near the end and Spade gets a splinter and screams like his intestines are falling out when he removes it, gets me every time.

TM

Re: Top 25 Funniest Movies -- Old Fart Edition
 

Now that's funny.

TM

Re: General announcement and warning
 

I take it you are now having your 6 y-y-o's brain washed out with soap?

Re: Top 25 Funniest Movies -- Old Fart Edition
 

WTTW, "hot" theoretical physicists are probably looking for men who aren't stymied by the occasional contrafactual.

Re: Top 25 Funniest Movies -- Old Fart Edition
 

I recently saw a an add for all of the Bond films on blu-ray, so I don't underestimate hollywood's interest in making a buck off of the suckers.

Re: Top 25 Funniest Movies -- Old Fart Edition
 

Good album, though.

Re: Top 25 Funniest Movies -- Old Fart Edition
 

I don't have Blu-Ray or Netflix. Redbox FTW!

http://www.redbox.com/home.aspx

I confess
 

to a lifelong adoration of Cannonball Run, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas* and the Muppet Movie.

And I don't really like Dom Delouise, who was in all three. "They're doing the work of the Lord. In a Ferrari, they can just do it faster."

*My parents once bought a piece of property from a former employee of said whorehouse.

Re: I confess
 

Best Little Whorehouse can make my list. I don't remember the other two, though I'm certain I've seen them.

Re: Top 25 Funniest Movies -- Old Fart Edition
 

Oh, so now I'm supposed to actually look at your list before I comment about it?

Re: Top 25 Funniest Movies -- Old Fart Edition
 

If you only friended me I could set you up with Redbox codes. I never pay for movies anymore.

Re: Top 25 Funniest Movies -- Old Fart Edition
 

Yes, those and....

the pic of Jack's son with the gold chains on the mantle.

and....Jack's mother showing up throughout the flick to kick butt and one scene the mother's stunt man was purposely obvious (bushy wig and mustache)...I think the Wayans brothers invited that schtick.

and.....Jan Brady as the wife of Clarence Williams III in the "Revolutionary Headquarters". The movie has everything. It's number one on my list (followed by The Jerk) probably for the fake body part scene alone.

Re: Top 25 Funniest Movies -- Old Fart Edition
 

I watched Elf for the 5th or 6th time Sunday. Still good, albeit not top 25 good.......top 25 Christmas comedies of the last decade.

Re: Top 25 Funniest Movies -- Old Fart Edition
 

The Party is hilarious. And being there is a comedy because it is a satire, in the most classic sense of the word. However, because we live with philistines, who would not even understand, let alone appreciate, most of the humor in Being There, I left it off the list.

And Diner is also a wonderful movie, again, one of the best ever made, but it is not a comedy. I would label it a period piece. Which reminds me, I haven't had fries with gravy for years.

Re: Top 25 Funniest Movies -- Old Fart Edition
 

I like the idea, but not too many choices for me - http://www.redbox.com/Locations/Kios...state=&vendor=

Re: Congratulations Slave and Catrin!!!
 

Remember that study that reportedly showed that teens who took an abstinence pledge were sexually active at the same rate as teens generally? Well, it turns out it didn't.

Re: Congratulations Slave and Catrin!!!
 

He straw manned it. He states what the articles initially reported:

"Religious Teens Differ Little in Sexual Behavior Whether or Not They Take a Pledge."

In other words, pledges are bogus.

In his next article he should debunk the statistical finding that evangelicals are just as randy in the bedroom as everyone else.

Re: Congratulations Slave and Catrin!!!
 

fuck. my check just cleared for a two year membership to the singles club at my local Baptist church.

Can I sue someone?

Re: Congratulations Slave and Catrin!!!
 

Maybe you're reading better newspapers than I, but when this hit the wires two weeks ago, the ones I was reading definitely missed the point that the control group was equally religious and the study was looking at two groups, both of which were less sexually active than the average teen. I got the false impression that the study showed that pledging teens had sex at the same rate as all non-pledging teens. That's a much more salacious story, and that's the impression I got from the headlines I saw.

Re: Top 25 Funniest Movies -- Old Fart Edition
 

Word!

(as the kids say these days)

20/4 (psssst, this is the European date version -- convert back to Yankee date protocol for the secret code. ;) ;) :) tea time indeed!)

Re: Congratulations Slave and Catrin!!!
 

I got the same false impression from the news story I read. It was misleading not to mention that the comparison was between religious teens who pledge and don't pledge, thus leading to the assumption that it was between pledging teens (who are more likely to be religious) and all teens.

ETA: So apparently I have lousy reading comprehension.

Re: Congratulations Slave and Catrin!!!
 

It is hard to take your guy's refutation too seriously when he says the pledgers have safer sex than non-pledgers (because they have fewer partners). Given that the reporting on the survey said that plegder are less
likely to use contraception, that seems like a highly doubtful claim. Which was the point of the articles I saw.

Here is part of the Post article, which both points out the fact that the study controlled for religious views and found differences in use of protection:

link

Re: Congratulations Slave and Catrin!!!
 

While the impression may have been incorrect, if you want to test the effectiveness of the pledge, you probably should control for other factors, right?

Re: Congratulations Slave and Catrin!!!
 

Ty has repeatedly said the WaPo sucks, and he's not entirely wrong. But the article I read and linked to, which, while having a misleading lede, explains by the 4th para the central feature of the study:

I do think he was comparing the wrong fruits, though. Cherries really are the ones to look at.

ETA: stp. Apparently Adder is among the posters who read newspapers carefully.

Re: Congratulations Slave and Catrin!!!
 

While I wouldn't claim that generally, I did read carefully enough to notice the Rosenbaum is a she.

Out of curiousity (and boredom), I googled for a few other articles:

Something called christianitytoday.com spent several paragraphs on how this study controlled for pre-existing sexual views, highlighting it as an improvement over comparing pledgers against teens in general.

This one from cbsnews.com says that the study compared pledgers against non-pledgers who matched on 100 criteria, including pre-existing views.

cnn.com's second paragraph says that any delay in sex for pledgers likely comes from religious views rather than the pledge itself and fifth 'graph says they only compared kids with similar views.

This opinion piece from the Dallas Morning News Blog deserves criticism and does not present the results clearly.

This is obviously far from scientific, but I would guess that the news articles do okay on this, but the opinion pieces are a mess.

ETA: This one, a short blurb from what looks like a Texas tv station, takes the cake, claiming that teen who take the pledge are more likely to have sex.

EATA: This article from foxnews.com , which doesn't really explain what it means by comparing similar teens, apparently has the data underlying the Atticus's guy's "pledgers have fewer partners" claim: "Teens who took the pledge began having sex at the same age as non-pledgers, Rosenbaum said, although they had 0.1 fewer sex partners during the past year then their non-pledger counterparts."