DagwoodIII

Why did it mean a lot to you? If you don’t mind sharing.

Details?

The movies “Her” and “Network” went from being cutting edge satires to quaint docudramas in real time.

An immigrant and a Harvard professor?

This is probably being gleefully followed by Trump personally.

They didn’t make me a manager until I had been on the job for over a decade.

One day I look at an old favorite, “The Dirty Dozen.”

Early on, the Major is ordered to meet with the General, who tells him he has to train twelve condemned prisoners for a suicide mission behind the German lines. The Major obeys the orders, but opines that whoever came up with the plan must be insane. The General tells him to shut up and go; then the General tells his staff that the idea is insane.

Then the Major has to meet the troops and convince each man that it’s in his best interests to join the mission.

Being given stupid orders and then having to lead a bunch of psychos and idiots to achieve the goal is the essence of being a middle manager.

otoh, the actual Trojans fought for years before Odysseus thought up that trick.

Sounds like you’d have given up Helen before second breakfast.

Do yourself a favor. Spend Christmas through New Year’s in the town you’re planning on moving to first.

You didn’t challenge anyone to improve themselves. You tried to impose your ideas on other people. There’s a difference.

Cheers.

it could not have happened and would not have happened, for essentially economic reasons.

The interesting alternative histories are ones that turn on a single fortuitous event.

You said it couldn’t happen, then said that there are ways it could have happened.

Also, if you don’t want to be part of the discussion, you are free to stay out. other people are participating and enjoying themselves.

You are contradicting yourself.

Hitler left orders not to be awakened so he slept in on D-Day. Rommel had left his post. Think that wouldn’t have changed things?

Stalin had dozens of warnings that Hitler planned to invade. What if he’d taken even one seriously?

What if Hitler had let the Army get the glory at Dunkirk and steamrolled the troops on the beach?

I can think of dozens of times the course of the War changed by the actions of one person.

https://youtu.be/F-Vz67p5kLQ

I take it as a personal affront that there are grown adults who are ignorant of their own cultural heritage.

It’s one of those things that sound reasonable until you actually spend a minute thinking about the details.

Minting money. Starting a post office. Borders. People who work out of state.

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The Queen’s Fool by Phillipa Gregory. The story of Bloody Mary, told through the eyes of one of her fools. The fool is a Jewish woman who has visions. Very well researched novel.

“Snake Pliskin? I thought he was dead.”

In the script, the author says that the fight between Inigo and Wesley is the second greatest fight in the history of the movies. The final fight is supposed to be the best ever.

From ‘DC Cab.’

The cabbies are looking for Bruce Lee. Fianlly one spots a drive-in movie showing a movie and the cabbie reports, “I see that Kung-fu mother fucker.”

In the TV version it’s “I see that Kung-fu Master Fighter.”

Remember the time Trump walked onto Air Force 1 with toilet paper stuck to his shoe?

The people who take orders directly from him despise him. The Army has plenty of crack units that could put on a great display; the folks in charge put on the weakest show they could.