Lefty

The Beatles, as I recall, started off as The Quarrymen. They had some other names in between, but were The Silver Beatles before just shortening the name to The Beatles. Can you name the original drummer? Also they had another guitar player, who died of a brain tumor or some such before they became famous too.

I have read that out of survival, the game wardens, soldiers, etc, shoot poachers on site. Because if the poachers see them first they'll do the same. I used to be a very dedicated hunter here for elk and deer, but quit going after 1995. I carry a lot of disdain for those rich bastards who go to Africa and spend tens of thousands of dollars to shoot an elephant, giraffe, etc, and then post the pics on Facebook, "like look at me, look at what my disposable income allowed me to go kill. I'm a real big man" etc. Hunting on game preserves and ranches hold the same degree of difficulty as shooting old farmer John's whiteface Hereford out of his field here in the states. They say, the money they spend kill the animals all goes to wildlife preservation efforts. Unless they have some sort of blood lust, why not just make a tax deducible donation? Or volunteer to defend wildlife against poachers? The poachers may shoot back though, and mister fancy pants millionaire couldn't/wouldn't want to be placed in mortal danger. They just want to kill defenseless animals for the thrill. Yes, an African elephant on a game preserve is defenseless against a man carrying something like a 458 Win Mag, with a professional hunter/guide backing him up with a 505 Jeffery double rifle, just in case the nimrod cannot make a clean kill on his own. Yeah, I did say I used to hunt deer and elk, same as my dad, uncles, aunts, cousins, etc. But we didn't pay someone to hold our hand and wipe our ass while we hunted in some game park, and we ate everything possible from the animals we killed, including, liver, heart, tongue, and some of my relatives even ate the brains from a deer. My dad and his brothers grew up in the great depression and the deer they killed were often the difference between eating and going hungry. They used to all carry the same caliber of rifle, usually a 30/30, so they could split the cost of a box of ammo. 4 of them go in together and buy one box of 20 cartridges, 5 each. As my dad and uncle told me, anyone who ever missed, thus wasting a round, was verbally chastised quite profusely by the rest of their group. Big difference, as far as I am concerned.

I do not have any current drama series that are favorites. Both of the ones I like most, Justified and Fargo, are in hiatus. I like Orange is the New Black, but it is only on netflix, not on TV. I am more into comedy. For simple entertainment watch reruns of Raising Hope, Parks and Recreation, Freaks and Geeks, Arrested Development, etc etc.

Sure. I just think those other 3 have a more negative effect on more people. I'd add the scum known as Ted Cruz and Paul Ryan to the list as well.

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No. He was killed on Mactan Island which is part of current day Cebu province, that is true, but that is not where he and his men first landed in the archipelago.

When Magellan and crew first set foot on the ground in the Philippines it was in which current day province?

Who is the most wretched vile disgusting American citizen? A. Mitch McConnell B. Antonin Scalia C. John Boehner

Because the Florida Gators football team were the first ones to have it as their drink

Montana?

This was my favorite role that Donald ever played. I think he and Billy Bob Thornton are the two best contemporary actors. This past week, Billy Bob was a guest star on The Big Bang Theory and he was really funny in a deadpan sort of way. Hard to imagine this was the same guy who played Karl Childers and Lorne Malvo.

Our governor is a Medical Doctor.

I doubt it. They launched an unprovoked attack on a US ship, the USS Liberty, and we didn't do jack shit to them for that. While the ship was under attack the nearest carrier launched planes to defend the ship and LBJ and McNamara called them off. Do not engage the Israeli planes they were told.

I would need to research it some more, but I certainly do not discount it out of hand.

Just posted it as a topic for possible discussion. You are free to disregard it and believe it is all balderdash

Which post do you refer to?

I've seen it many times, with a meme such as a variation of the "Priceless" Mastercard commercial. Of course the logo removed as well. Try doing a Bing.com search with nothing filtered, and you would probably get a different mix. Google is stricter on sex and nudity in searches.

On this topic, if you had a dollar for every copy of that one pic of Areeya with her nut sack peeking out from between her thighs while she is sitting on the couch, that has a meme added and circulating around the internet, you'd be rich.

I just rewatched for the umpteenth time my favorite WW2 movie, and to most folks here I would guess it is pretty obscure. The Great Raid This movie is based on true events and follows the truth pretty well, especially when it comes to the raid itself. The raid took place on Luzon, Philippines in late January 1945. As the US was invading the islands to take the country back from those heathen Jap bastards, the Jap war ministry had issued an order, that no prisoners be left alive when push came to shove, and US intelligence had intercepted the message. 30 miles behind Jap lines, about 4-5 miles from Cabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija province, was a POW camp with about 500 survivors of the Bataan Death March. There was great concern that as the front of the rapidly advancing US Army got close to the camp that the Japs would execute the prisoners. The govt felt these men were owed a great debt because of our basically abandoning them at the start of the war, and while from a strategic standpoint it wasn't a huge concern, from a moral standpoint it definitely was. So 115 men from the 6th Rangers Battalion with the aid of about 250 Filipino Guerrilla fighters, sneaked totally undetected 30 miles behind Jap lines, assaulted the camp, freed 512 POWs, killed between 500-1000 heathen Jap sons of bitches in the process and only 2 Rangers KIA with several wounded along with about 21 Filipinos wounded. The movie portrayed the actual raid with pretty good accuracy. There was a side story about a nurse in Manila who had been smuggling quinine into the camp for a couple of years, which also actually happened although some of that part of the movie was embellished a little. The end of the movie after the rescue, included authentic footage of the real POWs after the rescue and to me that was pretty cool. To think of the conditions those poor men had to endure for almost 3 years at the hands of their brutal and ruthless captors, when I see how happy the are afterwards, the footage literally chokes me up every time I see it. The premise of the movie, what the Rangers and their guerrilla allies actually accomplished seems unbelievable and more like something a Hollywood script writer would dream up. To think that what we see in the movie really did happen, makes it pretty damned cool to me. The movie stars Benjamin Bratt as Henry Mucci, CO of the 6th Rangers, and James Franco as Capt Robert Prince who planned and led the actual raid, The director John Dahl consulted with the real Robert Prince who was still alive at the time it was filmed, early 2000s, and I think that added to the accuracy. Bratt and Franco both bear some resemblance to the real Mucci and Prince, which adds to the quality of the movie for me. I am used to seeing Franco playing stoners in comedies like the TV show Freaks and Geeks, and the movie Pineapple Express, so it was good to see him handle pure drama very well. He also narrates the movie. My father was in the US Army on Luzon, same area and time, which is another aspect that makes me love this movie. I wish he'd been able to see this movie before he passed away, so we could have enjoyed it together and talked about it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Raid http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0326905/ The raid was and still remains the most successful rescue mission in US military history. One of my best Pinay friends lives in Cabanatuan City, and I was talking to her about it. She is smart as a whip in many regards, such as being able to solve a Rubic's Cube in 60 seconds, etc, but she had never heard of the raid or knew there had been a POW camp so nearby. There is a memorial on the site of the camp even today. I have come to realize that most young Filipinos know very little about their country's history as it pertains to WW2. I think perhaps they do not push it in schools. Seems to me like the country as a whole these days wants to kowtow to the Japs because of tourism and Jap business investments. The atrocities committed 70-75 yrs ago are for the most part disregarded now. As we discussed in another thread, the Celestial Empire aka China damned sure has not forgotten about The Rape of Nanking. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanking_Massacre https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIEn0x3r-N0

3. Paul Newman, Cool Hand Luke

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Didn't you get the memo? He is the mastermind behind all the evil in this world.

It is a very religious human trait. Most anti-theists are more open to the likelihood of life on other planets.

I guess 8 per side

I vote for Bruges too. BTW, anyone who has not seen the movie In Bruges is missing a great movie.