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If you're being literal, it was mostly the top of the bulkheads not being sealed off the doomed Titanic, or at least hastened it's trip to the bottom of the Atlantic. When the bearded freak does the CGI demo for old Rose, he shows how the seawater rose above the top of the watertight bulkheads flowing into undamaged areas. If the top of the bulkheads were sealed off (as they were in Titanic's sister ships), the Titanic would have stayed afloat long enough for rescue if not kept her afloat for salvage or repair.
If you're referring to Mr. Andrews comments directly, he was referring to his earlier comment to Rose when she questioned the paucity of lifeboats. He told her that he built her a strong ship and not to worry.
After Titanic was destined to head to the bottom, he apologized for not builder a stronger ship.
We should all just slow down here on the Barcelona, Finland, and Dusseldorf attacks and not jump to any con.... aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand it was Muslims....
At some point, Richard finds the slot B that his peg A fits into (hope this isn't deleted, trying to be generic..).
Later, Richard sees baby Paddy comes out of slot B. They haven't had any instruction, but humans do have instincts. If they had not figured out where children come from by then, it was demonstrated quite vividly. Now the question of where people come from is answered. I can't see how they wouldn't have put two and two together.
[quote]..by far the cheesiest and corniest movie i've ever saw.[/quote]
Yes, the curds and cobs are strong with this one.
I also think it's cheesy and corny, but that's because the book was. Even as a freshman in HS back in the 70s when I was required to read it, I realized how cheesy it was. Unfortunately, the film does justice to the book.
Socs? Like Socialites? Greasers? Like from the 50s? Good God.
Ponyboy? Sodapop? Who wrote this crap? How did it make it into the movie?
The basic storyboard is actually not all that bad but the whole screenplay should have been a [b]rewrite[/b] of the book, not a virtual transcription of it. The acting for the most part was excellent but it suffered from a grammar school play script.
If he is, he'd have to be a Q retroactively since The Q weren't invented at the time the episode aired.
I'd have to see more info on most of that but what is fact is that Japan started fighting a defensive war after the loss at Midway Island, only about 6 months after the devastating and crippling attack at Pearl. Momentum shifted quite quickly.
The Japanese had no chance to win that war. The only mistake Japan made was starting it. In the few months after the U.S. was caught off guard at Pearl, Japan made great advances. It took a few months for the U.S. to recover but the industrial might of the U.S. was underestimated. We started building more destroyers, air craft carriers, and airplanes of all types at a faster rate than we were losing them. When Japan lost a carrier, destroyer, or battleship, there was nothing coming to replace it. They couldn't make planes fast enough to replace those that they were losing, and seasoned fliers were even harder to replace than the planes they flew.
Whether the U.S. would have had the stomach to lose another half million G.Is to prosecute the war till the end without nukes is a matter of debate, but it's generally agreed that without a working nuclear weapon to end the war, the U.S. would indeed have put boots on the ground in Japan. Losses estimated at 500K U.S. troops minimum and upwards of 2 million Japanese troops and civilians.
[quote]"Germany winning World War II would have been best for the entire globe."[/quote]
I would never change the outcome of that war because any potential benefit for mankind overall would have come at the cost (real and moral) of the complete extermination of an innocent and benign "race" of people. I would rather the world die as a whole than to have the world benefit by murder. But that's just me..
Now, having said that, I would love to have an "alternate universe" program on my computer that would allow me change some variables that would predict with *100 percent* accuracy the changes my variables wrought.
One thing that most historians agree upon is that if Germany didn't have a meth head running the country, they could have gone much farther and eventually sued for peace, keeping most of Europe (having avoided attacking Russia). With just the U.S. and England, the war would have gone on for another 4 years at minimum with England finally settling for peace. Eventually, Germany would have attacked Russia (Hitler hated communism more than Jews) and at that point the war would have been atomic, so that's one outcome.
Too many scenarios to go over but that's the general idea.
Interesting to read what MBC would think the benefit to the entire globe would be if Germany won.
Yvonne DeCarlo, Jimmy Stewart, Don Knotts... I can think of hundreds.
I would rather get the clap than ever visit that site again. I have "Hide Unwanted Results of Google Search 1.6" installed in my browser, and I have any and all returns from IMDB blocked from my Google results.
Yep. Can't argue with any of that.. unfortunately
I can't stand Howard Stern one little bit, but I'd pay real money to hear Howard interview him. BTW, *great* post: no errors!!
[quote]If I was Kimmel, I wouldn't invite her as a guest anymore. [/quote]
It's not a "her". Bruce or whatever he calls himself now still has and forever will possess an XY chromosome set. He can lop off any part of his body he wants (or maybe he didn't) and dress anyway he wants, but he's still not a female by any scientific definition nor can he ever change his gender. To call himself female is offensive to women.
If he doesn't want to call himself a man anymore, the best he can do is call himself a neuter.
What's IMDB?
[quote]I'm not even sure the point of the episode is that he actually went back in time.[/quote]
I believe it was. He not only was given a second chance in time, but more importantly, took advantage of it (at least from the small post time travel snippet we see).
I think the box was just a tool for the story. Everyone thought he was nuts and reliving the past in his mind, and the radio provided the physical focal point for the story. Before he actually "time traveled" back to the young Vinnie, he was reliving the past anyway by hearing those old radio programs [i]in the present[/i].
Yes, Ed was a grouch but even Vinny admitted she wasn't a lot better than Ed in that regard. This was a typical short story theme where time just got away from him, but more importantly, it resonates directly with anybody watching this. While most of us (fortunately) haven't gone Ed Lindsay's way, how many among us haven't wished we did something different and would if another chance were somehow presented to us?
I think that's why this episode is so popular. Most folks would love a second chance to do something that we thought we might have had time not gotten away from us.
The radio plays OK, but I haven't established a baseline for how well the radio is supposed to work. That is, because it's an early superhet design, it's not as advanced as those even 5 years later. The radio can squawk a bit and howl, but I suspect that's not all that abnormal for this admittedly crude early design.
I've had this particular radio about 20 years, and when I brought it home, I removed the three separate chassis that make up the radio guts looking for frayed or brittle wiring or previous repairs badly or unsafely done before using it. To my surprise, I found the radio in perfect condition under each chassis and 4 out of the original 9 vacuum tubes still original, and NO other work of any kind ever done.
Warning, real boring technical stuff ahead:
In tube radios, alignment is done using a signal generator and insulated tools to adjust the IF transformers. These transformers are generally contained in cans mounted on top of the chassis. Small holes allow the adjustment tool to be inserted for alignment purposes. I can align a radio by ear in a few minutes, but RCA decided to place the adjustable IF transformers *beneath* the tuner where they could not be adjusted unless the tuner was first removed. With the tuner removed to access the adjustments, the radio won't play and can't be adjusted by ear. Back in the twenties, a radio repairman would not have owned what would be a very expensive generator and scope so RCA did not want a repairman to tweak this model by ear. If the radio ever needed alignment, the repairman was to ship the tuner/IF section back to an RCA regional distributor where their service department would have the necessary equipment and trained technicians to perform a proper alignment.
The reason I mentioned all of this is because I believe my radio does need an alignment. I do have the equipment but it's a time consuming job. Maybe this winter I'll pull it apart and give it a proper alignment.
One of the episodes I despise. Good story, great acting, but I hate when innocent people get the short end of the stick. What's worse is that they became aware that they were being murdered and had too much time to think about their impending demise.
[quote] If I were him and I had that radio, I’d hardly ever leave my room. [/quote]
I actually own that model radio. It's a 1928-1929 RCA Radiola model 62. A very early self contained superheterodyne with a single AC plug. Most radios of that time were the more finicky "tuned RF" types (three tuning dials) and required three batteries of different voltages, and sometimes were made up of a separate tuner, amplifier, speaker, etc. (that's where the term "set" originated)
In 1928, when the average working man earned $15 to $25 a week, this radio sold for $395 and that price did not include any of the 9 vacuum tubes this radio uses. These were purchased separately from the selling dealer and installed when the radio was prepped before delivery.
Anyway, the prop used in that episode was clearly emptied of it's innards. That radio weighs about 150 lbs and there's no way Ed Lindsay was going to pick it up and run up the junk man's stairs without it being gutted. Also, that model featured beautiful inlay maple doors which were removed from the prop so they were not seen in the episode. There are also two cane doors on the back for servicing.