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[oldr_n_wsr]

Dear god is it over stuck in a house with 4 toddlers

Just go runnin for the shelter
Of a mothers little helper.

[datsunaholic]

The birds are particularly suicidal today. I hit a chickadee (I think) and not a half mile later nearly hit a starling. The next starling at least got out of the way.

[RayThom]

"The Birds" are particularly suicidal today...

[oldr_n_wsr]

I'm tired and a little cranky today.
Trying not to think.

[Joe Guy]

How come 'quite a few' means the opposite of 'very few'?

[Long Run]

How come 'quite a few' means the opposite of 'very few'?

Ask an expert:

[Crackpot]

I seem to spend a lot of my time lately on Amazon looking though DVDs I can pick up for cheap so I can show them to my son when he's ready. (I think he's about ready to see Flash Gordon For example...)

[MajGenl.Meade]

No child is ever ready for this! (Mind, LJ probably thinks this is a classic)

[Lord Jim]

I seem to spend a lot of my time lately on Amazon looking though DVDs I can pick up for cheap so I can show them to my son when he's ready. (I think he's about ready to see Flash Gordon For example...)

I watched it with my son, and he really enjoyed it.

I've also shown him some of the old 1930's Buster Crabbe serial Flash Gordon episodes that I used to watch when they ran on local TV on Saturday mornings when I was his age, and he likes them too.

Jimmy has been exposed to a lot of stuff that's in black-and-white, (Like the George Reeves Superman series, and the original Wolfman, Dracula and Frankenstein movies) so he's not automatically turned-off or bored by it like many kids are today...

He also likes the old Lassie and The Rifleman shows...

Edited to add Crackpot's quote...

My saying "I watched it with my son, and he really enjoyed it." immediately after Meade's post would have given the completely wrong impression...

[Bicycle Bill]

Disagree with you, Meade.  It's always kind of fun (and funny) to go back in time to see just what was considered 'obscene', 'indecent', or 'appealing to one's prurient interests' back during the 1970s, and then compare that to what we can find with nothing more than the click of a mouse or a TV remote today.

Remember "Midnight Cowboy"?  Oscar-winner for "Best Picture" of 1969, but when it was originally released it was rated 'X'.  Thirty-five years later, we had "Brokeback Mountain", released with a soft 'R'.

-"BB"-

[oldr_n_wsr]

I've also shown him some of the old 1930's Buster Crabbe serial Flash Gordon episodes that I used to watch when I when they ran on local TV on Saturday mornings when I was his age, and he likes them too.

Jimmy has been exposed to a lot of stuff that's in black-and-white, (Like the George Reeves Superman series, and the original Wolfman, Dracula and Frankenstein movies) so he's not automatically turned-off or bored by it like many kids are today...

He also likes the old Lassie and The Rifleman shows...

Thanks for the memories.

And don't forget "Branded".
I always liked Chuck Conners.

[MajGenl.Meade]

Disagree with you, Meade.  It's always kind of fun (and funny) to go back in time to see just what was considered 'obscene', 'indecent', or 'appealing to one's prurient interests' back during the 1970s, and then compare that to what we can find with nothing more than the click of a mouse or a TV remote today.

Remember "Midnight Cowboy"?  Oscar-winner for "Best Picture" of 1969, but when it was originally released it was rated 'X'.  Thirty-five years later, we had "Brokeback Mountain", released with a soft 'R'.

-"BB"-

And I wouldn't show either one to a child. But you do as you wish, of course.

[Big RR]

I guess it would depend on the age of the "child"; when I was around 10 or so my parents took me to a gay themed movie (there weren't a lot then, but I don't recall the film--it was well before Midnight Cowboy) to introduce the concept of gay men to me (I think they used the movie because they realized they really didn't know all that much about gay men (not that the movie necessarily knew better--it was one of the old "you automatically become gay after just one gay encounter, and the gay character has to die" cliché films), but it did serve its purpose. I would think Brokeback Mountain might serve the same purpose the same thing for an older child.

As for Flesh Gordon, I imagine few would consider it a classic, but it was an interesting satire on the entire Flash Gordon series.

[oldr_n_wsr]

Fritz the Cat.

[Big RR]

That was a fun film.

[Joe Guy]

If a tree falls in the woods, does a bear shit?

[MajGenl.Meade]

If a tree falls in the woods, does a bear shit?

Does it give a shit?

[Jarlaxle]

I may take the motor/regulator out if I find some time this weekend to see if I can fix the cable and maybe return the new part. My daughter will save $50.95 if I can. Didn't look like the cable was broken, just pulled from the anchor point.

If you can hear crunching and grinding noises inside the door when you hit the switch, the motor is good. Regulators by themselves are much cheaper.

I've yet to see a regulator I could fix, and I've replaced a bunch of them. I've seen three back door windows on Jeep Grand Cherokees fall into their doors while sitting still for days. Poor design.

Rock Auto ROCKS in many areas. Regulators is one.

The regulator may not be available without the motor.

[Econoline]

Twit, Twitter, Twittest.

[Lord Jim]

If a tree falls in the woods, does a bear shit?

If a man says something in the woods and there is no woman around to hear it, is he still wrong?