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Postby NAN » Mon Jan 22, 2018 2:57 pm

How the f did I just notice this thread. I have 21 pages to read through.

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Postby Lemon Berry Lobster » Mon Jan 22, 2018 3:13 pm

Because you're the worst, pretty simple.

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Postby willeyeam » Mon Jan 22, 2018 3:20 pm

take your time @nan

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Postby RonnieFranchise » Thu Jan 25, 2018 10:33 am

Grove City now has a brewery. I bet the powers that be at my alma mater flippin’ looooooove that.

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Postby willeyeam » Thu Jan 25, 2018 10:46 am

Grove City now has a brewery. I bet the powers that be at my alma mater flippin’ looooooove that.
Pine Township has a brewery*

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Postby shmenguin » Fri Jan 26, 2018 12:32 pm

TIL about Rosemary Kennedy, JFK's sister. Whose father forced a labotamy on her that reverted her to a 2 year old. Because she was too rebellious.

Good god. She lived like 60 more years with the brain of a child.

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Postby Tomas » Fri Jan 26, 2018 1:31 pm

TIL about Rosemary Kennedy, JFK's sister. Whose father forced a labotamy on her that reverted her to a 2 year old. Because she was too rebellious.

Good god. She lived like 60 more years with the brain of a child.
I think she was mentally ill (due to birth complications) even before the ill-advised procedure.

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Postby shafnutz05 » Fri Jan 26, 2018 2:19 pm

TIL about Rosemary Kennedy, JFK's sister. Whose father forced a labotamy on her that reverted her to a 2 year old. Because she was too rebellious.

Good god. She lived like 60 more years with the brain of a child.
And Joe Kennedy Sr. did it without consulting his wife. There are a lot of monsters in that family.

Related: TIL that there is one surviving Kennedy sibling (Jean, aged 89)

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Postby shmenguin » Fri Jan 26, 2018 2:30 pm

And Joe Kennedy Sr. did it without consulting his wife.
yeah. at first, i also found this interesting, then i read it took 20 years for the mom to visit her in the hospital.i have doubts she was particularly vested in this child. unless she was forbidden to visit or something. which is actually possible.

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Postby Freddy Rumsen » Fri Jan 26, 2018 3:03 pm

Yeah any look into the Kennedy family turns Camelot into the family from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

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Postby dodint » Fri Jan 26, 2018 3:09 pm

Chappaquiddick comes out in April.

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Postby tifosi77 » Fri Jan 26, 2018 3:13 pm

I don't remember actually ever reading this somewhere, or if I've just made the connection in my head on my own. But I always felt the Corleone family matched up neatly to the Kennedys. Vito = Joe, Santino = JFK, Michael = Bobby

Which I guess leaves Ted to be Fredo?

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Postby columbia » Fri Jan 26, 2018 3:25 pm

Joe Kennedy WAS a gangster, so...sure.

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Postby RonnieFranchise » Fri Jan 26, 2018 5:43 pm

When I lived in Mass. I knew at least one person who treated the Kennedys like the royal family. Still don’t get it.

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Postby shafnutz05 » Fri Jan 26, 2018 8:35 pm

Chappaquiddick comes out in April.
I am *very* interested in this. The scuttlebutt is that it is extremely hard on the Kennedys (and especially Ted), but I won't believe it until I see it.

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Postby tifosi77 » Fri Jan 26, 2018 9:09 pm

I've read a few reviews of the film, and it doesn't pull any punches on the Kennedys.....
They imply she was alive and conscious when the car flipped over, and that her body was recovered in a position that indicated she was struggling to free herself. Which casts Ted's decision to delay reporting the crime as something closer to murder than bad crisis management.

Apparently his first line of dialog after the accident is after walking back to the house. He tells someone "We have a big problem.....
I'm never going to be president." Not "Sht, I may have killed a lady." I'm not going to be president. Woof.

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Postby iamjs » Tue Jan 30, 2018 3:57 pm

TIL that Hal Smith, probably most famous for being Otis The Drunk from Andy Griffith, was the voice of Gyro Gearloose on Duck Tales.

He was also did extra voices on the Saturday Supercade cartoon, along with Alan Young, Soupy Sales, and Nancy Cartwright.

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Postby tifosi77 » Tue Jan 30, 2018 4:22 pm

...Nancy Cartwright...
One of my good friends (to this day) came to Fox Licensing from ten years as an animator on The Simpsons. One year, we saw her at the annual employee merch sale and he told me this story:

She would go and buy up a bunch of animation cells from The Simpsons (natch) and she'd use them as her Christmas cards every year. While that's cool in its own right, she didn't have to buy them; she could've just asked for a stack of them, or even had some of the animators draw up some extras for her. The reason she went out-of-pocket and bought the cells was because the artists that drew them were profit participants in their licensing, and would get a royalty on the sale.

Looking out for your own. :thumb:

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Postby Tomas » Tue Jan 30, 2018 5:08 pm

TIL I must be emitting some kind of magic artistic aura. Throughout my school years, I have had only a very limited number of classmates. About 30 in the elementary/middle school, about another 30 in high school (both very small schools in the town of 17K people), and a college program that started at 150, but by the time of graduation shrunk to about 60 (majority of the dropouts simply not being able to pass very difficult exams).

I sort of knew that one of my elementary school classmates became a classical clarinet player, and ended up playing for some symphony orchestra in Prague, but TIL that his private project "Clarinet Factory" just won the 2017 Czech Classical Music Award in the category "cross-over" and his CD "Meadows" ended up on many "10 best" Czech records of the year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u520w5JZOAk

That goes on top of my two college *roommates* (one graduating with MA in Physics, the other with MA in Math from the "Czech MIT"). The first guy is currently one of the most commercially successful movie directors in the country (started with movies for kids, ended up with over-sexed comedies for teenagers - think "American Pie"). The other is one of the very successful theater playwrights - his most recent play even made it on the program of the Czech National Theater (pretty much the biggest accomplishment a living author can get).

So that's 3 out of 120ish. Yes, it must be me... 8-)

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Postby dodint » Tue Jan 30, 2018 5:50 pm

TIL, there were 9 other Czech records last year.

;)

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Postby shafnutz05 » Tue Jan 30, 2018 8:05 pm

...Nancy Cartwright...
One of my good friends (to this day) came to Fox Licensing from ten years as an animator on The Simpsons. One year, we saw her at the annual employee merch sale and he told me this story:

She would go and buy up a bunch of animation cells from The Simpsons (natch) and she'd use them as her Christmas cards every year. While that's cool in its own right, she didn't have to buy them; she could've just asked for a stack of them, or even had some of the animators draw up some extras for her. The reason she went out-of-pocket and bought the cells was because the artists that drew them were profit participants in their licensing, and would get a royalty on the sale.

Looking out for your own. :thumb:
That's a nice story. I really like her work, but finding out she is a hardcore Scientologist that gives that church millions and millions of dollars kind of ruined her for me :(

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Postby tifosi77 » Tue Jan 30, 2018 8:16 pm

Annnnnd now you've ruined my story.

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Postby dodint » Tue Jan 30, 2018 9:47 pm

Annnnnnnd that's how I feel when you make a Star Wars connection to everything. I hope it burns.

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Postby dodint » Tue Jan 30, 2018 11:06 pm

TIL: When quoted in a deleted post the notification persists.

(Hi WK)

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Postby shafnutz05 » Wed Jan 31, 2018 6:06 am

TIL: When quoted in a deleted post the notification persists.

(Hi WK)
Kind of like the dreaded FB like of someone's photo from like six years ago, amirite?

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