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I think we'll hang in there. It won't be the same, that's for sure. I think we've had a "fat, dumb and happy" posture here for too long and some people / organizations have trouble dealing with that (automakers, airlines, unions, local government, etc.). It is quite apparent that emerging superpowers are all in the Orient.

Really? One night? That good?

Maybe I'm missing it. To me, it's just a story...albeit, a dour one. I actually like "Subcity," "Telling Stories" and "Talking About a Revolution" better.

Went into the office last night for 3 hours. Snatched someone's Tracy Chapman CD. Listened to her husky voice for a couple of hours and thought how her biceps would look better on me. Weird? I guess.

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Yep. That's what they look like. They are, per the book descriptions, quite aloof and wary of strangers. It's a good-looking dog, though. My dog, when she was alive, used to have a weird way of trying to "talk" to me.

There are still some quality control glitches but, for the most part, you are right. I can't believe how many mid 80s RWD Cutlasses, Regals, GPs are still on the road in addition to even more mid 80s FWD 98s, PAs and DeVilles...all of which look to be in good shape and running well (no smoke, no weird engine noises, etc. etc.). I can be a pain in the ass, but I constantly run to C/R to see how our cars (GM) are faring in the "red dot" department. I want to see a lot of red dots, though not necessarily the type to be found on an Indian's forehead.

I don't know about jumped. Pushed or accidentally fell over -- probably more realistic. I think alcohol was involved. I also don't know what the state of her marriage to Robert Wagner was like. I am sure Wagner was under scrutiny for a while. So many movie stars' lives are so tragic and unhappy and that's something I can't figure out. I guess it's better to be an incognito working stiff living in suburbia, though I wouldn't mind a sliver of their moolah. Incidentally, Ocn, the thread started with Marilyn Monroe and has not derailed off of "women under the spotlight" save a nude pic which was evidently eliminated. I think that the detailed dialogue has been interesting and that pictures can or can't be offensive -- it depends on how "in your face" the sexual tone is. In other countries, female breasts are almost always bared (and have been for years) in a lot of commercials and ads. A topless woman on a beach is neither cited nor arrested. People overseas are so much more comfortable with this kind of stuff that it makes Americans look prudish and pissy about sexuality and nudity.

The first batch is cool The second batch doesn't work for me at all To each their own The best time of my life had to be in ATL in between undergrad and grad, so in my mid 20s then. Had a good job (which I stupidly gave up to go to arch. school), bought a small all-brick (a treat for a Californian) house in a nice area called Dunwoody for a joke of a price with a down payment that my parents had set aside for this purpose, the weather was nice, the living was easy, I knew a lot of fun and intelligent people and, if I ever needed to dip my feet in salt water, I could always make a run down to the Florida Panhandle for the weekend. Moving back out West has diminished how much disposable income I relatively had. Interesting idea for a thread.

Does anyone know much about Belgian Shepherds? I've seen them in the "family tree" right by German Shepherds but I've never seen one nor know anyone who owns one?

That would be Tina Louise. Kind of a tart. That's all she was ever known for, I think. Wait...are you talking about the movie or the TV series? Bite my tongue.

Some of them get really good plastic surgery. Have you seen Lindsay Wagner? She now does this bed commercial. She looks as good now as she did in the late 70s, though her look isn't particularly appealing to me. Speaking of really hot in another era - that would have been Jill St. John who played Tiffany Case in the 007 film "Diamonds Are Forever" - one of the best Bond films with the on-site location in Las Vegas. What a line: "so shove in a couple of gallons of 'hi-test' " She is now with Robert Wagner after Natalie Wood ceased to exist (what's that all about?). Jill St. John flirted with the border on being kind of "racy," especially in that film, but she looked really good. Another weird coincidence (since I tend to be an encyclopedia on Bond films): Natalie Wood's sister Lana Wood had a bit part in "Diamonds Are Forever" - she played Plenty O'Toole (never mind if you have to ask) who got thrown out of a high rise Las Vegas hotel window and luckily ended up in the pool many floors below. Later on, Lana Wood's character is found dead in a pool (water, again), probably because of her alliances to either the good guys or the bad guys...that part escaped me. Too weird.

Easy for me: (1) Australian Shepherd (which is the only kind I have ever owned) (2) Border Collie (which is what I would have had if I didn't have the Australian Shepherd) I am sure I can warm up to other breeds. It's just that those are my favorites. Which ones are high on your list?

This just dawned on me this AM. How effin' weird that this thread makes a loop from Marilyn Monroe to Natalie Wood -- both of their deaths were suspicious in nature and never fully explained.

It's not that. It's that I have easily driven between my place in a Seattle suburb when I lived there and my parents' house in Portland 200 times, requiring that you go across Tacoma on I-5 en route. It is really, really sleepy...and the constant gray sky hanging over it doesn't help. Yes, Tacoma has some nice neighborhoods and, with all that water around, a lot of nice views. It's just that it's hard to think of Dyan Cannon (who is very 70s LA in my mind) as being from Tacoma -- she put that place in her rear view mirror real fast

No way, Razor. I noticed the links and that's Dyan Cannon. Maybe they were of the same era (more or less), but in no way are they similar to me. Dyan Cannon plays "racy" half the time - Natalie Wood almost never did. Incidentally, Dyan Cannon is from Tacoma WA. Other than Weyehaeuser pulp mills, she's probably that town's only other claim to fame. (Tacoma is heavily ragged on by Seattle).

Natalie Wood possessed classic beauty...along the lines that Rachel Ward or Selma Hayek (sp) would today. Incidentally, Natalie Wood was Russian, her given name probably being Natalia. And, if we were to open a tasteless joke thread, you've all heard the one: "What kind of wood doesn't float"? Back to the thread.

Damn it, Reg, I always knew you were immature!

Sattmeister, spending too much time thinking about "ball funk" will quickly drop your age to about....hmmm.....15.

I just did mine again. I think I might have answered differently on 2 of them. I came up as 29 ....again! Meaning Camino and Moltar act more maturely than I do...and I don't want to buy into that. What do you say Stace, 29 forever?

Heard this one tonight: "real-a-tehr" for Realtor

You went there for me. That is one of the theories that is posited.

A big "no thanks" for me. I thought it was ok for people who needed it to survive. It has now become a sport. I couldn't imagine felling a large animal...though if a moose was headed my way, I wouldn't think twice about pulling the trigger in self defense (I got real close to one on a Canadian Highway near Banff in 2003). There are some people I work with who do it. They don't seem to do it in the Sierra Nevada or in California. They tend to go to Montana or other more remote states. Not for me. Falling asleep on a warm beach on the Mediterranean: now you're talking.

She tanked, didn't she? As did Kathleen Turner. Kathleen Turner is nowhere to be seen. But you can look at her and see that she was headed down that road. Towards the end, she sported some slack in the chin....like they say "you've got more chins than a Chinese phone book." It is impossible to look at someone like Anna Nicole Smith and even see sexiness. Given what she stands for (the epitome of avarice and deception), she is nothing more than a (now) washed up c*n*. I ask what is wrong with the old man's kids that they didn't punch him out and set him straight.