The movie poster was boring. So I am posting the book cover, because it is classy. And if this show is about anything, it’s about class.
*Writes picture caption
*Hides under grounded cover to avoid lightning
I really liked this film, yet somehow neglected to add it to the post list.Β I am rectifying that problem by posting it as the last film of season 2 of GlibFlick. This film was also neglected by the distributor, as it was filmed in 1967 (I thought so when I watched it, that time period has a very certain ‘feel’ about it) yet it wasn’t distributed until late 1969/1970.Β As Diana Rigg pointed out, the film’s name was rather awkward for the Americas around then, since we had Dr King assassinated in 1968, and previously that whole kill the president in Dallas thing with Oswald and the CIA five years prior.
This is based on a novel by Jack London that was unfinished at his death – this novel was later finished by Robert L. Fish. Don’t expect the movie it to be as dark or complete as the book.Β It’s a dark comedy. A very entertaining one at that.
So!Β How a bout a little talk about our two superstars?
Oliver “Billy Badass” Reed:Β This man could drink and fight just about anybody under the table, and show up for work the next day.Β Finally his heart blew an O-ring drinking a group of sailors under the table right before the new millennium. I think the Good Lord sensed Oliver had no place in the infernal new millennium of milquetoast men to come.Β He died doing what he loved, drinking and fighting. I linked to his numerous trivia in IMDB. It’s pretty incredible. Too much to even summarize.
Diana Rigg:Β Wow.Β What can be said about Diana Rigg? Wife of James Bond, star of The Avengers, Shakespearean actress, absolutely gorgeous woman who captured hearts in the 60s and 70s.Β She worked right up until 2021, when she decided it was time for a dirt nap at last.
So watch! Or don’t!Β Everything is voluntary!Β Next week is the GlibFlick’s Second Anniversary Show! I am providing a film this year in addition to the catalog of films shown. It is Astonishing Tales of Terror:Β Rocktapussy!Β It has everything this group of misfits like, namely gorgeous men and women in skimpy outfits. Like I said earlier, this show is all about class.
*Ducks
Reminder:Β Β The Glib Cruise is coming in 2024!Β Β Click here for details. Am I really a green alien from outer space? Does OMWC exist, or is he a figment of Sugar Freeβs imagination?Β Are we all a figment of Sugar Freeβs imagination?Β Youβll have to go to know!
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*hits play*
“Who loves ya, baby”
I canβt see him without those gold rim sunglasses.
*also hits play*
*OMG Telly!*
I am rectifying that problem by posting it as the last film of season 2 of GlibFlick.
We have seasons?
Diving in…
Yes. As of next week, two years of films have been shown. I only missed one or two weeks.
That’s very impressive. Good job and thank you.
I enjoy it. Canβt imagine not doing it now.
Seconded
Imagine if you had as much dedication to pretending to be a Firster.
Hey. For a Tulpa, RJ Rawls.
I am the Tulpa Supreme, with extra cheese.
Even if I did, I still couldn’t pretend to be a Firster as well as you. Kudos, sir.
That’s quite an accomplishment R.J.
Someone just got laid…. and someone just got fucked
I am too far in. Hitting pause for a moment.
Euphemisms are back!
Telly Savalas!
Madeira. Adventurous Young Women.
Yeah.
A painting of Napolean? Interesting.
I like that office. Nice wood paneling.
I don’t recognize the guy with the forked beard. Also a nice office.
Tons of awesome set pieces. I often wonder if this stuff was just lying around England. It was just some old stuff then, so the studio bought it up for period pieces.
Notice how Savalasβ character is a typical liberal, even by todayβs standards. Check out his dialogue throughout the film.
His speech at roughly 49 minutesβ¦
Chilling.
Oliver Reedβs disguises are Clouseau grade silliness.
Oliver Reed was perfect\horrible for his part in Tommy.
Perfect: Such a scumbag.
Horrible: Can’t carry a tune in a handbag. (Jack Nickolson, too)
Haha! Reed called Nicholson a balding midget.
Apologize for FB link, but this may be the best breakdown of the Dune books, ever.
I did Golden Path. My brother had the first three books.
OMG all those knockoffs at the bottom… those exist?!
Yea! A son, or some random relative wrote them.
His son, in collaboration with Kevin J. Anderson, whose name should live in infamy.
(a friend had a Dune forum, and KJA would get on it and just take a metric fuck-ton of hatred from the community there, just lapping it up)
I vaguely remember enjoying his one collaboration with his father, a standalone.
They exist in the same timeline as any Star Wars sequels.
Trivia fact: L. Neil Smith, libertarian author, wrote a number of Star Wars books and added his views to it. Actual libertarian Star Wars.
I used to read “The Libertarian Enterprise”. I think some folks are still keeping it going.
Love interest between the Chairman and the lady?
Oh goody. Tubi must have figured out I’m in NH. Political ads.
Thank the Lord none are here.
The ACLU ads in regular television about losing βrightsβ already has me foaming at the mouth.
It was a Nikki Haley ad.
Same ad running again.
Put it on mute and play some music. Like this!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_uSGPmYmJc0
Oh fuck.
Same ad again. Third time? Fourth time?
I have many musics.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CysJLhfeaVc&feature=youtu.be
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Nikki Haley ads are starting to pop up here in Iowa quite regularly, too.
Have you seen any Doug Burgum ads? I guess he’s spending a $hitload there.
I received Burgum mailers once or twice a week.
Ah yes. I should have said Iowa and New Hampshire. He’s doing everything he can to get some name recognition. Well, everything short of criticizing the chosen orange one.
Yes, many Burgum ads, too. Plus lots of Tim Scott, and even some Ryan Binkley.
you have the right to demand that people call you “xe/xer” under penalty of prison.
This is known…..
I get commercials in Spanish. Β―\_(γ)_/Β―
I don’t get commercials. Try something such as UBlockOrigin. Tubi has a ton of shit you want to block.
I’m watching it on TV. The commercials are so few they don’t really bother me.
Oh, OK. An Android TV with the Tubi app?
A Sony. They call it Google TV now.
I have a Sony in the other room. It still says “Android”, but it’s few years old.
I liked the gal in the blue corset.
Some Oliver Reed trivia from the link:
β¦Narrowly missed out on playing superspy James Bond because of his love of alcohol and fighting. A new biography of the star uncovered a letter from Bond mastermind Albert R. Broccoli outlining how close he came to replacing Sean Connery in the role. Broccoli wrote, “With Reed we would have had a far greater problem to destroy his image and re-mold him as James Bond. We just didn’t have the time or money to do that.” According to Cliff Goodwin, author of the book “Evil Spirits”, “Oliver was probably within a sliver of being cast as Bond.” He adds, “But by 1968 his affairs were public and he was already drinking and fighting – as far away from the refined Bond image as you could get.”.
Isn’t that description of James Bond?
Opinion: Roger Moore was the worst James Bond. And the movies with “Jaws” were the nadir of the franchise.
Mom would call him “smarmy”
Imagine if it was Oliver Reed instead. What an improvement that would have been.
Indeed.
Also David Niven was once considered for the role. What a hoot that would have been.
He was cast in it in Woody Allen’s Casino Royale.
“Big Bang” – quite the euphemism.
THAT’S DIFFERENT!
Prostitution should be legal so I can make a real life spy movie whorehouse.
Hello Pahrump Nevada.
Da fuq? Gordon Ramsey is doing Triscuit commercials?
His pans he is peddling though…top notch. We got a set. Best pans I ever bought for everyday cooking.
*disclaimer
It may also be my skill in kitchen has increased.
Is that the one where the oil stays put?
My kitchen, or at least my stove, is on a slant and it drives me nuts.
It’s his Hexclad…which is billed as a stainless/nonstick/cast iron hybrid?
Hmmβ¦
Good Lord. A $170 pan. I would have to sell off half my orphans to buy the set.
We got 13 piece set for $400. Yes expensive. But use whatever utensils on the nonstick…clean up is literally a wipe with a cloth and maybe mild soap….
My wife (very good cook) seems to be moving away from non-stick (and leaving it too me, the hack) and going back to more traditional surfaces. She likes Allclad, Viking, brands like that. Cast Iron too, much to my disapproval.
Also, a Snap-on metric wrench set, the basic one, is just under $500. So, good tools cost money.
Very true. But there’s “good tools”, and then there’s “these tools are way better than I need”. For the vast majority of people -including most professionals- Snap-On falls into the later category.
Those calendars aren’t free you know.
I still have my stainless and cast iron for specific needs.
I have successfully switched to stainless pots but I still struggle with my stainless pan.
Have never seen or used cast iron.
“Very true. But thereβs βgood toolsβ, and then thereβs βthese tools are way better than I needβ. For the vast majority of people -including most professionals- Snap-On falls into the later category.”
Buy once, cry once. Good tools fall into the “I make my money off of these, and when the cheap ones break, I am not making money.” Whith Snap-on, you are paying for convienience, as that truck come by once a week and they take credit, great for auto mechs, not other industries. I used Proto or Klein when in the field, and while a little cheaper, I have to go find a supplier.
/shrug
I have no doubt that an Ad-Man at Snap-On or Mac was the first to speak those words.
How often does a combination wrench break? Or a screwdriver?
That’s nearly all what you’re paying for. And you’re also paying for that lifetime warranty on every tool you own when you’ll likely only break maybe one or two[2] of them in your lifetime.
Even if you must buy for quality and warranty, a chest full of Craftsman is a much more affordable investment. There isn’t much better[3] about S-O or Mac, they just spend money driving trucks around[4].
[1]how pathetic is your tool inventory that one wrench breaking means you aren’t making money?
[2]ratchets are one thing that comes to mind that I would spend dollars on
[3]other than being able to say you own their tools
[4]unless you live in the sticks, this shouldn’t be much of a selling point.
Sorry to hijack the thread (& apologies if drugs/ass) but Sugarman has passed away: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/rodriguez-searching-for-sugar-man-rocker-dead-obit-1234803231/
There are no post limits on Thursday . Post away. This is a sad article.
Good news, if Rolling Stone says it, it’s probably not true.
Meh…my plane is enroute to ATL…
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/NKS1078/history/20230810/2235Z/KFLL/KATL
A bit late and the board is still green for us leaving. We might lose a day but it will happen.
Are you moving to KY? I still donβt know what is going on.
Yes sir. Late September I start there.
I watched that Vienna scene more than once to see if those are Werndl rifles in the hands of the soldiers.
Dude.
Anything, and I mean anything with Oliver Reed is appreciated. This is a must watch for me.
This is a great film, on many levels. Enjoy!
I won’t get to watch it until tomorrow probably, but I love English movies from this period. The Great Train Robbery, Zulu, Michael Cain, Connery, The Prisoner, all of it. This is probably why I am such a Anglophile, my old man would watch all this stuff when it came on the tube.
So great choice this week!
Yeah, he’s great in everything I’ve ever seen. And then I saw Telly was in it… could not resist.
“What can you know of assassination?”
Heh. He figured it out too late.
Mein Gott. Diana Rigg is the perfect combination of cute and hot.
Miss Emma Peel
Teen aged Hobbit agrees. Would have walked across the Atlantic to share a kiss.
Several scenes in this movie will make you swoon then. Bath scene, lingerie sceneβ¦
Just got to the bath scene. uffda
There is some good eye candy in this movie.
Sooooβ¦. apparently Barak Obama wrote letters to his early 80s girlfriend in which he says he frequently fantasizes about having sex with men? And apparently many in the press knew this and are keeping it confidential?
Uhβ¦. there is too much there to unpack. Did we come to a consensus on this one?
The only consensus is that bacon is a food group. As far as Barry being a homo, I suppose the Big Mike conspiracy theory may be real and Barry’s uncle/brother/whatever is a funny guy that has been calling it out on Twitter for years.
There were always rumors he was bi. Wasn’t there something about him experimenting in college with the terrorist?
Idk. I think the rumors may have been started by Joan Rivers. But she probably got the idea from somewhere. Makes no difference to me but it would be funny.
And Donald Trump turned himself in knots to make Joan his Celebrity Apprentice winner. It all makes sense now…
The Assassination Bureau
Is this like a b-list “Kingsman”?
A-list Kingsman.
They can both be A list.
No moron, yogurt and cheese are subsets of dairy, just as fish is a subset of meat.
Fish and poultry are protein, not meat. Red meat is meat.
Yesterday, after I put the exhaust back on, I decided to give it a quick start, see how it sounds
I presume is sounds muffled.
I’ve been having an issue with one tire losing air while not having any apparent leak. I put 5-10 lbs in it every two weeks. I’ve had it checked out a couple times with no apparent leak registering and each time the stems have been changed. Idk what is going on but I am not ditching an expensive* tire.
*Don’t cheap out on tires. It is literally where the rubber meets the road.
I’d have it remounted.
Beat me to it
Itβs most likely an installation problem. A bead leak. Those are annoying.
Take it somewhere to have the tire demounted/remounted. Also replace the valve stem.
Your slow leak will go away.
installation problem…have the tire demounted/remounted
I get automotive work done where my parents work (Asbury dealerships). So it will be disappointing if this is the solution that has not been suggested (they are both in the service dept.).
I would bet good money that you have a ding in that rim edge, probably on the inside where it isn’t apparent. When the tire heats up, the composition expands and you wont find a leak, but over night, after sitting and cooling, it will shrink and allow air out.
Probably happened during mounting on the tire machine.
I just saw The Master from Doctor Who as a Zeppelin commander. Had not noticed that before.
Huh. I rewatched that part. Yep, that’s him.
The special effects are Dr Who level too.
Wonderful!
Gotta love that blue screen ending of jumping off the zeppelin.
Don’t make any false moves. I’m a dangerous man.
Thatβs my best bar pickup line.
That was good.
Yes it was. Next weekβs anniversary show is fun too. A Q-worthy heroine with many skimpy scenes. After that I have a This or That episode planned, a new idea where you pick which film you want and vote on it (working on vote functionality). The title is βChoose Your Rockabilly Hell.β
Next week’s movie will be good.
The title is βChoose Your Rockabilly Hell.β
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I’m off to bed. Thanks RJ!
G’night all!
Thanks for coming!
That’s
what
she
said . . . .
You mean Kamala?
Riven, if you are still out there, I am really enjoying Pikmin 4. Great balance of strategy and puzzles. Better than Pikmin 3.
I’ve only played Pikmin 1. Β―\_(γ)_/Β―
Nintendo is dead to me since they fucked up Zelda and because I got tired of paying multiple times for the same games that got crippled every time they released a new console.
Most excellent, RJ! That was a great movie.
Glad you liked it! See you next week for a lot less class, and a lot moreβ¦
Whatβs the word?
Crass?
Mama Cass.
+1
Very enjoyable.
Thanks, RJ π
#saypubic
Stay classy, Gillette.
Yeah, that one got me too. I mean, does it really serve a purpose?
What we need is more pubic transportation.
And it’s all girlboss stuff. Which is weird because I thought that was patriarchy.
And where are the boy pube-shaver commercials?
What? They weren’t showing this one?
LOL nope never seen that one.
I must be getting the wrong reality feed. π₯΄
Gillette should use this gut. https://youtube.com/shorts/N9Ko8Y_jo-o?feature=share
Why did I click that? The videos Iβm gonna get nowβ¦
We can share a cell.
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Reed:
My only regret,β he confessed, βis that I didnβt drink every pub dry and sleep with every woman on the planet.β
Badass.
Re: his death
Oliver leapt from this mortal coil in a Maltese pub (now named in his honor) after vanquishing eight bottles of German beer, three bottles of Captain Morganβs rum and sundry double Famous Grouse whiskies. After adding a final, farewell whisky to his $866 tab, he promptly died of a heart attack.
Mein Gott, I hope he died without paying that.
#metoo
Iβm going to guess he was good for it.
Ho-lee shit! I guess that’s how you spell alcoholic.
You hear some shocking consumption accounts from hardcore alcoholics.
Author Augusten Burrows said heβd buy and drink 2 fifths of scotch a night. Every night. Crazy.
Ric Flair was another world-class drunk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtTaJAxrqf4
At least 10 beers and 5 mixed drinks a day, every day, for about 20 years. It’s amazing what the average liver can handle.
My last gal pal was a hardcore alcoholic. I watched her drink a 1.5 liter bottle of vodka by herself once in 2 days. There was some sort of miracle and she entered a treatment program. She’s been doing way better since.
During a physical, an Army doctor told me that unless I was killing a 6-pack or more everyday, I was probably OK. At the time, I was close to the border of that.
I’ve been racking up more booze-free days over the past two months. My goal is no more than 2 drinks per day and right now it’s closer to 5. Weekend binges have been a problem.
That Flair survived is pretty amazing. I saw an interview with him where he discussed his drinking. He said no matter how bad he was boozing, he still did all his workouts and he acknowledged how massively screwed up he was.
GΓ©rard Depardieu was (is?) putting away a dozen bottles of wine a day. Sometimes 14.
Then there was Churchillβs consumptionβ¦
Some peoples’ bodies also just process alcohol better than others.
re: Churchill…I’ve seen conflicting reports on how watered down some of his daily drinks were. I mean, he drank a lot, it just may have been a tish overstated.
re: Flair…the amazing part is that he survived that drinking level along with all the ‘roids.
The human body is amazing.
Apropos of nothing, I realized the Citizens Bank logo looks like 4 cocks and I canβt not see it like that now.
Is this their lobby music?
https://youtu.be/DT2JnpAEw98
Thatβd be appropriate.
Behold: https://banknearme.today/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Citizens-Bank-logo.gif
I see a butthole.
Double goatse?
OK, now I see it too.
Itβs like the FedEx logo – once you see the arrow, you canβt not see it.
My book is up to 34,000 words. I slacked off for a few days. 46,000 words to go.
That’s some strong, consistent work Derpe.
US women’s soccer team generated 3.25 million in revenue, but will take home $7 million because that’s equality somehow.
It’s EQUITY ππ» YOU ππ» FUCKING ππ» MISOGYNIST ππ»
California is jealous of Ohio
Running up debt needs to be easier.
Imagine the utopia that could have been. SMDH.
Grrrrrrr.
Server errors. π
Good morning! Wake up and get moving y’all!
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U9DZkj8Rq6g
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You want me to wake up and face another Friday?
You monster.
Don’t think of it as Friday. Think of it as Weekend Eve.
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That’s even worse. A holiday I don’t get off work.
I’ve been called worse, and probably today by the guy who liked me enough to flip me off.
lol
Good morning, Sean, U, and Roat!
Sat through a demo from a potential new payroll/benefits/HR services provider. Thought we were just going through the motions because of other impending org changes. Bad news: my boss liked their system and especially their much lower cost, so now I think he wants to make the switch. π€¦ββοΈ
What was your opinion?
And does he ever have to work in the system?
My initial impression is positive, though there was at least one feature – a detail of compiling time and attendance data at the end of a pay period – that neither I nor my boss cared for. I’ll have to think of some more questions, and we need to bring in our trainer (who onboards new hires) and the manager who does the most outside hiring to get their input.
My boss is my backup for processing payroll if I can’t do it…but I can’t remember the last time I couldn’t do it.
Mornin’
I actually enjoy system implementations. They can be stressful, but are a welcome reprieve from the same old shit I do every day. I’m looking forward to the day we sunset the legacy system I am currently maintaining so I can move on to bigger and better things.
They’re finally replacing something I helped implement back in 2011.
Yikes.
Yeah, I thought it kinds soon too. I mean we’ve got systems from ’98 and ’03 that still need replacing.
Yeah, we were still running a system from the early 90s when my company went tits-up in 2014.
It was supposed to be replaced by one of several systems that came later but somehow no system ever goes away.
We actually did get off of the Unisys Mainframe and the first project I did at the state which fed data to it, which replace an earlier Data entry system that ran on a SCO box. I haven’t seen a SCO box since.
Well, I am tired of python 2 (EOL since 2018).
Current company is pretty fanatic about getting us off anything that is out of support.
I’m really torn. Part of me knows that I’m most motivated when I have a problem-solving project to work on. Another part of me says, “Nooooo! I don’t want to make this switch at this point in my working life!” The transition into our current vendor/system was…bumpy. (Still an improvement over our former HR Harpy.)
I’m inclined to recommend that, if we make the switch, we do so at the point where the current vendor’s last pay is the last one in December so that employees will only have ONE W-2 for the year. That would have our start starting to use the new timekeeping system around mid-December.
*…our EMPLOYEES starting… ::slurps more coffee::
“Only our employees who are starting in mid-december will use the new system. Got it.”
Mornin’ GT and UCS
Good morning, Shirley! π
I’m apparently commenting too fast, so it won’t let me say “Mornin’.”
Mornin’, reprobates!
Evenin’
Good morning, ‘patzie! πβ
Morning, ‘Patzer, GT, UCS, and SN and Sean and any lurkers,
Do lurkers get up this early just to lurk?
I’ve been up for awhile and had the first cuppa, all in well in the woods.
That’s the thing about Lurkers, you don’t know when they’re about.
Mornin’!
all is well in the woods.
Don’t forget to clean up after the bears!
Of course. :).
Good morning, b_n_m! Thanks for “outing” yourself! π
Good morning, 4(20)!
I get up a lot earlier than I really have to just so I can hang out with all of you. (How far down the “crazy” axis does that put me?)
Two cats.
Speaking of, how are the purrballs doing?
π±βπ€πΊ
They’re doing great, thanks! Little Black Cat has become quite the chatterbox and frequently becomes very needy of attention. Big Dumb-But-Sweet Cat had been throwing up frequently (thank goodness he finally took to doing so on the tile floor in the basement instead of the carpet!) but a switch to a “sensitive stomach” variety of food seems to have helped. ::knocks wood vigorously::
Oww! My head hurts now.
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Besides the .gov? I assume they get overtime…
A lurker limerick is needed. I will work on this.
A lurker was once a contrarian
A miserable octogenarian
He came to this site
And seeing the light
Said “Now I’m a cool glibertarian!”
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https://nypost.com/2023/08/10/supermarket-closes-after-brazilian-wandering-spider-spotted/
“A supermarket in Austria shuttered this week after a venomous Brazilian wandering spider was spotted wandering in the bananas, TMZ reported, citing fears that a bite from the deadly creature can cause long-lasting, painful erections.”
Shut it down? They should be selling tickets.
/Gets in line…