Guilty Pleasures

[Snotty]

I still read it .. works on me same as it did 50 yeasrs ago. Taught me life-long lessons that increase in relevance as I age

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Some pig!

 

[Snotty]

Seen so many times I almost know the lines by heart ..

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Rommel, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book!

 

[rapidtrans]

These! Sucker for scale models and promos.

 

[Zymurgy]

This is 2 fold good beer and travel. I am a beverage snob in general: coffee, scotch, beer, and wine.

 

[barnfind]

With a name like Zymurgy who'd have thought it

This is 2 fold good beer and travel. I am a beverage snob in general: coffee, scotch, beer, and wine.

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[78Brougham]

thought I'd outgrow it LONG ago. never did. 50 years (starting when I got tall enough without a lift from Dad) and still at it.

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I like them too. In fact we've got a Bally's El Toro pinball machine from the 60's and a Williams Shuffle Alley bowling machine from 76' in our game room. Its amazing to open them up and see how they work.

 

[amazinblue82]

 

[Fratzog]

Good beer close to 50 degrees Fahrenheit to be able to taste it. (Crappy beer should be as close to freezing as possible to hide the taste).

 

[Fratzog]

Olympic beach volleyball this past summer was fun to watch...

 

[amazinblue82]

With the metal board and glass marbles (stored inside the board) .. gotta have that 'tick, tick, tick" when I jump (we still have ours from early 1960's -- thats not it below tho -- and still play it to jeers from younger family members).

 

[amazinblue82]

 

[amazinblue82]

 

[amazinblue82]

All kinda stuff I should not find funny, but I do .. Nobody is safe from their lampooning and satire.

 

[rapidtrans]

Olympic beach volleyball this past summer was fun to watch...

Wasn't someone talking "form follows function"?

 

[1970cat]

With the metal board and colored marbles .. gotta have that 'tick, tick, tick" when I jump

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my brother and i played this constantly when we were kids. there were metal slides on the top corners and you stored the marbles in the side rails.

 

[tallhair]

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I love watching stuff on youtube .. so much stuff out there like what you posted.

Our first TV when I was a kid was something very similar to this

 

[tallhair]

Surprised no one has mentioned ... the various ' tubes ' LOL

 

[tallhair]

I see amazin posted a lot of movies ... I love watching classic movies too

would be on the TCM site more if it wasn't for the ridiculous way they have the site software set up to work backwards

watched this recently. Clark Gable and Myrna Loy - loved her movies. BYOOL and Thin Man movies included

 

[amazinblue82]

i put on the movies/media that

(1) I like but nobody else does (e.g. the "Phantom Menace") it seems, and
(2) everybody thinks are bad, and I think that too (e.g., "SHowgirls"), but are SO BAD I just can't look away.

My friends and family get on my case mercilessly (in fun of course) in both instances -- hence my "guilty pleasure"

 

[tallhair]

Classic cinema, along with Turner Classic Movies, is making a comeback thanks in part to services like Filmstruck, which features films from the Criterion Collection and harder to find entries from Stanley Kubrick, and the Soviet Union.

The first films to hit theaters are Singin’ in the Rain on Jan. 15 and 18, and An Affair to Remember on Feb. 12 and 15. Many of the screening are milestone anniversary events too (it’ll be Singin’ in the Rain’s 65th anniversary). You can see the full schedule at the Fathom Events website.

I hope to go see several of these this year

Note for car chase lovers they are doing Smokey and the Bandit too