Is That Your Minkey

[john_r_jones]

Here I propose we do something together like watch a movie or read a book and post our thoughts; a learning and growth opportunity. I recently had an opportunity to have a growth removed. I would propose watching the movie "As Good As It Gets" if it doesnt offend you if so hum while we indulge and we'll find something else for the next round. Or you can tell me I'm full of (sound of Star Trek door closing) and we'll just be content to do other things here.

Toodles,
Johnny Larceny

[wildwood_]

The characters in "As Good As It Gets" almost match the bunnies on this Board for the "most unlikely to become friend-family members"; yet, they "build" a remarkable "home" for each other...loud, annoyingly truthful at times, painful, tears, love & laughter! It's not a Western, or WWII Movie, but We DO have a DVD of it around here somewhere...guess I better go find it. Great idea JohnR!

[speakword2004]

Refresh my memory?

[john_r_jones]

Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt, Greg Kinnear,Cuba Gooding Jr. Set In Manhattan and they revolve around living in an apartment house with their dysfunctional lives.

Johnny Larceny

[lablady2]

Oh, goody! I've had enough dysfunction in my life to be able to play all four parts, but I really just want to be the little dog.

[coppertree]

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Hi John, SO is that your Minkey; No that is my dog that does not bite.!! http://www.factnet.org/discus/clipart/rofl.gif

Yes that was a grand movie "As Good As it Gets "; jack Nicholson character cured me of watching the cracks in the sidewalk. }}

[ulyankee]

Whew! I much prefer watching movies to having growths removed and sharing that experience with y'all. Bad enough we shared the MCM/MSI/EN one and had that one removed. Though I am developing a nasty bunion on my left foot that freaks my hubby out. Those can't be so easily removed. But isn't 42 too young to start wearing old lady orthopedic shoes? Will Birkenstocks help instead? I would love to have a medical reason to wear Birks to work.

I haven't seen this movie in a long time. But if you can love the characters in this film, you can love anyone. I think that's the point, right?

Totally useless, pointless post but I aspire to be a Senior Member like Red Stick Johnny Larcenous. When did you pass me? I was so totally not paying attention. I do plan to assume all the delegated authority FACTNet has to offer to those so titled. Though I don't think anyone would want to read the kind of books I read. That's why others are glad I'm here, b/c I actually go and read EN's must read list, and then I give book reports, hehehe.

[wisedove]

Ulyankee,
you are tooooo funny! It's nice seeing this side of you...We all know the Ul-big researcher! Thanks for popping in to show us more of your funny side!

I have something growing on the bottom of my left foot, too...are bunyons and corns the same thing? I don't know what the heck it is!

I don't think I've seen this movie yet, but it sounds quite interesting and appropriate. Tonight, I'm watching one that might be inappropriate-Vin Diesel is in it, I think it is called "Just find me guilty.." b/c I need a good laugh!

[flo1151]

Johnny,
your posts read like thick MOlasses

[john_r_jones]

Well,
here's my take on the moobie. Jack Nicholson's charecter Mr. Udall misteps his way to growth and freedom. He comes through the pearly gates backwards in the middle of a conversation, stops and says "Where the hell am I?" The other folks revolve around his awkward magnanimity, or ungracious graciousness and comes to enlightenment over a plate of eggs and finally is redeemed over Maryland Crab. "You make me wanna be a better person."-Mr Udall. The food undercurrent, eggs, bacon for Verdel, and the dindin epiphany are a communal element concluded with a quest for "Warm rolls" in the closing scene.

Johnny Larceny-I stole the name whadaya think?

[john_r_jones]

Here's a short subject (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uim-k47b88)

Johnny Larceny

[john_r_jones]

For GAH 51 or how to make him GAH 101 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBA7VfNAUP8&amp;mode=related&amp;search=) in a minute.

John

[wisedove]

I DO NOT recommend the movie that I mentioned in my above post #55. I couldn't take hearing the F word every other word...so, I didn't finish watching it...just had to clarify that...

[john_r_jones]

And now here's something (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55ItAlMa7QA&amp;mode=related&amp;search=) we think you'll realy enjoy.

Johnny Larceny

[lablady2]

I did enjoy that, JL. My cat is lying behind my computer, sticking her nose in the exhaust fan. Shhhhhh...she thinks we don't see her.

[miltietoast]

I prefer Somethings Gotta Give with Nicholson and Keaton

[john_r_jones]

The dvd of that movie has a lot of miles in my estrogen laced utopia. Our idea of a big time-the holidays for example is bundling up on the couch and watching movies-(no John Wayne). On Christmas that's pretty much the game plan, I get to watch the football game though.

Johnny Larceny

[speakword2004]

My 5 month old kitten is nagging like a teenager for the car keys, only he wants me to unlatch the catflap a he has found a girlfriend next door.. It is very late here and so know go. Poor boy. Next month the vet is going to do the same thing that they tried to do to me in the old church. As the squirell said to Matt's dog: Don't touch my nuts!

As I hang up my red beanie and fold away the white speedo, I bid you all sweet dreams. Good night.

[john_r_jones]

Here's home improvement (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjhPJIoI_94&amp;search=Painting%20Accident) in the sense of occupant renovation.

Johnny Larceny

[john_r_jones]

Well our child prodigy who hangs with old men, lions, and dead people just committed grand theft idyllic child star and murdered a five year old-Saturn. Apparently under the influence of some Marijuana and other intoxicants Osment has joined the mile high club.
Johnny Larceny

[j2theperson]

Yeah, John, I just saw that earlier today. The thing I found most shocking was not the drugs or the alcohol or the dui but the fact that Haley Joel Osment is eighteen years old. How time flies.

[john_r_jones]

Apparently in his case more than time flew.

Johnny Larceny

[john_r_jones]

oops! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_PLQGucFvw)

Johnny Larceny

[flo1151]

Have you seen Napoleon Dynamite? Everytime I see this low budget diddy it touches something new in me. Besides it being funny it has a lot of good moral values. I would vote for Pedro.

[john_r_jones]

I'll catch the flick, flo.

[j2theperson]

Napolean Dynamite is only fun if you watch it with a lot of friends whilst drinking either alcoholic beverages or sodas with a high caffeine-content.

[lablady2]

But, OH, J2.....it is so worth the dance.

[j2theperson]

Very true, LabLady, very true.

[flo1151]

J2,
I rest my case.
flo

[wisedove]

before I saw Napolean dynamite, I'd be shopping in Target and see all kinds of shirts that said, "vote for pedro," and "go make yourself a dang quesadilla" I was like "HUH? who is pedro?"

funny movie in a wierd kinda way. watched it with my 8 year old son...

[matt_hatter]

flo, now how weird is this...my son got me to watch Napolean Dynaminte, at first watch, I said, "HUH?" But I watched it again, and then again with the director's and actor's comments in the background. Something very sweet about the whole thing...anti Maranatha/EN, maybe?

[flo1151]

matt,
great minds think alike

flo

[john_r_jones]

From the Yikes! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBJwZ9EIYIo) department.

[flo1151]

A must see movie.(not like Napoleon Dynamite). BTW I have seen at least a half dozen times. I saw that HBO was replaying "Something God Made".

Lab if you haven't seen it you would love it. It is about the first artificial heart surgery. A great movie about a different time as well.

flo

[john_r_jones]

Cruise Ship-ped. Tom, who's "Q" is askew was sent packing by Sumner Redstone (Chairman of Viacom parent of Paramount Pictures, Cruise's home for fourteen years.) becasue of his off-screen Scientology off-beat antics are off-putting to viewers. Cruise's ship mates have returned fire with a volley of a mysterious cash-stuffed-mattress hedge fund deal with which to finance his future projects. Note to viewers the oddities of religiocentric hyperbolists are out weighing their perceived charisma.

Johnny Larceny

[coppertree]

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Hi John-, Yes, this should be interesting. I thought of late, Vanilla Sky, and one about reading future murders , were in this vein. As I may have to be set up tis winter with creative knee surgery I will get the movie channels ( get 40 of them, 4 channels of archaeology, too) and catch up ! Wonder how this new fund will direct more story lines...}

[john_r_jones]

I just watched a disturbingly brilliant documentary called "Trinity and Beyond" it aired on the Discovery HD channel and I sat through ninety minutes of human stupidity. Our's is the most violent genration to exist bar none, the U.S. has detonated some three hundred sixty-five nuclear devices in testing and development of nuclear arms. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were devastated by devices that generated roughly twenty-one kilotons of explosive force. The last nuclear device tested by us in the atmosphere yielded a force two and a half times greater than expected some sixty or so megatons. Enough to create a blast crater 1.5 miles wide and obliterate the island in the atoll. In fact the U.S. began to run out of islands to conduct experiments on because we'd blown so many of them up. If air raid sirens go off around you and it's a nuclear attack run out and enjoy the show there won't be anything left. I was heartened at least as the credits rolled that elements of both the United States and Russia had cooperated in the production of this film, the score for example, was performed by the Moscow symphony orchestra.

John

(Message edited by john r. jones on September 09, 2006)

[john_r_jones]

I also want to say that in our "stupidity" we have the capacity for brilliance; I realize Dr. Teller the father of thermonuclear fission isn't stupid. What I hope is that as in the past we've used this martial capability in a civil fashion, our munitions become benefits. I think the use of the understanding of creating this tremendous energy for propulsion and other purposes has a future in the right hands. The first Astronaut rode into spaceflight aboard a Redstone missle intended for nuclear weapons. The use of fissionable materials to understand the thermodynamics of our universe is a key to understanding how we advance beyond merely burning things up as we do now. The knowledge needed for creating the power needed to traverse the universe is probably within our grasp if we concentrate ourselves on such.

John

BTW, the Trinity bomb created heat of ten million degrees, pressures of one million pounds per square inch, and fused the desert into green glass-radioactive fifty years hence.

[miltietoast]

sounds like some of my cast