On Mon, 7 Dec 2020 14:46:24 -0500, jmcquown wrote:

> Nor did I ever have to constantly launder bloody bedding. You must have
> been buying your wife some really *inferior* tampons. Heh.

Sheldon was too frugal to buy tampons. He made his wife use old
phone books and Sears catalogs.

-sw

On Monday, December 7, 2020 at 4:59:28 PM UTC-5, wrote:
> On Monday, December 7, 2020 at 2:45:29 PM UTC-6, GM wrote:
> > Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> >
> > > On 12/7/2020 3:29 PM, jmcquown wrote:
> > >
> > > > Yeah, that's gotta be tough. Kind of hard to beat those Navy stories.
> > > > Speaking of which, today is December 7th. A date that will live in
> > > > infamy. Sheldon wasn't even a gleam in his father's eye in in 1941.
> > > >
> > > Smithsonian Channel right now is running "lost tapes" about the attack.
> > > It is history but certainly not what I consider entertaining.
> > I like a good war documentary now and then, but war *movies* are one genre I've never cottoned to...
> I don't like war, car chases, murders, explosions, superheroes, anything
> of that sort. The movie I most often recommend, and one that few seem
> to have seen is:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYknOe7OluE

Would it have killed you to post the title?

A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1999. I own a copy on DVD.

Here's another good movie with Stanley Tucci:

The Whole Shebang

<https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0219408>

Cindy Hamilton

On Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 5:02:09 AM UTC-6, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> On Monday, December 7, 2020 at 4:59:28 PM UTC-5, wrote:
> > On Monday, December 7, 2020 at 2:45:29 PM UTC-6, GM wrote:
> > > Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> > >
> > > > On 12/7/2020 3:29 PM, jmcquown wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Yeah, that's gotta be tough. Kind of hard to beat those Navy stories.
> > > > > Speaking of which, today is December 7th. A date that will live in
> > > > > infamy. Sheldon wasn't even a gleam in his father's eye in in 1941.
> > > > >
> > > > Smithsonian Channel right now is running "lost tapes" about the attack.
> > > > It is history but certainly not what I consider entertaining.
> > > I like a good war documentary now and then, but war *movies* are one genre I've never cottoned to...
> > I don't like war, car chases, murders, explosions, superheroes, anything
> > of that sort. The movie I most often recommend, and one that few seem
> > to have seen is:
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYknOe7OluE
> Would it have killed you to post the title?

I'm really not at the top of my game these past few days.
>
> A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1999. I own a copy on DVD.
>
> Cindy Hamilton

--Bryan

On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 03:02:03 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton wrote:

> On Monday, December 7, 2020 at 4:59:28 PM UTC-5, wrote:
>
>> The movie I most often recommend, and one that few seem
>> to have seen is:
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYknOe7OluE
>
> Would it have killed you to post the title?
>
> A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1999. I own a copy on DVD.

[sticking finger down throat and gagging]

> Here's another good movie with Stanley Tucci:
>
> The Whole Shebang

Respectively, 6.4 and 5.7 ratings on IMDB.

ObFood: 'Big Night' - a 7.3 on IMDB. Now on Pluto TV.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115678

-sw

On Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 8:28:30 AM UTC-6, Sqwertz wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 03:02:03 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>
> > On Monday, December 7, 2020 at 4:59:28 PM UTC-5, wrote:
> >
> >> The movie I most often recommend, and one that few seem
> >> to have seen is:
> >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYknOe7OluE
> >
> > Would it have killed you to post the title?
> >
> > A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1999. I own a copy on DVD.
> [sticking finger down throat and gagging]
>
Well, no one would expect a real man's man like you to like it.
You'd really hate *Winter's Present*.

***************
Ian woke, and saw that the clock said 5:18. It took him a moment to digest that the time was PM, and that he'd slept only a scant few hours. He got out of bed fully dressed, but shoeless, and when he entered the living room, there was only Ann. His eyes flitted in several directions, and Ann, anticipating the question, said, "Winter's still sleeping." Ann detected the slight nervousness in his demeanor, and said, "She's OK with us."
Ian was startled, "Us? There's an us?"
"That we get along, that we like each other. It's weird what you two are doing, but it's only weird between you two. I think it's peculiar, and funny, but there is an us. We both have Winter, and there's only one of her."
"She truly is a singular person." Ian said it completely dryly, and it took Ann a second for it to register before she reacted.
"That's so exactly what she'd have said."
Ian agreed, and Ann told him, "I was looking at your videos. Can we have movie night?"
"That sounds fun. Did you have something picked out?"
"This." Ann showed him A Midsummer Night's Dream.
"Good. I've been wanting Winter to watch that with me."
"But you haven't had time, and it's because of me."
"That's true, but now that we've broken the ice, I'll get to spend more time with her, with the two of you."
Ann giggled, "Your video collection is funny. You really like pretty young women. "
"Are you suggesting that the reason I like you is that you're pretty?"
"No, and I'm sorry if it sounded like I was, but it probably makes you like me more. People are like that. Winter thought you'd like me, and not because of how I look, but me, and I trust her judgment. She was worried that I might be uncomfortable around you because you have sex with her, but I'm not. I spent years being told that sex was bad, by people who think about sex in bad ways that demean women, and want to punish women for liking sex.. I didn't even buy into that when I was little. I might be inexperienced, but I'm not naive. You're not like those people, Ian. Whatever you are," and Ann shook her head, "you're not that."
"She talks about me?"
"We talk about everything. We're in love." Ann exhaled through her nose in lieu of a chuckle. "Better than even odds that Winter wants us to be having this conversation. Ian, I don't think you're the least bit perverse. Know that. Really. Everything about this day has been positive for me; it seems like one of the most important days of my life."
"Did you get any sleep?"
"Probably about two hours."
"Me too, and she's most likely awake. I'll go get her."
Ian walked to the guest room at the end of the hall. Ann had left the door open, but Winter could not have overheard the conversation, and she was asleep. Her gentle snoring was familiar. Ian kissed her to wakefulness, and she purred before asking, "Where's Ann?"
"In the living room. She wants us to watch a movie tonight."
"Really? We were looking at your collection earlier, while you were cooking. Did she pick anything out?"
"A Midsummer Night's Dream, and before you ask, she chose it herself, with no prompting from me."
Winter looked at the clock on the nightstand. "It's almost six. You know what I feel like?"
"More and more every day."
Winter threw a pillow at him, "No, what I feel like doing tonight. How much beer is in the keg?"
"It's almost full. I've had maybe, five or six. So you want it to be a movie and beer night?"
***************
>
> -sw

--Bryan

On Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 9:28:30 AM UTC-5, Sqwertz wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 03:02:03 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>
> > On Monday, December 7, 2020 at 4:59:28 PM UTC-5, wrote:
> >
> >> The movie I most often recommend, and one that few seem
> >> to have seen is:
> >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYknOe7OluE
> >
> > Would it have killed you to post the title?
> >
> > A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1999. I own a copy on DVD.
> [sticking finger down throat and gagging]

De gustibus. Stanley Tucci is hot as Puck. Given how he typically
was subsequently cast in various things (except Galaxy Quest),
Sam Rockwell was surprising.

> > Here's another good movie with Stanley Tucci:
> >
> > The Whole Shebang
> Respectively, 6.4 and 5.7 ratings on IMDB.

Shebang is a little movie that's probably of more interest to
fireworks aficionados. It shows Tucci's range beautifully.

> ObFood: 'Big Night' - a 7.3 on IMDB. Now on Pluto TV.
> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115678

Yep, we've seen that too.

Cindy Hamilton

On Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 9:44:47 AM UTC-5, wrote:
> On Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 8:28:30 AM UTC-6, Sqwertz wrote:
> > On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 03:02:03 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> >
> > > On Monday, December 7, 2020 at 4:59:28 PM UTC-5, wrote:
> > >
> > >> The movie I most often recommend, and one that few seem
> > >> to have seen is:
> > >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYknOe7OluE
> > >
> > > Would it have killed you to post the title?
> > >
> > > A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1999. I own a copy on DVD.
> > [sticking finger down throat and gagging]
> >
> Well, no one would expect a real man's man like you to like it.

I'd call my husband a mans' man, and he enjoyed it. He likes
Shakespeare in Love more.

I once talked to a co-worker (who'd been an electronics tech in
the Air Force) about my husband's taste in movies. He said,
"Anybody who's willing to hang out of a helicopter door can watch
whatever they want without shame."

Cindy Hamilton

On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 06:44:42 -0800 (PST), Bryan Simmons wrote:

> On Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 8:28:30 AM UTC-6, Sqwertz wrote:
>> On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 03:02:03 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>
>>> A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1999. I own a copy on DVD.
>> [sticking finger down throat and gagging]
>>
> Well, no one would expect a real man's man like you to like it.
> You'd really hate *Winter's Present*.

Somebody parked a 5 x 12 ft trailer full boxes of Harlequin and
other romance novels in front of a house being flipped with a "free"
sign on them. I can't even begin to imagine how many books were
there - 80 to a box x 30+ boxes...

Guess how many I grabbed?

A week later a recycling truck took away probably 28 boxes worth.
Nobody else wanted them either. Had I known 'Winters Present' was
in there, I would have grabbed that ... so I could shove big voodoo
doll needles through it and posted pictures of it on RFC.

-sw

On 2020-12-08 10:33 a.m., Sqwertz wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 06:44:42 -0800 (PST), Bryan Simmons wrote:
cking finger down throat and gagging]
>>>
>> Well, no one would expect a real man's man like you to like it.
>> You'd really hate *Winter's Present*.
>
> Somebody parked a 5 x 12 ft trailer full boxes of Harlequin and
> other romance novels in front of a house being flipped with a "free"
> sign on them. I can't even begin to imagine how many books were
> there - 80 to a box x 30+ boxes...
>
> Guess how many I grabbed?
>
> A week later a recycling truck took away probably 28 boxes worth.
> Nobody else wanted them either. Had I known 'Winters Present' was
> in there, I would have grabbed that ... so I could shove big voodoo
> doll needles through it and posted pictures of it on RFC.
>
> -

My mother loved those Harlequin Romance books.

On 2020-12-08 4:02 a.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> On Monday, December 7, 2020 at 4:59:28 PM UTC-5, wrote:
>> On Monday, December 7, 2020 at 2:45:29 PM UTC-6, GM wrote:
>>> Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 12/7/2020 3:29 PM, jmcquown wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Yeah, that's gotta be tough. Kind of hard to beat those Navy stories.
>>>>> Speaking of which, today is December 7th. A date that will live in
>>>>> infamy. Sheldon wasn't even a gleam in his father's eye in in 1941.
>>>>>
>>>> Smithsonian Channel right now is running "lost tapes" about the attack.
>>>> It is history but certainly not what I consider entertaining.
>>> I like a good war documentary now and then, but war *movies* are one genre I've never cottoned to...
>> I don't like war, car chases, murders, explosions, superheroes, anything
>> of that sort. The movie I most often recommend, and one that few seem
>> to have seen is:
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYknOe7OluE
>
> Would it have killed you to post the title?
>
> A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1999. I own a copy on DVD.
>
> Here's another good movie with Stanley Tucci:
>
> The Whole Shebang
>
> <https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0219408>
>
> Cindy Hamilton
>
The best performance I have seen was at the Globe in London. Sis and I
had seats rather than standing in the pit of this replica of
Shakespeare's Globe.
As for movies of other Shakespeare's plays, The Merchant of Venice with
Al Pacino as Shylock is fantastic. "Looking for Richard" (about Richard
III) also with Pacino is worth looking for.

On Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 10:55:26 AM UTC-5, Graham wrote:
> On 2020-12-08 4:02 a.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> > On Monday, December 7, 2020 at 4:59:28 PM UTC-5, wrote:
> >> On Monday, December 7, 2020 at 2:45:29 PM UTC-6, GM wrote:
> >>> Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> On 12/7/2020 3:29 PM, jmcquown wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Yeah, that's gotta be tough. Kind of hard to beat those Navy stories.
> >>>>> Speaking of which, today is December 7th. A date that will live in
> >>>>> infamy. Sheldon wasn't even a gleam in his father's eye in in 1941.
> >>>>>
> >>>> Smithsonian Channel right now is running "lost tapes" about the attack.
> >>>> It is history but certainly not what I consider entertaining.
> >>> I like a good war documentary now and then, but war *movies* are one genre I've never cottoned to...
> >> I don't like war, car chases, murders, explosions, superheroes, anything
> >> of that sort. The movie I most often recommend, and one that few seem
> >> to have seen is:
> >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYknOe7OluE
> >
> > Would it have killed you to post the title?
> >
> > A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1999. I own a copy on DVD.
> >
> > Here's another good movie with Stanley Tucci:
> >
> > The Whole Shebang
> >
> > <https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0219408>
> >
> > Cindy Hamilton
> >
> The best performance I have seen was at the Globe in London.

Naturally. The Globe, plus live is always better.

> Sis and I
> had seats rather than standing in the pit of this replica of
> Shakespeare's Globe.

The best Midsummer Night's Dream I saw was at the Wayne
State University student theater. Graduate students, for the
most part.

> As for movies of other Shakespeare's plays, The Merchant of Venice with
> Al Pacino as Shylock is fantastic. "Looking for Richard" (about Richard
> III) also with Pacino is worth looking for.

We've seen both of those.

I'm fond of Branagh's Much Ado about Nothing. Whedon's, not so much,
even though I'm a big fan of most of his other work.

I should see if I can stream Trevor Nunn's 1996 Twelfth Night.

Cindy Hamilton

On Mon, 07 Dec 2020 08:39:32 -0500, songbird wrote:


> probably because the house is already full of crap [...]
> I still hate the whole consumerism approach today. [...]

> do i need to ObElmerFudd that?


What we have here is a case of 'mouse production' ?

On 12/8/2020 11:07 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> On Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 10:55:26 AM UTC-5, Graham wrote:
>> On 2020-12-08 4:02 a.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>> On Monday, December 7, 2020 at 4:59:28 PM UTC-5, wrote:
>>>> On Monday, December 7, 2020 at 2:45:29 PM UTC-6, GM wrote:
>>>>> Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 12/7/2020 3:29 PM, jmcquown wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Yeah, that's gotta be tough. Kind of hard to beat those Navy stories.
>>>>>>> Speaking of which, today is December 7th. A date that will live in
>>>>>>> infamy. Sheldon wasn't even a gleam in his father's eye in in 1941.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Smithsonian Channel right now is running "lost tapes" about the attack.
>>>>>> It is history but certainly not what I consider entertaining.
>>>>> I like a good war documentary now and then, but war *movies* are one genre I've never cottoned to...
>>>> I don't like war, car chases, murders, explosions, superheroes, anything
>>>> of that sort. The movie I most often recommend, and one that few seem
>>>> to have seen is:
>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYknOe7OluE
>>>
>>> Would it have killed you to post the title?
>>>
>>> A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1999. I own a copy on DVD.
>>>
>>> Here's another good movie with Stanley Tucci:
>>>
>>> The Whole Shebang
>>>
>>> <https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0219408>
>>>
>>> Cindy Hamilton
>>>
>> The best performance I have seen was at the Globe in London.
>
> Naturally. The Globe, plus live is always better.
>

When I live in Philadelphia it was a rite of passage to go to the live
shows at the Troc. Don't recall any Shakespeare though.
https://www.phillyvoice.com/photos-1...adero-theatre/

On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 08:28:23 -0600, Sqwertz >
wrote:

>On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 03:02:03 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>
>> On Monday, December 7, 2020 at 4:59:28 PM UTC-5, wrote:
>>
>>> The movie I most often recommend, and one that few seem
>>> to have seen is:
>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYknOe7OluE
>>
>> Would it have killed you to post the title?
>>
>> A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1999. I own a copy on DVD.
>
>[sticking finger down throat and gagging]
>
>> Here's another good movie with Stanley Tucci:
>>
>> The Whole Shebang
>
>Respectively, 6.4 and 5.7 ratings on IMDB.
>
>ObFood: 'Big Night' - a 7.3 on IMDB. Now on Pluto TV.
>https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115678

IMDB ratings only tell you what the masses think. The masses are
stupid, by definition.

On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 07:15:53 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton
> wrote:

>On Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 9:44:47 AM UTC-5, wrote:
>> On Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 8:28:30 AM UTC-6, Sqwertz wrote:
>> > On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 03:02:03 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>> >
>> > > On Monday, December 7, 2020 at 4:59:28 PM UTC-5, wrote:
>> > >
>> > >> The movie I most often recommend, and one that few seem
>> > >> to have seen is:
>> > >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYknOe7OluE
>> > >
>> > > Would it have killed you to post the title?
>> > >
>> > > A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1999. I own a copy on DVD.
>> > [sticking finger down throat and gagging]
>> >
>> Well, no one would expect a real man's man like you to like it.
>
>I'd call my husband a mans' man, and he enjoyed it. He likes
>Shakespeare in Love more.
>
>I once talked to a co-worker (who'd been an electronics tech in
>the Air Force) about my husband's taste in movies. He said,
>"Anybody who's willing to hang out of a helicopter door can watch
>whatever they want without shame."

Do you really have to hang out of a helicopter before you're allowed
your own opinion? All y'all live in a strange world over there.

On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 08:07:51 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton wrote:

> On Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 10:55:26 AM UTC-5, Graham wrote:
>> On 2020-12-08 4:02 a.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>> On Monday, December 7, 2020 at 4:59:28 PM UTC-5, wrote:
>>>> On Monday, December 7, 2020 at 2:45:29 PM UTC-6, GM wrote:
>>>>> Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 12/7/2020 3:29 PM, jmcquown wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Yeah, that's gotta be tough. Kind of hard to beat those Navy stories.
>>>>>>> Speaking of which, today is December 7th. A date that will live in
>>>>>>> infamy. Sheldon wasn't even a gleam in his father's eye in in 1941.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Smithsonian Channel right now is running "lost tapes" about the attack.
>>>>>> It is history but certainly not what I consider entertaining.
>>>>> I like a good war documentary now and then, but war *movies* are one genre I've never cottoned to...
>>>> I don't like war, car chases, murders, explosions, superheroes, anything
>>>> of that sort. The movie I most often recommend, and one that few seem
>>>> to have seen is:
>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYknOe7OluE
>>>
>>> Would it have killed you to post the title?
>>>
>>> A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1999. I own a copy on DVD.
>>>
>>> Here's another good movie with Stanley Tucci:
>>>
>>> The Whole Shebang
>>>
>>> <https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0219408>
>>>
>>> Cindy Hamilton
>>>
>> The best performance I have seen was at the Globe in London.
>
> Naturally. The Globe, plus live is always better.
>
>> Sis and I
>> had seats rather than standing in the pit of this replica of
>> Shakespeare's Globe.
>
> The best Midsummer Night's Dream I saw was at the Wayne
> State University student theater. Graduate students, for the
> most part.
>
>> As for movies of other Shakespeare's plays, The Merchant of Venice with
>> Al Pacino as Shylock is fantastic. "Looking for Richard" (about Richard
>> III) also with Pacino is worth looking for.
>
> We've seen both of those.
>
> I'm fond of Branagh's Much Ado about Nothing. Whedon's, not so much,
> even though I'm a big fan of most of his other work.
>
> I should see if I can stream Trevor Nunn's 1996 Twelfth Night.
>
> Cindy Hamilton

I saw a globe production of this with Mark Rylance in drag playing a
woman's part, as it would have been played in Shakespeare's time. I didn't
enjoy it half so much as my sister who had studied it for her =Grade 12
English.

On Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 12:34:49 PM UTC-5, Bruce wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 07:15:53 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton
> > wrote:
>
> >On Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 9:44:47 AM UTC-5, wrote:
> >> On Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 8:28:30 AM UTC-6, Sqwertz wrote:
> >> > On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 03:02:03 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> >> >
> >> > > On Monday, December 7, 2020 at 4:59:28 PM UTC-5, wrote:
> >> > >
> >> > >> The movie I most often recommend, and one that few seem
> >> > >> to have seen is:
> >> > >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYknOe7OluE
> >> > >
> >> > > Would it have killed you to post the title?
> >> > >
> >> > > A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1999. I own a copy on DVD.
> >> > [sticking finger down throat and gagging]
> >> >
> >> Well, no one would expect a real man's man like you to like it.
> >
> >I'd call my husband a mans' man, and he enjoyed it. He likes
> >Shakespeare in Love more.
> >
> >I once talked to a co-worker (who'd been an electronics tech in
> >the Air Force) about my husband's taste in movies. He said,
> >"Anybody who's willing to hang out of a helicopter door can watch
> >whatever they want without shame."
> Do you really have to hang out of a helicopter before you're allowed
> your own opinion? All y'all live in a strange world over there.

No. But my co-worker was disinclined to call anyone a sissy who would
hang out of a helicopter.

Shakespeare in Love is a chick flick with just enough sword fighting to
keep the chick's boyfriend in his seat.

Cindy Hamilton

On Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 12:35:07 PM UTC-5, Graham wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 08:07:51 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>
> > On Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 10:55:26 AM UTC-5, Graham wrote:
> >> On 2020-12-08 4:02 a.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> >>> On Monday, December 7, 2020 at 4:59:28 PM UTC-5, wrote:
> >>>> On Monday, December 7, 2020 at 2:45:29 PM UTC-6, GM wrote:
> >>>>> Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> On 12/7/2020 3:29 PM, jmcquown wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Yeah, that's gotta be tough. Kind of hard to beat those Navy stories.
> >>>>>>> Speaking of which, today is December 7th. A date that will live in
> >>>>>>> infamy. Sheldon wasn't even a gleam in his father's eye in in 1941.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>> Smithsonian Channel right now is running "lost tapes" about the attack.
> >>>>>> It is history but certainly not what I consider entertaining.
> >>>>> I like a good war documentary now and then, but war *movies* are one genre I've never cottoned to...
> >>>> I don't like war, car chases, murders, explosions, superheroes, anything
> >>>> of that sort. The movie I most often recommend, and one that few seem
> >>>> to have seen is:
> >>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYknOe7OluE
> >>>
> >>> Would it have killed you to post the title?
> >>>
> >>> A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1999. I own a copy on DVD.
> >>>
> >>> Here's another good movie with Stanley Tucci:
> >>>
> >>> The Whole Shebang
> >>>
> >>> <https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0219408>
> >>>
> >>> Cindy Hamilton
> >>>
> >> The best performance I have seen was at the Globe in London.
> >
> > Naturally. The Globe, plus live is always better.
> >
> >> Sis and I
> >> had seats rather than standing in the pit of this replica of
> >> Shakespeare's Globe.
> >
> > The best Midsummer Night's Dream I saw was at the Wayne
> > State University student theater. Graduate students, for the
> > most part.
> >
> >> As for movies of other Shakespeare's plays, The Merchant of Venice with
> >> Al Pacino as Shylock is fantastic. "Looking for Richard" (about Richard
> >> III) also with Pacino is worth looking for.
> >
> > We've seen both of those.
> >
> > I'm fond of Branagh's Much Ado about Nothing. Whedon's, not so much,
> > even though I'm a big fan of most of his other work.
> >
> > I should see if I can stream Trevor Nunn's 1996 Twelfth Night.
> >
> > Cindy Hamilton
> I saw a globe production of this with Mark Rylance in drag playing a
> woman's part, as it would have been played in Shakespeare's time.

Oooh. Mark Rylance. He's done some very good work.

> I didn't
> enjoy it half so much as my sister who had studied it for her =Grade 12
> English.

Good point. I think I'll read it first.

Cindy Hamilton

On Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 11:34:49 AM UTC-6, Bruce wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 07:15:53 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton
> > wrote:
>
> >On Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 9:44:47 AM UTC-5, wrote:
> >> On Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 8:28:30 AM UTC-6, Sqwertz wrote:
> >> > On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 03:02:03 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> >> >
> >> > > On Monday, December 7, 2020 at 4:59:28 PM UTC-5, wrote:
> >> > >
> >> > >> The movie I most often recommend, and one that few seem
> >> > >> to have seen is:
> >> > >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYknOe7OluE
> >> > >
> >> > > Would it have killed you to post the title?
> >> > >
> >> > > A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1999. I own a copy on DVD.
> >> > [sticking finger down throat and gagging]
> >> >
> >> Well, no one would expect a real man's man like you to like it.
> >
> >I'd call my husband a mans' man, and he enjoyed it. He likes
> >Shakespeare in Love more.
> >
> >I once talked to a co-worker (who'd been an electronics tech in
> >the Air Force) about my husband's taste in movies. He said,
> >"Anybody who's willing to hang out of a helicopter door can watch
> >whatever they want without shame."
> Do you really have to hang out of a helicopter before you're allowed
> your own opinion? All y'all live in a strange world over there.

You mean you all don't do the helicopter thing there? Where the heck is
it you live again?

--Bryan

On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 09:45:45 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton
> wrote:

>On Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 12:34:49 PM UTC-5, Bruce wrote:
>> On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 07:15:53 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton
>> > wrote:
>>
>> >On Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 9:44:47 AM UTC-5, wrote:
>> >> On Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 8:28:30 AM UTC-6, Sqwertz wrote:
>> >> > On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 03:02:03 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> > > On Monday, December 7, 2020 at 4:59:28 PM UTC-5, wrote:
>> >> > >
>> >> > >> The movie I most often recommend, and one that few seem
>> >> > >> to have seen is:
>> >> > >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYknOe7OluE
>> >> > >
>> >> > > Would it have killed you to post the title?
>> >> > >
>> >> > > A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1999. I own a copy on DVD.
>> >> > [sticking finger down throat and gagging]
>> >> >
>> >> Well, no one would expect a real man's man like you to like it.
>> >
>> >I'd call my husband a mans' man, and he enjoyed it. He likes
>> >Shakespeare in Love more.
>> >
>> >I once talked to a co-worker (who'd been an electronics tech in
>> >the Air Force) about my husband's taste in movies. He said,
>> >"Anybody who's willing to hang out of a helicopter door can watch
>> >whatever they want without shame."
>> Do you really have to hang out of a helicopter before you're allowed
>> your own opinion? All y'all live in a strange world over there.
>
>No. But my co-worker was disinclined to call anyone a sissy who would
>hang out of a helicopter.
>
>Shakespeare in Love is a chick flick with just enough sword fighting to
>keep the chick's boyfriend in his seat.

I'm not into sword fighting. Not all men are simpletons.

On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 09:48:34 -0800 (PST), Bryan Simmons
> wrote:

>On Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 11:34:49 AM UTC-6, Bruce wrote:
>> On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 07:15:53 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton
>> > wrote:
>>
>> >On Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 9:44:47 AM UTC-5, wrote:
>> >> On Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 8:28:30 AM UTC-6, Sqwertz wrote:
>> >> > On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 03:02:03 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> > > On Monday, December 7, 2020 at 4:59:28 PM UTC-5, wrote:
>> >> > >
>> >> > >> The movie I most often recommend, and one that few seem
>> >> > >> to have seen is:
>> >> > >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYknOe7OluE
>> >> > >
>> >> > > Would it have killed you to post the title?
>> >> > >
>> >> > > A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1999. I own a copy on DVD.
>> >> > [sticking finger down throat and gagging]
>> >> >
>> >> Well, no one would expect a real man's man like you to like it.
>> >
>> >I'd call my husband a mans' man, and he enjoyed it. He likes
>> >Shakespeare in Love more.
>> >
>> >I once talked to a co-worker (who'd been an electronics tech in
>> >the Air Force) about my husband's taste in movies. He said,
>> >"Anybody who's willing to hang out of a helicopter door can watch
>> >whatever they want without shame."
>> Do you really have to hang out of a helicopter before you're allowed
>> your own opinion? All y'all live in a strange world over there.
>
>You mean you all don't do the helicopter thing there? Where the heck is
>it you live again?

Only if we want to watch Shakespeare in Love.

On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 09:47:06 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton wrote:

> On Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 12:35:07 PM UTC-5, Graham wrote:
>> On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 08:07:51 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>
>>> On Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 10:55:26 AM UTC-5, Graham wrote:
>>>> On 2020-12-08 4:02 a.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>>>> On Monday, December 7, 2020 at 4:59:28 PM UTC-5, wrote:
>>>>>> On Monday, December 7, 2020 at 2:45:29 PM UTC-6, GM wrote:
>>>>>>> Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 12/7/2020 3:29 PM, jmcquown wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Yeah, that's gotta be tough. Kind of hard to beat those Navy stories.
>>>>>>>>> Speaking of which, today is December 7th. A date that will live in
>>>>>>>>> infamy. Sheldon wasn't even a gleam in his father's eye in in 1941.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Smithsonian Channel right now is running "lost tapes" about the attack.
>>>>>>>> It is history but certainly not what I consider entertaining.
>>>>>>> I like a good war documentary now and then, but war *movies* are one genre I've never cottoned to...
>>>>>> I don't like war, car chases, murders, explosions, superheroes, anything
>>>>>> of that sort. The movie I most often recommend, and one that few seem
>>>>>> to have seen is:
>>>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYknOe7OluE
>>>>>
>>>>> Would it have killed you to post the title?
>>>>>
>>>>> A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1999. I own a copy on DVD.
>>>>>
>>>>> Here's another good movie with Stanley Tucci:
>>>>>
>>>>> The Whole Shebang
>>>>>
>>>>> <https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0219408>
>>>>>
>>>>> Cindy Hamilton
>>>>>
>>>> The best performance I have seen was at the Globe in London.
>>>
>>> Naturally. The Globe, plus live is always better.
>>>
>>>> Sis and I
>>>> had seats rather than standing in the pit of this replica of
>>>> Shakespeare's Globe.
>>>
>>> The best Midsummer Night's Dream I saw was at the Wayne
>>> State University student theater. Graduate students, for the
>>> most part.
>>>
>>>> As for movies of other Shakespeare's plays, The Merchant of Venice with
>>>> Al Pacino as Shylock is fantastic. "Looking for Richard" (about Richard
>>>> III) also with Pacino is worth looking for.
>>>
>>> We've seen both of those.
>>>
>>> I'm fond of Branagh's Much Ado about Nothing. Whedon's, not so much,
>>> even though I'm a big fan of most of his other work.
>>>
>>> I should see if I can stream Trevor Nunn's 1996 Twelfth Night.
>>>
>>> Cindy Hamilton
>> I saw a globe production of this with Mark Rylance in drag playing a
>> woman's part, as it would have been played in Shakespeare's time.
>
> Oooh. Mark Rylance. He's done some very good work.
>
But AIUI he's also a Shakespeare authorship denier.

On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 10:53:20 -0700, Graham > wrote:

>On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 09:47:06 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 12:35:07 PM UTC-5, Graham wrote:
>>> On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 08:07:51 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>>
>>>> We've seen both of those.
>>>>
>>>> I'm fond of Branagh's Much Ado about Nothing. Whedon's, not so much,
>>>> even though I'm a big fan of most of his other work.
>>>>
>>>> I should see if I can stream Trevor Nunn's 1996 Twelfth Night.
>>>>
>>>> Cindy Hamilton
>>> I saw a globe production of this with Mark Rylance in drag playing a
>>> woman's part, as it would have been played in Shakespeare's time.
>>
>> Oooh. Mark Rylance. He's done some very good work.
>>
>But AIUI he's also a Shakespeare authorship denier.

So you believe in Shakespeare?

On Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 12:02:06 PM UTC-6, Bruce wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 10:53:20 -0700, Graham > wrote:
>
> >On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 09:47:06 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> >
> >> On Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 12:35:07 PM UTC-5, Graham wrote:
> >>> On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 08:07:51 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> We've seen both of those.
> >>>>
> >>>> I'm fond of Branagh's Much Ado about Nothing. Whedon's, not so much,
> >>>> even though I'm a big fan of most of his other work.
> >>>>
> >>>> I should see if I can stream Trevor Nunn's 1996 Twelfth Night.
> >>>>
> >>>> Cindy Hamilton
> >>> I saw a globe production of this with Mark Rylance in drag playing a
> >>> woman's part, as it would have been played in Shakespeare's time.
> >>
> >> Oooh. Mark Rylance. He's done some very good work.
> >>
> >But AIUI he's also a Shakespeare authorship denier.
> So you believe in Shakespeare?

************
Hey, you know what day it is?"
"Saturday."
"Well yeah," said Winter, "but it's also Groundhog Day."
"You believe in Groundhog Day?"
"I believe if every day were exactly like the day we met, that I wouldn't complain."
************

I think I'd better hang out of my helicopter after that.

--Bryan, who's favorite part of chick flicks is the chicks.

On Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 12:08:36 PM UTC-6, Bryan Simmons wrote:
> On Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 12:02:06 PM UTC-6, Bruce wrote:
> > On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 10:53:20 -0700, Graham > wrote:
> >
> > >On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 09:47:06 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> > >
> > >> On Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 12:35:07 PM UTC-5, Graham wrote:
> > >>> On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 08:07:51 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>> We've seen both of those.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> I'm fond of Branagh's Much Ado about Nothing. Whedon's, not so much,
> > >>>> even though I'm a big fan of most of his other work.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> I should see if I can stream Trevor Nunn's 1996 Twelfth Night.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Cindy Hamilton
> > >>> I saw a globe production of this with Mark Rylance in drag playing a
> > >>> woman's part, as it would have been played in Shakespeare's time.
> > >>
> > >> Oooh. Mark Rylance. He's done some very good work.
> > >>
> > >But AIUI he's also a Shakespeare authorship denier.
> > So you believe in Shakespeare?
> ************
> Hey, you know what day it is?"
> "Saturday."
> "Well yeah," said Winter, "but it's also Groundhog Day."
> "You believe in Groundhog Day?"
> "I believe if every day were exactly like the day we met, that I wouldn't complain."
> ************
>
> I think I'd better hang out of my helicopter after that.
>
> --Bryan, who's favorite part of chick flicks is the chicks.
"whose"

On 2020-12-08 10:55 a.m., Graham wrote:
> On 2020-12-08 4:02 a.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:

>> A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1999.Â* I own a copy on DVD.
>>
>> Here's another good movie with Stanley Tucci:
>>
>> The Whole Shebang
>>
>> <https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0219408>
>>
>> Cindy Hamilton
>>
> The best performance I have seen was at the Globe in London. Sis and I
> had seats rather than standing in the pit of this replica of
> Shakespeare's Globe.
> As for movies of other Shakespeare's plays, The Merchant of Venice with
> Al Pacino as Shylock is fantastic. "Looking for Richard" (about Richard
> III) also with Pacino is worth looking for.

I always had trouble with Shakespeare. Being a bit attention deficit is
part of the problem. It simply requires more attention and memory than
I can muster for a stage production. It's not like I never gave it a
chance. I once made a really bad choice for an elective course, English
Drama to 1642. I bit off more than I could chew on that one.
Attention deficiency is even worse when reading plays than when
watching. IIRC we had two week for Shakespeare and about a half dozen
works to be covered in that time.

One of my worst drama experiences was seeing Henry VII performed at the
Stratford Festival. I think the lead actor was trying to beat his speed
record. Holy crap he rattled his lines off so fast I could hardly hear
them, never mind processing them into something meaningful.

On 2020-12-08 12:27 p.m., Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> On 12/8/2020 11:07 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>> On Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 10:55:26 AM UTC-5, Graham wrote:
>>> On 2020-12-08 4:02 a.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>>> On Monday, December 7, 2020 at 4:59:28 PM UTC-5,
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> On Monday, December 7, 2020 at 2:45:29 PM UTC-6, GM wrote:
>>>>>> Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 12/7/2020 3:29 PM, jmcquown wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Yeah, that's gotta be tough. Kind of hard to beat those Navy
>>>>>>>> stories.
>>>>>>>> Speaking of which, today is December 7th. A date that will live in
>>>>>>>> infamy. Sheldon wasn't even a gleam in his father's eye in in 1941.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Smithsonian Channel right now is running "lost tapes" about the
>>>>>>> attack.
>>>>>>> It is history but certainly not what I consider entertaining.
>>>>>> I like a good war documentary now and then, but war *movies* are
>>>>>> one genre I've never cottoned to...
>>>>> I don't like war, car chases, murders, explosions, superheroes,
>>>>> anything
>>>>> of that sort. The movie I most often recommend, and one that few seem
>>>>> to have seen is:
>>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYknOe7OluE
>>>>
>>>> Would it have killed you to post the title?
>>>>
>>>> A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1999. I own a copy on DVD.
>>>>
>>>> Here's another good movie with Stanley Tucci:
>>>>
>>>> The Whole Shebang
>>>>
>>>> <https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0219408>
>>>>
>>>> Cindy Hamilton
>>>>
>>> The best performance I have seen was at the Globe in London.
>>
>> Naturally.Â* The Globe, plus live is always better.
>>
>
> When I live in Philadelphia it was a rite of passage to go to the live
> shows at the Troc.Â* Don't recall any Shakespeare though.
> https://www.phillyvoice.com/photos-1...adero-theatre/
>


We have the Shaw Festival in Niagara on the Lake. For years they stuck
to a mandate of Shaw and his contemporaries. That is infinitely more
interesting theatre than the 15th century poetry.

On 08/12/2020 17:52, Bruce wrote:

>
> I'm not into sword fighting. Not all men are simpletons.
>
I rather liked sword fighting. It was a required part of the curriculum
at acting school.

On 2020-12-08 12:45 p.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> On Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 12:34:49 PM UTC-5, Bruce wrote:
>> On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 07:15:53 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> On Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 9:44:47 AM UTC-5, wrote:
>>>> On Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 8:28:30 AM UTC-6, Sqwertz wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 03:02:03 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Monday, December 7, 2020 at 4:59:28 PM UTC-5, wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The movie I most often recommend, and one that few seem
>>>>>>> to have seen is:
>>>>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYknOe7OluE
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Would it have killed you to post the title?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1999. I own a copy on DVD.
>>>>> [sticking finger down throat and gagging]
>>>>>
>>>> Well, no one would expect a real man's man like you to like it.
>>>
>>> I'd call my husband a mans' man, and he enjoyed it. He likes
>>> Shakespeare in Love more.
>>>
>>> I once talked to a co-worker (who'd been an electronics tech in
>>> the Air Force) about my husband's taste in movies. He said,
>>> "Anybody who's willing to hang out of a helicopter door can watch
>>> whatever they want without shame."
>> Do you really have to hang out of a helicopter before you're allowed
>> your own opinion? All y'all live in a strange world over there.
>
> No. But my co-worker was disinclined to call anyone a sissy who would
> hang out of a helicopter.
>
> Shakespeare in Love is a chick flick with just enough sword fighting to
> keep the chick's boyfriend in his seat.
>
I would agree about it being a chick flick, but I have to disagree about
the sword fighting keeping the boyfriend in his seat.

On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 18:20:38 +0000, S Viemeister
> wrote:

>On 08/12/2020 17:52, Bruce wrote:
>
>>
>> I'm not into sword fighting. Not all men are simpletons.
>>
>I rather liked sword fighting. It was a required part of the curriculum
>at acting school.

To do it yourself, I assume.

On Wed, 09 Dec 2020 05:01:57 +1100, Bruce wrote:

> On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 10:53:20 -0700, Graham > wrote:
>
>>On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 09:47:06 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>
>>> On Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 12:35:07 PM UTC-5, Graham wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 08:07:51 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> We've seen both of those.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm fond of Branagh's Much Ado about Nothing. Whedon's, not so much,
>>>>> even though I'm a big fan of most of his other work.
>>>>>
>>>>> I should see if I can stream Trevor Nunn's 1996 Twelfth Night.
>>>>>
>>>>> Cindy Hamilton
>>>> I saw a globe production of this with Mark Rylance in drag playing a
>>>> woman's part, as it would have been played in Shakespeare's time.
>>>
>>> Oooh. Mark Rylance. He's done some very good work.
>>>
>>But AIUI he's also a Shakespeare authorship denier.
>
> So you believe in Shakespeare?

Of course! Like Evolution, the evidence is overwhelming.

On 08/12/2020 18:28, Bruce wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 18:20:38 +0000, S Viemeister
> > wrote:
>
>> On 08/12/2020 17:52, Bruce wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I'm not into sword fighting. Not all men are simpletons.
>>>
>> I rather liked sword fighting. It was a required part of the curriculum
>> at acting school.
>
> To do it yourself, I assume.
>

Yes, we all had to learn to use sabers. Unlike Olympic fencing, no
protective gear was involved. There were only a couple of incidents
involving bleeding...

Bruce wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 09:45:45 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton
> > wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 12:34:49 PM UTC-5, Bruce wrote:
>>> On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 07:15:53 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 9:44:47 AM UTC-5, wrote:
>>>>> On Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 8:28:30 AM UTC-6, Sqwertz wrote:
>>>>>> On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 03:02:03 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Monday, December 7, 2020 at 4:59:28 PM UTC-5, wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The movie I most often recommend, and one that few seem
>>>>>>>> to have seen is:
>>>>>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYknOe7OluE
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Would it have killed you to post the title?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1999. I own a copy on DVD.
>>>>>> [sticking finger down throat and gagging]
>>>>>>
>>>>> Well, no one would expect a real man's man like you to like it.
>>>>
>>>> I'd call my husband a mans' man, and he enjoyed it. He likes
>>>> Shakespeare in Love more.
>>>>
>>>> I once talked to a co-worker (who'd been an electronics tech in
>>>> the Air Force) about my husband's taste in movies. He said,
>>>> "Anybody who's willing to hang out of a helicopter door can watch
>>>> whatever they want without shame."
>>> Do you really have to hang out of a helicopter before you're allowed
>>> your own opinion? All y'all live in a strange world over there.
>>
>> No. But my co-worker was disinclined to call anyone a sissy who would
>> hang out of a helicopter.
>>
>> Shakespeare in Love is a chick flick with just enough sword fighting to
>> keep the chick's boyfriend in his seat.
>
> I'm not into sword fighting. Not all men are simpletons.
>

I know what you're "into" Gruce.

On Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 12:19:44 PM UTC-6, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2020-12-08 12:45 p.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> > On Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 12:34:49 PM UTC-5, Bruce wrote:
> >> On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 07:15:53 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton
> >> > wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 9:44:47 AM UTC-5, wrote:
> >>>> On Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 8:28:30 AM UTC-6, Sqwertz wrote:
> >>>>> On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 03:02:03 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> On Monday, December 7, 2020 at 4:59:28 PM UTC-5, wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> The movie I most often recommend, and one that few seem
> >>>>>>> to have seen is:
> >>>>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYknOe7OluE
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Would it have killed you to post the title?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1999. I own a copy on DVD.
> >>>>> [sticking finger down throat and gagging]
> >>>>>
> >>>> Well, no one would expect a real man's man like you to like it.
> >>>
> >>> I'd call my husband a mans' man, and he enjoyed it. He likes
> >>> Shakespeare in Love more.
> >>>
> >>> I once talked to a co-worker (who'd been an electronics tech in
> >>> the Air Force) about my husband's taste in movies. He said,
> >>> "Anybody who's willing to hang out of a helicopter door can watch
> >>> whatever they want without shame."
> >> Do you really have to hang out of a helicopter before you're allowed
> >> your own opinion? All y'all live in a strange world over there.
> >
> > No. But my co-worker was disinclined to call anyone a sissy who would
> > hang out of a helicopter.
> >
> > Shakespeare in Love is a chick flick with just enough sword fighting to
> > keep the chick's boyfriend in his seat.
> >
> I would agree about it being a chick flick, but I have to disagree about
> the sword fighting keeping the boyfriend in his seat.

I have zero interest in swordfighting. Shakespeare in Love would have been
better with a prettier actress. Yes. I am that shallow.

--Bryan

On 2020-12-08 1:34 p.m., S Viemeister wrote:
> On 08/12/2020 18:28, Bruce wrote:
>>
>>> I rather liked sword fighting. It was a required part of the curriculum
>>> at acting school.
>>
>> To do it yourself, I assume.
>>
>
> Yes, we all had to learn to use sabers. Unlike Olympic fencing, no
> protective gear was involved. There were only a couple of incidents
> involving bleeding...

In other words, they taught choreography with swords.

On Tue, 08 Dec 2020 14:45:41 -0500, Dave Smith wrote:

> In other words, they taught choreography with swords.

Yes. But even without needless sharpening (especially the point), they
need to be weighted properly in order for anyone to have practised body
reflexes to look authentic AND be safe.

But the only thing I know about sword-fighting is second-hand, concerning
using blackboard pointers as swords and glass-topped fluorescent light-
tables as choreographed fencing platforms by bored night-shift
meteorologists during what they called periods of no significant weather.

If you want any informed advice about what it feels like to heft & hack
with a real albeit dull sword, ask the OP. As he says, it's more
dangerous than pro / olympic / stunt-acting.

On Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 1:52:55 PM UTC-5, wrote:
> On Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 12:19:44 PM UTC-6, Dave Smith wrote:
> > On 2020-12-08 12:45 p.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> > > On Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 12:34:49 PM UTC-5, Bruce wrote:
> > >> On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 07:15:53 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton
> > >> > wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> On Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 9:44:47 AM UTC-5, wrote:
> > >>>> On Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 8:28:30 AM UTC-6, Sqwertz wrote:
> > >>>>> On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 03:02:03 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>> On Monday, December 7, 2020 at 4:59:28 PM UTC-5, wrote:
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>>> The movie I most often recommend, and one that few seem
> > >>>>>>> to have seen is:
> > >>>>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYknOe7OluE
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>> Would it have killed you to post the title?
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>> A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1999. I own a copy on DVD.
> > >>>>> [sticking finger down throat and gagging]
> > >>>>>
> > >>>> Well, no one would expect a real man's man like you to like it.
> > >>>
> > >>> I'd call my husband a mans' man, and he enjoyed it. He likes
> > >>> Shakespeare in Love more.
> > >>>
> > >>> I once talked to a co-worker (who'd been an electronics tech in
> > >>> the Air Force) about my husband's taste in movies. He said,
> > >>> "Anybody who's willing to hang out of a helicopter door can watch
> > >>> whatever they want without shame."
> > >> Do you really have to hang out of a helicopter before you're allowed
> > >> your own opinion? All y'all live in a strange world over there.
> > >
> > > No. But my co-worker was disinclined to call anyone a sissy who would
> > > hang out of a helicopter.
> > >
> > > Shakespeare in Love is a chick flick with just enough sword fighting to
> > > keep the chick's boyfriend in his seat.
> > >
> > I would agree about it being a chick flick, but I have to disagree about
> > the sword fighting keeping the boyfriend in his seat.
> I have zero interest in swordfighting. Shakespeare in Love would have been
> better with a prettier actress. Yes. I am that shallow.
>
> --Bryan

Wasn't she the director's main squeeze or something like that?

Anyway, she had to be able to pass for a boy.

Cindy Hamilton

On 08/12/2020 19:45, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2020-12-08 1:34 p.m., S Viemeister wrote:
>> On 08/12/2020 18:28, Bruce wrote:
>>>
>>>> I rather liked sword fighting. It was a required part of the curriculum
>>>> at acting school.
>>>
>>> To do it yourself, I assume.
>>>
>>
>> Yes, we all had to learn to use sabers. Unlike Olympic fencing, no
>> protective gear was involved. There were only a couple of incidents
>> involving bleeding...
>
> In other words, they taught choreography with swords.

Yes. The bleeding only happened when the choreography was ignored.

On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 12:31:24 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton
> wrote:

>On Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 1:52:55 PM UTC-5, wrote:
>> On Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 12:19:44 PM UTC-6, Dave Smith wrote:
>> > >
>> > I would agree about it being a chick flick, but I have to disagree about
>> > the sword fighting keeping the boyfriend in his seat.
>> I have zero interest in swordfighting. Shakespeare in Love would have been
>> better with a prettier actress. Yes. I am that shallow.
>>
>> --Bryan
>
>Wasn't she the director's main squeeze or something like that?

Are you saying he squeezed other women as well?

Bruce wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 12:31:24 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton
> > wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 1:52:55 PM UTC-5, wrote:
>>> On Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 12:19:44 PM UTC-6, Dave Smith wrote:
>>>>>
>>>> I would agree about it being a chick flick, but I have to disagree about
>>>> the sword fighting keeping the boyfriend in his seat.
>>> I have zero interest in swordfighting. Shakespeare in Love would have been
>>> better with a prettier actress. Yes. I am that shallow.
>>>
>>> --Bryan
>>
>> Wasn't she the director's main squeeze or something like that?
>
> Are you saying he squeezed other women as well?
>

Probably like Popeye. Squeezing to see if they would squirt.