#49: I am a fan of the man...pure and simple!

[liney23]

muski... do you use "Preview Post"???? S'ok... for you I will travel to the right, specially for Gibby's B'day celebration.

What does this MEAN, liney? "travel to the right'....?

muski... is it only on my computer that your post is out to the right from all the rest. I have to use the bar at the bottom, moving it to the right, to see your whole post. I assumed everyone saw it that way. Maybe not. Yours is the only post that is huge. The rest just take up the normal computer screen. Anyway, that is what I meant.

Caro... I LOVE the Orlando duet when the girls confunded Clay. Thanks for the memories.

[goldarngirl]

muski... is it only on my computer that your post is out to the right from all the rest. I have to use the bar at the bottom, moving it to the right, to see your whole post. I assumed everyone saw it that way. Maybe not. Yours is the only post that is huge. The rest just take up the normal computer screen. Anyway, that is what I meant.

Not only you, it did the same for me.

[jmh123]

Hey, I fixed muski's code--hope you don't mind. Nice pictures!!

[liney23]

Whew... I thought I had lost it... my mind that is!

[Scarlett]

Internet things...

Most stuff I pass over. The biggies I agonize about but I try to be considerate and not do the agonizing all over the boards, just posting only when I've come to a good place with myself. I think it's because I try to look at things from all angles, or as my friends put it, "Scarlett sleeps with everyone." Yes I tend to do that, sometimes literally (/jk), most times not, but I talk to anyone and everyone because for some reason people feel comfortable talking to me. (Downside of this - when I'm on a potential jury group, the plaintiff and the defendant both think I'll be sympathetic to their cause so I get picked 100% of the time) I remember having a nice chat with someone sitting nearby at the Atlanta 2005 JNT, but when I declined her invitation to a post-concert dinner she hurried away. Solo later asked me, "What in the word were you doing talking to OFC-revolving-cross-<edited>?!!" I said,"Oh, is that who she was? We were just talking and she invited me to dinner with her group but I guess I scared her when I told her I'd signed up for the <boardname> party." My views are usually far, far away from this person's but I think everyone deserves to be heard.

So I try and see every side of things especially when I know a lot of people are affected. I don't want to be persuaded by anger from "the other side" or well-meaning pressure, but pressure nonetheless, from people "on my side" of the fence. And besides I don't like fences. And labels (like y'all know). I think I'll go with the hat theory. A character in a play I saw said that she had developed a whole philosophy based on hats but never explained it. I assume it had to do with people being free to put on whatever hat they felt like on any given day, which is not such a bad idea. I also try (though I'm hardly ever successful) to be independent of but mindful of others without letting go of myself, so that in the end my choices are my own and I'm the only one accountable for them.

People are people, and that's why we have message boards and blogs and all these online social structures as well as flaming and fan wars and board crises. If we were all computers, we would just send packets back and forth in the standard protocols.

Oooh, how about another game. What is your favorite movie, tv or book-character quote? (anyone remember where these came from?)

America is advanced citizenship. You gotta want it bad, 'cause it's gonna put up a fight. It's gonna say, "You want free speech? Let's see you acknowledge a man whose words make your blood boil, who's standing center stage and advocating, at the top of his lungs, that which you would spend a lifetime opposing at the top of yours.

"We mortals are but shadows and dust, Maximus! Shadows and dust!"

And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, a girl sitting on her own in a small café in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything.

Sadly, however, before she could get to a phone to tell anyone about it, the Earth was unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass, and so the idea was lost, seemingly forever.

This is her story.

"He remembered the pride filled glow that had swamped Gyoko's face and he wondered again at the bewildering gullibility of people. How baffling it was that even the most cunning and clever people would frequently see only what they wanted to see, and would rarely look beyond the thinnest of facades. Or they would ignore reality, dismissing it as the facade. And then, when their whole world fell to pieces and they were on their knees slitting their bellies or cutting their throats, or cast out into the freezing world, they would tear their topknots or rend their clothes and bewail their karma, blaming gods or kami or luck or their lords or husbands or vassals-anything or anyone-but never themselves."

[cindilu2]

Ooooh, my favorite movie quote?

John McLane, Die Hard....

Yippeekayayyyy mother-f*cker!!

[ldyjocelyn]

In honor of Gibby's birthday, my favorite movie quote:

It's not the years honey...it's the mileage.

Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark

[Scarlett]

Ooooh, my favorite movie quote?

John McLane, Die Hard....

Yippeekayayyyy mother-f*cker!!

Lol! I prefer the Die Hard Villains...

Simon Peter Gruber: [W]ould a deal be out of the question?

Lt. John McClane : Yeah, I got a deal for ya. Crawl out from under that rock you're hiding under and I'll drive this truck up your ass.

Simon Peter Gruber: How . . . colorful.

Hans Gruber: Uh, no, I'm afraid not. But, you have me at a loss. You know my name but who are you? Just another American who saw too many movies as a child? Another orphan of a bankrupt culture who thinks he's John Wayne? Rambo? Marshal Dillon?

John McClane: Was always kinda partial to Roy Rogers actually. I really like those sequined shirts.

Hans Gruber: Do you really think you have a chance against us, Mr. Cowboy?

John McClane: Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker.

[jmh123]

And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, a girl sitting on her own in a small café in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything.

Sadly, however, before she could get to a phone to tell anyone about it, the Earth was unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass, and so the idea was lost, seemingly forever.

This is her story.

I never saw the movie, but I did read all the books--A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

[annabear]

Gibby!!

[cindilu2]

Dang, I knew I came here for a reason before I got distracted by John McLane!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GIBBY!!!

[jamar1700]

Field of dreams

Shoeless Joe Jackson: No, Ray. It was YOU.

Glory

10th Connecticut soldier: Give 'em Hell, 54!

All: Give 'em Hell, 54!

Remember the Titans

Big Julius: Attitude reflects leadership, captain.

Coach Yost: You make sure they remember, *forever*, the night they played the Titans!

Carol Boone: Sometimes life is hard for no reason at all.

Independence Day

Russel Casse: Hello, boys! I'm back!

Ice age

Sid the Sloth: You're hanging out with us now buddy. Dignity's got nothing to do with it.

Yeah...

Not exactly the classics...

[jazzgirl]

Gibby!

Love the "it's not the years, it's the mileage" quote above. That one has been assimilated in my speech (the Borg!) as well as these:

"Tomorrow is another day" (Scarlett in Gone With the Wind *g*)

"I could have been a contender!" (Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront)

"I have always depended on the kindness of strangers" (Blanche in Streetcar Named Desire)

"Nobody's Perfect" (Some Like It Hot)

[wandacleo]

Happy birthday, Gibby

[FearofH2O]

Sorry, I not only don't remember quotes from movies, I don't even remember what any movies are about.

Before I forget, that Will Ferrell play that Clay saw last week about George W. just finished here. It was an absolute riot and left me feeling a little melancholy for George. Who knew! I never even voted for the guy. I think the irreverant humor might just tickle Clay's funnybone too!

[Claygasm]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GIBBY!!!!!!!

50 is the new 30, doncha know!

Hope it was a great day!!!

[cindilu2]

Evelyn Couch (Kathy Bates) in Fried Green Tomatoes:

Face it girls, I'm older and I have more insurance.

At least one line in every 1970's Charles Bronson movie.

And one that's really obscure, but one of the best lines ever in a 'B' action flick. Rutger Hauer in the very last scene of Wanted: Dead or Alive, after pulling the pin on a hand granade wedged in bad-guy Gene Simmons' mouth. 'Fuck the bonus.'

[tribeca]

What an interesting conversation was going on here well I was at work. We all see things so differently. I have said it before I am always a worrier. Not just Clay just with everything. Though I am not as a bad as my mom who needs to know when everyone of her grown children are if she hears an ambulance.

I do think someone being worried is not the same as someone being negative.

Know this will sound funny but that first day Clay did Spamalot I was at work and I was so worried about him. Could not wait to get home turn on the computer & find out what was going on & how his first night was. And it wasn't that I didn't have faith in him but I didn't have faith in the way things about him & his fans get reported.

Than there was the time I drove 4 hours to see Clay in concert because I thought it was the only time I would see him. I read on a Clay fan board that he would never have a concert at Mohegan Sun in CT. 5 months later he had a concert at Mohegan Sun 45 minutes from my house.

[spikesmom]

Harrison Ford in Air Force One: GET OFF MY PLANE!

Will Smith in Independence Day after punching the alien: Welcome to Earth!

Yeah, no classics here either...

[ldyjocelyn]

I do think someone being worried is not the same as someone being negative.

That's true. But I honestly think that what I see as the constant worry about Clay, especially when it's repeated over and over and over and over and over and over and over again, is so very tiring. And I also think that it eventually does turn into a negative thing.

tribeca, I understand worrying. I usually worry about much that goes on in my life (and yes, it ties into my mother too). But I think that you'll learn, as I did, that worrying about Clay really doesn't do anything for me, except give me a headache and heartburn.

And it wasn't that I didn't have faith in him but I didn't have faith in the way things about him & his fans get reported.

Bolding mine. I think that's the crux of the whole conversation today, isn't it? Don't trust any reporting. But that's not really about Clay per se, it's more about the reporting, and also about US.

I remember so many after show reports where one person thought Clay looked terrible, and then another reported he looked fabulous, and so on, and so on, and scooby dooby dooby. It's all opinions, so I just wait until I can judge.

One more quote, one that I can't remember totally, so I always have to look it up. Loved this scene:

Well, I believe in the soul, the c**k, the p***y, the small of a woman's back, the hanging curve ball, high fiber, good scotch, that the novels of Susan Sontag are self-indulgent, overrated crap. I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. I believe there ought to be a constitutional amendment outlawing Astroturf and the designated hitter. I believe in the sweet spot, soft-core pornography, opening your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve and I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.

Crash Davis in Bull Durham

[tribeca]

ldyjocelyn

you definitely would would have had a headache on the AI boards one night during Spamalot (sorry to talk about different board Scarlett).

Only one person there belonged to the OFC. English is her second language. She was bringing over recaps then she wrote

OMG Clay I am crying so bad right now.

All of us where asking What happened? What happened?

Guess he twisted his ankle but they way she posted it was very scary.

You know one time I posted I was worried about something somewhere & I was quoted and asked about it like 10X. I responded once and was told I was repeating myself when really I wasn't. It was the 10 people who quoted me who repeated me. Does that make sense?

I do my best to not worry but it difficult to change that part of my personality.

Anyway, I was looking for clips of Zootopia on YouTube & they are gone:( All that is left is his 2pt radio interview. Wanted to share with a new fan Clay's cute penguin story. Someone told me Youtube is taking down a lot of videos. Not sure why.

Don't really know how to make those cool graphics but

Happy Birthday Gibby

[keepingfaith]

Two classic rants (can't have one without the other) from one of my Top 3 movies, Chayevsky's amazing and prescient, "Network" (1976) --

Howard Beale: I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's work, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TV's while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be. We know things are bad - worse than bad. They're crazy. It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, 'Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone.' Well, I'm not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get mad! I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot - I don't want you to write to your congressman because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first you've got to get mad. [shouting] You've got to say, 'I'm a HUMAN BEING, G-damnit! My life has VALUE!' So I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window. Open it, and stick your head out, and yell, 'I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!' I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your head out and yell - 'I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Things have got to change. But first, you've gotta get mad!... You've got to say, 'I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Then we'll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it: [screaming at the top of his lungs] "I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!"

Arthur Jensen: I started as a salesman, Mr. Beale. I sold sewing machines and automobile parts, hair brushes and electronic equipment. They say I can sell anything. I'd like to try to sell something to you. [bellowing] You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale, and I won't have it! Is that clear? You think you've merely stopped a business deal. That is not the case! The Arabs have taken billions of dollars out of this country, and now they must put it back! It is ebb and flow, tidal gravity! It is ecological balance! You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. There are no nations. There are no peoples. There are no Russians. There are no Arabs. There are no third worlds. There is no West. There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multivariate, multinational dominion of dollars. Petro-dollars, electro-dollars, multi-dollars, reichmarks, rins, rubles, pounds, and shekels. It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today. That is the atomic and subatomic and galactic structure of things today! And YOU have meddled with the primal forces of nature, and YOU...WILL...ATONE! [calmly] Am I getting through to you, Mr. Beale? You get up on your little twenty-one inch screen and howl about America and democracy. There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those *are* the nations of the world today. What do you think the Russians talk about in their councils of state, Karl Marx? They get out their linear programming charts, statistical decision theories, minimax solutions, and compute the price-cost probabilities of their transactions and investments, just like we do. We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business. The world is a business, Mr. Beale. It has been since man crawled out of the slime. And our children will live, Mr. Beale, to see that perfect world in which there's no war or famine, oppression or brutality. One vast and ecumenical holding company, for whom all men will work to serve a common profit, in which all men will hold a share of stock. All necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused. And I have chosen you, Mr. Beale, to preach this evangel.

Howard Beale: Why me?

Arthur Jensen: Because you're on television, dummy.

[liney23]

Internet things...

Most stuff I pass over. The biggies I agonize about but I try to be considerate and not do the agonizing all over the boards, just posting only when I've come to a good place with myself. I think it's because I try to look at things from all angles, or as my friends put it, "Scarlett sleeps with everyone." Yes I tend to do that, sometimes literally (/jk), most times not, but I talk to anyone and everyone because for some reason people feel comfortable talking to me. (Downside of this - when I'm on a potential jury group, the plaintiff and the defendant both think I'll be sympathetic to their cause so I get picked 100% of the time) I remember having a nice chat with someone sitting nearby at the Atlanta 2005 JNT, but when I declined her invitation to a post-concert dinner she hurried away. Solo later asked me, "What in the word were you doing talking to OFC-revolving-cross-<edited>?!!" I said,"Oh, is that who she was? We were just talking and she invited me to dinner with her group but I guess I scared her when I told her I'd signed up for the <boardname> party." My views are usually far, far away from this person's but I think everyone deserves to be heard.

So I try and see every side of things especially when I know a lot of people are affected. I don't want to be persuaded by anger from "the other side" or well-meaning pressure, but pressure nonetheless, from people "on my side" of the fence. And besides I don't like fences. And labels (like y'all know). I think I'll go with the hat theory. A character in a play I saw said that she had developed a whole philosophy based on hats but never explained it. I assume it had to do with people being free to put on whatever hat they felt like on any given day, which is not such a bad idea. I also try (though I'm hardly ever successful) to be independent of but mindful of others without letting go of myself, so that in the end my choices are my own and I'm the only one accountable for them.

People are people, and that's why we have message boards and blogs and all these online social structures as well as flaming and fan wars and board crises. If we were all computers, we would just send packets back and forth in the standard protocols.

Oooh, how about another game. What is your favorite movie, tv or book-character quote? (anyone remember where these came from?)

America is advanced citizenship. You gotta want it bad, 'cause it's gonna put up a fight. It's gonna say, "You want free speech? Let's see you acknowledge a man whose words make your blood boil, who's standing center stage and advocating, at the top of his lungs, that which you would spend a lifetime opposing at the top of yours.

"We mortals are but shadows and dust, Maximus! Shadows and dust!"

And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, a girl sitting on her own in a small café in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything.

Sadly, however, before she could get to a phone to tell anyone about it, the Earth was unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass, and so the idea was lost, seemingly forever.

This is her story.

"He remembered the pride filled glow that had swamped Gyoko's face and he wondered again at the bewildering gullibility of people. How baffling it was that even the most cunning and clever people would frequently see only what they wanted to see, and would rarely look beyond the thinnest of facades. Or they would ignore reality, dismissing it as the facade. And then, when their whole world fell to pieces and they were on their knees slitting their bellies or cutting their throats, or cast out into the freezing world, they would tear their topknots or rend their clothes and bewail their karma, blaming gods or kami or luck or their lords or husbands or vassals-anything or anyone-but never themselves."

Harrison Ford in Air Force One: GET OFF MY PLANE!

Will Smith in Independence Day after punching the alien: Welcome to Earth!

Yeah, no classics here either...

Scarlett... you are a very interesting person. And, you have good taste... you like Clay and you like Independence Day, one of my faves. "I shoulda' been at a barbeque." (Will Smith after kicking said alien)

You know one time I posted I was worried about something somewhere & I was quoted and asked about it like 10X. I responded once and was told I was repeating myself when really I wasn't. It was the 10 people who quoted me who repeated me. Does that make sense?

I do my best to not worry but it difficult to change that part of my personality.

tribeca... to many people, worrying about someone is the way they show they love them. I figured that out in my own worrying life a couple of years ago. Now, when I catch myself, I turn an imaginary switch and tell myself to stop it. I figured out that it helps no one and the stress was hurting me. I've really cut back and I am much happier and so is my family...

Once Clay had Parker, then came out... I quit worrying about him at all. The man has family and friends that love him, a son, and his integrity. He will be absolutely fine. I may not be if he doesn't tour again, but that's my problem, not his...

keeping... verra verra interesting quotes. Talk about topical.

[cha cha trusty]

And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, a girl sitting on her own in a small café in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything.

Sadly, however, before she could get to a phone to tell anyone about it, the Earth was unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass, and so the idea was lost, seemingly forever.

This is her story.

I never saw the movie, but I did read all the books--A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Yeah, that's a great one! Wasn't that from "Mostly Harmless?"

I love Douglas Adams, I was so sorry when he died so young. Did you know that Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy started out as a TV show and then morphed into a book? He was so bad about deadlines and getting it written on time to be broadcast every week, that sometimes he would be writing it as the players were performing it. I read this in a really cool book by Neil Gaiman (another of my favorite authors) in a book about Douglas Adams called "Don't Panic."

[tribeca]

My friend made this montage of Clay. I love it