Serge @ 52: yes, but it would really have jumped the shark if the giant squid had performed similar aerial maneuvers. Or did it? I haven't actually watched television since I canceled my cable service two years ago...
And for added oddity, a quiz comparing Ms. Palin's magnum opus with Danielle Steel's Rogue.
Based on what happened yesterday, eight movies might be far too many.
Serge @ 36: had I been drinking when I read that, you'd have owed me a new laptop... :)
Carol Kimball @ 674 said:
Rather than the army of refrigerator-sized zombies with double-bitted axes coming down the street, for sheer pants-wetting put someone small, with a sharp little knife, right behind me.
So, did you ever see the "Amelia" segment of 1975's Trilogy of Terror? (Hint: Zuni fetish doll.)
Serge @ 868: I see wwwhat you did there... :)
Oh, and is anyone else having trouble with www.rot13.com? I have accessed it via both Firefox and IE on numerous other occasions, but today both browsers give me this message:
Warning: Unknown: failed to open stream: Permission denied in Unknown on line 0
Fatal error: Unknown: Failed opening required '/usr/www/users/travish/rot13/index.php' (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in Unknown on line 0
Curious...
Serge @ 334: One of the fun things for me re: that episode was when I finally realized that Dorian Gray had appeared on The Wild Wild West.
Linkmeister @ 335: That looks like a pretty creepy collection!
Serge @ 72: That's the one! And please don't worry, I think you Roquefort your talents as a compendium of cheese!
I guess I'll have to check out Sinbad-with-Seymour now, too.
Soon Lee @ 397: I think your Elemeno P should meet L.A.'s Elemenopy.
Serge @ 69: Um...hang on a sec...
***toddles off to put Frankestein on her wish list***
And while I probably have seen that iteration of Sinbad, the only one I can ever call to mind is The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad because of its cheesy fantasticness. Although I also have a memory of something I thought was a Sinbad flick that involved a villain who couldn't be killed because his heart was encased in a block of ice or crystal or something... It would have predated the mid- to late-60s because I saw it on TV. Egad, the stuff I dredge up.
Serge @ 330, 332: The Wild Wild West did tend to swing between the ridiculous and the sublime...sometimes in the same episode. The one with Hurd Hatfield, "The Night of the Man-Eating House," was particularly creepy to my youthful imagination.
p.s. to Serge @ 39: Both "Frankenstein" and "East of Eden" are available on DVD...although at least one review of "Frankenstein" says the print is bad.
Note to me: Sarrazin. Cathy. I should type better.
Serge @ 39: I LOVED that miniseries! Michael Sarazin as the Creature, David MacCallum as Clerval, James Mason as Polidori (thank you, imdb.com), and billed as "Frankenstein: the True Story". Maybe not so much.
And a few years later, Ms. Seymour did a pretty scary turn as Kathy in "East of Eden" (with Timothy and Sam Bottoms, Bruce Boxleitner, Hart Bochner...).
I liked miniseries.
Open-threadiness: to those attending WFC, be sure to check out artist Lisa Snellings, if you haven't already. She makes wonderful art of many kinds. It may make you happy. :)
Raphael @ 422: I read your post. Then I went to the linked site. Then I went to ***shudders*** Conservapedia and read a bit more of the article.
Let's see...according to other info on the Web, the KJV was completed in 1611, but went through the usual round of revisions and editions until a standardized text was completed in 1769. Hmmm...
One of Conservapedia's complaints about the Bibles available today is the introduction of liberal bias. It gives as an example Luke 24:34 ("Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And they parted his raiment, and cast lots."), saying this verse doesn't show up in any other Gospel and claiming that some of the folks who arranged Jesus' crucifixion did so know what they were doing--thus the writer of the article judges this verse to be unfit for inclusion in a conservative Bible.
The point about the exemplar verse making a solo appearance in Luke isn't a valid argument, since it's pretty much established that Luke is just Matthew with Added Goodies, just as Matthew is itself just Mark with Added Goodies but Not as Many as Luke (or so I understand from other reading). For example, Matthew mentions John the Baptist, but I think only Luke says that John is Jesus' cousin, etc.
So I wonder...did the liberal bias creep in somewhere during the 158 years leading up to the 1769 standardized version? Or was it introduced by the translators for inclusion in the original 1611 edition?
I am, on the one hand, interested in the history of the Bible in editorial terms, and would quite enjoy reading a version based on those texts deemed most authentic by the textual critics; on the other hand, I boggle at the thought that maybe, just maybe, the author of the article thinks the concept of forgiveness is an example of liberal bias--and that s/he thinks other conservatives hold the same opinion; and on the gripping hand...great ghu, the whole idea makes my brain itch.
joann @ 150--I admit to never having cooked chickpeas from scratch, but I'd like to, so I've done some puttering about online.
So far, I've found these suggestions:
1) soak the chickpeas for as much as 24 hours before cooking, putting the bowl in the fridge for longer-than-overnight soaks
2) avoid salting before or during cooking, as it toughens the skin to prevent softening (I've heard this about beans as well, but I seem to recall Cook's Illustrated testing this in the last year or so and finding salt did not cause tough skins, so...I dunno)
3) check the production date on the package, because old beans--"old" not being defined, but I'd guess more than a year or two would count--simply won't soften
4) if you live in an area with hard water, filter your water or run it though a water softener before using it to cook chickpeas
As I said, I've never used any of these methods, so I don't know if they'll work for you...but this may be a first step to a solution. Let us know how the next batch turns out!
Coming back very late to this thread, but finding I am in agreement with pat greene @ 255 re: As I Lay Dying--had to read it in college in a 20th C. comparative lit class and found the book unconvincing at best. I haven't read Faulkner since.
May have something to add to the discussion later (as I have to be out of the house soon), but am pausing to let Abi know that the link in the first paragraph refers back to this post, not to a different one.
Well, no one else has done it yet. (You probably all have better things to do.) So I will.
Re: PNH's sidelight on "Lost worlds of the North Sea," and the sad history of the exemplar city:
Talk about a Dunwich horror...
Marilee @ 256: if you were anywhere near Los Angeles County, I could help you in that goal, being possessed of five 11-month-old cats for whom I would love to find good homes. Unfortunately, if I've gathered correctly from your comments on other threads, we aren't near enough each other to make it work.
I'm sorry about Shiva, and I hope you find the right new cats.
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