Manos Hands of Fate - Classic bad movie.
Hoodwinked - Kids' movie; I fell asleep.
Draft Day - Football movie that just made no sense.
Bridget Jones's Diary - Meh to the Nth degree.
Liquid Sky - Dear Lord, it's horrible. Promise me you'll never see it.
I'm aghast at your last list, EH! Well, I only saw AmHistX semi-recently just killing time, and I never saw SchindList, and only might have seen CityGod (is that the one with Constantine and stuff? Cause a movization of the Aquinas book would be cool, but I don't think so. But *Goodfellas*? OK, *Fight Club* I only saw like six years after it came out, but still.
And, yes, *BV* *does* hold up! Goddam right! Fuck Heinekin.
sorry for the font size -- put your glasses on, already, gramps! I was compelled to look up....CityGod....that won a bunch of awards and shit. I was thinking of *Kingdom of Heaven*, which was all right, I guess. So, no longer that aghast, since I haven't seen 2 out of 5 of your list either. Anyway, carry on. Obsessive addendum, OUT!
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My 300th birthday
Being seduced by a trio of French maids
Kissing my 30th grandchild
Setting foot on Pluto
Sending a PM to the millionth Mellophant member
Mind you, some of these things are remotely possible....
Moustache hair-removal for women
Back hair-removal for men (and women -- trust me, I've seen it, and felt it, actually, in the dark)
(hook side) -- eyeglass scratch-remover
Flea circus golf course astroturf
Flea circus football astroturf
Name five awesome hobbies that don't interest you
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Military rulers much less common now
Everyone speaks Spanish except those damn Brazilians
Amazon River is just amazing
Generally friendly to the U.S.
Argentines so cute when they insist the Falklands, er, Malvinas belong to them
Five excuses the Argentines have for not actually possessing the Falklands
George H.W. Bush wins Republican nomination in 1988
Wham! breaks up
Reagan's colonoscopy
Johnny Carson's eight millionth show Diff'rent Strokes cancelled
Hilbert's program [eta meant to say the problems, not his philosophical concerns] [etta i see those were 1900 at that conference -- but don't nitpick on Ehusserl's *LU* -- those were in two parts, which is why they're usually called in-line *Husserl, 1900/1901*]
EdmHuss's *Logical Investigations* published.
Death of McKinley
Beginning of the rise of the automobile
Flying machines! That worked!
Five good reasons to be slightly zen with being super-pissed at a blood relative/friend
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This, too, shall pass
Hey, you might outlive him
It's not the end of the world, after all
You've probably done something to upset him/her, too, at one time or another
To err is human; to forgive, divine; to moo, bovine
George Dewey, hero of the Spanish-American War, was a young naval officer during the Civil War.
The Confederacy did not lay a single mile of new railroad track during the entire war; they had a hard enough time maintaining the railroads they had.
The Confederate charge at the Battle of Franklin, Tenn. in Nov. 1864 involved more troops, covered more ground and took longer than Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg, Pa. in July 1863, but remains much less well-known today.
U.S. Maj. Gen. George G. Meade, victor at Gettysburg, was born in Cadiz, Spain to expatriate American parents.
The house in which Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House, Va., was disassembled after the war and re-erected during the Great Depression.
Stock Market Crash of 1929
The Jazz Singer
Fatty Arbunkle Scandal Nathan Leopold & Richard Loeb murder trial, the Crime of the century until the Lindbergh kidnapping baby. Also the inspiration for the classic movie "The Rope"
The Scopes Monkey Trial (staged by the way, staged better in Inherit the Wind )
Name 5 Memorable events of 1900 to 1909
PS: 2 other good and related one that ended up bigger than some of the above:
Penicillin was discovered and pre-sliced bread was invented.
Theodore Roosevelt became President
Wright Brothers flew at Kitty Hawk
Death of Queen Victoria
Rotary Intl. is founded
Great White Fleet circled the globe
Germany -- bad stuff.
Austria -- also bad stuff, because of Germany.
EdmHusserl died a failed, betrayed man at the end of the decade.
Those were some of the glory years for Pound's *Cantos*.
Shameful years for international modernist collectives, like Surrealists and so forth.
Name five good works of prose fiction or verse, 1930-1940
Pearl Harbor
Japanese war crimes began against the West
Quite a few well-known scholars were born in this decade
Bombing the shit of places with nukes iron bombs
Hollywood recovered from it's interrupted golden decade (the 1930s) with some aplomb
His chin
An extra wearing a wristwatch in Spartacus
Manipulating but not sleeping with Ava Gardner in Seven Days in May
His boxy suit in that movie where he played an old criminal just released from prison
Oh my God, his chin!
"Please help me, I'm bankrupt!"
"Ivanka needs some titties and then I'll raise the money"
"Joan Rivers supports me."
"I wear great suits."
"I spend less on haircuts than John Edwards"
Not enough dough
Satisfied with the suits you already have
Nothing in your size
Hate the styling of all the ones on the rack
Ax murderer hiding in the fitting room
(My two favorites: "Trump 2016: We shall overcomb!" and "There's hell toupee!")
Looking sharp!
Put too much shit in your jacket side pockets such that they tear
The trousers one is not careful about
Sick of the suits one already has
Because one is a faggot
People who still can't accept the Supreme Court's SSM decision
House falling apart
Much too rainy
People who don't return phone calls
Easily distracted by Mellophant