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Posted on 08/05/2004 5:47:31 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Eleventh Thread: Wedding Edition: The Hobbit Hole XI - No One Admitted Except on Wedding Business!
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We've got movie sign! Think I'll stick in "Rocketship X-M", then. It's a really old one from Season 2 I didn't even realize I had until I was doing inventory tonight. It's got Lloyd Bridges! :)
have tried to put out a newsletter...we're so tiny that we scarcely have much to print on a regular basis. Our priest just recently moved down from Central Texas, so having him closer might make it easier to put something out, but I am sole writer/report/printer of it all. Its like juggling gossip...trying to pin down a start point is half the job.
Mostly what I have been trying to do is put together a pamphlet for a woman who works in the area as a kind of 'welcome wagon' for anyone who moves into the new subdivisions. New houses are popping up like weeds all over the place. She sees about 40 people a month, and gives them all the literature/brochures/freebies that the local businesses and churches have to get newcomers familiar with their new digs. We are hiring her because hardly anyone knows we are there, and besides putting up a huge sign and advertizing in the newspaper, which would eat up what meager income the church gets, we dont have much means to get people to our church. So we are designing/printing a new pamphlet for her ot give out to the families she visits and hopefully she will be able to steer new people our way.
Im very hopeful of this because I love this church.
Well, first of all, he could fight pirates and stuff in his own time. Then if he time travels, it might be interesting if he goes to a 20th-century fencing match and surprises some people by showing off his 18th-century skills. . .And then just about any fight scene can become an opportunity for a sword to come into play, which would be especially interesting if some of the fights occur in exotic locales linked to the plot's historical backdrop. Also, in addition to knowing fencing, Nathaniel might know some of the hand-to-hand fighting styles of his time, which could also be interesting. Maybe his fencing master taught him fighting in general.
Designing a pamphlet's a lot of work! I've done a few of those for martial arts schools.
Oh, wow, this is TV's Frank's first appearance!
Crow is on novacaine right now. Frank is running a drive-through. Joel and the 'bots are giving the new guy a hard time--trying to trick him into beaming them back down to Earth. Now he's getting yelled at by Dr. Forrester. . .
They ran a short about Appearance and Public Speaking.
Oh....and Frank has gambling debts with the Mob and the goons beat up Dr. Forrester.
plot bunnies are starting multiply....
LOL! Frank is hilarious :)
Dr. Forrester: Well, Joel, I'm afraid I'm going to have to stick it to you this week. 'Rocketship X-M' is a chillingly uninteresting assault of gut-wrenching, mind-bending, brain-blowing non-action.
Joel: Oh, a Lloyd Bridges movie? I can handle that.
Dr. Forrester: Lloyd Bridges *with* Hugh O'Brien?
Joel: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
Heart-stopping small talk action.
This movie dares you to watch it.
I'll need to review my fencing history files. I think the nobility were usually better at fencing because of more time to practice and access to superior teachers, but I'm not sure it was restricted to the nobility--depends on the place and era, probably. Knowledge of knife-fighting would probably go with fencing. There was a style of fighting popular in Spain around this time where you fought with a sword in one hand and a knife in the other, and there were probably other variations of that idea. He might also carry a small pistol, and perhaps be familiar with basic military training in the tactics of his time. Is he of aristocratic background?
Lloyd Bridges is wearing a hair helmet.
There's 12 guys sitting at a news conference. The speaker announces, "Every major newspaper in the world is represented here today." Crow: "All 12 of them. . ."
Hehehe.
They're invading Cuba with seven men. Maybe 25 minutes of training wasn't enough.
izzee gonna clean up the debris?... take pictures... I wanna see a $100 an acre brush hawg and tractor...
"They're invading Cuba with seven men."
Sounds like the Kennedy administration's approach to invading Cuba. . .
Speaker: "We are here to announce RXM: Rocketship Expedition Moon".
Crow: "Does 'Expedition' start with an 'X'?"
I ~will~ take pictures ;~D
Hehehe...
"Bay of Pigs. That what they say when Full Metal Curly goes swimming."
Lloyd Bridges to reporter: And you can quote me on that.
Joel: Oh, may I?
Swords were always for the nobility, and so was sword-training. But even the lowest peasant carried a knife. It might be the only metal object they owned, and was a tool and eating utensil first and foremost. It could be used as a weapon, but was not very effective against a gentry armed with better steel, and with the free time time to train for something that was a badge of their rank.
To this day, elites hate the thought that the common man (at least in America) can posess firearms. The elites don't carry weapons any more, but hire lesser people to carry guns to defend them. But an American commoner with an inexpensive firearm is still a substantial threat to the elites and their guards, despite the fancier weapons and training of the guard.
Dr. Forrester was getting "Hope you die" cards.
Sheesh! And I thought I had trouble coming up with plots!
They're going back to the scene with all the reporters and doing a "Salute to the Reporters of Rocketship X-M" by highlighting random extras and supplying them with fake bios. "This is the lesser-known brother of Hugh Beaumont, Spike, hairstyle editor for 'Today's Rugged Man'. He won the Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of hairstyles of 1953. Notice how Spike has donned his flying lapel suit for today's plumb assignment: the trendsetting hair helmet of Lloyd Bridges."
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