The Horror at 37,000 Feet (1973)

CBS ^ | 6/21/15 | The Celluloid Highway

[Rodd OB]

My scary movie was “THEM”

[alexander_busek]

I was writing on my cell phone and didn’t have the energy to look everything up; nor did I have a pen and paper next to me to write things down. :)

So you're saying that cell phones are actually not more convenient than big-screen desktop computers / laptops? I have always suspected that (I couldn't be sure, mind you, never having owned a cell phone myself - I never understood the need to be constantly accessible to others - and was thus only vaguely aware of their limitations).

Like in the "old days," when people would write to me and say that I should excuse their spelling of a particular word - never understood that; after all, aren't they (like I) sitting comfortably in their studies, a row of leather-bound dictionaries behind them?! How could a person writing a letter not have all the necessary resources for writing letters close at hand?! Conversely: If he happens to not have those resources close at hand at the given moment (e.g., because he is "thumbing" a message while riding a bumpy streetcar), why doesn't he defer that chore until he has the proper setting?

To me, that's a conundrum.

Regards,

[alexander_busek]

"The Picture of Dorian Gray"

I trust that you are referring to the 1945 version, with George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Donna Reed, and Angela Lansbury.

Regards,

[proud American in Canada]

“I was writing on my cell phone and didn’t have the energy to look everything up; nor did I have a pen and paper next to me to write things down. :)
So you’re saying that cell phones are actually not more convenient than big-screen desktop computers / laptops? I have always suspected that (I couldn’t be sure, mind you, never having owned a cell phone myself - I never understood the need to be constantly accessible to others - and was thus only vaguely aware of their limitations).

Like in the “old days,” when people would write to me and say that I should excuse their spelling of a particular word - never understood that; after all, aren’t they (like I) sitting comfortably in their studies, a row of leather-bound dictionaries behind them?! How could a person writing a letter not have all the necessary resources for writing letters close at hand?! Conversely: If he happens to not have those resources close at hand at the given moment (e.g., because he is “thumbing” a message while riding a bumpy streetcar), why doesn’t he defer that chore until he has the proper setting?

To me, that’s a conundrum.”

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Your post literally made me laugh. Astute observations. :)

I don’t know why cell phones are so ubiquitous. My husband canceled the landline so we can only get calls on the cell. I find that a bit irritating.

I love to write letters and cards to my old friends.

Someday historians will be perplexed; there will be no written documents to pore over. Communication will all be digital and hopefully saved “in the Cloud.” Or wherever. Otherwise, it will be lost.

And future archaeologists will start digging and find a huge layer of blue masks and wonder what happened.

[Political Junkie Too]

Movies don't generally scare me, but shows that I still find memorable from my childhood are:

• The pilot of Night Gallery, where the painting of the cemetery keeps changing.
• The episode of Night Gallery with Elsa Lanchester where she's killed but plants her finger in her garden before she dies.
• The episode of Night Gallery with the earwig.

-PJ

[ZinGirl]

Absolutely. :)

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Mine;

Planet of the Vampires (1965 )

https://putlockers.fm/watch/zGWQ9gvP-planet-of-the-vampires.html