The Biggest Star ... Mark Steyn

Steyn Online ^ | 5Apr 2014 | Mark Steyn

[Rummyfan]

SteynOnline celebrated Doris Day's 90th birthday on Thursday, and several readers wrote to point out that April 3rd 1924 was also the late Marlon Brando's birthday. You could hardly ask for two more dissimilar stars, so I thought it would be appropriate to make Brando the subject of this week's Saturday film feature:

A few years back, The New Yorker published a cartoon in which two ladies discussed the appeal of Marlon Brando: "He plays galoots really well," suggested the first woman.

"No, he's not a galoot," says the second. "Like in On The Waterfront, he's much more sensitive than a galoot."

"He's a sensitive galoot," offers the first.

"Isn't that our ideal?" says the second. "A sensitive galoot?"

[Gefn]

:)

[Cyber Liberty]

Made ya look again, didn’t I? Poor girl....

:^)

[dsc]

“Some people don’t understand the importance of making the readers’ job easier. They fail to grasp there is a certain level of salesmanship in the craft of writing, one needs to beckon the reader, not just transport thoughts from one mind to another.”

Couldn’t agree more. Someone once said of William F. Buckley that he used the English language like Charlie Parker used a saxophone, or words to that approximate intent.

[shibumi]

Did I miss something?

[Cyber Liberty]

Run-of-the-mill Zot of a thoroughly unpleasant individual. The miscreant’s posts are still around to read. TheOldLady posted a link to his (?) history, and that was a nasty troll that snapped at everybody like a rabid dog.

[shibumi]

But nobody cried like for Ol’ Yeller?

[Arrowhead1952]

Do not respond to me ever again!!!

Good luck posting another comment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey, I can use exclamation points too.

[shibumi]

I always miss the really good ones.

I haven’t had anybody tell me not to post to them in ..... well, at least a couple of days.

[Arrowhead1952]

Once in a while I think, “Nah”, and backspace out entirely.

Been there and done that. Sometimes I want to reply to an idiotic post, and then think "This poster I want to reply to, is totally clueless".

[Servant of the Cross]

I haven’t had anybody tell me not to post to them in ..... well, at least a couple of days.

Speaking of not being posted to ... anybody seen "I'm not going away" jayster around the neighborhood?

[Arrowhead1952]

I miss a few trolls too. I was going down the tread to see if “it” came back under another screen name.

[fieldmarshaldj]

“Would you like a sugar cookie ?”

[shibumi]

"... anybody seen "I'm not going away" jayster around the neighborhood?"

No doubt we're being "monitored."

(It's just the very, very quiet discreet sort of monitoring.)

[shibumi]

The giveaway will be a n00bie that doesn’t want anyone to respond to him.

[don-o]

Proud of his "style", he was.

My personal "favorite" was the guy who put all his posts in a rectangle.

[shibumi]

I remember that rectangle guy - but not well enough to remember his name.

And there was this other one who posted everything in Bold Italians.

[don-o]

I see my hands.

He had a special loathing for me.

[shibumi]

That him - now I remember.

And there was “parsifal” who always ended his posts by speaking to or about himself in the third person.

I always wondered if he knew the true meaning of his screen name. He ended up as a self-zot.

[don-o]

And there was “parsifal” who always ended his posts by speaking to or about himself in the third person.

I suspected that he was Quix's alter ego.

[Arrowhead1952]

Those are the ones I “egg on” and let themselves make total idiots of their postings.