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by ElCid
December 26th, 2022, 2:30 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Cars (and other vehicles) in movies and TV.
Replies: 13
Views: 1445

Re: Cars (and other vehicles) in movies and TV.

I believe there is a range of interests in cars and other vehicles. I'm a car guy. For myself, it has always been more about style and so forth than power. To me, the engine is what makes the car go and as long as sufficient to get up to cruising speed in reasonable time and to do about 75 MPH or l...
by ElCid
December 26th, 2022, 2:21 pm
Forum: General TV and Media
Topic: What are you reading?
Replies: 1586
Views: 426107

Re: What are you reading?

The Big Book of Female Detectives, edited by Otto Penzler. He has a lot of similar collections, but picked this one up a couple of months ago. It covers 150 years or so of short stories about female detectives. Goes all the way back to British stories in 1864. I skipped to the Pulp Era (1920's-30's)...
by ElCid
December 26th, 2022, 2:05 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Cars (and other vehicles) in movies and TV.
Replies: 13
Views: 1445

Re: Cars (and other vehicles) in movies and TV.

Could only find it as pay per view, so not inclined to watch it.
Actually not a fan of motorcycles due to the manner in which most owners use theirs.
by ElCid
December 26th, 2022, 9:31 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Cars (and other vehicles) in movies and TV.
Replies: 13
Views: 1445

Re: Cars (and other vehicles) in movies and TV.

Well Cid, considering your thread title here included the words "and other vehicles", as opposed to the long-running similar thread back at the TCM.com forum, AND considering as you probably know I've been into motorcycles since the age of 15, how about if I now post the movie trailer for...
by ElCid
December 26th, 2022, 9:25 am
Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
Topic: The Falcon movies
Replies: 6
Views: 1275

The Falcon movies

This is a continuation of a discussion that began on another thread about something else. First, TCM continues its Saturday morning presentations of Falcon movies on Sat., Jan. 7 with The Falcon's Brother. This is the one where George Sanders real brother Tom Conway takes over the Falcon role. Secon...
by ElCid
December 25th, 2022, 3:38 pm
Forum: Games and Trivia
Topic: Movie trivia?
Replies: 110
Views: 43240

Re: Movie trivia?

Raymond Chandler's classic mystery "Farewell My Lovely" was filmed as "Murder My Sweet" with Dick Powell and later with the original title with Robert Mitchum. However, before either of those movies were made, another version, a "B" movie version, was made. It was show...
by ElCid
December 25th, 2022, 2:24 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Cars (and other vehicles) in movies and TV.
Replies: 13
Views: 1445

Cars (and other vehicles) in movies and TV.

The automobiles that show up in movies and TV have always interested me. Trains too for that matter. Been watching episodes of US Marshal TV series from late 50's. The marshal drove a 1958 De Soto Fireflite station wagon - most expensive vehicle De Soto sold. Other officers drove other De Sotos most...
by ElCid
December 24th, 2022, 2:13 pm
Forum: Polls
Topic: POLL: Do you want a Like button? Poll has ended!
Replies: 327
Views: 35229

Re: POLL: Do you want a Like button? Poll has ended!

LawrenceA wrote: December 24th, 2022, 2:05 pm You guys need to practice your quotation formatting. It's becoming a nigh-unreadable mess.
I agree. I scroll down to bottom where last quote shows, scroll few more lines and then start typing. Let's see how this one worked.
by ElCid
December 24th, 2022, 1:55 pm
Forum: Polls
Topic: POLL: Do you want a Like button? Poll has ended!
Replies: 327
Views: 35229

Re: POLL: Do you want a Like button? Poll has ended!

[/quote] OK, I assume you are referring to me as the male? This was not an election and there are no standards for winning or losing - that is up to the Administrators to determine. It was a recommendation by one new member who then created a poll to garner support for his recommendation. It in eff...
by ElCid
December 24th, 2022, 10:50 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Holiday Surprises
Replies: 6
Views: 3007

Re: Holiday Surprises

Surprise here was that in northwestern S.C. the temperature dropped to 9 degrees and high will be in 20's. Although that is not totally unusual, usually happens in Jan or Feb. Temps. around Christmas were 70 a couple of years ago.
But will be sunny and 56 on Thursday.
by ElCid
December 24th, 2022, 10:37 am
Forum: Polls
Topic: POLL: Do you want a Like button? Poll has ended!
Replies: 327
Views: 35229

Re: POLL: Do you want a Like button? Poll has ended!

It isn’t immediately to me either who the other individual is who offended you (the male one). There are lots of people from both sides who contested the poll. It isn't really important who the other individual is. When TCM announced the sunsetting, I posted about how, although of course we love to...
by ElCid
December 24th, 2022, 10:36 am
Forum: Polls
Topic: POLL: Do you want a Like button? Poll has ended!
Replies: 327
Views: 35229

Re: POLL: Do you want a Like button? Poll has ended!

It isn’t immediately to me either who the other individual is who offended you (the male one). There are lots of people from both sides who contested the poll. This is what Cuthbert posted not me. Once again I managed to foul up quoting someone. It isn't really important who the other individual is...
by ElCid
December 23rd, 2022, 5:22 pm
Forum: Noir Alley
Topic: Noir Alley
Replies: 1357
Views: 134088

Re: Noir Alley

This is new to me, but others may have known about it for quite some time. I went to TCM.com and noted the list on the left of home page showed Noir Alley so I went there. Has some interesting information re: what noir is, what Noir Alley is all about, lists upcoming features and so forth.
by ElCid
December 23rd, 2022, 5:19 pm
Forum: Polls
Topic: POLL: Do you want a Like button? Poll has ended!
Replies: 327
Views: 35229

Re: POLL: Do you want a Like button? Poll has ended!

Of course I don't mean you. There are two others -- a woman and a man -- who have behaved in a manner that I would have thought to be beneath them, having observed them these many years (and besides, I had no idea that was a stomach!). I assume you prefer not to give names, but at least to me it is...
by ElCid
December 23rd, 2022, 5:15 pm
Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
Topic: TCM announces it is sunsetting the TCM Forums
Replies: 520
Views: 54112

Re: TCM announces it is sunsetting the TCM Forums

Username "notananimal" posted this on the other site: " Just an FYI to any who may care, the TCM board is currently being backed up. Tried to reach out to the people on SSO as well, but their registration system is screwed up (never receiving activation emails, no board administrator...