Bronxgirl48 wrote: ↑February 5th, 2023, 12:36 pm
Crickets at least are cute. (and have you ever noticed that Fred Astaire looked like one?)
Don't know if you get those "72SOLD" real estate commercials back east and down your way Bronxie (I believe this is a nationwide company), but this comment of yours here is very similar to the one my wife has made about its founder Greg Hague here and who's been this company's spokeman for some time...except in THIS case, my wife says HE looks like a grasshopper...
(...and which might NOW beg the question: What IS the difference between a cricket and a grasshopper?...and perhaps NOW begging ANOTHER question here: I wonder what Connie Stevens is up to now days?)
Bronxgirl48 wrote: ↑February 5th, 2023, 12:36 pm
Crickets at least are cute. (and have you ever noticed that Fred Astaire looked like one?)
Don't know if you get those "72SOLD" real estate commercials back east and down your way Bronxie (I believe this is a nationwide company), but this comment of yours here is very similar to the one my wife has made about its founder Greg Hague here and who's been this company's spokeman for some time...except in THIS case, my wife says HE looks like a grasshopper...
(...and which might NOW beg the question: What IS the difference between a cricket and a grasshopper?...and perhaps NOW begging ANOTHER question here: I wonder what Connie Stevens is up to now days?)
First time I saw this ad (which was just a couple weeks ago), I thought it was a surgically-enhanced Billy Bob Thornton.
First time I saw this ad (which was just a couple weeks ago), I thought it was a surgically-enhanced Billy Bob Thornton.
Yeah Tex, I suppose there is a bit of a resemblance between 72SOLD's Greg Hague up there and Billy Bob Thronton, but I'm not sure I'm gettin' what you meant by your "surgically-enhanced" comment here?
And, besides the fact that Greg's over-exaggerated use of his hands while talking runs completely counter to Billy Bob's usual understated manner of expressing himself.
(...btw...this reminds me here that I think we need a "Lookalikes" thread here at SSO, too...or, might there already be one around here that hasn't been commented into for such a long while that it's now buried?)
First time I saw this ad (which was just a couple weeks ago), I thought it was a surgically-enhanced Billy Bob Thornton.
Yeah Tex, I suppose there is a bit of a resemblance between 72SOLD's Greg Hague up there and Billy Bob Thronton, but I'm not sure I'm gettin' what you meant by your "surgically-enhanced" comment here?
And, besides the fact that Greg's over-exaggerated use of his hands while talking runs completely counter to Billy Bob's usual understated manner of expressing himself.
(...btw...this reminds me here that I think we need a "Lookalikes" thread here at SSO, too...or, might there already be one around here that hasn't been commented into for such a long while that it's now buried?)
This guy has far fewer wrinkles than the current Billy Bob Thornton, so I thought he looked like a Billy Bob that had plastic surgery.
BBT could have handled the direction; "Wave your hands about." He's an actor. Sure glad it wasn't him. Joe Namath is horrible, not only his obsequious face but the wares he peddles, which is a fraud. Dargo, what's there about surgically enhanced. Is it because "plastic surgery" wasn't used instead? And therefore means ... what? Or am I asking a question that shouldn't be asked.
A well-earned pat on the back to Freddie March in Executive Suite. Sure, he's callous, cold-blooded, and has a
financial ledger where his heart should be, but he gets the job done. He's organicized to the nth degree and is glued
to the bottom line to the penny. Holden? Yeah, he's a nice guy, family man to the core, but his pretty boy pipe dreams
about how to build furniture will keep the Tredway Corporation in the red for the next decade. Barbara. What does she
know? She married old man Tredway and he died. Then she set her hooks in Bullard and he drops dead too. Big surprise.
And Babs spends half of her relatively brief screen time contemplating taking a swan dive off the balcony. Lend her a little
push or better yet hand her the corporate credit card and send her to Saks Fifth Avenue. Anything to keep her out of
the boardroom. Shelley, bet your father died when you were just a child. You've been looking for daddy figures ever since.
You can do better than a middle-age, overweight lummox like Douglas, who doesn't know anything other than his sales spiel.
You'll always play second fiddle to his old lady, who is an....old lady. Look for someone your own age before the pounds start
to accumulate. And last but not least, Louis Calhern. Yes, he's a greedy so and so but how can you hate a guy whose first act
on seeing the big boss drop dead is to short his Tredway stock. March messes him up by releasing that good earnings report,
but Louie is a survivor so he'll bounce back, though he may have to cut his expenses for a while. He'll only be able to afford
a "girlfriend" who is young enough to be his daughter instead of his granddaughter, but the old boy can live with that sacrifice.
Forget Holden and the other stooges. Keep selling shoddy stuff to the suckers who will buy it year after year. Heck, GM and Ford
did it for decades until the Japanese came along with higher quality autos. And Fredric will be driving that dividend yield through
the roof. Does it matter if the dividend increases by ten cents? You're darn tootin' it does. Fred is helping innumerable widows and
orphans. Bill and his bunch will have those same widows and orphans eating dog food and using the Herald-Tribune as their bed
covers. Do shareholders want money coming in and bigger dividends? Do dogs like to eat their own vomit? Vote F.M. for president
Tredway Corp.
Andree wrote: ↑February 6th, 2023, 6:01 pm
Barbara. What does she know? She married old man Tredway and he died. Then she set her hooks in Bullard and he drops dead too.
orphans. .
According to the credits on Wiki: Barbara Stanwyck as Julia O. Tredway, daughter and heir of Tredway's founder, and Bullard's mistress
Abrupt change of topic, sorry: Anyone here like Rice Krispies? I just finished a bowl of them, with some banana slices. I hadn't had Rice Krispies in ages, I'd forgotten they're pretty good.
MissWonderly wrote: ↑February 7th, 2023, 2:09 pm
Abrupt change of topic, sorry: Anyone here like Rice Krispies? I just finished a bowl of them, with some banana slices. I hadn't had Rice Krispies in ages, I'd forgotten they're pretty good.
Did you enjoy the soundtrack? Snap, crackle, and pop? If not, your experience may have bee severely diminished.
I can only have small amounts of cereals. Do they still have Grape Nuts? Loved to pour the milk and let set for a minute or two. The only cereal under the sun that you can do that.
There is a KEDEM sweet biscuit that I measure out, put them a Zip-Lock bag and squish them into little pieces, pour milk on them, and eat like a cereal. Pretty, pretty, pretty, Good.
Yeah, all the time they were trying to make Freddie look like the bad guy when he was the only one with his
head on straight. Okay, you might not want to accompany him on a three martini "working lunch," but he gets
the job done and keeps things in the black. Holden down there in the factory parking lot glad handing the
employees and trying to be one of the guys? Heck, he's just there to stop an organizing drive by the United
Brotherhood of Furniture Workers and Glue Drippers.
According to the credits on Wiki: Barbara Stanwyck as Julia O. Tredway, daughter and heir of Tredway's founder, and Bullard's mistress
Oops, my mistake. Whatever the relationship, keep her out of the boardroom. At the finale she starts looking at
pretty boy Holden and you know she's going to go along with whatever crackpot ideas he comes up with. I also
made an error in regard to Louis Calhern's character. That sweet young thing he's with was actually his wife, not his
girlfriend. Boy is she going to have a major hissy fit when she finds out Louie is broke. I'll think he'll brazen it out and
not end up like Uncle Lon in The Asphalt Jungle. I always enjoy Calhern with his cig giving off a thin trail of
smoke outlined against his giant honker while he talks in distinguished tones about his latest scam.
When I was a teenager my mom would often fix a bowl of one of those cream of wheat type hot cereals, which I didn't like.
After she went back upstairs to get ready for a hard day of soap opera watching, I would often scrape it into a paper bag
and throw it out. Being a chocoholic I eat one of those chocolate cereals as a kid. Now I have Cheerios two or three times
a week. No bananas, no sugar, milk in a separate glass.
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Well, I see that MissWonderly has called The Breakfast Club to order.
laffite wrote: ↑February 7th, 2023, 2:54 pm
Do they still have Grape Nuts? Loved to pour the milk and let set for a minute or two. The only cereal under the sun that you can do that.
Au contraire! There other cereals whose taste improves when soggy . . . IMO. Rice Krispies is one of them. Rice Chex and Corn Chex are two more. And yes, Grape-Nuts are still around.
laffite wrote: ↑February 7th, 2023, 2:54 pm
There is a KEDEM sweet biscuit that I measure out, put them a Zip-Lock bag and squish them into little pieces, pour milk on them, and eat like a cereal. Pretty, pretty, pretty, Good.
There was a breakfast cereal discussion on the TCM Message Boards last year. I'll repeat my eternal craving and undying yearning for Alpha-Bits. Since Post retired it, life just hasn't been the same.
"Start every day off with a smile and get it over with." -- W.C. Fields
Andree wrote: ↑February 7th, 2023, 4:50 pm
When I was a teenager my mom would often fix a bowl of one of those cream of wheat type hot cereals, which I didn't like.
After she went back upstairs to get ready for a hard day of soap opera watching, I would often scrape it into a paper bag
and throw it out. Being a chocoholic I eat one of those chocolate cereals as a kid. Now I have Cheerios two or three times
a week. No bananas, no sugar, milk in a separate glass.
Flashback : As a boy of about seven, I thought it was hilarious when I scraped some unwanted cottage cheese into a garbage receptacle. i was giggling like a damn fool when my father walked in. Corporeal punishment, cruel even. If I was supposed to have learned a lesson out of that, it didn't take. Unless it was to hate my father even more. Not that I don't throw food out once in a while but I did not develop some creepy aversion or the desire to go out and kill people in my sleep.
