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| KaijuFanatic | Feb 28 2007, 11:21 AM Post #451 |
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| KaijuFanatic | Feb 28 2007, 11:53 AM Post #452 |
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Excellent observation, Lee and quite true! You know, I used to rip and roar and complain about the stores in our area, not carrying anything I was interested in, most of the time and Carol said what I like, most people wouldn't be itnerested in. I know what she said was true, but I also felt many retailers limit their inventory to the releases of today and only going back about 10-20 years for films. I wish they'd allow customers to fill out surveys of what we're interested in and what we'd like to see a store carry. I'd probably still be in the minority, but it might shake things up a wee bit. |
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| packmule | Feb 28 2007, 06:34 PM Post #453 |
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lol My father made a remark like this once to a business associate/friend at our house. My mother's reaction: she thumped him hard on top of his head. |
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| packmule | Feb 28 2007, 07:18 PM Post #454 |
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This sums up Best Buy and Circuit City's DVD inventories. thumbs down |
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| KaijuFanatic | Mar 1 2007, 07:05 AM Post #455 |
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| KaijuFanatic | Mar 1 2007, 07:29 AM Post #456 |
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It honestly does and that makes shopping at a retail store so tough for me. There's still a ton of classic sci-fi/horror and other classic films in other genres that could be released, but companies drag their feet, it seems. Then, if they do release a title, Circuit City and Best Buy won't carry it! I went to Best Buy, three, in fact, when the three Amicus titles were released back in August from Dark Sky Films.....And Now the Screaming Starts, The Beast Must Die and Asylum and couldn't find one! I stopped and associate and asked if they might be in another section and I had to help spell the titles and then was asked, 'Are these old films?'. I replied that they were from the 70s and was told they would special order the titles for me, but they wouldn't be carrying them in their store! very angry I have absolutely nothing against teens and 20-something adults, but not every DVD buyer is 15-25, there are some of us well above those ages and while we will buy films made today, we'd also like access to titles made 30-50 years ago, too! beating the admin |
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| packmule | Mar 1 2007, 10:52 AM Post #457 |
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Indeed. Back in late 1999 when I first started buying DVDs, and was much more naive about what was on official R1 DVD and what wasn't, I shopped heavily for discs at Suncoast Motion Picture Co(in a mall) and at a Best Buy near the mall that housed the "Suncoast" store. I would ask retail associates in these two stores if they carried Mothra, Battle In Outer Space, Gorath, The Return Of Godzilla, The H-Man, and Matango. Based on the blank looks I got, and the confused and vague responses I received, I felt as though I was talking to them in a foreign language.
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| KaijuFanatic | Mar 2 2007, 08:48 AM Post #458 |
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| packmule | Mar 4 2007, 06:29 PM Post #459 |
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That sounds like something that Ray Barone's(Ray Romano) dad might have said to his wife(Ray's mom) on Everybody Loves Raymond. That was a funny TV show. happy dance |
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| packmule | Mar 4 2007, 07:14 PM Post #460 |
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And my response after they said that would be: "Do you really think I would drive 15 miles here, nearly getting in two car wrecks in the process, then damn near get run over walking across the store parking lot, just to walk in here and admire your store decorations...further killing time by engaging in conversation with a store associate and making all of this the hell up?????"
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| KaijuFanatic | Mar 5 2007, 07:23 AM Post #461 |
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| KaijuFanatic | Mar 5 2007, 10:11 AM Post #462 |
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| packmule | Mar 5 2007, 06:43 PM Post #463 |
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More thread drift(ain't it grand? ): though I have never been a "sitcom" person I have enjoyed, over the decades, many comedy television series. My top ten, in no particular order:1. Sanford And Son 2. All In The Family 3. Night Court 4. Three's Company 5. Everybody Loves Raymond 6. Benson 7. Taxi 8. Barney Miller 9. The Jeffersons 10. The Mary Tyler Moore Show Honorable mention: Seinfeld thumbs up |
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| packmule | Mar 5 2007, 07:36 PM Post #464 |
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You know, every time I hear that word now, I think of a Guiness stout commercial.
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| KaijuFanatic | Mar 6 2007, 11:28 AM Post #465 |
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| packmule | Mar 6 2007, 05:59 PM Post #466 |
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dancing admin [british accent]Brilliant![/british accent]. |
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| KaijuFanatic | Mar 8 2007, 08:04 AM Post #467 |
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It's funny, my paternal Grnadmother's family came from Wales, England and Ireland, I'm not sure, but my Grandmother might have been a first generation American, but anyway, she was extremely proud of her heritage and I think she used phrases and such that she heard growing up and I think I picked some up from her, but 'brilliant', that has to be from the commercial. Mr Green |
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| packmule | Mar 8 2007, 06:26 PM Post #468 |
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thumbs up My father's family heritage: parts of both Scotland and Ireland. |
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| KaijuFanatic | Mar 9 2007, 04:16 PM Post #469 |
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That's cool. :) Many years ago, long before both my grandparents passed away, someone on Granddad's side of the family did a family history that was quite fascinating. A member of Granddad's family....some sort of clergyman offered the prayer bfore the Mayflower set off for America. He didn't make the trip, but he offered a prayer. Then, another member of Granddad'd family married a Native American and she had the neatest name......Thankful Hawk! I love stuff like that. Mr Green |
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| packmule | Mar 9 2007, 07:48 PM Post #470 |
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My father and I once sat down with some really ancient diaries passed along on my father's side of the family. I never knew my grandfather, who died, at age 77(1885-1962), in the year I was born, 1962. My grandfather did keep excellent written records of his life, and his own father, who would be my great-grandfather, who was born in 1848, and worked on a plantation in South Carolina. My great grandfather, who wholly disapproved of slavery, taught, in secrret, all of the slaves who worked at this plantation how to read and write-later, after the Emancipation Proclamation of 1864 was signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln, my great grandfather helped sneak a great many slaves off the plantation, at great personal risk to his own life, and help them move north by train, as many of the newly free black men, as he wrote, wanted to move north in order to join the Union Army. Reading of my great grandfather's exploits was like reading a history book. |
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| KaijuFanatic | Mar 10 2007, 10:18 AM Post #471 |
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Very true and I'd say your family history has some very interesting stories to tell. |
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| packmule | Mar 10 2007, 08:06 PM Post #472 |
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I agree. I wish I had known my grandparents. :( |
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| KaijuFanatic | Mar 11 2007, 04:55 AM Post #473 |
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I feel very fortunate to have had my paternal grandparents with me for 29 and 38 years and my maternal grandmother is still with us, she's going to celebrate her 80th birthday on 02 April. I lost my maternal grandfather when I was 2, but actually can remember a couple of times with him! |
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| packmule | Mar 11 2007, 07:42 PM Post #474 |
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thumbs up :( thumbs up |
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| KaijuFanatic | Mar 12 2007, 09:21 AM Post #475 |
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I miss having Grandma and Graddad around, as it was great fun, picking their brains for memories of their youth. Dad has even said there's been times he thought he wanted to know something and was going to ask Grandma and/or Granddad and suddenly remembered, he couldn't ask them! That's sad and scary at the same time! |
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| packmule | Mar 12 2007, 05:12 PM Post #476 |
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Seniors, that is, elderly folks, should, IMO, always be revered, and respected. I consider Mrs. C, my 86 year old landlord, as the grandmother I never had before, but, fortunately for me, I have now. thumbs up |
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| KaijuFanatic | Mar 13 2007, 07:12 AM Post #477 |
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Agree with your feelings and that's nice that you and Mrs C have such a nice relationship.....everyone needs a Grandma in their life. :) |
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| packmule | Mar 13 2007, 04:59 PM Post #478 |
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A long time ago I would have a drawn a blank had someone told me this. Now, I understand, and wholeheartedly agree. thumbs up |
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| KaijuFanatic | Mar 14 2007, 07:15 AM Post #479 |
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It's funny, my Mom and Dad's family's were neighbors and both Grandma's and Grandfather's were friends, but they all couldn't have been more different. Dad's parent's were a good 10+ years older than Mom's parent's and my relationship with my Grandma's was quite different. Grandma Davis was more nurturing, although very devilsh and full of fun while Grandma Repsher is not as nurturing and she and I have butted heads on several occasions, but I love/loved them both dearly and wouldn't change my relationships with either. It's odd, Grandma Davis has been gone almost 13 years, now, in fact, at the end of this month, it will be 13 years and I miss her every single day. |
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| packmule | Mar 14 2007, 04:51 PM Post #480 |
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:( May your Grandma continue to, and always, Rest In Peace. |
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): though I have never been a "sitcom" person I have enjoyed, over the decades, many comedy television series. My top ten, in no particular order:
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