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Re: Baa Baa Black Sheep
« Reply #25 on: February 13, 2018, 12:41:20 PM »
Quote from: Mike Irwin on February 13, 2018, 10:44:02 AM
"Now,  most tv shows run a shocking 42-44 minutes,  again depending on network and time."

Which is why I DVR almost everything and watch it after the fact, so I can blitz through the bullshit.
Ditto.
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Re: Baa Baa Black Sheep
« Reply #26 on: February 13, 2018, 01:00:18 PM »
Quote from: HankB on February 13, 2018, 12:41:20 PM
Ditto.

Yup. Without a DVR, I would just blow off most of network TV. I know some people just do stuff during the breaks, but I can't do that either. Not only is it too disjointed, but I remember pre-DVRs, I used to cuss like a sailor if I went to the kitchen during a commercial and got back ten seconds too late and missed some cliffhanger thing. I could mostly live with a 60-90 second break though "in the olden days". Four minutes of commercials every ten minutes is just too damn much.

I couldn't handle shows like The Walking Dead at all. After the first act, the commercials get ridiculous. Without hyperbole, I think the commercial break/act periods are nearly the same amount of time. It feels like I'm hitting FF every five minutes after the first fifteen.
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Re: Baa Baa Black Sheep
« Reply #27 on: February 13, 2018, 01:39:33 PM »
Anymore it's much like a comic I saw once... I THINK the caption was something like "When Commercials Have Gotten Out of Hand" or something like that.

Three panels, guy on a sofa watching TV. Only movement is the "sound" coming from the TV.

First panel, TV sound bubble is saying: "And now back to our feature presentation!"

Second panel: "The"

Third panel: "We'll be right back after a word from our sponsors!"

There have been times where it's felt like that, too.
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« Reply #28 on: February 13, 2018, 02:06:05 PM »
Quote from: Jim147 on February 12, 2018, 07:40:28 PM
I had friends that worked the combat air museum at Forbes Field. I met Boyington around 1985 seemed like a pretty neat guy. Not sure what happened to the signed copy of his book.

I was fortunate enough to chat Boyington at a couple of different airshows I attended with Sentimental Journey back in the '80s.  He was a genuinely nice guy.
He had a ghost writer help him complete his book after he stalled out in writing it.  I forget how many years the manuscript languished until the ghost writer joined the project.  You can definitely tell where Boyington left off and the ghost writer picked it up.
I have an autographed copy in my library.
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Re: Baa Baa Black Sheep
« Reply #29 on: February 13, 2018, 02:13:47 PM »
Quote from: TommyGunn on February 12, 2018, 11:32:26 PM
I used to enjoy BAA BAA BLACKSHEEP.    My father was a ex Navy officer,  he once met Col. Boyington while in the submarine service at Groton Connecticut.  He claimed Boyington was a "drunken bum."

He was that, in spades.  He covers it pretty thoroughly in his book, readily admitting to having a serious drinking problem that cost him dearly over the years.
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Re: Baa Baa Black Sheep
« Reply #30 on: February 13, 2018, 02:56:48 PM »
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Re: Baa Baa Black Sheep
« Reply #31 on: February 13, 2018, 03:45:22 PM »
Quote from: RocketMan on February 13, 2018, 02:13:47 PM
He was that, in spades.  He covers it pretty thoroughly in his book, readily admitting to having a serious drinking problem that cost him dearly over the years.

"You show me a hero, and I'll show you a bum." ~Pappy Boyington
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Re: Baa Baa Black Sheep
« Reply #32 on: February 14, 2018, 02:48:36 AM »
Quote from: Jocassee on February 13, 2018, 03:45:22 PM
"You show me a hero, and I'll show you a bum." ~Pappy Boyington

Close, it's "It's my estimation that every man ever got a' statue made of him was one kind of sommbitch or another."
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Re: Baa Baa Black Sheep
« Reply #33 on: February 14, 2018, 08:16:50 AM »
Quote from: Amy Schumer on February 14, 2018, 02:48:36 AM
Close, it's "It's my estimation that every man ever got a' statue made of him was one kind of sommbitch or another."

Wow. I'll have to track down that discrepancy. I like yours better
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Re: Baa Baa Black Sheep
« Reply #34 on: February 14, 2018, 03:13:28 PM »
Quote from: Jocassee on February 14, 2018, 08:16:50 AM
Wow. I'll have to track down that discrepancy. I like yours better

https://youtu.be/ica2n8y7wKE?t=3151

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« Reply #35 on: February 23, 2018, 08:51:27 AM »
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Re: Baa Baa Black Sheep
« Reply #36 on: February 23, 2018, 09:50:48 AM »
Wow. I'd never heard any of that before!
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