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October 18, 2017
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I found myself in a situation recently where the topic of guns came up, and one participant was adamant about their assertion that guns are "dangerous". I respectfully interjected the following: "A firearm is no more dangerous than that chair you're sitting on. A firearm is an inanimate object. It has no intention or agenda. Its only purpose is to launch a projectile. Where that projectile lands is totally up to the (very dangerous) human being in control of said firearm. A grizzly bear is a dangerous thing. As many times as I've seen "Jaws", I'm thoroughly convinced that a great white shark is a very dangerous thing [poor Crissy, the Kintner boy, Mr. Gardner, the nameless gent who tried to assist the boys in the "pond", and of course Quint (did I forget anybody?)]. Tornados, volcanoes and earthquakes are also dangerous things because these are forces of nature that are out of our control. You could (if you had a mind to) pick up that chair you're sitting on and whack poor Phil over the head with it causing him severe injury, or perhaps even death; then blame it on the chair." Really? Nuff said.
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February 21, 2011
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Here's one for you.
Ask this question:
"Name the one thing that "guns" can do untouched by human hands, & un-manipulated by human minds?"
The answer, post these images image & the single word "Rust"
Matthew Quigley on handguns:
“I said I never had much use for one. Never said
I didn't know how to use it.”
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December 7, 2020
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3ric said
As many times as I've seen "Jaws", I'm thoroughly convinced that a great white shark is a very dangerous thing [poor Crissy, the Kintner boy, Mr. Gardner, the nameless gent who tried to assist the boys in the "pond", and of course Quint (did I forget anybody?)]. Tornados, volcanoes and earthquakes are also dangerous things because these are forces of nature that are out of our control. You could (if you had a mind to) pick up that chair you're sitting on and whack poor Phil over the head with it causing him severe injury, or perhaps even death; then blame it on the chair." Really? Nuff said.
Jaws. Why I will never take a cruise where I cannot see land:
It reminds me back when a Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into our side, chief. It was comin’ back, from the island of Tinian when we just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into that water. Vessel went down in twelve minutes. Didn’t see the first shark for about a half an hour. Tiger. Thirteen footer. You know how to tell how long when you’re in the water, chief? You tell by lookin’ from the dorsal to the tail. Well, we didn’t know. ‘Cause our bomb mission had been so secret, no distress signal had been sent. They didn’t even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, chief. The sharks come cruisin’. So we formed ourselves into tight groups. You know it’s…kinda like ‘ol squares in a battle like a, you see on a calender, like the battle of Waterloo. And the idea was, the shark would go for the nearest man and then he’d start poundin’ and hollerin’ and screamin’ and sometimes the shark would go away. Sometimes he wouldn’t go away. Sometimes that shark, he looks right into you. Right into your eyes. You know that thing about a shark, he’s got…lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll’s eyes. When he comes at ya, doesn’t seem to be livin’. Until he bites ya and those black eyes roll over white. And then, ah then you hear that terrible high pitch screamin’ and the ocean turns red and spite of all the poundin’ and hollerin’ they all come in and rip ya to pieces. Y’know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men! I don’t know how many sharks, maybe a thousand! I don’t know how many men, they averaged six an hour. On Thursday mornin’ chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson of Cleveland. Baseball player. Boson’s mate. I thought he was asleep, reached over to wake him up. Bobbed up and down in the water, just like a kinda top. Up ended. Well…he’d been bitten in half below the waist. Noon the fifth day, Mr. Hooper, a Lockheed Ventura saw us, he swung in low and saw us. He’d a young pilot, a lot younger than Mr. Hooper. Anyway, he saw us and come in low. And three hours later a big fat PBY comes down and start to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened? Waitin’ for my turn. I’ll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went in the water, three hundred and sixteen men come out, and the sharks took the rest.
October 18, 2017
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Ah, a fellow “Jaws” enthusiast! One of the rarely seen scenes (with so many editions over the past nearly half century): Quint and his assistant (does the little guy have a name?) enter the local music store to purchase piano wire (four spools of no. 12 by the way) and a young clarinet student is trying out a new reed while Quint jokingly sings along. I’ve seen it exactly once. Anyone else?
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February 24, 2013
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I haven’t seen Jaws in forever.
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December 7, 2020
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KurtB said
I haven’t seen Jaws in forever.
Jaws back on the Big Movie Screen this summer.
October 18, 2017
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July would be the 50th anniversary of when it came out. Hopefully it will be the full film with no edits.
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February 24, 2013
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My all-time favorite movies are Blazing Saddles (which I can speak the entire movie’s audio in perfect lockstep) and American Sniper.
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KurtB said
My all-time favorite movies are Blazing Saddles (which I can speak the entire movie’s audio in perfect lockstep) and American Sniper.
My all time favorite is Smoky & the Bandit. I saw that in the theater as a 13 YO kid & was completely smitten! I didn't give a crap about Star Wars at the time, saw it after the hype died down on the big screen & thought it was okay. But those images of burning rubber in a black Trans Am was first & forefront in my brain! Once I was of driving age, let me tell you...I burned many-a-tire right down to the cords. 
I do love American Sniper too. Bradley Cooper did an amazing job there. Clint Eastwood was the perfect guy to direct that one.
That same year, I read Chris Kyle's book of the same name, and knowing what happened to him, brought me to actual tears as I was reading. 
I was reading the book to my fiancée & had to stop numerous times because I could no longer speak. I truly hate what happened to him, so unfair.
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February 24, 2013
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Chris was a tragic loss!
Me and my 2 younger brothers were taken to see Smokey & The Bandit by our uncle (my dad’s younger brother) at the local drive-in theater in summer of ‘77. I was 12, Ken was 10, and Kerry was 9. No parents with us which allowed us to actually laugh at all the jokes (if our parents were there we’d acted like we didn’t get the jokes). We had a blast!! That movie is one of my faves too.
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