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stainless-steel-rat 12 points ago +12 / -0

The prize is the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.

It was not one of the prizes established by Nobel in his will. This prize was created in 1968.

It is not a Nobel Prize. It is wrong and misleading to call it a "Nobel Prize".

Not attacking anyone in particular, but this is a common source of confusion. Especially at this time of year.

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stainless-steel-rat 7 points ago +7 / -0

I have. And I’ve visited the state capitol and I’ve seen where he was shot. At this time, it seems to me the investigation was so botched, nobody knows if Weiss shot Huey, if Huey was shot by his own bodyguards in the crossfire, or if he died of a sulfa allergy.

About the only thing I can say for sure is: I want an FN 1910. In addition to (allegedly) capping the Kingfish, it also got the Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

Wish there was a way to insert a photo here…

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stainless-steel-rat 3 points ago +3 / -0

Don’t get me started on the lie that is Panda Express. Somebody ought to sue them for false advertising,

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stainless-steel-rat 4 points ago +4 / -0

“ASHBURN, Va. -- The Washington Commanders have suspended an employee who made comments about the team's players being anti-gay, accused Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones of being racist and anti-gay, and called NFL commissioner Roger Goodell a "$50 million puppet."”

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stainless-steel-rat 4 points ago +4 / -0

I guess that Stray Cats revival tour didn’t work out for him.

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stainless-steel-rat 3 points ago +4 / -1

Dang it! Saw this thread, came here to mention “Theatre of Blood”, only to find I’ve been beaten to the punch! I like “Dr. Phibes” too, but not quite as much.

So instead I’ll say “The Raven” (1963) with Price, Boris Karloff, and Peter Lorre, is a lot of fun.

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stainless-steel-rat 43 points ago +43 / -0

I know this is a deep fake. Germany has strict gun control laws. People don’t shoot each other there.

</sarcasm>

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stainless-steel-rat 9 points ago +9 / -0

“ I reckon that 65 per cent of the men who took me to raise couldn’t be admitted to a club, a church, or a tea party. I reckon that most were unread, most were profane, most broke laws, most didn’t work, most drank too much, and most had dirty fingernails. And I reckon if we filled the schools with them as instructors today, and gave them jobs as cops, and set them up as tutors and baby sitters and camp counselors, we wouldn’t have so much of a problem of delinquency.”

—Robert Ruark, The Old Man and the Boy

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stainless-steel-rat 14 points ago +14 / -0

I’ll have to go back and look, but I remember Tom Standage in his book (“ Writing on the Wall: Social Media—The First 2,000 Years”) describing one of the prominent Romans writing essays, sending them to his friends, and getting those friends to post those in public places around Rome.

There is very little new under the sun indeed.

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stainless-steel-rat 3 points ago +3 / -0

Between books right now, but just finished “A River Runs Through It” yesterday, as a tribute to a late friend who fly-fished.

I liked “Young Men and Fire” just a touch better, but damn Maclean could write. Yeah, he was an English professor, but he was one of the breed of guys who’d been there, done that, and got their hands dirty.

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stainless-steel-rat 9 points ago +9 / -0

It won:

  • Best picture
  • Best director (William Wyler)
  • Best actor (Fredric March)
  • Best supporting actor (Harold Russell, the guy with the hook hands)
  • Best film editing
  • Best adapted screenplay
  • Best original score

The Academy also awarded a special honorary Academy Award to Harold Russell.

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stainless-steel-rat 8 points ago +8 / -0

I kind of like “justice impacted individual” in the right context.

“He was a justice impacted individual. He was impacted three times by 185 grains of justice moving at about 900 feet per second.”

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stainless-steel-rat 7 points ago +7 / -0

We’re trying. There’s currently an attempt underway to remove the Travis County prosecutor under a new state law:

https://archive.is/UijWz

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stainless-steel-rat 7 points ago +7 / -0

Newman’s Own supports a lot of left-wing causes, including organizations that advocate for gun control.

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stainless-steel-rat 1 point ago +1 / -0

100% with you here, boss.

I’m going to an event next week, and I’m already feeling overwhelmed at all the stuff I have to do:

  • find my go bag and get it organized
  • print off business cards and a package of clippings so I can get my press pass at the event
  • laundry
  • I don’t know if I have enough pants for five days, so I may need to go buy pants
  • I need to check my Dopp kit and make sure I have toiletries (toothbrush, toothpaste, shampoo, etc)

At least I’ve already been working on a list of who and what I want to visit.

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stainless-steel-rat 8 points ago +8 / -0

I read somewhere that they had replaced the pistols in modern pentathlon with laser guns.

Modern pentathlon is one of the few Olympic sports I care about, but I want them to go back to real pistols, darn it!

Let each country use whatever their current military sidearm is.

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stainless-steel-rat 3 points ago +3 / -0

Yes. The “Stainless Steel Rat” books by Harry Harrison. Intergalactic con-man is blackmailed into working for the government…but continues to pick up more than a little on the side. It is a series: my personal favorite is “The Stainless Steel Rat For President. I think you can read them out of sequence without losing the thread.

I think I’ve posted this quote from the first book here before, but I can’t find it. I suspect it might resonate with some people here.

“We are the rats in the wainscoting of society – we operate outside of their barriers and outside of their rules. Society had more rats when the rules were looser, just as the old wooden buildings had more rats than the concrete buildings that came later. But they still had rats. Now that society is all ferroconcrete and stainless steel there are fewer gaps between the joints, and it takes a smart rat to find them. A stainless steel rat is right at home in this environment. It is a proud and lonely thing to be a stainless steel rat – and it is the greatest experience in the galaxy if you can get away with it. The sociological experts can’t seem to agree why we exist, some even doubt that we do. The most widely accepted theory says that we are victims of delayed psychological disturbance that shows no evidence in child-hood when it can be detected and corrected and only appears later in life. I have naturally given a lot of thought to the topic and I don’t hold with that idea at all. A few years back I wrote a small book on the subject – under a nom de plume of course – that was rather well received. My theory is that the aberration is a philosophical one, not a psychological one. At a certain stage the realisation striked through that one must either live outside of society’s bonds or die of absolute boredom. There is no future or freedom in the circumscribed life and the only other life is complete rejection of the rules. There is no longer room for the soldier of fortune or the gentleman adventurer who can live both within and outside of society. Today it is all or nothing. To save my own sanity I chose the nothing.”

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stainless-steel-rat 2 points ago +2 / -0

Yes!

At one point in my misspent younger days, CBS was running it really late at night. I taped all the episodes I could (it got kind of hinky when NCAA basketball was on). Later on, I bought the blu-rays…

My own personal favorite is “Hammer Into Anvil”, which is episode 10, so you haven’t seen it yet.

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stainless-steel-rat 2 points ago +2 / -0

It is great. It wouldn’t make my top ten, but just barely. Top 15 for sure.

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stainless-steel-rat 6 points ago +6 / -0

I saw it fairly recently. The tranny stuff didn’t bother me, and I felt it served to show how messed up Pachino’s character was. Also, it is part of the true story the movie is based on.

Personally, I think it’s a solid piece of entertainment, but it’s not great. I wouldn’t compare it to “Citizen Kane”, “All That Jazz”, or even “Monty Python and the Holy Grail”.

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