Conference bookie::movies

Not to go too far down the rathole, but...

>  Most likely people get this phrase from "Dark Side of the Moon" which
>  was an album by Pink Floyd. It was the #1 selling rock album of all
>  time. In addition to the title song it's the one with "Brick in the
>  wall" (about the Berlin wall), "Money", etc.

"Another Brick in the Wall" (pts I, II and III) is from "The Wall", not
"Dark Side of the Moon".

				-- Bob

    
    Farther down this bottomless pit of a rathole...
    
    It's not the number 1 selling rock album of all time. It's the album
    that spent the longest amount of time on Billboard's Top 200 chart.
    It's been there continously since its release, unless it fell off in
    the past few years. But greatest number of albums sold, no.

    
    	I think Michael Jackson's "Thriller" still has that honor, fol-
    	lowed by Fleetwood Mac's "Rumors".
    

  That's funny, I heard on the radio once that it had passed one of the Beatles
albums (Abby Road I think) to become the #1 best selling record of all time.
Maybe they were having the same argument at the radio station. 

  George

    And "Another Brick in the Wall" is not about the Berlin Wall.

  Well again, must be dueling opinions.

  A few years back when the Berlin wall was being torn down I heard a report
that they gave a concert in Berlin and sang that song because it had been
written about the wall. There was something about them knocking down a wall of
Styrofoam bricks in a symbolic gesture of the real wall being knocked down. 

  George 

    The "wall" refered to in Pink Floyd's album "The Wall" is the
    psychological and emotional barrier which the protagonist has built
    around himself. It is not a reference to the Berlin Wall.
    
    Clive

    
    	So, how 'bout them Red Sox?
    
    	8^)
    

    The song was written in the late '70's and had to do with the
    institutionalization of minds and souls, such as that which happens in
    the public school system.  The theme was along the lines of conforming
    in a way that would continue to support the establishment (being
    another brick in the wall).  This could apply to the Berlin wall, but
    it could also apply to the American public school system, corporate
    culture, the current conservative bent in America, the
    straight-jacketing of the mind during the '50s, or any other kind of
    enforced conformity.
    
    They played it at the Berlin wall 'cause, well, um, it does have the
    word wall in it.
    
    If you saw the film, you saw a lot of English school students in their
    uniforms walking in a line and they all had the same face.

    Who are the Red Sox?

  The Red Sox are a baseball team that last won the Championship the year after
the revolution of 1917 that brought the Communists to power. This revolution
enabled them to build a wall a half century later while the United States was
building a space program that took us to the moon despite the setback during
the Apollo 13 mission. Meanwhile the band Pink Floyd wrote a song about a wall
which some people claim is based on the Communist wall while others say it has
a more philosophical meaning. The space program ended, communism ended, the
wall came down, Pink Floyd played a concert, people got confused about the
dark side of the moon, and still the Red Sox have not been able to win another
championship.

  But we go to the games anyway, they have to give us that.
  George

    Thanks for clarifying that, but you left out the bit about Roger Waters
    leaving the band (was it before the concert, or after?  For some
    reason, I think he was the only PF member there, but then I have
    trouble remembering yesterday).
    
    b2

    Note 952. is write locked.  What's going on around here?
    this file is out of control... where is the moderator???

>    Note 952. is write locked.  What's going on around here?
>    this file is out of control... where is the moderator???

Well, this moderator was on vacation, and another one (Dave Wiegleb) has been at a
conference.  I asked Jeff Michaud to keep an eye on things in the meantime.
I assume he created this topic to try to keep the file IN control. :-)

Please try to keep the discussions related to MOVIES.  There are other notes
files for trivia, music, baseball, etc. etc.  See the notes file 
TURRIS::EASYNET_CONFERENCES if you want to locate some of those...

-- Nina

    good job Steve!!  I was hoping someone would put a stop to this!

    but food allergies are so important...

    .15
    You can also add : avoiding going out, too many cars, pollution ....
    
    Come on there are things a lot more important in life.Just getting
    disguted by this "return" of "POLITICAL CORRECTNESS" and anyway here we
    are supposed to be talking about powder so stick to it, please.
    Powder: awesome, U just can't tell whether it's good or bad; worth
    seeing though.
    

    
    
    Scotty, set your sarcasm meter to "stun."

    re: .11
    
    Who or what is your comment directed to or at?
    
    And what does it mean?

    My guess is Harry Connick, jr.....

    
    
    re .14
    
    no that would have been my comment from .12 about Harry being a sick
    puppy while this comment was directed at .11
    
    Chris
    :)

    OOOOps! I should have checked the reply numbers better.....

    
    
    I've heard of Sandra Bernhart, the comedienne. One of Madonna's
    friends. She does alot of impersonations.
    
    Chris
    :)

    re -.1
    
    >>She does alot of impersonations.
    
    Yeah, her best is that of a comedienne!
    
    Sue

    Our 3.5 year old is named Sarah and she has quite the personality,
    hence, we call her Sarah Bernhardt, too.  However, when that stubborn,
    acting up side comes out (where did she ever get that!!! 8^) ) we call
    her Sarah Heartburn, the evil twin.
    
    I believe that the original Sarah Bernhardt did have a wooden leg.
    
    /Susan

    
    'je ne sais quoi'????
    

    Joy of life.
    
    We all see what we wish, I guess.
    
    
    E Grace

>           <<< Note 1107.6 by SNAX::NOONAN "sing the soul's blues" >>>

>    Joy of life.

	"Je ne sais quoi" means "I don't know what".

    
    
    try joie de vivre = joy of life
    

    
    Je ne comprends pas!
    
    I.

    I thought Olivia was never better than when she starred in her "Let's
    Get Physical" vid....
    
    ;-)
    

    
    
    let me hear your body talk = body language = sexual innuendo = schwing!

    
    	Olivia can't get much more obvious than:
    
    	"There's nothing left to talk about unless it's horizontally."
    

    Actor! Actor! Actor!
    

    RE:  .19
    
    That wasn't a typo.  I spell it 'acter'.  It's just my little way of
    reducing sexist language.  (*8
    
    
    
    E

Re .21

>    That wasn't a typo.  I spell it 'acter'.  It's just my little way of
>    reducing sexist language.  (*8

So by your argument, are languages that have different genders for different
nouns sexist ? Should we consciously mangle our language just make it PC ?

Simes.
(Tongue planted firmly in cheek ;-))

P.S. Are we destined for the "rathole" bin, here ?

    
    	Try listening to church hymns that you've been singing for 20
    	years now, only to find out that "my brother" has become "each
    	other", etc.
    
    	It's happening everywhere.
    

    No, I just don't feel that what I do should be dimunized simply because
    I'm female.  -ess is the diminutive of the male defaul 'actor'.  
    
    E 

>          <<< Note 1107.26 by SNAX::NOONAN "sing the soul's blues" >>>
>                             -< rathole for sure >-
 
>    No, I just don't feel that what I do should be dimunized simply because
>    I'm female.  -ess is the diminutive of the male defaul 'actor'.  
     
 
 	"actor" is already gender-neutral.
        Not only that, but "-ess" isn't diminutive, it's female.

    
    
    the whole idea that because its female is diminuitive is a load
    of Horse Hockey!!
    That's just in your own mind! And if you choose to propogate that
    attitude by butchering the language to prove a point, well that's
    your choice but I think by doing that, you are becoming what you
    claim to dislike. 
    
    Chris
    :)

Re .25

>    	Try listening to church hymns that you've been singing for 20
>    	years now, only to find out that "my brother" has become "each
>    	other", etc.

I don't go to church or sing hymns, so couldn't comment ! We all know that
language does evolve over time, but mangling it to prove a point is another
thing entirely.

I'll shut up now before I go completely off topic (more than I already have)...

Simes.
;^)

    > ...dimunized simply because...
    
    Made more dim?  Dim-sized instead of down-sized?
    
    I thought acter came from:   I act,
                                 he is acter than me,
                                 but she is the actest of all.
    
    Sorry. Cable Guy, Cable Guy! 

    Since this has become totally ratholed, and there are too many
    inaccuracies about the English language in this whole thread, I'm
    dropping the subject.
    
    E

    This horse has been beaten long past its demise.  Let's drop the
    "language" rathole and move on.
    
    Thanks,
    
    - Dave, yer moderater

   re: 1024.114     
    
>    I think the point about the spoiler was lost on you but

   I think not.  Perhaps the gross spelling error and correction was lost on
   you?

   -- Sam

    .78 Slab,
    
    Did you write this??  If you did you should quit Digital and go into
    the biz!  Very good and funny, thanks for the list.
    
    			Bart Lasky

>     .78 Slab,
>     Did you write this??  If you did you should quit Digital and go into
>     the biz!  Very good and funny, thanks for the list.

	Shawn write that, agagagagagagaga.

	Shawn grabbed that off the Internet/USENET, but just forgot to
	credit his source :-(

    UhOh...busted!

    
    	No, I didn't write it, but give me some credit here, eh, Jeff?
    
    	I received it from my sister's boyfriend and I didn't know the
    	source.  If I did I would have given the proper credit.
    

    Slab,
    
    Sorry for the pain this has become (it sure was funny though!!).
    
    		Bart