The Worthless Thread for Specifically Increasing Post Numbers

Ransom said:
"Raymond the Wolf passed away in his sleep one night from natural causes; his heart stopped beating when the three men who slipped into his bedroom stuck knives in it."--Jimmy Breslin, The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight
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i looked this up.... ... i think i;m gonna have to watch this one... ...:ROFLMAO:

 
aleshanee said:
i looked this up.... ... i think i;m gonna have to watch this one... ...:ROFLMAO:
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I've not seen the movie. (At least it's got DeNiro in it, before he became famous!)

I read the novel it's based on when I was in high school and thought was a hoot, but that quote above is the only thing I ever distinctly remember about it. (Based on that, you may judge its literary merits for yourself...)
 
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Ransom said:
I've not seen the movie. (At least it's got DeNiro in it, before he became famous!)

I read the novel it's based on when I was in high school and thought was a hoot, but that quote above is the only thing I ever distinctly remember about it. (Based on that, you may judge its literary merits for yourself...)
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i didn;t recognize deniro at first in the trailer... ...i;m not use to seeing him that young ..... ...i am gonna order the book and add it to my reading list.... but i will probably watch the movie first... ....it;s rare for a move to be a better than the book... ....i;ll take the chance this one isn;t...📖
 
here are 2 pictures.. (shot from 2 different angles).. of an iron machine gun pillbox .... the u.s. military placed many of these on various pacific islands during world war 2 - in anticipation of beach assaults by the japanese.... .. ..but there are no documented cases of an attack occuring where one of these bunkers was placed.... ....

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this picture ..(which is on the semi-restored pillbox at the fort derussy military museum - honolulu - shown below)..... shows how it was installed - with a piece of culvert/pipe underground leading to it;s entry port .... veterans of the war say this kind of post would have been a hot - stuffy - and miserable post to man...... and also a death trap if an attack came from anything bigger than small arms....... .....i just remember thinking it would have been a cool thing to play around in before they installed that steel grating over the entry ports.....

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aleshanee said:
here are 2 pictures.. (shot from 2 different angles).. of an iron machine gun pillbox .... the u.s. military placed many of these on various pacific islands during world war 2 - in anticipation of beach assaults by the japanese.... .. ..but there are no documented cases of an attack occuring where one of these bunkers was placed.... ....

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this picture ..(which is on the semi-restored pillbox at the fort derussy military museum - honolulu - shown below)..... shows how it was installed - with a piece of culvert/pipe underground leading to it;s entry port .... veterans of the war say this kind of post would have been a hot - stuffy - and miserable post to man...... and also a death trap if an attack came from anything bigger than small arms....... .....i just remember thinking it would have been a cool thing to play around in before they installed that steel grating over the entry ports.....

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Was this the runner up design for Obama's presidential library?
 
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