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Been living with back issues since 1971 (17 YO) when two years of playing basketball with a 25 lb weighted vest (anyone remember Ollie Taylor?)...
I believe they consider them martyrs.
I understood that. I puzzled for a long time about what he was protesting-- even went back to the original remarks to make sure you had "quoted"...
He is objecting to your use of quotations on "they had it coming..." He talks about "consequences" and untoward outcomes "sooner or later" but...
We picked him FOR them not for us. NBA trades, for some reason, are not announced until after the selection is made by the team on the clock....
Patton Oswald
As I said a number of times, I'm not opposed to a black Bond. It just seems like a PC-satisfying, headline-grabbing idea. People are going to...
Well, what you hear is a British/English accent... ;) Ask them for a race or ethnic profile and whatever answer you get will describe the 50...
I get it. I've always gotten it. I wasn't aiming for the example least subject to criticism. I was going for the most stark, most controversial...
Misses 6 and 7 were at a critical juncture. My point was that we saw nothing of the "take it to the iron" Josh Smith that McHale was seeking. We...
I caught most of the game tonight. After seeing the highlights of his debut and reading the glowing compliments penned about him... he did none of...
Yes, any detail can be changed to make the story work. My example, Shaft, was meant to be stark.
Fifty years of tradition is standing in the way. I chose Shaft because it was iconic like Bond. Anything can be changed...
And Bond was supposed to be, and was, white. For 50 years. Ask Fleming. Ask Broccoli. So what is your point... other than taking an...
No. I dug that up to overturn the notion that Bond was just a blank canvas. As a character, he came from a place and had a look. As I said, if...
Bond's "whiteness" is all we've seen for fifty years... it didn't have to be brought up as it was plainly visible.
No but in our experience Bond was white and he was loved. He has been white for over fifty years and for all of our lives. You see how my mere...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bond "Fleming decided that Bond should resemble both American singer Hoagy Carmichael and himself[6] and in...
Will I get screen credit? Who's the honky private dick That's a sex machine to all the chicks? (Shaft!) You're damn right Who is the man...
just another reason to hold tight onto D-Mo, A-capella and T-Jones. Sorry Black-T... someone had to go.
