Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for July 17, 2017

Georgiy must have wonderful car insurance. (Never thought of that with the larynx.)

Double karma.

Trees are a curse. Everybody wants them till they crush the car or the house. After a hurricane the tree huggers down the road couldn’t get out of the house. Trees down everywhere. They had all the trees removed, LOL! The writers hated the line round up the usual suspects in Casablanca and were stuck for an alternative. Of course it became memorable. I talk talk to myself, heck with subvocalizing. If you are afraid you will be thought weird, wear and ear plug phone. Everyone is talking to themselves with them.

Okay lets have a show of hands. How many people put their fingers on their throats to see if they could detect movement whaile re-reading that bit about the larynx?

They say talking to yourself is ok as long as you don’t answer. I say talking to yourself is a waste of time if you don’t answer.

Since the film “Casablanca” was based on a stage play titled “Everybody Comes to Rick’s” I don’t think the screenplay writers (there was more than one) were in significant doubt about how to finish it up after the filming started.

Georgiy is going to have his insurance cancelled.

Casablanca’s closing line is a rare example of executive meddling done right.

I’ve read sci-fi stories in which “sub-speech” gets registered by machines. If the larynx moves, maybe it’s not so far-fetched.

Saw an article back in the 80’s where a guy took the screenplay of Casablanca, changed the title, and shopped it around the studios. Only one guy recognized it; the rest turned it down.

I win all the arguments with myself.