As much as it’s been going around lately, I’d have thought everybody knew it was Ranklin Felano Doosevelt (punchline of the old citizenship test question; ‘What’s RFD stand for?’)
Ushindi
Saw your post from yesterday. Not to out-do you, but I went on a little buying spree of my own. Amazon.com was having a classic movie sale and I took advantage, having some Amazon rewards to help pay for it all. I picked up the Marx Brothers collection that includes Night At the Opera, Day At the Races Room Service and Go West, Annie Oaklie, Beau Gest, Forty Guns, The Fountainhead, Frankenstein, TCM Hitchcock Thrillers that include Suspicion, Strangers On A Train, The Wrong Man and I Confess. I also picked up TCM’s Classic Romantic Comedy collection that includes Adam’s Rib, Bringing Up Baby, The Philadelphia Story and Woman of the Year. I also bought a Cary Grant collection that includes Holiday, Only Angels Have Wings, The Talk of the Town, His Girl Friday and The Awful Truth. Also got a collection of Ma & Pa Kettle’s first 4 films which includes the Egg and I. Lastly, I picked up Sahara, San Francisco (as you did) and the Three Musketeers.
Admittedly some of these on the list are upgrades from old VHS tapes, but most are brand new in my collectoin.
Sometimes you can get some great deals at Amazon if you keep up with what’s going on. Yesterday I was browsing and I found the complete set of the British comedy “Are You Being Served”, for $53.99 when it had been selling for $89.99 previously. I boughted in a heart beat.
My next planned purchase will be a Ronald Reagan collection which includes Knute Rockne, All American and The Winning Team. There are still some Cagney, Bogie, Grant & Gable pictures on my wish list. If some films come back into print there will be more.
Probably Raymond Moley, a Columbia University professor, who was recruited to serve as a ghostwriter for the candidate by FDR advisor and friend Louis Howe.
BC13: I’m drooling over your recent acquisitions!
I used to know a young man who refused to watch any B&W movie. I remember telling him at the time how sad it was and what a great bunch of movies he was passing up. Can you imagine never seeing “To Kill a Mockingbird” or “Casablanca” just because they aren’t in color? And, IMHO it would ruin them to colorize them.
BC13: You really went “hog wild”, didn’t you? My B&Ws are all mixed up with my color movies, depending on the classification. I’m up to around 800 now (total). BTW, don’t forget Reagan’s most famous movie (and it’s B&W):
smoothpate said: You get half credit for your answer. FDR wasn’t talking about the Great Depression when he made that quote, he was talking about Pearl Harbor.
Actually, yes he was talking about the Great Depression. It was in his first inaugural address
openminded: I even have a copy of the movie “Song Of The South” (Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit) that Disney pulled due to complaints of racism, and that movie just isn’t available. That’s one BC13 doesn’t have, so HA! (Plus, I’m a lot nicer than BC13, not to mention younger and better looking)
Ushindi
You’re probably right about one thing - I’m a mean old SOB, but I think I’ better looking.
I’ve only got 406 movies - BW and color - but I am expanding. I do have color movies from the ‘50’s, ‘60’s, ‘70’s and some from the ‘80’s with such stars as Stewart, Wayne and Eastwood. You gotta have The Great Escape, the Dirty Harry collection, Kelly’s Heroes, Trek movies, Star Wars, Indiana Jones and of course the early James bond with Sean Connery, North By Northwest, Rear Window and The Birds and I liked the Terminator series along with Predator and The Running Man among many others.
I also have on DVD 117 seasons of various TV shows from The A-Team to The X-Files, alphabetically - and The Twighlight Zone to Enterprise chronologically - from cop shows like Adam-12, CHiP’s, The Rockford Files to comedies such as.Newhart, Mary Tyler Moore and Nightcourt. Of course there are others, but those are my picks of the litter other than having all the Star Trek Series, excluding DS9 - I hated that series. I’d like to get the complete Original Avengers series, with and without Emma Peel.
Oh, God, BC13, there were so many great old ones (like us…lol) - I have Mogambo and Bullitt, Captain Blood and It happened One Night, Ivanhoe, all the ones you’ve named (except Star Trek - while I loved the original Star Wars, which I have, I could never get interested in Trek). Pride of the Yankees, Public Enemy, Scaramouche, Singin’ In The Rain, The Defiant Ones, The Day The Earth Stood Still, The Crimson Pirate, all the Martin-Lewis films, All the Hope-Crosby pictures, every Eastwood movie I could find (including his “spaghetti” westerns) Vera Cruz, The Wild Bunch, McKenna’s Gold, Will Penney - it goes on and on. Plus, of course, like you, a number of TV Series. I also am a Western fan, so included are Have Gun Will Travel, Gunsmoke, The Texan, Wanted: Dead Or Alive, Laredo, The Rebel, Deadwood, etc., etc. Well, it gives us something to do and keeps us out of trouble anyway.
pouncingtiger about 15 years ago
I knew it had to be him or JFK.
sjoujke about 15 years ago
…..not if you’re only reading Stephen King!
fbmce about 15 years ago
Joe Allen Doty –
I trust that you’re joking or made a serious miss-typing goof.
TinyTim.odf
Edcole1961 about 15 years ago
Didn’t Stephen King say, “No guts, no gory?” No, come to think of it, that was me.
pbarnrob about 15 years ago
As much as it’s been going around lately, I’d have thought everybody knew it was Ranklin Felano Doosevelt (punchline of the old citizenship test question; ‘What’s RFD stand for?’)
Yukoner about 15 years ago
The author was FDR, the source was the Great Depression.
Dkram about 15 years ago
JFK said “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country”.
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GROG Premium Member about 15 years ago
I see another F in Skyler’s future.
rshive about 15 years ago
pbarnbob – I’ll bite. RFD = rural free delivery.
I’d say the source of the quote is the test paper. But FDR said it.
GROG Premium Member about 15 years ago
Ushindi Saw your post from yesterday. Not to out-do you, but I went on a little buying spree of my own. Amazon.com was having a classic movie sale and I took advantage, having some Amazon rewards to help pay for it all. I picked up the Marx Brothers collection that includes Night At the Opera, Day At the Races Room Service and Go West, Annie Oaklie, Beau Gest, Forty Guns, The Fountainhead, Frankenstein, TCM Hitchcock Thrillers that include Suspicion, Strangers On A Train, The Wrong Man and I Confess. I also picked up TCM’s Classic Romantic Comedy collection that includes Adam’s Rib, Bringing Up Baby, The Philadelphia Story and Woman of the Year. I also bought a Cary Grant collection that includes Holiday, Only Angels Have Wings, The Talk of the Town, His Girl Friday and The Awful Truth. Also got a collection of Ma & Pa Kettle’s first 4 films which includes the Egg and I. Lastly, I picked up Sahara, San Francisco (as you did) and the Three Musketeers.
Admittedly some of these on the list are upgrades from old VHS tapes, but most are brand new in my collectoin.
Sometimes you can get some great deals at Amazon if you keep up with what’s going on. Yesterday I was browsing and I found the complete set of the British comedy “Are You Being Served”, for $53.99 when it had been selling for $89.99 previously. I boughted in a heart beat.
My next planned purchase will be a Ronald Reagan collection which includes Knute Rockne, All American and The Winning Team. There are still some Cagney, Bogie, Grant & Gable pictures on my wish list. If some films come back into print there will be more.
CogentModality about 15 years ago
He was asked to identify the source.
Probably Raymond Moley, a Columbia University professor, who was recruited to serve as a ghostwriter for the candidate by FDR advisor and friend Louis Howe.
Dtroutma about 15 years ago
Hmmm, did Stephen King also create Dick Cheney?
JanLC about 15 years ago
BC13: I’m drooling over your recent acquisitions! I used to know a young man who refused to watch any B&W movie. I remember telling him at the time how sad it was and what a great bunch of movies he was passing up. Can you imagine never seeing “To Kill a Mockingbird” or “Casablanca” just because they aren’t in color? And, IMHO it would ruin them to colorize them.
smoothpate about 15 years ago
Quoting Yukoner, “The author was FDR, the source was the Great Depression.”
You get half credit for your answer. FDR wasn’t talking about the Great Depression when he made that quote, he was talking about Pearl Harbor.
Ushindi about 15 years ago
BC13: You really went “hog wild”, didn’t you? My B&Ws are all mixed up with my color movies, depending on the classification. I’m up to around 800 now (total). BTW, don’t forget Reagan’s most famous movie (and it’s B&W):
Oh, Bonzo - It’s Your Bedtime….
vilarif about 15 years ago
no dtroutma al gore was created for that kind of fear
BuckieKatt about 15 years ago
smoothpate said: You get half credit for your answer. FDR wasn’t talking about the Great Depression when he made that quote, he was talking about Pearl Harbor.
Actually, yes he was talking about the Great Depression. It was in his first inaugural address
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5057/
Ushindi about 15 years ago
openminded: I even have a copy of the movie “Song Of The South” (Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit) that Disney pulled due to complaints of racism, and that movie just isn’t available. That’s one BC13 doesn’t have, so HA! (Plus, I’m a lot nicer than BC13, not to mention younger and better looking)
GROG Premium Member about 15 years ago
Ushindi You’re probably right about one thing - I’m a mean old SOB, but I think I’ better looking.
I’ve only got 406 movies - BW and color - but I am expanding. I do have color movies from the ‘50’s, ‘60’s, ‘70’s and some from the ‘80’s with such stars as Stewart, Wayne and Eastwood. You gotta have The Great Escape, the Dirty Harry collection, Kelly’s Heroes, Trek movies, Star Wars, Indiana Jones and of course the early James bond with Sean Connery, North By Northwest, Rear Window and The Birds and I liked the Terminator series along with Predator and The Running Man among many others.
I also have on DVD 117 seasons of various TV shows from The A-Team to The X-Files, alphabetically - and The Twighlight Zone to Enterprise chronologically - from cop shows like Adam-12, CHiP’s, The Rockford Files to comedies such as.Newhart, Mary Tyler Moore and Nightcourt. Of course there are others, but those are my picks of the litter other than having all the Star Trek Series, excluding DS9 - I hated that series. I’d like to get the complete Original Avengers series, with and without Emma Peel.
Ushindi about 15 years ago
Oh, God, BC13, there were so many great old ones (like us…lol) - I have Mogambo and Bullitt, Captain Blood and It happened One Night, Ivanhoe, all the ones you’ve named (except Star Trek - while I loved the original Star Wars, which I have, I could never get interested in Trek). Pride of the Yankees, Public Enemy, Scaramouche, Singin’ In The Rain, The Defiant Ones, The Day The Earth Stood Still, The Crimson Pirate, all the Martin-Lewis films, All the Hope-Crosby pictures, every Eastwood movie I could find (including his “spaghetti” westerns) Vera Cruz, The Wild Bunch, McKenna’s Gold, Will Penney - it goes on and on. Plus, of course, like you, a number of TV Series. I also am a Western fan, so included are Have Gun Will Travel, Gunsmoke, The Texan, Wanted: Dead Or Alive, Laredo, The Rebel, Deadwood, etc., etc. Well, it gives us something to do and keeps us out of trouble anyway.