Re: In its first 5 days in theatres in 1976, Logan's Run grossed $2.5 million, a substantial sum at the time.

[ARW]

And more importantly Jenny Agutter got her t*ts out.

[ARW]

Forgot the link

[Fredxx]

The line "let's take our clothes off before they freeze on us" has never worked for me!

[RDS]

I bet they don't look like that now!!!!

[ARW]

Now that brings me to a philosophical question I asked in the pub the other day.

You are on a boat with Helen Mirren, Joanna Lumley and Jenny Agutter.

The boat is sinking and you need to throw one of them overboard for the rest of you to survive.

Who would you choose?

[The Natural Philosopher]

Never seen that. she always seemed a bit dim, but the t*ts are very nice.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Agutter.

[Brian Gaff]

Is this thread still going on, in any case, here in the UK we call them Cinemas, not Theatres. Theatres are where live acts perform, And movies are films over here.

Brian

[Bob Eager]

Well, the leftpoindians call them theaters!

[The Natural Philosopher]

Theatres are where you go to sleep and wake up with bits missing and a morphine habit...

[Max Demian]

Actually "movie" would be better as they are moving pictures. Films are found in still cameras as well as cine cameras and, in any case nowadays they are all digital.

Presumably Canadians call them "theatres".

(I can never get my head around what Canadians do. Sometimes they are USA, sometimes British. I think they mostly use British spellings of words. What about courts: wigs or not? Prisoner in the dock or sitting next to the defence lawyer? Do they call tortoises tortoises and terrapins terrapins or all chelonians turtles like in the US? )

[Max Demian]

Why a morphine habit?

[The Natural Philosopher]

I'm joking, but I did eventually wake up with eyes like pinpricks and floating on cloud nine. I remember being woken up in the middle of the night by a nurse who said 'on scale of 1-10, how is the pain?' and at the third time of asking I was gone...

When it wore off I grabbed the co-codamol. But it wasnt the same.

[Rod Speed]

Only you lot are that silly.

Same with the stupidly expensive Horse Guards tourist trap.

They don't have any of those, too cold.

They do have hordes of 4 engined mosquitos in summer tho.

[Paul]

You're referring to a tenplex or a cineplex, which is a facility filled with inadequate viewing rooms.

It's a building where nacho cheese goes to die.

I think we refer to that building, as "the place with the sticky floors".

Because the ticket price is so high, only drug dealers in flash cars go there.

There isn't even a sign out front, saying "Now playing".

At one time, the neighbourhood kids used to walk down there in threes and fours. Now, there's no foot traffic like that, and it's all flash cars parked out front.

Paul

[Paul]

There are still turtles here.

Near me, there are still "swamps". Multiple of them.

The mosquito situation in my yard, is not as bad as it used to be.

But if you go out into the bush, they can be pretty nasty. My brother was studying to be a geologist in university, and after being exposed to the bush in New Brunswick, and being told he would be doing field work more than once in areas like that, he quit studying geology. He is positively *mental* about mosquitoes. If you said that word, he would get flushed in the face, his blood pressure would shoot up. Even if you wear a screen hat, they won't leave you alone. In the bush, you cannot wear enough repellent to stop them. Remember, you're in their swamp, and... you smell like LUNCH :-)

One of the reasons moose run out in the road, is mosquitoes and the amount of blood loss. In a good swamp, a moose will remain partially covered by water while feeding. But the above-water section will get eaten alive. And it makes them, just as nutty as my brother :-) Except they can't move to an urban area and get an office job.

One of my bicycle paths had moose crap on it. And what does that tell you ? It tells you to keep a weather eye peeled. (It means you dare not drive that path after dark -- day trips only.) You don't want to meet a 1000 pound moose, while driving a mere bicycle. Especially if it is running away from mosquitoes.

I've had coyotes, a bear, raccoons, skunks, wild turkeys (six of them in a pack), rabbits, foxes (further in town), deer, moose (not sighted, just spore). Bull frogs. Turtles. Snakes (the pitiful varieties, nothing exotic). When you find dead Canada Geese here, it means a predator has a den nearby.

The geese paddle around offshore here, because of predation after dark. Well, one evening, something *BIG* entered the water (there was a big splash), swam out, grabbed a goose. But for land animals to do this, they're not all that efficient killers in the water. That goose must have been bitten near the water line, because it took about ten minutes to die, and it honked and honked the whole time. I did not see what it was that entered the water, as it was too dark.

Yes, we have wild life here, and it's never too far away.

The coyote, an adult and a youngster, are the latest things to watch for. They would normally never get this close to us. In some communities, they snatch small dogs. Which means, if you were smart about the coyote sightings, you'd develop some different habits about small dog walking ("treats, on a leash").

Paul

[Max Demian]

I was thinking of pets. And pet terrapins. The "Mutant ninja turtles" were pet terrapin flushed down the bog to be mutated by radiation or whatever. Doesn't sound very scientific.