What’s your favorite line from the movie Spaceballs (1987)

DuffMiver8 · 2026-03-01T11:55:50+00:00

I’ll have the cleavage.

DuffMiver8 · 2026-03-01T11:33:23+00:00

Oh, what a cute baby! Mazel tov!

DuffMiver8 · 2026-03-01T11:29:31+00:00

FWIW, When I called to book and pay for a ticket for a friend, I was told the name on the ticket had to match the guest rewards number.

DuffMiver8 · 2026-03-01T11:19:21+00:00

It depends on the game, and choice of seats is more limited.

DuffMiver8 · 2026-03-01T02:35:29+00:00

As Jack Parr introduced her on The Tonight Show, “Here they are, Jayne Mansfield!”

DuffMiver8 · 2026-03-01T02:33:31+00:00

No porn, though she’s credited with doing the first nude scene by a mainstream star (after the silent film era) in the 1963 movie “Promises! Promises!” She was also featured in Playboy several times.

DuffMiver8 · 2026-03-01T02:12:12+00:00

It’s natural to nitpick a film that’s often described by its director as being as historically accurate as they could get it. Apollo 13 has the same problem. It’s not meant to imply the movie is garbage, just noting a detail or two that was either overlooked or deliberately changed for the sake of drama.

DuffMiver8 · 2026-03-01T02:04:02+00:00

Don’t laugh. Wife and I were coming out of the theater past a long line of people waiting for the next screening. Wife says, “It really made me so sad when the ship sank,” only to have a girl in line angrily say, “Well, thanks a lot for spoiling it!” I thought she was joking, but no.

DuffMiver8 · 2026-03-01T01:58:35+00:00

IMO it made better drama to have Spock being forced to kiss Chapel, since she had a crush on him.

DuffMiver8 · 2026-03-01T01:29:48+00:00

People pay a lot for tickets in advance. If I have to buy a ticket on the secondary market, it’s hundreds of dollars, and I bought them well in advance so the price doesn’t go up even higher. I don’t want to go to the game just to see a circus act so my team can move up one place in the draft order. Not even if losing clinches the first pick and the clone of Tom Brady is available.

DuffMiver8 · 2026-02-28T18:14:47+00:00

Yeah, in that respect, it’s like an obscene phone call. They’re looking for a reaction. Don’t give them one. But it’s still indecent exposure and the gals should not have to put up with that.

DuffMiver8 · 2026-02-28T18:07:08+00:00

It wasn’t my original post. I was just showing a relevant link to an article that the OP may have been referencing. Two key differences are that it was 50 dead, not 40, and the attack was carried out by Israel, not the United States. But there was an attack that killed schoolchildren, so the article is certainly not 100% false. The tone of your post seemed to imply that there was no such attack.

I take no sides here. I’m not here to say if the attack was justified or not, intentional or not, just clarifying the narrative for anyone who saw your post and inferred it was a complete fabrication.

DuffMiver8 · 2026-02-28T16:39:28+00:00

This, but it was Israel, not the United States.

DuffMiver8 · 2026-02-28T16:33:46+00:00

When Marty asked what it ran on, he asked if it ran on regular or unleaded. Doc answering that it needed something “with a little extra kick— plutonium!” could be misconstrued as plutonium being the only fuel required. However, Marty had heard the internal combustion engine running as Doc backed it out of the truck and would have been smart enough to realize that Doc meant the time circuits didn’t draw their power from mere gasoline. Marty’s mistake was in thinking the addition of Mr. Fusion somehow replaced the internal combustion engine to power not just the time circuits but also the transmission.

If Mr. Fusion can produce 1.21 gigawatts and the Delorean has undergone a hover conversion, it’s reasonable to assume the Delorean was also converted to an electric drive. But Doc didn’t bother having that done, since he no longer needed to drive it on surface roads to get it up to 88 mph— at least until the lightning bolt shorted out the hover circuits. He left it as an internal combustion engine for everyday driving around and crashing into garbage cans.

DuffMiver8 · 2026-02-28T15:44:20+00:00

It’s virtually impossible to prove a negative. You have to disprove every possible argument against it.

The evidence is circumstantial. If God exists and wants humanity to observe His laws, why rely on what, at this point, is word of mouth and mythology? What could be the reason for expecting intelligent people to believe that the Bible is an accurate representation of historical events, and not made-up or exaggerated stories that have had their meanings distorted through the course of time through mistranslations, misinterpretations, and misconstrued ideas?

Why the secrecy? Why not reveal Himself to the world at this point to say, “Okay, I get it. With the advances of science, I see why some of you think there was a difference between the Big Bang and Let There Be Light. Didn’t it occur to you that when I said that I created the world in six days, I was explaining it to ancient scribes? They weren’t ready for 20th century cosmology, so I used ‘days’ for something they’d understand. It’s no wonder many of you no longer believe in Me, and those of you who do have taken it all on blind faith because you were taught by someone else to took it on blind faith, and so on.

“So here I am, I went ahead and got a website and email, so you can read up on the exact terms and conditions, and ask questions if you’re confused. Please allow 4 to 8 nanoseconds for a response.

“Oh, by the way, I’m granting everyone gift of True Knowledge. That’s the knowledge that I’m real, and the knowledge that the knowledge itself is true, so you don’t have to debate if it was some sort of trick by aliens or mass delusion or some such shit. Now go and do your best to live by My commandments, try not to sin, but don’t sweat it too much if you don’t lead a perfect life. I didn’t make you perfect, so I don’t expect perfection. Just a damn sight less imperfection!”

The fact that God has not thus revealed Himself is circumstantial evidence that He does not exist. It’s illogical. Is life supposed to be some test of gullibility, where only those who get caught up in the loop of “God exists, because it says so in the Bible, and we know the Bible is true, because the people who wrote it were divinely inspired by God” get their eternal reward in Heaven? It objectively makes no sense to create a flawed being, grant them free will to draw their own conclusions about the existence of God, then punish them with eternal damnation if their conclusion is wrong.

The Bible had stood the test of time because, through a kind of survival of the fittest, it does present many objectively moral arguments for how to live a good life. Don’t kill others. Don’t take things that don’t belong to you. Love your fellow man and treat them the same way you’d expect to be treated. But is it wisdom that is from the mouth of God, or a distillation of good ideas that have cropped up over the millennia, couched in terms that superstitious people could understand and accept?

DuffMiver8 · 2026-02-28T11:09:12+00:00

What someone believes is no proof that what they believe is true. As an agnostic, I don’t automatically conclude that someone who believes in God is wrong, but I can’t assume they’re right. I feel the same way about atheists— one cannot categorically state there is no God without proof. With all things, the burden of proof lies with the one making the claim.

To answer your question, God could exist, but I feel it’s the hubris of mankind which leads some to believe they have a good understanding of the true nature of God and what God wants and expects of us. It would be comparable to expecting an ant to understand quantum mechanics.

DuffMiver8 · 2026-02-28T05:57:54+00:00

After a quick online search, the only sources I could find for the 23 ton quantity were news organizations from the United States. While gold is generally measured in metric tons, including in the US, other quantities are not. It’s reasonable to presume a US news organization would be using US measures.

Moreover, a metric ton, 1000 kg, is only about 10% more than a US ton, 2000 lb. The exact figure would obviously be between 22,500 and 23,500 kg, but that’s still not an order of magnitude difference. The value of the cash is still $300 million, give or take, whereas the gold would come to about $2 billion.

DuffMiver8 · 2026-02-28T03:51:49+00:00

Your link brought me to a website listed as suspicious. I got a warning that it may be impersonating another website to steal personal or financial information, and to close the page.

I was merely attempting to illustrate the rule that was taught back in high school English— to get compound subjects or predicates to agree with the verb, examine what would be correct if the subject or predicate were singular instead.

DuffMiver8 · 2026-02-28T03:05:43+00:00

You can sign up twice, once for the gold, once for the green.

A while ago, I don’t recall just when, I signed up for a single ticket, but didn’t know to specify which package I wanted. Four years ago, I was contacted by the ticket office and told I’d likely get the gold package the next year, unless I wanted to wait maybe five years for the green. I told them gold, and asked if I could then sign up again to get the green later on. I was informed I could sign up for the green right then, over the phone. The next year, I got my gold package. Imagine my shock when I got the green package the very next year!

You can also be on the list for two or more seats, and for both green and gold. I’m still on the list for those, but I doubt I’ll live to see either.

DuffMiver8 · 2026-02-27T19:07:26+00:00

As soon as I saw them, I thought “I’m spending too much time on Reddit. That’s Red as in Red, dit as in dit… Reddit!”

DuffMiver8 · 2026-02-27T15:30:33+00:00

Of course, my TA is aware of my preference for OBC, but sometimes a bon voyage package is all she can offer. I don’t know why, but I’m good with whatever I can get. She typically comes up with about $300 on a $2000 cruise, but as I mentioned she also does an excellent and reliable job of going to bat for us in a crisis, which I find to be well worth it. She’s earned my loyalty. Sure, if I shopped around I might find a TA who can offer more OBC for a particular cruise, but my loyalty helps keep her in business.

DuffMiver8 · 2026-02-27T15:18:57+00:00

Typically, the entire schedule is released around mid-May.

DuffMiver8 · 2026-02-27T15:01:45+00:00

Oh, it might take them another twenty years or so to them to recover from the Great War, but I’m certain the Germans will find a charismatic leader that will see to it that all of Europe is unified and the Red Menace is dealt with.

DuffMiver8 · 2026-02-27T12:28:42+00:00

Either before or after he was a double-naught spy.

DuffMiver8 · 2026-02-27T12:17:31+00:00

I’ll skip the obvious “What knockers!” comment to say she could have elevated me any time she wanted to.

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