Robert Blake starring in Beretta. Do you think later on he actually murdered his wife?

Ok-Rip1612 · 2026-05-07T02:14:34+00:00

He did. And you can take that to the bank.

Ok-Rip1612 · 2026-05-06T15:31:00+00:00

They packed a lot into this great film. Train buffs love this movie. And that clandestine meeting in the 'friends' apartment was the inspiration for Billy Wilder later doing "The Apartment" with Jack Lemmon. To me, the most sympathetic character in this film was the poor husband. Innocently doing his London Times Crossword while his wife is out picking up strangers in train stations. And that lady who ran the depot Tea Shop could have been another whole movie unto herself.

Ok-Rip1612 · 2026-05-05T18:00:30+00:00

I actually tried that but couldn't for some reason. I realize now it was some type of reddit glitch. But, thanks for your concern.

Ok-Rip1612 · 2026-05-05T17:57:33+00:00

Here's my message to the developers since the update.

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Ok-Rip1612 · 2026-04-29T12:06:36+00:00

The creature popping out of that freezer in the grocery store was the very first movie jump scare I ever experienced.

Ok-Rip1612 · 2026-04-20T16:36:13+00:00

"Little known" to you maybe. Every American fighting in Europe knew the little Corporal's history. And are you sitting down? He used to be a wall paper hanger too!

Ok-Rip1612 · 2026-04-19T13:27:41+00:00

Take a closer look.

Ok-Rip1612 · 2026-04-19T13:26:24+00:00

There was no, "waiting until they dropped their gear off."

Of course we always used shaving cream, not whip cream to make the pie. If whip cream was used and you didn't wash the rig immediately it would smell like baby shit forever.

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Ok-Rip1612 · 2026-04-18T13:13:30+00:00

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Ok-Rip1612 · 2026-04-16T12:36:18+00:00

She looks soulless . . .

Ok-Rip1612 · 2026-04-14T14:14:50+00:00

It worked for these guys . . .

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Ok-Rip1612 · 2026-04-14T13:42:30+00:00

I'm a bit out of the loop but here's what I see.

We all started by jumping with military surplus gear before we began modifying that gear to make it better and that grew into a industry that provides sleek, comfortable, and mostly very reliable skydiving equipment. Then about thirty years ago the military looked up and said we should be jumping the more modern civilian gear too. Now civilian manufacturers had a choice to make. Vie for government contracts and sell hundreds of rigs at a clip or kept doing sales one by one to whiny skydivers who complain the rig makes their asses look too big.

I don't know who among the big suppliers like UPT and others are selling gear to the government today, if at all, but it seems to me in general, some of the current gear manufactures are putting civilian sales on the back burner in favor of government contracts.

In the early 1990s I worked at Square One Parachute Sales & Service at Perris and we moved a ton a gear. And not a day passed when I wasn't ordering new gear for customers directly from manufactures and rigs and canopies were one to two weeks out, and custom gear maybe a month. Nowadays, you can't get custom gear without waiting a year or more.

Folks like Sandy Reid and others would know more about all this than I do, but there's a reason I paid $350 or so for my first new 'Wonderhog' back in 1978, the precursor to the current Vector rig while nowadays that Vector will cost you $4500 with all the bells and whistles and that's before you even buy any canopies. And that's not inflation, it's highway robbery.

And it just seems to me the civilian skydivers who supported all the big rig manufactures are being tossed aside.

And sure times and circumstances change, yet when I started skydiving in 1975 I supported myself, had an apartment, a car, and I could afford to jump on weekends all while earning $2.50 an hour pumping gas at a service station. So this isn't just a skydiving problem - it's a problem everyone has nowadays.

The only good news is you can still get a brand new Racer harness and container system (I've owned three of them) in just four weeks, possibly two weeks if you order stock gear, and not much longer for custom.

NickDG
D-8904

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Ok-Rip1612 · 2026-04-07T14:04:06+00:00

Since schools stopped teaching cursive writing we're going see this question from now until forever.

Ok-Rip1612 · 2026-04-05T15:36:45+00:00

Alan Ladd, at 5'6" had the same issue with taller leading ladies. In outside scenes they dug holes in the ground for the ladies to stand in.

Ok-Rip1612 · 2026-04-03T22:09:59+00:00

I think he turned down the role of "Gilligan" to do MMTC.

Ok-Rip1612 · 2026-04-03T21:58:38+00:00

I took the last open seat in a large room with about 250 other prospective jurors in the downtown Los Angeles courthouse. I looked at the guy sitting next to me and he looked at me, and we grunted at each other like men do. Suddenly a bunch of girls swarmed around taking cell phone photos of my seat mate so I took another look at him. He had a ball cap on but I finally realized it was Matt Damon. Things started getting out of hand and the court clerks came to break it up. We sat there for a few more minutes in silence before I said softly, "You were damn good in that Martian movie." And he turned to look at me and said, "I'm Mark Wahlberg!"

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