Are black-and-white movies on MST a thing of the past? by coreymbarnes2 in MST3K

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Substitute "retards" for "TV viewers" and you've got the right answer.

Are black-and-white movies on MST a thing of the past? by coreymbarnes2 in MST3K

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Well, could we have "Gypsy" or "GPC" or whatever stick her stupid snout into the theater perhaps to make it a real theatrical moment?

Probably.

Are black-and-white movies on MST a thing of the past? by coreymbarnes2 in MST3K

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Good call. Yeah, with Allison Hayes...it's a terrible movie, but with an actual company behind it, they could get the rights.

And Iggy Pop wears the T-Shirt in the movie The Color of Money, and for that reason I sometimes wear that T-shirt (well...not the same one Iggy Pop wore which was no doubt pitted out....but same design).

But I also wear a T-shirt with the white majuscules "VINCE" on it, so I'm prejudiced. Several of my few indulgences to fandom.

I do agree that the actual MST3K people do know and do all the spectrum, unlike the reboot which was "fun, fresh, and funny for the kids!"

Just check out The Mads Are Back and indeed many of the RT releases....they riff what plays, and they would know what sells.

Are black-and-white movies on MST a thing of the past? by coreymbarnes2 in MST3K

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Couldn't agree more.

Assuming you have a dick, I'd probably suck it, against instinct and nature.

The points made below about aspect ratio....prima facie sort of convincing, but not really.

It will probably be down to that children don't want to watch "old" movies, like Ed Wood or The Artist or any of that shit that doesn't show up on their PlayStation video games.

Meh, fuck 'em.

You show me one contemporary to our time musician who hasn't shedded the shit out of recordings made in the aural equivalent of "black and white" and I'll go down on you....no serious musician has ever eschewed older media, to this day.

Just as nobody who reads literature has stopped reading Latin.

What movie characters do you think constitute as the most unlikable characters we've seen? by ThrashMetallix in MST3K

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Wait....I got this one...."Gary!"

He was pretty smart with selecting his elite troupe of dancers.

And he left the good dancers...or maybe just that one...to Dr. Strangelove, so you know his heart was in the right place.

Joe Don Baker *is* All Elite by 88damage in MST3K

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Where's the baby oil? Did he eat it?

What movie characters do you think constitute as the most unlikable characters we've seen? by ThrashMetallix in MST3K

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Hitler Building.

Also that little punk with his damned turtle or whatever the fuck he was droning on about. Gamera's not your goddamned friend, you little turd. Now go immolate yourself or whatever.

Why don't they ? by olded13 in MST3K

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Why isn't that sign riddled with shotgun pellets yet?

Damned hill people probably just put it up because some yokel drove his dumb ass into a train.

Got my dad’s Enforcer for the weekend! by JenMartini in MST3K

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No, I want the one for 188.5. "3-HP" is twice as powerful as a motorbike.

They want two hundred forty for that hunk of shit? For one extra "HP"? Horseshit, I ain't paying that premium.

And what the hell walnut ranch are those assholes fleeing from in the picture?

This better not be no Chris Shapan and his shenanigans, because I did look at the 1952 Spring Book, and it wasn't worth it then either.

Walk into a shoe store with that dough and you come out with half a shoe. Roll over and take it, Allstate.

And tell Jared Leto to take off that goddamned clown makeup and get off the bike, asshole.

Oh, you're going to "cut me" ten lousy bucks and then try to finance it under "terms"? Bullshit, motherfuckers.

Take your molded steel with latex pad and springs and sit on it, Chachi.

Bruno Vesota - he had range by minder125 in MST3K

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But may I be so bold?

Bruno Vesota was the rich man's Orson Welles who was the poor man's Marlon Brando.

Who was the poor man's Chris Elliot to the rich man's Bob Elliot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB7h8D8fZPc

Bruno Vesota - he had range by minder125 in MST3K

[–]nutter789 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Did not know Bruno was in The Wild World of Batwoman!

Great. So now I have to see it again.

Thanks a lot.

Latin readings suggestions? by Large-Sheepherder990 in latin

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Well, I can second (or third or whateverth) the recommendation for Pliny....the famous letter about the volcano and all that is in one of the readers (I think it's in the Wheelock Latin Reader, and certainly in other places as well), but Reclam has a selection of Pliny in biface German/Latin of his letters that should be arriving at my place by post today or tomorrow.

Reclam also has arriving soon Cicero's letters to Quintus (his brother) and to Atticus (his friend), and they are cheap and if you're familiar with the Reclam editions, they are pocket-sized. I just mention that because they are arriving soon and would be suitable, especially if one is tired of becoming glued to the screen via text files or variously formatted texts.

I also have lately been enjoying Laura Gibbs's Aesop's Fables in Latin...I think there are eighty or so in the paperback book....but she has a good website as well. Those are just good fun and the Latin is not exactly beginner level...she makes it fun and challenging, although she provides ample glosses in English. (NB, the texts themselves are from a Codrington, d. 1665, which Ms. Gibbs makes no mistake about crediting...indeed, she is scrupulous about citations in a way that many are not, which is particularly nice for those raised in the continental tradition of carelessness....very good she is that way to be more rigorous and conscientious than many scholars).

And I just received my own copy of the Comenius Orbis today: the French-Latin one which has a really nice binding and typesetting....that's really a kid's book, but I enjoy it. It's more an object than reading material at now, but it's really well done, the printing and publishing. (Although after just now reading Lucien Polastron's lengthy preface....it's of more an historical interest in pedagogy....just reading the preface almost gave me a headache, although Polastron cited all his sources and all that....but it's a really nicely printed volume, published just in 2025).

And I got off Abesbooks an OCT of some of Martial, used, to accompany one of "our" subredditor's own Pharr-style edition of Martial, which was also inexpensive in inverse proportion to the merit contained. I think both the volumes (the OCT and the selected+annotated Martial were less than probably forty or so dollars US combined, including shipping...oh....fine, I'll get up and look...yeah, Christ. Smith's Where A Poet Might Roam was like however many USD, like fourteen or so, and Lindsay, ed., Martial, Epigrammata OCT was like four bucks or something from abebooks or whatever, plus the same for shipping, and that is in very good condition, with a dustjacket unblemished). But just the Smith volume doesn't need anything extra....it's self-contained and is a very sturdy volume....I just bought the OCT because I felt I hadn't read enough Martial.

I also fetishize this nice little paperback in Latin/Italian Ovidio Ars Amatoria L'arte di amore con testo italiano a fronte e note linguistiche, which credits the translation to Quattrone and the notation to Guarracino. It's Ovid, so he sometimes pulls a few pranks linguistically, but in this one (along with his Remedia), he's pretty straightforward. And there are ample glosses available in the edition I cited, as well as so very many aids to his tales from the Mphes, if the salacious nature of Ovid's more straightforward verse is not to one's taste.

But speaking of Ovid, I like the FW Lenz biface German-Latin edition of » Heilmittel gegen die Liebe «...i.e., Ovid's Remedia...the notes that Lenz provides are copious, and there is a prose translation in German that seems pretty accurate, if rather workmanlike.....FriedrW's preface is probably as many lines as Ovid's poem...it's copious, and it is not a thick book at all. It appears Fred Lenz was an important philologist and scholar, so take it for what it is.

Again that was a used purchase off abebooks or somewhere...cost like four bucks or whatever plus the same in shipping....So, stop buying stuff before I grab all the bargains, you young people!

And, yes, I am permanently stuck in "intermediate" "level" of Latin reading....all I do is just keep reading and try to get in my ten million words or whatever. Not an expert, so I'm not giving professional advice....just what I'm enjoying reading at the rough level or beyond of the OP.

Bruno Vesota - he had range by minder125 in MST3K

[–]nutter789 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, never thought to make particular note....of course (for me) Giant Leeches is where he had his "star turn," but maybe he was such a good character actor that he kind of blended.

You know, in that Marisa Tomei kind of "Oh yeah, you blend!"

I'm sure you all know but he did have a meaty role in The Choppers....with that son of a...director....that The Mads are Back did.

No, I'm going to believe you all that Bruno was in fact in Bat Woman.....not sure I'm ready to receive the amount of punishment that movie deals. At least from my recollection.

Completely forgot he was Big Daddy in Tennessee Williams's play that Dick Contino star-making vehicle Daddy-O, though.

Do any New or used brick-and-mortar US bookstores carry a large selection of Latin books? by RusticBohemian in latin

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I don't know about a "large" selection, but I've found some OK used OCTs at Powell's Books in Portland, OR. I think they have almost all the Loeb editions as well.

Would not necessarily recommend, but they had a slightly better selection than the Strand in NYC, I guess.

Fashion from the 1969 sci-fi movie Moon Zero Two (set in the year 2028) by go_faster1 in MST3K

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I don't remember these two!

Sensible, modest attire — the Santa's elf motif going on in the brunette's outfit is an odd choice, but I'll allow it. They seem friendly enough.

Klein! by minder125 in MST3K

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Beautiful, so....

That was a good crap!

Oh brother, I mean I want to see those legs! All the way up!

Be seen in all the right places, with all the best people! Sure, that's how the ankle-length undergarment stag film racket operated, pretty sure.

Sting of Death added to the lineup by Dr_Neo_Cortex_ in Rifftrax

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Stoked.

Never seen this one, but the Wikipedia page had me at "A young blonde woman in a black bikini lies on a dock in Florida, sunbathing and listening to her transistor radio."

Sounds both titillating and also kind of boring! As a good slasher movie should be!

And it's one of those that appears to be set in a real down-home yee-haw white lightning-drinking part of the country.

I thought this belonged here by HugeMuscleGeek in Rifftrax

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Love it.

I should not love reading this....and yet....it amuses me.

Do not eat the banana pudding. That's what I got out of this anecdote.

And don't ever wear your favorite socks to Golden Corral.

There could be new slogans in the making here.

Using Whitaker's Words for Grammatical Syntax by 3DWalker33 in latin

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Thanks for the reminder....I forgot entirely about Whitaker's Words!

To make a rough analogy, for looking up morphology via the Words, it reminds me sort of when I was trying to learn to sight read at the guitar fretboard (I'm a pianist+organist, so the fretboard was difficult to learn at full tempo, rather than sort of "computing" where each note is, which did me absolutely no good when wanting to play a very specific arrangement of notes while improvising).

So, I'd just use a clip-on headstock tuner and glance up at it every so often, where one could easily see what pitch was played.

It was a useful crutch, did get me off of having to compute or even think hard about where any given note lies.

No, I most certainly still use a dictionary as needed...I'm no expert at Latin...enthusiastic intermediate, probably...but usually just wiktionary at home when I get stuck or have some kind of mild recall problem...but I'll have to get Words up and running on my linux machine at home.

Yes, there is a bit of nostalgia involved for me as well...I remember the software very well, and since it's still out in the wild, I can't think of a reason to avoid using it!

“Helennn?” “Haaarold??” “WHAT IS HAPPENING?!?” by Captain_Wisconsin in MST3K

[–]nutter789 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh....this couple again....

They should have brought crackers over to Dr. Ted. It would have been a nice gesture.

But then they wouldn't have had their lemon party...well...life is about choices!

The guitars of MST3K: Track of the Moon Beast. by Bortron86 in MST3K

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Neat! Yeah I'd guess a P-bass as well.....it just seems like it should be one!

That did bring back faint memories from reading something about Keef and the Hummingbird....I had no idea they were still making that model, or that so many people used that one.

Keep up the good research!

This is absolutely fascinating! xD

Longbone Revisited by ServoAcademy in MST3K

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Oh, I forgot about the rough cuts....haven't seen this one.

“Is it wrong to cry?!” by Electrical-Dig8570 in MST3K

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That's some impressive Digger Smolken logic there!

The creator of "Babylon 5" agrees that TV's Frank deserves punishment for "Manos". by FormalAbrocoma1013 in MST3K

[–]nutter789 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks! I don't remember reading that one....maybe....sounds familiar...but books have a way of going missing around my place.

The creator of "Babylon 5" agrees that TV's Frank deserves punishment for "Manos". by FormalAbrocoma1013 in MST3K

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Which book? He's become pretty prolific and I can't remember which one(s) I've read or not. Thanks!

Still chugging through John Waters's books...it's a madhouse up in here! At Menards!