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  • @thebadgerpiper Me Too!!! The rat bastards at Comcast moved TCM into a sports package with no notice. Screw the seniors to push expensive sports package,WTF. 
    I going to have a come to Jesus conversation with one of their retention specialist next week.
    If that does not go well, I plan to switch to streaming and maybe an antenna though I have little use for the big three networks.
  • I love TCM, I’m not sure what package, it comes with on Dish Network though.  I get the Western channel and a few movie channels.  I wish I could trade all the dang sports channels for commercial free channels.
  • @mapletop I wish you luck. I know I wouldn't be happy if TCM was locked behind a bunch of sports channels.

    My wife and I cut cable years ago and went with Netflix and Hulu. While I certainly miss some cable channels, I've learned to live without them. It helps that channels like the History channel went down the drain a long time ago. 
  • Know what'cha mean. For instance, whatever channel it was on, that last reboot of "In Search Of…" was more a knockoff of "Ripley's Believe It or Not" than anything resembling the original In Search Of… hosted by Leonard Nimoy.
  • My problem with the History Channel is more about their reality tv programs, like Ice Road Truckers and Pawn Shop. While I enjoy some competitive reality tv (Survivor and The Amazing Race), that's not what I want out of a history network. I don't mind that these shows exist, but it on something else. 

    As for the fringe stuff, I'm of two minds about it. On one hand, I don't care for Ancient Aliens, as it doesn't fit with my interests. Yet, some of my all time favorite programs are stuff like Histories Mysteries, classic In Search Of, and Haunted History. I find stuff like the missing Roanoke colony, Amelia Earhart, the Voynich Manuscript, the Lost Dutchman Mine, and the Mary Celeste fascinating. It's programs like this that gets me interested in history. As for the ghost stuff, I enjoy it when the program really goes into the history of a place and the legends behind it.

    As for the crypto-zoology stuff, I can go either way on it. I can see how it would be frustrating if you want to learn about actual science and history. Then again, I've always loved stuff like the Loch Ness Monster, and I even did a little Nessie hunting when I got to see Loch Ness for myself. As long as there's history behind it, like with Nessie and the Jersey Devil, then I'm into it.
  • Never saw that pic on Leonard Nimoy before @motie2 Not only like the pic, I love that pipe...
  • A recent Japanese Anime Heavy Object is a science-fiction/action story. The major commanding their unit has her kiseru pipe in hand in almost all of her scenes. There are 24 episodes, and apparently the writers know little about military organization.
    Warfare in this "future" is done mainly by huge war machines they call "Objects." No crew, just a pilot?
    Kinda reminds me of Mack Reynolds stories with city-block sized nuclear powered tanks, which he called Bolos, but without much sense.

  • jfreedyjfreedy Master
    edited February 2020
    Not a movie but still a great pipe smoking scene with Kramer. 
  • @jfreedy I think I actually laughed harder watching this than the first time I saw it on TV...
    Tnx, that is a GREAT scene!
    😂
  • Was going through an oriental detective movie phase the past few weeks, watching movies from the Charlie Chan, Mr. Wong, and Mr. Moto series - and once again there are pipe smoking detectives and villains abound. Pipe smokers were so commonplace in the flicks of the 30s' and 40s' that its more unusual not to see a lead character or at least someone in the cast or background with a pipe in their mouth. And you'll usually find a handful of pipes in a pipe rack with a tobacco canister on a desk.
  • Agreed @ghostsofpompeii That's one of the main reasons I love the 30s and 40s films...
  • The wife and I decided to watch an old classic last night, "Donovan's Reef" - John Wayne, Lee Marvin, Dorothy Lamour, etc.
    Anyway, the Padre sported a smooth meerschaum bent throughout the movie. 
    The captain (skipper) of the ship sitting in the bar was toking on a pipe, and in a near closing scene, the Padre and doctor were cruising in his jeep, both with pipes being clenched between their teeth...
    If course, Lee Marvin's character was doing cigars...
  • @KA9FFJ
    “Donovan’s Reef” is one of my favorite movies.
  • @RockyMountainBriar You could tell the Padre (can't remember the actor's name) smoked a pipe in real life the way he handled it and "sipped" on it. Not to mention the obvious use reflected in that pipe...
  • It has, but it's good to see, anyway.....
  • I posted this in a different discussion but I'll put it here also.
    I found a documentary on Netflix about some of the great classic film directors in Hollywood who served during WWII. - Frank Capra, John Ford, John Huston, George Stevens and William Wyler.  There is a lot of pipe smoking in the first two parts (I haven't watched the last two parts yet).

  • @opipeman
    Thanks for the info.  I finally got my grandfathers Columbus repaired correctly.  I went to a jewelry store here in Billings, and they sent it to their watch repair person in North Dakota.  It ticks off the time now🙂
  • Correction on my last post. There are only three episodes to "Five Came Back."
  • Jack Palance was an American actor and singer. He was nominated for three Academy Awards, all for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, winning in 1992 for his role in City Slickers.

  • We have been binge watching Midsommer Murders on Amazon Prime. In season 19, episode 1, in a village abandoned since WWII one of the buildings has a Capstan Navy Cut sign on the outside. 
  • I just mentioned watching "The Expendables" and Micky Rourke was puffing on a Churchwarden.
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