Big Blue Huddle

Concerning a 'streak'.

Is their 'streak' only that you play every day?

On my home computer, I haven't missed a word in months. I was away last week and used my wife's laptop and had a short streak there. On Sunday, I continued on my home computer and got the word on the last try and really never looked at my 'streak'. I didn't play yesterday but today I got the word in 4 and looked at my 'streak' and it was at 1. Why is that?
Is it, if you don't play every day, it reverts back to 1?

Quote from: jimv on March 24, 2022, 10:27:46 AM
Here, I've got another one.

5.  "I wouldn't believe it if I wasn't looking at it.  You can see his brain."

12 O'clock high

Quote from: jimv on March 23, 2022, 12:26:30 AM
3.  "I've suddenly gone gay!"

4.  "Will ya treat a fellow American to a meal?"

The movie Bogie should have won an Oscar

Quote from: jimv on March 21, 2022, 12:17:07 AM
Here are a couple of obscure ones (I think):

1.  "But I cannot fight against the Queen."

2.  "If you ain't eatin' Wham, you ain't eatin' ham!"
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Mr Blandings builds his dream hoiuse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oALxLNOhI6I&ab_channel=bjohnblazkowicz

I am also late to this, but, I watched the entire thing and rewatched it just after it happened. (you know rewind live TV). My first assessment was WOW, but then I never saw any sort of reaction from Rock, and that, to me, was a big-time give-a-way that it simply could not be real. After rewatching it, I am positive the entire thing was staged.
It's not like Smith just walked up there and tapped him on the cheek, he reared back and let him have it, and sorry, there is simply no way Rock wouldn't reach for his face. It is sort of an involuntary reaction. Bump your head, you reach up and check it. There is simply no way he doesn't put his hand up to his face if it were real. It even looked like Rock had a sort of smirk on his face as Smith was walking back.
I told my wife right away, even bad publicity is good publicity and what better way than on a show that is being broadcast all over the world.
Maybe at next year's award, both these guys will be up for acting overboard award.
Plus, I watch this show every year and I have never seen a worse Academy Awards show in all that time. Ladies with their bosoms hanging out, guys with no shirts on, guys with no socks on, even the tribute to those who have passed away was horrible as it was more about the singers and dancers than those who have passed. AND if I never see Wanda Sykes again, my life will be complete.

I just finished watching 'The Last Kingdom and it never let me down as truly one of the good series on Netflix. If you are into Vikings, Lords, and Ladies, backstabbing and jsut some great action, don't miss this series. I don't know if this was the finale for good, but it sure didn't hold anything back. Great watch.

I really wanted to rewatch the entire series as I never remember much and I feel this year will tie everything together. I can't tie it if I can't remember it.

There are so many other things I also want to watch, I don't know if I'll have the time, but before the summer is over, I will do it. I really should rewatch Breaking Bad also. I watch an episode here and there and again, I remember the basics, but not what made this so great a series. 

I didn't do yesterdays, so I can't comment, but today I got it on my last try. No vowels. Very tricky.

We are away, but we have our nights free and with our Firestick, we are able to watch a lot of what we watch at home.

That said, we started watching on Disney+ "The Beatles-Get Back"      https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9735318/

As might be expected, being from that generation, we have always been huge Beatles fans and my darling wife simply cannot watch enough things about them even after 60+ years. So, seems they found about 80 hours of footage of them trying to put together their last concert in 1969, sort of a farewell thing, live. They need 14 new songs and they haven't performed live in over 2 years and really haven't been together, as a group, for over 6 months. So they gave all this footage to Peter Jackson, of LOTR fame to make some special about this.
So we have 3 chapters, each running about 2 1/2 hours long, of the Fab Four trying to come together to do this concert. If you remember, it ended up being the concert they did on the rooftop but we haven't gotten to that yet.
We are about 1/2 way thru the 7 1/2 hours and personally, I find many parts very slow, dry, and devoid of anything interesting. Myt DW, on the other hand, is fascinated with the chance to watch them in their own environment, with the camera being a nosey neighbor. They kid, they smoke, they curse like regular people. It is fascinating in a way, to watch how they create songs and music but again, if they had cut it to 4 hours, I would have been happy. As we get closer to the concert, I'm sure things will really pick up as most of the music will be now Beatles standards, but then, all new stuff.
If you are or were a Beatles fan you need to see this, as really this is the end of this group, never to be seen agasin.

Quote from: Jolly Blue Giant on March 18, 2022, 10:42:11 AM
After running a typical "upgrade" on my browser, I lost tons of information. I had to redo many dozens of passwords and rebuild my main board favorites. Took me most of the day and I wasn't a happy camper.

Anyway, I just noticed that I can finally "like" other people's comments. I would have clicked "like" a thousand times in the last couple of years but couldn't. I tried everything to fix it and nothing worked. So anyway, there are so, so many comments that I wanted to "like", but couldn't. Hopefully, I don't lose that feature again.

ha Ricc

You just never liked anyone, but we all liked you.   

Quote from: GordonGekko80 on March 17, 2022, 04:49:37 AM
Let me give it to you guys...

Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

I don't think I have ever seen this movie. I did a quick search and even though Tom Cruise isn't one of my favorite actors, the movie does look interesting and something I would definitely be interested in watching. I'll let you know what i think as soon as I watch it.

Greg

First -- very sorry to hear about your Mom. I know it may not be much, but she was ver y lucky to ahve you for a son, that looked after her as well as you did. God Bless you.

Now, as someone who has been retired for about 15 years--

First, I worked for myself so I have no pension, and not much in an IRA. My wife worked for NYC and geta a small pension, but she has a decent amount of money in her retirement account. WE are definitely no gamblers and our investments have always been on the conservative side. As long as we see a halfway decent return and not lose money to inflation, we are satisfied. We have no outstanding bills and are able to come and go as we please.

That said, I started drawing Soc Sec at 62--I had to. If I was able I would put it off until I was 66, if you fall into that category. Since I just turned 76, I had to start drawing from my IRA at 71 and took the least amount that I was required to take. In fact, last year, when we did basically nothing, all the money that was withdrawn was put into other things as I just did not need it.

We have an investment guy who handles our money. Maybe I shouldn't say this without knocking on wood, but since the market has done so well, I have more money in my IRA, even with the yearly withdrawals, than when I retired. (Not a lot more, but it hasn't gone down throughout my withdrawal period, so I never even bothered to rethink 3%, 4% or whatever. I think you have to withdraw 3% at age 71m but you can reinvest it in other things.

I could never sleep if I were to invest in anything aggressive, but that's just me. I am content with what we have and hope we have enough to keep enjoying ourselves. We look at it this way, each year we get older and our money is still stable and increasing, even slowly, we should be able to spend more as our life expectancy is going down (less years to enjoy it). Thinbgs that once were no-nos because of high costs, are now, well on the radar to enjoy, if you know what I mean.

Quote from: ozzie on March 16, 2022, 02:37:08 PM
#1 - Blues Brothers
#2 - Mrs. Doubtfire??
#3 - ?

Lenn, I am sure the Groucho line was in Duck Soup. What other Marx Bros. movie was it in?

Night at the Opera


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjIZwv5aENQ&t=6s




#1     

#2--See Jim's post.   

Come on guys, #3 is a pretty easy one.

A few more. pretty easy I think

1--- "We