Yet another word game

[Mike Bulgakov]

Tasty Bite makes "1 step-1 minute" Indian dishes.

 

[stringertom]

1-minute Indian dishes might refer to the amount of time required by our man in Mira Mesa to consume the dish contents.

 

[Rafa.the.Magnificent]

Contents of the daily newspaper, The Chicago Tribune, are said to be geared towards an audience which has neutral to perhaps conservative leanings.

 

[stringertom]

Leaning wood bee a good thing four our heerow inn Mira Mesa az long az it’z knot leaning on anne AYCE counter beefour won uv Hiz famous raids.

 

[Mike Bulgakov]

Raids by the Maestro at AYCE buffets need "Ride of the Valkyries” as a musical soundtrack.

 

[Rafa.the.Magnificent]

Tracking warehouse inventory in modern times requires specialized software.

 

[stringertom]

Specialized software for the Mira Mesa Maestro includes slightly downsizing used Ringling Brothers circus tents.

 

[Mike Bulgakov]

Tents remind me of yurts, which remind me of a cold night in Chengde, China.

 

[stringertom]

China’s Muslim “re-education” camps seem remarkably luxurious when Western media are allowed to tour the facilities that house hundreds of thousands of detainees while they learn proper allegiance to Xi in an effort to prevent further crimes against the nation before they happen. It is quite the parallel to Spielberg’s masterpiece The Minority Report.

 

[Mike Bulgakov]

Reporters in China are monitored through multiple tactics, some surprising.

Jianguomen Outer Diplomacy Apartments

 

[stringertom]

Sur(eshs)prising ore knot: FSS, the Chinese vershun uv Russian secret police, are now using the Sabooshsian vids to infect Western culture as the new opiate of the people.

 

[Rafa.the.Magnificent]

New opiate of the people as described by @stringertom sounds utterly devoid of any desirable pleasurable feelings.

 

[Che]

Pleasurable feelings are difficult in such evil times but we just have to work harder

 

[Mike Bulgakov]

The Harder They Come is both a Jimmy Cliff song and a film.

 

[stringertom]

A song and a film with the same title featured an Oscar winning performance by Rami Malek portraying Queen singer/writer/keyboardist and legend Freddie Mercury.

 

[Mike Bulgakov]

Mercury is the most eccentric planet.

 

[stringertom]

Planetary designation was taken away from Pluto but he will always be my favorite Disney canine:

 

[Mike Bulgakov]

Nineteen Eight-Four and Brave New World seem disturbingly relevant these days.

 

[stringertom]

These days, “Ninety” and “Nineteen” are interchangeable, Mike B?

 

[Mike Bulgakov]

"Be comforted that it was corrected, editor. I'll accept my punishment, Boss Horst."

 

[stringertom]

Horst was the name of yuppietom’s roommate on Long Island but their most memorable evening happened on a business trip in Las Vegas when, while walking back to their shared room at Caesar’s Palace from dinner at The Aladdin, they were propositioned by a bleached blonde member of the world’s oldest profession. Horst hopped into her car and made a transaction while yuppietom returned to CP on his own. Hours later, after yuppietom had tired of the gaming tables, he made his way back into the room and, while brushing his teeth, noticed a spent prophylactic in the bathroom waste basket. This did not surprise yuppietom but Horst’s explanation that the refuse was not a byproduct of his encounter with their first lady of the evening was indeed impressive. The guy did get around a bit that night.

 

[Rafa.the.Magnificent]

Night terrors in children that occur over and over can provoke extreme anxiety in their parents.

 

[stringertom]

Parents who have won Oscars. Emmys and Grammys were in abundance in the cast of Meet The Fockers, a comedy sequel to a very successful film of its own recently cited in the runaway popular The Movie Scene Thread in Odds & Ends.

 

[Mike Bulgakov]

Odds & ends with fake labels, counterfeit and often poorly made, can be found for cheap at the Silk Street Market (秀水街, Xiushui Jie) in Beijing's Chaoyang district.

Best fakes market in Beijing
Review of Silk Street & Pearl Market (Xiushui)
Many people will want to visit a fakes market in Beijing - and most will debate whether to visit the XiuShui Silk Street Market (ex Silk Alley) at Yonganli metro station (Exit A), near the diplomatic quarter, or the Hongqiao Market at the Temple of Heaven, commonly known as the Pearl Market. (Tiantan Dongmen Metro, Exit A)
https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g294212-d325810-r198233008-Silk_Street_Pearl_Market_Xiushui-Beijing.html

 

[stringertom]

District champs wannabe Sabooshs is often touted here, even by himself, as a world cla.s.s tennis player.

 

[Rafa.the.Magnificent]

Layers of the earth include the crust, mantle, inner core and outer core.

 

[Mike Bulgakov]

Cores of foam polyethylene filled Rossignol F200 racquets.

Rossignol of France has introduced two new tennis racquets, the F100 and the F200, that are contructed of carbon (graphite) and fiberglass. The F100 is standard-sized and the F200 is mid-sized. Both frames feature the ''sock'' - or layered - construction of carbon and fiberglass that the company has featured in its skis. This is accomplished by wrapping three concentric glass braids around a foam core of polyethylene.
https://www.nytimes.com/1981/02/16/sports/sporting-gear.html

 

[Azure]

Polyethylene is today the most famous plastic in the world. This poster read recently that mini shampoo sachets abound the seas of Phillipines and are choking the waters.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/news.m...chet-economy-chokes-the-philippines-seas/amp/

 

[stringertom]

Energetic is rarely an adjective associated with the sublimely talented tennis skills displayed by the Mira Mesa Maestro

 

[stringertom]

Polyethylene is today the most famous plastic in the world. This poster read recently that mini shampoo sachets abound the seas of Phillipines and are choking the waters.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/news.m...chet-economy-chokes-the-philippines-seas/amp/

The waters near the Mira Mesa Manure are remarkably clean thanks to the dedicated work of professionals employed by the San Poobiego Waistwater Treatment Authority.

 

[Rafa.the.Magnificent]

Authoritarians tend to demand unquestioning obedience and loyalty.

 

[Mike Bulgakov]

Loyalty to brands is often based more on emotions than logic, and the question worth asking might be why are people compelled to buy the product in the first place.

 

[stringertom]

First place in the final college football playoff poll was earned by LSU in their final game with a decisive victory in Atlanta over conference rival Georgia. Their reward is a return trip to the same stadium for the next game, this time versus Big 12 powerhouse Oklahoma. The Sooner QB has some experience in that stadium, having been the starter for Alabama for two of his three years and a winning substitute when they played in every SEC Championship game while he was enrolled in Tuscaloosa. That back story might be in his favor.

 

[Rafa.the.Magnificent]

Favoring a hind leg means your best friend needs a trip to the vet.

 

[stringertom]

Veteran forum members might be able to answer my question concerning the identity of the first real troll on the site. I have a sneaky suspicion he may be the same phat phella still actively trolling from his headquarters in the extreme southwest corner of our country.

 

[Mike Bulgakov]

Countryside bicycling around flat and windy Skagen clears my mind.

 

[Rafa.the.Magnificent]

Mindfulness is a very, very desirable quality.

 

[Mike Bulgakov]

Mindfulness is a very, very desirable quality.

"Marloesfulness is a very, very desirable quality!" is not exactly what Rafa said, and doesn't exactly follow the rules.

 

[Rafa.the.Magnificent]

Rule-following, in certain instances, is for the birds.

 

[Mike Bulgakov]

The Birds starred big cat lover Tippi Hedren. She and her husband started an animal sanctuary with many lions and tigers, and they were reckless with themselves and their daughter Melanie Griffith.

‘Roar’: Tippi Hedren Reveals How Many People Were Actually Hurt While Filming Legendarily Insane Movie
Was "the most dangerous film ever made" really that dangerous? (Spoiler alert: Yes.)
Kate Erbland
Nov 18, 2016 11:12 am

Noel Marshall’s legendarily wild and totally bonkers movie “Roar” has long been billed as one of the most dangerous movies ever made (if not the most dangerous), thanks to its use of a multitude of wild big cats, many of which have been blamed for harming scads of cast and crew. Marshall and his then-wife Tippi Hedren made the film back in the late seventies, casting their own family, including Hedren’s daughter Melanie Griffith and Marshall’s sons Jerry and John, as a clan terrorized by a pack of seemingly domesticated lions and tigers, oh my. (And the big cats? Those were theirs, too.)

For years, rumors have persisted that 70 people were injured during the film’s spectacularly ill-fated shoot — when Drafthouse re-released the film in 2015, they used that number to frame up their catchy tagline: “No animals were harmed in the making of this movie. 70 members of the cast and crew were.”

In a new interview with Variety, Hedren refutes the long-reported number, telling the outlet, “We didn’t have that many. Maybe they’re talking about people who hit their thumb when they were pounding on a nail. In the five years, I think there were seven people that were hurt, but not seriously. When we were making the movie there were a few instances. I was hurt. Melanie [Griffith] was hurt. My then husband [director Noel Marshall] was in the hospital so many times they were going to name a wing after him.”

Still, Hedren does admit that the film was as arduous to make as initially suspected.

“I don’t know how we survived it,” she told Vareity. “Our nine-month shoot turned into five years. We were one on one with those big cats. They’re dangerous animals and they’re big. As I made the movie I got into the issue of stopping the government from allowing people to breed lions and tigers as pets. They shouldn’t be pets. They’re apex predators, top of the food chain, one of four of the most dangerous animals in the world.”
https://www.indiewire.com/2016/11/roar-tippi-hedren-people-hurt-insane-movie-1201748012/

 

[stringertom]

The World According To Garp is an offbeat novel by John Irving that was adapted into a successful feature film starring Robin Williams, Glenn Close and John Lithgow and directed by George Roy Hill.

 

[Mike Bulgakov]

Hillerød, Denmark is known for Frederiksborg Castle.

 

[stringertom]

Castle is a synonym for the chess piece often referred to as the rook. Both players start with two castles positioned at each corner of the board and they can be moved either horizontally or vertically on the board.

 

[Vcore89]

Castle is a synonym for the chess piece often referred to as the rook. Both players start with two castles positioned at each corner of the board and they can be moved either horizontally or vertically on the board.

The chessboard filled many eventful Sunday afternoons in my youth, and speaking of events, the song ''Stars Fell On Alabama'' (Billie Holiday or Ella Fitzgerald) was about an actual event in Alabama, wasn't it?

 

[stringertom]

It was a meteor storm in 1833 from the comet Tempel-Tuttle’s passage. The brilliance of the meteor shower spooked all but the Native Americans, who viewed the event as a good luck symbol.

 

[Rafa.the.Magnificent]

Good luck symbols take many forms, to include four-leafed clovers, a hind rabbit’s foot, an open-end-up horseshoe, ladybugs, and rainbows.

 

[Dedans Penthouse]

Rainbows in the shadows.

 

[stringertom]

Shadows vary in length as they follow you around in the course of your day.

 

[Mike Bulgakov]

Rainbows in the shadows.

Shadows and lighting were key elements in film noir.

Shadows vary in length as they follow you around in the course of your day.

"Day for Night" is both a Truffaut film and a technique for shooting in daylight, but making it look like night.

 

[stringertom]

Night is a homophone of knight, which is the chess piece with a unique but limited multi-direction path and jumping ability.