Deck the Halls

Buck Privates (1941) IMDB rating: 7.20 Plot: Bud and Lou enlist in the army in order to escape being hauled off to jail, and soon find themselves in boot camp. To their dismay, the company’s drill instructor is none other than the cop who was all set to run them off to the hoosegow in the first place! The boys end up having a whale of a time getting under the skin of their humourless nemesis.

Actors: Abbott Bud,Costello Lou,Bowman Lee,Curtis Alan,Pendleton Nat,Hinds Samuel S.,Strang Harry,Elliott Leonard,Howard Shemp,Frankovich M.J.,Comedy,Musical,

What do you think of this hunting story (below) that i wrote for a youth hunting memories contest?
It was my first year of hunting, and without a doubt, one I will never forget. I set my alarm clock for five, but my dad woke me up at four. His clock was set an hour early. He told me to go back to bed, but the excitement was too overwhelming.

When five o

Rambo III (1988) IMDB rating: 4.10 Plot: John Rambo’s former Vietnam superior, Colonel Samuel Trautman, has been assigned to lead a mission to help the Mujahedeen rebels who are fighting the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, but the Buddhist Rambo turns down Trautman’s request that Rambo help out. When the mission goes belly up and Trautman is kidnapped and tortured by Russian Colonel Zaysen, Rambo launches a rescue effort and allies himself with the Mujahedeen rebels and gets their help in trying to rescue Trautman from Zaysen.

Actors: Stallone Sylvester,Crenna Richard,de Jonge Marc,Smith Kurtwood,Focas Spiros,Gabai Sasson,Shoua Doudi,Raney Randy,Gilbert Marcus,Abutbul Alon,Assadollahi Mahmoud,Shiloach Joseph,Diamond Harold,Seri Matti,El Deen Hany Said,Action,War,

Why don't US troops in Afghanistan win over the Taliban by besting them in a game of Buzkashi "Sheep Rugby"?
That’s how Rambo did it in Rambo III:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUlVXdoqI Tk

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Buster (1988) IMDB rating: 5.50 Plot: Buster is a small time crook who pulls a big time job. When he finds that the police will not let the case drop, he goes into hiding and can’t contact his wife and child. He arranges to meet them in Mexico where he thinks they can begin again, but finds that he must choose between his family and freedom.

Actors: Collins Phil,Lamb Larry,Attwell Michael,Brown Ralph,Ellison Christopher,Jarvis Martin,Wood Clive,Quayle Anthony,Byrne Michael,Innocent Harold,Vansittart Rupert,Adventure,Biography,Comedy,Crime,Drama,Romance,

Any dog training proffessionals in ottawa region that come to your home to help train/behavoir of your dog?
I have two minature schauzers and they need help! I mean help they aren’t bad dogs just they Jump alot! and i mean alot. And one is always nervous and bites sometimes. We heard things about Bark Busters that was good so we were thinking about them but we’d love to have Cesar Millan here but thats impossible but does anyone know any names of places or people who come to your home and help you with your dogs. The price is nt a major thing we just need help. SO please any names of proffesinals that come to your home or companies.
thank you in advance big points for the best answer!

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You can do a lot of this yourself with time an patience. There are many sites on line that will give you very good information and pointers. Here is one such site: http://www.freedogtrainingarticles.com/P otty/dog-toilet-training.php Your local library will also have dog training books. That is how I trained my two rescue dogs. One of the main things is to make sure you are using an assertive voice not a baby voice. You do not have to be mean and yell but you do have to establish your dominance. Time and lots of patience is key. Be assertive and not whimpy. Remember this is not your "baby" it is your pet. A well trained dog is a happy dog. A well trained dog makes a happy owner.
Linda | Feb 07, 2010

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I would avoid ANY "franchise" so-called training companies……especially Fart Busters. A 30 second conversation with one of them should be enough to show you they are completely Nuts.
Dutch | Feb 07, 2010

Usual Suspects, The (1995) IMDB rating: 8.70 Plot: After a waterfront explosion, Verbal (Kevin Spacey), an eye-witness and participant tells the story of events leading up to the conflagration. The story begins when five men are rounded up for a line-up, and grilled about a truck hijacking (the usual suspects). Least pleased is Keaton (Gabriel Byrne) a crooked cop – exposed, indicted, but now desperately trying to go straight. The cops won’t leave him alone, however, and as they wait for their lawyers to post bail, he is talked into doing one more job with the other four. All goes tolerably well until the influence of the legendary, seemingly omnipotent “Keyser Soze” is felt. Although set in the modern day, it has much of the texture of the forties, plus suspense, intrigue (a fairly high body count), and lots of twists in the plot.

buy and download Usual Suspects, The

Actors: Pollak Kevin,Palminteri Chazz,Byrne Gabriel,Baldwin Stephen,Spacey Kevin,Postlethwaite Pete,Del Toro Benicio,Esposito Giancarlo,Hedaya Dan,Bartel Paul,Bressler Carl,Simon Phillip,Shearer Jack,Mystery,Crime,Thriller,

Techno/Electronica/Dance song heard at San Jose Sharks game (HP Pavilion)…?
I know this is a ridiculous long shot, but I was wondering if anyone can help me track down a song being played the Shark Tank lately. It is a techno song, no words, and I last heard it during the Sharks/Blackhawks game played tonight. They have played it in the past this season, if I remember tonight it was played during a timeout. They usually only play a small part of the song as I only here it during some brief stops in plays.

If I think of any more info I’ll add, song has kind of a "wave" type feel (down, down up down, up). Song is not a usual suspect (not Sandstorm, or Zombie Nation). Anyway, ridiculous, I know, but why not take a shot in the dark. It’s drivin me nuts.

Thanks!
Yea, checked DJ Mangoo, DJ Mango Man, DJ Magoon, nuthin! I’m almost tempted to email the arena to see if they can figure it out. Not sure they would bother responding to something like that.

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I know exactly what you are talking about…they played it at the world juniors when canada scored and before the puck dropped. My buddy told me it was DJ Mangoo but i tried to find it and had no luck…this is beggining to really piss me off.

| Jan 29, 2010

Any Given Sunday (1999) IMDB rating: 6.50 Plot: When a devastating hit knocks a professional football legend and quarterback Cap Rooney (Denis Quaid) out of the game, a young, unknown third-stringer is called in to replace him. Having ridden the bench for years because of a string of bad luck stories and perhaps insufficient character, Willie Beaman (Jamie Foxx) seizes what may be his last chance, and lights up the field with a raw display of athletic prowess. His stunning performance over several games is so outstanding and fresh it seems to augur a new era in the history of this Miami franchise, and forces aging coach Tony D’Amato (Al Pacino) to reevaluate his time-tested values and strategies and begin to confront the fact that the game, as well as post-modern life may be passing him by. Adding to the pressure on D’Amato to win at any cost is the aggressive young President/Co-owner of the team, Christina Pagniacci (Cameron Diaz), now coming into her own after her father’s death. Christina’s driving desire to prove herself in a male dominated world is intensified by her focus on the marketing and business of football, in which all coaches and players are merely properties.

Actors: Pacino Al,Quaid Dennis,Woods James,Foxx Jamie,LL Cool J,Modine Matthew,Brown Jim,Taylor Lawrence,Bellamy Bill,Bryniarski Andrew,Eckhart Aaron,Drama,Sport,

Any Given Sunday: Nachos

Hoop Realities (2007) IMDB rating: 6.10 Plot: Hoop Reality is the sequel to the 1995 documentary “Hoop Dreams” and explores what happened during the last decade from where “Hoop Dreams” left off. It follows the original basketball hero past his dream and into reality, examining where life has carried him over the decade, and taking a look at where he is today, as the torch gets passed to the next dream seeker. Along the way he mentors and inspires the up-and-coming basketball star, Patrick Beverly, who leads his team, the Marshal Commandos, for the first time since the original “Hoop Dreams”, to the State Finals.

here i download Hoop Realities here and download version for PDA

Actors: Agee Arthur,Beverly Patrick,Bryant Lamont,Documentary,

I wrote a poem… what do you think?
Memories fade as the tear drops fall
Reality comes crashing through the wall
Harshly it comes raining down on me
Flooding me with cold, harsh reality
I need to hear the truth from you
After all these hoops I’ve been jumping through
I need you to say what’s been left unsaid
Are all of these feelings just in my head
Am I blinded by my affection for you
Or do you love me in the way I love you
Just say the words and I’ll be gone
And I’ll leave my heart waiting all alone
Or be my rainbow at the end of love’s storm
And together our hearts will have finally found home

So, what do you think??

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i like it

| Sep 02, 2009

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Get rid of the unnecessary words

Memories fade, tear drops fall
Reality crashes through the wall

you used harsh in two consecutive sentences
DAHha | Sep 02, 2009

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try using different wording, the concept is good you just need to focus on how you’re saying it.
get rid of some words that don’t need to be there like the "and" at the beginning of "and i’ll leave my heart waiting all alone" they’re just disrupting the rythm that the poem has. appart from that the poems good

hope this helps
meerkat | Sep 02, 2009

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first line wrecked it for us… memories don’t fade and that

Van Nuys Blvd. (1979) IMDB rating: 5.00 Plot: A small-town kid hears about the wild nights of cruising the boulevard in Van Nuys, California. He drives out there to check it out, and gets involved with drag racers, topless dancers and bikers.

Actors: Adler Bill,Bowen Dennis,Hayward David,Gladstone Dana,Sawyer Don,Kester Jim,Bailey Doug,Aquarian Aesop,Comedy,Drama,

Please help: how to get from Van Nuys, CA to West Hollywood, CA?
I need to get from Van Nuys, CA on a bus to West Hollywood, CA in the evenings on weekdays. Can someone outline for me the bus routes I will need to take and transfer in order to get from the AMTRAK station (7724 Van Nuys Blvd) in Van Nuys to any place in or close to west hollywood? Please be as specific as possible, I am new to public transportation here. Thank you so much
LA TRAVEL EXPERT:

thank you so much. that helps SO much. specifically I am trying to get as close as possible to fountain& labrea in west hollywood

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Go to Google Maps: http://maps.google.com/
Put in your starting address, click [search maps]
Click "get directions", put in your destination address
Click the arrow next to [by car] and change to [by public transit]
Click [get directions]
Click [show options]
put in when you wish to leave or arrive.

Dimo J | Sep 28, 2009

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darn you dont say WHERE in West hollywood you want to go
to!
one way you could do it take the 233 bus to Ventura and Van nuys
then board the 150 or 240 or 750 bus take this bus to Laurel canyon
then transfer to metro 218 which services portions of west hollywood
(Crescent heights and sunset and Santa monica and fairfax
cost is $1.25 for each bus there are no transfers
another option is take the 761 bus into Westwood (weyburn and westwood
then transfer to metro #2 or 305 which operates into Westwood on Sunset or
you can take 761 to Lindbrook and westwood transfer to
Big blue line 1,8, 12 or Culver city #6 take any of those buses
Io Santa Monica and westwood then transfer again to metro 704 or
#4 into west hollywood
too bad you didnt say where you were going in West hollywood
travelmaster | Sep 28, 2009

What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) IMDB rating: 7.60 Plot: What’s Eating Gibert Grape is a beautifully shot movie of tenderness, caring and self-awareness that is set amongst the fictional working class one street town Endora. Centred around the Grape family Ellen and Amy and their two brothers Arnie and Gilbert, who, along with their morbidly obese widowed mother Bonnie Grape are striving to survive and coexist with the absence of a father figure, low wage work and seventeen-year-old Arnie’s severe mental condition. It is in this awkward and extremely one sided affair that the unfortunate Gilbert (Johnny Depp) has to constantly, while working for the town’s slowly dying Convenience Store, take care of his younger brother, played to such depth and conviction by a very young Leonardo DiCaprio. Gilbert’s life, his future, is thwarted he know this, but it is in this Guardian Angel that his love and bond for Arnie cannot, and will not, be let go. That is until the free spirit of Becky (Juliette Lewis) arrives in town, and with her grandmother are stranded for the week while waiting for parts for their vehicle. This realisation unties new feelings, new thoughts and new hope for the put upon Gibert, something new is eating Gilbert Grape.

Actors: Depp Johnny,DiCaprio Leonardo,Tighe Kevin,Reilly John C.,Glover Crispin,Green Tim,Hedges Robert B.,Jordan Mark,Comedy,Drama,Romance,

What specific scene in this movie shows mental retardation?
In the Movie ‘Whats Eating Gilbert Grape’ What specific scene shows mental retardation?

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When Leo is in the tree laughing that his "dad is dead, dad is dead" or when he kills the grasshoper and then cries about it or when he climbs the water tower and he is at risk of legal action and refuses to come down. Or the time he sat in the cold bath water all nite cause johnny depp forgot/left him there.
Nataysha | Jan 18, 2010

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Any scene with Leonardo DiCaprio in it would show mental retardation, since he plays a character with the disability
Maverick | Jan 18, 2010

Wind Chill (2007) IMDB rating: 6.20 Plot: Two college students share a ride home for the holidays. When they break down on a deserted stretch of road, they’re preyed upon by the ghosts of people who have died there.

Wind Chill

Actors: Holmes Ashton,Donovan Martin,Bellamy Ned,Wallace Ian A.,Lucas Donny James,Moore Darren,Banks Linden,Darko Caz Odin,Horejda Heath,Horror,Thriller,

Have you ever seen when the wind blows?
I saw it the other day and it is so chilling, it just leaves an empty pit in your stomach. Yet, somehow it’s an amazing film. It’s about an elderly english couple who are dealing with preparing for a nuclear bomb and the aftermath too, what makes it so much more amazing yet sad is that it’s done in cartoon, giving it an even more innocent cover.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090315/

If you do want to watch it, it’s on youtube in 8 parts.
I really don’t know how some young children could manage watching it during the 80’s when nuclear holocaust was still such a threatening issue

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I have the book, and it’s deeply disturbing.My son read through it for school and he found it upsetting but educational.
See if you can get another book by Raymond Briggs (yes, he of The Snowman fame) called Ethel & Ernest, it’s a book about his parents and it’s set out in a storyboard style.Again, it’s quite dark, especially when it deals with the death of his mother.I’m a huge Raymond Briggs fan and even though my kids are grown up I still buy any books by him for myself.

| Feb 03, 2010

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Yes it is a very chilling film . I think it touched a nerve particularly with people of my age who had lived through the cold war and the Cuban missile crisis . The actor John Mills was the voice of the man , not sure about the lady . All in all a classic of its kind .
shadow | Feb 02, 2010

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I’m old so yes I remember it coming out at the height of the nuclear scare mongering and frankly it’s one of the films I will never watch again

See also
watership down
Plague dogs…

Quite liked the David Bowie song though
The Darkened Man | Feb 02, 2010

Thousand Acres, A (1997) IMDB rating: 5.80 Plot: A THOUSAND ACRES is a drama about an American family who meets with tragedy on their land. It is the story of a father, his daughters, and their husbands, and their passion to subdue the history of their land and its stories.

Actors: Robards Jason,Firth Colin,Carradine Keith,Anderson Kevin,Hingle Pat,Lynch John Carroll,Ruginis Vyto,Toler Ray,Tigar Kenneth,Drama,

We're getting ready to make an offer on some land; how much should we raise our offer?
The land in question is 15 acres, and the asking price is $55,000. It’s been on the market for 7 months, and in order to build our house we would need to install our own utilities as well as build a foundation. The acreage is next to a major highway, is only accessible via a gravel road, and has a failing business in front of it, all decreasing it’s value. My fiance and I are planning on making an initial offer of $30,000, and are willing to cap out at $45,000. We know he’s going to reject our first offer unless he’s desperate, but how much should we raise our offer by? Should we only go up by a couple thousand, or ten thousand?

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As long as you realize that by lowballing your first offer you may close off all negotiations, I would suggest waiting to see what counter-offer is made – if he comes down to $45K, you may be able to get it for $40K…raisin git a few thousand will show you are not serious.

Steve D | Dec 07, 2009

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u did not state anything about using a RE buyer’s agent [paid for by the seller.]
this agent can negotiate for you!
kemperk | Dec 07, 2009