Motor City Sonics Posted October 1, 2021 Share Posted October 1, 2021 Was on a boat today for a lunch cruise on the Detroit River with our department from work. There is no way we could have had better weather. It was absolutely perfect. One of the workers on the boat sounded just like John Goodman and all I could think of was the bank robbery scene in Raising Arizona. "Y'all hear that? We usin' code names" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.TaterSalad Posted October 6, 2021 Share Posted October 6, 2021 Freep: Miller's Bar in Dearborn Listed For Sale They better not close down Miller's once the sale goes through. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Motor City Sonics Posted October 6, 2021 Author Share Posted October 6, 2021 12 hours ago, Mr.TaterSalad said: Freep: Miller's Bar in Dearborn Listed For Sale They better not close down Miller's once the sale goes through. No, they need to close all that stuff down. We need more condos. We don't have enough condos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Motor City Sonics Posted October 6, 2021 Author Share Posted October 6, 2021 (edited) I pulled an oblique muscle (I did it while sleeping because aging sucks). It hurts.......a lot. All I can think of was a quote from Tim McCarver during a playoff game "Baseball is a game of oblique angles and oblique injuries". LOL, Oh, Tim. Edited October 6, 2021 by Motor City Sonics Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_Brian_K Posted October 6, 2021 Share Posted October 6, 2021 14 hours ago, Mr.TaterSalad said: Freep: Miller's Bar in Dearborn Listed For Sale They better not close down Miller's once the sale goes through. They are asking 4 mil...doubt someone pays 4 mil for that corner just to tear it down...you are paying for the brand and the name recognition...I mean the burgers are good, but they are not THAT good....yet people still flock just because of the name. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oblong Posted October 6, 2021 Share Posted October 6, 2021 14 hours ago, Mr.TaterSalad said: Freep: Miller's Bar in Dearborn Listed For Sale They better not close down Miller's once the sale goes through. new owners want it to remain as is... which I hope. Admittedly I haven't been there in years because I had closer options for a good bar burger and I thought they were a little pricey there. But I appreciate the legacy. People from over seas would come to Dearborn to visit Ford and they all wanted to go to Miller's. But I'm not sure there's an appetite for it. People say they love these kinds of places and antique shops and independent retail yet when one opens up nobody goes. It takes an entrepreneur spirit and when you have one generation running a business the second generation often goes off and does their own thing and by the time they want to retire the 2nd gen are already settled in their career.... A little bar near me just sold... going to become a hamburger and ice cream place. Previous owner bought the place just a few years ago, he ran some other bars in the area, but he's retiring. Still have 2 bars within walking distance though. Another dive bar about 1/2 mile away is still for sale after never reopening from the pandemic. I think we're also going to see a lot of the old school Chinese Food places close up over the next few years too. Not because the food is bad but you need people to run them. The best restaurant in Dearborn, Sahara, had to shut down temporarily due to staffing. The owner is a great guy but one day it was just him and his brother who showed up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Motor City Sonics Posted October 12, 2021 Author Share Posted October 12, 2021 I just now found out that Maynard & Zed from Pulp Fiction are brothers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shades of Deivi Cruz Posted October 13, 2021 Share Posted October 13, 2021 16 hours ago, Motor City Sonics said: I just now found out that Maynard & Zed from Pulp Fiction are WERE brothers. Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Motor City Sonics Posted October 13, 2021 Author Share Posted October 13, 2021 oh, they're still brothers -- in Hell. I wonder what Mr. Wallace's friends did with the Gimp. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oblong Posted October 13, 2021 Share Posted October 13, 2021 I loved Peter Greene's callback in The Usual Suspect when he meets the guys and throws the bad coke back at them and says "Feed it to the gimp" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Motor City Sonics Posted October 13, 2021 Author Share Posted October 13, 2021 You know, that with Tarantino's universe and the way everyone is connected that one day we are going to find out that the Gimp is a descendant of Calvin Candie or maybe even the American-born son of Hans Landa or something like that. Maybe QTs last film (he swears he is stopping at 10) will be the saga of The Gimp and how he wound up in the clutches of Zed & Maynard and how Marcellus Wallace was the man who freed him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Motor City Sonics Posted October 13, 2021 Author Share Posted October 13, 2021 Hell yes Bill, you ARE a Rocket Man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_Brian_K Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 Serving 2 purposes to the space tourism industry....one is super obvious the other is proving a 90+ year old man can go into space safely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Motor City Sonics Posted October 19, 2021 Author Share Posted October 19, 2021 These blow up into funny shapes? Well, no, 'nless round is funny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RandyMarsh Posted October 20, 2021 Share Posted October 20, 2021 Anybody see this? I guess it happened around midnight last night and could be seen by most of SE Michigan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Motor City Sonics Posted October 21, 2021 Author Share Posted October 21, 2021 14 hours ago, RandyMarsh said: Anybody see this? I guess it happened around midnight last night and could be seen by most of SE Michigan. They communicated to me through my special sense and they said they were coming and I didn't believe them. I thought it was a joke and now they're here..........THEY'RE HERE AND I DIDN'T WARN ANYONE ! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiger337 Posted October 22, 2021 Share Posted October 22, 2021 I thought this was going to be a thread about the MLB post-season. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasfh Posted October 22, 2021 Share Posted October 22, 2021 Holy shitballs! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biff Mayhem Posted October 22, 2021 Share Posted October 22, 2021 8 hours ago, chasfh said: Holy shitballs! With CGI, why on earth are they using a prop gun capable of firing real bullets? SMH. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casimir Posted October 22, 2021 Share Posted October 22, 2021 2 minutes ago, Biff Mayhem said: With CGI, why on earth are they using a prop gun capable of firing real bullets? SMH. I guess I don't understand this either. I guess I would assume every prop gun would be completely solid with no capability of firing off even so much as a blank. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Motor City Sonics Posted October 22, 2021 Author Share Posted October 22, 2021 11 minutes ago, casimir said: I guess I don't understand this either. I guess I would assume every prop gun would be completely solid with no capability of firing off even so much as a blank. They want it to look as real as possible and they want a muzzle flash (something that easily can be done in post production). When Brandon Lee got shot the gun expert was not on set that day (they didn't want to pay him). It's possible that they loaded a clip of blanks, not realizing there was a live round in the chamber. When Jon Erik Hexum died, he held a prop gun up to his head and pulled the trigger joking around between takes. They used a paper wadding back then that reacted with the gunpowder to give off a loud sound and bright flash. If he had been holding the gun just a foot away from his head he'd only have had slight burns, but the concussion was real and it fractured his skull right at the temple. I think in that case they used real gunpowder instead of lower grade "fake" stuff that other movies/tv shows used. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasfh Posted October 22, 2021 Share Posted October 22, 2021 22 minutes ago, Biff Mayhem said: With CGI, why on earth are they using a prop gun capable of firing real bullets? SMH. Verisimilitude? Some actors are insistent on that, and I could see Baldwin being one of those guys. Pretty sure we’ll never see a prop gun on set like that ever again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biff Mayhem Posted October 22, 2021 Share Posted October 22, 2021 2 minutes ago, chasfh said: Verisimilitude? I'm not gonna lie.....I had to look that word up. Well done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Motor City Sonics Posted October 22, 2021 Author Share Posted October 22, 2021 4 minutes ago, Biff Mayhem said: I'm not gonna lie.....I had to look that word up. Well done. I only knew it because of a Teenage Fanclub song. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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