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 Posted: 2010-07-26 12:31:57 Causing childhood trauma since 1971...
I just returned from a week in Portland. Last night as I was packing for my 6:30 AM flight out of PDX to Long Beach. I had to ride the first light rail train to the airport at 4:15 AM, so it was a short night for me. While I was packing, I flipped around the TV to see what was on this late Saturday (or early Sunday). ABC Family was showing the original 1971 Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, starring Gene Wilder (not Johnny Dep!).
My earliest time I can think watching this movie was merely in Kindergarten. Mrs. Everett had read the book to us. Because we behaved ourselves, we watched the movie once we finished the book. When we were kids, we probably didn't care much for actual dialog in a movie unless it was a cartoon or something we loved. We saw a movie picture and heard sounds. We didn't pay attention to the book anyways!
One part of the film where Willy Wonka took the lucky winners of the golden ticket on a boat ride in the Choco River was too traumatic for the typical child. The boat entered into a dark tunnel as Mr. Wonka's umpalumpas cranked up the speed. I remember several devastating scenes of a millipede crawling over a dead person's mo... Read the rest... |
 Posted: 2010-04-25 16:15:17 The need to give the Internet a soul and humanize the dynamics of the digital world was at the heart of Pope Benedict XVI's message Saturday to participants in a conference on modern means of mass communication.
..."Without fear we must set sail on the digital sea facing into the deep with the same passion that has governed the ship of the Church for two thousand years. Rather than for, albeit necessary, technical resources, we want to qualify ourselves by living in the digital world with a believer's heart, helping to give a soul to the Internet’s incessant flow of communication." (Vatican Radio)... Read the rest... |
 Posted: 2010-04-22 04:19:32 During a recent password audit, it was found that a blonde was using the following password:
"MickeyMinniePlutoHueyLouieDeweyDonaldGoofySacramento"
When asked why she had such a long password, she said she was told that it had to be at least 8 characters long and include at least one capital.... Read the rest... |
