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Buford T. Justice XIX

wexie wrote: »

Wouldn't mind an accident like that!!

"Geez you'll never guess what happened to me?! I was doing my expenses and accidentally wrote a movie script!"

Both fiction so maybe not too big a surprise?:p

AndyBoBandy

diggerdigger wrote: »

Well, Sylvester Stallone wrote Rocky!

In order to get the part for himself, he was paid a paltry sum for the role as the studio believed it would be a flop if Stallone was the lead, but that was his ultimatum, 'it's me or you don't make my movie'

He was almost living destitute at the time, having to sell his beloved dog as he couldn't feed him anymore, and guess what the first thing he bought (back) was when he finally made some money.

Franz Von Peppercorn

AndyBoBandy wrote: »

In order to get the part for himself, he was paid a paltry sum for the role as the studio believed it would be a flop if Stallone was the lead, but that was his ultimatum, 'it's me or you don't make my movie'

He was almost living destitute at the time, having to sell his beloved dog as he couldn't feed him anymore, and guess what the first thing he bought (back) was when he finally made some money.

The old leather jacket he pawned?

joeguevara

AndyBoBandy wrote: »

In order to get the part for himself, he was paid a paltry sum for the role as the studio believed it would be a flop if Stallone was the lead, but that was his ultimatum, 'it's me or you don't make my movie'

He was almost living destitute at the time, having to sell his beloved dog as he couldn't feed him anymore, and guess what the first thing he bought (back) was when he finally made some money.

and he had to buy the dog back for 15k. The dog starred in the first two movies...'Buttkiss'.

Franz Von Peppercorn

I’m pretty sure the Stallone story is nonsense. Although he says it himself it doesn’t ring true.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/stallone-sold-his-dog/

Ipso

joeguevara wrote: »

I don't understand what you mean he wrote it by accident? Was he writing a western and by accident turned into a bum boxer being given a chance to fight a world champion in Philadelphia?

I should have wrote that in comic sans.
Someone pointed out that he wrote the script so him getting the role by accident was unlikely.
I remarked that he wrote the movie by accident, so by default he got the role by accident.
To paraphrase Christopher Hitchens; I thought I was a wit, I was half right.

mzungu

Sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia is the medical term for a cold-stimulus headache and is associated with consumption (particularly quick consumption) of cold beverages or foods such as ice cream and ice pops. It is caused by having something cold touch the roof of the mouth, and is believed to result from a nerve response causing rapid constriction and swelling of blood vessels.

Kat1170

^^^^^^^

If you get brain freeze from eating something cold, hold your tongue against the roof of your mouth for a minute or two and that should relieve it.

oleras

Kat1170 wrote: »

^^^^^^^

If you get brain freeze from eating something cold, hold your tongue against the roof of your mouth for a minute or two and that should relieve it.

While trying to roll your eyeballs into the back of your head while pressing on your temples. :pac:

I have only had it once, but it was memorable !

Greybottle

Stan Laurel was in the same class in primary school as Bill Haley's mother.

ArnoldJRimmer

Greybottle wrote: »

Stan Laurel was in the same class in primary school as Bill Haley's mother.

Their teacher was particularly good at teaching kids how to tell the time

Are Am Eye

It was one of the great Hollywood 'rumours' that Clint Eastwood was the son
of Stan Laurel. They do have likeness and the time frame fits. But the story is completely unsubstantiated.

Duckworth_Luas

Are Am Eye wrote: »

It was one of the great Hollywood 'rumours' that Clint Eastwood was the son
of Stan Laurel. They do have likeness and the time frame fits. But the story is completely unsubstantiated.

Has it been unsubollietiated?

xlogo

In real life. one of the men responsible for training the Anthropoid assassins was Christopher Lee who worked for British intelligence during World War II.

quickbeam

Paul Pfeiffer from The Wonder Years (Josh Saviano) was also rumoured to have changed his image and grown up to be Marilyn Manson.

Mad how these rumours start!

Tell me how

quickbeam wrote:

Paul Pfeiffer from The Wonder Years (Josh Saviano) was also rumoured to have changed his image and grown up to be Marilyn Manson.

That was debunked though.

sbsquarepants

Tell me how wrote: »

That was debunked though.

...when it was proven that Manson hatched fully grown from a pod recovered from the Roswell flying saucer:D

Jaysus that lad is, em, different, shall we say. Some great music though!

Shemale

bnt wrote: »

Problem was ... the picture was of someone else, another Dutch guy named Bartholomeus Vermuyden. Oops ...

They all look the same...

Shemale

Holland is a region in The Netherlands, not the country

wexie

Shemale wrote: »

Holland is a region in The Netherlands, not the country

The Netherlands have a land border with France!!

Confused...?

Watch this :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE_IUPInEuc

Also the reason that there are lots of EU citizens in the Caribbean

Shemale

StupidLikeAFox wrote: »

You reminded me of another one.

Remember the old Nokia message tone?

De de de, deeeee deeeee, de de de

That is morse code for SMS

Edited: misread the post, the music is Gran Vals

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uSQzUx3QW2Y

RiderOnTheStorm

Shemale wrote:

Nope, its piece of music, Gran Vals

Its both.

Also, Beethoven's 5'th starts as da da da daaa ..... or dot-dot-dot-dash in Morse code (the letter V, roman numeral for 5).

Coincidence? Aliens? Time travellers?
You decide....

runawaybishop

Shemale wrote: »

Nope, its piece of music, Gran Vals

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uSQzUx3QW2Y

thats the ringtone, the sms tone is morse for sms.

ohnonotgmail

Shemale wrote: »

Holland is a region in The Netherlands, not the country

and yet dutch football fans chant "hup holland hup".

stop animal cruelty

sugarman wrote:

Hitlers phone number in the Fuhrerbunker was 120050. Just finished a documentary there where Hitlers bodyguard recalled it in a flash when asked some 70 years later and well in his late 90s.

What was the documentary sugarman?

wexie

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

and yet dutch football fans chant "hup holland hup".

That's cause it rolls off the tongue a lot easier than 'hup Nederland hup'

Are Am Eye

Are Am Eye wrote: »

It was one of the great Hollywood 'rumours' that Clint Eastwood was the son
of Stan Laurel. They do have likeness and the time frame fits. But the story is completely unsubstantiated.

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

Has it been unsubollietiated?

Clint Eastwood was born on 31 May 1930 at St. Francis Hospital in San Francisco, the son of Clinton Eastwood, Sr.(1906-1970) and Margaret Ruth Runner (1909-2006).

I don't have actual evidence in my possession right here on my desk. Like birth certs and DNA samples. But people have checked into this story down the years and never found evidence. They found the source of the rumor in a newspaper. Instead of me proving a negative I think you can rely on the fact that no evidence has ever been put forward to substantiate the claim.

Greybottle

Stan Laurel had his phone number listed in the Santa Monica telephone directory. You could call him, he would answer and chat away to you.

He also made a point of answering every piece of fan mail that he received. After Oliver Hardy died he refused to appear in any film, even in a cameo role out of respect for him.

Sounded like a proper gent.

Ipso

Shemale wrote: »

Holland is a region in The Netherlands, not the country

As they say, God made the Netherlands but the Dutch made Holland.

Conchir

Ipso wrote: »

As they say, God made the Netherlands but the Dutch made Holland.

Did that phrase come about due to the numerous polders and reclaimed land from the sea in the Netherlands? Or did that explanation just get applied retroactively to an existing phrase?