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Quarantine Cafe: Die Hard Edition

A couple of years ago, I saw an outstanding mini-documentary on YouTube. It relayed some trivia/behind the scenes stuff I already knew, but a lot of new stuf I'd never heard before.

I've searched for the doc but can't find it now. It had interviews with screenwriters Jeb Stuart and Steven E. de Souza as well as with director John McTiernan, so it was well-sourced.

Below, a list of ten cool things about Die Hard, many of which come from this documentary I cannot link for you.

1. Die Hard is a sequel, in a way, to the Frank Sinatra movie The Detective.

The Detective was based on the novel by Roderick Thorp (a name you might recognize). In that movie, Frank Sinatra played Joe Leland, a NYC detective.

Roderick Thorp went on to write a sequel called Nothing Lasts Forever, again featuring Joe Leland. That sequel involved terrorists taking over an office building, with Leland caught in the crossfire.

2. The lead role in Die Hard was initially offered to Frank Sinatra.

Sinatra was 70 years old in 1985, when Die Hard was being put together as a concept. The producers didn't really want Sinatra to star in the action movie -- but it was legally required that they do so, because Sinatra had some kind of legal option on the sequel.

They offered him the role, hoping he'd pass. He did. He decided he was too old to play the role again.

And thus, "John Leland" became "John McClane," so as not to confuse people into thinking this was in fact a direct sequel to 1968's The Detective.

3. The John McClane role was offered to just about every warm body in Hollywood.

After Sinatra passed, the producers offered the lead role to all the people you'd guess they'd offer an action movie lead in the mid-80s to: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Clint Eastwood, Mel Gibson, James Caan, Richard Gere, Don Johnson, and others.

Pretty much the role was offered to anyone not named "Bruce Willis."

They were all either uninterested or unavailable. I think they tried to sell Schwarzenegger on the idea that the story would make a good sequel for his "John Matrix" character in Commando.

Getting desperate, they offered it to television actor Bruce Willis, who played a detective on Moonlighting, but as a glib comedic figure, not as a badass.

The studio was very skeptical that Bruce Willis, hot off the non-success of the romantic comedy Blind Date, could carry a movie at all, let alone an action movie.

The studio eventually put out a marketing blitz to sell people on the idea that Bruce Willis could even be an action star.

They did a Hard Sell on Die Hard's star.

I'm only 29 (well, almost 29), so I don't remember this era, but older uncles all tell me that one of the biggest pre-release complaints about Die Hard was that there was no way this skinny-necked TV clown could convince anyone that he was an action-hero toughguy.

My uncles tell me that even when they went to the theater, they were still expecting a disaster (despite the excellent tv commercials).

Bruce Willis was paid $5 million to star at the movie -- which was a salary almost unheard-of back then, especially because Willis was not any kind of proven box office draw.

I don't know if I heard this, heard someone speculating this, or just made it up myself: But I have it in my head somewhere that the studio offered Willis $5 million partly just to generate buzz and convince people he really was an action star. I mean, if a studio is paying him five million dollars to play an action hero, then he must be really good at playing an action hero, right?

Again, I don't know where I'm getting that. It sounds pretty stupid, now that I think about it.

By the way, Bruce Willis also turned down the role when it was first offered to him, because he was committed to shooting Moonlighting and was unavailable during Die Hard's planned shooting schedule.

But Cybil Shephard got pregnant, and the show went on haitus for some months to give her some time to deliver, and that gave Willis the time to shoot Die Hard.

4. They offered the director's chair to John McTiernan, hot off his success on Predator. He also repeatedly turned it down.

McTiernan's biggest complaint was that the script was about terrorists. In previous interviews, he's said that he considered terrorists too depressing for a big fun summer blockbuster.

They kept trying to convince McTiernan. He ultimately tell them: Fine, but I want the script rewritten so that they're not terrorists.

And so the screenwriter came up with the great twist that Hans Gruber is pretending to be terrorists, but in fact is just a "common thief."

I'm sorry -- I mean he's an extraordinary thief. My bad.

The terrorists in the novel Nothing Lasts Forever were German, too.

John McTiernan made another important demand: He wanted the script to be lighter, particularly in scenes involving the terrorists (well, thieves pretending to be terrorists).

I think his idea was that if the terrorists/thieves were just completely unpleasant, any time they're on the screen talking would be equally unpleasant for the audience. The audience wouldn't mind spending time with the terrorists if they were somewhat likable.

This was a very important choice.

McTiernan kicked off the whole "Bad Guy Is So Likeable You Secretly Want Him to Become Friends With the Good Guy" trope that would dominate 80s and 90s movies.

5. "Nakatomi Plaza Tower" was played by the Twentieth Century Fox Plaza Tower in Century City.

The Fox Building had just opened weeks before filming, and was also still under construction during filming -- just like Nakatomi Plaza. Scenes of under-construction floors of the building were in fact real.

In the videos below the fold, there's a good behind-the-scenes video about the use of miniatures in the film.

6. The scene in which McCain meets Hans Gruber was added during filming, because Alan Rickman's American accent was funny.

In the script, McCain did not face down Gruber until the end of the movie.

The scene of Gruber pretending to be an American hostage -- "Bill Clay" -- was written during the shoot. Rickman was doing an American accent to make people laugh, and they thought it was so funny they should include it in the movie.

Thus, in just a few days, one of the greatest scenes in the movie was hastily thrown together.

7. The villains' escape plan of driving away from the Nakatomi massacre in an ambulance was also a very late addition, added only as shooting was wrapping up.

Gruber's plan to escape is to blow up the top of the Nakatomi Tower and all of the hostages there to make it appear as though he and his men killed themselves in a terrorist statement.

But there was no actual explanation about how they actually intended to physically escape the Nakatomi Plaza area.

John McTiernan was bothered by this plot hole and asked the screenwriter (I think it was Steven E. de Souza who was on-set, doing rewrites; Jeb Stuart had been let go earlier) to come up with an explanation as to how the criminals intended to escape.

De Souza came up with the idea of the ambulance hidden inside the tractor-trailer that was seen earlier in the movie.

One problem: Earlier shots of that trailer did not show any ambulance inside -- because, of course, the whole concept of the hidden ambulance didn't exist when they shot those early scenes.

They decided to not worry about it, figuring that no one would notice that the ambulance only appears later.

They were right. No one did notice, except I guess years later, and only because Die Hard was so frequently rewatched, and rewatched on high-quality digital.

A lot of decisions were made late in the production, and almost all of them paid off well.

8. The look of surprise on Hans Gruber's face as he plummets from the top of Nakatomi Tower is real.

Alan Rickman volunteered to take this fall himself.

They suspended him by a harness about forty feet above air-mats. (I'm guessing the air-mats were in chroma-key blue or green so they could replace them later with an image of the street below).

They set the camera above Rickman, looking down at him.

The plan, supposedly, was that McTiernan would count down from 3 -- 3, 2, 1, fire -- and the harness would be released and then Rickman would stop falling.

But the story goes that McTiernan wanted Rickman's face to show genuine terror and surprise, so he skipped the countdown and just ordered the harness released immediately.

Alan Rickman seems to dispute this, saying he doesn't remember any business involving the countdown to release.

9. Die Hard started a chain of imitators, all with pitch-lines that read, "It's like Die Hard in a [X]."

Die Hard was the first in a series of what have come to be called "Siege movies," where a group of well-armed mercenaries, terrorists, or other criminals take over location and one or a couple of outgunned heroes have to do battle with them.

"Die Hard in an [X] movies" made soon after Die Hard included:

Speed 2: Cruise Control: Die Hard on a cruise liner!

Under Siege: Die Hard on a battleship!

Sudden Death: Die Hard in a hockey game!

Masterminds: Die Hard in a boys' boarding school!

Air Force One: Die Hard in an Air Force One!

Under Siege 2: Dark Territory: Die Hard on a train!

Cliffhanger: Die Hard on some cliffs!

White House Down: Die Hard in a White House!

Philadelphia: Die Hard in a t-cell!

Just kidding about that, of course.

Die Hard's sequels of course did this as well. Die Hard 2: Die Harder was Die Hard in an airport, and Die Hard with a Vengeance was Die Hard in All of New York City.

There was an amusing thing I remember happening. If you remember this: Anna Niccole Smith was at one point a celebrity people knew. Her tits were so big they thought, we should put those tits in some movies.

She appeared in a Die Hard rip-off called Skyscraper.

If memory serves me -- and maybe it's actually telling me lies here -- Skyscraper was advertised as Die Hard in a skyscraper!

If you can imagine such a thing!

What a great idea. I wonder what took them so long to think of that.

10. In 2018, thirty years after Die Hard's release, Twentieth Century Fox released a recut commercial for the film, confirming that it is in fact a Christmas movie.

The "Is Die Hard a Christmas movie?" debate was kind of funny back in 2005 or whenever it got started. It really began to annoy me when Jonah Goldberg, Sonny Bunch, David French and the rest of the Is Hotdog Sandwich? gang endlessly repeated it as a rote part of their Twitter cyberflirtation rituals.

Still, it was funny for a while.

And the recut commercial was amusing. See the video of it below. Plus a few other interesting videos about Die Hard.


Posted by: Ace at 07:20 PM




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1 Evening Die Hard people.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2020 07:20 PM (Rvt88)

2 I nooded.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2020 07:21 PM (Rvt88)

3 Welcome to the top 10, pal

Posted by: Hands (he/him/somebody) at December 21, 2020 07:22 PM (786Ro)

4 someone watched the Netflix special on this

Posted by: Big Star at December 21, 2020 07:23 PM (pvJV4)

5 Apparently the last thread is not interesting enough?

Posted by: Jen the original at December 21, 2020 07:24 PM (t9ITf)

6 >>>4 someone watched the Netflix special on this


I didn't! But I did see "Die Hard Netflix documentary" when I was searching for the documentary I mentioned in a post.

Maybe that IS the documentary I saw? Not sure!

Posted by: ace at December 21, 2020 07:24 PM (nuqdl)

7 Best Christmas Movie since Groundhog Day.

Posted by: G'rump928(C) at December 21, 2020 07:26 PM (s4dNo)

8 Good Christmas movie.

Back from looking at the planets. Junior-etts school telescope, a Celestron catadyoptic lens with a cardboard body, was good enough to make out two moon from Jupitor and (almost) make out the rings of Saturn.

Before we left we checked out the moon with it. OMG! That telescope must've been made specifically for that range. We could see shadows in the craters! Very cool family moment for us.

If weather permits, get outside and look at it!

Posted by: BifBewalski AOS Moron at December 21, 2020 07:27 PM (VcFUs)

9 I thought Titanic was "the" Christmas movie!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - Your Rulers Have Earned, And Deserve, Different Rules! at December 21, 2020 07:27 PM (87oRe)

10 Now I hab a machine gub.

Posted by: attila the twitchy at December 21, 2020 07:27 PM (w7KSn)

11 I've never watched Die Hard. Can I still comment on this site?

Posted by: windbag at December 21, 2020 07:28 PM (M9qxJ)

12 Outside, It's Conjunction Junction in the sky.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2020 07:28 PM (V2Yro)

13 I'm eating a smoked tri tip sandwich. I did an imperfect job of smoking but imperfect is still pretty damn good.

Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at December 21, 2020 07:28 PM (lgiXo)

14 2018-40=1978.

We know what you meant, ace.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at December 21, 2020 07:28 PM (fIHXk)

15 6. The scene in which McCain meets Hans Gruber was added during filming, because Alan Rickman's American accent was funny.

In the script, McCain did not face down Gruber until the end of the movie.



Ace, that typo on the name. You either do hate us, or you need to be better.

Posted by: Hands (he/him/somebody) at December 21, 2020 07:28 PM (786Ro)

16 Titanic is Valentine's day movie

Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2020 07:29 PM (Cxk7w)

17 Philadelphia: Die Hard in a t-cell!



I'm going to hell for laughing.

Posted by: G'rump928(C) at December 21, 2020 07:29 PM (s4dNo)

18 If weather permits, get outside and look at it!

Posted by: BifBewalski AOS Moron at December 21, 2020 07:27 PM (VcFUs)

I was so ticked, I have no view to the southwest. and the doggone clouds vanished just in time but I could get to a viewing site!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - Your Rulers Have Earned, And Deserve, Different Rules! at December 21, 2020 07:29 PM (87oRe)

19 I'm not going to read but I'm sure everyone has pointed out that Die Hard was Alan Rickman's first movie.


I read about them in Time magazine in one of my favorite lines.

Oh oh oh also Karl is played by a ballet dancer. I remember that, errr, I mean I was told that by some aunts, yes, that's it, that wait you want us to buy a ballet dancer as a kick ass terrorist? Really?

Vroom vroom goes the chainsaw.

Posted by: alexthechick - Boobs and hysteria at December 21, 2020 07:29 PM (GbPPJ)

20 I have never seen "Die Hard".

I was off doing other things when it came out and I never cared for Bruce Moonlighting.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 21, 2020 07:30 PM (R/m4+)

21 Seriously? Ace isn't even 30? Like for real? You sound jaded enough to be at least MY age, or older!

Posted by: 496 at December 21, 2020 07:30 PM (U1eOr)

22 The sky is cloudy here... but just to the SW... I keep going out hoping it clears a bit. I've been looking the last several nights when it's been clear. No telescope or binoculars though. I keep meaning to get a telescope for stuff like this but, you know....

Posted by: lin-duh at December 21, 2020 07:30 PM (UUBmN)

23 I watched Conjunction Function. Pretty cool.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at December 21, 2020 07:31 PM (fIHXk)

24 An agent told me she had never seen Die Hard or Trading Places. She is in her early fifties. She has to be pulling my leg, right?

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at December 21, 2020 07:31 PM (PUmDY)

25 With Die Hard being released in 1988, 2018 would have been 30 years after the movie's release, not 40 years.

Posted by: Will at December 21, 2020 07:31 PM (YA4S8)

26 Ace isn't even 30?


He's almost 29.

Posted by: G'rump928(C) at December 21, 2020 07:31 PM (s4dNo)

27 16: Titanic sucks any time of year

Posted by: CN at December 21, 2020 07:31 PM (ONvIw)

28 With Die Hard being released in 1988, 2018 would have been 30 years after the movie's release, not 40 years.

Posted by: Will at December 21, 2020 07:31 PM (YA4S





Ewoks don't do math

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 21, 2020 07:32 PM (4C0+v)

29 so what movie is this thread about?

Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at December 21, 2020 07:32 PM (BALvA)

30 Moon is out ... I can see that...

Posted by: lin-duh at December 21, 2020 07:32 PM (UUBmN)

31 That series has the same type of info about Elf, Ghost Busters, Home Aline. Its called the movies that made us I think?

Posted by: Asshoes at December 21, 2020 07:32 PM (W8PaO)

32 I'm not going to read but I'm sure everyone has pointed out that Die Hard was Alan Rickman's first movie.

Sort of. He did Wetherby in 1985 but he was uncredited. And a number of TV movies before Die Hard.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM guy at December 21, 2020 07:33 PM (ZSK0i)

33 Before we left we checked out the moon with it. OMG! That telescope must've been made specifically for that range. We could see shadows in the craters! Very cool family moment for us.

If weather permits, get outside and look at it!
Posted by: BifBewalski AOS Moron

Nice! I hear tell of objects viewable in the sky between the months of October and April but nah, not here in O H I O.

That's what I am moving away from - gray winter skies.

And city kids.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2020 07:33 PM (Rvt88)

34 In the script, McCain did not face down Gruber until the end of the movie.

Ace, that typo on the name. You either do hate us, or you need to be better.
Posted by: Hands (he/him/somebody) at December 21, 2020 07:28 PM (786Ro)

In the actual story on which this was based, McCain sold out to Gruber in exchange for half the loot and blamed it all on Krazy Konservatives.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2020 07:33 PM (V2Yro)

35 Yeah, I remember when Die Hard came out, and the big publicity blitz to sell Bruce Willis as an action star. Which seems strange to people today, now that Bruce Willis is almost synonymous with "action star." But at the time it was seen as a risky bet, and they went kind of all-out on the "believe it or not, this guy is a REAL ACTION HERO!" angle.

I think the only other time I've seen that done was when Keanu Reeves was in the first "Speed."

I wonder if they'd ever do something like that these days, now that "unlikely guy turns out to be a badass" has become almost a cliche in itself.

Posted by: Ex-liberal at December 21, 2020 07:33 PM (R1mDg)

36 24 An agent told me she had never seen Die Hard or Trading Places. She is in her early fifties. She has to be pulling my leg, right?
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at December 21, 2020 07:31 PM (PUmDY)

I mentioned above that I've never seen Die Hard. Add Trading Places to the list. And Animal House. I skipped a lot of pop culture back in the day.

Posted by: windbag at December 21, 2020 07:33 PM (M9qxJ)

37 I've never watched Die Hard. Can I still comment on this site?
Posted by: windbag at December 21, 2020 07:28 PM (M9qxJ

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Next you're going to tell us you've never heard of Monty Python.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 21, 2020 07:33 PM (kTF2Z)

38 I remember way back when I was a tiny lad , hearing about the gunfight between the Hotdog Sandwich and Apple Dumpling Gangs Ketchup and Mustard Corral.

Can't remember much of the details but Gramps said the
place looked like the plate of a Tilt-a-Whirl after a 105 degree day at the Carnival.

Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at December 21, 2020 07:34 PM (uxUoN)

39 so what movie is this thread about?

Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at December 21, 2020 07:32 PM (BALvA)



How hard *did* you hit your head?

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM guy at December 21, 2020 07:34 PM (ZSK0i)

40 24

My wife has never seen Pulp Fiction, The Matrix or The Breakfast Club.

Posted by: Asshoes at December 21, 2020 07:34 PM (W8PaO)

41 Just moon here. No stars / planets.

Posted by: Count de Monet, President-Elect ISTJ at December 21, 2020 07:34 PM (4I/2K)

42
Not only did we see the conjunction here in Brazoria County, with Her Majesty's binoculars we saw the two planets.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 21, 2020 07:34 PM (mht8P)

43 I find it funny that ace mentioned Speed 2, instead of, yknow, Speed, which is "Die Hard on a bus!"

Posted by: Broseidon at December 21, 2020 07:35 PM (icI8A)

44 Seriously? Ace isn't even 30? Like for real? You sound jaded enough to be at least MY age, or older!
Posted by: 496 at December 21, 2020 07:30 PM (U1eOr)



We are all 29 here at the Horde. Some of us have simply been 29 longer than others have.

I've always loved the That Guy speech from Live Free or Die Hard:

https://youtu.be/Qga3aLPB0YE


Oh Live Free or Die Hard, I do adore that movie. Particularly watching Timothy Olyphant wander off to find some scenery from other movies to chew. That is a compliment.

Posted by: alexthechick - Boobs and hysteria at December 21, 2020 07:35 PM (GbPPJ)

45 I like the 2nd sequel better than the original. Fight me.

Posted by: Asshoes at December 21, 2020 07:35 PM (W8PaO)

46 windbag

Trading Places. All I remember is Jamie Lee Curtis and those magnificent breast.

Never say Die Hard. Was at sea.

Animal House. OK, I did see that multiple times. Especially the dorm room scene.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 21, 2020 07:35 PM (u82oZ)

47 .>>43 I find it funny that ace mentioned Speed 2, instead of, yknow, Speed, which is "Die Hard on a bus!"


i actually wrote that at first but it really wasn't Die Hard on a bus. There was no crew of armed men. Just one guy with a bomb.

Posted by: ace at December 21, 2020 07:35 PM (nuqdl)

48 Ace that was most excellent write up of a video clip you couldn't show.
It is a Christmas movie you all know

Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2020 07:36 PM (Cxk7w)

49 37 I've never watched Die Hard. Can I still comment on this site?
Posted by: windbag at December 21, 2020 07:28 PM (M9qxJ

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Next you're going to tell us you've never heard of Monty Python.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 21, 2020 07:33 PM (kTF2Z)

I'm not a Commie. I can quote large portions of it.

Posted by: windbag at December 21, 2020 07:36 PM (M9qxJ)

50 I should have expected Die Hard was on the list of Ace's many many expertise

Posted by: Rbastid at December 21, 2020 07:36 PM (HQbXM)

51 "Get Hard" is "Die Hard" at a truck stop!

Posted by: occam's brassiere at December 21, 2020 07:36 PM (evxBY)

52 What if a group of well-armed mercenary terroristic trolls took over a Thread, and one or a couple of outgunned CoBs had to do battle with them?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 21, 2020 07:36 PM (DMUuz)

53 Frustration is when you rent/stream a viewing for $3.99 and then find your copy of the DVD the next day.

Posted by: attila the twitchy at December 21, 2020 07:37 PM (w7KSn)

54 "i actually wrote that at first but it really wasn't Die Hard on a bus. There was no crew of armed men. Just one guy with a bomb.

Posted by: ace at December 21, 2020 07:35 PM (nuqdl)"

True, but it was absolutely pitched as a Die Hard clone.

Posted by: Broseidon at December 21, 2020 07:37 PM (icI8A)

55 So where does one look in the sky for the cosmic happening?

Skies are severe clear here, should be decent viewing with binoculars.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 21, 2020 07:37 PM (OTzUX)

56 What if a group of well-armed mercenary terroristic trolls took over a Thread, and one or a couple of outgunned CoBs had to do battle with them?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 21, 2020 07:36 PM (DMUuz)

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There wouldn't be an HQ anymore?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 21, 2020 07:37 PM (kTF2Z)

57 Shrink...I wanna kill. I, I mean I wanna KILL.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 21, 2020 07:38 PM (nakwk)

58 Oh man, I show up and it's already barrel time.

Posted by: clutch cargo now with 21% more FUCKITOL at December 21, 2020 07:38 PM (L8ADy)

59 Duncanthrax

My money is on the CoBs. Weasel alone can handle it.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 21, 2020 07:38 PM (u82oZ)

60 Just came in from the back porch.

Had the Vortex Razor 27x60x85 angled viewfinder spotting scope set up atop it's Bogen 3040 tripod, pointed skyward to the South West.

INCREDIBLE view of Saturn & Jupiter, with Razor* sharp views of the Rings of Saturn and several of Jupiter's Moons.

Pity, I don't yet have an adapter for a Nikon DSLR or a cel-phone camera, so as to have captured the sight. And yes, I did have to manually "track" the paired planets to keep 'em in the scope. A tweak ever minute or so.

Iris got to see 'em, as did my next door neighbors.

Any doubts as to the quality of this spotting scope, disappeared in an instant.

The Rings of Saturn were easily discernable, distinct and brilliant in contrast, color and fineness of resolution.

Jupiter's Moons were rendered as perfect dots of light, no haloing, no double images, no fuzzy edges.

Optical. Perfection.

And it's not even an "astronomical" telescope.

Wow.



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX


*puntentional

Posted by: Jim at December 21, 2020 07:39 PM (QzJWU)

61
What if a group of well-armed mercenary terroristic trolls took over a Thread, and one or a couple of outgunned CoBs had to do battle with them?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 21, 2020 07:36 PM (DMUuz)

________

Morons would be laughing and placing bets on who dies next.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 21, 2020 07:39 PM (mht8P)

62 Maybe above the entire thread, but critical drinker did a nice little summary on Die Hard.

Posted by: clutch cargo now with 21% more FUCKITOL at December 21, 2020 07:39 PM (L8ADy)

63 trump wins

Posted by: you gotta be shittin me pyle at December 21, 2020 07:39 PM (er/ld)

64 55 So where does one look in the sky for the cosmic happening?

Skies are severe clear here, should be decent viewing with binoculars.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 21, 2020 07:37 PM (OTzUX)

low in the southwest. Here in Texas, it's already approaching the horizon, it may not be visible on the East Coast. West Coast should have wonderful views for a couple more hours.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2020 07:39 PM (V2Yro)

65 Animal House is just Die Hard in college.

Posted by: G'rump928(C) at December 21, 2020 07:39 PM (s4dNo)

66 Hmmm I wonder if the currently corollary to dorky comedian guy who is actually a legit action hero is big muscley guy (think Chris Hemsworth) is actually really funny!

In Zombieland, part of the joke was that Jesse Eisenberg isn't exactly an action star and thus it was played that here's this schlub forced to live through an apocalypse and anything heroic he does is by accident.

Posted by: alexthechick - Boobs and hysteria at December 21, 2020 07:39 PM (GbPPJ)

67 I think they key element of "Die Hard on a blank" is the ongoing banter between our intrepid hero and duh bad guy, leading up to our climactic fight/smack talk/death etc.

Die Hard does this better, as you pointed out, by having McClane and Gruber meet mid-movie instead of waiting until the end.

Posted by: Broseidon at December 21, 2020 07:40 PM (icI8A)

68 Oh man, I show up and it's already barrel time.
Posted by: clutch cargo now with 21% more FUCKITOL at December 21, 2020 07:38 PM (L8ADy)

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That's a troll socking a cob. Not sure why he hasn't been nuked.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 21, 2020 07:40 PM (kTF2Z)

69 59 Oh man, I show up and it's already barrel time.
Posted by: clutch cargo now with 21% more FUCKITOL at December 21, 2020 07:38 PM (L8ADy)

it's the same sad troll as last night.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2020 07:40 PM (V2Yro)

70 weasel. why.

Posted by: alexthechick - Boobs and hysteria at December 21, 2020 07:40 PM (GbPPJ)

71 Either Weasel got a new hash or thats a Troll (JP1N6 ) that just posted the whole thread.

Nuke it.

Posted by: Hands (he/him/somebody) at December 21, 2020 07:40 PM (786Ro)

72 50 Shades of Grey is just Die Hard in an S&M chamber.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 21, 2020 07:40 PM (nakwk)

73 AtC I don't think it's Weasel. The hash doesn't match.

Posted by: Hands (he/him/somebody) at December 21, 2020 07:41 PM (786Ro)

74 Ahhh good weasel got it. Yay!

Posted by: alexthechick - Boobs and hysteria at December 21, 2020 07:41 PM (GbPPJ)

75 Posted by: I have a tiny penis at December 21, 2020 07:37 PM (JP1N6)


HAHAHA. Loser.

Posted by: G'rump928(C) at December 21, 2020 07:41 PM (s4dNo)

76
By Grabthar's Hammer ... what a Christmas movie!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 21, 2020 07:41 PM (pNxlR)

77 Too many trees in the way. I have a sadz.

Posted by: Count de Monet, President-Elect ISTJ at December 21, 2020 07:41 PM (4I/2K)

78
The Wizard of Oz is Die Hard with a tornado.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 21, 2020 07:41 PM (mht8P)

79 Duncanthrax

My money is on the CoBs. Weasel alone can handle it.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 21, 2020 07:38 PM


From The Barrel?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 21, 2020 07:41 PM (DMUuz)

80 I've been thinking about what Ace, the COBs and random Hordlings look like.
I've met AOP but nobody else.
I see Ace has a beard and wears a lumberjack shirt.
J.J. Sefton is graying at the temples and wears cardigans in every shade of brown, even to bed. He smokes a pipe.
But I've been drinking.

Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at December 21, 2020 07:41 PM (lgiXo)

81 alexthechick - Boobs and hysteria

It is a troll socking Weasel. For the third day in a row.

I trust you are fine.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 21, 2020 07:41 PM (u82oZ)

82 Had the Vortex Razor 27x60x85 angled viewfinder spotting scope set up atop it's Bogen 3040 tripod, pointed skyward to the South West.

LOL Bogen, there's a blast from the past. Before Manfrotto glommed on. I have an old 3040, actually run over by a truck, and fucked up the truck. They don't build them like that any more. Not exactly a travel pod though.

Posted by: clutch cargo now with 21% more FUCKITOL at December 21, 2020 07:41 PM (L8ADy)

83 it's not Weasel it's just troll again

trolls trolls everywhere trolls

oh and BTW... Blind Date is a pretty good movie just sayin

Posted by: MISTRESSBlackOrchid at December 21, 2020 07:42 PM (j9HX3)

84 It's not Weasel, it's an asshole troll. And before people start making repeated calls to nuke it, or whatever, the fucker's using a VPN with rotating IP addresses, so saying that over and over again doesn't help.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 21, 2020 07:42 PM (nakwk)

85 Brother Northernlurker just another guy

Weasel and Weird Dave were at the Texas MoMeet. And fun was had by all.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 21, 2020 07:42 PM (u82oZ)

86 Critical Drinker did a 4-hour discussion on Die Hard 2 on Friday. He does it on-camera too.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at December 21, 2020 07:42 PM (IbxQb)

87 the troll is using vpn where he shifts his log in every time he's banned. it's just vandalism, it's shitty because one of the cobs is going to have to babysit the blog and nuke him every 4 or 5 minutes to keep it readable. And everybody has got other things to do.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2020 07:42 PM (V2Yro)

88
Had the Vortex Razor 27x60x85 angled viewfinder spotting scope set up atop it's Bogen 3040 tripod, pointed skyward to the South West.

__________

Then your neighbor turns on his award-winning Christmas lights.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 21, 2020 07:42 PM (mht8P)

89 it's the same sad troll as last night.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2020 07:40 PM (V2Yro)


We got one using people's nics? Fuck, Soros is really scraping the barrel - they're getting spread thin.

Posted by: clutch cargo now with 21% more FUCKITOL at December 21, 2020 07:43 PM (L8ADy)

90 so can cobs just at least delete the posts?

give ma the Power

it seems to appear with this shit the moment I try to join a freaking common thread, every damn time!

Posted by: MISTRESSBlackOrchid at December 21, 2020 07:43 PM (j9HX3)

91
I mentioned above that I've never seen Die Hard. Add Trading Places to the list. And Animal House. I skipped a lot of pop culture back in the day.
Posted by: windbag at December 21, 2020 07:33 PM (M9qxJ)

Nope you're not alone, although I saw trading places. Never seen
Monty Python either.

Posted by: clutch at December 21, 2020 07:43 PM (9UmRs)

92 Steel Magnolias is Die Hard in a beauty salon.

Posted by: Count de Monet, President-Elect ISTJ at December 21, 2020 07:43 PM (4I/2K)

93 Trading Places is Die Hard on the commodities trading floor.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 21, 2020 07:43 PM (nakwk)

94 Mystic Pizza is Die Hard in a Mystic Pizza.

Posted by: ace at December 21, 2020 07:44 PM (nuqdl)

95 I want to buy a pith helmet and become Sidney Greenstreet.

Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at December 21, 2020 07:44 PM (lgiXo)

96 *waves to NaCly Dog* I am well, thank you for asking.


And everybody has got other things to do.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2020 07:42 PM (V2Yro)


Ummmmmmmmm.

You have met the Horde, yes.

No we don't.

Posted by: alexthechick - Boobs and hysteria at December 21, 2020 07:44 PM (GbPPJ)

97
Anne of Green Gables is Die Hard set on PEI.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 21, 2020 07:44 PM (mht8P)

98 Dune is just Die Hard in a desert.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 21, 2020 07:45 PM (nakwk)

99 Die Hard With A Vengeance was actually a screenplay called "Simon Says" and was meant to be a vehicle for Brandon Lee. It was bought by Warner Bros who were going to make it a Lethal Weapon sequel, but that never happened, so Fox bought the script.

Posted by: Broseidon at December 21, 2020 07:45 PM (icI8A)

100 An agent told me she had never seen Die Hard or Trading Places. She is in her early fifties. She has to be pulling my leg, right?
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at December 21, 2020 07:31 PM (PUmDY)

Hell. I have never seen them.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 21, 2020 07:45 PM (mzC78)

101 see the thing is, I can delete these posts, but he can post new ones faster than I can delete.

I've been asking Pixy to please change me over to the "new" system, which is seven years old, for seven years. He either can't or won't.

Posted by: ace at December 21, 2020 07:45 PM (nuqdl)

102 The Money Plane is Die Hard in a Money Plane.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2020 07:45 PM (V2Yro)

103 I've never seen ET.

Posted by: alexthechick - Boobs and hysteria at December 21, 2020 07:45 PM (GbPPJ)

104 I watch Eyes Wide Shut every Christmas. Keeps getting more real.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at December 21, 2020 07:45 PM (PUmDY)

105 My Dinner With Andre is just Die Hard in a restaurant.

Posted by: Broseidon at December 21, 2020 07:45 PM (icI8A)

106 Friday is just Die Hard in Compton.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 21, 2020 07:46 PM (nakwk)

107 You have met the Horde, yes.

No we don't.
Posted by: alexthechick - Boobs and hysteria at December 21, 2020 07:44 PM (GbPPJ)


Look lady, I don't know about you, but that ice ain't gonna get itself.

Posted by: clutch cargo now with 21% more FUCKITOL at December 21, 2020 07:46 PM (L8ADy)

108 see the thing is, I can delete these posts, but he can post new ones faster than I can delete.



I volunteer to swing the hammer.

Posted by: G'rump928(C) at December 21, 2020 07:46 PM (s4dNo)

109 It's a Christmas sandwich!

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Buy a Monotonous Languor, get an Enormous Ennui half off at The Outrage Outlet! at December 21, 2020 07:46 PM (0QYMt)

110 Ghost Ship is Ghost Ship on a Ghost Ship.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 21, 2020 07:46 PM (kTF2Z)

111 Deer Hunter is Die Hard in Pennsylvietnam

Posted by: Count de Monet, President-Elect ISTJ at December 21, 2020 07:47 PM (4I/2K)

112 Which Die Hard was Brian Dennehy in?

Posted by: Hands at December 21, 2020 07:47 PM (786Ro)

113 Network is just Die Hard in a TV station.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 21, 2020 07:47 PM (nakwk)

114 It's not hard to die.

What's hard is living. To when you're old and in pain all day.

THAT'S hard!

Posted by: jakee308 at December 21, 2020 07:47 PM (avUgs)

115 I saw Die Hard years ago. I have no comment to make as I can barely remember it.

Posted by: washrivergal at December 21, 2020 07:47 PM (66BnU)

116 I think there's a troll out and about.

Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at December 21, 2020 07:47 PM (lgiXo)

117 might be time to resurrect the idea of giving some regulars the ability to delete posts. Take some of the burden off Ace and the coblogs.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2020 07:47 PM (V2Yro)

118 Braveheart is just Die Hard in Scotland.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 21, 2020 07:47 PM (nakwk)

119 This was when McTiernan was at the top of his game.

It doesn't surprise me that he made key decisions which made it a success.

Posted by: Axeman at December 21, 2020 07:47 PM (RdTKD)

120 The Princess Bride is Die Hard with sword fights.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2020 07:48 PM (Rvt88)

121

Die Hard would have benefited greatly from some bats and face hugging spiders...

Posted by: Dirty Frank at December 21, 2020 07:48 PM (0BhXH)

122 My recollection is that Willis was the hottest up and comer at the time.

Posted by: MAGA (stop the steal link in this nic) at December 21, 2020 07:49 PM (cMXNt)

123 Yippee ki yea!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at December 21, 2020 07:49 PM (axyOa)

124 112 Which Die Hard was Brian Dennehy in?
Posted by: Hands at December 21, 2020 07:47 PM (786Ro)

All of them - he was the explosions.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Buy a Monotonous Languor, get an Enormous Ennui half off at The Outrage Outlet! at December 21, 2020 07:49 PM (0QYMt)

125 ..LOL Bogen, there's a blast from the past. Before Manfrotto glommed on. I have an old 3040, actually run over by a truck, and fucked up the truck. They don't build them like that any more. Not exactly a travel pod though.

Posted by: clutch cargo now with 21% more FUCKITOL at December 21, 2020 07:41 PM (L8ADy)



Yeah, it's a tank, and back in the day, they also made a three-pointed star shaped, wheeled "dolly" to make it a studio-mobile platform.

But, in a windy day out on the firing line, the scope it supports remains rock steady and on target, long after lesser gear gets stowed away as Combat Ineffective.

I do need to get a lighter duty, more portable tripod, though. Like guns, other "gear" is also seldom a "one size fits all" world.



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at December 21, 2020 07:49 PM (QzJWU)

126 might be time to resurrect the idea of giving some regulars the ability to delete posts. Take some of the burden off Ace and the coblogs.
Posted by: Tom Servo

And the qualifications would be what?

Sound judgement, intelligence and grace?

Who would be left?

Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2020 07:49 PM (Rvt88)

127 Silver Streak is Die Hard on a train.

Posted by: Count de Monet, President-Elect ISTJ at December 21, 2020 07:49 PM (4I/2K)

128 Only a frantic loser in life get their kicks from disrupting this site. How pathetic is that?

Posted by: washrivergal at December 21, 2020 07:49 PM (66BnU)

129 Just makes me more mad at Democrats.
And I'm not particular which.

Posted by: attila the twitchy at December 21, 2020 07:49 PM (w7KSn)

130 It's a Wonderful Life is Die Hard at Christmas Time

Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2020 07:49 PM (Cxk7w)

131 This is what a real movie review looks like!

BTW - TL;DR

Posted by: tbodie at December 21, 2020 07:49 PM (yfoZs)

132 My recollection is that Willis was the hottest up and comer at the time.


The funny thing is that as soon as he became a success, he lost his hair.

Posted by: G'rump928(C) at December 21, 2020 07:50 PM (s4dNo)

133 I remember my grandpa seeing Die Hard and him relating the plot and stuff, I eventually saw it as an adult.

Posted by: Dr Spank at December 21, 2020 07:50 PM (iZwip)

134 Lord Jim is just Die Hard with sweat.

Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at December 21, 2020 07:50 PM (lgiXo)

135 Here is an article at Uproxx that might be what you are talking about, ace.

https://uproxx.com/movies/die-hard-director-christmas-movie-its-a-wonderful-life/


It has an embedded interview with the director.

Posted by: Sharkman at December 21, 2020 07:50 PM (1YlHz)

136 RIP Kevin Greene. Great linebacker.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at December 21, 2020 07:50 PM (fIHXk)

137 Die Hard in a barrel seems appropriate.

Posted by: Dr Spank at December 21, 2020 07:50 PM (iZwip)

138
Only a frantic loser in life get their kicks from disrupting this site. How pathetic is that?
Posted by: washrivergal at December 21, 2020 07:49 PM (66BnU)

-----------

You'd think it would do something useful, like disrupting Congress's site.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 21, 2020 07:50 PM (mht8P)

139 I wish they had gotten Don Johnson. I never cared for Bruce Willis.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 21, 2020 07:51 PM (vpUwx)

140 I've never watched Die Hard. Can I still comment on this site?

Posted by: windbag at December 21, 2020 07:28 PM (M9qxJ)


Sure. But first...

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 21, 2020 07:51 PM (F0YaR)

141 Nakitomi baby, let it all hang out!

Posted by: klaftern at December 21, 2020 07:52 PM (RuIsu)

142 It's trolls all the way down.

Posted by: jakee308 at December 21, 2020 07:52 PM (avUgs)

143 The "omnibus" appears to provide $ to illegals, as the aid will now go to households based on the total head count, without regard to citizenship/eligibility. In "mixed status" households - meaning some legal or citizens, some illegals (legal resident aliens already eligible).

Tired of losing, and the losing has barely started.

Make sure to help the two vapid GOP nothings in GA win their run-offs, it's important.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 21, 2020 07:52 PM (OTzUX)

144 I got my Die Hard-loving friends this children's book version:

https://tinyurl.com/yaejhgyb

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Iron Fist in Velvet Glove in Iron Gauntlet Clutching an Iron Mace at December 21, 2020 07:52 PM (Dc2NZ)

145 Which Die Hard was Brian Dennehy in?

Posted by: Hands at December 21, 2020 07:47 PM (786Ro)

All of them.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 21, 2020 07:52 PM (dEXdx)

146 I believe there are ways to detect VPN use.

Posted by: JM in Florida at December 21, 2020 07:52 PM (HCeRP)

147 Oh oh oh also Karl is played by a ballet dancer. I remember that, errr,
I mean I was told that by some aunts, yes, that's it, that wait you
want us to buy a ballet dancer as a kick ass terrorist? Really?


I thought he died gracefully, didn't you?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #BlockadeDC at December 21, 2020 07:52 PM (HaL55)

148 Hammer time.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 21, 2020 07:53 PM (axyOa)

149 That's my battery.

Posted by: Braenyard at December 21, 2020 07:53 PM (CZm2G)

150 Deliverance is Die Hard on a river camping trip.

Posted by: Count de Monet, President-Elect ISTJ at December 21, 2020 07:53 PM (4I/2K)

151 In times of trollery, "Endeavour to persevere!"

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - Your Rulers Have Earned, And Deserve, Different Rules! at December 21, 2020 07:53 PM (87oRe)

152 It's cloudy so I didn't see the planet dealio. Does that mean winter is over soon?

Posted by: Weasel at December 21, 2020 07:53 PM (MVjcR)

153 The Skyscraper movie linked to here is not the Skyscraper movie with Anna Nicole Smith.

For a friend I decided to click the link, and found that tit's actually a link to the 2018 REMAKE of the 1996 original featuring Anna Nicole Smith, here: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114467

Posted by: scottst at December 21, 2020 07:54 PM (ojBxe)

154 Cat People us Die Hard with Natasha Kinski's boobs.

Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at December 21, 2020 07:54 PM (lgiXo)

155 False Weasel! False Weasel!!!!

Posted by: Weasel at December 21, 2020 07:54 PM (MVjcR)

156 If you block all cookies you are given the opportunity to re-enter your information every comment.

Posted by: Braenyard at December 21, 2020 07:55 PM (CZm2G)

157 Deliverance is Die Hard on a river camping trip.
Posted by: Count de Monet, President-Elect ISTJ at December 21, 2020 07:53 PM (4I/2K)
---
Only more sodomy.

Posted by: Axeman at December 21, 2020 07:55 PM (RdTKD)

158 Only a frantic loser in life get their kicks from disrupting this site. How pathetic is that?
Posted by: washrivergal at December 21, 2020 07:49 PM (66BnU)[i/]

It doesn't even deserve the moniker "troll". It's more like a retarded child. At least a proper troll pretends to be a "concerned fellow conservative", or throws out facts/figures to try to demoralize, engage in some sort of conversation no matter how naďve, or at least just hurl insults.

I'm guessing they've run out of roaches to pull the legs off of.

Posted by: clutch cargo now with 21% more FUCKITOL at December 21, 2020 07:55 PM (L8ADy)

159 The Matchstick Girl is Die Hard in a frozen alley.

Where she dreams her babushka comes to her in a dream to save her from the cold.

BUT THAT DIDN'T REALLY HAPPEN - SHE FROZE TO DEATH AND BABUSHKA TOOK HER TO HEAVEN!!!


Why yes, that short film did have an impact on me. Why do you ask?

Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2020 07:55 PM (Rvt88)

160 Die Hard is just about a perfect action film.

One of my top 100.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, shotguns solve problems at December 21, 2020 07:55 PM (d1uFV)

161
False Weasel! False Weasel!!!!
Posted by: Weasel at December 21, 2020 07:54 PM (MVjcR)

__________

Like the False Dmitri.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 21, 2020 07:55 PM (mht8P)

162 @157 hmm what happened here??

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 21, 2020 07:56 PM (7tOF4)

163 They actually made Willis a success. Just by saying he was a success.

That tells you something and it's that hard work don't mean shit on whether you succeed or not. However if you DON'T work hard you won't succeed either.

This is why I gave up and decided long ago to just do what I wanted to do and not because it would make me a success. Mainly cause I didn't know what I wanted to succeed at. So I just succeeded in pleasing myself.

And altho at times I had my doubts it turned out better than it would've if I'd tried to succeed.

Given where everything's wound up now. All may classmates are losing their shit and for me it's just normal.

Posted by: jakee308 at December 21, 2020 07:56 PM (avUgs)

164

Where the girls aren't: buttfuck bugaloo is just Die Hard in Barky's basement.

Posted by: Dirty Frank at December 21, 2020 07:56 PM (0BhXH)

165 Weasel!

Posted by: Ladyl at December 21, 2020 07:56 PM (TdMsT)

166 Ace of Spades HQ is just Die Hard on the Internet.

Or it would be if we were all Ace, and the trolls were competent.

Posted by: vice-president-elect mikeski at December 21, 2020 07:56 PM (P1f+c)

167 Why yes, that short film did have an impact on me. Why do you ask?
Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2020 07:55 PM (Rvt8


I'm speechless, but not the good kind.

You gonna be OK?

Posted by: hogmartin at December 21, 2020 07:56 PM (t+qrx)

168 I believe the first "Die Hard on a plane" movie is called Turbulence.

Posted by: Broseidon Czar of the Brocean at December 21, 2020 07:57 PM (pPtW+)

169 And the qualifications would be what?

Sound judgement, intelligence and grace?

Who would be left?
Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2020 07:49 PM


Any "You must be this tall ..." sign would eliminate AtC.

Just sayin' ...

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 21, 2020 07:57 PM (DMUuz)

170 Posted by: Ladyl at December 21, 2020 07:56 PM (TdMsT)
-----
Ladyl!!!!!

Posted by: Weasel at December 21, 2020 07:57 PM (MVjcR)

171 Conjunction status: viewed through binoculars. Ho hum.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 21, 2020 07:57 PM (mzC78)

172 Troll would have to be a mental to do that. Not a political agent but a personal mental case kind of problem.

Posted by: Braenyard at December 21, 2020 07:58 PM (CZm2G)

173 Ace. Should you happen to have any channel of communication with the Weaponized Autists over at 4 Chan, do you think you might call on some help, and sic 'em on this here troll problem?

I'm thinking they might be able to penetrate the fog of VPN, and actually nail down just exactly is who and just exactly is where.

And then there are certain "Regs" in most every part of the Nation, who would greatly enjoy being very effective with such information, once provided.

Oh, and lest anyone fear that I'm making some kind of horrid threat? Hardly.

The Troll HAS to survive the experience. And be utterly terrified of ever suffering as such, ever again.

And they need to broadcast that fear into all of Trollville, as far as the cries of anguish, pain and fear can be heard.

Well, hell. Like antifartz, it's only an IDEA!




Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at December 21, 2020 07:58 PM (QzJWU)

174
80 I've been thinking about what Ace, the COBs and random Hordlings look like.


You're all Smurfs. It keeps things simple and on an even keel.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 21, 2020 07:58 PM (pNxlR)

175 I watched an old movie I'd never heard of this weekend called Next of Kin, which came out in 1989.

Stars Patrick Swayze as a Chicago cop whose brother is murdered, played by Bill Paxton, by an Italian mobster (Adam Baldwin). Ben Stiller plays another Italian mob dude, Helen Hunt is Swayze's wife, and the guy who was The One Armed Man in the original Fugitive is the Mob Boss. All but that last guy are very young and not very good actors at that point.

Liam Neeson is also in it as Swayze's totally hillbilly brother straight from Harlan County, Kentucky. It's not a very good movie at all, but it's fun to see everyone when they were young and green.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097967/

Posted by: Sharkman at December 21, 2020 07:58 PM (1YlHz)

176 Prometheus is just Die Hard with Aliens.

Posted by: Axeman at December 21, 2020 07:58 PM (RdTKD)

177 You gonna be OK?
Posted by: hogmartin

Define ok.

I actually sat down with grandbaby #2 a few years ago and watched that with her. The story completely blindsided me and my little girl was horrified.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2020 07:58 PM (Rvt88)

178 Madman Weasel has to get nuked

Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2020 07:59 PM (Cxk7w)

179 Incontinent trolls

Posted by: Braenyard at December 21, 2020 07:59 PM (CZm2G)

180 You get nothing. You lose! Good day sir!

Posted by: Willie wonka at December 21, 2020 07:59 PM (L9P9s)

181 149 Oh oh oh also Karl is played by a ballet dancer. I remember that, errr,
I mean I was told that by some aunts, yes, that's it, that wait you
want us to buy a ballet dancer as a kick ass terrorist? Really?

I thought he died gracefully, didn't you?
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #BlockadeDC at December 21, 2020 07:52 PM (HaL55)

Alexander Gutenov (sp?)
He also played Tyr half hand in an interesting low budget film just before he died.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, shotguns solve problems at December 21, 2020 07:59 PM (d1uFV)

182
"Waiting for Godot" is "Die Hard" in existential limbo.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 21, 2020 07:59 PM (pNxlR)

183 Does Weasel post the whole thread? No, Weasel does not post the whole thread.

Posted by: Weasel at December 21, 2020 07:59 PM (MVjcR)

184 I actually sat down with grandbaby #2 a few years ago and watched that with her. The story completely blindsided me and my little girl was horrified.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2020 07:58 PM (Rvt8


Yeah, Scandinavians. *shrug*

They have a funny idea of a feel-good kids' story.

Posted by: hogmartin at December 21, 2020 08:00 PM (t+qrx)

185 Die Hard is one of those movies I've seen so many times that I don't really want to see it again.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 21, 2020 08:00 PM (H5knJ)

186 Emporer of the North is Die Hard on a train.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 21, 2020 08:00 PM (9dzlp)

187 I get up before 4am
Try and sort it all out by then please.

Goodnight

Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2020 08:00 PM (Cxk7w)

188 Jo-Jo the idiot circus non-binary is trying to sabotage the comments.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 21, 2020 08:00 PM (7tOF4)

189 On a lark, I drove through Harlan County, Kentucky on a return trip from NC to my compound here in the Bluegrass.

Depressing shit there.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 21, 2020 08:01 PM (3H9h1)

190 Outlaw Josie Wales is die hard on a horse.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 21, 2020 08:01 PM (9dzlp)

191 I'm guessing they've run out of roaches to pull the legs off of
Posted by: clutch cargo now with 21% more FUCKITOL at December 21, 2020 07:55 PM (L8ADy)

(You know that address you bury in your nic is a pain as it keeps coming back as too long to post? Why not use a tinyurl and save us all the BS?)
Back in boot camp we used lighter fluid. Much more excitement for the roaches. We didn't want to touch them just kill them.

Posted by: jakee308 at December 21, 2020 08:01 PM (avUgs)

192 Hey Jim!

Great idea!

Posted by: Ladyl at December 21, 2020 08:01 PM (TdMsT)

193 Alan Tudyk (Wash in Firefly and Tucker in Tucker and Dale vs. Evil) has a new comedy coming out about an alien hiding in the boondocks:

https://tinyurl.com/Alan-Tudyk-Resident-Alien

Posted by: Sharkman at December 21, 2020 08:01 PM (1YlHz)

194 My guess is to simply block the VPN. I'd be willing to bet it's just a regular FREE chrome extension or similar. Any moron that wants to visit AoSHQ can turn theirs off for the duration of the stay. It seems somebody taught trolls about VPN's recently. Just block access to the IP of popular VPN providers and see if that solves the issue.

Posted by: clutch cargo now with 21% more FUCKITOL at December 21, 2020 08:02 PM (L8ADy)

195 Fake Weasel thinks shitting in people mailboxes is a joke.

Posted by: Axeman at December 21, 2020 08:03 PM (RdTKD)

196 Gran Torino is Die Hard on a porch.

Posted by: jakee308 at December 21, 2020 08:03 PM (avUgs)

197
Alexander Gutenov


Godunov. His was a sad story. From IMDB
He was born on Sakhalin Island at the far eastern end of the former Soviet Union and began studying dance at age 9 in the Riga State Ballet School. He later said his mother put him there to prevent his becoming "a hooligan". One of his classmates and friends at the school was Mikhail Baryshnikov. After graduating he toured with the Moscow Classical Ballet. He joined the Bolshoi in 1971; there he received rave reviews for the lead in "Swan Lake", "Giselle" and other classical and contemporary works. In 1973 he won a gold medal at the Moscow International Competition. The same year he received more praise when the Bolshoi toured the United States. He was then marked as a potential defector and not allowed to tour for five years. In August 1979 he did defect. The story grew in importance when his ballerina wife returned to the USSR a few days later. He joined the American Ballet Theater and danced with it until 1982 when he and its director Baryshnikov had a falling out. He was by then a frequent companion of Jacqueline Bisset. His first movie role was as the Amish farmer Daniel in "Witness" (1985). The NY Times reviewer described him as the film's "most riveting presence". The same critic did not take so kindly to his role as Karl in "Die Hard" (198 ("a sight gag in his terrorist costume"). When he became a US citizen in 1987 he said he planned to celebrate by eating a "hamburger stuffed with caviar". He had been filming a movie in Budapest a few weeks before he was found dead in his West Hollywood home, of "natural causes" according to his physician.


He was reputed to be quite an alcoholic.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 21, 2020 08:04 PM (pNxlR)

198 Face Off was the Trading Places of the Die Hard rips

Posted by: mot at December 21, 2020 08:04 PM (jad3h)

199 Posted by: Axeman at December 21, 2020 08:03 PM (RdTKD)


That's when you start video caming your mailbox. And then advising your mailman to drop the mail at the door cause the mailbox is not his friend for a while.

Posted by: jakee308 at December 21, 2020 08:04 PM (avUgs)

200 During the Bill Clay scene, do you believe McClane knew the whole time, or didn't know until Gruber talked on the radio?

Posted by: Broseidon Czar of the Brocean at December 21, 2020 08:04 PM (pPtW+)

201 Tremors is Die Hard with worms.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 21, 2020 08:05 PM (CAJOC)

202 Whoa dudes and dudettes I'm experiencing synchronicity.
But I've been drinking.

Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at December 21, 2020 08:05 PM (lgiXo)

203 Critical Drinker:

Https://youtu.be/TMI6xwM-WcA

Posted by: Sharkman at December 21, 2020 08:05 PM (uW/AF)

204 Die Hard is a Christmas movie is one of those tropes that is so played out as to be beyond cliche.

Posted by: Garrick at December 21, 2020 08:05 PM (YaTIT)

205 I am disgusted by the Democrats and the GOP establishment and the spending bills and the election cheaters. I want vengeance.

Posted by: Jmel at December 21, 2020 08:06 PM (acNWp)

206 Liked Die Hard a lot. Also liked Moonlighting. Their riff on Taming of the Shrew was awesome. You couldn't do that today.

Moonlighting was very good TV back in the day. They did a lot of cool shit. As did Remington Steele.

Posted by: Endeavor To Persevere at December 21, 2020 08:06 PM (A73dY)

207 As I said on another thread, what I liked about Die Hard was that McClane was just an ordinary shmoe with no strengths or super powers.

But then he got jacked up and 'roided and the movies weren't interesting anymore.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 21, 2020 08:06 PM (2JVJo)

208 Here's some other facts you never knew about Die Hard.

1. It was originally supposed to be a direct sequel to "Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers (1956)" but they couldn't get the rights. Supposedly eight weeks of shooting had to be scrapped.

2. It was originally shot with the actors speaking Swedish (phonetically). One day, someone asked the director why they were doing this and he said "I don't know" so they re-shot everything in English.

3. John McClane, Hans Gruber and the guy in the cop car were originally played by the animated characters of Yogi Bear, Boo-Boo, and Ranger Smith respectively. This went almost to the premier, when someone said, "Hang on, this doesn't make sense. The characters were then replaced by, respectively, Fred Flintstone, Mr. Slate and Barney Rubble. This version was widely disliked at the premier ("Mr. Slate wouldn't do that" was a common complaint) so it all had to be re-done, but fortunately this was in 1972 so they had plenty of time for reshoots.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 21, 2020 08:06 PM (l9m7l)

209

I also shit in mailboxes, but only on my days off.

Posted by: Phantom EPA Shitter at December 21, 2020 08:06 PM (0+lyq)

210 206 Die Hard is a Christmas movie is one of those tropes that is so played out as to be beyond cliche.
Posted by: Garrick at December 21, 2020 08:05 PM (YaTIT)

Jah.

It really isn't a Christmas movie. The season has nothing to do with the story.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, shotguns solve problems at December 21, 2020 08:06 PM (d1uFV)

211 He was reputed to be quite an alcoholic.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM)


That's a shame. People might stereotype Russians based on that.

Posted by: vice-president-elect mikeski at December 21, 2020 08:07 PM (P1f+c)

212 > Tremors is Die Hard with worms.

You should see the toilet.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 21, 2020 08:07 PM (3H9h1)

213 Pitch meeting (Screen Rant) > Critical Drinker

Posted by: runner at December 21, 2020 08:07 PM (zr5Kq)

214 "He hates these comments!"

Posted by: Navin R. Johnson at December 21, 2020 08:07 PM (7tOF4)

215 @MajorPatriot

Newsmax is the Fox News of Drudge Reports

Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at December 21, 2020 08:07 PM (BALvA)

216 That's it. I'm moving to a shit hole.

Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at December 21, 2020 08:07 PM (lgiXo)

217
Not merely a troll, but a willfully doltish troll.

The "accidental" long posting act is getting old. So is socking regulars.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 21, 2020 08:08 PM (pNxlR)

218 The funny thing is that as soon as he became a success, he lost his hair.
Posted by: G'rump928(C) at December 21, 2020 07:50 PM (s4dNo)


I remember an old Gallagher routine on an HBO special where he had a life-sized cutout of Bruce Willis and took his hair off, making him bald. Audience explodes with laughter.

Who knew?

Posted by: clutch cargo now with 21% more FUCKITOL at December 21, 2020 08:08 PM (L8ADy)

219 RIP Kevin Greene. Great linebacker.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory




Pittsburg is going to stop its losing streak tonight, like Vikings.

Posted by: Sharkman at December 21, 2020 08:08 PM (1YlHz)

220 AOS is Die Hard with weasels

Posted by: mot at December 21, 2020 08:08 PM (jad3h)

221 My favorite scene in Die Hard is when the Asian terrorist/criminal gets ready for the expected FBI assault in the Nakatomi lobby. He positions himself behind a counter, readies his weapon, then notices a candy bar in the display counter. He looks left and looks right to see if anyone is watching him, then nabs the candy.

It was nice to know he was concerned about potential adverse consequences of his actions.

Posted by: Dennis at December 21, 2020 08:08 PM (dBNX/)

222 "Stretching out bad boys is tight !"

Posted by: runner at December 21, 2020 08:09 PM (zr5Kq)

223 I think I'll leave the thread for a bit.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 21, 2020 08:10 PM (2JVJo)

224 It seems somebody taught trolls about VPN's recently. Just block access to the IP of popular VPN providers and see if that solves the issue.
Posted by: clutch cargo now with 21% more FUCKITOL at December 21, 2020 08:02 PM (L8ADy)

--------

I use a VPN. I like this approach

Posted by: JM in Florida at December 21, 2020 08:10 PM (C77mq)

225 103 I've never seen ET.
Posted by: alexthechick - Boobs and hysteria at December 21, 2020 07:45 PM (GbPPJ)


You didn't miss squat. I remember where and when I saw that movie. I also remember checking my watch about an hour in, incredulous that we were only halfway through.

Posted by: clutch cargo now with 21% more FUCKITOL at December 21, 2020 08:10 PM (L8ADy)

226 Hey, where did the animals go?

Posted by: chique l'African Viking Math Queen King of Greenland, the Merciless (don't/stop/believin') at December 21, 2020 08:10 PM (9hauA)

227 I'm a little embarrassed that false Weasel isn't a little more interesting.

Posted by: Weasel at December 21, 2020 08:10 PM (MVjcR)

228 I am disgusted by the Democrats and the GOP establishment and the spending bills and the election cheaters. I want vengeance.
Posted by: Jmel at December 21, 2020 08:06 PM


You want vengeance.

You'd settle for a couple of low-level apparatchiks doing a few months in a Club Fed.

You'll get "Mistakes were made. Some people did some things. What difference, at this point, does it make?"

Posted by: The Elites at December 21, 2020 08:11 PM (DMUuz)

229 I've never seen ET.
Posted by: alexthechick - Boobs and hysteria at December 21, 2020 07:45 PM (GbPPJ)

You didn't miss squat. I remember where and when I saw that movie. I also remember checking my watch about an hour in, incredulous that we were only halfway through.
Posted by: clutch cargo now with 21% more FUCKITOL at December 21, 2020 08:10 PM (L8ADy)


Never seen it either.

Posted by: runner at December 21, 2020 08:11 PM (zr5Kq)

230 231 Hey, where did the animals go?
Posted by: chique l'African Viking Math Queen King of Greenland, the Merciless (don't/stop/believin') at December 21, 2020 08:10 PM (9hauA)

Right here!

🦇 🦇 🦇

Posted by: Insomniac at December 21, 2020 08:11 PM (nakwk)

231 Poltergeist was Die Hard with ghosts.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 21, 2020 08:11 PM (kTF2Z)

232


Why don't we start a new thread and leave the retard alone in this one?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 21, 2020 08:11 PM (2j4Uv)

233 Based on the music wouldn't clockwork orange also be a Christmas movie?

Posted by: banana Dream at December 21, 2020 08:11 PM (cbgbx)

234 I'm a little embarrassed that false Weasel isn't a little more interesting.
Posted by: Weasel at December 21, 2020 08:10 PM (MVjcR)


I am sorry you cannot shoot the false Weasel.

Posted by: runner at December 21, 2020 08:11 PM (zr5Kq)

235 We need a secret alternate location while the blog is fumigated.

But that would defeat the purpose of the blog.

See what they are doing is a denial of service but at a low pitch so no one can call the FBI *spit* or whoever on them.

We'll just have to wait them out. They usually get bored and wander away if they're ignored.

Posted by: jakee308 at December 21, 2020 08:12 PM (avUgs)

236 I suppose I'm the only one drunk on a random Monday.

Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at December 21, 2020 08:12 PM (lgiXo)

237 Tremors is Die Hard with worms.

Say what you will - but seeing Kevin Bacon dance over sand to stay alive, Reba McEntire shoot a shotgun, and Dad off Family Ties not act like a pussy got my attention.

Dad off Family Ties not have Meredith Baxter Whatever Her Blonde Ass Was not lecture him hooked me. It almost made sense him shacking up with Reba. Almost.

Posted by: Endeavor To Persevere at December 21, 2020 08:12 PM (A73dY)

238 Right here!


Posted by: Insomniac at December 21, 2020 08:11 PM (nakwk)

*shakes fist*

Posted by: chique l'African Viking Math Queen King of Greenland, the Merciless (don't/stop/believin') at December 21, 2020 08:12 PM (9hauA)

239 "Die, blog poster!"

Posted by: Fake Weasel at December 21, 2020 08:12 PM (7tOF4)

240 The WSJ limits comments to about 500 characters. But this is like banning large capacity magazines....

Not effective. The WSJ also requires registration

Posted by: JM in Florida at December 21, 2020 08:12 PM (C77mq)

241 Star Wars was Die Hard with lightsabers.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at December 21, 2020 08:12 PM (BALvA)

242 101 see the thing is, I can delete these posts, but he can post new ones faster than I can delete.

I've been asking Pixy to please change me over to the "new" system, which is seven years old, for seven years. He either can't or won't.

Posted by: ace at December 21, 2020 07:45 PM (nuqdl)

*****

Ditch this stupid server/hosting platform.

You can do better and deserve better.

Posted by: El Jefe ~ Blue Zones POW MIA ~ You Are Not Forgotten ~ at December 21, 2020 08:13 PM (Ae67h)

243 Little Mermaid was just Die Hard in the ocean (and on land).

Posted by: chique l'African Viking Math Queen King of Greenland, the Merciless (don't/stop/believin') at December 21, 2020 08:13 PM (9hauA)

244 I suppose I'm the only one drunk on a random Monday.
Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at December 21, 2020 08:12 PM (lgiXo)


Monday of Christmas week with most of the nation "working" from home ? HAHAHAH !! oh , sure you are.

Posted by: runner at December 21, 2020 08:13 PM (zr5Kq)

245 "see the thing is, I can delete these posts, but he can post new ones faster than I can delete."





Nah, just leave them.

I finally broke the habit of picking my nose so I need a way to exercise my index finger.

Posted by: Sharkman at December 21, 2020 08:13 PM (1YlHz)

246 My favorite scene in Die Hard is when the Asian terrorist/criminal gets ready for the expected FBI assault in the Nakatomi lobby. He positions himself behind a counter, readies his weapon, then notices a candy bar in the display counter. He looks left and looks right to see if anyone is watching him, then nabs the candy.

It was nice to know he was concerned about potential adverse consequences of his actions.
Posted by: Dennis at December 21, 2020 08:08 PM (dBNX/)


That actor was the legendary Al Leong, the henchiest henchman who ever manned hench. His agent wrangled him every "Bad guy's henchman #3" role in every movie of the 1980s.

Posted by: hogmartin at December 21, 2020 08:13 PM (t+qrx)

247 Ooh - a troll socks and copies the entire thread. Edgy.

Posted by: Endeavor To Persevere at December 21, 2020 08:14 PM (A73dY)

248 A character limit on comments would be good all around. There's not many worthwhile wall-of-text comments.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 21, 2020 08:14 PM (H5knJ)

249 "We're going to need some more FBI guys, I guess" is still one of the best lines ever uttered in cinema.

Posted by: Sharkman at December 21, 2020 08:14 PM (1YlHz)

250 Despicable Me is Die Hard with Minions.

Posted by: Count de Monet, President-Elect ISTJ at December 21, 2020 08:15 PM (4I/2K)

251 Oh, geez, this guy again...

OT: if anyone is looking for @CJTruth, he's on gab as @truthandlife. (Got banned after being re-tweeted twice by POTUS yesterday).

Posted by: t-bird at December 21, 2020 08:15 PM (8DRUP)

252 241 Tremors is Die Hard with worms.

Say what you will - but seeing Kevin Bacon dance over sand to stay alive, Reba McEntire shoot a shotgun, and Dad off Family Ties not act like a pussy got my attention.

Dad off Family Ties not have Meredith Baxter Whatever Her Blonde Ass Was not lecture him hooked me. It almost made sense him shacking up with Reba. Almost.

Posted by: Endeavor To Persevere at December 21, 2020 08:12 PM (A73dY)

---------------------------

Don't get me wrong. I love that movie. I've even seen all the sequels - most of which were very campy and entertaining.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 21, 2020 08:16 PM (CAJOC)

253 Dad off Family Ties not act like a pussy got my attention.

---

THAT would be some stellar acting for Michael Gross!

Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2020 08:16 PM (Rvt88)

254 I'm told both Basic Instinct and Fatal Attraction are Die Hard with a Crazy Snizz.

I've never seen either one.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 21, 2020 08:16 PM (WOYcU)

255 It might be time to set up a commission to study the possible effects of possibly migrating this blog to more modern platform that might possibly alienate a possible percentage of the possible posting population.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 21, 2020 08:16 PM (3H9h1)

256 Dominion is die hard with a demented old rapist... wait, that's not what we are doing here at all...

Posted by: Inogame - Trump Won at December 21, 2020 08:16 PM (+2xjH)

257 Stick to what you know - Weasel Troll. It took an extra full turn of the scroll wheel to go past.

Then again - plenty of dicks here don't seem to be able to scroll past any comments at all. Maybe Post The Thread troll is onto something.

Posted by: Endeavor To Persevere at December 21, 2020 08:17 PM (A73dY)

258 It might be time to set up a commission to study the possible effects of
possibly migrating this blog to more modern platform that might
possibly alienate a possible percentage of the possible posting
population.



Form a committee!

Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at December 21, 2020 08:17 PM (BALvA)

259 Dad off Family Ties not act like a pussy got my attention.

---

THAT would be some stellar acting for Michael Gross!

Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2020 08:16 PM (Rvt8



He was the bad guy on one of the Law and Order episodes.

Posted by: G'rump928(C) at December 21, 2020 08:17 PM (s4dNo)

260 https://www.foxnews.com/us/visit-by-covid-infected-official-closes-washington-monument

Posted by: elmo at December 21, 2020 08:18 PM (tvzmd)

261 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is Die Hard with a flying car.

Posted by: Count de Monet, President-Elect ISTJ at December 21, 2020 08:18 PM (4I/2K)

262 The dog is running around barking. Keeping me safe I guess m

Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at December 21, 2020 08:19 PM (lgiXo)

263 I suppose I'm the only one drunk on a random Monday.
Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at December 21, 2020 08:12 PM (lgiXo)


You assume too much.

Posted by: Endeavor To Persevere at December 21, 2020 08:19 PM (A73dY)

264 231 I am disgusted by the Democrats and the GOP establishment and the spending bills and the election cheaters. I want vengeance.
Posted by: Jmel at December 21, 2020 08:06 PM

You want vengeance.

You'd settle for a couple of low-level apparatchiks doing a few months in a Club Fed.

You'll get "Mistakes were made. Some people did some things. What difference, at this point, does it make?"
Posted by: The Elites at December 21, 2020 08:11 PM (DMUuz)

Followed by fevered requests for money to stop the "other side" from "winning."

If I am going to pay for a Globetrotters game, I want someone at the swearing in ceremony to look like they are going to dump a bucket of confetti over the sad old man only for it to turn out to be ice cold water.

Posted by: Bete at December 21, 2020 08:19 PM (Ojki1)

265 The Longest Day is Die Hard at the shore.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2020 08:19 PM (Rvt88)

266 A character limit on comments would be good all around. There's not many worthwhile wall-of-text comments.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 21, 2020 08:14 PM (H5knJ)


I thought the same thing - that would be a faster write than blocking various IP's of VPN providers. Not sure how much Pixie's brain can tolerate, but that would certainly be a simple and fast fix.

Anybody that wants to type a diatribe can break it into bite sized pieces.

Posted by: clutch cargo now with 21% more FUCKITOL at December 21, 2020 08:19 PM (L8ADy)

267
2020 is Die Hard in a year.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 21, 2020 08:20 PM (r+sAi)

268 It might be time to set up a commission to study the possible effects of possibly migrating this blog to more modern platform that might possibly alienate a possible percentage of the possible posting population.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 21, 2020 08:16 PM (3H9h1)



Possibly.

Posted by: jakee308 at December 21, 2020 08:20 PM (avUgs)

269 Some Cong. Wright from TX (Tarrant County) twitted that the American people deserve better than a colossal 5,600-page appropriations bill ready just hours before it is voted on.

Really?

We're a few decades into this. Most of the American people deserve even worse than this. Some don't deserve anything like this.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 21, 2020 08:20 PM (OTzUX)

270 Emperor of the North is Die Hard on a train.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless





The Polar Express

Posted by: Sharkman at December 21, 2020 08:20 PM (1YlHz)

271 Titanic is just Die Hard hitting an iceberg.

Posted by: runner at December 21, 2020 08:21 PM (zr5Kq)

272 There was a moment in the 80s when Bruce Willis' character on "Moonlighting" was the height of cool.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 21, 2020 08:21 PM (EZebt)

273 4. Originally the soundtrack was just a guy playing the bandoneon, but the producers asked why they were paying a guy to strangle geese. So they changed it. They hired John Cage at great expense and he turned in 90 minutes of silence, so they kicked him until he left the building and hired Michael Kamen.

5. At an early premier, someone had changed "20th Century Fox" to "20th Century Boners" at the opening, and the audience laughed through the entire film. At the end, they said "Wait, we missed the movie, can you play it again?" So the producers did, and the same thing happened. The producers wised up at this point.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 21, 2020 08:21 PM (l9m7l)

274 Fat, drunk and stupid turns out to be the only way to go through life.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at December 21, 2020 08:21 PM (BALvA)

275

Die Hardon, the German pron film, had the biggest climax ever...

Posted by: Barky Ofuckstick at December 21, 2020 08:21 PM (bjcaV)

276 I'm watching a YouTube series called Hellier. It's about spooky shit in Hellier Kentucky.
But I've been drinking.

Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at December 21, 2020 08:21 PM (lgiXo)

277 Pride and Prejudice is Die Hard in the 1800s

Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 21, 2020 08:21 PM (CAJOC)

278 Romeo and Juliet is Die Hard in Verona.

Posted by: runner at December 21, 2020 08:21 PM (zr5Kq)

279 So, this Die Hard movie. I've never seen it. (Clutches Moron Man-card protectively)

I did like Die Hard on a spaceship cruise liner, with Milla.

We watched Galaxy Quest last night. Started it late, thinking, we'll just watch the opening. There are no stopping points.

So---

Who knows what makes Galaxy Quest a Christmas movie?

Posted by: mindful webworker and the Christmas cactus
at December 21, 2020 08:21 PM (ijO9y)

280 In hindsight it's impossible to imagine someone like Stallone or Arnie as McClane. They'd completely bungle all the great comedic lines.

Posted by: Broseidon Czar of the Brocean at December 21, 2020 08:21 PM (pPtW+)

281 Simply isn't Christmas until I see Hans Gruber plunge to his death from the top of Nakatomi Tower

Posted by: Doctor.Boom at December 21, 2020 08:22 PM (4Yddh)

282 Die Hard premise is not Christmas?

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at December 21, 2020 08:22 PM (PUmDY)

283 Since she was mentioned, I'll bring up this nice little fact.

Anna Nicole... she was still fairly young (and popular-ish) when her plastic surgeries started causing problems.

What problems, you ask?

Well I'll tell you. The problem of her nipples not being able to remain attached to the breasts. So thye were causing pain, and infections, and resulted in repeated surgeries to repair. Which worked about as well as one might think.

In her fancy lingerie, inside those massive brassieres... were rotting pustules of gunk.

Which contributed greatly to her drug use and abuse, thus basically causing her death.

Merry Christmas.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 21, 2020 08:22 PM (oQ94s)

284 @271

Yeah, and the VPN idea is worth considering as at least a kill switch. Blocking an entire class B that belongs to a single VPN service where the client IPs are coming from, for example.

Posted by: Fake Weasel at December 21, 2020 08:22 PM (7tOF4)

285 Cleopatra is Die Hard in Egypt.

Posted by: runner at December 21, 2020 08:22 PM (zr5Kq)

286 Oops

Meant to say, never saw Die Hard but enjoyed Ace's post.

Posted by: mindful webworker and the Christmas cactus
at December 21, 2020 08:22 PM (ijO9y)

287 Mindful - Duh, because Tim Allen is Santa Claus.

Posted by: Broseidon Czar of the Brocean at December 21, 2020 08:22 PM (pPtW+)

288 Deep Throat is Die Hard in the mouth.

Posted by: Dr Spank at December 21, 2020 08:22 PM (iZwip)

289 The Eiger Sanction is Die Hard on a mountain climbing expedition, with boobs.

Posted by: Count de Monet, President-Elect ISTJ at December 21, 2020 08:22 PM (4I/2K)

290 We're a few decades into this. Most of the American people deserve even worse than this. Some don't deserve anything like this.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 21, 2020 08:20 PM (OTzUX)

===
I missed the discussion of Revolution downstairs.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 21, 2020 08:22 PM (EZebt)

291 The Lincoln Project is Die Hard with it's dick removed.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at December 21, 2020 08:22 PM (BALvA)

292 /sock off

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 21, 2020 08:23 PM (7tOF4)

293 Death on the Nile is Die Hard on the Nile.

Posted by: runner at December 21, 2020 08:23 PM (zr5Kq)

294 I'd like to borrow ace's time machine, present day America is just no longer tolerable. In f***ing Christmas cards, 2/3 of them with "safe" in the scribbled notes/salutations/whatever. Unbelievable.

And these are life-long or long-time friends and acquaintances, so not the dumbest people walking around (though sadly nothing special in many cases).

Pathetic.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 21, 2020 08:23 PM (OTzUX)

295 Ace will be glad to limit anyone who wants to fewer chars per comment. Me I think that's a sign of liberal/fascist type thinking that only goes one way if allowed to grow.

Next you'll be wanting to restrict what people talk about and then who they talk about and then who they are and then and then and then.

See how that happens?

That's why speech has to be free. No limits. If you limit it then it's not free and will degenerate very quickly as everyone has a pet peeve they want to see made illegal. Just not their pet tho.

Posted by: jakee308 at December 21, 2020 08:23 PM (avUgs)

296 Flight 222 was a movie loosely based on his defection from the USSR:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_222_(film)

Posted by: Sharkman at December 21, 2020 08:23 PM (1YlHz)

297 Weasel who is not Weasel - listen to me now - if you want to troll, well, this stupid copy and paste shit will not get it done.

Look - I can scroll past that shit in less than a second.

If you want to troll - well - you gotta' engage. Say something. Be "pithy when you opine". Fuck - you won't even know what that is.

Be better, man. This ain't CompuServe. We all use mice now. Most of them have scroll buttons. Even the ones that don't just surf past your shit.

Be better, pecker head. Because some of use deserve better than a half ass effort.

Posted by: Endeavor To Persevere at December 21, 2020 08:24 PM (A73dY)

298 The Godfather is Die Hard family business.

Posted by: runner at December 21, 2020 08:24 PM (zr5Kq)

299 this weasel troll.....

you aren't taking flack unless you are over the target. Excellent job Ace and COBs at being over the target!

They know that PDT is still in and they are freaking out.

That is all.

Posted by: sassy at December 21, 2020 08:24 PM (tUGnI)

300 Mark Meadows @MarkMeadows 2h
Several members of Congress just finished a meeting in the Oval Office with President @realDonaldTrump, preparing to fight back against mounting evidence of voter fraud.

@RepGosar 13m
Just left the Oval with @realDonaldTrump and several other members of Congress. Stay tuned.

Posted by: Fight back against the evidence at December 21, 2020 08:25 PM (BBWrU)

301

Manos: The Hands of Fate is Die Hard on a really, really small budget.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 21, 2020 08:25 PM (bd0Ks)

302 278
Fat, drunk and stupid turns out to be the only way to go through life.


Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at December 21, 2020 08:21 PM (BALvA)

+++++
I've got the stupid part down pat. Now I need to work on the fat and drunk ones.

Posted by: washrivergal at December 21, 2020 08:25 PM (66BnU)

303 I'll play...

Mad Max is Die Hard in Australia.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 21, 2020 08:25 PM (3H9h1)

304


Space Mutiny is Die Hard in space with Slab Bulkhead!

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 21, 2020 08:26 PM (bd0Ks)

305 Schinder's List is Die Hard with a Holocaust backdrop. Fight me.


Posted by: Garrick at December 21, 2020 08:26 PM (YaTIT)

306 Die Hard is just The Guns of Navarone but with the roles reversed kinda (commandos are now terrorists instead but the Germans remain the heavy because fuck the Hun).

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 21, 2020 08:26 PM (H5knJ)

307 In her fancy lingerie, inside those massive brassieres... were rotting pustules of gunk.

Which contributed greatly to her drug use and abuse, thus basically causing her death.

Merry Christmas.
Posted by: BurtTC

People just have to mess with things until they screw them up.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2020 08:26 PM (Rvt88)

308
Mrs. K and I honeymooned on St. Maarten many years ago. Some locals made a big deal out of pointing out the house there owned or rented by "Bruce and Demi". Woo-freaking-hoo.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 21, 2020 08:26 PM (pNxlR)

309 This version was widely disliked at the premier ("Mr. Slate wouldn't do that" was a common complaint) so it all had to be re-done, but fortunately this was in 1972 so they had plenty of time for reshoots.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm




Okay, that was very creative.

Posted by: Sharkman at December 21, 2020 08:27 PM (1YlHz)

310 @293 Count

I once had a friend (I know, hard to believe). Who was dating this girl. Whose father, had remarried that very same big tittie kitty, from the movie.

Nice person she was.

Call it six degrees of boobies....

Posted by: elmo at December 21, 2020 08:27 PM (zTp4o)

311

Viva Las Vegas was Die Hard in Vegas

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 21, 2020 08:28 PM (bd0Ks)

312 They offered me the role too, but I couldn't get off my fat azz to read the script.

Posted by: Bill Barrf, worst AG ever and CIA spook at December 21, 2020 08:28 PM (Tc2CN)

313 The Longest Day is Die Hard at the shore.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2020 08:19 PM (Rvt8


WWII is just Die Hard... at the world.

Eurotrash and Japs. Conquering maniacs who really seemed much more interested in stealing art and stuff.

Oh, and random, pointless killing.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 21, 2020 08:28 PM (oQ94s)

314 Die Hard is Die Hard in a Die Hard.
Posted by: ... at December 21, 2020 08:26 PM (ocvaE)


Inception is Die Hard in a Die Hard.

Posted by: hogmartin at December 21, 2020 08:28 PM (t+qrx)

315 Posted by: ... at December 21, 2020 08:28 PM (ocvaE)

Tease me at your peril!
- The Barrel

Posted by: Doctor.Boom at December 21, 2020 08:28 PM (4Yddh)

316 Manos: The Hands of Fate is Die Hard on a really, really small budget.
Posted by: TheQuietMan


The MST3K episode of Manos had a bigger budget than Manos.

Posted by: vice-president-elect mikeski at December 21, 2020 08:29 PM (P1f+c)

317 Politics · Trending
Vote NO
Trending with Sudan, Burma

Posted by: Pakistani gender isn't trending? at December 21, 2020 08:29 PM (BBWrU)

318 Alan Rickman made his feature film debut in Die Hard and became one of the best villains in movie history.

Posted by: cjhmhch at December 21, 2020 08:29 PM (eSgwh)

319 AoS is the Die Hard of blogs.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 21, 2020 08:29 PM (r+sAi)

320 Alan Rickman as Hans Gruber is one of the best bad guys ever.He was also great as the station owner in Quigley Down Under.
Equal would be Richard Boone in Big Jake
Good Well played bad guy characters are rare.

Posted by: FlimFlamed at December 21, 2020 08:29 PM (ZTDnL)

321 The Matrix is Die Hard with a red pill.

Posted by: runner at December 21, 2020 08:30 PM (zr5Kq)

322

JoJo's Tranny Adventures is just Die Hard with no sphincter tone.

Posted by: Phantom EPA Shitter at December 21, 2020 08:30 PM (B2Hhz)

323 Plan 9 from Outer Space is Die Hard. . .

No. It isn't.

Plan 9 is in a class all by itself.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2020 08:30 PM (Rvt88)

324 Tremors is Die Hard with worms.

Dune is also Die Hard with worms. Plus 20 minutes of credits.

Posted by: clutch cargo now with 21% more FUCKITOL at December 21, 2020 08:30 PM (L8ADy)

325 GOP Congressman-elect, Madison Cawthorn, announces he will challenge the electoral college votes

Posted by: redridinghood at December 21, 2020 08:30 PM (NpAcC)

326

My Dinner with Andre is Die Hard in a restaurant.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 21, 2020 08:30 PM (bd0Ks)

327 A character limit on comments would be good all around. There's not many worthwhile wall-of-text comments.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 21, 2020 08:14 PM (H5knJ)


Actually that is a brilliant concept.*
Why not 140 characters as a limit?

*The real problem is that the regurgitation troll post with a rotating VPN technique (perfect for a stupid lazy troll) is effort intensive on the AoS end and would require either constant COD eyeballs on every post, or a Pixy AI construct (Heaven protect us).

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - Your Rulers Have Earned, And Deserve, Different Rules! at December 21, 2020 08:30 PM (87oRe)

328 283 In hindsight it's impossible to imagine someone like Stallone or Arnie as McClane. They'd completely bungle all the great comedic lines.
Posted by: Broseidon Czar of the Brocean at December 21, 2020 08:21 PM (pPtW+)
-------------------------------------

Big difference is/was that Willis can act.

Posted by: Braenyard at December 21, 2020 08:31 PM (CZm2G)

329 310 Die Hard is just The Guns of Navarone but with the roles reversed kinda (commandos are now terrorists instead but the Germans remain the heavy because fuck the Hun).
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 21, 2020 08:26 PM (H5knJ)

That makes sense to me.
I think I better stop drinking.

Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at December 21, 2020 08:31 PM (lgiXo)

330 AoS is the Die Hard of blogs.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 21, 2020 08:29 PM (r+sAi)


Just you wait until Christmas Eve at AoS!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - Your Rulers Have Earned, And Deserve, Different Rules! at December 21, 2020 08:32 PM (87oRe)

331 Mozart's Clarinet Concerto is the Diehard of clarinet concertos.

Posted by: I'm not even sure what that means at December 21, 2020 08:32 PM (BBWrU)

332 Moonstruck is Die Hard while snapping out of it.

Posted by: runner at December 21, 2020 08:32 PM (zr5Kq)

333 Planet of the Apes is the Die Hard of banana republics.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 21, 2020 08:32 PM (r+sAi)

334 Mark Meadows @MarkMeadows 2h

Several members of Congress just finished a meeting in the Oval
Office with President @realDonaldTrump, preparing to fight back against
mounting evidence of voter fraud.



-----------



Knowing what a surrender monkey Mark Meadows can be, any deal for them to fight election fraud better not include Trump conceding OR signing that stinker of an covid bill. We do not need to sell our souls for $600 and I, at least, am very willing to fight a war to protect what rights God gave me.

Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at December 21, 2020 08:33 PM (946rW)

335
Alan Rickman as Hans Gruber is one of the best bad guys ever.He was also great as the station owner in Quigley Down Under.
Equal would be Richard Boone in Big Jake
Good Well played bad guy characters are rare.
Posted by: FlimFlamed


Frederic Forrest as Blue Duck in "Lonesome Dove".

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 21, 2020 08:33 PM (pNxlR)

336 331
GOP Congressman-elect, Madison Cawthorn, announces he will challenge the electoral college votes

Posted by: redridinghood at December 21, 2020 08:30 PM (NpAcC)

Meaningless without a Senator signing on. Several Members of the House have said they would challenge.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at December 21, 2020 08:33 PM (IbxQb)

337 333
ah the curse of string drink

COB oversight is required!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - Your Rulers Have Earned, And Deserve, Different Rules! at December 21, 2020 08:33 PM (87oRe)

338 Quick Draw McGraw ... Die Hard in Animation

actually I can't recall what kind of story lines Quick Draw had ... but it was comedy and action.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 21, 2020 08:33 PM (Cus5s)

339 People Die Hard all around me.

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary! at December 21, 2020 08:33 PM (fIHXk)

340 My Dinner with Andre is Die Hard in a restaurant.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 21, 2020 08:30 PM (bd0Ks)


I knew a guy who actually said he liked that "movie." And probably did.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 21, 2020 08:33 PM (oQ94s)

341 Years ago, one of the local stations showed Die Hard and edited the "Yipee Kai Yay MF'er!" scene to "Yipee Kai Yay, Mr Falcon!"

My friends and I have been saying that to each other for 20 years, and pretty much replace MF with Mr Falcon any time we need to say it.

"Eat Shit, Mr Falcon"
"Payback is a Mr, Falcon"
"Give me all the cash in the register, Mr Falcon"

Posted by: elliot at December 21, 2020 08:33 PM (k94B5)

342 White Christmas is Die Hard in Vermont.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 21, 2020 08:34 PM (2JVJo)

343 Tenet was Die Hard before it's written next year.

Posted by: clutch cargo now with 21% more FUCKITOL at December 21, 2020 08:34 PM (L8ADy)

344 Of the many things wrong with Manos, it's budget rates pretty low on the list. Millions of dollars could not have helped it, I think, unless it was used to hire writers to write something entirely different.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 21, 2020 08:34 PM (H5knJ)

345 I'm not going to scroll up thread, but have to assume someone already mentioned Home Alone really IS Die Hard at home. Alone.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 21, 2020 08:34 PM (oQ94s)

346 Passive aggressive pussy.

Posted by: Javems at December 21, 2020 08:34 PM (8SSHh)

347 "Masterminds" is the worst movie I've ever watched in a theater.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at December 21, 2020 08:34 PM (qDSku)

348 Wonder how long it will be before die hard scenes are played out around the country.

President asterisk may demand it.

Posted by: Dwaynerz at December 21, 2020 08:34 PM (gtu/X)

349 Oops, meant to say that Flight 222 was a movie loosely based on Alexander Godunov's defection from the USSR:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_222_(film)

Posted by: Sharkman at December 21, 2020 08:34 PM (1YlHz)

350 Handel's Messiah is the Die Hard of Oratorios!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - Your Rulers Have Earned, And Deserve, Different Rules! at December 21, 2020 08:35 PM (87oRe)

351
Just you wait until Christmas Eve at AoS!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - Your Rulers Have Earned, And Deserve, Different Rules!


Now we have a machine gun - ho, ho, ho!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 21, 2020 08:35 PM (pNxlR)

352 Moonstruck is Die Hard while snapping out of it.
Posted by: runner at December 21, 2020 08:32 PM (zr5Kq)

---------

Cher is the Glenn Close of Shirley McClains.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 21, 2020 08:35 PM (kTF2Z)

353 *The real problem is that the regurgitation troll post with a rotating VPN technique (perfect for a stupid lazy troll) is effort intensive on the AoS end and would require either constant COD eyeballs on every post, or a Pixy AI construct (Heaven protect us).
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - Your Rulers Have Earned, And Deserve, Different Rules! at December 21, 2020 08:30 PM (87oRe)


Commercial VPN endpoints are known. Once you've detected traffic from one, that hasn't been blocked, you can ask ARIN who owns it and add a deny rule for their range. It would be trivial to add a deny rule for all of them.

Posted by: hogmartin at December 21, 2020 08:35 PM (t+qrx)

354 Today is not my day for math.

Should be @291 Count

Or just cutting to the chase. The movie The Eiger Sanction

Posted by: elmo at December 21, 2020 08:35 PM (zTp4o)

355 A New Hope is Die Hard in a Death Star.

Posted by: Methos at December 21, 2020 08:36 PM (kOpft)

356 @293 291 Count



I once had a friend (I know, hard to believe). Who was dating this
girl. Whose father, had remarried that very same big tittie kitty, from
the movie.



Nice person she was.



Call it six degrees of boobies....

Posted by: elmo at December 21, 2020 08:27 PM (zTp4o)


Lucky man!

Posted by: Count de Monet, President-Elect ISTJ at December 21, 2020 08:36 PM (4I/2K)

357 Actually that is a brilliant concept.*
Why not 140 characters as a limit?"

the problem there is that some of the long posts, for instance from Whig, are some of the best and most insightful posts that come along here. That limit is one of the (many) reasons I despise twitter.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2020 08:36 PM (V2Yro)

358 The Search for Spock is Die Hard on the Enterprise.

Posted by: Methos at December 21, 2020 08:37 PM (kOpft)

359 Amadeus is Die Hard in Vienna.

Posted by: G'rump928(C) at December 21, 2020 08:37 PM (s4dNo)

360 Of the many things wrong with Manos, it's budget rates pretty low on the list. Millions of dollars could not have helped it, I think, unless it was used to hire writers to write something entirely different.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 21, 2020 08:34 PM (H5knJ)


I actually think Manos has an interesting kernel of an idea, but Hal Warren was a terrible writer.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 21, 2020 08:37 PM (2JVJo)

361
Handel's Messiah ...


... was an Oratorio written for Easter. 'Splains the "Hal and Lucy" Chorus, among many other things.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 21, 2020 08:38 PM (pNxlR)

362 354
"Masterminds" is the worst movie I've ever watched in a theater.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at December 21, 2020 08:34 PM (qDSku)

++++
Haven't seen that, but the worst movie for me has got to be Avatar.

Posted by: washrivergal at December 21, 2020 08:38 PM (66BnU)

363 Cher is the Glenn Close of Shirley McClains.

Posted by: Duke Lowell




You've been killing it today, Duke.

Posted by: Sharkman at December 21, 2020 08:38 PM (1YlHz)

364 McClane was more the average man that rises up in time of need ... not the Rocky type that can always beat up five guys. Just a fly in the ointment

Posted by: illiniwek at December 21, 2020 08:38 PM (Cus5s)

365 Posted by: hogmartin at December 21, 2020 08:35 PM (t+qrx)

Seems like a very poor VPN design construct to me.

I am still reading your GPG treatise, but drinking heavily so it is a hard slog!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - Your Rulers Have Earned, And Deserve, Different Rules! at December 21, 2020 08:39 PM (87oRe)

366 Gone With the Wind is Die Hard in Atlanta.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 21, 2020 08:39 PM (2JVJo)

367 Christmas Day Watchlist:

1. Die Hard
2. MST3K Santa Claus
3. Scrooged

Posted by: Astronaut Achmed at December 21, 2020 08:39 PM (E1b7r)

368 I love TV censors of famous bawdy lines.

This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps!

Posted by: Broseidon Czar of the Brocean at December 21, 2020 08:39 PM (pPtW+)

369 Thanks, Sharkman. I try.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 21, 2020 08:40 PM (kTF2Z)

370 But why punish regulars for what idiot trolls are doing? We had trolls before VPN, even more worthless than the one or two we have now.
Posted by: ... at December 21, 2020 08:37 PM (ocvaE)


*raises hands, palms out*

I am just a simple unfrozen caveman cybersecurity guy. Your world frightens and confuses me. I'm just offering options without judgment. Like jumper cables and blowtorches, blame not the tool for the hand that wields it.

Posted by: hogmartin at December 21, 2020 08:40 PM (t+qrx)

371 That limit is one of the (many) reasons I despise twitter.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2020 08:36 PM (V2Yro)

Dammit, I really need to remember the /s sarc tag!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - Your Rulers Have Earned, And Deserve, Different Rules! at December 21, 2020 08:40 PM (87oRe)

372 I guess I didn't like Die Hard as much as so many others seem to.

Don't get me wrong. It's a fun movie. But it is not on my Top 100.

And yes, I do have my own Top 100.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Confuzzled at December 21, 2020 08:41 PM (x8Wzq)

373 @364 Count

It however, did not have a happy ending. There was a major local LA story. About a baby, found dead, in a laundry hamper. In a storage room, at a local hospital.

It was surmised to be a a VERY late term abortion.

He was the Doctor, who did the (satanic) handiwork.

Posted by: elmo at December 21, 2020 08:41 PM (zTp4o)

374 Meaningless without a Senator signing on. Several Members of the House have said they would challenge.


Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at December 21, 2020 08:33 PM (IbxQb)


Not meaningless. Senators better start stepping up too though.

Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at December 21, 2020 08:41 PM (946rW)

375 Handel's Messiah is the Die Hard of Oratorios!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - Your Rulers Have Earned, And Deserve, Different Rules! at December 21, 2020 08:35 PM (87oRe)

Haha! Yes!

Posted by: Quirky Bookworm at December 21, 2020 08:41 PM (EbJ6H)

376 The Avengers is Die Hard on a helicarrier.

Posted by: Methos at December 21, 2020 08:41 PM (kOpft)

377 Regarding the vaccine pecking "order" - I guess now you're telling me "to each according to his needs" was bullshit all along...?
Posted by: ... at December 21, 2020 08:24 PM (ocvaE)
---
If these people say anything, it will be just by luck of the draw that they continue to mean it.

Posted by: Axeman at December 21, 2020 08:42 PM (RdTKD)

378 Hot Fuzz is Die Hard in Sanford.
For the greater good.

Posted by: Count de Monet, President-Elect ISTJ at December 21, 2020 08:42 PM (4I/2K)

379 Fucking muthafucka.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Confuzzled at December 21, 2020 08:43 PM (x8Wzq)

380 Seems like a very poor VPN design construct to me.
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - Your Rulers Have Earned, And Deserve, Different Rules! at December 21, 2020 08:39 PM (87oRe)


VPN only anonymizes to the extent that it doesn't give away where you're coming from. The last endpoint has to be somewhere with an IPv4 address (because the HQ doesn't have an IPv6 address), and that address had to be assigned by ARIN.

Posted by: hogmartin at December 21, 2020 08:43 PM (t+qrx)

381 Stallone can act. He's good in First Blood. But he's awful at comedy.

Posted by: Broseidon Czar of the Brocean at December 21, 2020 08:43 PM (pPtW+)

382 Not meaningless. Senators better start stepping up too though.
---

I thought Tuberville and Paul had. You'd think Cruz would since he intended to argue the case.

Posted by: Methos at December 21, 2020 08:43 PM (kOpft)

383 Not meaningless. Senators better start stepping up too though.


Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at December 21, 2020 08:41 PM (946rW)

Nothing happens unless a Senator signs on to the challenge. So it's meaningless without a Senator.
McConnell has threatened them all to keep quiet.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at December 21, 2020 08:43 PM (IbxQb)

384

Tom Baker's Doctor Who episodes for the Die Hard of Doctor Who.

Posted by: Phantom EPA Shitter at December 21, 2020 08:43 PM (/WEpn)

385 The Andy Griffith Show was Die Hard in Mayberry.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at December 21, 2020 08:44 PM (BALvA)

386 Shit man.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 21, 2020 08:44 PM (9Om/r)

387 Senators better start stepping up too though.
Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at December 21, 2020 08:41 PM (946rW)


Senator, the teller's window is over there, right next to the free bar!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - Your Rulers Have Earned, And Deserve, Different Rules! at December 21, 2020 08:44 PM (87oRe)

388 Ben-Hur is Die Hard in biblical times

Posted by: DB- just DB at December 21, 2020 08:44 PM (iTXRQ)

389 ace can create his own VPN !

Posted by: runner at December 21, 2020 08:44 PM (zr5Kq)

390 Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Posted by: Weasel at December 21, 2020 08:41 PM (aqlo1)
---
The Democrat party is still the party of the mentally disturbed.

Posted by: Axeman at December 21, 2020 08:45 PM (RdTKD)

391 "McConnell has threatened them all to keep quiet."

That is a "tell".

Posted by: attila the twitchy at December 21, 2020 08:45 PM (w7KSn)

392 Mary Poppins is Die Hard with a nanny.

Posted by: chique l'African Viking Math Queen King of Greenland, the Merciless (don't/stop/believin') at December 21, 2020 08:45 PM (9hauA)

393 Perfect evidence that progressivism is an incurable mental disorder.

Well, aside from death.

Posted by: Methos at December 21, 2020 08:45 PM (kOpft)

394 "mistakes were made" Long ago, Cokie Roberts called that the "past perfect exonerative". Clever.

Willis was good in Tears of The Sun, which is Die Hard outdoors.
Depressing, though, since Willis fixed the immediate problem.....there's still Africa.

Posted by: Richard Aubrey at December 21, 2020 08:45 PM (Kbz6P)

395 no troll will get through

Posted by: runner at December 21, 2020 08:45 PM (zr5Kq)

396 Drah Eid is Die Hard in a mirror.

Wait....

Posted by: Broseidon Czar of the Brocean at December 21, 2020 08:45 PM (pPtW+)

397 petulant impotence

Posted by: Count de Monet, President-Elect ISTJ at December 21, 2020 08:45 PM (4I/2K)

398 Given that our new socialist overlords will, well overlord over everything I think AoSHQ should implement a registration process.

Submit an application and Ace will determine if you meet posting criteria, or if you may only view.

Posting is a privilege comrade. Subscription options are available based on your social credit score.

Payment offered via PayPalChinaExpress.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 21, 2020 08:46 PM (3H9h1)

399 We'll make our own VPN! With.blackjack, and hookera!

Posted by: Broseidon Czar of the Brocean at December 21, 2020 08:46 PM (pPtW+)

400 Tom Baker's Doctor Who episodes for the Die Hard of Doctor Who.

Posted by: Phantom EPA Shitter at December 21, 2020 08:43 PM (/WEpn)


Particularly Logopolis

Posted by: Methos at December 21, 2020 08:46 PM (kOpft)

401 Ok, if I say The Passion of the Christ is Die Hard on a cross, will you all yell and throw stuff at me ???

Posted by: runner at December 21, 2020 08:46 PM (zr5Kq)

402 *sprinkles holly water

Posted by: runner at December 21, 2020 08:47 PM (zr5Kq)

403 Chipotle is the Die Hard of fast food.

Posted by: chique l'African Viking Math Queen King of Greenland, the Merciless (don't/stop/believin') at December 21, 2020 08:47 PM (9hauA)

404 412 We'll make our own VPN! With.blackjack, and hookera!
Posted by: Broseidon Czar of the Brocean at December 21, 2020 08:46 PM (pPtW+)

I'm in

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, shotguns solve problems at December 21, 2020 08:47 PM (d1uFV)

405 The last endpoint has to be somewhere with an IPv4 address (because the HQ doesn't have an IPv6 address), and that address had to be assigned by ARIN.

Posted by: hogmartin at December 21, 2020 08:43 PM (t+qrx)


But isn't the last endpoint and its ARIN registration that is a common factor?

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - Your Rulers Have Earned, And Deserve, Different Rules! at December 21, 2020 08:47 PM (87oRe)

406 Schindler's List - Die hard at Auschwitz

... doesn't really work.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at December 21, 2020 08:47 PM (IbxQb)

407 I like Tears of the Sun too. It's underrated.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 21, 2020 08:47 PM (H5knJ)

408 holy waater

Posted by: runner at December 21, 2020 08:47 PM (zr5Kq)

409 Ok, if I say The Passion of the Christ is Die Hard on a cross, will you all yell and throw stuff at me ???
Posted by: runner at December 21, 2020 08:46 PM (zr5Kq)

Ummmmmmmmm......No.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 21, 2020 08:47 PM (R/m4+)

410 And all I can say about our dear sweet little troll?

Is what a great day it will be. When Donald J. Trump. Is sworn in on January 20th.

Me?

I'm gunna Neener Neener every cretin Lefty I know. Like a big fungulo to you. And that WILL include my Brother, the big time MD.

Posted by: elmo at December 21, 2020 08:47 PM (zTp4o)

411 Ace is 28?

Posted by: New Leaf at December 21, 2020 08:48 PM (6gOI0)

412 Ace is 28?



And he has uncles.

Posted by: runner at December 21, 2020 08:48 PM (zr5Kq)

413 JOE BIDEN WILL NEVER BE PRESIDENT

Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at December 21, 2020 08:48 PM (BALvA)

414 The Fantastic Four movies were in a sense a metaphor of Die Hard. On second thought they weren't. They just kind of sucked.

Posted by: Keggar at December 21, 2020 08:49 PM (YaTIT)

415 341
Alan Rickman as Hans Gruber is one of the best bad guys ever.He was also great as the station owner in Quigley Down Under.
Equal would be Richard Boone in Big Jake
Good Well played bad guy characters are rare.
Posted by: FlimFlamed

Frederic Forrest as Blue Duck in "Lonesome Dove".
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 21, 2020 08:33 PM (pNxlR)

Blue Duck was just plain evil.

The characters played by Boone and Rickman didn't exude that same evil.

Posted by: browndog at December 21, 2020 08:49 PM (BgMrQ)

416 Chipotle is the Die Hard of fast food.

Unassuming at first but ends in explosions. Yes, I'll buy that.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 21, 2020 08:49 PM (H5knJ)

417 Willis was good in Tears of The Sun, which is Die Hard outdoors.
Depressing, though, since Willis fixed the immediate problem.....there's still Africa.
Posted by: Richard Aubrey at December 21, 2020 08:45 PM (Kbz6P)

The way to fix the 'Africa problem' is to escape Africa.

As long as the tribes rule, that place will never be fixable.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, shotguns solve problems at December 21, 2020 08:49 PM (d1uFV)

418 Willis was good in Tears of The Sun, which is Die Hard outdoors.

Depressing, though, since Willis fixed the immediate problem.....there's still Africa.

Posted by: Richard Aubrey at December 21, 2020 08:45 PM (Kbz6P)


Bruce Willis has been good in almost everything I have ever seen him in... Mercury Rising, Lucky # Slevin and The Last Boy Scout were probably my three favorite non-Die Hard movies of his.

Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at December 21, 2020 08:49 PM (946rW)

419 Eh, Willis has his misses. Hudson Hawk anybody?

Posted by: Broseidon Czar of the Brocean at December 21, 2020 08:50 PM (pPtW+)

420 Dr birx with a mask in the conservatory

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at December 21, 2020 08:50 PM (PUmDY)

421 Ace I want you to know this is one of the most enjoyable posts you have written.

Well, I mean it's no listicle of Star Wars beatoff euphemisms.

But, still, welcome in this Time of Troubles.

Posted by: blaster at December 21, 2020 08:50 PM (ZfRYq)

422 Ace has a 7 yr old troll up past his bedtime.

Drink your milk and eat your cookies and think of Santa Claus.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 21, 2020 08:50 PM (WOYcU)

423 Blue Duck was just plain evil.

The characters played by Boone and Rickman didn't exude that same evil.
Posted by: browndog at December 21, 2020 08:49 PM (BgMrQ)

Blue Duck was a Joker prototype.

Just pure mean.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Confuzzled at December 21, 2020 08:51 PM (x8Wzq)

424 Watching Die Hard now with the hubs.

Gas was 75 cents in LA back in the mid 80s.

Wow.

Posted by: SMH at December 21, 2020 08:51 PM (RU4sa)

425 Brokeback Mountain is just Die Hard in another guy's butt.

Posted by: Broseidon Czar of the Brocean at December 21, 2020 08:51 PM (pPtW+)

426 @437 I think I am the only person who liked Hudson Hawk.

Posted by: blaster at December 21, 2020 08:51 PM (ZfRYq)

427 I may watch it again.

Posted by: runner at December 21, 2020 08:51 PM (zr5Kq)

428 As long as the tribes rule, that place will never be fixable.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, shotguns solve problems at December 21, 2020 08:49 PM (d1uFV)


Everything will be better once we fully implement that concept here!
/s

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - Your Rulers Have Earned, And Deserve, Different Rules! at December 21, 2020 08:51 PM (87oRe)

429 Billy Jack is Navajo Die Hard.

Posted by: Count de Monet, President-Elect ISTJ at December 21, 2020 08:52 PM (4I/2K)

430 445 @437 I think I am the only person who liked Hudson Hawk.
Posted by: blaster at December 21, 2020 08:51 PM (ZfRYq)

I like it!

Fun flick, doesn't take itself seriously.

Like Stallone in Oscar.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, shotguns solve problems at December 21, 2020 08:52 PM (d1uFV)

431 I love Die Hard. Can;t imagine it without Willis and Rickman. "Die Hard in the White House" a/k/a/ WH Down proved that -- yikes.

Also, Die Hard 3 has such fol language. Learned that when I attempted to watch it w/my kid after enjoying the first two. The whole bit with Samuel L Jackson makes a large section of it about race and it's not fun.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 21, 2020 08:52 PM (bDqIh)

432 437 Eh, Willis has his misses. Hudson Hawk anybody?
Posted by: Broseidon Czar of the Brocean at December 21, 2020 08:50 PM (pPtW+)

He cowrote that.

He also did Striking Distance a few years after, which is fine but not great which left his career in a doldrum.

And now he simply doesn't care what he makes so long as they meet his fee and timing schedule.

Posted by: Bete at December 21, 2020 08:52 PM (Ojki1)

433 These aren't trolls. They're vermin.

Posted by: jakee308 at December 21, 2020 08:52 PM (avUgs)

434 The Terminator is Die Hard with Skynet.

Posted by: runner at December 21, 2020 08:52 PM (zr5Kq)

435 Gas was 75 cents in LA back in the mid 80s.
Wow.
Posted by: SMH at December 21, 2020 08:51 PM (RU4sa)


But think of Mother Gaia!

{{{SMH}}}

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - Your Rulers Have Earned, And Deserve, Different Rules! at December 21, 2020 08:52 PM (87oRe)

436 Greenland is Die Hard crossing the streams with Lucifer's Hammer in California's high desert.

Posted by: Sharkman at December 21, 2020 08:53 PM (1YlHz)

437 Watching Die Hard now with the hubs.

Gas was 75 cents in LA back in the mid 80s.

Wow.
Posted by: SMH at December 21, 2020 08:51 PM (RU4sa)

I was in Kenai, Alaska in the mid 80s. I recall being ticked off paying 1.50 a gallon when in Anchorage it was around 80 or 90 cents.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Confuzzled at December 21, 2020 08:53 PM (x8Wzq)

438 I can't okay Hudson Hawk, but I do actually enjoy Ford Fairlane.

Posted by: Broseidon Czar of the Brocean at December 21, 2020 08:53 PM (pPtW+)

439 Hrothgar!

Mele kalikimaka!

Posted by: SMH at December 21, 2020 08:54 PM (RU4sa)

440 Ace can put a total ban on VPN. Done.

Posted by: runner at December 21, 2020 08:54 PM (zr5Kq)

441 Ace, you are missing out

not really sea monkeys:

https://preview.tinyurl.com/yaqlwj93

Posted by: Kindltot at December 21, 2020 08:54 PM (WyVLE)

442 I also like Hudson Hawk. I'm not prepared to say it's a good movie exactly, but I do enjoy it.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 21, 2020 08:54 PM (H5knJ)

443 444 @437 I think I am the only person who liked Hudson Hawk.
Posted by: blaster at December 21, 2020 08:51 PM (ZfRYq)

I like it, but it needed a more polished script writer to point out the were creating a farce and that such a thing might not play well financially.

Posted by: Bete at December 21, 2020 08:54 PM (Ojki1)

444 Alan Rickman was spectacular, did a real star turn, in GalaxyQuest.

Oh, and the second thing I wanted to say, about our dear sweet little troll? Is karma.

Schtoopit people like that? Are so stupid, that they actually think. There are no consequences for their actions. And in thus? One day they will mouth off (in the atomic). And be rewarded with a pocket full of teeth.

As the sun rises in the East, and sets in the West. I guarantee.

Posted by: elmo at December 21, 2020 08:54 PM (zTp4o)

445 458 I can't okay Hudson Hawk, but I do actually enjoy Ford Fairlane.
Posted by: Broseidon Czar of the Brocean at December 21, 2020 08:53 PM (pPtW+)

"Suzuki Samurai. You cheap Bensonhurst piece of shit."

Life changing flick

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, shotguns solve problems at December 21, 2020 08:55 PM (d1uFV)

446 There are a ton of movies on Netflix and Prime with Willis in the picture for it. Some of them he is in for more than a few minutes.

I saw one I was convinced they just shot all of his scenes at once on a rented soundstage because he is never on screen with anyone else.

I can't imagine he needs the money, I think he just likes doing movies.

Posted by: blaster at December 21, 2020 08:55 PM (ZfRYq)

447 Striking Distance was Die Hard with boats

Posted by: Hillary! at December 21, 2020 08:55 PM (fIHXk)

448 Ace can put a total ban on VPN. Done.

Oh?

Posted by: G'rump928(C) at December 21, 2020 08:55 PM (s4dNo)

449 But isn't the last endpoint and its ARIN registration that is a common factor?
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - Your Rulers Have Earned, And Deserve, Different Rules! at December 21, 2020 08:47 PM (87oRe)


Yes, it will be one in a range that is assigned by ARIN. Whoever they allocated it to might delegate it to another entity to sublease. Somewhere along the line will be XYZ VPN, LLC. If all the traffic comes from their allocation, block their whole range.

Posted by: hogmartin at December 21, 2020 08:55 PM (t+qrx)

450 I liked The Last Boy Scout. I figure it probably doesn't hold up but it was funny.
Posted by: ... at December 21, 2020 08:52 PM (ocvaE)

-------------

Great lines.

What are you doing?
Drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes.
Can you come over?
I don't know, these are pretty good cigarettes.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 21, 2020 08:56 PM (kTF2Z)

451 Watching Die Hard now with the hubs.

Gas was 75 cents in LA back in the mid 80s.

Wow.
Posted by: SMH at December 21, 2020 08:51 PM (RU4sa


A pack of smokes was about the same if I remember right.

Posted by: Garrick at December 21, 2020 08:56 PM (YaTIT)

452 Samuel L. Jackson is insufferable. He's black Al Pacino. Hey, look at me, I'm acting and by acting I mean YELLING.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 21, 2020 08:56 PM (H5knJ)

453 Clint Eastwood is the Die Hard of Actors.

Posted by: Sharkman at December 21, 2020 08:56 PM (1YlHz)

454 It would be nice to publish the actual IPs. I cannot infer anything from the hashes.

Posted by: G'rump928(C) at December 21, 2020 08:56 PM (s4dNo)

455 465 There are a ton of movies on Netflix and Prime with Willis in the picture for it. Some of them he is in for more than a few minutes.

I saw one I was convinced they just shot all of his scenes at once on a rented soundstage because he is never on screen with anyone else.

I can't imagine he needs the money, I think he just likes doing movies.
Posted by: blaster at December 21, 2020 08:55 PM (ZfRYq)

I think he likes getting paid to do movies. If you read some of the reactions from people who have worked with him he certainly doesn't seem to bring and joy with him to the set.

Posted by: Bete at December 21, 2020 08:57 PM (Ojki1)

456 Billy Jack is Navajo Die Hard.
Posted by: Count de Monet, President-Elect ISTJ at December 21, 2020 08:52 PM (4I/2K)

Hahaha.....Billy Jack.

The corvette scene still stands out.

It was quite fitting for Tom Whateverhisnamewas to die broke and penniless in a flea bag motel.

Fucking liberal loon.

Should do a movie called "Billy Jerk".

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 21, 2020 08:57 PM (R/m4+)

457 Well, it's not as though anyone *reads* anything the troll posts. It's obviously just a *very* insecure person playing a 'look at me' game. Probably has mommy issues.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 21, 2020 08:57 PM (WZ5i4)

458 Posted by: I wash myself with a rag on a stick at December 21, 2020 08:56 PM (JiF3p)


HAHAHAHA. Loser.

Posted by: G'rump928(C) at December 21, 2020 08:57 PM (s4dNo)

459 I liked Bruce Willis in Bandits, with Cate Blanchette and Billy Bob Thornton. A fun, goofy movie.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Confuzzled at December 21, 2020 08:57 PM (x8Wzq)

460 Posted by: SMH at December 21, 2020 08:54 PM (RU4sa)

{{{SMH}}}, I wish a heart-felt Beautiful and Joyous Christmas to you, Ex-Ex, and your entire family!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - Your Rulers Have Earned, And Deserve, Different Rules! at December 21, 2020 08:57 PM (87oRe)

461 I like Hudson Hawk just like I like Buckaroo Banzai.

Posted by: Eromero at December 21, 2020 08:57 PM (8bJHg)

462 So the troll is now trying to break the blog?
Commies must destroy things they can't corrupt.

Loser.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 21, 2020 08:57 PM (bDqIh)

463 The chick in Die Hard was rather saucy.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 21, 2020 08:58 PM (/aiGx)

464 OANN has a special on Dominion-izing the vote.

Comments, BiNO?

Please defend the following:

"Trump won't win. I made fucking sure of it"

Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at December 21, 2020 08:58 PM (BALvA)

465 wow. troll is trying to crash a Die Hard post? really sad and pathetic.

Posted by: IC - tis the season for election fraud ho ho ho at December 21, 2020 08:58 PM (Nyumu)

466 Trolls live for attention and you guys keep giving it to him.

KNOCK IT OFF

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at December 21, 2020 08:58 PM (ZSK0i)

467 Posted by: Random monkey fucker at December 21, 2020 08:57 PM (QXRSl)

good work, retard

Posted by: runner at December 21, 2020 08:59 PM (zr5Kq)

468 Recently saw a film where Willis is the star for the whole thing.

I don't know how recent it was though.

He was a hostage negotiator but he got people killed so he is a Sleepy Hollow sheriff and then a really bad thing happens.

Posted by: blaster at December 21, 2020 08:59 PM (ZfRYq)

469 453 Gas was 75 cents in LA back in the mid 80s.

Gas was 70 cents in Atlanta in 1997 or so (GA has lowest state taxes, and ATL is right on the pipeline).

Posted by: GO DAWGS at December 21, 2020 08:59 PM (BBWrU)

470 Posted by: Gwyneth Paltrow's dildo at December 21, 2020 08:59 PM (3QBjW)

that's disgusting !

Posted by: runner at December 21, 2020 09:00 PM (zr5Kq)

471 I saw a rather funny meme the other day:

There are two kinds of people - folks who believe Die Hard is a Christmas movie and communists.

LOL

Posted by: IC - tis the season for election fraud ho ho ho at December 21, 2020 09:00 PM (Nyumu)

472 What I really hate about the poltroon troll is that I may be missing real comments from people I respect...

Oh wait, this is AoS

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - Your Rulers Have Earned, And Deserve, Different Rules! at December 21, 2020 09:00 PM (87oRe)

473 Argyle and Christmas in Hollis Queens.

It IS a Christmas movie.

Posted by: blaster at December 21, 2020 09:00 PM (ZfRYq)

474 There are two kinds of people - folks who believe Die Hard is a Christmas movie and communists.

LOL
Posted by: IC - tis the season for election fraud ho ho ho at December 21, 2020 09:00 PM (Nyumu)


*look of doe-eyed innocence*

But communists aren't people!

Posted by: hogmartin at December 21, 2020 09:01 PM (t+qrx)

475 Commissar Hrothgar - Your Rulers Have Earned, And Deserve, Different Rules!

Hey -- stop that.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 21, 2020 09:01 PM (u82oZ)

476 493 Recently saw a film where Willis is the star for the whole thing.

I don't know how recent it was though.

He was a hostage negotiator but he got people killed so he is a Sleepy Hollow sheriff and then a really bad thing happens.
Posted by: blaster at December 21, 2020 08:59 PM (ZfRYq)

Hostage from 2005.

So kind of before the straight to Redbox approach her currently seems to take.

And his daughter co-stars in it, so maybe that helped him care through most fo the film.

I do like it.

Posted by: Bete at December 21, 2020 09:01 PM (Ojki1)

477 I love Christmas in Hollis.

You simply cannot bob your head to the beat.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Confuzzled at December 21, 2020 09:02 PM (x8Wzq)

478 I like Hudson Hawk just like I like Buckaroo Banzai.

Posted by: Eromero at December 21, 2020 08:57 PM (8bJHg)


My friend, one of these things is NOT like the other!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - Your Rulers Have Earned, And Deserve, Different Rules! at December 21, 2020 09:02 PM (87oRe)

479 I don't know, I thought Willis was great in Die Hard.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 21, 2020 09:02 PM (9Om/r)

480 Bruce Willis just takes roles where he plays Bruce Willis.

Posted by: G'rump928(C) at December 21, 2020 09:02 PM (s4dNo)

481 Conjunction status: viewed through binoculars. Ho hum.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Viewed through (I'll guess) bigger binoculars and saw 3 of Jupiter's 4 Galilean moons and we saw Saturn's ring/s.

Posted by: AZ deplorably isolated at December 21, 2020 09:03 PM (gtatv)

482 Enter the Dragon, was Die Hard without walkie talkies.

Posted by: elmo at December 21, 2020 09:03 PM (zTp4o)

483 502 I don't know, I thought Willis was great in Die Hard.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 21, 2020 09:02 PM (9Om/r)

Avoid Die Hard 5 as it will ruin your childhood then.

Posted by: Bete at December 21, 2020 09:03 PM (Ojki1)

484 Gas was 75 cents in LA back in the mid 80s.
Wow.
Posted by: SMH


And the national debt was about 2 trillion.

Now it's 27 trillion, while gas in LA is only $3. Seems like a deal.

Posted by: vice-president-elect mikeski at December 21, 2020 09:03 PM (P1f+c)

485 Morons. I... I hired morons.

Posted by: Percy Garris at December 21, 2020 09:03 PM (ZSK0i)

486 Bridges of Madison county is Die Hard where McClaine takes his wife's name...

Posted by: Inogame - Trump Won at December 21, 2020 09:03 PM (+2xjH)

487 Hey -- stop that.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 21, 2020 09:01 PM (u82oZ)


No wait, you are right, there is a logical fallacy in that statement somewhere!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - Your Rulers Have Earned, And Deserve, Different Rules! at December 21, 2020 09:04 PM (87oRe)

488 Alan Rickman is very good as the owner of CBGB. It's an interesting movie.

Posted by: notsothoreau at December 21, 2020 09:04 PM (JKNZq)

489 Maybe they let Bogus Biden play with the 'puter because he got his shot today.

Posted by: washrivergal at December 21, 2020 09:04 PM (66BnU)

490 I just saw that Notre Dame and Ohio State both made the playoffs.

*shakes head*

Posted by: G'rump928(C) at December 21, 2020 09:05 PM (s4dNo)

491 Is the plural "Die Hards" or "Dies Hard"?

Posted by: hogmartin at December 21, 2020 09:05 PM (t+qrx)

492 Speaking of gas... $1.95/gal here in the Bluegrass today. It's been spiking upwards, but hasn't breached $2/gal yet.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 21, 2020 09:06 PM (3H9h1)

493 Commissar Hrothgar @ 501- Let's you and me turn off the tv and get in my old red truck . We can go to the bridge and see who's camping under there. Know what I mean? Bring a pint of Old Crow, some newspapers, bbq lighter, and your chainsaw. And oh yeah, we might as well set a trotline. I think I have some hognutz in the freezer.

Posted by: Eromero at December 21, 2020 09:06 PM (8bJHg)

494 517 Is the plural "Die Hards" or "Dies Hard"?
Posted by: hogmartin at December 21, 2020 09:05 PM (t+qrx)

I think it's Das Hards.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 21, 2020 09:07 PM (nakwk)

495 It's a very small step from "let old white people die faster"(you are here) to "help old whit people dis faster" And even smaller step to "make old white people die faster."

Posted by: Ripley at December 21, 2020 09:08 PM (PTDkx)

496 This French Hill (R) from Arkansas cocksucker is sucking McConnell's turtle dick over this amazing , wonderful Coronavirus Comprehensive Piece of Shit.
600 bucks.



Fuck these slimy ass Repukes.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at December 21, 2020 09:08 PM (BALvA)

497 So, I've been thinking. What is Bruce Willis's best movie?

I honestly have a hard time coming up with one.

Basically, he's Bruce, and does it well. But he has never had That One Movie.

But I rather liked him in Blind Date.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Confuzzled at December 21, 2020 09:08 PM (x8Wzq)

498 Speaking of gas... $1.95/gal here in the Bluegrass today. It's been spiking upwards, but hasn't breached $2/gal yet.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 21, 2020 09:06 PM (3H9h1)
***
Up here in the P-towns, it hit $2.25 today. Surprised me.

Posted by: Linn Ridge at December 21, 2020 09:08 PM (E8JQx)

499 517 I just saw that Notre Dame and Ohio State both made the playoffs.

*shakes head*
Posted by: G'rump928(C) at December 21, 2020 09:05 PM (s4dNo)

"College football" should just come clean and be a professional sport all its own. Players can then get paid and do away with the pretend "student athlete" tag and not have to go to class they don't want to.

Down side is without the tie to "my college," they won't be able to have as many teams but them's the breaks.

At least they can have as many playoff teams as they want then, which is what they are arguing for. Again.

So again, make it an actual job and be done with the whole pretending it isn't a business.

Posted by: Bete at December 21, 2020 09:09 PM (Ojki1)

500 Yeah, 12 Monkeys was stretching his range but he pulled it off.

Posted by: G'rump928(C) at December 21, 2020 09:10 PM (s4dNo)

501 I wonder if Bruce Willis wants to run for President in 2024?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 21, 2020 09:10 PM (OVEfo)

502 >>So, I've been thinking. What is Bruce Willis's best movie?


Die Hard?

OK, the Red movies are fun, too.

Thje ghost one is memorable, but it's not sassy Bruce, so. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at December 21, 2020 09:10 PM (bDqIh)

503 I also love Pulp Fiction and really dug 12 Monkeys.
Posted by: ... at December 21, 2020 09:09 PM (ocvaE)

I never liked Pulp Fiction. Not Bruce's fault.

Totally forgot about 12 Monkeys. Yeah, he was terrific.

Gracias.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Confuzzled at December 21, 2020 09:11 PM (x8Wzq)

504 Mindful - Duh, because Tim Allen is Santa Claus.
Posted by: Broseidon


Good point.

But not what I had in mind.

Posted by: mindful webworker and the happy elf farm
at December 21, 2020 09:11 PM (ijO9y)

505 528:12 Monkeys


12 Monkeys is Die Hard in a post apocalyptic dystopian world.

Posted by: Puddleglum at December 21, 2020 09:11 PM (Uc8b6)

506 This would have been a good year for an eight team playoff. But only if you had played at least that many games. The problem of course would have been that three of them would have been from the SEC.

Posted by: G'rump928(C) at December 21, 2020 09:12 PM (s4dNo)

507 Also, The Fifth Element. I love that one.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Confuzzled at December 21, 2020 09:12 PM (x8Wzq)

508 12 Monkeys proved Brad Pitt was a natural at portraying crazy.

Posted by: Linn Ridge at December 21, 2020 09:12 PM (E8JQx)

509
"College football" should just come clean and be a professional sport all its own. Players can then get paid and do away with the pretend "student athlete" tag and not have to go to class they don't want to.

Down side is without the tie to "my college," they won't be able to have as many teams but them's the breaks.

At least they can have as many playoff teams as they want then, which is what they are arguing for. Again.

So again, make it an actual job and be done with the whole pretending it isn't a business.
Posted by: Bete at December 21, 2020 09:09 PM (Ojki1)






The fucking NFL needs to pay for their own gorram minor leagues, rather than leeching off of the universities. Not that I give a shit about what happens to the universities' endowments.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 21, 2020 09:12 PM (EGyGV)

510 526 Speaking of gas... $1.95/gal here in the Bluegrass today. It's been spiking upwards, but hasn't breached $2/gal yet.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 21, 2020 09:06 PM (3H9h1)
***
Up here in the P-towns, it hit $2.25 today. Surprised me.
Posted by: Linn Ridge at December 21, 2020 09:08 PM (E8JQx)
---

Obama said in 2008 that it needed to be $10 to help along alternative energy. What's that today, $13?

Posted by: Gilded at December 21, 2020 09:13 PM (tNy+l)

511 526 Speaking of gas... $1.95/gal here in the Bluegrass today. It's been spiking upwards, but hasn't breached $2/gal yet.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 21, 2020 09:06 PM (3H9h1)
***
Up here in the P-towns, it hit $2.25 today. Surprised me.
Posted by: Linn Ridge at December 21, 2020 09:08 PM (E8JQx)
---

Obama said in 2008 that it needed to be $10 to help along alternative energy. What's that today, $13?

Posted by: Gilded at December 21, 2020 09:13 PM (tNy+l)

512
Also, The Fifth Element. I love that one.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Confuzzled at December 21, 2020 09:12 PM (x8Wzq)

Yup, one of my favs.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 21, 2020 09:13 PM (9Om/r)

513 Bete @ 530- My team, Clemson is in it and rightfully so. But yeah it's professional.

Posted by: Eromero at December 21, 2020 09:13 PM (8bJHg)

514 A vpn increases your chances of remaining anonymous, but it doesn't guarantee it. Of course the more times you post, the greater likelihood of being identified.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 21, 2020 09:13 PM (kTF2Z)

515 Also, The Fifth Element. I love that one.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Confuzzled at December 21, 2020 09:12 PM (x8Wzq)


I can't believe that slipped my mind.

I've heard Gary Oldman hated doing that one, which is hard to imagine. Everyone looked like they were just having a blast.

Posted by: hogmartin at December 21, 2020 09:14 PM (t+qrx)

516 537 This would have been a good year for an eight team playoff. But only if you had played at least that many games. The problem of course would have been that three of them would have been from the SEC.
Posted by: G'rump928(C) at December 21, 2020 09:12 PM (s4dNo)

I am really, really pissed that the Big 10 has been such a mess on their rules all year. Wish they would just say "Ohio State is in our title games regardless of games played" and be done with it.

Then again I came to hate Big 10 leadership and their Covid shit, so I would criticize the way they died in a fire if it happened.

Posted by: Bete at December 21, 2020 09:14 PM (Ojki1)

517 I hate to admit it but Average Joe makes me grouchy.

Posted by: G'rump928(C) at December 21, 2020 09:15 PM (s4dNo)

518
Also, The Fifth Element. I love that one.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Confuzzled at December 21, 2020 09:12 PM (x8Wzq)



I can't believe that slipped my mind.



I've heard Gary Oldman hated doing that one, which is hard to imagine. Everyone looked like they were just having a blast.

Posted by: hogmartin at December 21, 2020 09:14 PM (t+qrx)

the gay clothes and the clear soup bowl on his head probably didn't help.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 21, 2020 09:15 PM (9Om/r)

519 Meanwhile, on Star Trek, the android Norman was perfectly describing the "great reset": NORMAN: Yes, Captain. And we shall serve them and you will be happy,
and controlled.


Happy and controlled. And wearing masks outside.

Posted by: Mookie at December 21, 2020 09:16 PM (3vIkC)

520 So, Weasel shot himself on his own blog...never thought I'd see that day...

Posted by: Boswell at December 21, 2020 09:17 PM (w2LAm)

521 This seems like chemjeff to me.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 21, 2020 09:17 PM (kTF2Z)

522 540
"College football" should just come clean and be a professional sport all its own. Players can then get paid and do away with the pretend "student athlete" tag and not have to go to class they don't want to.
---

Needs to be completely removed from the universities.

Posted by: Gilded at December 21, 2020 09:17 PM (tNy+l)

523 Happy and controlled. And wearing masks outside.

Posted by: Mookie at December 21, 2020 09:16 PM (3vIkC)


And the little children shall learn obedience to their far off masters by wearing masks from birth!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - Your Rulers Have Earned, And Deserve, Different Rules! at December 21, 2020 09:18 PM (87oRe)

524 This is a DOS attack

Posted by: attila the twitchy at December 21, 2020 09:18 PM (w7KSn)

525 The Great Reset where "Reset" = "Leap Forward"

Hillary's "Reset" button. She was the second eight years of their plan.

Posted by: t-bird at December 21, 2020 09:18 PM (8DRUP)

526 557 This seems like chemjeff to me.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 21, 2020 09:17 PM (kTF2Z)

Applebee's finally banned him I guess.

Posted by: Bete at December 21, 2020 09:18 PM (Ojki1)

527 This seems like chemjeff to me.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 21, 2020 09:17 PM (kTF2Z)


Someone like him, or some other dickweed who posts here regularly still, and doesn't like the attention (or lack thereof) they get.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 21, 2020 09:18 PM (oQ94s)

528 It's not Weasel, you dimwit.

Posted by: attila the twitchy at December 21, 2020 09:19 PM (w7KSn)

529 So, Weasel shot himself on his own blog...never thought I'd see that day...
Posted by: Boswell at December 21, 2020 09:17 PM (w2LAm)

the Fuck you talking about???!!!

This is not Weasel.

Try and keep up.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Confuzzled at December 21, 2020 09:19 PM (x8Wzq)

530 wow that was a classic? LOL

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 21, 2020 09:19 PM (OVEfo)

531 I have heard all of these details before and I thought I heard it here. Did you check your archives?

Posted by: WarEagle82 at December 21, 2020 09:19 PM (+Kpte)

532 Conjunction newz....

Went out this evening around 6:00PM EST here in the Bluegrass. Since I'm about as far west as you can get in the Eastern Time Zone 6PM is almost dark.

I took several photos from a modified, steadied position to image Jupiter and Saturn. In the best image you can see both planets, 4 of Jupiter's moons and what I believe is one or two of Saturn's... likely one is Titan. Saturn is an oblong looking thing. Rings are barely there.

However.... in the Orion 8 inch reflector it was an awesome sight. Too bad I don't have the gear to take photos through that.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 21, 2020 09:20 PM (3H9h1)

533 I assume the troll doesn't have a life.

Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at December 21, 2020 09:20 PM (lgiXo)

534 This is a DOS attack

yes it is

Pixy needs to get of his ass.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at December 21, 2020 09:20 PM (BALvA)

535 What a pitiful loser this copy-paste-spewing cretin is.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 21, 2020 09:20 PM (W4eKo)

536 Applebee's finally banned him I guess.
Posted by: Bete at December 21, 2020 09:18 PM (Ojki1)


The fate of most belligerence ill-mannered drunks in any decent bar!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - Your Rulers Have Earned, And Deserve, Different Rules! at December 21, 2020 09:20 PM (87oRe)

537 what's going on?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 21, 2020 09:20 PM (OVEfo)

538 Okay - I see its a troll and not Weasel - sorry Weezie!

Posted by: Boswell at December 21, 2020 09:20 PM (w2LAm)

539 This seems like chemjeff to me.

I thought it was ScoggDog. His was the most recent tiff I've seen.

Posted by: t-bird at December 21, 2020 09:21 PM (8DRUP)

540 570 I assume the troll doesn't have a life.
Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at December 21, 2020 09:20 PM (lgiXo)

Or it wrote an autoscript.

Posted by: Bete at December 21, 2020 09:21 PM (Ojki1)

541 I assume the troll doesn't have a life.
Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at December 21, 2020 09:20 PM (lgiXo)


That and sucks a lot of cock.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at December 21, 2020 09:21 PM (fIHXk)

542 All they need to do is ban any VPN. Troll gone.

Posted by: runner at December 21, 2020 09:21 PM (zr5Kq)

543 a 'bot.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Confuzzled at December 21, 2020 09:21 PM (x8Wzq)

544 Seems like it would be easy enough to have a little script on the backend that just drops any post over some character count and auto-ban the sending IP. Wouldn't be a complete solution but it should eliminate that one particular mode of assholeness.

Posted by: Bob the Bilderberg at December 21, 2020 09:22 PM (qc+VF)

545
Applebee's finally banned him I guess.
Posted by: Bete at December 21, 2020 09:18 PM (Ojki1)





The cute bartender finally blurted out "STOP HITTING ON ME, I'M WORKING. PLUS, I'M NOT GAY."

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 21, 2020 09:22 PM (EGyGV)

546 Or it wrote an autoscript.
Posted by: Bete at December 21, 2020 09:21 PM (Ojki1)


On a timer perhaps?

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - Your Rulers Have Earned, And Deserve, Different Rules! at December 21, 2020 09:22 PM (87oRe)

547 You don't need VPN to post here. Unless it's a troll or a banned subject.

Posted by: runner at December 21, 2020 09:22 PM (zr5Kq)

548 575 This seems like chemjeff to me.

I thought it was ScoggDog. His was the most recent tiff I've seen.
Posted by: t-bird at December 21, 2020 09:21 PM (8DRUP)

Jeff showed up 2 weeks or so ago and was all ~jeff. Dave let him do his schtick for the better part of 2-3 hours then showed him the door.

Posted by: Bete at December 21, 2020 09:22 PM (Ojki1)

549 Or both , as we have in this case.

Posted by: runner at December 21, 2020 09:22 PM (zr5Kq)

550 By the by, took the fancy new binocs out to look at the Jupiter/Saturn thing, before it dropped below the horizon.

Kinda cool. I was a little disappointed, I have a tripod and haven't figured that out fully either, to keep the shaking down. Still, I wasn't able to tell the difference between Saturn and Jupiter... I mean, I assume Jupiter is the bigger of the two (given size and distance). No view of the rings.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 21, 2020 09:23 PM (oQ94s)

551 578
If it isn't a script, this is the single saddest person to ever post here.

Posted by: ... at December 21, 2020 09:21 PM (ocvaE)

++++
Family is pleased though. Keeps him away from them.

Posted by: washrivergal at December 21, 2020 09:23 PM (66BnU)

552 I thought it was ScoggDog. His was the most recent tiff I've seen.
No way.

This is not how Scogg rolls . At all.


This is BSG, Amish or chemjeff

Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at December 21, 2020 09:23 PM (BALvA)

553 And the little children shall learn obedience to their far off masters by wearing masks from birth!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - Your Rulers Have Earned, And Deserve, Different Rules! at December 21, 2020 09:18 PM (87oRe)

God help the kids. This is emotional child abuse of the highest order.

Posted by: Mookie at December 21, 2020 09:23 PM (3vIkC)

554 Yeah, some banned POS.

Posted by: runner at December 21, 2020 09:23 PM (zr5Kq)

555 Jeff showed up 2 weeks or so ago and was all ~jeff. Dave let him do his schtick for the better part of 2-3 hours then showed him the door.

Posted by: Bete at December 21, 2020 09:22 PM

My old pal chem jeff actually showed up? Did he bring Vera Johnson with him?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 21, 2020 09:23 PM (OVEfo)

556 toilet hobo, has he been banned ?

Posted by: runner at December 21, 2020 09:23 PM (zr5Kq)

557 What a jackass.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at December 21, 2020 09:24 PM (sy5kK)

558 581 LOL get your own material Bete
Posted by: ... at December 21, 2020 09:21 PM (ocvaE)

Which part? Navigating the troll makes keeping up a challenge.

Posted by: Bete at December 21, 2020 09:24 PM (Ojki1)

559 My old pal chem jeff actually showed up? Did he bring Vera Johnson with him?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 21, 2020 09:23 PM (OVEfo)

he showed up with his passive aggressive faggy shit again.

Posted by: runner at December 21, 2020 09:24 PM (zr5Kq)

560 Kinda cool. I was a little disappointed, I have a
tripod and haven't figured that out fully either, to keep the shaking
down. Still, I wasn't able to tell the difference between Saturn and
Jupiter... I mean, I assume Jupiter is the bigger of the two (given size
and distance). No view of the rings.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 21, 2020 09:23 PM (oQ94s)

(saturn has rings) lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 21, 2020 09:24 PM (9Om/r)

561 All Pixy has to do is make use of the email field. It's kind of like a password, in that nobody can see it. If ScoggDog guesses wrong, his Weasel post goes nowhere. His own posts would have to wait a while.

Posted by: t-bird at December 21, 2020 09:25 PM (oBAbT)

562 Still trying to understand the conjunction junction, and its function. Maybe this will help: https://bit.ly/3haiv1Y

Posted by: Mookie at December 21, 2020 09:25 PM (3vIkC)

563 Posted by: Bob the Bilderberg at December 21, 2020 09:22 PM (qc+VF)

This seems to be a reasonable, and very creative, compromise; otherwise, the workload on the COBs has got to be insane!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - Your Rulers Have Earned, And Deserve, Different Rules! at December 21, 2020 09:25 PM (87oRe)

564 Alien is basically Die Hard in space

Posted by: Ripley at December 21, 2020 09:25 PM (PTDkx)

565 OMG so many suspects it's like a really emotionally stunted version of Clue
Posted by: ... at December 21, 2020 09:25 PM (ocvaE)

yeah, funny that

Posted by: runner at December 21, 2020 09:26 PM (zr5Kq)

566 322 Politics Trending
Vote NO
Trending with Sudan, Burma
Posted by: Pakistani gender isn't trending? at December 21, 2020 08:29 PM

Politics · Trending
Pakistan
223K Tweets

Posted by: Bangladesh must feel left out at December 21, 2020 09:26 PM (BBWrU)

567 Kinda cool. I was a little disappointed, I have a
tripod and haven't figured that out fully either, to keep the shaking
down. Still, I wasn't able to tell the difference between Saturn and
Jupiter... I mean, I assume Jupiter is the bigger of the two (given size
and distance). No view of the rings.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 21, 2020 09:23 PM (oQ94s)

(saturn has rings) lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 21, 2020 09:24 PM (9Om/r)


So do your shirts. Around the collar!

Posted by: BurtTC at December 21, 2020 09:26 PM (oQ94s)

568 It automatically reposts at regular intervals. I ain't smart about computers and the interwebs, but this is very regular, and it never changes.

this is some kind of 'bot, or creepy crawly interweb thingy.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Confuzzled at December 21, 2020 09:26 PM (x8Wzq)

569 Ace how many times have you had some brilliant though that could be a thread? But you just couldn't pull the trigger?

Posted by: Garrick at December 21, 2020 09:26 PM (YaTIT)

570 Commenter who sucks dog penis by choice at December 21, 2020 09:26 PM (q8+Io)

that is insane !

Posted by: runner at December 21, 2020 09:27 PM (zr5Kq)

571 Fuck this guy in particular

Posted by: blaster at December 21, 2020 09:27 PM (ZfRYq)

572 595 Jeff showed up 2 weeks or so ago and was all ~jeff. Dave let him do his schtick for the better part of 2-3 hours then showed him the door.

Posted by: Bete at December 21, 2020 09:22 PM

My old pal chem jeff actually showed up? Did he bring Vera Johnson with him?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 21, 2020 09:23 PM (OVEfo)

He got a MOAB dropped on him from ...damn, forgetting the commentator from TX what does all the boat things. @#$%'n memory.

Posted by: Bete at December 21, 2020 09:27 PM (Ojki1)

573 Howdy, non trolls.

Posted by: Muad'dib at December 21, 2020 09:27 PM (9Oc7e)

574 It automatically reposts at regular intervals. I ain't smart about computers and the interwebs, but this is very regular, and it never changes.

this is some kind of 'bot, or creepy crawly interweb thingy.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Confuzzled at December 21, 2020 09:26 PM (x8Wzq)


Nah, someone posts, takes a moment or two to change the IP address with the VPN. Copy/paste. Done.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 21, 2020 09:28 PM (oQ94s)

575 My trick is Control+F on "Weasel" then I can jump over the troll post(s) and get to see the crap the regular posters (like me) provide!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - Your Rulers Have Earned, And Deserve, Different Rules! at December 21, 2020 09:29 PM (87oRe)

576 Seems like it would be easy enough to have a little script on the backend that just drops any post over some character count and auto-ban the sending IP.

But also send it a 3-gigabyte response page.

Posted by: t-bird at December 21, 2020 09:29 PM (jacU8)

577 Bete

Jim Sunk New Dawn

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 21, 2020 09:29 PM (u82oZ)

578 i love this blog but this is getting ridiculous.

Posted by: IC - tis the season for election fraud ho ho ho at December 21, 2020 09:29 PM (Nyumu)

579 614 Which part? Navigating the troll makes keeping up a challenge.

Posted by: Bete at December 21, 2020 09:24 PM (Ojki1)

That's my go-to line when someone posts the same thing I said before I say it. We posted simultaneously about a script.
Posted by: ... at December 21, 2020 09:27 PM (ocvaE)

Horde mind and all.

Posted by: Bete at December 21, 2020 09:29 PM (Ojki1)

580 >>He got a MOAB dropped on him from ...damn, forgetting the commentator from TX what does all the boat things.


Jim. Its was epic.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 21, 2020 09:30 PM (bDqIh)

581 But also send it a 3-gigabyte response page.
Posted by: t-bird


DOS'ing your own service provider seems counter-productive.

Posted by: vice-president-elect mikeski at December 21, 2020 09:31 PM (P1f+c)

582 He got a MOAB dropped on him from ...damn, forgetting the commentator from TX what does all the boat things. @#$%'n memory.
Posted by: Bete at December 21, 2020 09:27 PM (Ojki1)

Jim
Sunk New Dawn?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, shotguns solve problems at December 21, 2020 09:31 PM (d1uFV)

583 624 Bete

Jim Sunk New Dawn
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 21, 2020 09:29 PM (u82oZ)

Thanks NaCly.

I wish I could blame the memory loss on drinking. Guess it could still be chemobrain, I've read that can stick around for 5 years.

Posted by: Bete at December 21, 2020 09:31 PM (Ojki1)

584 I know, CAPTCHA !

Posted by: runner at December 21, 2020 09:31 PM (zr5Kq)

585 Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahaha


101 see the thing is, I can delete these posts

Posted by: Weasel at December 21, 2020 08:43 PM (0rbyT)



COCKSUCKUH!!!

Posted by: Mr. Wu at December 21, 2020 09:33 PM (1YlHz)

586 Good night, good people of the gray boxes.

Posted by: Eromero at December 21, 2020 09:33 PM (8bJHg)

587 Is being buggered daily by Soros a perk for trolls or is it punishment?

Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at December 21, 2020 09:34 PM (lgiXo)

588 Kelly Loeffler sent me an email that she wants me tonight.

I am thinking of replying no effing way, man hands!

Posted by: blaster at December 21, 2020 09:35 PM (ZfRYq)

589 I remember my sistr and mom loved Bruce Willis and I think he sang quite a biton Moonlighting. I was surprised he made an action movie.

Posted by: steevy at December 21, 2020 09:36 PM (wgghp)

590 I'm open to paid registration.

I know most of our suggestions require work by the Ewok but if it helps...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, shotguns solve problems at December 21, 2020 09:36 PM (d1uFV)

591 Fuck off bitch

Posted by: steevy at December 21, 2020 09:37 PM (wgghp)

592 Leslie Howard, Humphrey Bogart in "The Petrified Forest."
It's...Die Hard, with English poetry!

"Key Largo." It's Die Hard, with Seminoles, in a hurricane!

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 21, 2020 09:37 PM (zMFmR)

593 I'm open to paid registration.

I know most of our suggestions require work by the Ewok but if it helps...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, shotguns solve problems at December 21, 2020 09:36 PM (d1uFV)

Me too.

I have been a Moron since 2005-ish.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Confuzzled at December 21, 2020 09:37 PM (x8Wzq)

594 boring

Posted by: mot at December 21, 2020 09:38 PM (NH+gI)

595 So what is going to happen to the ONT?

Posted by: chique l'African Viking Math Queen King of Greenland, the Merciless (don't/stop/believin') at December 21, 2020 09:38 PM (9hauA)

596 He got a MOAB dropped on him from ...damn, forgetting the commentator from TX what does all the boat things. @#$%'n memory.
Posted by: Bete at December 21, 2020 09:27 PM (Ojki1)


http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=391666

#951

Posted by: hogmartin at December 21, 2020 09:38 PM (t+qrx)

597 Let's start simple. A 30 line limit in the comment field.

Posted by: blaster at December 21, 2020 09:38 PM (ZfRYq)

598 Paid registration? Count me in!

Posted by: Toni at December 21, 2020 09:38 PM (/c+mq)

599 'History' channel showing world wildlife fund commercial of polar bears with no ice. These stupid bustards just won't let that go can they?

Posted by: Eromero at December 21, 2020 09:39 PM (8bJHg)

600 This seems like chemjeff to me.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 21, 2020 09:17 PM (kTF2Z)

That Winona Judd sure has porked out, hasn't she?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 21, 2020 09:39 PM (mzC78)

601 I pity whoever has to share a bunkbed in hell with troll.

Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at December 21, 2020 09:39 PM (lgiXo)

602
I got it! We'll go to moderation!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 21, 2020 09:41 PM (mht8P)

603 636 Kelly Loeffler sent me an email that she wants me tonight.

I am thinking of replying no effing way, man hands!
Posted by: blaster at December 21, 2020 09:35 PM (ZfRYq)
***********
So, you'd rather have Warnock?

Posted by: redridinghood at December 21, 2020 09:42 PM (NpAcC)

604 I'm open to paid registration.

Same here.

Posted by: Jewells45TRUMPWON! at December 21, 2020 09:42 PM (nxdel)

605 On the plus side...

It looked like I was a gazillion comments behind, but wasn't really.



Ctrl-F for by: weasel worked. For now. Thanks for the tip.



Galaxy Quest was a Christmas movie because the big bad was the Grinch.

Posted by: mindful webworker and the Christmas cardiac
at December 21, 2020 09:42 PM (ijO9y)

606
*prepares vat of trimethylaluminum*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 21, 2020 09:43 PM (mht8P)

607 I assume everything is a lie unless it's from somebody I know personally.

Posted by: Eromero at December 21, 2020 09:44 PM (8bJHg)

608 Google confirms it notifies children if parents are monitoring their account

Posted by: Braenyard at December 21, 2020 09:45 PM (CZm2G)

609 Just start a new thread

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 21, 2020 09:46 PM (OVEfo)

610 so toilet hobo is back

Posted by: BoyleHeights at December 21, 2020 09:46 PM (g741k)

611 > I'm open to paid registration.

Same here.
Posted by: Jewells45TRUMPWON! at December 21, 2020 09:42 PM (nxdel)


Not gonna lie, "open to paid registration" didn't sound dirty until you said it.

*hangs head in shame*

Posted by: hogmartin at December 21, 2020 09:48 PM (t+qrx)

612 Get help.

Posted by: Puddleglum at December 21, 2020 09:48 PM (Uc8b6)

613 Yikes. Mark of the Beast. I'm doomed. I do live in Babylon on the Potomac so I'm living in the right place.

Posted by: Puddleglum at December 21, 2020 09:49 PM (Uc8b6)

614 also open to paid reg!

and looking for a ... special number

Posted by: MISTRESSBlackOrchid at December 21, 2020 09:51 PM (j9HX3)

615 651 I'm open to paid registration.

Same here.
Posted by: Jewells45TRUMPWON! at December 21, 2020 09:42 PM (nxdel)


Same here.

Posted by: Ladyl at December 21, 2020 09:51 PM (TdMsT)

616 YASSSSS QUEEEN!

(to myself, which is very sad)

Posted by: MISTRESSBlackOrchid at December 21, 2020 09:51 PM (j9HX3)

617 So I'm not post Mark of the Beast. Cool. That would have been a bummer for Christmas.

Posted by: Puddleglum at December 21, 2020 09:51 PM (Uc8b6)

618 > I'm open to paid registration.

Same here.
Posted by: Jewells45TRUMPWON! at December 21, 2020 09:42 PM (nxdel)

Same here.
Posted by: Ladyl at December 21, 2020 09:51 PM (TdMsT)


*covers childrens' ears*

Posted by: hogmartin at December 21, 2020 09:52 PM (t+qrx)

619 Paid registration per hash, unless you are on the good list.

A troll like this could fund ace a bunch.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 21, 2020 09:54 PM (u82oZ)

620 wait a minute! damn

I guess a post got deleted

Posted by: MISTRESSBlackOrchid at December 21, 2020 09:54 PM (j9HX3)

621 The GOP is a farce. It is a fake party. It must be swept into the dustpin of history. To be replaced by something new.

Posted by: Garrick at December 21, 2020 09:54 PM (YaTIT)

622
g'early evenin', rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 21, 2020 09:54 PM (cUi/7)

623 fair enough three dots! but I swear I had that mark o the beast there for a hot minute

Posted by: MISTRESSBlackOrchid at December 21, 2020 09:54 PM (j9HX3)

624 ok look

I swear I post here and that thing returns

is it me, somehow? am I like, a troll conduit?

Posted by: MISTRESSBlackOrchid at December 21, 2020 09:55 PM (j9HX3)

625 The chick in Die Hard was rather saucy.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson



Bonny Bedelia:

https://tinyurl.com/Bonnie-Bedelia-Die-Hard



Die Hard In My Pants.

Posted by: Mr. Wu at December 21, 2020 09:55 PM (1YlHz)

626 624
101 see the thing is, I can delete these posts, but he can post new ones faster than I can delete.



Total DIcK Head.

Posted by: sherpa_K2 at December 21, 2020 09:56 PM (Qb+KG)

627 Effing Wasesal reads the comments

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - Your Rulers Have Earned, And Deserve, Different Rules! at December 21, 2020 09:56 PM (87oRe)

628 I think the Blog has met its match.

Posted by: Sharkman at December 21, 2020 09:57 PM (1YlHz)

629 Heya, AltonJackson. How was the thing?

Posted by: hogmartin at December 21, 2020 09:57 PM (t+qrx)

630 Effing Wasesal reads the comments
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - Your Rulers Have Earned, And Deserve, Different Rules! at December 21, 2020 09:56 PM (87oRe)


lololol

Weseesseal lol

Posted by: runner at December 21, 2020 09:57 PM (zr5Kq)

631 101 Posting stops the burning.

101 Posting stops the burning.

101 Posting stops the burning.

Posted by: Axeman at December 21, 2020 09:58 PM (Eicbe)

632 "It's back......"

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 21, 2020 09:58 PM (T51Fi)

633 ave maria purisima

Posted by: BoyleHeights at December 21, 2020 09:58 PM (g741k)

634 Sharkman

Never!

Unless it is NoKs, CHiComs or Moldova.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 21, 2020 09:59 PM (u82oZ)

635 409
The troll is using "length" to compensate for something.



THIS!!

Posted by: sherpa_K2 at December 21, 2020 10:00 PM (Qb+KG)

636 The GOP is a farce. It is a fake party. It must be swept into the dustpin of history. To be replaced by something new.

Posted by: Garrick at December 21, 2020 09:54 PM (YaTIT)


Once I thought the UniParty was a myth.

Now i know better! There is only one party, the party of the grift!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - Your Rulers Have Earned, And Deserve, Different Rules! at December 21, 2020 10:00 PM (87oRe)

637 this troll answers the question: How do you spend your time if you are too repulsive and disgusting to ever attract an actual human woman?


Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at December 21, 2020 10:01 PM (BALvA)

638 I wasn't going to go to DC on Jan 6.

But I am thinking I will.

And wearing body armor.

Posted by: blaster at December 21, 2020 10:03 PM (ZfRYq)

639 Hahah... pitiful troll.

Posted by: FloridachickTRUMPWON at December 21, 2020 10:05 PM (pD0pA)

640 Kelly Loeffler sent me an email that she wants me tonight.

Tell her to get off her ass and condemn November's fraud or she can lose again in January.



Just like she lost to Doug Collins until she cheated in November.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at December 21, 2020 10:11 PM (BALvA)

641
How was the thing?

Posted by: hogmartin at December 21, 2020 09:57 PM


hey, hogmartin

the thing was most excellent

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 21, 2020 10:21 PM (cUi/7)

642 >>> 694
How was the thing?

Posted by: hogmartin at December 21, 2020 09:57 PM

hey, hogmartin

the thing was most excellent
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 21, 2020 10:21 PM (cUi/7)

There was a thing???

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 21, 2020 10:24 PM (02b6n)

643 Y5, what a sad person you are.

Posted by: Braenyard at December 21, 2020 10:29 PM (CZm2G)

644 Did you have to ruin Die Hard as a Christmas Movie for me by mentioning French and Pantless Goldberg?

Posted by: Evi L. Bloggerlady at December 21, 2020 11:19 PM (3bOUC)

645 @rising_serpent·3hSo you are telling me that the people who wrote a bill stealing your money for Sudan, Pakistan, Burma, Nepal, Cambodia, illegal aliens, windmills, solar panels, 1908 Springfield race riots and horse performance enhancing drugs while giving you only $600 wouldn't steal your votes?

Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at December 21, 2020 11:28 PM (BALvA)

646 WTF, Ace,

if you are 29 my dick, which went missing at birth, is 10 feet long. I am not going speculate further about your age but I highly suspect it is held together by generic Viagra and liberal self abuse.

Posted by: Anti Marx - Pro Lennon at December 22, 2020 05:34 AM (ESLBo)

647 I liked Bruce Willis and knew he was going to be a big start when I first saw him playing a villain on an episode of Miami Vice.

Posted by: Chicolini at December 22, 2020 09:06 AM (sIkrh)

648 Ace, that Netflix doc is probably the one you remember, maybe it's been repackaged. Every item on your list is covered in that show, part of "Holiday Movies That Made Us".

Posted by: John Doe at December 22, 2020 07:13 PM (Y6I11)

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