Re: Sometimes Things Do Change

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"Guess Who's Building Nuclear Power Plants" was the fourth sequel, after "Guess Who's Talking" "Guess Who's Talking II" and "Guess Who's Talking III: The Dogs."


Posted by: Roberto Tigre | Link to this comment | 07-24-15 7:57 AM
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Damn it, it was apparently "Look Who's Talking."


Posted by: Roberto Tigre | Link to this comment | 07-24-15 8:00 AM
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Your joke would have worked better with a Sidney Poitier reference.


Posted by: ajay | Link to this comment | 07-24-15 8:02 AM
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I believe you're confusing it with the Bernie Mac series that began with Guess Who? and was followed by Guess Who?: American Woman.


Posted by: snarkout | Link to this comment | 07-24-15 8:05 AM
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Guess Who's Coming To My Dinner With Andre?


Posted by: ajay | Link to this comment | 07-24-15 8:25 AM
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Nice. Looking at the sponsors, I'm wondering if this was deployed in support of Seabrook (or maybe just ginning up further support for Pilgrim which is what I assume the Plymouth voters "approved").


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 07-24-15 8:26 AM
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Incidentally, I should recommend the BBC radio sitcom "Cabin Pressure" which is full of silly games like this, including:
People Who Should Be Arch-Enemies

Peter Snow and John Thaw
Ruby Wax and John Wayne
Donna Summer and Anna Wintour
Clint Eastwood and Vivienne Westwood


Posted by: ajay | Link to this comment | 07-24-15 8:27 AM
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Guess Who's Coming to My Dinner With Andre the Giant?


Posted by: Tom Scudder | Link to this comment | 07-24-15 8:27 AM
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Also, Question and Answer Films.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Gandhi.
What's Eating Gilbert Grape? Twelve Monkeys.
Whatever Happened To Baby Jane? Fight Club.


Posted by: ajay | Link to this comment | 07-24-15 8:30 AM
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There's an IMDB entry for My Dinner with Andre the Giant.


Posted by: Tom Scudder | Link to this comment | 07-24-15 8:32 AM
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The picture in the OP looks like a guy I went to high school with.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 07-24-15 8:33 AM
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5: Andre?


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 07-24-15 8:34 AM
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James and Andre the Giant Peach


Posted by: Cryptic ned | Link to this comment | 07-24-15 8:37 AM
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12: Sydney Smith? http://www.english-slang.com/eng/famous/s/aphorism-2444


Posted by: ajay | Link to this comment | 07-24-15 8:43 AM
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I should recommend the BBC radio sitcom "Cabin Pressure"

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MARTIN: OK, OK, OK. How Green Was My Valley?

DOUGLAS: Yes?

MARTIN: Seven.

DOUGLAS: Seven? Your valley was 'seven' green?

MARTIN: Yes. Out of ten. I think the scale is implicit...


Posted by: My Alter Ego | Link to this comment | 07-24-15 9:22 AM
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Cabin Pressure is very funny. Can't remember why I listened to it -- has someone recommended it here before?


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 07-24-15 9:27 AM
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Incidentally, I should recommend the BBC radio sitcom "Cabin Pressure" which is full of silly games like this

So is the new ISIHAC? Don't think I've heard it. Is it podcasted?


Posted by: Ginger Yellow | Link to this comment | 07-24-15 9:55 AM
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So is the new ISIHAC?

No, it's much better than that. BBC Radio 4 has episodes available for listening online at the link.


Posted by: My Alter Ego | Link to this comment | 07-24-15 10:07 AM
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Oh, hey, there's an episode I haven't heard. I thought it stopped at Y.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 07-24-15 10:13 AM
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Zurich is, alas, the last ever episode.


Posted by: ajay | Link to this comment | 07-24-15 10:35 AM
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Unsurprisingly, given the structure of the episode titles.

I'm almost disappointed -- when I thought the Y episode was the last one, I also thought that the obvious title for Z was a nicely implicit resolution to the cliffhanger. But I guess they made it explicit.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 07-24-15 10:41 AM
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Probably I have recommended it before. It's not a panel game show; the main characters work for a charter airline and play these games to pass time on the flight deck.


Posted by: ajay | Link to this comment | 07-24-15 10:43 AM
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So how do I listen to it from the beginning? It says not available.


Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 07-24-15 1:21 PM
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Zurich is stained, but it's not my fault


Posted by: cleek | Link to this comment | 07-24-15 1:21 PM
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I think I got it off itunes. Probably free. Don't know if it's still there.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 07-24-15 1:25 PM
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OT but holy shit this country can fit everything and then some in a mall. I mean, I grew up on Long Island so I know (and hate) malls but this country really does them like you would not believe. An entire amusement park complete with a Ferris wheel and a roller coaster park was one whole wing, another was chock full of the highest of the high end shops I've ever seen in one place (and tellingly only native Fremen sitting at the cafe at the end of it), with gondolas you can ride on from one end to the other and high valuated ceilings that look like the late afternoon and early twilight sky throughout. It's hard not to be impressed.


Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 07-24-15 1:30 PM
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high valuated s/b high vaulted but really the whole thing is high valuated.

25 thanks, I'll give that a try.


Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 07-24-15 1:31 PM
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What if one doesn't have "iTunes"?


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 07-24-15 1:34 PM
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There is BBC iPlayer which I've just downloaded and installed but have yet to use. Maybe that would work?


Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 07-24-15 1:43 PM
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If I may go off topic to talk about Iran. This did lead me to read a few things on just WTF Carter was doing letting the Shah into the country in 1979. I never really knew much about the actaully story despite being conscious and adult at the time*. A total Jimmy Carter fuck up (spurred on by the late-70s equivalent of neocons, but Carter did it in his usual stupid way).

*And in Houston where there were a fair number of Iranian students at the time. They tried a downtown demonstration one weekday, and half my office nearly shouted themselves hoarse yelling "Camel fuckers!" at them out the windows. Much backlash in the form of visa checks etc. ensued.
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Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 07-24-15 7:41 PM
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The link in 30 is really interesting.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 07-24-15 9:21 PM
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I once knew a woman who claimed to have the seat next to the shah's ex wife at the hairdresser in Paris. Said she was nice but painfully shy. Apparently their lap dogs got along, which must be an important consideration in such seating arrangements.


Posted by: dairy queen | Link to this comment | 07-24-15 10:15 PM
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32: So Rockefeller and Kissinger were there.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 07-25-15 5:58 AM
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"got along" is probably overstating it, probably more like "didn't quarrel." I knew the one dog, it was far more beautiful than either R or K.


Posted by: dairy queen | Link to this comment | 07-25-15 7:05 AM
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