Archived comment by marinerd:
Went off the front page on a hunch, and found a live one! I heard the same thing about Johnny Depp. He picks such interesting roles!

Archived comment by miss liss:
I know this is a dead thread, but it seemed like the best place, what with the oompa loompas...

I just heard that Johnny Depp has been offered the role of Willy Wonka in Tim Burton's new remake of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"!!!
Now that's my idea of a candy man!! Yummy!!

Archived comment by ParU:
A funny thing about tuition at Calif. St. Universities (CSU and UC). If you read the initial grants/founding documents you'll see that they're supposed to be FREE for Calif. Residents (honest). And they were, except for miscellaneous fees (about $50-60/quarter) until Reagan (as Gov.) got pissed at the demonstrations during the Vietnam War, which is why the UC 'fees' are now many thousands of dollars. But they call them fees instead of 'tuition' as that's still prohibited.

Archived comment by hypoxic:
But he went to a CSU right? So that is still cheaper then the UC system.

Archived comment by ParU:
Well yes hypo, but her brother's still in college...

Archived comment by hypoxic:
so ParU looks like you lucked out with eve getting out of school. Fees are going up over 25% and could increase another 5%!

Man that's a lot.

Archived comment by Yoda:
namelink is an article on drive-ins...and at drive-ins.com you can locate a drive-in near you! (i'm trying now but the site's pretty bogged down)

Archived comment by hypoxic:
yup. Glad to see that race isn't a factor. Social economic issues are a much better indicator.

Archived comment by ParU:
I defer to the expert. I do know that they're prohibited from using race (whatever that means) as a factor.

Archived comment by hypoxic:
they've slightly changed the scoring. Check namelink for new admissions system.

Archived comment by hypoxic:
umm ParU that's actually incorrect.

The UC system used a straight point system. For the points you use this formula:
SAT I's
+SAT II's (two tests)
+GPA*1000 (capped at 4000, also this GPA is not the same as your highschool GPA and is normally much higher, ergo my highschool GPA was only about a 3.6 or so but my UC GPA was over 4.2 or so)
=your score.

If you didn't make it over a certain threshold other factors would come into play and that was why you wanted atheletics and other extracurriculars in there.

So the people with 4.0's probably had really shitty GPA's which is why SAT's were important as it gave a baseline indicator of the student.

Archived comment by ParU:
Yup Matt - The year Eve entered Berkeley there were 4,000 students who had a 4.0 or better GPA that weren't admitted. You needed at least a 4.1 to 4.2 GPA to get in.

Course, as I said, grad school is different, which is how I got in. (But having publications helped).

Archived comment by Matt:
Really, ParU? When I graduated high school, I was 175th out of 278 with a 2.6 GPA (with AP credits). That's what makes junior college transferring so great.

Archived comment by tim:
I'm suddenly very glad I live on the east coast.
Probably not as glad as the West Coasters.
heh

Archived comment by ParU:
Well Matt - you live in Berkeley, after all. And there the Communist party is considered a little too conservative.

Seriously, the Democratic Party in Berkeley is nowhere near liberal enough for that town and just for those who don't know, it's not the students we're talking about. Most of the students there either don't vote or are the valedectorians of their high schools (not a usually radical bunch). Honest. I remember teaching a lab and doing a survey and 50% (!!!) of my students had been either No. 1 or 2 in their high school classes.

Course their standards were lower for grad students, which is why I got in.

Archived comment by Noyock:
Yep, we's all Commies up here...

Archived comment by Matt:
As a lifelong "city kid" (at least by ParU's definition), spending my freshman year of college in a rural town in Idaho (student population: 550), I developed a sudden and pronounced appreciation for Jeff Foxworthy just as he was hiting it big ('95).

Politically, that was the most painful nine months of my life, not least because I was branded a Communist by the majority of my classmates for supporting the idea (gasp!) that universal health care didn't seem like such a bad idea, among other things.

I like Berkeley mas mejor.

Archived comment by Noyock:
Yep, I'm definitely siding with ParU on this one; Jeff Foxworthy is hilarious, and sadly, sadly true. I recall seeing him on TV once with some friends of mine, and about half the "You might be a redneck if..." bits prompted one or another of my friends to mention someone we knew who it applied to.

Archived comment by Catri (f):
I misspent a healthy chunk of my youth at the drive-in and the only thing I remember, aside from the concession ad cartoon with the weenie jumping into the bun, is that the first feature always seemed to be Cannonball Run. Oh, the good old days!

As for rural addresses; an old, dear friend mine received her mail at Mile 915, Alaska Highway. It doesn't get much more rural than that.

Archived comment by Jon:
Now children, stop fighting!

Sorry, couldn't resist.

Archived comment by ParU:
No tim. It's for the same reason that people found Archie Bunker funny, cause they knew people like him and he played the character so well.

Jerry Lewis was funny in the 50's and 60's, honest. Of course it's just hilarious that the French adore him.

There's a woman I know who's Turkish who says that Michael Jackson is HUGE over there and doesn't understand why people here don't adore him.

Michael Jackson, Turkey - make up your own joke here.

Archived comment by tim:
So I should go meet stupid rednecks so I can find Foxworthy funny?
Ummmmm
I'll stay in Boston thanks anyway.
That's like going to france to find Jerry Lewis funny.

Archived comment by ParU:
See tim, that's where you're too provincial. Both are funny. Foxworthy is just funny to those people who know people like the ones he makes fun of.

You need to get out of Boston once in a while.

Archived comment by tim:
...And makes me wonder about the definition of " comedian".
Lewis Black is funny
Jeff Foxworthy never made me even crack a smile.

Archived comment by Saint:
There still is a comedian named Jeff Foxworthy, Unit. And he's still working that same bit, which may explain why people refer to him in the past tense...

Archived comment by ParU:
Noyock - there used to be a comedian (Jeff Foxworthy) who's most famous bit was: You might be a Redneck if:

Directions to your house, end with 'turn-off the paved road'

Archived comment by Noyock:
I'd estimate that about 75% of my high school population had Rural Route addresses. My city friends always find that very amusing. Mind you, even rural routes / highway addresses seem very civilized compared to one friend of mine from northern Ontario. Her address is, basically, her lot number; that is, the number that was assigned to the lot by the surveyor when it was originally staked out. It doesn't happen to border on a road or anything, so it's just something like "Lot #xxxxx, Ontario". I guess they don't really need more than that, since they pick up their mail in the nearest town anyway. (After all, who's going to deliver mail to a place without a road?)

Archived comment by ParU:
You be a city boy, ain't ya Matt?

You need to get out more.

Archived comment by Trent:
Augh, I completely missed seeing The Italian Job. I was going to see it at the drive-in (along with The Matrix: Reloaded) but for some reason we ended up not going. & now 2 Fast 2 Furious has been there for two weeks, paired with only dumb-comedy flicks. Grrrr....

Archived comment by Matt:
The address has a highway number in it? That's utterly bizarre. I mean, it's just... wrong.

And no, I really don't want to know the logistics behind it. It's a close cousin to those "Rural Route" addresses I've heard about. Inconceivable. Just plain inconceivable.

Archived comment by Saint:
Daddy Day-Care, followed by the Italian Job. I feel betrayed--I mean, Daddy Day-Care? In what world is that a good drive-in movie? Whole damn society is going to hell...

Anyway--if you don't already know, the box-office opens at 7:45, and the first feature starts at 9:00. Address is 26126 US Hwy 160.

Archived comment by mars_mom:
Hey Saint, What's showing in Durango this week-end?? I'll be in that area over the holiday.. Well actually not until the 7th. I really miss our drive-in. We had one here (S.E. KS) until just about 2 yrs ago.. My fantasy was to own it and keep it going for many years but the owner sold it to the city to tear down and put up a school.. I was just a little peeved over that.

Back to the Oompa Loompa topic.. the college is doing WWATCF for their summer childrens theater and my 2 girls are going to be Oompas...I'm sure I'll be sick of the thing before it's all over. I think the movie is a little creepy but my girls love it.

Ok, enough of my rambling..... move along folks, nothing more to see here

Archived comment by Saint:
There's still a drive-in in Durango (40 miles away), and I keep thinking I'll go, but stuff comes up. It's an old-fashioned drive-in: they show action movies and horror flicks, screw the family entertainment. Just two months ago, the screen of the drive-in here in Cortez was finally torn down; it's been closed for over ten years.

The first movie I can remember seeing was at the drive-in. I don't know what the title was, or if anyone recognizably famous was in it, and I never would have seen it at all except that my parents thought my brother and I were sleeping (I think I was three--the second movie I remember any of is Star Wars, and that came to our theater when I was just barely four). It involved a rented beach house, two women who were naked for most of the flick, an assortment of delivery guys and girls, and a garbage bag full of pot that just happened to wash up on shore after a smuggler's boat tanked. And no, it wasn't a porno, though it had to be second cousin to one.

Archived comment by ParU:
daen - drive ins are cool. Make sure you go there with a cute guy (and timbo doesn't count!).

Archived comment by daen:
Considering what's been in my trunk until recently, I don't think you want to do that, tim.

Archived comment by tim:
Can I hide in your trunk daen??
( I can't say anything without it looking suggestive apparently)

Archived comment by daen:
There's a drive-in about twenty minutes from my place. It's been shut down a few times, but someone always digs up the money to revive it.

I should go there sometime.

Archived comment by Noyock:
Ah, the drive-in. Fond memories of hiding people in the car trunk / under the seats / under a tarpaulin in the back of a pickup / etc. in order to save money. They never really bothered to search us cause we'd always show up just before the show was about to start and there was a crowd. One of the few things I miss about my hometown - I don't think there's a drive-in in Montreal, and I don't really have many friends with cars anymore anyway. Admittedly, I miss our beach a lot more, especially on days like this, but, yeah. Drive-in = good.

Archived comment by ParU:
Sounds much better than he was hungover (the usually 'real' story). I thought Tom Hanks in A League of Their Own played that era of ballplayer quite well.

Archived comment by marinerd:
My favorite was an outfielder who once dreamed he saw a spider, and jumped up and fell down some stairs! And he didn't even see one, he just dreamed that he had!

Archived comment by ParU:
marinerd - that's not as odd as the one that Jeff Kent did last year in Spring Training. He said he fell off the roof of his truck while washing it, despite having been seen 'popping wheelies' on his motorcycle and then being rushed to the hospital.

Washing them thar trucks is dangerous.

Archived comment by marinerd:
Yes, hypo, we were mightily smited over the weekend. See the namelink for a funny story almost related to that. Injuries + humor = can't go wrong!

Archived comment by Lethran:
Lenny Bruce thought Liberace couldn't be gay because he was too obvious.

Archived comment by Jon:
Froot bats = good. Think of it as a welcome basket, only it flaps around and eats mosquitoes for you.

Archived comment by Paul:
100th post! Woo-hoo!

That is all.

Archived comment by hypoxic:
heh yes I did in fact :)

And also to put the smack down on your boys. Go Pads! (I need something to cheer about. Man they suck this year.)

Archived comment by marinerd:
hypo guy, when you left Seattle did you have to take the warm weather with you? It's been cool and rainy ever since!

Archived comment by Paul:
*chuckle* Yeah, I thought it was pretty hilarious that after he died they said that one of Liberace's greatest fears was that people might find out he was gay. I mean, even when I was a kid and didn't know what gay meant I could see that he was rather effeminate. Between his mannerisms and those godawful outfits I don't see how anyone could have thought otherwise.

Archived comment by Nicholas:
You're right, I think, Liberace.

Archived comment by Obsidiana:
I dunno, daen..."Scary" is not the first word that springs to my mind when I think of David Bowie and his tight pants. ^.~