On 6/25/2026 8:43 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
On 6/25/2026 9:55 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
The True Melissa <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> wrote:
Verily, in article <111jcos$3qs32$1@dont-email.me>, did
arthur@alum.calberkeley.org deliver unto us this message:
The movie didn't try very hard. It was just announced on the news that >>>>> their class had never attended enough days, so they had to go back or >>>>> their diplomas would be revoked.
On 6/24/2026 7:01 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
The True Melissa <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> wrote:
Verily, in article <UBI20260623@dont-email.me>, did weberm@polaris.net >>>>>>>> deliver unto us this message:
What did you watch?
I started to watch Never Change!, a movie in which thirtysomethings are
compelled to do two more weeks of high school.
How do you compel thirty-somethings to do two more weeks of high school? >>>>>
You know, I don’t think that one time in almost 50 years. I’ve been >>>> required to prove I had a high school or college diploma. I don’t even know
where they are or how I could or if I even got them.
And how would they possibly revoke them? Send a telegram to everybody
everywhere?
Later this year, I start my epic Doctor Who marathon. :-)
How epic? Are you starting with "An Unearthly Child" and watching the >>>>> whole thing?
I have a blu-ray box set of new Who from Christopher Eccleston's 9th
doctor through Jodie Whittaker's 13th Doctor. Watching those episodes
was my primary motivation, but I also have lots of old Who too.
I put together the list a while back. I'll start with the two 60s
movies,
Those are fun
then the first episode on the list is The Green Death (1973).
That is probably the earliest Who I have in my collection. But I did
make a note to myself to check the availability of some earlier episodes >>> that I don't own.
I also recently upgraded a lot of the DVDs to blu-ray. So I'll be
watching select episodes old Who working my way up to the box set then I >>> will *try* to watch all of the New Who.
I will also sync up and watch my blu-rays of "Torchwood," which I
I was surprised Torchwood showed up in Eccleston.
Captain Jack showed up with Eccleston. Actually, I think that might
have been the first good episode of the season. It was rough going for
a while, then it suddenly got really good.
I need to see if that’s
available anywhere.
What
haven't watched in about 15 years. And a lot of the new Who I haven't
watched since around the time of the original airing.
I put the list together a long time ago. I was looking at all the box
sets I had sitting around, many still in the shrink wrap, and started to >>> set dates to watch them. Before I watch Who, I have Battlestar
Galactica on the list, and later "Farscape," "SeaQuest" (stop laughing,
some of the episodes were good)
I enjoy some of it, but I’m hard-pressed to think of any that were good
Good is a relative term. I'm pretty sure several are entertaining. Or
um, watchable? Look, I paid money for the set. I'm *gonna* watch at
least a few episodes! LOL
, "The X-Files" and "Freaks and Geeks"Yeah, it's easy enough to make a list and set a date. It's another
In random order?
I actually spent time figuring out a chronological watch order with
original air dates.
I’m struggling to get through the Clara episodes on the Amazon. It’s a real
mess.
things when 15 minuets into a random episode from the 70s I start
getting bored. But I think every episode has at least 1 sometimes
multiple commentary tracks. Worst case scenario, I pop in a disc, turn
on the commentary track and background noise it. But a lot of those episodes I know I haven't watched in 20 or 30 years and just want to see them again.
Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
. . .
I will also sync up and watch my blu-rays of "Torchwood," which I
haven't watched in about 15 years.
Torchwood was maddening. It was often entertaining, but RTD was shoving
his personal sexual politics so hard into what we got on screen that he deliberately angered the audience. The sexual retconning of Jack was
absurd. Introduced on Doctor Who, they pushed hard that he was was a stereotype hero character with irresistable sexual appeal to women. But
no, he was bisexual, as if an audience rejecting gay characters would
not reject a bisexual. On Torchwood, he got retconned as gay.
I still despise that scene in the first season finale, which was
otherwise entertaining, during his wedding reception dance. He rejected
a dance with Gwen. They'd know each other a year and she's celebrating
his wedding. Why would he refuse a dance?
Now, he's mysogynistic.
Then there was an episode in series 2 in which he became a Christ-like figure, dying repeatedly trapped for centuries, running out of air, then finally released and he's not a completely mad blubbering idiot.
If I ever rewatched, it would probably be Series 3 Children of Earth
because Peter Capaldi was so good.
If you ever want a Peter Capaldi marathon, track down what he's best
known for prior to Doctor Who. He was Malcolm Tucker on The Thick of It,
an absolutely nasty political comedy twisting the knife as only British humour can. There was a post-series theatrical film, In the Loop, an
American remake no one at all watched. Veep on HBO is the same style of
humor created by the same writer.
Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
. . .
I will also sync up and watch my blu-rays of "Torchwood," which I
haven't watched in about 15 years.
Torchwood was maddening. It was often entertaining, but RTD was shoving
his personal sexual politics so hard into what we got on screen that he deliberately angered the audience. The sexual retconning of Jack was
absurd. Introduced on Doctor Who, they pushed hard that he was was a stereotype hero character with irresistable sexual appeal to women. But
no, he was bisexual, as if an audience rejecting gay characters would
not reject a bisexual. On Torchwood, he got retconned as gay.
I still despise that scene in the first season finale, which was
otherwise entertaining, during his wedding reception dance. He rejected
a dance with Gwen. They'd know each other a year and she's celebrating
his wedding. Why would he refuse a dance?
Now, he's mysogynistic.
Then there was an episode in series 2 in which he became a Christ-like figure, dying repeatedly trapped for centuries, running out of air, then finally released and he's not a completely mad blubbering idiot.
did ahk@chinet.com deliver unto us this message:
Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
. . .
I will also sync up and watch my blu-rays of "Torchwood," which I >>>haven't watched in about 15 years.
Torchwood was maddening. It was often entertaining, but RTD was shoving
his personal sexual politics so hard into what we got on screen that he >>deliberately angered the audience. The sexual retconning of Jack was >>absurd. Introduced on Doctor Who, they pushed hard that he was was a >>stereotype hero character with irresistable sexual appeal to women. But
no, he was bisexual, as if an audience rejecting gay characters would
not reject a bisexual. On Torchwood, he got retconned as gay.
RTD said his image of the character was that Jack would sleep with
anyone and was pretty much banging his way through time and space. I
thought he was smarmy and off-putting from his first appearance.
He was still officially pansexual on Torchwood, wasn't he? He was in a >relationship with Ianto, but he was never labeled gay, not that I
recall.
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You know, I don’t think that one time in almost 50 years. I’ve been >required to prove I had a high school or college diploma. I don’t even know >where they are or how I could or if I even got them.
On Thu, 25 Jun 2026 09:55:27 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>
wrote:
You know, I donât think that one time in almost 50 years. Iâve been
required to prove I had a high school or college diploma. I donât even know
where they are or how I could or if I even got them.
I have no idea where my high school or undergraduate diplomas are or
if I still have them - but my masters diploma is on the wall about 4'
from my monitor (it's about 20% bigger than my computer monitor and
one year my wife splurged on the super snazzy diploma frame and gave
me a heck of a surprise when I saw it hung on the wall above my
computer some years ago. I've got a similar diploma from an
international sports organization - but that's as a referee not a
player - and another framed letter from our mayor which they sent me
when they heard about that award)
On the other hand I've attended my 50 year high school reunion and
they didn't throw me out ...
The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:
On Thu, 25 Jun 2026 09:55:27 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>
wrote:
You know, I donât think that one time in almost 50 years. Iâve been
required to prove I had a high school or college diploma. I donât even
know
where they are or how I could or if I even got them.
I have no idea where my high school or undergraduate diplomas are or
if I still have them - but my masters diploma is on the wall about 4'
from my monitor (it's about 20% bigger than my computer monitor and
one year my wife splurged on the super snazzy diploma frame and gave
me a heck of a surprise when I saw it hung on the wall above my
computer some years ago. I've got a similar diploma from an
international sports organization - but that's as a referee not a
player - and another framed letter from our mayor which they sent me
when they heard about that award)
On the other hand I've attended my 50 year high school reunion and
they didn't throw me out ...
I recall my grade school graduation and we all marched up on stage to get handed our diplomas and the librarian was standing behind the curtain and said that I didn’t get a diploma because I had unpaid library fines. So I got the folder, but it was empty. It turned out there were no unpaid
library fines. The guy was just a worthless lying sack of pig shit. I have
no idea what his problem with me was. I have no idea if they ever sent it
to Mom or not.
On Jul 6, 2026 at 9:49:50 AM PDT, "anim8rfsk" <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:
The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:
On Thu, 25 Jun 2026 09:55:27 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>
wrote:
You know, I donât think that one time in almost 50 years. Iâve been
required to prove I had a high school or college diploma. I donât even
know
where they are or how I could or if I even got them.
I have no idea where my high school or undergraduate diplomas are or
if I still have them - but my masters diploma is on the wall about 4'
from my monitor (it's about 20% bigger than my computer monitor and
one year my wife splurged on the super snazzy diploma frame and gave
me a heck of a surprise when I saw it hung on the wall above my
computer some years ago. I've got a similar diploma from an
international sports organization - but that's as a referee not a
player - and another framed letter from our mayor which they sent me
when they heard about that award)
On the other hand I've attended my 50 year high school reunion and
they didn't throw me out ...
I recall my grade school graduation and we all marched up on stage to get
handed our diplomas and the librarian was standing behind the curtain and
said that I didn’t get a diploma because I had unpaid library fines. So I >> got the folder, but it was empty. It turned out there were no unpaid
library fines. The guy was just a worthless lying sack of pig shit. I have >> no idea what his problem with me was. I have no idea if they ever sent it
to Mom or not.
They probably took it out to the desert and lit it on fire along with your mother's ballot.
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