MuckRaker96 said:

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SF2004 said:

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Not reading 8 pages, all good soundtracks that I saw.

I am just here to ask if we ever found out what the bull**** in the culdesac was all about?

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I heard a bunch of people outside my house speaking a foreign language so I walked outside to see what was going on. The cul-de-sac had become a de facto parking lot full of cars and a house about 4 away from mine on the other side of the cul-de-sac had its garage open and multiple Indian women inside serving food from a massive buffet line. The front door of the home was open and people were streaming in and out like ants and there was some fairly loud music playing. This was all in the middle of the afternoon on a weekday, mind you.

The entire street was also lined with cars on both sides. But the real capper was that there were cones in front of my driveway blocking it off and a sign in my front yard that read "VIP COMPLIMENTARY PARKING". There was one across the street in another yard as well. There were two guys who were doing said VIP complimentary parking for people attending the to-do at the other house.

They saw me and waved in a friendly manner until I picked up the first cone and threw it into the street. They started to walk rapidly toward me as I picked up the cone and kicked it with my robot leg into the street, then started running when I took their hand-painted sign and threw it as hard as I could at them.

This made them angry and they threatened to call the police. I said I can do you one better, there's a state trooper who lives on the other side of this street. I'll go get him and he can decide what to do. Suddenly, calling the police sounded like a bad idea to them. They said they had been hired for a private party - the reception for an Indian wedding - and didn't realize I was home. Which of course, is no justification for turning my street into a parking lot and putting **** in my yard.

They took their signs and cones and put them away. And said it was all just a misunderstanding. I came back in and was halfway through the tracks for that day when I heard a car in the driveway. Wondering why my wife was home 3 hours early I went out to find an Indian couple had parked their Lexus in my driveway and waved and the man said "It's OK! We will move it soon! We are just waiting for the attendant!"

I am not a violent person and have not been involved in fisticuffs in more than 20 years, but I told Mr. Lexus that if left his car there, I would smash it with a baseball bat. Then they got back in and left.

Epilogue: When my wife got home they had put the sign back up in the middle of the street right in front of our house. My wife had just gone back to work and had a terrible day. She took one look at what was going on and ran that sign right the **** over.

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Well that wasn't something I expected to read in the middle of this thread. But seriously, what the hell???

That's a great damn story.

My favorite part was "my robot leg".

I nominate the last minute of this track...

DVC2010 said:

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MuckRaker96 said:

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SF2004 said:

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Not reading 8 pages, all good soundtracks that I saw.

I am just here to ask if we ever found out what the bull**** in the culdesac was all about?

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I heard a bunch of people outside my house speaking a foreign language so I walked outside to see what was going on. The cul-de-sac had become a de facto parking lot full of cars and a house about 4 away from mine on the other side of the cul-de-sac had its garage open and multiple Indian women inside serving food from a massive buffet line. The front door of the home was open and people were streaming in and out like ants and there was some fairly loud music playing. This was all in the middle of the afternoon on a weekday, mind you.

The entire street was also lined with cars on both sides. But the real capper was that there were cones in front of my driveway blocking it off and a sign in my front yard that read "VIP COMPLIMENTARY PARKING". There was one across the street in another yard as well. There were two guys who were doing said VIP complimentary parking for people attending the to-do at the other house.

They saw me and waved in a friendly manner until I picked up the first cone and threw it into the street. They started to walk rapidly toward me as I picked up the cone and kicked it with my robot leg into the street, then started running when I took their hand-painted sign and threw it as hard as I could at them.

This made them angry and they threatened to call the police. I said I can do you one better, there's a state trooper who lives on the other side of this street. I'll go get him and he can decide what to do. Suddenly, calling the police sounded like a bad idea to them. They said they had been hired for a private party - the reception for an Indian wedding - and didn't realize I was home. Which of course, is no justification for turning my street into a parking lot and putting **** in my yard.

They took their signs and cones and put them away. And said it was all just a misunderstanding. I came back in and was halfway through the tracks for that day when I heard a car in the driveway. Wondering why my wife was home 3 hours early I went out to find an Indian couple had parked their Lexus in my driveway and waved and the man said "It's OK! We will move it soon! We are just waiting for the attendant!"

I am not a violent person and have not been involved in fisticuffs in more than 20 years, but I told Mr. Lexus that if left his car there, I would smash it with a baseball bat. Then they got back in and left.

Epilogue: When my wife got home they had put the sign back up in the middle of the street right in front of our house. My wife had just gone back to work and had a terrible day. She took one look at what was going on and ran that sign right the **** over.

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Next bracket: choose the soundtrack for this story.

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The soundtrack to Falling Down

Brian Earl Spilner said:

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That's a great damn story.

My favorite part was "my robot leg".

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When people with no social skills (mostly adults, kids don't seem to GAF) ask what happened to my leg I tell them I was part of a disbanded government program to turn people into robots to fight Al Kaeda. That usually gets the most awkward looks and reactions.

A few years ago I would tell people my leg had been torn off by a rhinoceres that escaped the zoo, but then one of my daughters told her kindergarten class that story and it got back to my wife and I had to apologize to the teacher for scaring the children indirectly.

Since Two Towers might have been eliminated, just want to highlight my two favorite musical moments from that movie:

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Eowyn's Theme, and then that amazing Rohan theme on the fiddle when our fellowship members arrive at Edoras, and the flag ripping off.

2.

I intentionally voted a second time. I make no excuse. I apologize for trivializing Muck's time and effort.

I am at the mercy of the court.

shaynew1 said:

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I intentionally voted a second time. I make no excuse. I apologize for trivializing Muck's time and effort.

I am at the mercy of the court.

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Well kudos for your honest, but someone else voted 6 times in a row so they got voided down to 1

Poll will close in about 1-1/2 hours. If you don't vote, don't ***** when your favorite gets left out of the Field of 64. So far, Groups Y and Z have made something very clear: Spilner and I don't know anything about people's tastes in movie music.

I just read the warning above about IP address... and I might be your guilty party on the multiple votes - however it wasn't illegitimate really.

Votes from devices on the same Wifi will show the same IP address.

I was sitting around at home with family listening to the tracks for group Y cuz I could not decide. And my wife said why the hell do you keep listening to Star Trek and Jaws music??? I said I can't decide which is better and I gotta vote. She said what are the other movies and I told her both groups. She said easy choice - Jaws and Man From Snowy River.

My adult kids said "can we vote"..... I said yeah I guess so. So I texted out the link to the group text chain and everyone voted.

My adult kids said they only knew Man From Snowy River in the second group and never saw the other movies - so you probably got a lot of Man From Snowy River and various movies for the other group from my IP. and I will admit to actually voting twice cuz I never could decide so I split my votes for Jaws and Star Trek and the other group was Man From Snowy River on both.

I guess I won't invoke my family in the vote any more if it is a problem. Never had before it was just happenstance.

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and I will admit to actually voting twice cuz I never could decide so I split my votes for Jaws and Star Trek and the other group was Man From Snowy River on both.

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The split vote I guess is possible within the same group, but doubling up on the same movie screws with things...

Is this you?

Not really. Voting twice in one group puts the other options at an unfair disadvantage.

Also, ZJS -- I'm curious how your adult children have never seen Superman: The Movie.

This is a serious problem.

Brian Earl Spilner said:

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Also, ZJS -- I'm curious how your adult children have never seen Superman: The Movie.

This is a serious problem.

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I have never seen it. I dont care for superman.

Brian Earl Spilner said:

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Also, ZJS -- I'm curious how your adult children have never seen Superman: The Movie.

This is a serious problem.

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Probably cuz it is not one I ever pushed on them. I'm kinda meh on Superman myself. It was good but not great.

Most of their movies from my era are pretty much every 80s movies plus Star Wars and Jaws and Animal House (obviously when they were older) which are the only 70s movies I probably made them watch. I didn't even make them watch Rocky.

they've also seen the recent Superman reboots but those did not enthrall them so they had no interest I suppose.

powerbelly said:

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I have never seen it. I dont care for superman.

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Brian Earl Spilner said:

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Not really. Voting twice in one group puts the other options at an unfair disadvantage.

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We're grading by % though right, not volume of votes at all if I remember right. So voting for 2 options in a group of 4 just basically makes you have a half vote on each.

The Winner of Group Y, just missing a top 4 seed, is Jaws.

Group Z ends up a tie between Superman and The Man From Snowy River

With one group to go, John Williams now has 5 of the top 6 seeds. Kinda mindblowing. And the one he doesn't have uses music that he composed.

The new cutoff % for the Field of 64 is 15.6%. Three giant box office hits were knocked out of the field today.

The final group will be online shortly. Tomorrow starts the Round of 64.

MuckRaker96 said:

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Group Z ends up a tie between Superman and The Man From Snowy River

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This is shocking to me. In my life, I've never heard someone hum the theme from Snowy River. Superman's is an all-timer and beloved by all. If a dark horse emerged from that group and it had been Rudy, I could have seen that. It is really popular with folks who were in school during the 90's.

I listened to all 3 tracks since I've actually never seen the film... What am I missing with Snowy River? Does it have a big following?

Group AA!
VOTE NOW
Spilner, I apologize, but I changed Augie's Band to the Flag Parade by personal preference.



The Phantom Menace




The Patriot




Apollo 13




Glory

Yoda said:

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MuckRaker96 said:

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Group Z ends up a tie between Superman and The Man From Snowy River

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This is shocking to me. In my life, I've never heard someone hum the theme from Snowy River. Superman's is an all-timer and beloved by all. If a dark horse emerged from that group and it had been Rudy, I could have seen that. It is really popular with folks who were in school during the 90's.

I listened to all 3 tracks since I've actually never seen the film... What am I missing with Snowy River? Does it have a big following?

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I have zero idea what the Man from Snowy River is or what it's about or what year it came out. I thought Superman would beat Jurassic Park for highest vote %. Instead its % is tied for 25th.

It's a conspiracy. One big damn conspiracy.




Oh, and group AA is loaded. Not a bad pick among 'em.

I have hummed the man from snowy river. Usually immediately when a set of cattle starts giving me problems. I like to describe it as triumphant.