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What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
November 22, 2022 at 6:01 am
In The Princess Bride scene where Miracle Max is examining Westley, that’s not Cary Elwes on the table. After five takes during which Elwes kept breaking up over Billy Crystal’s delivery, he was replaced with a mannequin.

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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
November 22, 2022 at 8:11 am
(November 21, 2022 at 11:47 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: During the First World War, British naval officer Captain Sir Mansfield George Smith-Cumming proposed that soldiers use their semen as invisible ink.

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Invisible =!= undetectable  Blush
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
November 22, 2022 at 9:19 am
Sean Connery could eat some really spicy food

Quote:Sean Connery, then at the peak of his 007 fame, came out to visit his wife, Diane Cilento, who was cast as the female lead. We decided to have a dinner for them at the Tack Room, which back then was a very famous restaurant in Tucson. It had these long wooden tables, and they’d put out these plates of terribly hot peppers that would put a flame in your mouth. Even if you bit off just a sliver, it would bring tears to your eyes and clear out your sinuses for a month.

Sean was at one end of the table, I was at the other, when I saw him grab a big handful of these peppers, pop them in his mouth, and start to chew. It all happened so quickly that I was immobilized. I waited for the top of his head to lift off his neck two or three inches, separate from his ears, and for his chair to fall over backwards while he ran for a swimming pool to submerge the fire.

But nothing happened.

Sean just kept speaking normally through this onslaught of heat. And I stared at him with the sort of reverence and admiration that I might reserve for a bullfighter or kamikaze pilot. I’d never been so awed; it was spiritual. I don’t remember whether I ever had the chance to tell Sean, but I came to regard him as one of the toughest men on the face of the earth.

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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
November 22, 2022 at 11:18 am
(November 22, 2022 at 8:11 am)Deesse23 Wrote:
(November 21, 2022 at 11:47 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: During the First World War, British naval officer Captain Sir Mansfield George Smith-Cumming proposed that soldiers use their semen as invisible ink.

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Invisible =!= undetectable  Blush

There are urban myths that the plan was abandoned because of the stench.

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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
November 22, 2022 at 11:23 am
(November 22, 2022 at 6:01 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: In The Princess Bride scene where Miracle Max is examining Westley, that’s not Cary Elwes on the table. After five takes during which Elwes kept breaking up over Billy Crystal’s delivery, he was replaced with a mannequin.

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I must be the only person who has never watched that movie.

My oldest is aghast that I haven't.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
November 22, 2022 at 11:25 am
(November 22, 2022 at 11:23 am)arewethereyet Wrote:
(November 22, 2022 at 6:01 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: In The Princess Bride scene where Miracle Max is examining Westley, that’s not Cary Elwes on the table. After five takes during which Elwes kept breaking up over Billy Crystal’s delivery, he was replaced with a mannequin.

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I must be the only person who has never watched that movie.

My oldest is aghast that I haven't.

That you’ve never seen The Princess Bride is - wait for it - inconceivable.

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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
November 22, 2022 at 11:32 am
I have not.

I have seen a zillion memes based on the movie but have never actually watched it.

Hey, that could be an interesting thread...
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
November 22, 2022 at 12:08 pm
I haven't seen it either, and I wouldn't recognize a meme from it, if my life depended on it.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
November 22, 2022 at 12:57 pm
(November 22, 2022 at 11:25 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(November 22, 2022 at 11:23 am)arewethereyet Wrote: I must be the only person who has never watched that movie.

My oldest is aghast that I haven't.

That you’ve never seen The Princess Bride is - wait for it - inconceivable.

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You keep using that word.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
November 22, 2022 at 1:06 pm
(November 22, 2022 at 12:57 pm)Jackalope Wrote:
(November 22, 2022 at 11:25 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: That you’ve never seen The Princess Bride is - wait for it - inconceivable.

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You keep using that word.

The word is inconceivable. You killed the joke and the joke it riffed off of. Prepare to die.
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