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Comment on: Not So Friendly Fire

Networks Feel the Pinch

34 Comments
Friday, April, 03, 2009 11:00 AM BrianR writes:

Hahahahaa


No wonder you're trying to supplement your social security and 401(k)..... those sound like pretty expensive gadgets!


It's funny ... in a "great minds think alike" ironic way ... that I'm just putting the finishing touches on my next essay, which also revolves humorously around Hollyweird.

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Friday, April, 03, 2009 11:12 AM Sgt Relic writes:

Brian

That is coincidence! I don't usually write about entertainment but lately some of the stories have be too outrageous to ignore.

Speaking of outrageous, this morning I caught a bit of Imus and Geraldo "I'm Nowhere Near the Front" Rivera having a mutual Obamagasm. Thank God I hadn't just eaten!
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Friday, April, 03, 2009 12:32 PM BrianR writes:

HAhahahaha


Just the very thought gives me the dry heaves....


Yet somehow leavened with chuckles, on second thought.

Geraldo "what's in Capone's Crypt" Rivera, coupled with Don "nappy-headed hos" Imus, spreading the Wesson Oil and K-Y in welcome for Obambi.


There's a cartoon in there, somewhere.
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Friday, April, 03, 2009 1:15 PM BrianR writes:

Sarge


I just put it up, man.

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Friday, April, 03, 2009 3:10 PM buck writes:

I Especially Liked

The 2nd episode where you sneak aboard Air Force 1 and disguise the rear exit door as an entrance to the footbath...
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Friday, April, 03, 2009 3:17 PM buck writes:

Or the 3rd Episode

Where you financed your next mission selling counterfeit tickets to the Stevie Wonder/Ray Charles Benefit Tennis Match and Teddy Kennedy Memorial Mid Alantic Concrete Canoe Derby
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Friday, April, 03, 2009 3:17 PM buck writes:

Or the 3rd Episode

Where you financed your next mission selling counterfeit tickets to the Stevie Wonder/Ray Charles Benefit Tennis Match and Teddy Kennedy Memorial Mid Alantic Concrete Canoe Derby
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Friday, April, 03, 2009 3:18 PM buck writes:

Or the 3rd Episode

Where you financed your next mission selling counterfeit tickets to the Stevie Wonder/Ray Charles Benefit Tennis Match and Teddy Kennedy Memorial Mid Alantic Concrete Canoe Derby
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Friday, April, 03, 2009 5:55 PM Ray writes:

I didn't know...

...television had any "A" list stars.

Must come on a station I don't get.
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Friday, April, 03, 2009 6:30 PM Sgt Relic writes:

Brian

If I could draw I'd take a whack at that one but I doubt I could put it up on TH.
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Friday, April, 03, 2009 6:30 PM Sgt Relic writes:

Brian

On my way over.
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Friday, April, 03, 2009 6:39 PM Sgt Relic writes:

buck

We're going have to get you a gig on the development staff.

We also need help with stunt people. It seems there are plenty of seniors capable of doing the gags but only once and then it's "my back is broken" or "my hip replacement popped out".

Bunch of malingering whiney babies!
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Friday, April, 03, 2009 6:47 PM Sgt Relic writes:

Ray

I suppose the criteria for "A" list is not so much talent as it is your standing in the leftist loony-sphere or perhaps how much you donate to MoveOn, I don't know.

The article mentioned Candace Bergen as being too expensive.

I work cheaper! The last time I had a job shooting people for a living I was making $250 mo.
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Friday, April, 03, 2009 7:09 PM BrianR writes:

Guys


The "A list" consists of the people who have names bankable for big budget productions. People whose names attached to a project are more important than the name of the project itself. Stars who have a fan base that will pay to see them reading the phone book, and assure funds procurement from the studios and other investors.

Hanks, Clooney, Eastwood, Duvall, Costner (on and off), Spielberg (they're not just actors), Lucas, Harrison Ford, like that.

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Friday, April, 03, 2009 7:12 PM BrianR writes:

BTW, Sarge


I remember those days well, and that $250/mo included Hazardous Duty pay, too.

When I got back to The World, I was an E-5; and because I was an MI Agent, I drew a housing and civilian clothing allowance, bringing my total to about $400/month every time the Eagle shat.

Man... we used to get paid once a month, and I was always broke by the 30th. I used to think that if ever in my LIFE I could make $1000/month, I'd be so damned rich I wouldn't know what to do with that much moolah.



Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!
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Friday, April, 03, 2009 7:21 PM crossbow writes:

sarge

good stuff! hey I am sure all of Wal Mart will be watching!!
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Friday, April, 03, 2009 7:39 PM Gray Ghost writes:

You Must Have an Episode Concerning....

the use of a flintlock, patched round ball, and blackpowder for the assination(sp) weapon, Sarge.

Great weapon, because of the "patched" round ball, there are no rifling marks on the ball. If you make the patch out of the correct material, it will completely burn up after leaving the barrel.

Also, Flintocks HAVE NEVER been recorded in any way (no serial numbers, not registered, etc.).

Can you imagine the FBI and ATF boys trying to track you and your team of "gray beards" after you make your "hit" with a flintlock?
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Friday, April, 03, 2009 8:08 PM Sgt Relic writes:

Brian

I confess that I knew what A-listers really are but I liked my explanation better. The article actually covered it.

It sounds like you got in on the post '68 pay raises. I was an E-6 with a wife but I didn't hold the rank long enough for it to be permanent for medical discharge purposes so I was discharged as an E-5.

A thousand a month was beyond by wildest dreams, now it's a an average car repair.

You're right, broke was a way of life and now it looks as if it may be again!
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Friday, April, 03, 2009 8:09 PM Sgt Relic writes:

crossbow

We should be big in the retirement homes!
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Friday, April, 03, 2009 8:21 PM Sgt Relic writes:

GG

I've got just the weapon for that assignment. I have a 3 banded Springfield I bought at a reenactor's get together. Cash money, no records, completely untraceable with a 19th century bullet mold.
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Friday, April, 03, 2009 10:56 PM Gray Ghost writes:

3 Banded Springfield Works for Me

Does it have a Maynard priming system (a roll of caps like in a toy gun)? Or is it a standard percussion cap model?

The minie will have rifling marks on it unless you use your "cartridge" paper to enclose the bullet. And even then when the base of the minie expands, it will be marked.

The patched round ball is the best way to eliminate rifling marks.
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Saturday, April, 04, 2009 12:37 AM BrianR writes:

Yeah


I went in Feb 69.

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Saturday, April, 04, 2009 6:28 AM Sgt Relic writes:

Ghost

I can see ATF now. "The weapon was last used at Gettysburg so we're looking for a really old guy."

It's an 1861 Springfield which I don't believe was ever produced with a Maynard system. It uses standard, scoop and fumble percussion caps.
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Saturday, April, 04, 2009 6:52 AM Sgt Relic writes:

Brian

I know pay went up somewhat, right after I was discharged of course, but you were still getting that same princely $65 dollar hostile fire pay. What a great benny!

When I served in a Marine Detachment on a ship we got $7 dollars a month sea pay because we were stationed on a base that moved around. 7 bucks was a lot of money in '65!

I could buy 7 cartons of smokes at a dollar a carton sea stores prices. Coincidentally, $7 is exactly how much per carton the new excise tax adds.

Is this progress?
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Saturday, April, 04, 2009 10:58 AM skep41 writes:

I'm THERE Dude!

That show sounds like a hit! If you need someone to do the special FX look no farther. If the nets were savvy at all they would have an anti-tax, anti-PC show that was FUNNY! Unfortunately libs have no imagination and a pretty shallow sense of humor.
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Saturday, April, 04, 2009 11:47 AM BrianR writes:

Yeah, Sarge

$2/day hostile fire pay. Yipee! Rolling in bucks!

Interestingly enough, though, I was able to save my pay -- hell, there wasn't anything to spend it on -- and when I got back bought a brand new Datsun (in those days) 240Z (that was the first year they came out). Out the door tax and license at a little over 3 grand.

Drove it across country to my next duty station -- Presidio San Fran -- and did I get the looks, because nobody'd ever seen one. It was super-cool!

Real babe-magnet, too; plus being a straight guy in San Fran sure had its bennies. I had a blast!

BTW, the new excise tax actually added $10/carton to the price (I just ordered another shipment from the Indians in NY).

A buck a pack.
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Saturday, April, 04, 2009 6:07 PM Sgt Relic writes:

Skep

Consider it a done deal. Times are tough right now so you may have share a limo.

You make a good point. Smart money wouldn't leave so many potential viewers sitting on the sidelines together with all that advertising revenue.

A smart network would capitalize on the bitter clingers, but nobody ever accused the alphabet channels of being smart!
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Saturday, April, 04, 2009 6:24 PM Sgt Relic writes:

Brian

I buy Native's, a product of the Mohawk Nation, which were $15 dollars a carton until last week. They raised the price by $7 dollars a carton in Carolina. The increase was .61 cents a pack but they rounded up.

I bought 20 cartons last weekend before the price increase. I only live 12 miles from the North Carolina line where there is a cigarette store that straddles the state line.

They have a line of blue tiles running down the middle of the store. Cheap cigarettes on one side and the stuff that's cheaper in Va on the other with the lotto station on both sides so they can sell both state's lottery tickets.

Does CA have some kind of built-in escalator on state tax?

BTW, cool car. I blew mine on a '69 Camaro Z-28. God I wish I still had that car. LOL!
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Sunday, April, 05, 2009 12:00 PM skep41 writes:

WHAT!!!????

"Times are tough right now so you may have share a limo."

Listen Relic, I AM A GENIUS! If you cant recognize that and not only get me my own limo but one to follow in case I feel like changing cars you're going to hear from my agent and my attorney.
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Sunday, April, 05, 2009 7:45 PM Sgt Relic writes:

HaHaHaHa!, Skep

You my friend have been working in Hollyweird too long.

This production is being shot at New Dominion Pictures in Suffolk Va be sure and tell your agent and lawyer that I got them rooms at the Bower's Hill Truck Stop. In deference to your genius, yours is right next to the men's room.

Oh! Tell'um to pack their cammies and watch Deliverance a couple times before they come.
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Monday, April, 06, 2009 9:24 PM buck writes:

Brian R, Sarge

Talking about the 'good ol' dayys'..

Years ago there was a California beer called, "Brew 102". On the bottom of the can it said, "perfected after 101 brewings." They should have gone on to Brew 103..
Anyway, I was getting 140 bucks a month back then as an E3. The Navy for some ungodly reason ordered a shipload of Brew 102 for the EM club in Yokosuka. After it was discovered by the powers that be that not even Sailors would drink the stuff at club price of 20 cents a can they took it out of the club and put it in the base PX for a nickel a can until it ran out. Now, us Sailors can be particular about what we drink. BUT! When you can put on your undress blues, go over to the PX have two hamburgers and get sloshed on a dollar...well...exceptions can be made...
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Tuesday, April, 07, 2009 7:48 AM Sgt Relic writes:

Buck

HaHaHa! Brian will have to speak for himself but I spent 2 years aboard a cruiser and did two Med cruises. I have seen the discerning palate of the average sailor in action, more dago red (at 50 cents a gallon, guaranteed 2 hours old) on the outside than in, while wearing whites.

In the interests of full disclosure, in my experience, Marines will drink just about anything and if it's a nickel a can it's jackpot time!

I have quaffed more than my share of the world's nastiest brews including a Korean beer called Crown which tasted a lot like I think Waterboo p*ss would taste.

Best part....it was warm...no refrigeration available!
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Wednesday, April, 08, 2009 11:11 AM buck writes:

Sarge


I assume you were a Seagoing Bellhop!
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Wednesday, April, 08, 2009 1:11 PM Sgt Relic writes:

Buck

The very same! Cut me and I bleed Marine Corp green.
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