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Post by Lemmy Caution on May 24, 2020 1:41:04 GMT -5
 Nah, I'll leave that to you. Deeky, I did a net search on public showers, which Tyler discussed in his shower interview, and came across a forum for "Freeballers," the firstime I had seen that term. I thought, what in the Sam Hill Hell is a Freeballer? I finally found out that it is a person, of either sex, who does not wear underwear. How could I have lived as many decades as I've lived and never before, until the wee hours of this morning, heard the term "freeballer?" Well, you learn something new every day. How many people have had all kinds of life experiences: married, divorced, reproduced themselves, remarried, and again reproduced themselves, made money and lost money, served in the military and had combat experience, served prison sentences, and so many other life experiences, but have never heard of things that other, possibly far less experienced in life, take for granted? Now that I know what a "Freeballer" is, I will not visit any more Freeballer message boards. I suppose that if the Freeballers want to freeball and communicate by internet message boards, that is OK with me. Which unit and where were you stationed? |
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Post by Billy A. Anderson on May 24, 2020 2:47:05 GMT -5
Lemmy, thanks for the post. As Paul Simon sang in 50 ways to leave your lover, I'll have to meditate on this for awhile before attempting an answer.
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Post by Lemmy Caution on May 24, 2020 14:13:52 GMT -5
Lemmy, thanks for the post. As Paul Simon sang in 50 ways to leave your lover, I'll have to meditate on this for awhile before attempting an answer. Possibly some confusion: I took the reference to military service to mean your own. Way back in my other life (with the first Mrs. Caution) I knew a few Vietnam-era Veterans. |
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Post by Billy A. Anderson on May 24, 2020 16:48:32 GMT -5
Lemmy, thanks for the post. As Paul Simon sang in 50 ways to leave your lover, I'll have to meditate on this for awhile before attempting an answer. Possibly some confusion: I took the reference to military service to mean your own. Way back in my other life (with the first Mrs. Caution) I knew a few Vietnam-era Veterans. Thanks for clarifying, Lemmie. I was referring to those who served in general, not myself. I have visited, on the Find A Grave web page, the grave of Alden Ackerman, Forry's brother, who died on New Years Day of 1944 in the Battle of the Bulge, and who Forry remembered as a "very fine brother," and I think I will post virutal flowers to the grave of Alden Ackerman (buried in France), on Memorial Day of 2020. |
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Post by Billy A. Anderson on May 28, 2020 14:22:38 GMT -5
Well, I did post the virtual flowers to Alden's grave bringing the total from 9 to 10. www.findagrave.com/memorial/56060182/alden-l-ackerman/flowerI think I will do so every memorial day. Alden's life was really cut short at an early age, and I do remember him, and hope that other people will also remember Alden Ackerman. Forry lived to 92, was it? and became a celebrity, with more people posting to Forry's Find A Grave memorial than I could count or read. In the "Amazing Ackermonster" interview in FM 24, page 27, it states: "Forry had a very fine young brother, Alden, who, not yet quite 21, was killed on New Years Day 1944 in 'The Battle of the Bulge'. " I noticed the Find A Grave memorial to Alden gives the year of his death as 1945. Typo error in FM 24? In the reading I have done, Forry's parents are said to have been very grieved over his embracing Atheism at the age of 14, and their finally giving up on Forry after sending him to many "Sunday schools," and their preferring Alden over Forry, since Alden did not become an Atheist, although Forry did say, in a fanzine article that the last time he saw Alden, that Alden said he had become an "Agnost," apparently Ackermanese, rather than Esperanto, for agnositc, Forry Also describing his wife as being an agnost. |
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Post by Billy A. Anderson on Sept 25, 2020 0:36:58 GMT -5
OK, Dr. Kobb, The Bells of Waiting arrived last week in my post office mailbox. Watching it, I was of course familiar with the opeing titles superimposed over the lava lamp, but I did not watch the whole utube video.
Well, a few nights ago, I did watch the DVD you sent me as a bonus with the Fargo TV show.
I thought that Bells of Waiting was a good short film, and while it had some horror in it, it did not go too far in its horror scene of a suicide by wrist slashing in a bathtub.
Since bathtub murders have been allowed on the shower scene horrors thread, I suppose we could post both some screen grabs and some video clips of that Bathroom Horror.
Thanks for sending it.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Sept 25, 2020 19:42:56 GMT -5
That'd be great! I'm not sure if I even still have it back on my computer though. I tell you, that scene did me in when I first saw it. The way he whispers in her ear and then she looks up and finds his body in the tub? Really gave me the creepy-crawlies! Especially, like I mentioned, it wasn't on a channel (A&E if memory serves) necessarily known for horror, so I was taken off guard by that finale.
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Nah, I'll leave that to you.
