Elster88

Regardless, it's cool. Carlos is nasty. Even Chewbacca doesn't want anything to do with him.

After our first series with the D'backs the D'backs went and swept Atlanta.

I don't like bandwagoners either, in fact I loathe them, but this idea of giving people a test before allowing them to post.....just seems somewhat like being a dickhead to me.

I liked that one but was afraid someone would give me a wedgie and stick my head in a toilet for admitting it.

Yancy Street Gang wrote: There's still likely to be a race. The Mets will have a slump. Even a losing streak. And the Phillies and Braves will have some hot streaks too. I think the lead is more likely to tighten than expand. I don't think this is going to be 1986 all over again. I've been thinking about this. I don't think that the division race will be close again. Just a feeling.

I wonder how many people will get this reference.

Well, actually, some of them are funny, and some of the Chuck Norris ones aren't.

You are. Kidding.

Johnny Dickshot wrote: Don't recall. The kid I like is the one who makes that unbelieveably cruel, sadistic smile while Johnny sweeps the leg. I don't remember this smirk. The one who was jumping up and down and cheering when the camera shot back to Kreese after Johnny sweeps the leg (got the first point off Daniel-san) was Tommy. I'm not sure if that's what you mean by the smirk. Johnny Dickshot wrote: I think he's the one who said "Get him a body bag!!" Was that Dutch? That was Tommy. Dutch is (other) blond one (Chad McQueen).

metirish wrote: I have NEVER watched any of the Star Wars movies, and for that I am happy. Honestly, I don't think the movies will ever work for another generation, either. At least not the way it worked when it first came out.

The hair-pulling and eye-poking can't be far behind. At least the one with R2-D2 makes sense, too, right? The world can always use another Star Wars/Carlos Beltran joke.

You should've just said, "When they play space chess, Chewbacca lets Carlos Beltran win because he doesn't want his arms torn off." Makes way more sense, no?

Fine. Then I'll add my own to CF's list. When they play space chess, R2-D2 lets Carlos Beltran win. Not because he has to, but because Beltran would win anyway. Mine makes more sense. (tongue-sticking-out smiley face)

Star Wars is cool. If you don't like Star Wars, you're a nerd. NERD!

seawolf17 wrote: ="Elster88"]="Centerfield"]When they play space chess, Chewbacca lets Carlos Beltran win. Not that he needs to, because Beltran would win anyway. I think you mean R2-D2. No, because I think the whole point is that Beltran defies the "Let the wookie win" truism. I have no idea what that means. But here's a better explanation of what I was saying: R2-D2 lets Chewbacca win because he's afraid of getting his arms torn off. R2-D2 doesn't need to let Beltran win because Beltran would win anyway. Beating a robot in chess is hard, but Beltran can do it, so my idea was that CF meant to say "R2-D2 lets Carlos Beltran win." Elementary.

Elster88 wrote: Never could figure out who the fifth bully was. Five guys beat up Daniel at the fence. Miyagi refers to it as a "5 to 1" problem. But in the first scene with the Cobra Kai after Miyagi meets Kreese (when Daniel-San is walking with Ali at the high school and talks a little smack), there are only the four of them. In the credits, after Johnny, Bobby, Tommy, and Dutch, there is a character named Jimmy. I think Jimmy is the brown-haired one who can be seen sitting on the other side of Bobby when Kreese is delivering his "Take him out of commission" order. But I've never been sure. Anyone?

Centerfield wrote: When they play space chess, Chewbacca lets Carlos Beltran win. Not that he needs to, because Beltran would win anyway. I think you mean R2-D2.

Centerfield wrote: Matsui! And before that, Reyes! LOL Welcome aboardick, KC.

It says that now, all of a sudden, the treand was accelerating. The implication was that earlier precedents were exceptional. "In general, blonds used to have more fun." I'm not so sure. I don't know enough about film history to argue one way or the other. Kempley also mis-identifies Miyagi as Japanese, and not Okinawan. I can see how she might have missed this. A lot of the story behind Miyagi's heritage and family history wasn't fleshed out until KKII. I'm having trouble remebering exactly how the drinking scene went, but I think the only scene in KK where Miyagi makes a point that he was from Okinawa and not Japan was the first tree-cutting scene. Lee Mazzilli, John Travolta, Rocky, and Happy Days and Sly Stallone (at least for a bit), made East Coast Italian-ness the cool ethinic way to be for a while. I'm not old enough to remember it, but wasn't this much more true in the tri-state area than nationwide? I always thought Rocky's character is more thought of as a bumbling idiot who could punch hard....not "cool" so much as a "guy who's easy to make fun of". Tony Danza sure didn't help. All of that aside, I think the idea of the article was focusing more on how the movie was part of a strong trend of "blonds are villians" then "minorities/non-blonds are heroes."

That David Wright is really cute.

Never could figure out who the fifth bully was. Five guys beat up Daniel at the fence. Miyagi refers to it as a "5 to 1" problem. But in the first scene with the Cobra Kai after Miyagi meets Kreese (when Daniel-San is walking with Ali at the high school and talks a little smack), there are only the four of them. In the credits, after Johnny, Bobby, Tommy, and Dutch, there is a character named Jimmy. I think Jimmy is the brown-haired one who can be seen sitting on the other side of Bobby when Kreese is delivering his "Take him out of commission" order. But I've never been sure.

At this point in the discussion, I like to point out that only Johnny and Bullitt, Jr. actually were blond. 'Course, they were the two meanest.

Edgy DC wrote: Avildsen's characterizations, in fact, show how dramatically champions have changed. It wasn't so new as all that, as Bogart or Chaplin would demonstrate. I'm not sure what you're saying. The article wasn't saying that Avildsen was the first to use such characterizations, just that he chose to use them. Neither was the article saying that the Aryan-colored-bad-guy had never been used before the eighties, but rather that it was widespread in the eighties. In the actual context of the article, the line you quote is correct. The article starts off by pointing out that Avildsen didn't create the mold.