Marc

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Originally posted by Marc Flake:
I believe these were the only presidents to die in office (not Reagan).
Marc

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Well, it merely specified "untimely and unusual" not "in-office."

so here we are. Let me start from the beginning, so bear with me...

Years ago a book showed up in Christians bookstores dealing with the rapture. Called "Left Behind", it dealt primarily with the dissapearance of millions of Christians around the world before the events described in the bible under revelations. Although fiction, the overall occurances in the story are very faithful to bible prophecy.

The book was fast paced, exciting and very well written. It was suspense, thriller and international catastrophy all in once. So successful was the book that it spawned a series which is still running, making it the best selling Christian liturature second only to the bible.

Around a year ago the rights to the movie were sold and production began under a Christian film company.

Although the movie won't be released in theaters until Feburary 2nd 2001, it is currently available on video in several Christian stores. As to the reasons of this, I will get to later.

The movie is very well made. It is hard to critique a film based on a book that I have read and treasured for so long. But I am amazed how faithful the movie is to the book without being boring. Fast pased without being confusing or even preachy it even held the attention of my eleven year old nephew (and that says a lot).

The score was well composed, especially the last two minutes or so. The film is laced with many Christian Rock -Pop songs that actually fit well into the overall story, although I am not a big fan of songs in movies.

Now to the video part. Since the company producing this film does not have the marketing power or money of the major Hollywood studios their plan is to have all the original readers of the book see the movie and wittness the quality of it. Then, when the film is released we are to invite friends to join us in seeing the movie (the video includes two matinee tickets). The plan is to create a big opening weekend for this movie, proving to Hollywood that films of this nature can be successful and that there is an audience for it.

There is more to it so I invite all of you to go to the websites www.leftbehind-themovie.com and www.cloudtenpictures.com.

I am currently getting involved in this effort so if you need more info regarding this or just want to see what I am planning to do e-mail me under Calharra.sc@verizon.com or Calhouness@hotmail.com.

I am excited about this and hope to get as many people involved in this effort as possibble.

1. Roosevelt was elected in 1932, '36, '40 and '44, so in his fourth term. Died in 1945.

2. W.H. Harrison gave an overlong speech for his inaugeration in the rain and sleet without any cover and got sick thus resulting in the pneumonia.

3. Lincoln relected in 1864 and shot in April 1865

4. As you pointed out most of the rest were shot or died in the term elected in 0 year.

Some of the deaths may or may not be untimely. Very interesting, but not necessarily a curse. Best, John.

I went to buy Pop-Tarts!

They're new to the island, but I had your recommendations to help.

BONITA LOVES THE POP TARTS!

As she munched on one of those chocolate tarts with vanilla creme filling, she said, "Tell Wedge he picked GOOD!

It's true!

Thanks. I'm well aware of all the facts, and I don't believe in the curse myself, but I just thought it would be fun to bring up. And I was too tired and lazy to type anything more.

It got a discussion going though!

Mmmmm ... Pop-Tarts.

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Originally posted by Camillu:

I went to buy Pop-Tarts!

They're new to the island, but I had your recommendations to help.

And now they're all gone.

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Were they good then? I've never tried them - do you think I should give them a go?

np Rambo 3

I had the strawberry ones, so I'm not sure if the others are better. Oh, and they taste much better once toasted.

However, I still prefer bananas.

NP - Shakespeare in Love

Whoa...Bruthah Wedge, BABY!
Such ignorance AND arrogance existing so closely together!

You know I love you, Wedge...but PUHLEEZE! If you classify a Kraft Single as "American Cheese"...well, you need to learn a few things about cheeses!
And as to that comment about EVERYTHING in America being artificial?
The last time I checked, YOU were living here with the rest of us automatons!

signed,

NP: Into Thin Air: Death On Everest Suite

DROP THAT KRAFT SINGLE RIGHT NOW. DROP IT!

NOW...go to the nearest deli and ask for a half pound of American Cheese, sliced thinly.

Take the cheese home, and perform a blindfolded taste test (Someone else should blindfold you). Taste the two cheeses, and choose the one that tastes the best. The creamiest, smoothest, sweetest and most full-flavored. Choose that one. Then pitch those rotten "Singles" in the garbage.

for me each browser has it's good and bad points.

I refer to IE as Internet Exploder, cuz about half the time I get some sort of internal error and the bloody thing shuts down.

Netscape is troublesome only in that many sites conform to IE standards (is that the right term? -- which makes me wonder: why isn't HTML for one browser NOT HTML for another?)

Another topic:

given the mess in Florida, and what Algore is trying to pull, I say we nominate someone from the board for 2004.

But it has to be an outsider. I nominate Timmer.
Hell I've already got his campaign slogan:
Tippecanoe and Timmer Too.

I don't worry about Timmer's legal issues abotu becoming President such as naturalization and all that, because as our illustrious Vice President is pointing out daily, if you have enough money, muscle, and lawyers, you too, can recount until you find a result you like, and change the law on a daily basis to suit your needs.

Speaking of frightening things, I've wanted to mention: I'm convinced I'm living in a haunted house. Only mildly haunted, it's all poltergeist activity: knocks on the doors that don't make sense, the oven keeps turning itself on, and, most impressively, roomie once actually ROARED in his sleep -- a real Pazuzu-quality roar. And he's normally so soft-spoken! Perhaps he does this more often than I think (we normally retire to our rooms around the same time), but I tend to doubt it. I even made a note of this (2:04 AM, EST), and when I told him about it, he had no memory of doing that or dreaming about anything of the kind. He stayed in the common room while I went into his room to demonstrate, and it was SEVERAL tries before I even produced a roar that he could HEAR in there! So it was PLENTY loud!

Basically, I think we have some rather indifferent ghosts in the house. (Roomie's roar was perhaps a dream-level attempt to repel them?)

So: Anyone else have any "haunted" stories?

Discuss.

On another note, what's the concensus on Don Davis' House on Haunted Hill? The movie was awful, but the score seems good enough...

the rest is not really worth much of your time. There is some good music towards the end of the album, but all the filler is really just not that rewarding a listen.