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  • c.d.
    Commissioner
    • Feb 2008
    • 6555

    #1

    Interesting Facts

    I thought I would start a new thread dedicated to interesing facts. Take them from anywhere and post them if you think it is interesting. Any subject. It doesn't matter. Maybe we can all learn something.

    All right -- In the classic movie "Casablanca", because Ingrid Bergman was a few inches taller than Bogart, director Michel Curtiz had Bogart stand on boxes in several scenes so that he would appear to be taller than her.

    c.d.
  • lynn cates
    Commisioner
    • Aug 2009
    • 13841

    #2
    good idea

    Hello CD. You have a very good idea here. Well done!

    But, since you thought of it and I didn't, "You despise me--don't you?"

    Cheers.
    LC

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    • c.d.
      Commissioner
      • Feb 2008
      • 6555

      #3
      Margaret Mitchell, the author of "Gone With the Wind" stated that she based the character of Melanie Wilkes (Ashley's wife played by Olivia DeHaviland) on Doc Holliday's first cousin. The two were rumored to have had a romantic relationship. She became a nun and it was at this time that Doc gave up a promising dental practice and moved out West to become a gambler. He became a legend of the old west and was involved in the gun fight at the OK corral.

      c.d.

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      • c.d.
        Commissioner
        • Feb 2008
        • 6555

        #4
        Originally posted by lynn cates View Post
        Hello CD. You have a very good idea here. Well done!

        But, since you thought of it and I didn't, "You despise me--don't you?"

        Cheers.
        LC
        Actually, I like you, Lynn. But reading some of your posts, I feel like I graduated from grade school only with the help of political influence.

        c.d.

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        • lynn cates
          Commisioner
          • Aug 2009
          • 13841

          #5
          wrong answer

          Hello CD. Buzzzz. That's the wrong answer. You were supposed to say, "Well, I probably would if I ever thought about you." Are you SURE you're a "Casablanca" fan?

          Cheers.
          LC

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          • c.d.
            Commissioner
            • Feb 2008
            • 6555

            #6
            "Kicking the Gong Around" is an expression that appeared in America in the late 1920s. It is a slang term for smoking opium.

            c.d.

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            • c.d.
              Commissioner
              • Feb 2008
              • 6555

              #7
              Originally posted by lynn cates View Post
              Hello CD. Buzzzz. That's the wrong answer. You were supposed to say, "Well, I probably would if I ever thought about you." Are you SURE you're a "Casablanca" fan?

              Cheers.
              LC
              Yep, you got me on that one. You lobbed it right down the middle and I failed to hit it out.

              Lynn, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

              c.d.

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              • Abby Normal
                Commissioner
                • Jun 2010
                • 11903

                #8
                Originally posted by c.d. View Post
                "Kicking the Gong Around" is an expression that appeared in America in the late 1920s. It is a slang term for smoking opium.

                c.d.
                we used to say "Do Bongs"-pretty close though.
                "Is all that we see or seem
                but a dream within a dream?"

                -Edgar Allan Poe


                "...the man and the peaked cap he is said to have worn
                quite tallies with the descriptions I got of him."

                -Frederick G. Abberline

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                • c.d.
                  Commissioner
                  • Feb 2008
                  • 6555

                  #9
                  Voltaire is said to have drunk more than 50 cups of coffee a day.

                  c.d.

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                  • c.d.
                    Commissioner
                    • Feb 2008
                    • 6555

                    #10
                    In 1961, as baseball player Roger Maris attempted to break Babe Ruth's home run record, the stress caused his hair to fall out in clumps.

                    c.d.

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                    • lynn cates
                      Commisioner
                      • Aug 2009
                      • 13841

                      #11
                      bogeyman

                      Hello CD.

                      "Lynn, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."

                      Oh no. I ain't stickin' my neck out for nobody. (heh-heh)

                      Cheers.
                      LC

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                      • c.d.
                        Commissioner
                        • Feb 2008
                        • 6555

                        #12
                        If only the C5 had said that.

                        c.d.

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                        • Rubyretro
                          Chief Inspector
                          • Mar 2010
                          • 1906

                          #13
                          Originally posted by c.d. View Post
                          "Kicking the Gong Around" is an expression that appeared in America in the late 1920s. It is a slang term for smoking opium.
                          c.d.
                          ...he took her down to China Town...
                          http://youtu.be/GcBr3rosvNQ

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                          • Monty
                            Commissioner
                            • Feb 2008
                            • 5413

                            #14
                            Boris Karloff attended the Merchant Taylor school. The same school Dr Frederick Gordon Brown attended.

                            Karloffs sister, Anna, was a Nanny in Siam and became this inspiration for Anna in the King & I.

                            Monty
                            Monty

                            https://forum.casebook.org/core/imag...t/evilgrin.gif

                            Author of Capturing Jack the Ripper.

                            http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/1445621622

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                            • lynn cates
                              Commisioner
                              • Aug 2009
                              • 13841

                              #15
                              cute

                              hello CD.

                              "If only the C5 had said that."

                              Cute.

                              Cheers.
                              LC

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