Billiken Rich

Glad you're still around!

Must've missed it when the Yankees won the World Series every year and the Cardinals never have.......

We don't know the details.......go jump off a bridge if you want but I'll wait and see what happens next.......

MASH didn't seem like leftwing Hollywood claptrap when I was young. It's almost unwatchable now. Saving Private Ryan just underwhelmed me. The landing scenes were brutal but seemed pathetically small in scale. I also didn't buy the premise of the whole movie. They had radios and trucks and jeeps and messengers and I just couldn't buy sending Rangers to find one guy. I know it was very loosely based on a true story but I don't believe they sent Rangers for the guy........I love Tom Hanks and wish he'd have been sent to blow up a bridge instead of saving Matt Damon.....

Cornelius Ryan wrote that and a Bridge too far. Both were hollywood blockbusters with amazing casts. A Bridge Too Far with Gene Hackman as Major General Sosabowski was just too sad to be a super popular movie. I know it was a Hollywood movie but Ryan was Irish and both made Montgomery look like a pompous a-hole......

America, F-yeah!

After all the napalm there is a scene where a deer wanders onto the silent battlefield.......I remember my dad, who didn't drop f-bombs lightly, saying "A f'ing deer."

This may go against the grain but "The Longest Day" is the best D-day movie. I was expecting to be blown away by Saving Private Ryan but the scale of the invasion was at the sub-unit level. I was expecting the horizon covered with ships that the Germans in The Longest Day saw and had to contend with.....

Greyhound with Tom Hanks is on Apple+ if you want the flipside of Das Boot. Pretty good movie.....

A little embarrassed......not sure if it's the same guy and too much of a puss to find out.....But a kid I grew up with was Paul Gosden.....I knew he was a Marine and never though to catch up with him. We'd always dreamed of being pilots as kids and it looks like he made it as Paul "Goose " Gosden. Chopper pilot with all sorts of action in the mideast.......God love him and keep him safe.....

George C Scott......Great as Patton.......first saw him in Taps......Timothy Hutton......Sean Penn.....Tom Cruise......good stuff.......

That movie was good enough to turn Greg Kinnear into a badass as Snakeshit........

We Were Soldiers. Mel Gibson in Braveheart form as the great Hal Moore. Sam Elliot........God I love Sam Elliot "Good Day Sargent Major!" Sam Elliot: "What are you a f'ing weatherman?" Gettysburg. Also Sam Elliot as General John Buford. Maybe one of the best speeches ever and almost to the letter of what Michael Shaara wrote in The Killer Angels: " Whole damn Reb army's gonna be here. They'll move through this town, occupy these hills on the other side, and when our people get here Lee'll have the high ground, and there'll be the devil to pay! The high ground! Meade'll come in slowly, cautiously, new to command. They'll be on his back from Washington. Wires hot with messages. "Attack! Attack!" So he will set up a ring around these hills. And when Lee's army is all nicely entrenched behind fat rocks on the high ground, Meade'll finally attack, if he can coordinate the army. Straight up the hillside, out in the open, in that gorgeous field of fire. We will charge valiantly... and be butchered valiantly! And afterwards, men in tall hats and gold watch fobs will thump their chests and say what a brave charge it was." Also Jeff Daniels in his one role where he wasn't a puss or a commie.....

Everybody wanted/hoped/needed Junior year Javonte+. Sadly it was not to be and not his fault. You can blame Ford for keeping him in the lineup too much or not recruiting over him but.......

Seriously.......you've been here long enough to know what you were saying and how it would be perceived

My Bad........Pol Pot maybe? Not Mao or Stalin level but to your point, Marx and Engels gave intellectual cover to or inspired mass murderers but never really lead a revolution.

Basque is more than brown enough. You could put Castro high on that list too.......

Based on the tenets of intersectionality it he should be right above Lenin and all of those other cis white men......

It was my first thought too.....

We laugh but the GWU Poly-Sci dept is wondering why you are such a racist since you left out Che.......

Jonathan Turley and Steve Rogers are the only good things to come out of GWU.....

So, let me get this straight, I'm wrong for not fawning over Albert and comparing his leaving town for cash with Yuri, who's doing the same despite not winning a national championship here. I'm wrong for not putting Albert on my top 25 Cardinal's list? I'm talking about my feelings. You are, as always, a confounding little troll......

On my top 100 list of favorite Cardinals, he's tied with Darryl Porter at 99......

Not in the slightest.....

It is a difference between them but it makes no difference to my point......