^ Yes, I was gonna say that, but you did first. Malkovich and Close got to 'villain up' in that one and tore into it with happy abandon.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 14 June 2023 22:06 (ten months ago) link
Yeah, I remembered that one as soon as I pushed the button.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 14 June 2023 22:08 (ten months ago) link
Glenn Closer to Fine
― pomplamoose and circumstance (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 14 June 2023 22:36 (ten months ago) link
I'm Glenning Closer to My Home
― henry s, Wednesday, 14 June 2023 22:55 (ten months ago) link
I never thought this day would endI never thought tonight could ever be Glenn Close to me
― pomplamoose and circumstance (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 14 June 2023 22:56 (ten months ago) link
Don't Glenn soDon't Glenn soDon't Glenn so Close to me
― henry s, Wednesday, 14 June 2023 22:58 (ten months ago) link
I was watching The Wife (still haven't finished it...) and I was imagining her playing The Joker. In the movie Joker.
(i'm definitely a fan. she's pretty fearless and fearless people fail a lot. but she's always kinda fun to watch.)
― scott seward, Wednesday, 14 June 2023 23:05 (ten months ago) link
Glenn Gary Glenn Close
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Wednesday, 14 June 2023 23:06 (ten months ago) link
Coffee is for close
Don(ald Trump)'n'Glenn (Close)
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 14 June 2023 23:17 (ten months ago) link
Did they ever meet her?
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 14 June 2023 23:22 (ten months ago) link
Well, yeah.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Wednesday, 14 June 2023 23:23 (ten months ago) link
DON: I used to see Glenn at the usual Hollywood parties -- Elton's thing, David's thing. She struck me as a woman of extraordinary grace and delicacy, a true lady.
GHOST OF GLENN: If she's named after me, there's nothing graceful and delicate 'bout her!
DON: Well, yeah.
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 14 June 2023 23:34 (ten months ago) link
I never read HBE or saw the movie but the couple that owned the agency I used to work for recommended it which was enough for me to stay far away
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 14 June 2023 23:39 (ten months ago) link
lol
mentioned it recently but when a c-suite guy was speaking to a meeting I was in and he kept mentioning Friedman’s “The World is Flat” glowingly (a couple years after it’s release), I kept thinking he wasn’t long for that job
and, amazingly, he was not
employers mentioning airport bestsellers never bodes well
― mh, Thursday, 15 June 2023 04:13 (ten months ago) link
Glenn Close is also really, really posh?
― steely flan (suzy), Thursday, 15 June 2023 08:11 (ten months ago) link
Close Spice
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Thursday, 15 June 2023 12:01 (ten months ago) link
Anyway, remember that time Trump went to Cafe Versailles and said "food for everyone"?
Yeah, he left without paying for anything.
Because of COURSE he did.
― pomplamoose and circumstance (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 15 June 2023 15:34 (ten months ago) link
(and poster mh TOTALLY called it)
― pomplamoose and circumstance (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 15 June 2023 15:35 (ten months ago) link
*raises hand*
He's gonna duck out and not pay for a thing.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, June 13, 2023 8:46 PM (two days ago)
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 15 June 2023 15:36 (ten months ago) link
I mean, every last person in this thread and anywhere in the world called it, whether they said it aloud or not
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Thursday, 15 June 2023 15:38 (ten months ago) link
he just meant everyone was at a place where food was available
― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 June 2023 15:38 (ten months ago) link
sorry unperson!
Yep, just wanted to pass along the completely unsurprising confirmation of what we all already knew.
― pomplamoose and circumstance (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 15 June 2023 15:39 (ten months ago) link
stop the steal
― But his face would not turn into hot Kirby (Evan), Thursday, 15 June 2023 15:40 (ten months ago) link
technically the article says he didn't actually order anything, as opposed to ordering food and dashing on the check
― the manwich horror (Neanderthal), Thursday, 15 June 2023 15:44 (ten months ago) link
i.e., said "Food for everybody!" as a bullshit photo op, then said "lol nah" and his entourage left
― the manwich horror (Neanderthal), Thursday, 15 June 2023 15:45 (ten months ago) link
Maybe he was just commenting on the quantity of food. "There is enough food for everyone!"
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 15 June 2023 15:57 (ten months ago) link
"I can hear you! The rest of the world hears you! And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon! jk, we're just gonna invade Iraq again."
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Thursday, 15 June 2023 15:59 (ten months ago) link
He loves the validation for knowing things about the common man. Yelled "Everyone poops!" when they took him past the restrooms.
― But his face would not turn into hot Kirby (Evan), Thursday, 15 June 2023 16:01 (ten months ago) link
"I know what this place is for!" Yes, Donald.
― But his face would not turn into hot Kirby (Evan), Thursday, 15 June 2023 16:02 (ten months ago) link
He may not have wanted to pay on realizing how shitty the food is.
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 15 June 2023 16:10 (ten months ago) link
"Everybody poops! that's you...not me."
― the manwich horror (Neanderthal), Thursday, 15 June 2023 16:16 (ten months ago) link
i could see don eating a cuban sandwich. with extra catsup.
― scott seward, Thursday, 15 June 2023 16:16 (ten months ago) link
"I am pooping right now, in solidarity with the common man! Well, symbolically solid, at least ... "
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 15 June 2023 16:17 (ten months ago) link
Donald would order a Cuban sandwich on a poppy seed bun
― the manwich horror (Neanderthal), Thursday, 15 June 2023 16:18 (ten months ago) link
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, 15 June 2023 16:43 (ten months ago) link
Hahaha
― the manwich horror (Neanderthal), Thursday, 15 June 2023 17:04 (ten months ago) link
You should hear him at the bank
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Thursday, 15 June 2023 17:11 (ten months ago) link
Money for everyone!
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 15 June 2023 17:19 (ten months ago) link
Little known fact is that Oprah was actually expressing surprise that everyone in her audience also got a car, the show's lawyers were deeply concerned with the lack of upward inflection in her voice, as she intended to say "you get a car? you get a car? and you get a car?"
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 15 June 2023 17:21 (ten months ago) link
As anyone with a modicum of curiosity about game shows will tell you, things you receive in this way are taxed as if they were income.
When you give someone a new car, or a trip to Tahiti, you also give them a tax bill that might be about 30% of the value of said item.
Here's a new $40,000 car! Enjoy driving it to a place where you can sell a kidney, because you are now on the hook to pay $12,000 in taxes on your new car.
― pomplamoose and circumstance (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 15 June 2023 17:35 (ten months ago) link
u can just sell the car tho
― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 June 2023 17:37 (ten months ago) link
Yeah, I remember it being pretty common knowledge that the winners of the Price is Right showcases mostly put that stuff on the market right after. Except for those trips to Tahiti maybe? Do they really tax things like that?
― henry s, Thursday, 15 June 2023 17:40 (ten months ago) link
Not if they come from Harlan Crow
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Thursday, 15 June 2023 17:41 (ten months ago) link
my friend won the showcase showdown when we were in our early 20s. I do recall he got taxed for the horrible living room furniture and entertainment center as well as his trip to mexico I think.
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 15 June 2023 17:42 (ten months ago) link
I loved those moments when this euphoric data operator from Duluth came on down and when Bob Barker led her to the big walls Elton John would yell A TRIP TO NORTH DAKOTA and the data operator looked like Naomi Watts in Mulholland Drive before she shot herself.
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 15 June 2023 17:44 (ten months ago) link
Of course you can sell the car but it's a really pointless exercise. You still need to report the income, and you are effectively selling a used car. So you're lucky to net half of the value of the thing you allegedly "won."
I would rather they just handed me the cash so I could blow it all on immorality, drugs, and loose living. The IRS can just go find my body out in the desert, wearing a tutu and clutching a bottle of paint thinner.
― pomplamoose and circumstance (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 15 June 2023 17:45 (ten months ago) link
Seems to me like you should be able to stow that new car away until you are 65, and then drive it around tax-free, like a 401K. You'd be the envy of the retirement community tooling around in that mint, vintage Mercury Montego.
― henry s, Thursday, 15 June 2023 17:52 (ten months ago) link
really want to party with Ye Mad now
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 15 June 2023 18:06 (ten months ago) link
I always assumed they also offered a cash alternative far below the value of the prize. In the UK, we had a game show called Bullseye and many of the contestants seemed to come from the landlocked bits of the midlands, and the prize was often a speedboat, and really what's the fucking point of that?
― serving aunt (stevie), Thursday, 15 June 2023 18:41 (ten months ago) link