WHAT We Can Learn from Clint Eastwood: THE VALUE OF BEING PREPARED

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WHAT We Can Learn from Clint Eastwood:
THE VALUE OF BEING PREPARED

In my youth, I asked successful trial attorneys
to what thay attributed their respective successes.

The consensus was fully meticulous, comprehensive & prescient planning.

David

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As a professional actor, he shud know the value of rehearsal.

David

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I like Clint Eastwood. I remember him playing Rowdy in Rawhide in the 1950s,
but I fear that this will be remembered as a footnote to history.

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Whoever was managing the Convention
for Mitt Romney has some EXPLAINING to do.

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Good to get your take, David.

I didn't see the convention live, have been reading about Eastwood's speech. Looks like it was.... interesting.

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@sozobe,

Thank u, Soz. On the point of this thread: it was.

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In the seventies, the story goes, in Madrid (Spain), the front of a cinema was being prepared for the showing of the film "High Plains Drifter". The Spanish guy up the ladder putting up the red plastic letters was working from hand written instructions and he misread the 'li' of 'Clint' as a 'u'. Spain was relatively isolated from the Anglosphere at that time. Thus the sign read "**** EASTWOOD". Much merriment was caused among English speaking tourists, and the manager of the cinema was surprised at the sudden large number of people taking each other's photos in front of the place. Eventually after about a week a spoilsport from the British Embassy phoned the cinema and they changed it.

I think that guy up the ladder had it right.

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@sozobe,

Soz, you have to watch it, even with subtitles, to get the full impact of how bizarre this "performance art" really was. His body language alone says a lot about how weird the whole thing was. Clint totally stole the show, and not in a good way. I bet Romney wants to hang him high. I can't wait to see what The Daily Show does with it.

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@contrex,

contrex wrote:

I think that guy up the ladder had it right.

That results from your abhorrence & loathing of freedom.
Do u favor nazism or favor communist slavery ??

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@OmSigDAVID,

OmSigDAVID wrote:

contrex wrote:
I think that guy up the ladder had it right.
That results from your abhorrence & loathing of freedom.
Do u favor nazism or favor communist slavery ??

I've been aware for quite a while that you write a lot of crazy batshit nonsense, and apparently you intend to continue.

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@contrex,

contrex wrote:

I think that guy up the ladder had it right.

OmSigDAVID wrote:

That results from your abhorrence & loathing of freedom.
Do u favor nazism or favor communist slavery ??

contrex wrote:

I've been aware for quite a while that you write a lot of crazy batshit nonsense, and apparently you intend to continue.

I accept it as a compliment,
from the perspective of someone
in your state of mental perversity.

( I bet u love your dear old Uncle Joe Stalin
better than the fuhrer, right ?? )

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@OmSigDAVID,

I learnt that in the cubs, maybe he should try doing a good deed every day, or perhaps just one.

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@izzythepush,

izzythepush wrote:

I learnt that in the cubs,

What r those ??

izzythepush wrote:

maybe he should try doing a good deed every day, or perhaps just one.

That CAN be fun,
if u set it up right,
but not on any schedule, just 1OO% voluntary,
when it looks n feels right; e.g., calling a waitress over
to your table n award her a $1OO bill as being the "most beautiful girl around here prize."
Thay seem to like that; (or when I got a slice of pizza in a pizzaria,
I paid with a $5O bill n gave the change to 3 early teenaged boys
who were playing poker in front there, around a table, as I left).

Cash adds a certain libertarian versatility to good deeds.

David

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@OmSigDAVID,

http://greatamwellscouts.com/images/scouts_bp.gif

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@izzythepush,

U raise the issue of doing good deeds.
IF u witnessed someone begift
your son with 1OO pounds of English Sterling Silver,
woud u deem that to be good or bad ??

I have observed intense emotional re-actions
both in favor and in opposition to this generosity.

For instance, in the 198Os, I saw a very pretty young cashier
in a bookstore, in a mall. I put a $1OO bill in front of her and walked away.
She began screaming, in a negative way of disapproval.
The same procedure can also have the OPPOSITE effect.

Which way do U lean ??????

David

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@OmSigDAVID,

You're mixing up your categories, do you mean sterling silver or pounds sterling? They're two completely different things.

I would be very wary of a total stranger giving my son anything. Their motives may not be pure.

On the subject of gratuties for those who have provided a service, I'm all in favour.

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@OmSigDAVID,

OmSigDAVID wrote:

izzythepush wrote:
I learnt that in the cubs,
What r those ??

Cub Scouts or Cubs are an age-based section of the Scout movement for young boys and girls aged 8 to 11. This section follows on from the Beaver Scouts (6-8 year olds) and Cubs will move on to Scouts at the age of 11. The section originally opened as Wolf Cubs in 1916, and this name is still widely used in Britain.

Since about 1990 the Cubs section of the Scout movement has been open to both girls and boys in several countries, but I believe that in the United States, it is still exclusively for boys.

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@OmSigDAVID,

OmSigDAVID wrote:

U raise the issue of doing good deeds.
IF u witnessed someone begift
your son with 1OO pounds of English Sterling Silver,
woud u deem that to be good or bad ??

Unless his son was extremely hefty, he wouldn't easily be able to carry 100 pounds (45 kg) of silver, brass, lead, or anything.

Sterling silver is an alloy of silver containing 92.5% by mass of silver and 7.5% by mass of other metals, usually copper. The term has nothing to do with "pounds sterling".

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@izzythepush,

izzythepush wrote:

You're mixing up your categories, do you mean sterling silver or pounds sterling?
They're two completely different things.

I inferred that English money was based on given weights of sterling silver,
but I did not study that. My grandfather was an Englishman. We did not discuss that.
By now, he has gotten away with withholding that information.

izzythepush wrote:

I would be very wary of a total stranger giving my son anything. Their motives may not be pure.

No one shud trust ANYONE. How many times have I seen FRIENDS testify against their pals in court?!!
Parents r not safe from children, nor vice-versa, even to the point of homicide.

Love everyone; trust no one. 1 of the most valuable points of advice in the Bible
is the story of Samson & Delila; <snip, snip>.

izzythepush wrote:

On the subject of gratuties for those who have provided a service, I'm all in favour.

Yeah; that 's more fun with good looking chicks, e.g., waitresses.
U had raised the issue of good deeds (even to the point of executing 1 daily).
I remember, as a kid: I used to get great volumes of free stuff in school, very ofen,
but nearly 1OO% of it had very little value, or NO value at all, in retrospect.

I thawt that getting free stuff was BETTER, if it had ACTUAL VALUE.

I love hedonism, whose great GOOD is the creation of JOY.

It works best when your target does not expect it.

David

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