I haven’t done this in a while, but today’s “comic strip” is a mash-up of panels from daily strips that will appear next week, a preview of cartoons beginning March 6. I know: it makes no sense really, but don’t you hate it when you sit through a three-minute movie preview and feel as if you know exactly what’s going to happen in the two-hour version? And when did “previews” become “trailers?” Have you ever sat in a theater and been invited to view “Trailers of Coming Attractions?” Somehow, I blame Turner Classic Movies for this. I believe TCM introduced me to the Hollywood term “trailer.” Now, the film and video landscape is littered with trailers.
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Trailer Trash.
I wondered where “trailer” came from in regard to movies.
Had me totally confused till I read the explanation. Looking forward to next week. Thanks for the previews – trailers belong in parks or behind vehicles.
The movie people always called them trailers, because they were at the end of the movie, like trailing behind the movie. Of course movie people don’t make sense to those who are not movie people. Just saying.
I see that the Decorah eagles now have 3 eggs, and also the Decorah North pair has 3 eggs, too.
Was Symply perplexed until I read it too. Will say hello to Charlotte and Jackie for the second time in two days. Have 4 sink holes in my yard was wondering if JJ is Symply looking my address up with that post from the other day!
GR6 emb has it right you gots to chew the taste out of the oyster or you are just swallowing…..well, you know(mixed with salt water)….they taste quite good if you can deal with the texture, kind of like uni(sea urchin). I eat em both with relish(not the vegetable kind the gustatory type).
I think back in the day people would hang out in the movie theater for multiple features, so they could put the previews at the end of the movie. I’m talking the pre-TV days when the theaters had newsreels and cartoon shorts from Warner and Disney. Way before my time.
These days people walk out during the credits, so the previews have to come before the movie.
Haven’t been to a theatre in ages, even though I see a trailer and make a mental note of watching a movie in the future, most likely it will just go on my Netflix wish list then be forgotten. Jackie yes the trailers are trailer trash, not to be confused with those who live in mobile homes.
Nicely done Jimmy.
It seems the lousy formulaic movies always have trailers that give you the feeling you just saw the movie (and the good jokes).
But the trailers that leave you confused are for movies that are deeper and leave you talking over what you just saw with your friends. Kind of like telling a movie friend, “Just go see the movie. I liked it and you should see it. We’ll talk about it after.”
And hello to you, Symply. I saw you on Facebook plenty today.
What IS that song, ” trailer for sale or rent, can’t get no ……..?? It’s driving me crazy. Must go back many years. Speaking of years, sorry I did not get back right away to emb. I loved your comment on the 22nd, “happy birthday, kid.” I am still smiling!
Jackie is sure having a wonderful time! I would envy her but I have never been to Louisiana, or eaten a crawfish, or been at a Mardi Gras parade. I can get along without them. But you guys are welcome to enjoy the whole experience; it must be a lot of fun.
There seem to be several explanations for “trailers” but to me they should be “Previews of Coming Attractions” as they were in the 1940’s when I sat it the front rows with the other kids and happily watched the cartoons, newsreels, and the cowboy movies, and even the dramas in “Technicolor”.
“King of the Road”, Charlotte.
Just dropping in to say hi!
So, Sunday is my last official day as a store manager. I took a factory job a bit north of here and will start next week. Not a moment too soon – the neighborhood “Peace Watch” has declared my store public enemy number one, and have actually become MORE menacing than the fool drug dealers they claim to be thwarting! I had planned to stay part time at the store to help, but I am honestly scared to be at work right now. I am required to say nothing on social media, but thought I would fill you all in on the drama behind the scenes, and for those of you who are my Facebook friends and might wonder about some of my posts and things I am tagged in.
Sunday cannot come soon enough.
Marie has reached her maximum rehabilitation level – for anyone who is not this mighty, tiny, super-human, her progress has been astonishing. However, being Marie, she is very upset to be semi-dependent on a wheelchair. She *is* capable of walking short distances, has fairly decent range of motion, and her speech is just about perfect.
Blacklight is still hanging in there. I have been blessed with a nice run of mostly good days. Thunder is somehow still getting bigger and acts more like a dog all the time.
Hopefully life will find a new normal soon and I can be more regular in my visits. I miss you all.
Thank God you left that job! I have worried so much that you’d be killed.
What will you be manufacturing?
Charlotte, here’s the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmOe27SJ3Yc
Jackie – Bacon! For Smithfield to be precise. They do all promotion internally, so everyone starts at the beginning. Works for me right now. And I am not completely free until Sunday. If you can spare a positive thought for everyone I am leaving behind, that would be nice. Trying to convince the rest to leave before the idiot watch incites a riot and someone gets killed.
Love Smithfield bacon! Do you get a discount?
Charlotte: Speaking of kids. A supervisor was going through old hospital photos /a coming MD retirement bash, and ran across two of Elaine at her retirement party in ’91 [she was either 60 or 61]. One is Elaine opening the retirement gift that I chose to be a surprise. The then VP / Nursing asked her because he’d grown up in the tradition that gifts are not really gifts if they’re ‘practical’. I have a daughter in law like that, but neither Elaine nor I saw it that way. Anyway, he cleared it with Elaine before buying the matched set of Calphalon cookware, and she was duly pleased. The other is Elaine and me at the same bash. Gad, that guy w/ Elaine looks young, and SKINNY. I’m not that fat, but maybe 10# heavier than then; some pants are real snug. Retiring MD is in neither photo, so they’re mine now.
Peace,
I looked it up and yes, the trailers were shown after the end of the movies. They soon realized that they had a captive audience, so they put them at the beginning. I might add, that if you watch older movies, the end credits were very short, so it was not as bad as you would think.
Hooray Mindy. I feel very relieved for you. Years ago I worked retail and lost my job, so I took a job training to be a district manager of a convenience store chain in Flint. Thank God that did not last long. I got called out of bed to finish the shift of an overnight clerk who had been robbed at gunpoint. Shortly thereafter I was told that my “training” (at a much lower salary) was going to last 3 months longer than promised and I quit. I was scared as the clerk at the unemployment office was pretty stern looking, but I told him the truth, that I never would have accepted the job if I knew the pay would be that bad. I was able to keep my benefits.
I visited the store that I lost my first job a few days after my first Japan trip and had picked up my pictures from my trip. I got to show them to some of the people that had worked for me and I could tell that they generally felt good for me. That I was doing what I was MEANT to do and not what I “had” to do. I hope that makes sense.
No internet for 24 hours. Still can’t connect online with my work computer. Lost a 9 hour shift today which will have to be made up later. Will have to work either Saturday or Sunday. If I still can’t get online in the morning things will get even worse. Have replaced both wifi router and signal extender necessary to even have wifi in my apartment. As you can see, I can get online with my own pc, but every time I try to connect to my employer their computer loses internet access. I have two channels open on wifi and neither will connect to my employer on their own pc.
Big increase in flow. Must have been major rain upstream. Peace,
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Mark, it sounds like a problem at their end rather than yours. Good luck! Mindy- yayayayayay! Emb..nice to have “new” photos of loved ones. Enjoy…… GR, you okay? Jackie- 🙂 And anyone I”ve missed…hugs to you!
Today was a tough day for any business using software that’s hosted on Amazon’s servers:
http://www.ksl.com/?sid=43334960&nid=1012
Amazon Web Services hosts software used by colleges, including my current employer here in Utah, for administering tests to students. We were without Canvas all day.
Prayers for Mindy =
Bacon – yum!!!
I sound like that dog treat commercial.
Today’s offering from Thaves.
http://www.gocomics.com/frank-and-ernest
Peace,
Mindy, we miss you, too. Such wonderful news about your job change and Marie that I’m grinning ear to ear. Sweet of you to be so concerned about the folks you’re leaving…praying for the best possible outcome to the dilemma.
Mark, I hope your tech problems are well and truly resolved by now.
Jimmy, just as humans can see faces in almost anything, we try to make sense of everything. I bet most of us tried to make sense of the preview frames above as one story.