Posts posted by GhostOfTomJoad
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Well, the entire point of obtaining the headpiece was because it was the only artifact that could point to the exact location of the ark of the covenant. If there were two unknown variables then it all falls apartI've never looked at that scene as Indy caring about the hole that Beloq and the Nazi's used. To me his notebook contained the directions to finding the right hole (ie what hieroglyphics etc to look for).
I guess you could assume that if the markings for finding the hole were also on both sides of the medallion the Nazi's could have fucked that up as well but I'm not sure what point you make about the staff being too tall having anything to do with them sticking it in the wrong hole. If a Kadam is basically a foot the distance he moved back wouldn't seem to have been that far.
If it was a matter of the nazis not putting a staff in the right hole, then finding the headpiece would have been irrelevant. I think Spielberg realized he needed a dramatic, visual way to show the audience that the nazis had the wrong info. He replaced the staff height with the staff's hole location and the audience bought it. -
Raiders is on TV right now & I just noticed a massive plot hole I'd never seen before.
When Indy and Sallah are getting the translation of the writings on the headpiece from the old guy he tells them that the staff is to be 6 kadahm (or something like that) high, which Sallah then says "that's about 72 inches." Then the old guy flips it over and says "but wait...and take back one kadahm to honor the Hebrew god whose ark this is." Then Indy and Sallah celebrate that the Nazis are digging in the wrong place.
So according to that, a kadahm is roughly a foot and therefore the staff should be about five feet tall. Yet, when Indy gets to the map room--unless he's the size of a dwarf--the staff he's using is at least 6 1/2 feet tall.

But wait...there's a second fuck up in this scene! It's obvious that Spielberg realized that they couldn't show that the Nazis had used a staff that was too tall (we've seen enough of Lucas's stupidity in the SW films to know he isn't smart enough to figure this out). I mean, what would they do...show Indy finding the staff the Nazis used & then hold it up next to his? Boring and pointless. So Spielberg covers for this by having Indy find the slot on the map floor that the Nazis used and then move backwards two spots to insert his staff. Spielberg even has Indy refer to his notebook, as if the instructions on the medallion were about the placement of the staff in the floor, not the height of the staff itself.

It was a good catch by Spielberg & his solution to the problem was so much better than the original challenge it just blends seamlessly. Other than the fact there's never any reference as to which one of the thousand or so holes on the floor the staff is supposed to be inserted into.
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20 minutes ago, Longhorn said:
Would love to see him land a Barton Creek Mall or WalMart gig and have the GRK followers show up to protest there.
I agree with you on the indignation, but Mannix would be the type of mall cop who breaks a kids jaw in some dark chase way for not respecting his authority.
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I guess Mannix can just go back to enjoying retirement.
He's gonna have to keep a low profile & look for a smaller, more remote force to hire him.
I wonder how many pensions he's collecting? He spent 37 years as a LEO: 10 in Alameda, CA, 20 at APD (last position was assistant chief), and 7 at CPPD. Is he triple dipping already and looking for a 4th? -
Fuck these longcat posts of entire shitty songs. We know they're shitty after half a verse ir the chorus.
Wrapped Around My Finger by The Police introduced me to shitty, lazy lyrics when I was 11 years old. How one throwaway line can make an otherwise fine tune cringe worthy.
I have only come here seeking knowledge/Things they would not teach me of in college
Sting must've decided "fuck it, this album's gonna be a hit & I'm outta here so let's finish this track before lunch. " -
No way. The best cheats never spend more than 30 seconds looking for their ball. Trump's the guy that after he slices it hard right into the woods at 175 yards, tears off in his cart (which is modified to go faster than everyone else even with his fat ass inside) while saying "it opens up out to the right" or "I heard it hit a tree, probably got a bounce." He drives right past where it went in, goes another 25-50 yards, gets out, looks around for 5 seconds and says "found it" after he's dropped a ball in a perfect spot.It probably takes him at least 30 minutes every round to find his ball and use his foot wedge to kick it on to the fairway.
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Oh I've long stopped engaging him on politics. I think the last conversation we briefly had was during Bush v Gore election (when I was still dating their daughter & he was trying to size me up).
He's attempted to goad me over the years but I just ignore him. His rants get more comical then baseless the drunker he gets. He's slowly dying of cancer so the last thing I'm going to do is start shit on the rare times I see him.
And to continue the Satan theme, my wife tells me when they were kids her mother would scream at the TV "he has the mark of the beast right there for all to see" whenever Gorbachev was shown on the news. -
My evangelical in-laws are full on Trumpkins. On their entryway table they've built a small altar for Trump with matching MAGA hats placed, bills crossed, at the base of a cross & Bible. MIL stays out of politics for the most part, minus the occasional fwd>fwd>fwd> email my wife gets. But the FIL has told me multiple times how there is proof that Obama, Clinton, Gore, Carter--any president or high ranking official with a D by their name--is an agent of the devil if not Satan himself (Obama). Conversely, Trump is the living embodiment of King Cyrus: a POS that God is using for a bigger purpose.
Fucking hypocritical morons who use their "teachings" to justify their deplorable stances.
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5 minutes ago, zork said:
Is trump falling or possibly sitting down in that cartoon or is it just a perspective eye trick to not show obama looking up to the taller trump? Or is the cartoonist being disingenuous in his cartoon about trump wrt the shorter obama?
Yes because cartoons are required to show 100% accurate spatial relationships. Rolleyes.
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Ms. Duke is the latest in a series of senior officials who have gone public to describe — often in vivid, behind-the-scenes detail — their discomfort and sometimes shock at the inner workings of the Trump presidency. Like former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, she chooses her words carefully. And like John R. Bolton, the former national security adviser who published a book titled “The Room Where It Happened,” Ms. Duke says she is not ready to commit to voting for Mr. Trump again.
“That’s a really hard question,” she said. “But given the choices, I don’t know yet.”
Yay...another 'principled Republican' who is shocked, disappointed & disgusted by Trump...but not so much that they wouldn't vote for the tangerine twatwaffle again.
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Fox News Sunday - Chris Wallace Interviews Donald Trump 7/19
in Cloak Room
And had Wallace clapped back with that info, Jimmy, Trump's response would have changed....not one bit. "Fake news, fake polls, many per capitas," etc.
I agree with you in theory, but I also suspect that Wallace knows the only way he'll get through an entire interview without Trump walking out is to give him an out or two that they can easily debunk in post-production.
But yeah, it would've been great to see him make dotard squirm and sweat--even more than he was. Holy Nixon v. JFK debate, Batman.