"You don't even know your own mind."
― mamieOrourke, Monday, 12 December 2005 14:20 (twenty years ago)
― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:39 (twenty years ago)
guy in vest pushes up window in tenement window, scratches armpit, takes stoagie out of mouth "Hey, you kids! Scram"
― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:51 (twenty years ago)
― Penis, NV (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:52 (twenty years ago)
― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:55 (twenty years ago)
― the pinefox, Monday, 12 December 2005 14:55 (twenty years ago)
"nuthin'"
"well let's have a *look* at some o' that nuthin!"
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:59 (twenty years ago)
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:59 (twenty years ago)
― Chris L, Monday, 12 December 2005 15:00 (twenty years ago)
― Chris L, Monday, 12 December 2005 15:03 (twenty years ago)
― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)
― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)
"Why I oughta...!"
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)
― Penis, NV (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:10 (twenty years ago)
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:10 (twenty years ago)
― Chris L, Monday, 12 December 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)
― Penis, NV (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:14 (twenty years ago)
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:17 (twenty years ago)
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)
"don't be ridiculous!"
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)
― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:20 (twenty years ago)
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:21 (twenty years ago)
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:22 (twenty years ago)
― the bellefox, Monday, 12 December 2005 15:23 (twenty years ago)
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:24 (twenty years ago)
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)
― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:28 (twenty years ago)
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:30 (twenty years ago)
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 12 December 2005 16:38 (twenty years ago)
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 12 December 2005 16:52 (twenty years ago)
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 12 December 2005 16:54 (twenty years ago)
Bloke takes off his uniform cap, scratches his head with the same hand that's holding the cap, then replaces cap on head.
also
"Come come, officer. I'm a respectable man."
― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Monday, 12 December 2005 16:54 (twenty years ago)
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 12 December 2005 17:01 (twenty years ago)
"Here, son, I'll take one of those"
― kingfish trampycakes (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 12 December 2005 17:03 (twenty years ago)
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 12 December 2005 17:58 (twenty years ago)
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 12 December 2005 18:08 (twenty years ago)
― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 12 December 2005 18:09 (twenty years ago)
― nein Socken (nein Socken), Monday, 12 December 2005 18:10 (twenty years ago)
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 12 December 2005 18:11 (twenty years ago)
This was also in Platoon.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 12 December 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)
― stet (stet), Monday, 12 December 2005 18:14 (twenty years ago)
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 12 December 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)
And in more recent courtroom dramas (this one really arose with Law & Order, I think):
"I'll allow it."
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Friday, 16 January 2026 22:41 (four months ago)
Private detective (with a toothpick) drops a folder of grainy B&W photos on the desk
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 16 January 2026 22:57 (four months ago)
This also explains the career of Jared Leto.
as soon as I read this line i knew i was reading an Ashley Pomeroy
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Friday, January 16, 2026 3:30 PM
Had this same line copied and ready to go as well. It's always an exciting moment.
― pplains, Friday, 16 January 2026 23:21 (four months ago)
Fun fact: Jared Leto was my high school classmate. I think we had chemistry together
― calmer chameleon (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 16 January 2026 23:24 (four months ago)
Jared Leto always makes me think “stop encouraging this strained tryhard shit” that’s what I think about Jared Leto and nothing else particularly
― stimmed hums (wins), Friday, 16 January 2026 23:32 (four months ago)
Scott Eyman's Cary Grant bio is terrific.
― Eric Blore Is President (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 17 January 2026 02:04 (four months ago)
I needed a further explanation about Jared Leto until i realised it was an Ashley Pomeroy post and that saved me a lot of Google-holing. Salute!
― Jonk Raven (dog latin), Saturday, 17 January 2026 02:10 (four months ago)
Lol, as did everyone else it seems
― Jonk Raven (dog latin), Saturday, 17 January 2026 02:27 (four months ago)
death by junkyard trash compactor (has this ever actually happened in real life?)
OSHA Accident Search Results - Trash Compactor - Results 1-20 of 211
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 17 January 2026 04:19 (four months ago)
a missing heiress is front page news for several days
― Gentler Death Squads Please (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 17 January 2026 04:22 (four months ago)
but watch yourself, counselor
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Saturday, 17 January 2026 04:30 (four months ago)
In every '50s juvenile delinquent pic:- juke joints- soda fountains- rumbles- open-top car packed with "teenagers" pulls up at a gas station blasting wild jazz- tight sweaters and push-up brassieres- hair oil
― one man against the cistern (Matt #2), Saturday, 17 January 2026 04:31 (four months ago)
... teenagers who look like 30 year olds.
― Wearing red lipstick and maintaining a neutral expression (Tom D.), Saturday, 17 January 2026 08:54 (four months ago)
... correction, teenagers who are 30 year olds
― Wearing red lipstick and maintaining a neutral expression (Tom D.), Saturday, 17 January 2026 09:20 (four months ago)
wins otm
― a ZX spectrum is haunting Europe (Daniel_Rf), Saturday, 17 January 2026 10:20 (four months ago)
xp: I watched Shake Rattle & Rock last year, in which 51-year-old Sterling Holloway plays, if not one of the high school teenagers, maybe a 20-something hipster who was part of the rock 'n' roll scene.
― peace, man, Saturday, 17 January 2026 10:40 (four months ago)
I keep thinking of "The Nutty Professor" where some of the "kids" Jerry Lewis is teaching appear to be in their 40s.
― Wearing red lipstick and maintaining a neutral expression (Tom D.), Saturday, 17 January 2026 12:13 (four months ago)
See also: forty year-old actor plays weather-beaten cowboy without any aging makeup and looks like somebody today who is at least two decades older.
― Eric Blore Is President (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 17 January 2026 15:09 (four months ago)
The Wild Bunch Poll
― Eric Blore Is President (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 17 January 2026 15:12 (four months ago)
So many movies where you look up the age of the wizened elderly-looking character actor at the time of the filming only to find out they were significantly younger than you are now
― Gentler Death Squads Please (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 17 January 2026 16:53 (four months ago)
Elevator Operators
― Lithium Just Madison (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 18 January 2026 18:07 (four months ago)
People holding cigarettes between thumb and two fingers, tip pointed at the ground.
― chap, Monday, 19 January 2026 23:53 (four months ago)
I do that.
― The Luda of Suburbia (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 19 January 2026 23:57 (four months ago)
Ladies with hair blonder than the sun
― chap, Tuesday, 20 January 2026 00:01 (four months ago)
This reminded me of a line from Love & Rockets where one character was described as smoking like she was standing up to her neck in water.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Tuesday, 20 January 2026 01:11 (four months ago)
Craps game
― ernest borgnine as pitchfork-wielding pacifist amish farmer (Matt #2), Saturday, 24 January 2026 22:14 (four months ago)
Man Gets Into Mess Usually Reserved For Stars Of Silent Film Era
― visiting, Thursday, 5 February 2026 20:32 (four months ago)
running from monster - OOPS - "ive fallen and i cant get up"
― Minty Gum (Latham Green), Thursday, 5 February 2026 21:11 (four months ago)
"Ya can't believe everything ya read in the paypahs!'
― The Luda of Suburbia (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 19 February 2026 11:11 (three months ago)
Racetrack scene
― the prog judge has spoken (Matt #2), Monday, 18 May 2026 13:26 (three weeks ago)
Every single person has a bar or bar cart in their house
― pj, Monday, 18 May 2026 23:27 (three weeks ago)
liquor in crystal decanters
― Brenton Wood Conference (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 18 May 2026 23:35 (three weeks ago)
One of those old timey seltzer bottles
― Weebles ripped my flesh (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 18 May 2026 23:36 (three weeks ago)
Desperate criminals hiding out in a waterfront warehouse loft to indicate how low they've stooped, but said property would now be worth about 2 million
― the prog judge has spoken (Matt #2), Monday, 18 May 2026 23:56 (three weeks ago)
xp I knew a dude in San Francisco that had a subscription to those old timey seltzer bottles.. they would leave them on the front porch
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 18 May 2026 23:57 (three weeks ago)
An old movie trope sent to your house once a month
― jmm, Tuesday, 19 May 2026 00:02 (three weeks ago)
jeez looks like it's still a thing
https://www.seltzer-sisters.com/#SeltzerDelivery
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 19 May 2026 00:19 (three weeks ago)
also on the bar tip: run-down hole-in-the-wall dive bar is appointed with mirrors, cabinetry and brasswork worthy of a national historic site.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 19 May 2026 13:05 (three weeks ago)
very pointy bras
― pj, Wednesday, 20 May 2026 19:24 (two weeks ago)
making eye contact in the rearview mirror
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 20 May 2026 19:25 (two weeks ago)
At least one very clearly gay guy who we're expected to believe is a ladies' man.
― chap, Friday, 29 May 2026 10:48 (one week ago)