8/17/08 Captain Jack's Repossession Repo Cruise to PC thru TPC Part 12

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Picture the scene from POTC 1 with Jack & Elizabeth on the beach.

Elizabeth: My computer just told me that I am in "Digital Roam"

Jack: Waving arms frantically. "No good. No, good! Why is the free digital singal always gone?!"

Yes, it's slow here today. I'm ready for a weekend, no matter how busy it may be.

That's funny!

 

[Grandma x3]

HI All,

DGS Matt is sick - I've been trying to ketchup --

To Andrew & Andrew.

Belated to those I missed.

As I'm reading the posts it appears a number of our crew are having problems --- health, family, jobs, et al.

and my well wishes and prayers to all of you.

I'm going to take one of Andy's "power naps" while Matt is sleeping.

Later, Chris

 

[yargrnhoj]

Okay what is it with the movies that are On Demand. My DD is watching Sixteen Candles. It is rated PG on the listing but it is absolutely not PG. I think the older movies all get PG ratings. Good thing she is past the PG-13 stage but geez.

The PG-13 rating was not created until middle of 1984. Sixteen Candles was rated before PG-13 existed. It was originally rated R and then some scenes were cut to make it "PG". Yes, today it would likely be PG-13.

 

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I do not know about everyone else, I have always had good staeroom hosts, good servers, but the head server has been hit and miss. The 2005 repo I had a great one saw him every night, helped out, brought drinks, cut kids food etc.

Same here! I wonder why?

 

[yargrnhoj]

And you just had to see how gross he was everyday, eh?

I was thinking the same thing. Somehow she KNEW he sunbathed nude EVERY DAY.

 

[yargrnhoj]

Thanks Andrew for that info. I like seeing my post moving up the food chain list!

Karen

Hey, I've climbed into 6th place. Andrew better watch his back and start posting fluff or I will be in the top 5. Nobody wants that, do they?

 

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I've seen the Vegas tattoo picture....I don't think that was an arm.

I think that this was referring to Captain Jack Sparrow (aka Todd)

 

[yargrnhoj]

hmmmmmm Alaskan Mountain Mamma who trains midget operatives vs. Pburgh steelworkers.... I dunno, I think Vegas would lay 50/50 odds on that one!

Correction: DRUNK Pgh steelworkers. (Not sure if there is any other kind, mind you.)

 

[yargrnhoj]

I think that this was referring to Captain Jack Sparrow (aka Todd)

I'm trying to figure out what M saw tattoo-ed.

 

[Verandah Man]

Chris--I had a nice nap earlier myself, I fell asleep with the heating pad on and wrapped around my knee, luckily, Hazel was awake keeping an eye on me.


Cheryl--Hazel just arrived home from CVS with a tube of Thera-gesic for me to try.

 

[yargrnhoj]

Was looking at my Med cruise tips, 2 adults 2 kids, and put in for the 15 night repo:-

$654

Dining Room Server 220.80
Dining Room Server 160.80
Head Server 55.80
Stateroom Host/Hostess 216.60

I do not know about everyone else, I have always had good staeroom hosts, good servers, but the head server has been hit and miss. The 2005 repo I had a great one saw him every night, helped out, brought drinks, cut kids food etc.

2006, (Andy I think you would be the same one) I didnt like him, I saw him last night, funny that with a nice smile.

Previous DCL cruises before they were good.

We've always had good head servers, albeit useless ones in terms of food and drink delivery -- I don't think I ever saw them help out, food-wise.

On the 10-day HC, our HS seemed standoffish at first, but then he came by one night and SWMBO asked him where in France he was from and they talked for awhile because she had visited there in HS and after that, he was really friendly with us and the kids.

 

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I'm trying to figure out what M saw tattoo-ed.

I think it is a tattooed "member"!

 

[yargrnhoj]

Chris--I had a nice nap earlier myself, I fell asleep with the heating pad on and wrapped around my knee, luckily, Hazel was awake keeping an eye on me.


Cheryl--Hazel just arrived home from CVS with a tube of Thera-gesic for me to try.

Good thing, third-degree burns probably won't make the knee feel any better.

 

[yargrnhoj]

I think it is a tattooed "member"!

Member of what, he asks innocently...

 

[daipp]

On the 10-day HC, our HS seemed standoffish at first, but then he came by one night and SWMBO asked him where in France he was from and they talked for awhile because she had visited there in HS and after that, he was really friendly with us and the kids.

I know which Head Server you are talking about - on our first night he realised I was from Wales and we talked about Rugby and beating the English dance3: ). He made a bee-line for me and my family every night thereafter !!

David

 

[The FairyGodmother]

The PG-13 rating was not created until middle of 1984. Sixteen Candles was rated before PG-13 existed. It was originally rated R and then some scenes were cut to make it "PG". Yes, today it would likely be PG-13.

Worse, thing is she told me she already had seen it. Which makes me upset as I have made sure our tv's all have blocks on anything over PG-13. Shes 15 but still some of that is just not right.

I'm trying to figure out what M saw tattoo-ed.

I know, I know, I know. But I am not telling. Don't need trouble with the Capt'n

 

[Verandah Man]

I know, I know, I know. But I am not telling. Don't need trouble with the Capt'n

Butt, you should share, with the rest of us, what you know........................

 

[jonesing]

The PG-13 rating was not created until middle of 1984. Sixteen Candles was rated before PG-13 existed. It was originally rated R and then some scenes were cut to make it "PG". Yes, today it would likely be PG-13.

Useless Knowledge trivia question: Name the two movies that precipitated the creation of the PG-13 rating......

• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
• Gremlins

Indiana Jones specifically because of the scene where the temple priest reaches into some guy's chest and pulls his still beating heart out. Then, the guy (the sacrifice) is lowered into the bowels of the volcano and on the way down his heart bursts into flames in the priest's hand.

Gremlins due to some scenes of violence.

A lot of moms were outraged because they sent their 8-9-10 year olds into these movies whilst many spent the free time doing whatever. So when the kids got out of the movies and were re-enacting those portions, well, the outcry began. Steven Spielberg was involved with both movies.

That part I knew from memory...the rest is from Wiki

"Prior to 1984, when two films associated with Steven Spielberg (Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Gremlins) triggered widespread calls for a revision to the ratings system, there was a minor trend of films straddling the PG and R ratings (as shown by the MPAA records of appeals board decisions of the early 1980s). This suggested that there needed to be a middle ground between PG and R. The summer of 1982 featured Poltergeist, which was originally rated R (for intensity and a scene of drug use) but then re-rated PG on appeal. Disney's Dragonslayer (although PG without appeal, and a co-production with Paramount Pictures) alarmed many parents with scenes of explicit violence and gore. A larger percentage of films were allowed a PG rating despite limited use of strong language (Tootsie, Terms of Endearment, Sixteen Candles, Footloose) that initially had warranted an R rating until the appeals board changed their ratings to PG (thanks in large measure to precedents set in the 1970s, with All the President's Men at their forefront).

Public outcry about the violence led Spielberg to suggest a new PG-13 rating to MPAA president Jack Valenti, who conferred with theater owners and then introduced the new rating on July 1. The rating still allowed children under 13 to be admitted without a parent or guardian, but it cautions parents about potentially shocking violence or other offensive content, although not as offensive as an R rating. It is the highest unrestricted rating."​

Contrast all this rating stuff with my mom sending me and my mates at the time into the movies on base to see Enter the Dragon or any other Kung Fu movie by ourselves! She had absolutely NO interest in such things so she would just show her military ID card (I wasn't eligible to have my own card until age 13), buy us our tickets and come back in 2-3 hours to pick us up! Imagine her shock when we got back to the states and I wanted to see a movie at a civilian theater only to be told that they wouldn't sell her one child ticket for an "R" rated movie--she had to go in with me! Neither one of us would have that! I think we wound up going to the mall...thus beginning my career as a SoCal mall rat

 

[jonesing]

Worse, thing is she told me she already had seen it. Which makes me upset as I have made sure our tv's all have blocks on anything over PG-13. Shes 15 but still some of that is just not right.

First of all, you do know that the TV ratings are not a 1:1 match with the MPAA ratings? The MPAA movie ratings are voluntary, plus some PG-13 movies might translate into TV-PG or TV-14 depending on the content and/or the reviewer at the time. TV-PG also includes Deal or No Deal and American Idol

If she's 15 she's probably seen a lot of other stuff but that's just me being cynical. But as a matter of pragmatism, if the blocking you use is on the TV (V-chip) then your local 10 year old can show you how to defeat that! Blocking via cable provider is a little more robust/secure but that has been hacked as well.

 

[tom31b]

Okay what is it with the movies that are On Demand. My DD is watching Sixteen Candles. It is rated PG on the listing but it is absolutely not PG. I think the older movies all get PG ratings. Good thing she is past the PG-13 stage but geez.

When did they add PG-13, and was this movie before that?