bearister said:

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https://www.steelers.com/news/trial-was-theater-of-the-absurd-5078445

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DiabloWags said:

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The King of Juicing!

Victor Conte - 1950 - 2025, San Carlos.
Pancreatic cancer.

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Cal88 said:

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Tatsuya Nakadai (1932-2025)

One of the all time greats.



Among his movies -

The human condition trilogy
Harakiri
Samurai rebellion
The sword of doom
High and low
Yojimbo
Seven samurai
Kagemusha
Ran
Kwaiden
Hachiko
When a woman ascends the stairs
The face of another
Battle of okinawa



Alongside Toshiro Mifune in Yojimbo




Chief detective Tokura in High and Low

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Eastern Oregon Bear said:

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The US Penny Dies After 230 Years



After centuries of usefulness, the penny had, for the last few decades, reached the point where it wasn't worth picking up when you saw one on the sidewalk.

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• The famous Vanishing Coins of the Civil War
• Minted from 1864 to 1873
• Abolished by the Mint Act of 1873

Eastern Oregon Bear said:

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The US Penny Dies After 230 Years



After centuries of usefulness, the penny had, for the last few decades, reached the point where it wasn't worth picking up when you saw one on the sidewalk.

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bearister said:

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…..and without those great movies and actors Tarantino would never have been inspired to write this great dialogue in Kill Bill, Vol. 2:


Elle Driver: That's right. I killed your master. And now I'm gonna kill you too, with your own sword, no less, which in the very immediate future, will become... my sword.

The Bride: B@itch, you don't have a future.

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SFCityBear said:

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bearister said:

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…..and without those great movies and actors Tarantino would never have been inspired to write this great dialogue in Kill Bill, Vol. 2:


Elle Driver: That's right. I killed your master. And now I'm gonna kill you too, with your own sword, no less, which in the very immediate future, will become... my sword.

The Bride: B@itch, you don't have a future.

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And Paul Schrader and his brother Leonard might not have been inspired to write the script for the movie, "The Yakuza", which the major studios got into a bidding war over, and it ended up selling for $350,000. At that time it was the 2nd largest sum ever paid for a script. Only the script "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" sold for a higher price, $450,000.

At the time, I was working for my neighbor as a tech rep, and his two best friends from college days were Paul and Len Schrader. They were holed up in a motel in LA, writing this script for a samurai film. When the script was finished and the bidding craziness began, they came up to SF to hide out with my neighbor, and crash here until the script was sold. They gave me a copy of the script, and it blew me away. The story was ostensibly about the relationship between a former yakuza, a samurai, played by Takakura Ken, and an LA private eye (Robert Mitchum). It had a surprise ending, which was no surprise to those who follow samurai films. It was intended to be a moral film, with all sorts of meaning, but the direction just did no justice to the script, and it didn't get good reviews. Lots of blood and gore, though.

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Todd Snider, the rambling troubadour who helped shape the Americana music movement, has died at the age of 59 https://t.co/jt0O3qfEQb

— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) November 15, 2025

Big C said:

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DiabloWags said:

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The King of Juicing!

Victor Conte - 1950 - 2025, San Carlos.
Pancreatic cancer.

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Barry Bonds was awesome. Oh, he was juiced? You don't think most of the NFL is juiced, too? "Baseball people" crack me up (not talking about you, DW. I love T&F people.)

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