Unfortunately with climate change my money is not on their long term prospects.

A an old show that is still hilarious today. Stood the test of time because of great writing and cast.

TIL that the plural of pterodactyl is pterodactyli

We also know this because they made one more movie after this, The Godfather Part II.

Salah Zulfikar

Yet

You'd never see something this cool done today because of all the precious snowflakes who'd sue them because they were traumatized.

Reminds me of the Sid Caesar cab story as told by Brooks

Fair enough, so many early TV comedy guys were Jewish (like Jack Benny, Sid Caesar, etc)…somehow you picked the one who was not!

Comment deleted. I don't know where I read it but I saw somewhere that says he was. My mistake!

The Mediterranean and the Near East had comparable populations for most of their history. It was only really after the 1600’s that India and China truly diverged and Europe became the population center in the West.

And then Brando sent a Mexican women to refuse the award on behalf of Native people.

the greats will always hold up

I Love Lucy

Mary Tyler Moore

Perry Mason

Twilight Zone

Danny Thomas was a Lebanese Catholic (hence founding a hospital in the name of his favorite saint, St. Jude.) very much NOT Jewish.

When mom says "We have Al Pacino at home"

Yep, mosquitos are the deadliest animal on the planet for humans.

Now that's some truly crappy legislation.

Wait, they had DVD's back then?

;-)

Totally agree. At least it's identified as being colorized -- but it would be far better in b&w.

Well, the west is slowly realizing that maybe medical knowledge refined over thousands, if not tens of thousands, of years might not be all bullshit (Ayurveda).

Turmeric latte, charcoal and salt toothpastes, ashwagandha, what have you.

Traditional chinese medicine (like a fuckin cobra drowned in a bottle of cheap wine) is still utter bullshit, though.

More than that. Reiner and Mel brooks watched a movie together every night until Reiner died.

There's a great interview with one of the writers on the Dick Van Dyke Show— of which there were three.

I'll link it if someone promises to watch it. It's fantastic, really some great stories about Reiner in there.

The one that comes to mind is one day a new studio executive came into the office, and he had been making waves firing staff, reworking complete teams— he was productions Voldemort— he came into the studio, put his legs up on the table and said

"Let me tell you what comedy means to me..."

And Reiner sat down next to him and put on an expression of deep listening, understanding, and reverence— this was all an act of course, then he got up, took the loafer off of the Executives foot and threw it out of the window; turned to the man and said— That's what comedy means to me.

That executive never came around ever again.

Absolutely hilarious.

Reiner is my favorite character in the Dick Van Dyke show.

Note: Ignore the intro, and the hosts:

https://youtu.be/t7IfhpA8jFU

I was only little bit disappointed that the Guano Act wasn't even referenced in the Kong: Skull Island movie.

There's no way government wonks would travel there to "explore" it and not bring up the fact they can just take it for America under the Guano Act.

Wheat and rice is a recent development in India (and most of the world, for that matter).

Millets were the staple crop in most of India up till the mid 20th century.

Wheat and rice are just too risky to grow in most places without modern technology.

Europe didn't necessarily loose all of the fertility of its lands with the collapse of the roman empire, yet it suddenly became a lot less prosperous.

A civilization's success depends on many factors, and fertile lands are just one of them. You need some pretty sophisticated bureaucracy to run it all.

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Moral of the story, you can go over and beyond for your country as a soldier in the end your country will shit on you and forget about you.