You know that quote, "there's a fool born every minute"?

I'm thinking of a movie, or a TV show that uses that quote, or perhaps they say something about fools in the previous sentence and then say, "there's one born every minute". I know there's probably a few so I'll try and narrow it down. I'm almost positive it's an American man saying it, and I think he might say it over the opening of the show/movie.

I feel like it goes something like, "there's a fool born every minute and my job is to [something something something]." I don't think it's comedy - he sounds pretty serious and I imagine him to be at least in his thirties, but probably older than that. His voice is quite deep and a bit gruff. He might have been playing a cop or something? Or he could have just been a narrator.

The TV show/movie may well have been in black and white, and I'm thinking there's some sort of 'on the mean city streets' kind of theme to it (did that make any sense?). I thought it might have been from Sin City, but I don't think it is.

Can anybody help? I'm scared I might have totally made this up!

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Haha, nevermind, it came to me while I was editing this post. It's from this public info film from the 1970s about water! He says, "only a fool would ignore this but there's one born every minute." Not American, not a movie, not a TV show, no cops or mean streets, God knows why I was suddenly remembering it as any of those things!

I saw some parts of a TV series on Youtube once and can't find them again:
-there was a pair of male identical twins (skinny blond guys)
-one of them was straight, one of them had just come out as gay
-the gay one was dating the landlord of his apartment building. One day he had to pick up someone important at the airport and convinced his straight brother to pretend to be him on a date with the landlord.

Anyone know what this was? Thanks in advance for any info! :)

Is there a word for when you hear noises, like the telephone or doorbell or other alarm-like noises, either when you're listening to loud music or just any other noise which make occupy your hearing (like running the tap or something)?

Sorry I had no idea how to explain that! I'm sure I remember reading about it once.

Not tinnitus or paranoia!

Thanks

Fire is, like the cover says, a companion book to Graceling (don't pay attention to this graphic, my book says quite clearly "companion"). Chronologically it’s a prequel, but in setting inhabits a mysterious world separated by mountains from Katsa’s and populated with Monsters instead of Gracelings. Monsters are no less captivating or powerful than Gracelings, but they’re considerably more deadly; Dellians fear Monsters as much as they inexplicably love them. Lucky for Fire--the protagonist--she’s the only human Monster left in the Dells. The rest are animals: brightly colored with poisonous malice and a thirst for blood, especially Monster blood. What attracts normal people to Monsters is their beauty. As Clara eloquently put it, “Everyone wants a bit of something beautiful.” (p. 204) The danger with that sentiment is not everyone responds by fawning or showing devotion and adoration. Some people are driven to do mad, horrible, violent things. It’s because of the degree of reaction (overwhelming unless a person has learned to control themselves, which can be done), Fire has learned to grudgingly defend herself by making use of the hypnotic, controlling power she has as a Monster. Exerting her will onto others while distasteful and utterly disagreeable to Fire’s inclinations, helps keep her safe, but it also reminds her of her father.

Cansrel was a lustful man who abused his Monster abilities and enslaved people to do terrible things for him. Worst of all, he enslaved the Dellian King, drove him mad enough to kill himself and ran the kingdom into ruins. As Fire is constantly reminding herself: she is not Cansrel. That doesn’t stop other people from sending harsh, critical stares in her direction or judging her objectively before they’ve ever met her. But Fire is nothing else if not brave. For as much as Fire’s Monsterhood ostracizes and objectifies her to other people, it saved her from her father, Cansrel. In his beautiful little girl, Cansrel found a bit of himself, a person of like abilities to share a bond with, someone whom he could never harm, but train--in secret--to hone her abilities and harness her will for selfish and bad deeds. Before his sudden death, Fire learned everything she needed to know about her power: how not to be like Cansrel.

And so Fire, the novel, opens onto an eerie scene with a man and his Graceling son, a wicked boy who uses his Grace for cruel exploitation and perverse motivations. Immiker, who is also known as Lek, is creepy. He’s so creepy, I was glad the book moved onto the first part and chapter, leaving him far behind in favor of Fire. Fire, who is not creepy. Fire, who is determined to find the poacher who shot her on accident and the archer who shot him and continues to kill throughout the Dells. But to do that, she has to contend with a king who can’t resist her, vicious raptors, her own misgivings, and a prince who doesn’t hide his distrust and dislike of Fire.

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"The Girl From Everywhere," released near the end of 1927, is among the earliest surviving films featuring Carole Lombard (or, as she's billed here, "Carolle Lombard"). It's four reels long, sort of in between the length for shorts and features; some of the scenes are filmed in two-strip Technicolor. Reportedly Mack Sennett initially wanted to make this film a full-length feature, comically showing where his bathing beauties came from, but soon he decided to instead make this a sort of Hollywood satire (Mack Swain plays Wilfred Ashcraft, an ersatz Cecil B. De Mille).

I've never viewed the film, as it hasn't been quite as available as some other of Lombard's Sennett shorts, but from the various descriptions I've seen it may be fairly amusing. Here's a publicity still from the film:



That's Lombard apparently naked (and while it appears she's suffered a black eye, I think that's excessive shadow) receiving some pearls from diminutive Daphne Pollard, who's playing wardrobe mistress Minnie Stitch. Lombard likely celebrated her 19th birthday during shooting, and she was beginning to heed Sennett's advice and was gaining some weight to add some curves.

This photo is now being auctioned at eBay; it's an 8" x 10" in good condition (actually sepia-toned) despite it being more than eight decades old. As of this writing, no bids have been made, not surprising considering the minimum bid is listed at $49.99. However, you'll have nearly a week to save up the money if interested, since bidding won't close until 8:30 p.m. (Eastern) next Sunday.

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P.S. "The Girl From Everywhere" must have been successful, because the following year Sennett came up with a similarly-titled (and themed) picture, called "The Girl From Nowhere."

the song "leavin' on a jet plane" by john denver/peter paul and mary keeps playing over and over in my head with kind of a husky/low voice? mainly just the words "my bags are packed, i'm ready to gooo..."

every time i try to think of what movie/show/whatever it's from i think of the golden girls, thinking dorothy sang it? but i can't really place it. then i started to think maybe it was in wayne's world?... or tommy boy?! i have no idea

Sorry for posting again so soon! But I was just thinking about something I read/listened to recently.

It was about a person born to two deaf parents. At one point the mother suffers a stroke and can only control use of her right hand. That's all I remember but I'm trying very hard to look for it!

Thanks :)

This is kind of a long-shot, but I figure it's worth a try.

I'm trying to remember the title of this - I guess it was a movie - that I saw sometime in the mid 90s. It aired in two parts on Russian television, so maybe it was a movie that was just split in two, maybe it was something else. I don't know if it was originally made in Russia or dubbed from another language. I was pretty young back then so I wouldn't know the actors, or remember any character names, but I can recall bits of the plot, so maybe someone will know it.

An airplane flew through some sort of warp into an alternate dimension, and the passengers who were awake (I think) vanished, leaving their watches and jewelry behind. The plane landed in an airport that looked modern but was abandoned, and matches didn't work. At the end, it turned out that dimension was inhibited by some sort of creatures (who actually looked like giant brown balls with only a mouth which had a bunch of razor-sharp, perhaps spinning teeth in it) who destroyed everything. In the end, everyone got back on the airplane, took off, and tried to fly back through the space warp, and suddenly one of the pilots remembered that the the people who're awake will disappear, so they put all of the passengers to sleep. The co-pilot volunteered to stay awake and steer the plane through the space-warp, and in the end, there was a shot of his empty seat, with just his watch left on it.

Anyone have any idea what this is? Thank you!

EDIT: It's been found; the title is The Langoliers. Thank you very much, guys!

OK, I remember there being a website that was basically a database of super badass knitting/crocheting patterns. I don't remember much about the name of the site, just that it was white I believe and it was really easy to navigate. I'm pretty sure you could make like, a collection of patterns you wanted to knit, like you could save them.

Any help? Please?

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There was a web site that I remember someone talking about a while ago and it was basically all these cities and people would post pictures of sluts or douchebags that they didn't like and all the stuff they've done or whatever. It was something along the lines of "The Dirty" or something?

Anyone know what I'm talking about?

Title: Queene of Light Editor: Jennifer Armintrout Format: MM Available Formats: MM, Kindle, Barnes and Noble Nook, Sony Reader Page Count: 375 Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Mira Books Pub. Date: September 29, 2009 ISBN-13: 9780778326625 Series: #1 in the Lightworld/Darkworld series Rating: 3 of 10

Summary:
Ayla, a half-human and half-faery, is an assassin for the faery realm. The faeries live in the underworld, but on the half dedicated to those creatures of 'light': dragons, faeries, and dwarves. In the other half of the underworld lurks those darker creatures like vampires, demons, and death angels... And of course, in the above world live the humans that forced all the magical beings into the sewers.

TL;DR Version:
Queene of Light has serious flaws: a protagonist who never makes decisions for herself, a love-interest who speaks almost exclusively in creepy rape-imagery, and a transparent plot. Steer clear of this one if you can.

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