Three Random Thoughts (aka Randolph Mantooth!)

[Tom Foolery]

1. How much you wanna bet that US based companies will start charging a ‘patriot tax’ because they think they’re missing out on all the “profits” other companies are making off of tariff surcharges.

2. I painted an Easter egg with the Ukrainian flag’s colors. Slava Ukraini.

3. Elena Eleniak’s lucious big boobies in Under Seige.

[anarky]

1. How much you wanna bet that US based companies will start charging a ‘patriot tax’ because they think they’re missing out on all the “profits” other companies are making off of tariff surcharges.

I bought a ton of shit last weekend because I have no doubt something along those lines will happen. Big box retailers in particular will likely hike all prices up, because they rightly figure most Americans are too dumb to know what's from where (or how to check), and also they figure (again rightly) that those of us who do, well, what the fuck we gonna do about it? Stop brushing our teeth.

Actually, who the fuck knows? He caved on them almost immediately. At least it's all shit I'd need for the next few months; all I lost is the interest I would've made on what I spent. Which is less of a loss than my retirement savings. Ouch.

[anarky]

Okay, really fucking weird question.

I've found in the last few years that older women are hotter than they were when I was young.

Obvious case in point: Ming-Na Wen is 61. Bea Arthur was 63 when Golden Girls debuted, as was Betty White. Either looks like they'd be Ming-Na's grandmother (discounting the obvious issue of ethnicity).

Is it that we're old? I'm not sure that's entirely the explanation. I can see 20-year-old me wanting to bone the fuck out of 66-year-old Jamie Lee Curtis, who's just Jamie Lee Curtis with gray hair and a few wrinkles.

Has humanity made a minor evolutionary jump to adjust to extended lifespans? Is it that we're collectively taking better care of ourselves?

I've seen it speculated that it's fewer people smoking. So they're not only not prematurely aging themselves, but the secondhand smoke isn't fucking us all over.

All I know is Stevie Nicks is older than many dinosaurs (okay, older by over a decade than Dorothy Svornack or Granny Clampett), and she ain't the only woman technically old enough to be a great-grandmother and who middle school kids would totally whack it to.

[Ran]

1. It seems like people used to age way faster. I was watching the Ken Burns' Baseball documentary a while back. In the episode that covered the 1920s-1930s, they showed a picture of some player at the end of his career. You would guess he was in his late 60s or early 70s, but he was 40. At the end of last year, my mom sent me a picture of me when I was about 4 years old. I'm with my grandfather. He looked the same my entire life. I realized that he would have been about the same age as I am now in that photo.

2. Refer back to our previous discussion about Mrs. Howell from Gilligan's Island.


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3. I watched part of "Horror of Dracula" from 1958. Obviously it was about Dracula, but I saw it as Grand Moff Tarkin vs. Count Dooku.

[Tom Foolery]

1. Do you ever watch older movies and someone will mention a $ amount, and you go online to see how much that would be in today’s $? Marion Ravenwood’s $5000 demand for the headpiece in Raiders is roughly $115,000 today. Indy was casually walking around with $3000 in his pocket, which was nearly $70,000.

2. The McDonald’s Jingle ‘I’m lovin’ it’ was written by Justin Timberlake.

3. The largest tire manufacturer in the world is….Lego.