2016 Postmortem
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(45,850 posts)Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)But damn you're funny...
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)But I'm also an excellent judge of character.
winter is coming
(11,785 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)which probably explains the ones who double or triple up on their roles.
chwaliszewski
(1,514 posts)"I tried to run the ship properly, by the book, but they fought me at every turn. The crew wanted to walk around with their shirt tails hanging out, that's all right, let them. Take the tow line, defective equipment, no more, no less. But they encouraged the crew to go around scoffing at me, and spreading wild rumors about steaming in circles, and then old yellow-strain. I was to blame for Lt. Maryk's incompetence and poor seamanship. Lt. Maryk was the perfect officer, but not Captain Queeg.
Ah, but the strawberries, that's, that's where I had them, they laughed at me and made jokes, but I proved beyond the shadow of a doubt, with geometric logic, that a duplicate key to the ward room icebox did exist, and I've had produced that key if they hadn't pulled the Caine out of action. I, I know now they were only trying to protect some fellow officer. [He pauses - looked at all the questioning faces that stared back at him, and realizes that he has been ranting and raving] Naturally, I can only cover these things from memory. If I left anything out, why, just ask me specific questions and I'll be glad to answer them."
merrily
(45,251 posts)Casting Bogart in that role was genius because he naturally kind of almost whistled through his teeth when saying esses and zees. So, "strawberry business" got an extra Bogart emphasis.
Of course, casting Bogart in any role was genius, but never mind that, now.
Bogart was not born or raised to play gangsters, two-bit private eyes, etc.
Humphrey Bogart, whose surname means "orchard," came from a long line of solid Dutch burghers and was a direct descendant of the original Dutch settlers in New York. In later life the reckless tough guy rarely mentioned his upper-class background, but he belonged to the Holland Society and proudly displayed the family coat of arms on his wall. His paternal grandfather had invented a commercially successful process that used tin for offset lithography and the family--who invested its money in Michigan timberland--was very well off. Though not listed in the Social Register, the Bogarts appeared in Who's Who in New York and in Dau's New York Blue Book from 1907 until 1933.
https://www.nytimes.com/books/first/m/meyers-bogart.html
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)but there's only so much even I can take..
merrily
(45,251 posts)Also, if it's meta, it's the most intelligent meta I've seen on this site.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)some sez I am, some sez I aint.
merrily
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countryjake
(8,554 posts)(thanks for the chuckle)
Zorra
(27,670 posts)and onto my lap.