Does Old Dog recommend Buckaroo Banzai? And what is the reference? Is it wherever you go, there you are? It seems like I heard that phrase before 1984, but maybe not.
Yes, the reference is "wherever you go, there you are" but, much to my chagrin, I got the quote wrong. The correct movie quote is "No matter where you go, there you are." Very close, but no cigar. Either way, the quotes are close enough in meaning to have probably originated from the same source which, according to my initial research, is undetermined. It has been attributed to Confucius, Alcoholics Anonymous, Baba Ram Dass, and Jackie Mason, among others.
Although The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension is one of my favorite movies I cannot recommend it to Uncle Ken. It is too strange, the kind of movie he'll watch and proclaim "It's stupid, I don't get it!" (not to put any words in his mouth). It is low budget, with some special effects that can only be described as highly processed cheese, but other effects are okay. The story and characters are a complicated mess, but in a good way and the cast is stellar. The movie was released when the studio was going through an administration change and they had no idea how to market it; they couldn't determine who the audience was, something that occurs when a movie is too original. So it had a limited release and disappeared, yet more than thirty years later folks are still talking about it on the film forums. The IMDB has plenty of reviews (mostly positive) to give a potential viewer a sense of the movie. Check them out. I accept no responsibility for any wastes of time or assaults on sensibility.
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Home schooling isn't something I've given much thought to, so I had to go read up on it. The realities of home schooling aren't quite in line with Uncle Ken's suppositions; the home schooled outperform public school students on standardized tests by a whopping 37 percentile points. I recall some Spelling Bee winners being home schooled, likewise with some science fair winners. The Tribune had an article written by a skeptical college teacher that describes things more fully: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-home-school-education-college-dupage-perspec-0219-jm-20160218-story.html
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Well, that was quick. In the space of ten days The Mooch gets hired, has a baby, gets served with divorce papers, and gets fired. The White House seems to be taking the point of view that "Nothing to see here, folks, Move along." And it's "The Mooch" or "Mooch." "Da Mooch" is some kind of musical entertainer who specializes in club/dance music, the kind of repetitive electronic stuff that you hear in dance club scenes in some modern movies. I can tolerate it if the dose is less than ten minutes in duration; it got my toes tapping, but I am the young pup of this group.
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Uncle Ken is lucky he saw Niagara Falls when he did. This past weekend had an episode of waste water discharge at the Falls, which I've read was quite pungent. Timing is everything.
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