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some_of_us_are_sane

(2,136 posts)
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 11:17 AM Jun 2025

What's the first thing that comes to mind

if I say, "Back and to the left". (NO CHEATING, don't look it up!)

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What's the first thing that comes to mind (Original Post) some_of_us_are_sane Jun 2025 OP
Walking down the wrong street? debm55 Jun 2025 #1
sensible, points for that! some_of_us_are_sane Jun 2025 #2
"Okay, you found the Lounge". . . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2025 #3
LOL!!! some_of_us_are_sane Jun 2025 #5
My mother rearranging furniture Glorfindel Jun 2025 #4
ROFL! some_of_us_are_sane Jun 2025 #6
Parallel parking sinkingfeeling Jun 2025 #7
Just like vacuuming... ANOTHER THING I CANNOT DO! some_of_us_are_sane Jun 2025 #8
The assassination of JFK EYESORE 9001 Jun 2025 #9
Bingo!!!!! some_of_us_are_sane Jun 2025 #10
"JFK" was a total load of bullshit. Archae Jun 2025 #13
Well....... that was a volley out of left field some_of_us_are_sane Jun 2025 #16
I simply have no respect whatsoever for Oliver Stone, or what he "creates." Archae Jun 2025 #20
Well, it certainly registers that you have many objections... some_of_us_are_sane Jun 2025 #22
Comedian Bill Hicks bit on the JFK assassination werdna Jun 2025 #11
ROFL!!! Thanks! some_of_us_are_sane Jun 2025 #12
Bill Hicks was great. LudwigPastorius Jun 2025 #14
LOL! some_of_us_are_sane Jun 2025 #17
Dang, I was going to guess "Let's do the Time Warp Again" .... nt eppur_se_muova Jun 2025 #15
Yes, it certainly sounds almost like, maybe a square dance caller, doesn't it? some_of_us_are_sane Jun 2025 #18
Or 7th grade dance class- box waltz.. yorkster Jun 2025 #29
Ah...yorkster some_of_us_are_sane Jun 2025 #39
And the boys lined up across the gym. yorkster Jun 2025 #41
Back and to the left justaprogressive Jun 2025 #19
Absolutely! some_of_us_are_sane Jun 2025 #21
"Back and to the left. Back, back... oops" mobeau69 Jun 2025 #28
YESSSS, moneau69!! some_of_us_are_sane Jun 2025 #40
Combing my hair as a kid. Harker Jun 2025 #23
i bet you are left-handed some_of_us_are_sane Jun 2025 #24
Primarily right handed, but I did (and do) several things with either hand. Harker Jun 2025 #25
Ya know...... I'm the same way some_of_us_are_sane Jun 2025 #32
JFK Dallas aeromanKC Jun 2025 #26
Yep! That's the one. some_of_us_are_sane Jun 2025 #30
1776 the musical PikaBlue Jun 2025 #27
Nope.... but MY GOD, I LOVED some_of_us_are_sane Jun 2025 #31
I live the entire mysical! PikaBlue Jun 2025 #33
One of my all time favorites. some_of_us_are_sane Jun 2025 #34
Sorry for the typos. PikaBlue Jun 2025 #35
PikaBlue, no worries some_of_us_are_sane Jun 2025 #37
Line dancing? applegrove Jun 2025 #36
Ooooo, applegrove...good guess, but some_of_us_are_sane Jun 2025 #38
Oh the magic bullet. I remember now. applegrove Jun 2025 #42
Yep! some_of_us_are_sane Jun 2025 #43

Glorfindel

(10,162 posts)
4. My mother rearranging furniture
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 11:23 AM
Jun 2025

many years ago. For some reason, she loved to rearrange furniture.

 

Archae

(47,245 posts)
13. "JFK" was a total load of bullshit.
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 12:21 PM
Jun 2025

Ok. they did get 2 things correct.
Kennedy was shot and killed in Dallas.
Garrison did put Clay Shaw on trial.

The rest of that movie is absolute bullshit.

Even that wonderful speech Garrison gave on the final day of the trial, as being played by Costner, was not given.
Garrison wasn't even there at the trial the last day.

Garrison was a grandstander who let organized crime figures off the hook.
He also tried to paint Clay Shaw as part of a "homosexual thrill killer group."

Yes. Even really well-made movies can be absolute horseshit.
Going back to "Birth Of A Nation."

some_of_us_are_sane

(2,136 posts)
16. Well....... that was a volley out of left field
Thu Jun 12, 2025, 01:19 PM
Jun 2025

I merely quoted a film. I skated right over discussion of the accuracy of said film.

(But at least you got that off your chest. Now breathe. )

 

Archae

(47,245 posts)
20. I simply have no respect whatsoever for Oliver Stone, or what he "creates."
Thu Jun 12, 2025, 01:50 PM
Jun 2025

Likewise DW Griffith.

Griffith was a genius, in the silent film era.

But his biggest film was "Birth Of A Nation," a racist retelling of Recontruction.

I enjoyed a lot of movies Clint Eastwood was in, but his asinine stunt with that chair (that was supposed to represent Obama,) and his recent films, including "Outlaw Josey Wales" and "Richard Jewell" show just what a piece of shit he really is.

Also, there's the actor Jeffrey Jones.
He was great in the movies "Beetlejuice" and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off."

But he wrecked his reputation completely by traveling to Asia to set up sex with children.

some_of_us_are_sane

(2,136 posts)
22. Well, it certainly registers that you have many objections...
Thu Jun 12, 2025, 02:11 PM
Jun 2025

and that's O.K. Good to get that shit off your chest, friend.

some_of_us_are_sane

(2,136 posts)
12. ROFL!!! Thanks!
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 12:06 PM
Jun 2025

I'd never heard of this comedian, but his humor is GREAT! (And how apropos to our time now.)

Visitor to the Book Suppository museum and looks out the exact window Oswald SUPPOSEDLY used..."NO F*CKING WAY! I CAN'T EVEN SEE THE STREET!")

yorkster

(3,404 posts)
41. And the boys lined up across the gym.
Thu Jun 12, 2025, 11:50 PM
Jun 2025

Our teacher was a character. She taught us the typical dance steps, but also let us do the Stroll. She was about 50 or so and would sort of shout "Stroll!" just as the music started...

some_of_us_are_sane

(2,136 posts)
21. Absolutely!
Thu Jun 12, 2025, 02:01 PM
Jun 2025

and "Bring that little one up front. And... oh.... you in the rear....take the hat off maybe?" LOL!!

mobeau69

(12,137 posts)
28. "Back and to the left. Back, back... oops"
Thu Jun 12, 2025, 08:01 PM
Jun 2025

Patriot Photographer’s instructions to a family of magats on the rim of the Grand Canyon.

some_of_us_are_sane

(2,136 posts)
40. YESSSS, moneau69!!
Thu Jun 12, 2025, 11:27 PM
Jun 2025

As the song goes in 'My Fair Lady'........'wouldn't it be loverly'?

(Sigh....)

some_of_us_are_sane

(2,136 posts)
32. Ya know...... I'm the same way
Thu Jun 12, 2025, 08:59 PM
Jun 2025

Primarily right handed but I do a lot of things with my left. (Mother was left-handed, my dad was right=handed. I guess my genes couldn't decide.

some_of_us_are_sane

(2,136 posts)
31. Nope.... but MY GOD, I LOVED
Thu Jun 12, 2025, 08:57 PM
Jun 2025

"MOLASSES TO RUM TO SLAVES" from the stage play and movie....(knocked my socks off! wow!)



AND

he was Dr. Green's father in E.R.

AND he was in NORTHERN EXPOSURE.

...quite a resume

(Thanks for calling all these to mind.)

some_of_us_are_sane

(2,136 posts)
34. One of my all time favorites.
Thu Jun 12, 2025, 09:27 PM
Jun 2025

Saw that very song performed on Ed Sullivan, then went to see the musical itself it on stage at the Heinz Theater in Pittsburgh in the early 70's. (Watched the movie MANY times over.)

PikaBlue

(365 posts)
35. Sorry for the typos.
Thu Jun 12, 2025, 09:35 PM
Jun 2025

The orange feline overlord is head butting my tablet. He says it's time to log off and give him some scritches.

some_of_us_are_sane

(2,136 posts)
37. PikaBlue, no worries
Thu Jun 12, 2025, 11:07 PM
Jun 2025

I'm all thumbs so I can read thumb-language. (Give your overlords a scratch for me.)



some_of_us_are_sane

(2,136 posts)
38. Ooooo, applegrove...good guess, but
Thu Jun 12, 2025, 11:15 PM
Jun 2025

It's the JFK movie. (Though I can SEE that reference to line dancing. I have no grace or talent for 'hoofing' of any kind, so any dancing is out of my wheelhouse.)

some_of_us_are_sane

(2,136 posts)
43. Yep!
Fri Jun 13, 2025, 12:12 AM
Jun 2025

That dang little hitchhiking bullet that made a few U turns and jaywalked itself into history.

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