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Johnny Depp Says U.S. Is Like a 'Dumb Puppy'{Moves to France]
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Posted on 09/03/2003 5:23:39 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

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To: OpusatFR
For someone with such a fine education I would have never guessed you would miss the sarcasm in comment. LOL
181 posted on 09/03/2003 2:44:54 PM PDT by TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig ("Here's your one chance, Fancy don't let me down.")
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To: big ern
Pardon me ( ;

I've spent all day with democrats and have lost my wits!

I've never quite understood how these people could be so completely humorless, consumed by minutiae, and illogical. Why, they even took offense at my favorite blond joke. (And I'm platinum...)

Ann Coulter gets on a plane....no seriously...

A blonde gets on a plane and takes a seat in the business class section. The flight attendant checks her list and sees that the blonde is supposed to be in coach. She asks the blonde to move, but the blond just shakes her head, "No." Other flight attendants attempt to get her to move but she won't. Finally, the attendant goes to the Captain and tells him about the problem.

"Don't worry," says the Captain, "I speak blonde."

With that, he speaks softly to the blonde who looks up startled and proceeds to coach.

"What did you say to her?" asks the attendant.

"I told her that this part of the plane doesn't go to Minneapolis." said the captain.

Now, I ask you. Is that offensive?

182 posted on 09/03/2003 2:57:41 PM PDT by OpusatFR
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To: Corin Stormhands
Sigh...another talented actor who doesn't realize that he's only relevant when he's reading words written by someone else.

Bingo.

183 posted on 09/03/2003 3:03:36 PM PDT by Huck
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To: wardaddy
mine was a 69...........red, black interior..convertible with really bad brakes..this was back in 75......
184 posted on 09/03/2003 3:52:35 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: wardaddy
Shifting in a British sports car is as effortless and graceful as fly fishing. The arm is cradled at a constant 90 degree bend, the throw distance of the shifter linkage never exceeds a half hand distance. It's like the cockpit in a Lear 25. Tight, crowded, and everything can be worked with minimal inputs.
185 posted on 09/03/2003 5:12:02 PM PDT by blackdog ("I hope that it's only amnesia, my friends think I'm permanantly insane")
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To: Sub-Driver
The braking systems in the MGB and MGB GT were simple and were of single line supply and later dual line supply which could be upgraded with a servo booster as an option. The servo booster countered that wierd random wheel grab notorious in British cars. You never knew which direction your car might pull when applying sudden braking. The servo cured that. I found it more a game of chance and opted to stay puzzled. After all, that's why god invented a steering wheel and clean underwear. Besides, British cars are not meant to operate on an interstate, in city traffic, below 20 degrees, above 85 degrees, oil free pavement, or on the way to a job interview. Other than that they run just fine.

Did you ever wonder why British engineers don't make computers? They haven't figured out how to get them to leak oil yet!

186 posted on 09/03/2003 5:21:50 PM PDT by blackdog ("I hope that it's only amnesia, my friends think I'm permanantly insane")
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To: Sub-Driver; blackdog
I almost bought a black MGA but the guy cracked it up first...beautiful car.

BD...I have an Land Rover now and have had on and off for 15 years.

I know...(what you're going to say)
187 posted on 09/03/2003 5:25:11 PM PDT by wardaddy (deforestation now!)
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To: wardaddy
The same engineer who fitted the Piper Cherokee with the back seats free lanced for Morris Garage and had his similar handywork installed in the MGB GT. The seat was exactly the width of a six pack of beer and as tall as a six pack of long necks. The seat was just a padded beer shelf.
188 posted on 09/03/2003 5:27:30 PM PDT by blackdog ("I hope that it's only amnesia, my friends think I'm permanantly insane")
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To: blackdog
I flew in a small Lear once in Brasil when the company I usually chartered Aztecs and Commanders from to go out in the bush only had the Lear available and chartered it to me for cost. Sao Paulo to Belo Horizonte...roughly 2 hours for 750 bucks. It had the cockpit and seating for about 7 in the cabin. We had an ex IDF fighter jock with us and they let him fly some....wow....felt like a fair ride. It was set up SP and gravel kits but we took 2 pilots anyhow. What a blast...it is indeed a different mode of transport from 737 cattle cars. We went quite high too as I recall.

Boy...the stories I could tell about charter craft in the third world. When the pilots are doe eyed in the charts and peering out the window at night looking for lights at an altitude less than the surrounding peaks....you know things could get dangerous. Another time in north central amazonia, we could not find Bom Jesus De Lapa and it was getting dark and when it's dark up there, there are no lights on the horizon nor fuel to be found. At twilight dusk, we found a small village with a suitable gravel road and set the small Commander down and bunked for the nite in the village...lol

Remember when that airline down there got lost over the Amazon and ran out of fuel and crashed in the canopy...even had some survivors...they discovered a lost stone age tribe in the search.

I flew in an Old Beech Hawker and an old Jet Commander with my dad a few times as a boy but can't remember much.

When my dad was dying and he had to get to Mayo quick, Stevens FBO at BNA let him use a Beech "StarShip" prop jet to carry him in comfort for a steal.....maybe the most unusual corporate plane I ever saw.

189 posted on 09/03/2003 5:39:11 PM PDT by wardaddy (deforestation now!)
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To: Sub-Driver
Hope he makes place for a few others who need to leave, too.

They can litter France for good. Hope Americans do nothing to support his living.
190 posted on 09/03/2003 5:50:22 PM PDT by Spirited
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To: wardaddy
Beech actually agreed to take those Starships back.
191 posted on 09/03/2003 6:12:02 PM PDT by blackdog ("I hope that it's only amnesia, my friends think I'm permanantly insane")
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To: blackdog
They looked like something from Star Trek.
192 posted on 09/03/2003 6:16:24 PM PDT by wardaddy (deforestation now!)
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To: wardaddy
Tell drugged up johnny and his fans what you really think!

http://www.johnnydeppzone.com/
193 posted on 09/03/2003 6:47:03 PM PDT by God luvs America
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To: Sub-Driver
Well, that's another person's movies I shan't be attending. No big lose, in my opinion.
194 posted on 09/03/2003 6:49:39 PM PDT by blackbart1
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To: OpusatFR
Now, I ask you. Is that offensive?

No, but it's pretty tough to offend me. It takes the Dixie Chick's mouths or that bumper sticker that says "War is Terrorism" to offend me.

If war is terrorism that means our warriors are terrorists. That IS offensive.

195 posted on 09/03/2003 7:26:22 PM PDT by TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig ("Here's your one chance, Fancy don't let me down.")
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To: Sub-Driver
•By 1974, he was apparently known as a drug user, vandal and thief by his peers and was suspended from school for flashing his buttocks at one of his teachers.

•High School dropout

•In and out of one marriage and three engagements by the age of 30.

•Also in 1989 he was arrested in Vancouver & charged with assault & mischief in connection with a fight he had with a hotel security guard. The charges were later dropped.
October 31, 1993 River Phoenix died of "acute multiple drugs intoxication" (to quote Los Angeles county coroner Scott Carrier) on 31 October, in the Viper Room, the "cool underground nightclub" on Sunset Strip co-owned by Johnny Depp.

• In 1994 Depp was arrested for trashing a $1200-a-night hotel room in New York City.
In January 1999 Depp was arrested for fighting with paparazzi in front of a London restaurant.

•He left Hollywood because he deplored what he called its "bad influences and superficial values."

•He has no come out with violent films such as BLOW and hugely gratuitously violent film named Once upon a time in Mexico.


He really is delusional if he thinks he can judge anything or anyone.

I will not be renting or buying any more deep movies.
196 posted on 09/03/2003 7:54:30 PM PDT by Kay Soze (Free Republic- gathering place for "go along to get along Republicans" & a few Conservatives.)
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To: Kay Soze
PS

This depp sh#t has had problems living in Canada and England as well!
197 posted on 09/03/2003 8:08:43 PM PDT by Kay Soze (Free Republic- gathering place for "go along to get along Republicans" & a few Conservatives.)
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To: Mr. K
Pirates is really funny, and Johnny Depp is pure physical genius in it, in the spirit of Charlie Chaplin and Harpo Marx, although I have read that he tried to model the role on a cross of Keith Richards and Pepe LePew.

There are some scenes which are too intense for young children, which I won't describe because I don't want to spoil it, but my mature 15 year old enjoyed it, and I wasn't ashamed to see it with him and laugh.

If it sounds like your kind of movie, see it. We can all use more laughter in our lives.

Johnny Depp is an actor. So don't take him so seriously. He lives in France, and made fun of the US boycott of France over the Iraq war. Big deal. He didn't say anything nice about the French government, nor did he say anything nice about Saddam, so he's not a traitor in my book, just impolite.

198 posted on 09/04/2003 1:49:05 PM PDT by CobaltBlue (Never voted for a Democrat in my life.)
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