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    Quote Originally Posted by Assassin Pilot View Post
    When talking time I was addressing Ken, cause he's in Massachusetts which is the same timezone as Connecticut. But yeah, it's a different time everywhere in the world.
    Thanks for clearing that up.
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    It made Sly a bunch of money so it must have been okay. Next time he's over for dinner I'll ask him his thoughts.
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    The Rambo series of movies have done several things. They have entertained many, many people. They have created an unrealistic view of special forces warfare. They have caused a bunch of people to come to this forum and ask "hey, what do you think of this knife I just bought?" As for realistic....far from it.
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    They were made to make money. That's 100% true. But hey, it's still a pretty cool storyline and all, I'm pretty sure all of us can agree on that.
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    Just like watching my perverted cockatiel get self gratification on his pirch this time of the year, Rambo is entertainment.

    (I'm not joking about the bird and have pictures to prove it)
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    Some of us read the book when it first came out, It was different than the movie, I think David Morrow wrote it. If I remember it took place in Tennesee not Oregon. The movie also helped Gil Hibbin.

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    1- david morrel-read his other books they are the best
    2 i;ve got the same problem with my birds too tayho kind of amuzing actually
    3 i agree with eimm and eimm the movie came out when i was 12 probably one of the reasons i became a ranger, great entertianment, those green berets thier real badasses(spits) that and troutmans lines in the tent, the best inspired how many young guys like me, same as vin deisel inspired how many knuckle heads to street race.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tahyo View Post
    Just like watching my perverted cockatiel get self gratification on his pirch this time of the year, Rambo is entertainment.

    (I'm not joking about the bird and have pictures to prove it)
    Bird porn. score.
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    Bird Porn? I sort of expect that in Stockholm but here on the forum? I wouldn't think that's much to crow about. Pretty cagey.
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    I'll spare ya'll my descriptions and pics. If you think I'm kidding, go to google and type in something like "horny cockatiel" or something to that effect. You'll get some stuff. It's pretty common.
    "The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done."

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    I'll pass on that googling assignment. Gotta fly this coop.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tahyo View Post
    I'll spare ya'll my descriptions and pics. If you think I'm kidding, go to google and type in something like "horny cockatiel" or something to that effect. You'll get some stuff. It's pretty common.
    Uh, no, no, that's quite alright thank you very much. I didn't think you were kidding. I was just being a smartass. I prefer to keep my illicit content videos in the same species.
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    Thumbs down Rambo V?!

    (Dramatic music starts up) "Yes, boys & girls, Mom's & Dad's, The Rambo films have inspired many wayward youths to re-think their meager lives & try to better themselves by going out into the woods ill-prepared doing really poor Sly Stallone impersonations and carrying really stupid-looking knives! Guys like Brad & Adrian of the Bare Wilderness Team! And that poor excuse of a survival knife has probably injured more "Survival Enthusiasts" than anything that can be found in the woods! But hey, don't let me rain on your parade! Add the Rambo films to your movie collection library right next to "Red Dawn". And what the heck does a "horny Cockatiel" have to do with any of this?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sarge47 View Post
    And what the heck does a "horny Cockatiel" have to do with any of this?
    'Survival' of the species???

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sarge47 View Post
    **snip** And what the heck does a "horny Cockatiel" have to do with any of this?
    The moment is lost.
    "The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done."

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    There was a band in my adolescents named the Dead Kennedys, and they had a song about our old pal.

    RAMBOZO THE CLOWN

    Got a deadly toy
    To brainwash your boy

    An egocentric muscle thug
    Kicks butt on screen like a brat outa hell
    Bull****ter in the Indochina shop
    Pull the string in his back, we win the war

    That we never should have started at all

    A cabbage patch terrorist to call our own
    Who rewrites history with a machine gun
    Don't think about it-KILL IT
    That's what we teach your child

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    RAMBOZO the Clown
    To draft age kids
    It sure looks like fun-
    "Kill 'em all
    And let God sort 'em out."
    Like video games-no mess
    Just fuel for a mass lapse of common sense
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    Just get some guns and Cheerios
    Any kid can conquer Libya
    Just steal a fighter plane

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    Quote Originally Posted by Montana_Musher View Post
    There was a band in my adolescents named the Dead Kennedys, and they had a song about our old pal.
    Jello Biafra kicks(ed) ***.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Alpine_Sapper View Post
    Jello Biafra kicks(ed) ***.
    If you want to talk about anti-government, anti-establishment, anti-consumerism...Jello and the Dead Kennedys pretty much covered it all.
    What a voice
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    Quote Originally Posted by remy View Post
    I do not know what happened after "first blood", since i never saw the babies...but the first one was great. Of course not for the action part of the movie, but for exposing the psychological, political, emotional aspects of soldiers coming home after a war, feeling used and abandoned by their own country, and no longer "fitting in".
    "feeling used and abandoned by their own country, and no longer "fitting in""
    Could be the mantra of senior citizens, youth citizens, working citizens, kind of seems how the preponderance of humanity feels.

    Then there is ROCKY, II, III, IV, V, etc.

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    Quote Originally Posted by hopeak View Post
    "feeling used and abandoned by their own country, and no longer "fitting in""
    Could be the mantra of senior citizens, youth citizens, working citizens, kind of seems how the preponderance of humanity feels.

    Then there is ROCKY, II, III, IV, V, etc.
    Surprisingly, the last Rocky movie made in like 2005 was the best imo.
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