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Sweet Hostage, released in 1975 starred a cute teenage Linda Blair and a very hot 35 year old Martin Sheen. Sheen is an escaped mental patient who comes upon Blair who is standing by her broken down car at the side of the road. He offers her a ride and after talking with her and hearing of her unhappiness at home decides to kidnap her. At first she tries to escape but eventually falls in love with him.
Not whats not to love...he walks around quoting Samuel Taylor Coleridge poems, talking of Xanadu and calling himself Kubla Khan and Linda Cristabel. Sadly once they are finally happy and start to build a life together they are found, and things do not end well. I usually hate nicely tied up ends in movies where everyone lives happily ever after, but this time I was really hoping for that. This is definitely a tear jerker.
It was nominated for a Golden Globe for the best motion picture made for TV. I love this movie and nothing can compare to the timeless saga of Kubla Khan and Cristabel.
In happier times, before being found.
Have you ever gone to a mexican restaurant and wondered why there was a straw wrapper mixed in with the chips? Or why there were soggy pieces of chips in the salsa you haven't eaten from yet? Well it turns out that quite a few places don't like to see their food go to waste and have no problem pouring that left over salsa or chips back into the container.
From what I have seen and heard it seems that mexican restaurants are the ones that do this the most often. But don't think you are safe because your eating at a fancy and expensive restaurant. One waitress told me that left over bread was often reused at the nice place she worked.
It also seems that undercover TV shows are in no short supply of videos showing that happening with other food items as well. I watched one where the owner took uneaten sandwich halves off of plates and rewrapped and sold them.
Once when I ordered something from a fast food place, I opened the item and after taking it somewhat apart I realized they gave me the wrong thing. I brought it back up and showed them what was wrong. The person behind the counter then proceeded to rewrap it and put it back up under the light ready to be resold, even though she had seen me put my hands all over the food. I did tell the manager and made them throw it away. Who knows if they took it back out of the trash after I left though.
The thought of it is pretty disgusting but it is also seems like it could be dangerous. I wonder what the odds are of catching something from the person that had previously been eating your food? Imagine someone with a terrible cough who has a chip in his hand. He starts coughing and covers his mouth with his chip hand, then dunks it into the salsa. The salsa is then returned to the container and served to multiple other people.
Someone once told me that they actually pour the remaining salsa over the chips to discourage the restaurant from reusing it. Short of us all doing something similar to any food we leave behind on our plate is there any way to stop this? I see it only getting worse in this economy as fewer people can afford to eat out. I have definitely become more cautious where I eat, especially since I found out that my favorite restaurant (where I ate at least once or twice a week) does reuse food. It's too bad, I really loved their chips.
Heres a great tool for anyone designing their own website. It shows the contrast between the text color you use and the background color and how viewable it would be to someone with visual color deficits.
Colour Check
It's amazing what someone with some free time, artistic talent, and a pocketful of sharpies can accomplish. Charlie Kratzer of South Lexington, Kentucky covered the walls of his basement with an amazing group of characters including Hercule Poirot, Sherlock Holmes, Winston Churchill, Bullwinkle and Rocky, George Bernard Shaw, Joan Crawford and William Shakespeare. He has also recreated famous works of art such as Picasso's The Dream and Georges Seurat's Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.
The view of his basement below doesn't show so well at this size. You can see a larger view at Kentucky.com
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Stephen King is trying out a new format for his latest video project. He is calling it a graphic video series and it's drawn in the style of a graphic novel. There are 25 episodes under two minutes each
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Pageonce calls itself the First Personal Internet Assistant. It's looks like a great idea. You can view all your personal accounts and websites in one place - bank, credit, utility, even your netflix and social networking sites. It will show balances, bills that are due, cell phone usage, new messages and emails, frequent flyer miles. It sounds great but I'm a little paranoid about giving out so much information - bank accts, credit card numbers, passwords, etc
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Here are the movie ratings used by a few different countries. I thought it would be interesting to see how the different countries break it down.
United States
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This is fun to try. You have to arrange colored squares (they kind of look like paint chips) in order by hue. It is a lot harder than it sounds. The lower your score the better. I got a 14
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Do you consider yourself a css expert? Then the css Zen Garden is the place for you. It's an unusual web site that challenges designers to use the same code as everyone else, change only the css and come up with a completely different and useable webpage
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This short animated film won the 2008 International children's film festival. I'm surprised it won at a children's film festival. Although it is animated it isn't really a child's story
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