I would love to own an Indian slave child.
on that note, goodnight everyone.
had to come back and correct that one.
on that note, goodnight everyone.
had to come back and correct that one.
Last edited by Marlo Stanfield (2010-03-14 22:32:39)
Last edited by Marlo Stanfield (2010-03-14 22:32:39)
Peter Graves' career was more like three careers. At least. He was Mission: Impossible's pre-Tom Cruise leading agent, Jim Phelps. He was Airplane's Turkish prison-curious pilot, Capt. Oveur. He was the Emmy-winning host of Biography.
The silver-haired star who lent a steadiness and voice of authority to 60 years' worth of TV and film was found dead today of apparently natural causes in his Los Angeles-area home. He was 83.
For all his work—Graves' credits include the Billy Wilder WWII classic, Stalag 17, to bits on House and American Dad—the actor may be best remembered for listening very carefully to the following taped greeting: "Good morning, Mr. Phelps…"
Or, then again, maybe he's best remembered for interrogating young Joey (Rossie Harris) from the cockpit: "Have you ever been in a Turkish prison?"
And it's possible he's best remembered for helping tell the stories of dozens and dozens, both the famous and the infamous.
Graves intercepted self-destructing tape messages on TV's M:I from 1967-1973, and again from 1988-1990, in the short-lived redo. He was not the franchise's original leading man—Steven Hill, later of Law & Order, was—but until the Cruise movie franchise, he was its signature star. Graves never appeared in one of the Cruise movies; Jon Voight played a treacherous Phelps in the first 1996 big-screen adventure.
Airplane! made Graves a new comedy star at middle age in 1980. He returned to Capt. Oveur's œuvre in 1982's Airplane II: The Sequel. Biography came along in the 1990s; Graves stayed for more than a decade, winning an Emmy for the cable series in 1997.
Born in 1926, Graves was the younger brother of fellow classic-TV icon James Arness, who starred on the marathon-long-running Western, Gunsmoke.
Last December, Graves sounded ready for more careers, telling the Los Angeles Times he had no intention of retiring. "There has got to be some good parts around for guys my age," he said.
Was that a "Yeah!" ?burnzz wrote:
http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/112/gravespd.jpgUltrafunkula wrote:
Jim Phelps is dead
Pack a pic-a-nic basket?mcminty wrote:
So... I'm sitting in my car in the uni carpark, posting from my laptop, while I wait for the NRMA (national roads and motorists association) roadside assistance to get here. I distinctly remember turning my lights off after the tunnels on the way in to uni.. but it seems like my battery is flat..
Woo.
I was going to get some food after I'd gotten my books from the car (I came for two lectures, but was going to go hit the library up for the mountain of tute work due tomorrow).. sooo nope, no food. There is a maccas close by, but I didn't go cause i thought the NRMA might show up. Shall be mighty pissed if they take the full hour and a half.Adams_BJ wrote:
Pack a pic-a-nic basket?mcminty wrote:
So... I'm sitting in my car in the uni carpark, posting from my laptop, while I wait for the NRMA (national roads and motorists association) roadside assistance to get here. I distinctly remember turning my lights off after the tunnels on the way in to uni.. but it seems like my battery is flat..
Woo.
I signed up to some RACQ free2go thing a while back. Ive used it once, when my battery died too. The guy came, jump started it, let the car run for a bit, checked oil/washing fluid and shit, and found that the engine coolant was empty. The nice man even filled that up too. All of it was free, and it took the guy ~15 mins to get to where I was (a friends house).mcminty wrote:
I was going to get some food after I'd gotten my books from the car (I came for two lectures, but was going to go hit the library up for the mountain of tute work due tomorrow).. sooo nope, no food. There is a maccas close by, but I didn't go cause i thought the NRMA might show up. Shall be mighty pissed if they take the full hour and a half.
I bet he still isn't there yet.mcminty wrote:
I was going to get some food after I'd gotten my books from the car (I came for two lectures, but was going to go hit the library up for the mountain of tute work due tomorrow).. sooo nope, no food. There is a maccas close by, but I didn't go cause i thought the NRMA might show up. Shall be mighty pissed if they take the full hour and a half.Adams_BJ wrote:
Pack a pic-a-nic basket?mcminty wrote:
So... I'm sitting in my car in the uni carpark, posting from my laptop, while I wait for the NRMA (national roads and motorists association) roadside assistance to get here. I distinctly remember turning my lights off after the tunnels on the way in to uni.. but it seems like my battery is flat..
Woo.
maybe the internet would load slower if there was less bf2s to loadmcminty wrote:
Lol.
I'm now home. The reconditioned alternator we got last year (dad took the cheap arsed option) was only providing about 12.9V, even when revving, as opposed to the 14V+ that it should be. The battery was slooooooooooooooowly going flat. That cunt of a machine we call a "car" has cost nearly it's value in repairs and fixes.
AND THEN, I get home to discover an email from uni saying my fees are now late. But it's like a "dude they are late, pay now you retard" email.. yet both my parents go fucking mental at me.
/shouting match
We are currently trying to pay them, but yes.. our internet is still fucking capped. Each page of the myUNSW website is taking like 5 friggin minutes to open. dkjghdsjklfhgsjdfhlgdsuyadoiufghs
And tomorrow I'm at uni from 10am to 8pm. I've got tutorials in 3 subjects.. and have so far done none of the tute work (I was going to do that in the library this evening).
Fml.
rich white boy spottedAndoura wrote:
lol Im at school (a private school btw, paid 15k$) and the computers are fkin shit. The ''computer'' is big as a router and it's Windows CE?
WTF
Lions? We were lucky to get lions! Every twenty minutes one of our poor class mates would be dragged out of the windows by a pack of velociraptors. Man I wish we had lions.1927 wrote:
Fucking hell sounds like your in school in Africa, your almost there other than the mud hut and threat from Lions.
I managed to stay just on the right side of the line in school but fuck me I was close to it, I used to be a right terror but with the 'good boy' tag attached. So I always got away with it.Adams_BJ wrote:
Lions? We were lucky to get lions! Every twenty minutes one of our poor class mates would be dragged out of the windows by a pack of velociraptors. Man I wish we had lions.1927 wrote:
Fucking hell sounds like your in school in Africa, your almost there other than the mud hut and threat from Lions.
I only ever didn't get detentions in my two senior years at school. I think I was even in trouble in kindergarten. Never seemed to damage my learning though. Always quite bright etc.1927 wrote:
I managed to stay just on the right side of the line in school but fuck me I was close to it, I used to be a right terror but with the 'good boy' tag attached. So I always got away with it.Adams_BJ wrote:
Lions? We were lucky to get lions! Every twenty minutes one of our poor class mates would be dragged out of the windows by a pack of velociraptors. Man I wish we had lions.1927 wrote:
Fucking hell sounds like your in school in Africa, your almost there other than the mud hut and threat from Lions.