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Tue Dec-07-04 03:41 AM
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"How come former lives are always famous people?" |
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"Why not just Joe Schmoe?"
What movie? What character said it? Which actor played the character? Said to what character? Played by which actress?
Bonus points if you can give a meaningful answer to the "subject" question.
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Tue Dec-07-04 03:46 AM
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1. they're famous because people can't stand to just be 'normal' |
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Edited on Tue Dec-07-04 03:46 AM by eleonora
they have to be feeling superior..psssh
edit:typo
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Tue Dec-07-04 11:19 AM
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23. If you'd answered the original questions correctly, you'd be |
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scoring a bonus point for that answer.
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Tue Dec-07-04 03:53 PM
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I don't know what quote it is
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Tue Dec-07-04 03:55 AM
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2. It sounds like a Steve Buscemi character said that |
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in a movie I cant recall.
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Tue Dec-07-04 04:02 AM
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Tue Dec-07-04 04:01 AM
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Daniel Miller, Albert Brooks, to Julia, Meryl Streep...
Do I win.....
That scene were Brooks is the native getting chased down by the tiger, very funny indeed....
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Tue Dec-07-04 04:01 AM
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Tue Dec-07-04 04:03 AM
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It sounds just like that would be an Albert Brooks quote.....
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Tue Dec-07-04 04:04 AM
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7. in a past life i was Shecky McCrackin |
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a divorced, balding plumber who died by accidentally peeing on an electric fence while stopping for a break from a drunken drive home from a night of wallowing in my own sorrow
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Tue Dec-07-04 04:18 AM
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8. On a clear day you can see forever? |
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Edited on Tue Dec-07-04 04:20 AM by Kurovski
Brad?
Jack Nicholson?
Daisy something?
Barbra Streisand?
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Tue Dec-07-04 11:17 AM
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21. See below: Carson won. |
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Tue Dec-07-04 04:26 AM
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Crash Davis, played by Kevin Costner, said it to Annie, played by Susan Sarandon.
Am I right?
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Tue Dec-07-04 07:03 AM
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...this was on early this very morning on HBO. I turned on the TV just when this scened was being shown. I guess the OP must have seen it, too.
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Tue Dec-07-04 11:16 AM
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20. You got that right - I watched it on HBO just before posting. |
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Tue Dec-07-04 11:15 AM
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19. WE HAVE A WINNER, FOLKS!!! Carson: want to try for the bonus points? |
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Tue Dec-07-04 12:03 PM
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27. I suppose I could give it a try, |
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I don't believe in reincarnation so my answer would be people are looking for attention and validation. Plus, isn't more interesting to be Marie Antoinette or Napoleon than just "Joe Schmoe?"
That's all I've got.
(By the way, "Bull Durham" is one of my favorite movies.)
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Tue Dec-07-04 12:06 PM
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28. That's worth a bonus point! |
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My answer would be: it keeps the psychics in business by flattering the customers.
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Tue Dec-07-04 12:08 PM
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30. LOL--I like your answer better. And I tend to agree. nt |
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Tue Dec-07-04 12:14 PM
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31. Also, as for the belief in reincarnation in general |
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I can see where the idea is appealing and even comforting. One gets more than one chance and can make up for past wrongs.
However, I believe one shot is all you get; make it count!
My humble opinion, of course.
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Tue Dec-07-04 04:31 AM
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10. Did Shirley Mac Clain say it |
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to the astronaut character of Jack nicholson's in that movie about crazy-assed Southern broads?
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Tue Dec-07-04 04:33 AM
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11. I think you are thinking of "Terms of Endearment" n/t |
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Tue Dec-07-04 04:36 AM
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12. I think you're correct |
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Where the hell is Seabiscuit?
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Tue Dec-07-04 05:50 AM
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13. He's off racing somewhere in the great beyond.... |
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No wait, he's come back as Barry Bonds.....
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Tue Dec-07-04 06:56 AM
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16. I love being the straight man |
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...not literally , of course.
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Tue Dec-07-04 11:18 AM
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22. Here I am. I've handed Carson the prize - now he gets to try for |
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Tue Dec-07-04 11:28 AM
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25. Did you forget that my two favorite pasttimes are sleeping and eating? |
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Edited on Tue Dec-07-04 11:28 AM by Seabiscuit
I can't spend ALL my time on DU. :)
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Tue Dec-07-04 11:59 AM
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26. I'm a "she", by the way. : - ) n/t |
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Tue Dec-07-04 12:07 PM
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29. Sorry. How presumptuous of me. :) |
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Edited on Tue Dec-07-04 12:46 PM by Seabiscuit
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Tue Dec-07-04 05:57 AM
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14. Rimmer on Red Dwarf was Alexander the Great's chief eunuch |
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Tue Dec-07-04 06:54 AM
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15. I asked this very question to a former friend who is deep |
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into the New Age movement. She did not have a satisfactory answer. I suspect that it's more American exceptionalism, how could an AMERICAN be nothing but a famous or wealthy person in a former life?
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Tue Dec-07-04 06:59 AM
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17. Well, supposedly I was a woman with many beloved children |
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and a prostitute shot in a cab in New York in the 50's.
No big deal.
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Tue Dec-07-04 11:26 AM
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you're "back here." In any regressions I've had, there were no famous people. Slave in Egypt, died when one of the stones we were using to build the pyramids fell on me; slave in Rome, died of natural causes; some sort of well-off, but not rich English girl who ran off and married the man she loved instead of who her daddy picked out for her--died naturally and happily ever after; in Louisiana in late 1800s or Everglades (lots of swamps and water ways) as some sort of river hound--died when my partner betrayed me and shot me; and at one time a Frenchman who was a mountain guide in the mountains--died from suicide. No one famous, just ordinary people.
The Ouija board had a different answer, which we all accepted as tongue in cheek. According to the Ouija board, I was Adolph Hitler in my previous life. :) Of course, if that were true, it would mean my life here and now is punishment for Adolph's high crimes and misdemeanors. Hmmmm.....maybe there is some truth to that......
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Tue Dec-07-04 01:56 PM
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32. I've been there done that too |
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and never been there as someone famous, not that I know of. I know that I died once burned as a witch, and once died from shark attack after the (battle?)ship on which I was a sailor sank. There was nothing identifying about either memory, but then again, I learned what I needed to know for this life in both deaths. War is hell, and people will kill you if they are suspicious enough.
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