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Are we talking bondage, or even rape, here? I seem to recall Keillor as being very homespun as in his famous book Lake Wobegone Days (hope I spelled that right) which I remember listening to on BBC radio a long time ago. No duct tape there but maybe there was and I haven't remembered it.

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I don't want accidents like the guy in Christian's pic. The boys would run a mile  :ass:

I have this problem. Buy modern low cut Uniqlo jeans and loose some weight, then they sag. Boys would almost certainly run a mile, but at least I don't quite have the width of the example above.
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I hope it wasn't because he got excited about seeing the Reichsadler on the guy's left cheek. :ninja:

 

Ha, ha-- yeah. But I would have thought the tattoos put him off. 

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Are we talking bondage, or even rape, here? I seem to recall Keillor as being very homespun as in his famous book Lake Wobegone Days (hope I spelled that right) which I remember listening to on BBC radio a long time ago. No duct tape there but maybe there was and I haven't remembered it.

Just do this simple google search and you will get a lot of references.  Duct tape was his sponsor and a source of constant jokes on his radio show.

 

Garrison Keillor and duct tape

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I thought, while there are so many pictures of moon(ings)... Perhaps a picture of the Jovian Moons:

 

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These are not all of the Jovian Moons, just the 'big four' as discovered by Galileo, in order from left to right: Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto. Ganymede, like Saturn's largest moon Titan, is larger than the planet Mercury. And Io is the most volcanically active world in the Solar System, much more so than Earth. 

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I've seen that pic before, but I still think it's funny. I see 6 heads but only 5 sets of legs. Is someone riding sidesaddle?

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I took this pic myself when in Vietnam - I've heard of getting a carry out meal delivered perhaps but this guy takes the biscuit - and the poor old cow was still alive and looking up at me every time we stopped beside it in traffic, god know WHAT it was thinking was going on ! :-(

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Not sure whether this belongs here or in one of the Pope/Cardinal threads. Saw this online and added my own caption.

 

The Shoes of the Fisherman

 

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Set during the height of the Cold WarThe Shoes of the Fisherman opens as protagonist Kiril Pavlovich Lakota (Anthony Quinn), the Metropolitan Archbishop of Lviv, is unexpectedly set free after twenty years in a Siberian labor camp by his former jailer, Piotr Ilyich Kamenev (Laurence Olivier), now the premier of the Soviet Union.

He is sent to Rome, where the elderly fictional Pope Pius XIII (John Gielgud) raises him to the cardinalate in the title of St. Athanasius. Lakota initially declines, but reluctantly accepts the promotion.

When the Pontiff suddenly collapses and dies, the process of a papal conclave begins, and Cardinal Lakota participates as one of the electors. During the sede vacante, two cardinals in particular, Cardinal Leone (Leo McKern) and Cardinal Rinaldi (Vittorio De Sica) are shown to be papabili. After seven ballots of deadlock, Lakota finds himself elected Pope as a compromise candidate (suggested by Cardinal Rinaldi) by acclamation after the Cardinals, unable to decide between the leading candidates, interview him and are impressed by his ideas and his humility. Lakota takes the name of Pope Kiril (using his baptismal name). Meanwhile, the world is on the brink of nuclear war due to a Chinese-Soviet feud made worse by a famine caused by trade restrictions brought against China by the United States.

The evening after his election, Pope Kiril, with the help of his personal aide Gelasio (Arnoldo Foà), sneaks out of the Vatican and explores the city of Rome without being recognized. Later, the Pope returns to the Soviet Union to meet privately with Kamenev and Chairman Peng (Burt Kwouk) of China to discuss the ongoing crisis.

Pope Kiril realizes, however, that if the troubles in China continue, the cost would be a war that could ultimately rip the world apart. Knowing this, he must seek to convince the West as well as the Catholic Church to open up its resources to aid. At his papal coronation, Kiril removes his tiara (in a gesture of humility) and states this intent to give away a majority of Church's riches, much to the delight of the crowds in St. Peter's Square below.

A major secondary plot in the novel and the film is the Pope's relationship with a theologian and scientist, Father Telemond (Jean Telemond in the book, David Telemond in the film). The Pope becomes a close personal friend of Telemond (Oskar Werner). To his deep regret, in his official capacity, he must allow the Holy Office to censure Telemond for his heterodox views. To the Pope's deep grief, the shock of the censure, combined with his chronic medical problems, eventually kills Father Telemond, who has been slowly dying all this time from a cerebral aneurysm.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shoes_of_the_Fisherman


 

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