What is the purpose of the DU Lounge?

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[Robeson]

1. Because, sometimes, we all feel like that scene in the picture you....

...you posted.

[RevCheesehead]

2. You mean, trapped in the 70's?

Just kill me now. I refuse to ever wear spandex or polyester again.

[hyphenate]

55. Spandex isn't too bad--

in moderation!!!

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5. In the shower or the diner?

[Robeson]

8. Probably how his character felt in that whole movie...

...we've all been there. Sometimes, we just need a little refuge, hence, the Lounge.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. My dear bob_weaver.......

The purpose of the Lounge?

Well.........for me, it is a place to come to visit my friends....

To laugh

To talk

To have fun, and make jokes.......

To tell our stories to each other.....

To support each other in time of trouble....

And to rejoice in the time of gladness......

It really is a cross-section of our daily lives, IMHO.....

[KFC]

4. Happiness

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7. And in the end, the love you take

[MoseyWalker]

6. Fish. It's all about fish

either you like'em, or you don't.

It's a good place to be, because fish live in the sea, and it's hard to have a flamefest

in the sea.

[ZombieNixon]

9. Sex threads.

Sex threads galore.

[jobycom]

10. Same answer as the question "What is the purpose of life?"

[texanwitch]

11. Kitten pictures.

Also kid pics, dogs pics and vacation pics.

I love that scene in the movie.

[swag]

12. I want you to hold it between your knees.

[texanwitch]

14. One of the women that they picked up on the highways kept saying

crap, everything was crappy.

[swag]

16. Yes, oh yes.

Played by the versatile Helena Kallianiotes.

Toni Basil (later a one-hit pop star) played her hitchhiking partner.

I could watch that movie forever.

[texanwitch]

19. Here we go.

On their way up the California coast to visit Bobby's family, Bobby and Rayette give a ride to two women who have wrecked their car. The two are on their way to Alaska. One woman, Palm Apodaca, played by Helena Kallianiotes, wants to move to Alaska because it looked very clean from a picture she saw of it once. Palm goes on and on about how filthy everything and everybody is. She has a extremely negative view of life and wants to have nothing to do with American society. In some ways she represents the extreme cynicism of the counter-culture movement of the late 1960's. When the four travelers stop at a chain restaurant for lunch, the audience is treated to one of the most memorable scenes of the film. When Bobby tries to order toast, he is told by the waitress he can't have toast with his order because they don't allow substitutions. Bobby tries to show the waitress how to give him his toast and not break any rules by ordering a chicken salad sandwich and holding everything but the toast. When he still cannot get his toast, he violently clears the table in frustration. Bobby expressed the frustration that many Americans felt trying to deal with an impersonal and uncaring system that seemed to be emerging everywhere in America. Ill-tempered after the restaurant incident, Bobby finally kicks the obsessively complaining Palm and her companion out of the car.

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20. I don't even want to talk about it.

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21. Bobby!

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24. I have seen filth.

I don't want to talk about it.

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22. Here's that scene

Dupea: I'd like a plain omelette, no potatoes, tomatoes instead, a cup of coffee, and wheat toast.
Waitress: (She points to the menu) No substitutions.
Dupea: What do you mean? You don't have any tomatoes?
Waitress: Only what's on the menu. You can have a number two - a plain omelette. It comes with cottage fries and rolls.
Dupea: Yeah, I know what it comes with. But it's not what I want.
Waitress: Well, I'll come back when you make up your mind.
Dupea: Wait a minute. I have made up my mind. I'd like a plain omelette, no potatoes on the plate, a cup of coffee, and a side order of wheat toast.
Waitress: I'm sorry, we don't have any side orders of toast...an English muffin or a coffee roll.
Dupea: What do you mean you don't make side orders of toast? You make sandwiches, don't you?
Waitress: Would you like to talk to the manager?
Dupea: ...You've got bread and a toaster of some kind?
Waitress: I don't make the rules.
Dupea: OK, I'll make it as easy for you as I can. I'd like an omelette, plain, and a chicken salad sandwich on wheat toast, no mayonnaise, no butter, no lettuce. And a cup of coffee.
Waitress: A number two, chicken sal san, hold the butter, the lettuce and the mayonnaise. And a cup of coffee. Anything else?
Dupea: Yeah. Now all you have to do is hold the chicken, bring me the toast, give me a check for the chicken salad sandwich, and you haven't broken any rules.
Waitress (spitefully): You want me to hold the chicken, huh?
Dupea: I want you to hold it between your knees.
(Palm Apodaca laughs)
Waitress (turning and telling him to look at the sign that says, "No Substitutions") Do you see that sign, sir? Yes, you'll all have to leave. I'm not taking any more of your smartness and sarcasm.
Dupea: You see this sign? (He sweeps all the water glasses and menus off the table.)

[bicentennial_baby]

13. beats me...

i'm stil wondering, after all these years...

[Deja Q]

45. Like ZombieNixon had said...

[The Magistrate]

15. Soothing Breaks From General Discussion, Sir

There was a fella walking home drunk on a rainy night took a shortcut through a graveyard, and he tumbles into a grave digged for a funeral next day. It's all so wet he can't get a grip on the sides to climb out so he sits there makin' the best of it, and after a while another drunk comes along on the same short cut and tumbles in too. The first sits there watchin' the new fella tryin' to climb out and finally he gets up behind him, touches him on the shoulder and says, "You can't get out...." but he did....

[MoseyWalker]

17. On the shoulders of drunks

we shall all be raised!

Thank you, sir, for that story.

[Joe Fields]

46. A good place to hide out, until the smoke clears from GD.

[Joe Fields]

47. A little song, a little dance, a little tuna down your pants.

[Writer]

18. Long discussions about creepy older men...

On edit: Hey, wait a minute... isn't that Jack Nicholson? The one who dated Lara Flynn Boyle?

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26. And banged Sally Struthers, Karen Black and Susan Anspach in one movie?

[swag]

28. Oh, somebody else too. Wait, though, maybe Elton got the fourth

easy piece. Only the fifth easy piece was played on piano.

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30. Elton? I never thought of that. Was there any suggestion that they...

[swag]

31. Sorry, Bob. Not that Elton WAS the fourth easy piece but that he GOT

the fourth, i.e., Sally Struthers' friend at the bowling alley.

[swag]

Okay, wait. Maybe Jack's (Bobby's) sister was the fourth easy piece

Who was the helper at her father's house on Puget Sound? Spicer? He was probably the fifth easy piece.

We have got to pin this down!

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34. I always thought the one he played on the piano for Susan Anspach was the

"easy piece" of the movie

[swag]

36. Yeah, that was the easiest piece he knew, but it was onl y one of

Five Easy Pieces referred to by the title.

Maybe teh Internets will edify me with the Grand Actuality of Fact.

Wish me luck!

[swag]

38. Wikipedia suggest you are closer to the truth than I am:

"The title refers to a beginner's primer for the piano, consisting of five simple songs."

[Writer]

29. Yeah but he wasn't a creepy older guy then...

more like a seasoned suitor type.

[GalleryGod]

71. Lara lucky that Jack lets her in his zip code.

Jack= 7 Oscar noms. 3 Oscar Wins. AFI lifetime award.

Lara? Nuttin'

[Jara sang]

23. World domination

Project X style.

[reyd reid reed]

25. That's easy...it's for shameless flirting and sex threads.

I mean...what else Is there, really?

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

27. Don't forget arguing over food and showing off our pets.

[Jamastiene]

32. Also, don't forget partying and posting photos.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

33. Or wielding swords and posting pictures.

[GalleryGod]

72. You either got game or you got the Lounge.

[Swamp Rat]

35. "I want you to hold it between your legs."

Great movie!

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40. Here's the transcript:

Dupea: I'd like a plain omelette, no potatoes, tomatoes instead, a cup of coffee, and wheat toast.
Waitress: (She points to the menu) No substitutions.
Dupea: What do you mean? You don't have any tomatoes?
Waitress: Only what's on the menu. You can have a number two - a plain omelette. It comes with cottage fries and rolls.
Dupea: Yeah, I know what it comes with. But it's not what I want.
Waitress: Well, I'll come back when you make up your mind.
Dupea: Wait a minute. I have made up my mind. I'd like a plain omelette, no potatoes on the plate, a cup of coffee, and a side order of wheat toast.
Waitress: I'm sorry, we don't have any side orders of toast...an English muffin or a coffee roll.
Dupea: What do you mean you don't make side orders of toast? You make sandwiches, don't you?
Waitress: Would you like to talk to the manager?
Dupea: ...You've got bread and a toaster of some kind?
Waitress: I don't make the rules.
Dupea: OK, I'll make it as easy for you as I can. I'd like an omelette, plain, and a chicken salad sandwich on wheat toast, no mayonnaise, no butter, no lettuce. And a cup of coffee.
Waitress: A number two, chicken sal san, hold the butter, the lettuce and the mayonnaise. And a cup of coffee. Anything else?
Dupea: Yeah. Now all you have to do is hold the chicken, bring me the toast, give me a check for the chicken salad sandwich, and you haven't broken any rules.
Waitress (spitefully): You want me to hold the chicken, huh?
Dupea: I want you to hold it between your knees.
(Palm Apodaca laughs)
Waitress (turning and telling him to look at the sign that says, "No Substitutions") Do you see that sign, sir? Yes, you'll all have to leave. I'm not taking any more of your smartness and sarcasm.
Dupea: You see this sign? (He sweeps all the water glasses and menus off the table.)

[Swamp Rat]

44. I knew I had the quote wrong!

Thanks... I can hear Jack's nasally voice right now.

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58. Not to worry... I've heard many variations of it over the years. The scene

is permanently burned into the memories of most people who watch that film, even if they can't remember the exact wording

[Swamp Rat]

62. I've heard the "stick it in between your legs" version most often.

[JVS]

37. To KILL. KILL WITHOUT MERCY! KILL KILL KILL!

Or was that the spirit of the bayonet?

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41. Is that from "Harold and Maude?"

[JVS]

66. Nope. It's from a friend

Another possibility is "To KILL KILL KILL with Cold blue STEEL" (must say steel is a manner that rhymes with kill)

[MoseyWalker]

39. Where's the peanuts?

Did nobody bring the peanuts?

Geez.

what kinda place is this?

[Zomby Woof]

42. To drink coffee

All else is optional.

[nini]

49. I love coffee

[RandomKoolzip]

43. Hooray for dolphins!

[Misunderestimator]

48. But, it's Shark Week!!

[Magrittes Pipe]

50. Posting thinly-veiled personal attacks...

...and then editing your post before it gets deleted.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

51. ...

[swag]

52. Today I recalled Shana Ting Lipton's appreciation of Five Easy Pieces

Jack-Off Films

. . .

I recently added another “bridge era” Jack-off film to my repertoire, “Five Easy Pieces.” This one is perhaps the cherry on top of the Jack-off film sundae. Jack is so unlikable in this film that I almost like him. The story (by Bob Rafelson) is actually really sad. Jack plays Robert Dupea a guy who works construction, drinks beer, hangs out with low-lifes and has a girlfriend (the amazing Karen Black, one of my favorite actresses of the era) who is a sweet but dim-witted waitress who he cheats on her every chance he gets. He and his buddies don’t have any goals in life, other than bowling, screwing and getting a paycheck.

One day Dupea gets a phone call from his sister. His father has suffered his second stroke and is on his last leg so he must go home. Reluctantly, he drags Black’s character with him and dumps her off in a motel. Then we discover, when he gets to his family home that he is actually not from a working class blue collar family, but a high class, sophisticated, family of classical music virtuosos. While in the house, Jack’s character meets Catherine van Oost, an uptown girl who his brother is in love with and coaching in piano. He is immediately taken by her. She asks him to play a piece on the piano because she heard that he used to be quite good. When he does it’s simple but intense, haunting, profound. Catherine tells him how much the piece moved her but he just demeans her saying that he chose the easiest piece and that they’re both just playing a b.s. game to impress each other, etc. She is offended and asks, “You mean to tell me that you had no feeling whatsoever when you were playing?” “No,” he says callously. They proceed to get into a fight which turns intense and heated. Ultimately Jack says, “Shut up,” pushes her down on the bed and has his way with her.

The beauty of the film really comes at the end (though it’s all so brilliantly Jack-off-ish). Rayette (the bimbo waitress) shows up at the house and it’s a total embarassment. As an aside, we even feel for her character because, though simple and tarty, she really only wants to love him but he treats her abominably. Jack tries to explain her presence to his classy paramour. She cuts him off. She’s about to marry his brother, but she says, “It would never work out anyway.” “Why?” he asks. Here’s her final ball kicker: “You have no love for yourself, no love for your friends, nothing that you love in life,” or something to that effect. It’s horrifying but true.

At this point Jack’s character has confronted his catatonic father and we begin to understand how he got this way. He was afraid to have to live up to his dad’s expectations so he fled and lowered his own expectations of himself, taking the easy way out. Despite what a Jack-off his character is, I can’t help but sympathize with this guy. Sure, you would never want to be romantically involved with him but such films as “Five Easy Pieces” (referring to the piano pieces he has learned so as to impress but not fail in playing) humanize the “prick boyfriend.” Again, these Jack-off movies are not telling women to tolerate the sadistic messed up weak male so that they can be disrespected, demeaned and lead sad masochistic lives by his side as he squashes his beer can on their heads (literally and figuratively). The films simply allow reality to rush forward in a sort of cathartic release. And what’s a Jack-off film sans release?

[Aristus]

53. This is the purpose of the Lounge:

That's what.

[matcom]

54. The Lounge was created to keep me from taking over the world

if the lounge goes away I will get bored and soon after you will be servicing serving me

[ProfessorGAC]

56. Thank Goodness For The Lounge, Then

I'm feeling nauseous from the very notion of you ruling the world. Nothing personal, of course.
The Professor

[matcom]

57. nothing personal taken

but now you are on the top of the list to scrub my back on a daily basis should something ever happen

[ProfessorGAC]

59. Puny Human! Do Not Flatter Yourself

The Professor

[matcom]

63. keep it up

and i'll further demand and hourly sponge bath

[pdx_prog]

60. Pure post count increase......

and to show people what good taste we have by not eating at Olive Garden, Cracker Barrel, Outback, Applebees, McDonalds, Red Lobster and countless others.

Oh, and to share favorite chicken recipes...

[Guava Jelly]

61. I use the lounge for a few things

1) free therapy..I went through a real hard time and I needed a friend and I found Many!
2) Flirting ..Nothing has helped my ego more then the rare flirt i recieve from the drop dead beauties of DU
3) Comedy relief..I laugh my ass off nightly here
4) Fantasy... no explanation needed i believe.

[Blaze Diem]

64. I was somewhere in college I believe..5 Easy Pieces

anyway,..Thank the gods for the DU Lounge.

A great place to dash off to , and hide out, when fellow posters reach a boiling point about postings that are meant for open thought and discussion.
Ever had a poster respond to your legitimate statement by slicing razors through your eyeballs?
And all in all you were just thinking out loud, ya know...just an opinion.

Some posters are the reason for a nice relaxing dip in the pool at the DU Lounge.
Strip down, dive deep, ahhhh, cool, endless blue and free for the moment.

thanks..........

[BigMama50]

65. If you have to ask you are too young?

[arwalden]

67. "Good-bye Threads"

(Just a guess. )

[GalleryGod]

70. Strutting,Preening, Lying, Posturing..and of course

A Bizarro World for IRL people who's lives don't quite measure up.

[citizen snips]

68. to act like idiots.

[KamaAina]

69. Five pounds of flax.

Check that. Make that five TONS of flax!