Barry Lee Dejasu Wrote:...pretty self-explanatory, but for even further clarity: this is a thread for those of us RJ Forum regulars who, despite the infamous *drunken* exploits of Mel Gibson, still find said actor/director to be too damn talented to lose interest in.
I have no idea where this thread will go (at this point it's prettymuch like a balloon that has been untied and left to go on its farting flight in random directions around a room), but I thought in lieu of a pretty successful opening of Apocalypto, Mel Gibson deserves his popularity in this corner of the Internet.
And so...um...there!
GeraldRice Wrote:Mel Gibson was a piker when you compare him to Henry Ford. Hitler gave him a Man of the Year award.
NewYorkjoe Wrote:Two Jewish engineers, Norm Greenbaum and Max Goldstein, invented an air conditioner that could fit into a car, way back in the 1920s! They put their prototype in a Model T, then contacted Henry Ford to try and sell him on the new feature.
Henry Ford was amazed. "This is a fantastic, I want to put one of these in all my cars," he said. "What do you want for the patent?"
Norm Greenbaum spoke up, he said, "One million dollars for each of us." "Well, that's an awful lot of money, but OK, I really want this for my cars," said Ford. "One other thing," said Max Goldstein, "we want our names on every unit you put in every car." "Otherwise, the deal's off!"
Well, Henry Ford was fit to be tied. Here he was, a vehement anit-Semite, and not only did he have to shell out two million bucks, but he had to put the names of two Jews on the AC unit in each one of his cars.
Still, he was crafty and managed to get around them, he only used their first names!
Bluesman Mike Lindner Wrote:I canna believe that, Joe!
NewYorkjoe Wrote:Are you Mike O'Lindner now? Drinkin' Guinness won't make you Irish (you have to mainline it for that).
When me own ancestors came over from Eire, back during the Great Beer Famine, our family name was shortened at Ellis Island (it used to be O'Schmidt).
GeraldRice Wrote:The truth of it is we'd throw out our televisions and never go th any movie if we made an issue out of people's personal lives.
Mel Gibson was a piker when you compare him to Henry Ford. Hitler gave him a Man of the Year award.
Barry Lee Dejasu Wrote:...pretty self-explanatory, but for even further clarity: this is a thread for those of us RJ Forum regulars who, despite the infamous *drunken* exploits of Mel Gibson, still find said actor/director to be too damn talented to lose interest in.
I have no idea where this thread will go (at this point it's prettymuch like a balloon that has been untied and left to go on its farting flight in random directions around a room), but I thought in lieu of a pretty successful opening of Apocalypto, Mel Gibson deserves his popularity in this corner of the Internet.
And so...um...there!