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THE MISSING SCENE IN DELIVERANCE-WHEN THINGS AREN'T QUITE SO CLEAR
A few years ago, my now-adult nephew told me about how he missed the point in the movie ‘Deliverance’. As a kid, he had only seen the edited and laundered regular TV version of the movie.
Sure the canoeists had a couple of issues with the hillbillies, but should they have been angered up enough to start a backwoods body count? Not if you saw the movie as he saw ‘Deliverance’ after it got sliced up by the censors.
When he saw the uncut version of the same movie, he started to understand why the boys, particularly Ned Beatty, were a tad upset.
My nephew found the missing ingredient in ‘Deliverance’, although he may have been perfectly content to live with the cut version.
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WHY YOU SHOULDN'T MAKE AN EMOTIONAL INVESTMENT WITH A GOLDFISH
The recent death of a goldfish in my tank proved to be another example of the level of difficulty we face in developing a bond with aquarium pets. The fish’s death was not exactly a ‘Marley and Me’ moment, despite the fact that I was acquainted with the goldfish for about four or five years.
Fish are always nominally glad to see you in a Pavlovian kind of way, but the bond is largely based upon the fact that we provide their sole supply of food. The exception is the small fish-large fish world in the same tank where large fish will treat the little guys like an all- you- can- eat- buffet while supplies last.
Anyhow, fish in an aquarium are basically a closed society. We can’t live in their world and they can’t live in ours. This literal glass barrier between us and them is only one complication between humans and fish.
We also like to eat fish more than most other pets.
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WHY YOU SHOULDN'T MAKE AN EMOTIONAL INVESTMENT WITH A GOLDFISH
The recent death of a goldfish in my tank proved to be another example of the level of difficulty we face in developing a bond with aquarium pets. The fish’s death was not exactly a ‘Marley and Me’ moment, despite the fact that I was acquainted with the goldfish for about four or five years.
Fish are always nominally glad to see you in a Pavlovian kind of way, but the bond is largely based upon the fact that we provide their sole supply of food. The exception is the small fish-large fish world in the same tank where large fish will treat the little guys like an all- you- can- eat- buffet while supplies last.
Anyhow, fish in an aquarium are basically a closed society. We can’t live in their world and they can’t live in ours. This literal glass barrier between us and them is only one complication between humans and fish.
We also like to eat fish more than most other pets.
Read more: WHY YOU SHOULDN'T MAKE AN EMOTIONAL INVESTMENT WITH A GOLDFISH
TRIBUTE BAND OR REAL DEAL- WHICH ONE ROCKS IN 2010?
Some of the rock and roll gods are a little long in the tooth and some of them are just plain dead. Marvin Gaye and Tammy Terrell were basically right because there really” ain’t nothing like the real thing”.
Sometimes the choice is not quite as cut and dried, so let’s talk about fake vs. real in 2010.
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TRIBUTE BAND OR REAL DEAL- WHICH ONE ROCKS IN 2010?
Some of the rock and roll gods are a little long in the tooth and some of them are just plain dead. Marvin Gaye and Tammy Terrell were basically right because there really” ain’t nothing like the real thing”.
Sometimes the choice is not quite as cut and dried, so let’s talk about fake vs. real in 2010.
Read more: TRIBUTE BAND OR REAL DEAL- WHICH ONE ROCKS IN 2010?
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