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There is no benefit from knowing the ballplayers are not pirates.

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Until scanning headlines today, I did not know that New Orleans has an NBA team and they are called the Pelicans

And now that momentary blissful ignorance is gone.

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Their players really are pelicans.

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I've always liked the second half of Layla much better than the first half.

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heyzeus wrote:I've always liked the second half of Layla much better than the first half.

This. Although the second half always reminds me of "Goodfellas" when things start going downhill.

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Fat_Bulldog wrote:
heyzeus wrote:I've always liked the second half of Layla much better than the first half.

This. Although the second half always reminds me of "Goodfellas" when things start going downhill.
I was introduced to "Layla" by Goodfellas, so both of these posts ring true for me.

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The Third Man wrote:
Fat_Bulldog wrote:
heyzeus wrote:I've always liked the second half of Layla much better than the first half.

This. Although the second half always reminds me of "Goodfellas" when things start going downhill.
I was introduced to "Layla" by Goodfellas, so both of these posts ring true for me.
But Goodfellas also reminds me of the Sid Vicious cover of "My Way," which is awesome because he gets a ton of the words wrong, and I think somewhere in there says he killed a cat.

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heyzeus wrote:But Goodfellas also reminds me of the Sid Vicious cover of "My Way," which is awesome because he gets a ton of the words wrong, and I think somewhere in there says he killed a cat.
That whole soundtrack is aces.

Slice of life: I was discussing the movie with a couple of my customers on Saturday night (comes up easily enough when you work at an Italian restaurant and hear "Rags to Riches" twenty times a day), and mentioned that I was hoping to pick up the new blu-ray released from the 25th anniversary 4k restoration as soon as I had some spare money.

They tipped thus:

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is that a thumb or toe?

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Jocephus wrote:is that a thumb or toe?
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