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« on: December 10, 2012, 01:22:36 PM »
Wouldn't it be awesome if it turned up you just dreamt about it? Then you could make a movie of your own 
I'd suggest you go to IMDB or something like that and type in Darkman, then check out recommendations and similar movies, it might help?
That's a good idea! I was puzzling how to narrow down my search. Thank you. 
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« on: December 09, 2012, 11:07:17 PM »
I've sampled a lot of new flavors of egg nog this year! I've tasted Hood's caramel egg nog, pumpkin egg nog, sugar cookie egg nog, and cinnamon egg nog. I've tasted Oakhurst's chocolate egg nog I found out about last week. All tasted delicious!
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« on: December 09, 2012, 08:31:13 PM »
I watched Darkman the other day and it isn't the film I'm looking for. Thank you for helping anyway.
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« on: December 09, 2012, 05:25:41 PM »
This is what I remember from when I watched the film as a child and it's not much. The main character, a man, is attacked by a gang in an apartment and he was left horribly disfigured and laying out on the apartment's balcony. A little later, Main Man is keeping to himself on the balcony and a man and woman (friends?) approach him and he pleads with them he wants to see his face, one hesitantly offers him a mirror, and Main Man has a breakdown seeing his reflection. Eventually Main Man becomes a vigilante in a trench coat and throws manhole covers at criminals and that stuck with me the most because I thought it was cool.  I thought the film was Darkman. I watched Darkman last night and I didn't see the parts I described here (it is a film about a disfigured vigilante though) so now I'm wondering what film I'm actually thinking of. Any help would be appreciated. EDIT: I was probably ten when I saw this film so that would be 1995/96.
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« on: December 02, 2012, 04:08:59 PM »
Thanks for helping me, guys! An interactive plush crossed my mind but I thought if I give them stuffed toys the non-interactive ones would help their imaginations more. I didn't know about Adopt-A-Monkey. That's pretty cool. The gift tags tell me to drop off the gifts (wrapped up pretty) at Town Hall by Dec. 17 and I wonder if the kits would arrive in time if I chose to buy them for the kids.
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« on: December 02, 2012, 03:17:16 PM »
You have to be clever to come up with the next best thing after the real thing. Today I went to a Festival of Trees with dozens of unique and lovely decorated trees for auction to raise money for our town's play house. Off in the corner is a tree that isn't for auction: the Mitten Tree. It covered with felt cutouts of mittens attached to tags and each tag has a gift requested by a child on it. I found two tags with two 11-year-olds (one boy and one girl) asking for a "real monkey" and I cackled inside and thought "How cute!"" I read all the tags on the tree and those two were the most unusual and the only ones asking for real animals. I decided to buy for those kids and currently brainstorming how to give them a Monkey Christmas. 
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« on: November 29, 2012, 12:56:46 PM »
Has anyone heard of 'Katie the Star Wars girl?' it was from a few years back and there was this girl who I think was about 8 or so who was getting really badly picked on because she came from a family of star wars fans so she was really into Star Wars and boys in her school were picking on her because 'Star Wars is for boys'
She got picked on by boys for having a Star Wars water bottle. Before she tearfully told her mom about it, she was pulling a pink water bottle that held less water than the SW bottle out of the kitchen cabinet and her mom was confused because the girl was so happy when she chose the SW bottle at the store for the new school year.
I remember that. I am a girl and I have ALWAYS loved Star Wars. I felt so bad for the poor girl, some kids are so mean. No matter what you like, someone will tell you it's wrong. I was made fun of for playing with "boy" toys, but also for wearing pretty dresses and shiny shoes. It doesn't matter what you do, the bullies will find some reason to make you feel awful.
The joke is on the boys. A couple of years after the water bottle incident, she obtained something they could only dream about having: a professionally made Stormtrooper costume! http://www.chicagonow.com/portrait-of-an-adoption/2012/10/aren%E2%80%99t-you-a-little-short-for-a-stormtrooper-star-wars-fans-worldwide-join-to-build-a-halloween-costume-for-one-lucky-little-girl/
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« on: November 29, 2012, 12:39:37 PM »
Has anyone heard of 'Katie the Star Wars girl?' it was from a few years back and there was this girl who I think was about 8 or so who was getting really badly picked on because she came from a family of star wars fans so she was really into Star Wars and boys in her school were picking on her because 'Star Wars is for boys'
She got picked on by boys for having a Star Wars water bottle. Before she tearfully told her mom about it, she was pulling a pink water bottle that held less water than the SW bottle out of the kitchen cabinet and her mom was confused because the girl was so happy when she chose the SW bottle at the store for the new school year.
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« on: November 27, 2012, 09:29:14 AM »
-Four large aquariums for my home and put seahorses in one, leafy seadragons in the second, moray eels in the third, and piranhas in the fourth. -A small group of rockhopper penguins and a habitat for them on my property -A room in my home would be for a movie theater. Instead of rows of chairs, there'd be two-passenger amusement park ride cars with comfy seat cushions scattered around and bolted to the floor. I love drive-thru theaters! -A pipe organ and the room it inhabits would have a audience of gargoyle statues. -Donate to Make-A-Wish Foundation to help kids' dreams come true That's all for now.
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« on: November 27, 2012, 08:24:25 AM »
It's taken long enough (decades) for a store to see the potential of a gender neutral catalog.
With stores having carried girl paraphernalia with skulls (cutesy ones but still they're a symbol of death) for a long time and will do so for a long time from now, I don't see why people would be shocked by a toy catalog having a girl with a toy gun. If the boy with the doll was instead holding a real baby, people wouldn't complain there.
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« on: November 26, 2012, 05:06:48 PM »
Last week I visited a thrift store and among my purchases were two marvelous 3-inch suncatchers with pictures based on the Nutcracker story and they're marked with year 1986. One suncatcher has Claire holding the nutcracker next to a decorated tree and a display case holding toy soldiers. The other suncatcher has the nutcracker backed by his fellow soldiers as he faces off against the mouse king with his mice followers. I love 'em. I was only a year old when these came out.
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« on: November 20, 2012, 07:16:18 PM »
You might have to make a post on the Secret Santa site about using the wrong link and how to replace it with the link you wanted up. I wish I could give you better advice than that. Good luck!
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« on: November 19, 2012, 10:48:52 AM »
I know what you mean! If you overwhelm someone with TONS of stuff and lots of high priced items, good luck getting any of it!
But maybe she is like me and she uses that list on a daily basis too to keep track of stuff she wants to eventually buy. I have some high priced items in my list, but they have been there for over a year now. lol!
It's possible to make more than one wish list on that site. The "Create Another Wish List" button is visible near the top of the page when a person is editing their wish list. She could have made a new list for Secret Santa and look over the list she made for stuff she wanted to buy herself and add some of the items from it to the new list. It'd be kind of a pain for her to look through her huge list for what to add to a new list but the person buying for her would be grateful for a smaller amount of items to choose from.
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« on: November 18, 2012, 05:55:55 PM »
I didn't know about it last year but I'm participating in this year's. The last three years I'd been participating in a Secret Santa exchange in another community and it isn't being held this year so I'm glad to have GPlus's SS to participate in the other SS's absence. I made my Amazon.com wishlist (I chose things that were under $20) and sent in my participation form. Out of curiosity I started looking at peoples' wishlists. I looked at the wishlist of a mother on unemployment with three youngsters and the first item I saw was a $119 Super Trike DX that looks like a tricycle/stroller hybrid and I wanted to headdesk. All the kids could have a real nice gift each if you split that $119 three ways. I looked at her list some more and it's five pages long (each page holds a maximum of 25 items) and I wanted to headdesk again. Use some self control, woman! I was afraid I'd be rude to ask for anything over $20 and I figured 10-12 items on my wishlist would be appropriate.
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« on: October 29, 2012, 08:42:33 PM »
a shark in the streets of NJ.
Wowzers!  I hope everyone stays safe during Sandy!
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