Have You Ever Seen A Movie At A Drive In?
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Topic: Have You Ever Seen A Movie At A Drive In?
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Subject: Have You Ever Seen A Movie At A Drive In?
Date Posted: February 26 2012 at 10:38
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OK, the Oscars came up in a thread. This question will probably date you and locate you. If the answer is yes, what did you see? Kind of an old fogie's thread I think.
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Posted By: colorofmoney91
Date Posted: February 26 2012 at 10:42
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Nope, but there was one around where my parents live that closed down right whenever we moved there. I'd like to go to see a movie at a drive-in someday. ------------- http://hanashukketsu.bandcamp.com" rel="nofollow - Hanashukketsu |
Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: February 26 2012 at 10:44
| I have but I can't remember what movie it was. |
Posted By: darkshade
Date Posted: February 26 2012 at 10:45
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Nope, and I don't think Ive ever seen one in person. Before my time.
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Posted By: irrelevant
Date Posted: February 26 2012 at 10:45
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Can't recall, so no I don't think I have. ------------- https://gabebuller.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - New album! http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385 |
Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: February 26 2012 at 10:46
| Well, I'm from France. It's nearly useless to say that the Drive-In isn't a tradition here. |
Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: February 26 2012 at 10:50
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Well, no. I wish really as it always looks cool. In this country its a bit cold.
I saw a film in the city centre when they set up a screen, that was in the summer of course and was really nice watching a film outside on the grass. (No, not smoking grass  )------------- Help me I'm falling! |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: February 26 2012 at 10:51
I think my last one was Twister and in the movie there was a scene where they were at a drive in movie and got hit by a tornado.
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Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: February 26 2012 at 10:54
| We had one by our house when I was a kid. I remember going there with my sibs but don't remember the films. It was more of a social experience than about the movie I think. Kids had so many options for hanging out then, drive-ins, drive-throughs, arcades, record stores....it was a fun time. I wonder where kids hang out in public these days? Or is texting more important than actually getting together somewhere? |
Posted By: A B Negative
Date Posted: February 26 2012 at 10:54
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Not a good idea to watch a film outdoors in Scotland. You won't see the screen for rain (and if it's not raining then the midgies will get you).
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: February 26 2012 at 11:00
I don't know but I'm pretty certain they are hanging out and conspiring against us old guys. Are there even amusement game arcades anymore??? ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Finnforest wrote:Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: February 26 2012 at 11:03
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Mainly mugging old ladies (According to the Daily Mail) I believe ------------- Help me I'm falling! |
Posted By: darkshade
Date Posted: February 26 2012 at 11:17
Malls and convenient store parking lots. But there's nothing to do at either place. And yes, texting takes up so much time for kids and young adults ages 12-25, that it doesn't even matter anymore. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/MysticBoogy" rel="nofollow - My Last.fm
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: February 26 2012 at 11:29
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I have watched a film outdoors, but not at a Drive-in.
I voted "What the hell is a drive in?" as they are something most of us Brits have only seen in American teenmovies of the 50s & 60s, however they do exist here, http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/britain-gets-a-taste-for-the-drivein-movie-2293190.html" rel="nofollow - albeit as temporary events . Our weather isn't conducive to many such outdoor activities really... ------------- What? |
Posted By: infocat
Date Posted: February 26 2012 at 12:39
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As a kid in the late 70s. I seem to recall seeing Mary Poppins at a drive-in. Actually probably saw quite a few things, but I can't remember any specifics.
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Posted By: The T
Date Posted: February 26 2012 at 12:46
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From some strange reason I have. And no it's nothing worth repeating. ------------- 
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Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: February 26 2012 at 13:25
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Posted By: zappaholic
Date Posted: February 26 2012 at 13:50
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Yeah, when I was probably 8 or 9. It was probably some Disney sh*te. There's still a few active drive-ins around these parts. Not open now though, cos it's winter. ------------- "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." -- H.L. Mencken |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: February 26 2012 at 13:56
| There are no such places here, so no. I'm fairly certain I've seen a movie outdoors though. |
Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: February 26 2012 at 14:15
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No, but i do love At the Drive-In.
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Posted By: tamijo
Date Posted: February 26 2012 at 14:20
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Yes - must have been about 5-6 years old, so we are in the late 60's - no idear what mowie it was. ------------- Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours |
Posted By: AlexDOM
Date Posted: February 26 2012 at 16:07
| Yes, when I lived in Tennessee there was a really nice one around where I lived. Two screens with two film each. food was much better than normal concessions as well as cheaper. For two back to back movies it was like $7 too:) A real gem!!! |
Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: February 26 2012 at 16:08
Pubs |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: February 26 2012 at 18:51
I thought they hung out stoned in the mall wishing away this day... ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: February 26 2012 at 19:09
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Nope, I think there is one that still operates in the entire state of NJ, and that was a bit ago it's also probably been closed down by now. Shame, seems like it'd be pretty cool. |
Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: February 26 2012 at 19:22
Was talkin' more about the middle teens....13-16s.... |
Posted By: TheGazzardian
Date Posted: February 26 2012 at 19:23
That I know of: XBox Live Each others houses the mall skate parks train stations Parks
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Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: February 26 2012 at 19:28
The goddamn local Starbucks at 3 pm. "Hey everyone, let's all yell things instead of talk like normal people." Sigh. ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: TheGazzardian
Date Posted: February 26 2012 at 19:29
I feel old because that annoys me too. I mean I'm only 25. (Wait, I'm 24). And I already sometimes think of teenagers as "them damn kids!"
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Posted By: Andy Webb
Date Posted: February 26 2012 at 19:29
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Yep, I think the last one I saw was WALL-E and another one.... Get Smart maybe? It was a few years ago and it was a double feature. I've seen a number of movies at the drive-in, though. Used to go there all the time as a kid as well. ------------- http://ow.ly/8ymqg" rel="nofollow">  
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Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: February 26 2012 at 20:08
I thought of teens as "gah! damn kids!" when I was 16 And yeah, as Stephen said the drive in/local hangout places have been replaced with online gaming. |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: February 26 2012 at 20:32
yes Northern Cal still had a few when I was a kid, the two I remember seeing were Bambi and much later Die Hard  -- kinda fun if you like sitting in a freezing cold car with the window rolled down to allow for the pumpkin-sized speaker which sounded like crap to be heard as you squinted to see the ancient, tattered screen with an unfocused image and braving the crowds to get some "food" avoiding the roaming derelicts and drug pushers as you made your way back and to the realization that whatever was happening in the car was far more interesting than what was happening on the screen. |
Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: February 26 2012 at 20:38
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Posted By: zappaholic
Date Posted: February 26 2012 at 21:41
Deloocious hot doggies one after the other? /who's old enough to remember that? ------------- "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." -- H.L. Mencken |
Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: February 27 2012 at 02:35
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Are the Oscars being streamed online? Dang stations wont play it here ------------- 
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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: February 27 2012 at 04:33
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I'm not sure we've ever had a 'drive in' here in the UK. The weather is too terrible for such things. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: February 27 2012 at 11:04
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I've seen a lot of movies at the Drive-in. I can't really go through a list. Obviously with my age, most came in my childhood so I have a poor memory anyway. They would always be double features. The second feature would start to I think like 10:00pm which meant as a child that I had no chance of not falling asleep for the second movie. I do remember seeing Halloween H20. It was the last movie I ever saw at the drive-in. I more distinctly recall the snack-shop advertisements and playing Frisbee before the movies started.
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Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: February 27 2012 at 11:09
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Yes. A few times as a kid my parents took me. I remember seeing Bambi at the Drive-In while laying/sitting in the back of our station wagon. Most recently, about 10 years ago I remember seeing the Casper movie at the Drive-in. I think that it might have been a double feature, but I can't remember what the 2nd movie was, or if I even stuck around to watch it. ------------- 
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Posted By: frippism
Date Posted: February 27 2012 at 13:09
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What's a movie? Good god I can be so witty I still don't understand how I live with myself. And no, drive-ins sound annoying. ------------- There be dragons |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: February 27 2012 at 14:03
How dare you be so beautiful?  Are you kidding? If you have comfy car seats and a decent sound system it can be a lot of fun. Hey we still have one functioning six screen drive in in the Atlanta area. http://starlightdrivein.com/#/movies/" rel="nofollow - http://starlightdrivein.com/#/movies/ . I think that may have been the one the family went to when I was kid and they had a double feature of Young Frankenstein and The Towering Inferno. Memory is a little fuzzy but... It's pretty much a US thing then isn't it? It was really big in the 50's. But for the few surviving ones the audio is on radio. In the older days they had this speaker for you to bring in off a pole and hang on the sill of your car window. ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: February 27 2012 at 15:36
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I went to see one just in the last 10 years. It was Spider Man with Toby Driver... uh Maguire. That's the only one though. Glad I got to try it. Unfortunately, I locked my friend in the trunk and had to go find a crowbar... or was that a Cheech and Chong skit....
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: February 27 2012 at 15:54
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Sneaking in people in the trunk was an essential part of the drive in experience.
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Posted By: manofmystery
Date Posted: February 27 2012 at 15:57
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They just closed the one I went to on occasion, as a child. Remember seeing Down Periscope there. It was the opening movie in a double-header but I can't recall what the main feature was. -------------  Time always wins. |
Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: February 27 2012 at 16:19
I remember being thrown in the trunk with a flashlight and promises of candy if I kept quiet. I was deathly afraid of the dark as a young kid, but I never blew my cover. ------------- "One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. " |
Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: February 27 2012 at 16:41
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Yes,and we still have one in our area that is VERY popular called Bengies.We probably go there a few times every summer,it's like a tradition around here. http://www.bengies.com/" rel="nofollow - http://www.bengies.com/
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Posted By: zappaholic
Date Posted: February 27 2012 at 17:05
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There's websites devoted to drive-in theatres and keeping track of which ones are still operational. http://www.driveinmovie.com" rel="nofollow - Here's one. The http://www.lynndrivein.com" rel="nofollow - Lynn Drive-In in Strasburg, Ohio (a wide place in the road about 15 miles south of Canton) is the second oldest continuously operating drive-in in the country. ------------- "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." -- H.L. Mencken |
Posted By: ClemofNazareth
Date Posted: February 27 2012 at 21:21
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My parents used to take us to drive-ins in Montana when I was a kid in the late 60s and early 70s. It was cheap entertainment for a family of six on a limited budget and only three channels of TV at home (including the Canadian Broadcasting station). The first movie I remember seeing there was Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid with Paul Newman, Robert Redford and the very lovely http://clickautographs.com/photos/katharine_ross_nightie.jpg" rel="nofollow - Katharine Ross around 1970, and we were treated to a little side-nipple shot of Ms. Ross We also saw Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, a Clint Eastwood movie that was filmed in my hometown of Great Falls, Montana and which included a scene where my old middle school was blown up. A bunch of us kids from the neighborhood got to watch that being filmed from down the street. When I was a teenager in Kansas a lot of us used to go to the drive-in near the Wichita East mall and watch stuff on the weekend like The Wall, FM, Heavy Metal and The Rocky Horror Picture Show plus a lot of Clint Eastwood and Charles Bronson movies. That theater was torn down in the mid-eighties and I went by to pick up a few bricks from the concession stand to use as bookends in my apartment. During college at Wichita State in the mid-eighties there were weekends with horror movie marathons from the Friday the 13th and Halloween series at the Starlight on South Hydraulic. That theater is still active today. And one of my brothers and I used to make road trips to Kansas City on summer weekends to the Boulevard drive-in and get hammered while sitting in front of our car. One night he got so drunk he passed out and I left him there. He wasn't too happy when he trudged up the street to our hotel at dawn with a bent up lawn chair under his arm There are a couple near where I live now that have both been around for more than 60 years, but I haven't been to either of them yet. Kind of hard to imagine my kids getting excited about a big fuzzy screen, mosquitoes and stale popcorn when they have HD TV and Blu-Ray players at home, but drive-ins were pretty cool in their time. ------------- "Peace is the only battle worth waging." Albert Camus |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: February 28 2012 at 07:32
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Once only, and mostly to say I'd done it... Couldn't possible remember which turd I saw that night, but it was more of the party idea (beers & doobies) It's one of the most blatant form of American-styled western decadence, IMHO (although I confess having eaten at drive-in fast- foods some more times
 ) ... Never thought it was a correct way to watch a movie.... those stupid speakers that you had to hang out from your window... HOW COULD IT POSSIBLY GIVE YOU A GOOD SOUND? what if it rains??Not sure, but in the wider Toronto area (roughly 5M people),there was only one drive-in movie (in Oakville, if memory serves) ...
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Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: February 28 2012 at 10:15
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They haven't had those speakers for ages.You tune in to a certain frequency on your car radio. ------------- |
Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: February 28 2012 at 11:15
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My most vivid memory of a drive-in experience was with my mom and dad who took me with them to see a double feature of "Tunnel vision" and "Up in smoke". These were funny movies to a 9-year-old. Saw them later in life and gawd are they awful.
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: February 28 2012 at 11:29
And that's just at the indoor movie theaters. Oh, I'm sorry, that's sticky floors, obnoxious loud talking fellow movie goers, and stale popcorn for the indoor ones. I think with HD TV and home theater systems, the indoor movie theaters will join the drive in ones as mostly a thing of the past. ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted By: Matthew T
Date Posted: February 28 2012 at 13:58
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We had them everywhere in the sixties and seventies. Still have one going near my house in Melbourne. They used to give you two films, now it is only one and like the cinema, they clear out the Drive In and put another audience in. No more putting the speaker in window, you just tune in the car radio to the Drive In frequency for the movie's audio. They used to have swings for the kids just near the screen and I still took my kids when they were little as well.
Do you know how many girlfriends I took to the Drive In? Used to go all the time. Cheap date
 They got rid of many here due to Land values. They all have beautiful shopping Malls or ram jam packed apartments on them now. ( agents term for putting a extra twenty grand on the price) Apartments were called flats here originally till the eighties.)
I saw "Apocalypse Now" on the day we had Ash Wednesday ( huge bushfire). I was in the metro area of the state and the day had got to 44 or 110 degrees and I was with my soon to be wife and the wind changed and all the dust , ash and soot from the fires came with it. I just had shorts on and was covered in sh*t which just stuck to me due to the sweat all over me. ------------- Matt |
Posted By: ClemofNazareth
Date Posted: February 28 2012 at 14:04
Oh I think we have much more egregious examples of American decadence than drive-in movies, my friend. This is a related one I find particularly appalling (drive-in churches). Almost as bad as drive-in liquor stores, which are about as counter-intuitive an idea as any I've ever seen. In fact, "Examples of American Decadence" sounds like a great thread topic!
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Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: February 28 2012 at 14:10
I just turned 46,not exactly a spring chicken.  I remember the days of the speakers,but they haven't been used at our local drive in since the 70's. ------------- |
Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: February 28 2012 at 14:13
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Drive in Worship
Yes Do it do it!
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Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: February 28 2012 at 14:23
Lol what? ------------- "One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. " |
Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: February 28 2012 at 14:24
Why is that a counter-intuitive idea? I use one every weekend. It's pretty great. ------------- "One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. " |
Posted By: ClemofNazareth
Date Posted: February 28 2012 at 14:37
Could be worse I guess...
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: February 28 2012 at 15:15
What's the problem with a drive in liquor store?  You are making the presumption that people who use them are driving drunk and can't stumble out of their cars to walk in. Oh and by the way, that's actually a drive thru in the picture and if you're going to drive thru a liquor store... ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: February 28 2012 at 22:34
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No. But if i could find one around here I would def go. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: February 28 2012 at 22:54
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Star Wars in '77. When they blew up that Death Star, that 3 and a half year old brat was really impressed. Probably my earliest memory. ------------- |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: February 28 2012 at 23:01
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this is turning into a fun thread; anybody remember Drive In ? A bad 70s cult flick which of course was shown frequently at, yes, drive-ins |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: February 29 2012 at 11:20
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get your amo supply on your way to your bank hold-up and not be late for the rendez-vous, right?? And down half a bottle of JD to get your courage up to it!!
Yup, sounds like DOUBLE SHOT deal... two shots in one stone
What's next?? a hire-your-gangster drive-thru franchise??
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I bet it was a teen comedy with kids screwing their girlfriends in the back seat, while a serial killer was lurking in the cars ??------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: February 29 2012 at 11:25
Yeah, I heard about that, but back then... that's all you had
ROTFLMAO... Amazing and utterly ubuesque
Well, I wouldn't dare starting it.... I'd instantly get the Tea Party's KKK followers on my case, since I'm not a United Statian...
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: February 29 2012 at 21:46
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Posted By: smartpatrol
Date Posted: April 16 2012 at 13:38
| Sadly I was born after the fall of Drive ins. Infact, I was born after the internet |