Members Bright Eyes Posted September 13, 2010 Members Share Posted September 13, 2010 My family would have you whacked for saying that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SFK Posted September 13, 2010 Members Share Posted September 13, 2010 BLASPHEME! Part II, even greater. But I was going to say what Carl said, most people I know tend to marathon entire series on dvd these days. For instance, I know so many people who are just obsessed with The Wire and only started watching maybe during its last two seasons, just watching ep after ep on dvd. We talked about this a few months back, but the world is becoming alarmingly convenient and surprisingly less lucrative in some ways. I don't even need cable when so many of the shows I like are readily available on their own networks' websites for free streaming, or of course on Roku/dvd through Netflix and Amazon. It's also funny that we're essentially paying for series when we have cable these days when once upon a time the big draw was movies. No one needs cable for movies these days, you just... don't. And honestly, if cable is your route to movies, you'd probably much rather go through standard on-demand than hoping what you want to see pops up on one of the premium channels you subscribe to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sylph Posted September 13, 2010 Author Members Share Posted September 13, 2010 LOL. I don't really think so, but it kind of got annoying with all the hype and endless airings. The fact that everyone will tell you: The Godfather is great! without not really knowing why makes the whole affair even more obnoxious. And, by the way, ma in vita mai ho sentito parlare di nome o cognome italiano "Amello". Mai. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Bright Eyes Posted September 13, 2010 Members Share Posted September 13, 2010 I don't know what I'm supposed to say to that. My family is from Calabria. I'm also part Greto, Mobilio and Moncado. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted September 13, 2010 Members Share Posted September 13, 2010 HBO should try more niche programming. Cinemax, I don't know what their subscriber rates are or if they are losing money, but they have run a lot of soft porn stuff for years and years and some of their recent stuff seems to be more professionally produced. HBO should try to do some of that again. I remember they had some pseudo-pornish "intellectual" show 15 years ago, called Strangers -- they could do some of that again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sylph Posted September 13, 2010 Author Members Share Posted September 13, 2010 Bello. Dalla punta dello Stivale... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SFK Posted September 13, 2010 Members Share Posted September 13, 2010 What a tease HBO soft core was back in the day. Real Sex was MUCH more salacious than those cheesy "films". Now that I totally agree with. I hate sheep. Really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted September 13, 2010 Members Share Posted September 13, 2010 Yeah I remember Real Sex. Some of that seemed shocking at the time. Then you would get stuff like Nick Cassavetes and that redheaded mistress of JR's on Dallas -- not really that great. Strangers though did push the envelope a bit more. Whenever I see Stephen Lang that is always the show I think of. Very happy memories. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members classicmoment Posted September 14, 2010 Members Share Posted September 14, 2010 HBO is overpriced Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Aback Posted September 14, 2010 Members Share Posted September 14, 2010 Yeah, I never heard of it either. BTW, the sentence should read - 'non ho mai conosciuto in vita mia nessuno di nome o cognome Amello. Mai". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Bright Eyes Posted September 14, 2010 Members Share Posted September 14, 2010 This reminded me that my Nonno used to have a book (or maybe still does) that listed all the Amello's that currently lived throughout the world. Not all of them were related to us, but it was a cool thing to know there were Amello's France, Australia etc. Actually, in Australia there is a restaurant called Amello that my siblings and I have vowed to go to one day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sylph Posted September 14, 2010 Author Members Share Posted September 14, 2010 LOL! I only now realise what I've written! No need for corrections, thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sylph Posted September 14, 2010 Author Members Share Posted September 14, 2010 If cou search for cognome Amello, a lot of sh?t pops up, but apparently, it comes from a name of a flower? Which Virgil mentions in his verse: Est etiam flos in pratis , cui nomen amello fecere agricolae... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Bright Eyes Posted September 14, 2010 Members Share Posted September 14, 2010 I must say, you guys talking about my last name is just weird. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Toups Posted September 14, 2010 Administrator Share Posted September 14, 2010 How much does HBO cost? Anyway, they just spent $18 million on the pilot of Boardwalk Empire so I doubt they're in ruin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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