Bought anything cool recently?

  • This message board permanently closed on June 30th, 2020 at 4PM EDT and is no longer accepting new members.

Notaro

Stark Raving Normal
Mar 23, 2007
1,135
7,321
58
Dublin/Ireland
I wouldn't call it bought, but I went to exchange my library material yesterday and on the 'new' rack was a paperback of the Mueller Report. Am reading it now. Bit difficult to read as a lot of it is just black bars. I find if I hold it up to the sun I can make out what's underneath the black bars, but it's time consuming.
Let us know how it ends....
 

Dana Jean

Dirty Pirate Hooker, The Return
Moderator
Apr 11, 2006
53,634
236,697
The High Seas
I saw the complete Columbo DVD box set for $49.00. I snagged it up pretty quick. Oh...and one more thing...it contains a few Mrs. Columbo episodes as a bonus. Just one more thing...I think I'll be binge watching Columbo in the very near future.
OH. MY. GOD. Another Columbo fan. I thought I existed in time and space all alone. I own EVERY SEASON of Columbo and that is the only show I will watch on Hallmark. It's the only thing good about the Hallmark channel.
 

DiO'Bolic

Not completely obtuse
Nov 14, 2013
22,864
129,998
Poconos, PA
Bought a Frigidaire 6,000 BTU air conditioner for $36. Brand new but last years model that was found hidden away. I always keep an eye out when the store just wants something off the floor. The one manager was at the desk when I was prepping it and asked me why I was buying a window A/C because she knows I have central air. I said whenever I see things like this I buy it and stick it in the back of the van. Then when I have elderly customers or very poor people come into the store who lament that they can’t afford a heater or A/C, and if I believe them, I offer it to them free. The manager said she heard from someone that I do this on occasion but didn’t know if it was true or not. I said I don’t sell them because it’s against company policy to resell anything we get with our employee discount, so I do it only when I can get a fantastic discount and don’t spend much, and it’s a necessity type product. So the next believable hard luck story gets a new A/C. :)
 

Dana Jean

Dirty Pirate Hooker, The Return
Moderator
Apr 11, 2006
53,634
236,697
The High Seas
I saw the complete Columbo DVD box set for $49.00. I snagged it up pretty quick. Oh...and one more thing...it contains a few Mrs. Columbo episodes as a bonus. Just one more thing...I think I'll be binge watching Columbo in the very near future.
Make that three of us, I have the complete box set as well :cool:


I love Columbo even though some of his cases are very weak. Back in the day I thought they were so good, but now I see the holes in the cases. But it doesn't stop me for one minute in loving Peter Falk.

Just a side tidbit, I write personal letters to people. Entertainers, celebrities, authors, shakers and movers -- and one of my first letters was to Peter Falk. Unfortunately, he did not write me back. Little did I know he was in the murky clutches of Alzheimers and died fairly soon after I sent my letter. (My kids call me the kiss of death with my letters. I have had a pretty significant bunch of letter receivers die after I wrote them.) I can't help it I write old people!

My boys ask me who I've written lately so they can keep their eyes on the news. bastids.


I love every episode with Jack Cassidy. He is satisfyingly arrogant and smarmy -- Murder by the Book, Publish or Perish, Now You See Him.

The Conspirators -- Clive Revill
Caution: Murder Can Be Hazardous to Your Health -- George Hamilton
Prescription: Murder -- Gene Barry
Sex and the Married Detective -- Lindsay Crouse
Murder, Smoke and Shadows -- Fisher Stevens
Negative Reaction -- Dick Van Dyke
Ashes to Ashes - Patrick McGoohan (I think he was guest killer on the most Columbos of anyone)
Columbo Goes to College -- Stephen Caffrey, Gary Hershberger
Murder A Self Portrait -- Patrick Bauchau and Fionnula Flanagan
An Exercise in Fatality -- Robert Conrad
Swan Song -- Johnny Cash
Any Old Port in the Storm -- Donald Pleasance
It's All in the Game -- Faye Dunaway

Those are my favorites I watch over and over again. Of course, I love them all, but these are ones I sit and really watch and not just have on as background noise.

What are your favorites, guys? Thoughts on the show, Peter Falk, Guest Stars?
 

mal

content
Jun 23, 2007
4,714
27,243
61
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Hi Dana Jean, I agree with your Jack Cassidy assessment. He is one suave dude. I've been a Columbo fan ever since they introduced him in those mystery movies. I would have to wait about three or four weeks just to get past McMillan and Wife, Banaczek, and MacLeod, until a Columbo came back. Not that those ones were bad, but Columbo was that much better, in my opinion. His biggest strength was his intelligence and his ability to hide behind a rumpled ignorant persona while peeking out from within. I just finished season one and only vaguely remembered 2 of them.