Today's random task: search for stuff I will never buy on eBay and "add to watchlist" to pollute my data tracking. (need to remember to do this every week)
@ai6yr it is very important to wear leather chaps while using an Electrolux, because sometimes they start to kick and you have to ride the canister like you're a bomb dropping cowboy in a Stanley Kubrick film.
@N3VEM @ai6yr
Major Kong to the rescue.
@EugestShirley @N3VEM @ai6yr
πŸ₯₯ Eye boost 4 Dr Strangelove, and for the amazing performance that Stanley Kubric alchemized from Slim Pickens as Maj Kong.
For the incredible story of how Kubrick replaced Peter Sellers with Pickens as the bomber pilot, there's this:
https://flashbak.com/too-pinko-for-dan-or-how-slim-pickens-replaced-peter-sellers-as-major-kong-in-dr-strangelove-31324/
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#DrStrangelove #SlimPickens #PeterSellers #StanleyKubrick #TuckersBalls
Too pinko for Dan or How Slim Pickens replaced Peter Sellers as Major Kong in Dr. Strangelove - Flashbak

The writer Terry Southern would joke about big Stan Kubrick being on the line from Old Smoke. He liked Kubrick--though he had never met him--and liked the sound of "Big Stan" and the image of him calling from his London office--though "Big Smoke" may have been better known soubriquet for the English capitol--but let's not quibble over the fancies of such a brilliant man as Southern...

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