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    OJ Simpson dead at 76

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    22 hours ago, Fleezoid said:

    And of course, the infamous White Ford Bronco. What became of it? Read on.....

     

    https://www.autoevolution.com/news/the-moment-oj-simpson-made-the-ford-bronco-the-most-hated-car-in-the-world-232289.html

     

    The following line near the end of the article is actually disputed in another article claiming the incident wasn't the reason for discontinuing the Bronco and that sales actually spiked for a couple years after the trial.

     

    "Ford discontinued the Bronco after the trial due to the sales figures collapsing. Ford always denied that their decision had any connection with the murder case."
     

    I recall reading in multiple books regarding the case that there were two white Ford Broncos.  The one Simpson was in possession of was actually owned by Hertz, and was the vehicle found parked outside of the Rockingham house by police when they arrived to inform Simpson of his wife's death.  That Bronco was supposedly exhibiting evidence of blood on the interior, which prompted police to impound it.

     

    The other white Bronco was indeed under the care and control of Al Cowlings, but I do not recall if he owned it, leased it, or had some deal with a rental company or car dealership over using it.  This was the vehicle involved in Simpson's flight and low speed chase.  The article's author might want to check this, but it's the internet.  The facts aren't important. 🤨

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    "O.J.’s Bronco — the one parked outside his house, with the blood, had the license plate number 3CWZ788. Jeffrey Toobin’s “The Run of His Life,” which inspired the FX miniseries, tells us that Cowlings’ Bronco had the license plate number 3DHY503. The Bronco featured in the miniseries has a different license number to either Simpson’s or Cowlings’ Broncos, because it’s Hollywood.

    Toobin’s book also reports that when detectives first checked the plates for Simpson’s Bronco, on the night of the killings, “they came back to the Hertz Corporation, whose products Simpson had long endorsed.” Additionally, the real-life witness on the show who saw the Bronco racing from the direction of the murder scene on the night of the murders remembered the license number, though she was slightly off."

     

    - From the article 'OJ Fact Check: Two White Broncos?', by Tim Molloy, The Wrap, February 9, 2016.

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    RIP Joe Flaherty of SCTV

    in Off the Wall

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    On 4/9/2024 at 7:40 AM, Ridgewaycynic2013 said:

    SCTV's parody of 'Goin' Down the Road'.  Jayne Eastwood reprises her role from the original movie.

    https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0065788/

    Further to this, I passed by some reading last week that revealed Flaherty was actually Jayne Eastwood's brother in law.  When I first met 'Bride the Second', Ms. Eastwood lived in the same Hamilton Ontario suburb, and was often seen shopping at the grocery store on Wilson St.  Her husband was researcher and screenwriter David Flaherty, Joe's younger brother.

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    Could Elam be packaged in a trade up?

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    49 minutes ago, nosejob said:

    I heard McD in a presser saying exactly what I posted. What I heard lead me to believe he feels some innovation on D is in store...and I hope so.

    He mentioned the need to zig when they think you're zagging.

    At least that analogy is far better than the one that got him in so much trouble last year. 🤔

     

    Maybe someone teaches McDermott to speak Tamarian?

    "McDermott, his eyes uncovered!  Benford and Elam at Met Life!"

     

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    Karen Carpenter - Reborn

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    29 minutes ago, Wacka said:

    Blotto! Haven't heard that band's name decades! They were popular  around Albany around 1980. "I Wanna Be a Lifeguard" was their hit. Actually saw it once on  MTV in 1980. That was their logo.

    I recall the group stopping by WZIR FM's morning show (I think 🤔).  Jim Nowicki I believe was the morning show host, with George Prentice as the news director.  Jim died a few years back, George is still in radio at Boise State, Idaho.

    Is there anything you think was bad or cheesy you remember fondly?

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    12 hours ago, Shamrock said:

    I remember his companions though!

     

    Always scary seeing Davros or a Dalek. 
     

    was it Leila (?) and there was an episode with a black bottomless pit, the alien was like clingwrap, scary.

    If that was 'The Horror of Fang Rock', it was indeed a Louise Jameson (Leila) story.  Over the years, there have been both amateur and professional reworks of the special effects.

     

    Is there anything you think was bad or cheesy you remember fondly?

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    11 hours ago, Shamrock said:

    I recall the Tom Baker Dr. Who fondly.  Was pretty young and used to be the kid that at 5.59pm when the episode would always end on a cliff hangar and that theme music would begin, always got me. 

    Classic Who had some of the worst special effects, but the cliffhangers were 'da bomb'!

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    City of Death, part II to part III:

     

    The Doctor: "You!  What are you doing here?!"

     

    Captain Tancredi: "I think that's exactly the question I ought to be asking YOU...Doctor."

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