<p>I don’t get “The Quick and the Dead” with Sharon Stone, Leonardo DiCaprio and Gene Hackman. The actions of Gene Hackman seem purely nonsensical.</p>
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Roberto Clemente, in what, a World Series? My memory is a little shaky but fans of a certain age will know about “the throw.”</p>
<p>As someone said earlier–I don’t get “Everybody Loves Raymond”–it seems that people either love it or don’t get it. And I don’t get it.</p>
<p>I don’t get the style of guys wearing their pants so low on their hips,… or even below their butts … and I saw one guy with his pants belted at his knees! They can’t even walk right when they are trying to keep their pants up (even though that isn’t UP to me).</p>
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<p>No, I wasn’t thinking of Clemente in this case. I’ve seen similar plays at the plate several times over the years, but the one in my mind when I posted that was a Dodger’s World Series game against the A’s in the early 70s. The Dodger right fielder (Reggie Smith maybe?) ran all the way over to center field to make the catch right in front of the center fielder (who had a sore throwing arm and thus couldn’t have made the play). He then twisted around and threw a perfect no-bounce strike to the catcher who put down a perfect tag. It still brings tears to my eyes to think of it.</p>
<p>It’s such a delicious play in general because the anticipation builds as you see the runner tagging up at third and the ball rising and descending. And 50,000 fans know it’s going to come down to a thrilling four-way match-up between the speed of the runner, the arm of the fielder, the slide of the runner, and the tag and plate-blocking of the catcher. And when out of the wreckage at the plate the catcher holds the ball aloft to show the umpire, it’s a moment of pure triumph.</p>
<p>and drinking beer from a wooden cup?</p>
<p>Will revise my list of musical dislikes to exempt Bonnie Raitt (though don’t know if her music is technically considered blues). And I stand by my view on Jazz – there are few things I would less rather listen to than someone’s collection of Miles Davis albums! Well, maybe those creepy gregorian chants they play in new age-type shops…</p>
<p>I love Bonnie Raitt
I even snuck off bedrest when I was pg- to see her in concert-
She is blues/rock/country/folk
but mostly blues</p>
<p>I second Everybody Loves Raymond. One joke can be milked only for so long. </p>
<p>Speaking of musical “don’t gets” : Andrew Lloyd Webber.</p>
<p>roshke, I’m with you on Three Stooges. Add Southpark. My H laughs heartily while watching it, and most usually, I find nothing funny there. I have, however, always been a Monty Python fan.</p>
<p>Alright all you science buffs, don’t laugh. I don’t get moths. If they are attracted to the light, why do they only come out at night?</p>
<p>Hayden, I adore you for asking that question. I’m tempted to go find out the answer, but I think I’ll resist for now.</p>
<p>EDIT: OK. Nevermind. <a href=“http://science.howstuffworks.com/question675.htm[/url]”>http://science.howstuffworks.com/question675.htm</a> has a few related ideas.</p>
<p>Opera. Did anyone mention opera? I can’t even pretend to get it.</p>
<p>I’ll take Elvis, country music, and jazz over opera any day. And hockey fights.
Even NASCAR. Gregorian chant. Cricket. Civil War re-enactments. Anything–just please, please NO opera.</p>
<p>Golf vs. Opera. I’d have to think about that. Probably golf.</p>
<p>I want to add the movie Sin City with Bruce Willis. Can’t stand it, don’t get it and don’t get why my H and sons love it!</p>
<p>Anybody get Zombie movies? My sons think zombie movies are fantastic and I don’t get that at all…</p>
<p>I love funny stuff. I laugh hysterically at: The 3 Stooges, Seinfeld, Daily Show, Colbert, Stephanie Miller, Family Guy, and stupid movies. I laugh just thinking about some of the Chevy Chase movies - like Christmas Vacation, where they’re frantically driving underneath an 18-wheeler. So that stuff I get.</p>
<p>I don’t get football, or the World Wresting stuff, or any TV show that involves murder.</p>
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<p>HA ! As my D always says, whenever an adult says “that’s an interesting question, it means they don’t know the answer”.</p>
<p>(thanks, corranged.)</p>
<p>“Look kids, a deer!” xmas vacation: the absolute family favorite: all lines memorized and used throughout the year.</p>
<p>^ I like that. “Used throughout the year.” :)</p>
<p>When we are on the highway (which seems like a lot lately!) my H’s car is sort of low, and there I am, sitting next to those big trucks, and I just picture the Griswolds zipping along cluelessly under there…and I laugh and laugh! :D</p>
<p>Hmm, we just got TV after months & months without, are we easy because we discovered Everybody Loves Raymond? Or is is a sign of our sick twisted family that the jokes hit home :D</p>
<p>The wife, Debra, gets them good, the MIL is sooo annoyingly familiar, the Dad is a kick in the pants, the sibling rivalry of the brothers and the general silly plot to which some one can relate all work for us. But then, we also see it late night, in syndication, so things are more funny then.</p>
<p>I love that none of us seem to like all these “Smash hit” movies, I’m with ya’ll on most of the films & stars you’ve mentioned.</p>
<p>Top Chef is fun…I guess after months w/o television we are admitting it is junk and embracing the cheap & easy w/ a sitcom and a reality show. ;)</p>
<p>And I don’t get the 3 Stooges or Laurel and Hardy, but can laugh myself silly with the Marx Brothers and Monty Python. And I like to watch football.</p>
<p>Just took a poll…
S says he gets the plot of “Being John Malkovitch” but doesn’t get the point.
D doesn’t get “Everybody loves Raymond”
I don’t get most of Nicholas Cage’s movies - I was ill after “Leaving Las Vegas” - but I LOVED “Raising Arizona”
I also couldn’t understand what was so great about “Vertigo” but LOVED, LOVED, LOVED “Rear Window” (It’s mandatory watching every summer in our house.</p>