I know I remember this scene but can not find it.

In the movie or maybe TV show Richard Moll plays a overbearing tyrannical sports coach. There is a scene where something is about to go down. And Richard Moll's character says the following line to one of the students "If you get killed, so help me, I will kill myself and come on after you."

The line was played for comedic effect implying that the students could not escape his tyranny even in death.

Please help me find something funny to read that is not on every "top 100 funny books to read" list! I'm desperate. I somehow accidentally read 25 dour, tragic, serious books in a row this year and I need something a little lighter that won't also feel like a waste of time.

Stuff that usually gets recommended that I have already read and loved:

Catch-22 [This is the gold standard of American comedy for me]

Everything by P.G. Wodehouse [and this is my gold standard of English comedy]

The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine by Alina Bronsky [I would be especially interested in other books that are about, or written by, people who are not from the USA or England, like this one]

Everything by David Sedaris

Everything by Kurt Vonnegut

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series

Good Omens and other Terry Pratchett books

The Princess Bride by William Goldman

In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

Three Men in a Boat by J. K. Jerome

Running with Scissors/Dry by Augusten Burroughs

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

I never see these recommended and I loved or liked them a lot:

Treasure Island!!! By Sarah Levine [A top example of 21st century comedy]

Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis [A top example of 20th century comedy]

The Rose and the Ring by William Makepeace Thackeray [A top example of 19th century comedy]

Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris

Hotels of North America by Rick Moody

Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher

Why Are You So Sad? By Jason Porter

The Basic Eight by Daniel Handler

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bible! by Jonathan Goldstein

A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace

The Asterix comics

Stuff that usually gets recommended that I have read and thought were fine, but wouldn’t necessarily seek more of:

Allie Brosh’s stuff

Hark! A Vagrant

I am America! (And So Can You) by Stephen Colbert

The Night Vale books

John Dies at the End by David Wong

Christopher Moore’s books

Everything else by Bill Bryson

Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss

Stuff that usually gets recommended that I didn’t care for:

Anything by Chuck Palahniuk

Anything by Thomas Pynchon

Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

The Dresden Files series

The Martian by Andy Weir

Sh*t My Dad Says by Justin Halpern

Most celebrity comedian me

EDIT: THANK YOU! Please still post if you think of anything. I am working my way through these recommendations and will do my best to respond with what I thought of the series/book as I complete them. Probably will be at least a year before I need to make a post like this again! Absolutely blew up and got so many more books than I thought I would.

I apologize if this is the wrong area to post this. But I have hit a slump in finding good series or books. The recommended engine is great but I wish it had more options for my own input.

I have a few hundred titles in my library ranging from History to Sci Fi to Murder Mysteries. For this I'll limit it to just Military Sci Fi, Fantasy, Apocalyptic/Survival

This will be a long post. I hope if others like a lot of similar series and narrators you can point me in the right direction. Maybe this can be a recommendation list for others also!

*Military Sci Fi*

Top 5 picks in no particular order.

**Old Mans War** by John Scalzi - Narrated by William Dufris

**Undying Mercenaries** by B.V Larson - Narrated by Mark Boyett

**Expeditionary Force** by Craig Alanson - Narrated by RC Bray

**Bobiverse** by Dennis E Taylor - Narrated by Ray Porter

**Fear the Sky** by Stephan Moss - Narrated by RC Bray

Worthy Mentions

**The Forever by Craig Robertson** - Narrated by Scott Aiello

**Frontlines** by Marko Kloos - Narrated by Luke Daniels

**The Ember War** by Richard Fox - Narrated by Luke Daniels

**The Lost Fleet** by Jack Campbell - Narrated by Christian Rummel

**First Colony** by Ken Lozito - Narrated by Scott Aiello

**The Synchrocity War** by Dietmar Wehr - Narrated by Luke Daniels

**Infinite** by Jeremy Robertson - Narrated by RC Bray

*Fantasy (This is all encompassing)*

Top 5 in no particular order

**Off to be a Wizard** by Scott Meyers - Narrated by Luke Daniels

**Ascendant** by Craig Alanson - Narrated by Tim Reynalds

**Ascend Online** by Luke Chmilenko - Narrated by Luke Daniels (this is a top pick)

**Cast under an Alien Sun** by Olan Thorenson - Narrated by Jonathon Davis

**The Land** by Aleron kong - Narrated by Nick Podehl

Worthy Mentions

**Ready Player One** By Ernest Cline - Narrated by Wil Wheaton (Ready Player Two was an atrocity and sucked in my opinion, felt like a cash grab)

**The Inheritance Cycle** by Christopher Paolini - Narrated by Gerard Doyle

**The Authorites** by Scott Meyer - Narrate

Perhaps because it's "Strauss week", they've dug into the archive to fill it...

Monday, July 5
Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier
Starring Kiri Te Kanawa, Tatiana Troyanos, Judith Blegen, Luciano Pavarotti, Derek Hammond-Stroud, and Kurt Moll, conducted by James Levine. Production by Nathaniel Merrill. From October 7, 1982.

We've had the 2010 and 2017 ones before - and are about to have the latter again - but not this one.

Wednesday, July 7
Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos
Starring Deborah Voigt, Natalie Dessay, Susanne Mentzer, and Richard Margison, conducted by James Levine. Production by Elijah Moshinsky. From April 3, 2003.

We've had the 1998 one before, but not this one.

Saturday, July 10
Strauss’s Arabella
Starring Kiri Te Kanawa, Marie McLaughlin, Helga Dernesch, Natalie Dessay, David Kuebler, Wolfgang Brendel, and Donald McIntyre, conducted by Christian Thielemann. Production by Otto Schenk. From November 3, 1994.

First time for any production of this, I think.

Final reminder that the excellent Akhnaten is streaming until this evening.

It could be the best in terms of anything

Paul Newman: The Hustler, Cool Hand Luke, Exodus, From the Terrace, Paris Blues, Hud, Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man, Sweet Bird of Youth, Harper, Lady L, Hombre, Torn Curtain, Winning, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Secret War of Harry Frigg, The Prize, What a Way to Go!, The Outrage, and A New Kind of Love.

Gregory Peck: To Kill a Mockingbird, Mackenna's Gold, The Chairman, Cape Fear, Captain Newman, M.D., How the West Was Won, Behold a Pale Horse, Marooned, Mirage, Arabesque, The Stalking Moon, and The Guns of Navarone.

Steve McQueen: The Sand Pebbles, The Great Escape, Love with the Proper Stranger, The Magnificent Seven, The Thomas Crown Affair, The Cincinnati Kid, Bullitt, The Honeymoon Machine, The Honeymoon Machine, The War Lover, Soldier in the Rain, Nevada Smith, Baby the Rain Must Fall, and The Reivers.

Dustin Hoffman: The Graduate, Midnight Cowboy, The Tiger Makes Out, Madigan's Millions, and John and Mary.

Peter O Toole: Lawrence of Arabia, Becket, The Lion in Winter, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Kidnapped, The Day They Robbed the Bank of England, The Savage Innocents, What's New Pussycat?, The Sandpiper, Lord Jim, How to Steal a Million, The Bible: In the Beginning..., Casino Royale, The Night of the Generals, and Great Catherine.

Henry Fonda: How the West Was Won, Firecreek, Once Upon a Time in the West, Madigan, The Boston Strangler, Fail Safe, Sex and the Single Girl, The Longest Day, Advise & Consent, Spencer's Mountain, The Dirty Game, In Harm's Way, A Big Hand for the Little Lady, Welcome to Hard Times, The Best Man, The Rounders, Battle of the Bulge, and Yours, Mine and Ours.

Toshiro Mifune: Shinsengumi, The Battle of the Japan Sea, Red Lion, Safari 5000, Hell in the Pacific, Samurai Banners, The Day the Sun Rose, Admiral Yamamoto, Japan's Longest Day, The Sands of Kurobe, Samurai Rebellion, Grand Prix, The Mad Atlantic, The Adventure of Kigan Castle, Rise Against the Sword, The Sword of Doom, Fort Graveyard, The Retreat from Kiska, Sanshiro Sugata, Samurai Assassin, Red Beard, Legacy of the 500,000, The Lost World of Sinbad, Whirlwind, Chūshingura: Hana no Maki, Yuki no Maki, Attack Squadron!, High and Low, Yojimbo, The Youth and his Amulet, Sanjuro, Tatsu, Three Gentlemen Return from Hong Kong, Salaryman Chushingura Part 1 & 2, The Story of Osaka Castle, The Youth and his Amulet, Ánimas Trujano, The Last Gunfight, The Gambling Samurai, The Bad Sleep Well, Man Against Man

I recently opened a thread on dating Paul's letters without Acts, and there was lots of discussion. I think it's about time to post an updated thread and move the discussion forwards. Everyone broadly agreed that one of the points listed was incorrect, and so it was excised. Everyone broadly agreed with the rest, although there individual users had discussions on this or that point. I think it's time to re-write the list, restate points that need to be restated, add some other points, and see where we can get. These are the reasons why I think we can confidently date Paul's letters without Acts:

[EDIT: On the original thread, u/blueb0g and u/Chris_Hansen97 have given some good additional reasons for how to date these letters. Points 1-5 are the ones I originally listed when I posted this thread, the rest of the points are from them.]

1. In Gal. 1:19, Paul directly claims to know James, brother of Jesus who we know (e.g. from Josephus' Antiquities 20.9.1) to have lived until in the mid-1st century; and he also disputed with Peter - the time of Paul's world is evidently that of the mid-1st century
2. Clement of Rome, whether he wrote in 70 or 90 AD, refers in the past-tense to Paul's persecution and death in 1 Clem. 5. To avoid this argument, one would have to argue that all of Paul's letters are pseudonymous. Keep in mind that Clement writes “Take up the epistle of that blessed apostle, Paul” (1 Clem. 47:1-3).
3. In 2 Cor. 11:32, Paul claims to have been arrested in Damascus while King Aretas was in charge (more on this below)
4. In Rom. 16:23, Paul mentions greeting Erastus, treasurer of the city of Corinth. Erastus is known from an inscription outside of Paul, also dating to the mid-1st century (more on this below) [update: good reasons brought up in the comments for why this identification, though still probable, may not be fully confirmed]
5. In Rom. 15:19, Paul says he was preaching in Illyricum - a province that was dissolved in 80 AD
6. "I see no reason to so radically disagree with the Acts chronology as to transplant Paul's activity - which Acts associates with the dates of several specific Roman officials - by several decades." - blueb0g
7. "Paul's lack of knowledge of our Gospels conforms to a pre-war context." - blueb0g
8. "It should also be noted that the pseudo-Paulines of t

That even­ing, Si­mon Frakes lec­tured again to all the learned folks:

“Please un­der­stand one thing: all ima­gined things have real­ity. They are not be­cause we ima­gine them. We ima­gine them be­cause they are. Ima­gin­a­tion is only the en­counter with their real­ity. From the Olympian gods to Boob McNutt, all are per­sons. To ima­gine the non-ex­ist­ing is an im­possib­il­ity. All are with the bil­lions in that limbus. All are en­tit­ies in the psychic pool. I speak lit­er­ally.

All are real: Kate Fen­nig­ate, Moll Flanders, Dirk Stro­eve, Es­ter Jack, Audi­fax O'Han­lon, Percy Gryce, Vir­ginia Carvel, Count Mo­sco, Di­nah Shadd, Octavia Beau­pree, Richard Nixon, Flag­man Thiel, Gil Blas, Red Han­ra­han, Handy Andy, Se­bastian March­man, Gippo No­lan, Mil­dred Ro­gers, Isolde, Deirdre, Frank Couper­wood, Sir Kid Rack­rent, Jasper Petu­lengro, Cy Slo­cum, Lucy Dash­wood, Hair­breadth Harry, Ju­lien Sorel, Fe­lix Ken­na­ston, Har­old Teen, Mat­thew Bramble, Abe Kibble, Hor­a­tio Mal­tra­vers, Con­stance Povey, Joe Calash, Widow Wad­man, Genevieve Rod, Polly Peachum, J. Hart­ford Oak­dale, Nat Buntline, Meg Marsh, Gavin Dis­hart, Casper Gut­man, all are real.”

“You mean, of course,” said David Dean who was one of those re­spons­ible for the lec­tures, “that they are real in the sense that they bear a verisimil­it­ude to inner real­ity, that their ex­pres­sion rings true, that they are valid ima­gin­at­ive creatures.”

“No, I don't be­lieve that I mean any­thing like that at all,” Si­mon said. “You miss my point. I say that all the en­tit­ies in the psychic pool are real — (is there any other way to say ‘real’?) — that they are be­ings as much as you are a be­ing, that those we know are only those re­cog­nized by chance, and that the oth­ers are no less real.

All are real: Barney Google, Jur­gis Rudkus, Bounder J. Round­heels, Mor­gan Fen­wolf, Madonna Zilia, Wolf Larsen, Hip­polyte Sch­in­ner, Cliff Suth­er­land, Abu Kir and Abu Sir (they are a pair), Ma­dame Ver­durin, Ar­a­bella Al­len, Andy Gump, Elmer Tuggle, Lore­lei Lee — ”

“Will you come to your point, Si­mon!” Fair­bridge O'Boyle sug­ges­ted. The listen­ers were be­gin­ning to look at each other un­eas­ily.

“I am on my point com­pletely,” Si­mon main­tained. “One can­not give too many in­stances: Sal­va­tion Yeo, Horse­shoe Robin­son, David Harum, Florence Ud­ley, Gregers Werle, Daisy Buchanan, Del­phine de Nu­cin­gen, Paul Bunyan, Becky Sharp, George Bungle, Daisy Bell, Whisky John

Phil

Sudden Lee

Go post NSFW jokes somewhere else. If I can't tell my kids this joke, then it is not a DAD JOKE.

If you feel it's appropriate to share NSFW jokes with your kids, that's on you. But a real, true dad joke should work for anyone's kid.

Mods... If you exist... Please, stop this madness. Rule #6 should simply not allow NSFW or (wtf) NSFL tags. Also, remember that MINORS browse this subreddit too? Why put that in rule #6, then allow NSFW???

Please consider changing rule #6. I love this sub, but the recent influx of NSFW tagged posts that get all the upvotes, just seem wrong when there are good solid DAD jokes being overlooked because of them.

Thank you,

A Dad.

So far nobody has given me a straight answer

..... Will get a reward.

Because they work on many levels

Well, toucan play at that game.

This article includes a lot of film stills. If you would like to see the illustrated version click here.

https://36toesproductions.medium.com/dog-eat-dog-a-review-7a5e70898069

No opening credits, no atmospheric music to lead us in, just a sudden blare of wild jazz and the screen goes from black to Jane Mansfield in a babydoll nighty making love to a pile of money. Before you can absorb this abrupt vision of zaftig sex and capitalism the scene cuts to a man in a speeding convertible. He’s got a cigar and a gun and is careening through some European city somewhere, chasing a breathless man through the streets. The first five minutes of the film is a series of crosscuts between lovely Jane writhing on the bed and the cigar chomping man laughing maniacally as he chases down his victim. While the montage plunges ahead the credits begin. The film is called Dog Eat Dog.

Apparently the production of Dog Eat Dog was plagued by problems. It went through four directors before it was completed: Gustav Gavrin, Richard E. Cunha, Ray Nazarro, and Albert Zugsmith. Filming was stopped and restarted in numerous countries: Yugoslavia, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, and a place I have never heard of called KwaZulu-Nata. The film has numerous titles, Dog Eat Dog, An Act of Violence, Dollars Girl, When Strangers Meet, Time To Kill, Strange Encounter, and many more. It was released in 1964. Jayne Mansfield called her part in it: "The best role of my career.”

I don’t know if it was product placement for the Keebler Elves or The Saltines lobbyists or the Cracker Council of America but within the first 10 minutes of the film Jayne uses the word “crackers” as an exclamation eight times. Yes, I went back and counted. Phrases like “Crackers! you’re cute.” and “Crackers! you don’t have to be so savage about it!” After the initial ten minutes was filmed there must have been some sort of contract dispute or perhaps the Cracker Council didn’t like the new director, but Jayne drops her catch phrase almost completely.

The dialogue in general is peppered with hip banter like “Toss your canon in the water daddy-o” and “Where is (the money) Lyle honey, come on be a sport ‘cause I gotta pash for the cash.”. Not all of the dialogue is snappy and stylish though, there is Jayne’s line transcribed here verbatim, “Corbet look! He’s Dead! He’s Dead! He’s Dead! Oh look! He’s Dead! Look! He’s Dead! He’s Dead! H

Argon does not react.

Windows

Martin Freeman, and Andy Serkis.

They also play roles in Lord of the Rings.

I guess that makes them the Tolkien white guys.

She said apple-lutely

'Eye-do'

This is my first post pls don't kill me lol.

The people in the comment section is why I love this subreddit!!

Cred once again my sis wants credit lol

EDIT: THANK YOU! Please still post if you think of anything. I am working my way through these recommendations and will do my best to respond with what I thought of the series/book as I complete them. Probably will be at least a year before I need to make a post like this again! Absolutely blew up and got so many more books than I thought I would.

Originally posted in r /audible before I found this group. I have hit a slump in finding good series or book.

I have a few hundred titles in my library ranging from History to Sci Fi to Murder Mysteries. For this I'll limit it to just Military Sci Fi, Fantasy, Apocalyptic/Survival

This will be a long post. I hope if others like a lot of similar series and narrators you can point me in the right direction. Maybe this can be a recommendation list for others also!

*Military Sci Fi*

Top 5 picks in no particular order.

**Old Mans War** by John Scalzi - Narrated by William Dufris

**Undying Mercenaries** by B.V Larson - Narrated by Mark Boyett

**Expeditionary Force** by Craig Alanson - Narrated by RC Bray

**Bobiverse** by Dennis E Taylor - Narrated by Ray Porter

**Fear the Sky** by Stephan Moss - Narrated by RC Bray

Worthy Mentions

**The Forever** by Craig Robertson - Narrated by Scott Aiello

**Frontlines** by Marko Kloos - Narrated by Luke Daniels

**The Ember War** by Richard Fox - Narrated by Luke Daniels

**The Lost Fleet** by John Campbell - Narrated by Christian Rummel

**First Colony** by Ken Lozito - Narrated by Scott Aiello

**The Synchrocity War** by Dietmar Wehr - Narrated by Luke Daniels

**Infinite** by Jeremy Robertson - Narrated by RC Bray

*Fantasy (This is all encompassing)*

Top 5 in no particular order

**Off to be a Wizard** by Scott Meyers - Narrated by Luke Daniels

**Ascendant** by Craig Alanson - Narrated by Tim Reynalds

**Ascend Online** by Luke Chmilenko - Narrated by Luke Daniels (this is a top pick)

**Cast under an Alien Sun** by Olan Thorenson - Narrated by Jonathon Davis

**The Land** by Aleron kong - Narrated by Nick Podehl

Worthy Mentions

**Ready Player One** By Ernest Cline - Narrated by Wil Wheaton (Ready Player Two was an atrocity and sucked in my opinion, felt like a cash grab)

**The Inheritance Cycle** by Christopher Paolini - Narrated by Gerard Doyle

**The Authorites** by Scott Meyer - Narrated by Luke Daniels

**Kingkiller Chronicle** by Patrick Rothfuss - Narrated

It could be the best in terms of anything

Paul Newman: The Hustler, Cool Hand Luke, Exodus, From the Terrace, Paris Blues, Hud, Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man, Sweet Bird of Youth, Harper, Lady L, Hombre, Torn Curtain, Winning, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Secret War of Harry Frigg, The Prize, What a Way to Go!, The Outrage, and A New Kind of Love.

Gregory Peck: To Kill a Mockingbird, Mackenna's Gold, The Chairman, Cape Fear, Captain Newman, M.D., How the West Was Won, Behold a Pale Horse, Marooned, Mirage, Arabesque, The Stalking Moon, and The Guns of Navarone.

Steve McQueen: The Sand Pebbles, The Great Escape, Love with the Proper Stranger, The Magnificent Seven, The Thomas Crown Affair, The Cincinnati Kid, Bullitt, The Honeymoon Machine,The War Lover, Soldier in the Rain, Nevada Smith, Baby the Rain Must Fall, and The Reivers.

Dustin Hoffman: The Graduate, Midnight Cowboy, The Tiger Makes Out, Madigan's Millions, and John and Mary.

Peter O Toole: Lawrence of Arabia, Becket, The Lion in Winter, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Kidnapped, The Day They Robbed the Bank of England, The Savage Innocents, What's New Pussycat?, The Sandpiper, Lord Jim, How to Steal a Million, The Bible: In the Beginning..., Casino Royale, The Night of the Generals, and Great Catherine.

Henry Fonda: How the West Was Won, Firecreek, Once Upon a Time in the West, Madigan, The Boston Strangler, Fail Safe, Sex and the Single Girl, The Longest Day, Advise & Consent, Spencer's Mountain, The Dirty Game, In Harm's Way, A Big Hand for the Little Lady, Welcome to Hard Times, The Best Man, The Rounders, Battle of the Bulge, and Yours, Mine and Ours.

Toshiro Mifune: Shinsengumi, The Battle of the Japan Sea, Red Lion, Safari 5000, Hell in the Pacific, Samurai Banners, The Day the Sun Rose, Admiral Yamamoto, Japan's Longest Day, The Sands of Kurobe, Samurai Rebellion, Grand Prix, The Mad Atlantic, The Adventure of Kigan Castle, Rise Against the Sword, The Sword of Doom, Fort Graveyard, The Retreat from Kiska, Sanshiro Sugata, Samurai Assassin, Red Beard, Legacy of the 500,000, The Lost World of Sinbad, Whirlwind, Chūshingura: Hana no Maki, Yuki no Maki, Attack Squadron!, High and Low, Yojimbo, The Youth and his Amulet, Sanjuro, Tatsu, Three Gentlemen Return from Hong Kong, Salaryman Chushingura Part 1 & 2, The Story of Osaka Castle, The Youth and his Amulet, Ánimas Trujano, The Last Gunfight, The Gambling Samurai, The Bad Sleep Well, Man Against Man, and Storm Over the Pac

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Wife: No you're not.