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Re: Box of chocolates
« Reply #10 on: October 14, 2008, 01:11:30 AM »
Quote from: jumbofrank on October 13, 2008, 04:42:09 PM
What Forrest Gump said in the book was, "Let me say this: bein an idiot ain't no box of chocolates." I guess it doesn't apply to this thread.  ;D  The author, Winston Groom, reportedly dislikes the change from that to the line everyone is familiar with. I hate when movies change the story from books, but it's even worse when they change stories from real life. Schindler's List made a lot of gun owners mad because they left out the part about him giving guns to the Jews and teaching them to shoot. That was a very important part of the real-life story but it wasn't politically correct enough for the gun-banning Hollywood elite.

The Israeli's planted a tree at their Holocaust Memorial in honor of Oscar Schindler.
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Re: Box of chocolates
« Reply #11 on: October 14, 2008, 01:55:18 AM »
Quote from: tombogan03884 on October 14, 2008, 01:11:30 AM
The Israeli's planted a tree at their Holocaust Memorial in honor of Oscar Schindler.

And Steven Spielberg left one of the most important parts of Herr Schindler's story out of... HIS story. That's disgusting.

Life is like a box of chocolates. Sometimes you find out there's nothing left but caramels that someone put back after they took a little bite out of each one and didn't like them. And sometimes you find something wonderful and unexpected.  :)
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Re: Box of chocolates
« Reply #12 on: October 14, 2008, 02:10:07 AM »
Quote from: jumbofrank on October 14, 2008, 01:55:18 AM
And Steven Spielberg left one of the most important parts of Herr Schindler's story out of... HIS story. That's disgusting.

Life is like a box of chocolates. Sometimes you find out there's nothing left but caramels that someone put back after they took a little bite out of each one and didn't like them. And sometimes you find something wonderful and unexpected.  :)

Like a Cabela's Gift certificate under the empty wrappers ? ;D
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Re: Box of chocolates
« Reply #13 on: October 14, 2008, 02:24:01 AM »
Quote from: tombogan03884 on October 14, 2008, 02:10:07 AM
Like a Cabela's Gift certificate under the empty wrappers ? ;D

 :)  That would be SO cool. I like Cabela's.
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""It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even his personal services to the defence of it, and consequently that the Citizens of America (with a few legal and official exceptions) from 18 to 50 Years of Age should be borne on the Militia Rolls, provided with uniform Arms, and so far accustomed to the use of them, that the Total strength of the Country might be called forth at a Short Notice on any very interesting Emergency." - George Washington. Letter to Alexander Hamilton, Friday, May 02, 1783

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