Jack’s Winning Words 10/31/22

“We make up horrors to cope with the real ones.”  (Stephen King)  I never finished watching “Silence of the Lambs.”  Too scary for me.  The Exorcist is supposed to be the scariest of all movies, although the Shining is on the list, too.  Stephen King’s scariest novel is said to be, Pet Cemetery…a story of the dead coming back to life.  I like films where humor is mixed with horror…like Young Frankenstein.  I’ve noticed that Halloween has evolved more into a night of fun.  Even the scary costumes tend to make you laugh…they’re so weird.  Is there one that scares you as well as makes you laugh  ? ;-)  Jack

FROM FUNNY ALAN:  ALL THE LEADS IN THE MOVIE ARE DECEASED.  ONE OF THE TOP FIVE===JACK:  ...starting woth Mel Brooks.

FROM SR RD:  Jack, the first thing that comes to mind is  technology which I  

 find wildly scary and never makes me laugh!😝🤑===JACK:  I remember the dropping of the first atomic bomb and see the destruction if caused.  The world has not been the same since.  So many possibilities for good, but used for evil  The dropping of the bomb prevented more death and destruction.  Talk about scary!!!!

FROM BB IN CHGO:  I should upload a few I took on Saturday night.  There was a great “Jesus” costumed in white with a red sash, like the Jesus “action figure” you can buy for your dashboard.He was a robust black man with a nice, trimmed beard and a great long curly wig.  Many people wanted their photo taken with him.  He was very reverent and kind.  Made me smile.  An hour later another costumed Jesus walked into the bar, this time the light-skinned, blonde haired and bearded Jesus of my childhood books.  They saw each other at a distance (after the new guy passed the security/bouncer) and they gave one another a big friendly hug.  It was the funniest and sweetest thing we saw all night.===JACK:      What a great live sermon.  Yes, you should have downloaded it.  Opportunities pass, not to come again.

FROM DAIRYLAND DONNA:  Young Frankenstein is the best and I could not watch "Silence of the Lambs" at all  Happy Halloween!  We saw a pumpkin carver last weekend. My kind of scary===JACK:  I like funny rather than scary.

FROM ST PAUL:  i think we have almost ruined Halloween for the smaller kids.   i have seen some yard displays that are just horribly graphic and bloody.   dumb!! ===JACK:  Trtck or Treat was spoiled by a few for the many by putting razor blades or other bad stuff into the candy===Ghoulish yard displays are nothing compared to passing out contaminated food.

FROM WILLMAR REV:  The ones the politicians wear on the House and Senate floors calling out their causes, and even presidential rhetoric nowadays chastising their opponents . . . so much for the old saying, "Praise in public, wrestle, debate, and come to grips together with the issues in private?!?! Someone once said, ". . . if a house [family] be divided against itself, that house [family] cannot stand."  0;-)  ===JACK:  You've reminded me....Politics is alot like Halloween.... SCARY!!!!!!!!!!!!

FROM DANI D T:  The exorcist is very scariest. But for me Ken Burns Vietnam was even more frightening.====JACK:  Yes, reality, at times,  can be more frightening  that the manufactured kind.

 

 ===JACK:   FUNNIST MOVIES.  WE'LL DISCUUSS IF WE HAVE AGREEMENT ON THE OTHER FOUR.