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Saw last October for the first time. Solid. Take a drink whenever anyone lets their guard down.

AFI's 100 Years...100 Thrills, #67:
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, directed by John Huston, 1948

Trees, ranked. 66. Hackberry

Attractively shaped shade tree. The berries are nutritious and loved by birds et al. but also can cause issues with new sprouts and mess. Know it by the bark - not friendly bark for climbers!

AFI's 100 Years...100 Thrills, #66:
The Matrix, directed by The Wachowskis, 1999

Hello, Mike!

AFI's 100 Years...100 Thrills, #65:
The Dirty Dozen, directed by Robert Aldrich, 1967

How is it April?

AFI's 100 Years...100 Thrills, #64:
Touch of Evil, directed by Orson Welles, 1958

It's the only hair color I'll use.

AFI's 100 Years...100 Thrills, #63:
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, directed by Robert Aldrich, 1962

Wendy's "Where's the Baby Jane" commercials in the 80s were my favorite.

Who finished their taxes? Me! I finished my taxes. Well, my tax guy finished my taxes, but their done with them now, so...Taxes. Done.

Ahem. "they're" done.

Nope, they own me. I'm contractually obliged to say such.

In other words, 'I'm they're's".

AFI's 100 Years...100 Thrills, #62:
Spartacus, directed by Stanley Kubrick, 1960

Eliahad wrote: ↑Mon Apr 11, 2022 2:46 pm Nope, they own me. I'm contractually obliged to say such.

In other words, 'I'm they're's".

In all seriousness, I can't imagine what a nightmare taxes are when you get a significant amount of income through 1099 work. You have my sympathies, and my congratulations on getting it done.

AFI's 100 Years...100 Thrills, #61:
Cape Fear, directed by J. Lee Thompson, 1962

Trees, ranked. 65. Sabal Palmetto

This is the classic palm tree you imagine when you think of some Caribbean beach scene with a tall cabbage Palm or ten towering above it. Not a bad tree for what it is, but ranks this highly only because you really want one present when you are on that beach yourself in the hot weather, looking for shade. We get a better type of palm later in this list.

Kyle's top 8 names for his children, #8:

Gabriel Logan Jones

Trees, ranked. 64. Chestnut

As nut trees go, this has to be one of the coolest. They don't smell so bad and they have a pretty awesome looking nut product. Apparently you should roast them over an open fire but I never have and never will. The important thing is that a lot of the eastern US used to be covered with forests full of these bad boys and instead we went chop chop chopping them all down. Bad. Pretty good tree though!

Good night!

AFI's 100 Years...100 Thrills, #60:
The Sixth Sense, directed by M. Night Shyamalan, 1999

Kyle's top 8 names for his children, #7:

Kennedy Anne Jones

Kyle wrote: ↑Tue Apr 12, 2022 6:29 am Kyle's top 8 names for his children, #7:

Kennedy Anne Jones

I have my top three. I'm excited to see how they compare.

Kyle's top 8 names for his children, #6:

Avery Morgan Jones

Okay, you seem to be judging on the same criteria I am. This bodes well

Kyle's top 8 names for his children, #5:

Connor Michael Jones

Trees, ranked. #63. Bradford Pear

A pear tree in all its spring glory is a wonderful thing to behold! Not so much to smell but to behold visually! However, many other better trees blossom in a lovely and longer-lasting and more pleasantly fragrant fashion, so we can't give it too many points for this. Nor does it rate very highly on durability, which is minimal. Do not shake your pear tree of any sort firmly or it might fall on your head and kill you. Don't stand under this one too soon after a big storm. Another rarely mentioned thing I dislike about this tree is that it has a habit of sending lots of smaller shoots straight up vertically off the main branches, which interferes with both visual beauty and climbing. However, the reason it climbs all the way to 63 in these rankings is that it is very underrated as a climbing tree, especially for kids. If you nip off those vertical branches, in particular, it tends to have a low "hand" that small people can climb into and find comfortable perches within, and the bark is scratchy but not too scratchy - it will teach them how to climb well without getting scraped.

Kyle wrote: ↑Tue Apr 12, 2022 9:07 am Kyle's top 8 names for his children, #5:

Connor Michael Jones

Maybe a little high. But not much.

Trees, ranked. 62. Pawpaw

Funny little tree that ranks as highly as it does only because it apparently makes a pretty kickass fruit! I have never eaten a pawpaw but maybe more people should eat them more often? Maybe this will be the new banana when diseases knock out banana production, if that ever happens? Banana monoculture is bad but maybe overhyped, I don't know. Maybe the deep pockets have a plan for getting different bananas in production. Either way, here is a pawpaw tree and it's fairly cool:

AFI's 100 Years...100 Thrills, #59:
Planet of the Apes, directed by Franklin J. Schaffner, 1968

Kyle's top 8 names for his children, #4:

Max Owen Jones

Whooooooo! I'm a winner!!! My top 3 match Kyle's. Now to see if I nail the trifecta.

Kyle's top 8 names for his children, #3:

Mason Kane Jones

AFI's 100 Years...100 Thrills, #58:
The Bridge on the River Kwai, directed by David Lean, 1957

Kyle wrote: ↑Tue Apr 12, 2022 11:30 am Kyle's top 8 names for his children, #3:

Mason Kane Jones

Yes!! Nailed it! I thought for sure you'd have Mason Kane at #2, but I had to go with my gut.

Trees, ranked. 61. Catalpa

Big leaves, big clumps of white flowers, pretty cool tree - yet also the equivalent of going out after rolling out of bed in your (floral) pajamas without brushing your hair. I'm having a struggle now that we're close to the top 60. Trees are hard to rank when they get good.

AFI's 100 Years...100 Thrills, #57:
All the President's Men, directed by Alan J. Pakula, 1976

Trees, ranked. 60. Coffeetree (or Kentucky Coffeetree)

This is a nice shade tree with a lot going for it, including drought and heat tolerance. However, it takes a long time to leaf out and has a somewhat erratic shape compared to other shade trees. It's a legume, which is a major point in its favor, but unfortunately its legume is toxic unless roasted!

AFI's 100 Years...100 Thrills, #56:
Frankenstein, directed by James Whale, 1931

Trees, ranked. 59. Hawthorn

The internet wants me to have pictures of the leaves and berries of this tree but not so much the tree! Hawthorns come in many varieties, mostly smaller, generally with a little fruit that looks like a berry but technically is not a berry, or so I'm told. I would not have known the difference but this little fruit is ecologically beneficial and perhaps in other ways it has uses. They flower up sometimes, looking fancy in spring. That's all we have to say about the Hawthorn.

Kyle's top 8 names for his children, #2:

Jack Jump Jones

NNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

I WAS SO CLOSE!

Trees, ranked. 58. Honeylocust

Here's another legume for the list, one with lighter bark and longer, twistier pods than its black locust sibling. You may think of those big dark pods the honeylocust drops as giant, ominous peapods. Because they are peapods of a sort! This amuses me. The leaves of this tree are absolutely delightful. Unfortunately, this tree starts off light and lovely, letting in dappled sunlight through the branches, and then grows up leggy and sparse and with a branch too close to the roof, and another that breaks off in the thunderstorm but cannot possibly be reached unless you hire a tree service. These are the ways of the honeylocust.

AFI's 100 Years...100 Thrills, #55:
Wait Until Dark, directed by Terence Young, 1967

Kyle's top 8 names for his children, #1:

Marney Reese Jones

AFI's 100 Years...100 Thrills, #54:
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, directed by George Roy Hill, 1969

Kyle wrote: ↑Wed Apr 13, 2022 5:06 am Kyle's top 8 names for his children, #1:

Marney Reese Jones

I looooove this name! Gabriel is my #2.

Phoebe wrote: ↑Wed Apr 13, 2022 6:53 am

Kyle wrote: ↑Wed Apr 13, 2022 5:06 am Kyle's top 8 names for his children, #1:

Marney Reese Jones

I looooove this name! Gabriel is my #2.

My issue with the name (and my wife and I agree on this), is we just wish we'd named him Gabe. It's what he's always gone by.

AFI's 100 Years...100 Thrills, #53:
Pulp Fiction, directed by Quentin Tarantino, 1994