Jeremiah ' liver eating ' Johnson is actually buried right here in the L.A. Veteran's cemetary <img src="images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" /> I read everything I could about the man,inspired by the cult movie of my generation. I lost all interest reading a two volume set about Hawken rifles. It seems an early conversion was the Spenser rifle with a Hawken octagonal barrel. A young indian boy killed a man trying to rape his sister. He was rewarded with the man's rifle ( this conversion) for his bravery. Johnson saw the rifle and murdered the boy for possession. When he realized it did not have the repeating ability of the Spensor AND the Hawken's power it was discarded <img src="images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />. A true story of mountainman survival is "The Ordeal of Hugh Glass."

You reminded me of another story of an early RFC pilot. Before Anton Fokker developed the interrupter gear, pilots couldn't fire through the propellor so machine guns were mounted on top of the upper wing. When the ammunition drum was empty, the pilot had to reach up, remove it, and replace it with a spare drum. This pilot, having expended all his ammunition, reached up to remove the empty drum only to find that it was jammed. In order to remove it, he had to stand up, holding the stick between his knees and grab the drum with both hands. The stick slipped out from between his knees, the airplane went inverted, and the pilot was thrown clear - now holding on desperately to the still-jammed ammunition drum! Of course, there were no parachutes in those days (at least, not for fighter pilots) - you either rode the plane down or you jumped to your death.

Somehow, he managed to swing his legs back up into the cockpit and kick the stick to bring the airplane back rightside up. Clambering back into the cockpit, he sat down on the metal seat (having lost his cushion, and anything else that wasn't bolted in) and flew back to base with his empty magazine still jammed firmly in the machine gun above his head. <img src="images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" />

Those were desperate times. <img src="images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

Are you kidding! <img src="images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" /> Tremors the greatest cult classic of all time! Whats not to like, it's original, witty, and theres a few good survival ideas to be picked up, and it explores survialism's biggest question, preparation or resourcefulness. <img src="images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> I think the endangered species act is a good, if bulky, idea. It adds irony, the individual or the whole question, and dozens of other literary elements. (Darn high scholl for instilling such insights into me). Plus the creators and actors keep it real, you dont see t-shirts, posters, coffea mugs and other knick knacks with the tremors stuff all over. The advantage to that is, when you and your friend are talking about it somewhere, you dont get some 'expert' barging in. Burt Gummer rules (the desert, I rule the north east!) <img src="images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> <img src="images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> Plus the dukes of hazard wernt that bad.

**Plus the dukes of hazard wernt that bad.**

If Burt starts taping dynamite to arrows when he goes Graboid hunting I may be forced to convert to Keys' point of view <img src="images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Plus Gladise Jimenez beats the daisy dukes off of Catherine Bach in the looks dept <img src="images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Ed

John Mills in "Swiss Family Robinson" has to be the best. I loved that tree house and tried (unsuccessfully) to duplicate it when I was a kid. Burt is pretty cool but didn't have the creativity of Mills or even McGuyver. <img src="images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

Even my wife likes Burt Gummer. He's the main reason we watch "Tremors: The Series." He's a friendly survivalist, albeit a somewhat grumpy one. And hilariously so.

He's knows what he's doing and shares what he knows willingly, to the rather comical point of "dumbing down" what he says so the others understand him.

He might say "flexible heat shield," but when Rosalita (another great reason to watch the show) doesn't understand, he then pauses and says something like, "the big silvery thing that looks like a blanket."

Burt Gummer is definitely The Man.

I just saw Army of Darkness for the fourth or fifth time and I've got to put in a plug for Ash. He's an embicile, but a clever one. Thumbs up.

Here here! I second that. And yes (cat whistle) Rosilita is a great reason to wqatch the show. So far my favorite line is in the second one when he says something to the extent 'were dealing with a large governmental conspiracy spawning a water sucking bacterial menace, let's be reasonable here.'. Cant waight till it starts back up again June 20.

I did a english report on Tremors and got an 92 on it.

RED DAWN w/ Patrick Swayze
Robinson Crusoe on Mars w/ Adam west
Damnation Alley w/ George Peppard
The Naked Prey w/ Cornel Wilde