In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2) by SIGNYM

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In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)

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UPDATED: Friday, July 3, 2026 13:37
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Friday, July 3, 2026 1:37 PM

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Originally posted by Brenda:
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Local station from Washington state is running "ID4".

Like the movie???

I don't even know what that means, but I giggled.

Restless tonight... I pulled down a few boxes of things to start sorting through, and just kind of been cleaning my house. I really can't wait for it to cool off. I think today was the worst of it, though we wont' get much relief until Saturday. They just ended the Extreme Heat Advisory at midnight, but I'm not feeling that in my house right now. It's gross even with a fan on me. It was 80 on the 2nd floor at 1PM today, it's 82 up there 12 hours later.

I'm surprised I made it out in the garage and outside as long as I did today. Been drinking a ton of water to make up for that.

Well... It's going to cool off, but careful what you wish for. I'm seeing about half the days for the next 8 with thunderstorms, and most of the rest with rain. And it's still not getting below highs in the 80's while all that is going on.

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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.

Yes, the movie and you are the second person to ask me that.

"Independence Day" that old movie with Adam Baldwin in it as a Major.

Stay hydrated for sure SIX.

I don't ever remember anybody calling the movie ID4 back when it came out, but then again, the internet wasn't a part of my life and all I got was the perspective from my small sphere of influence and whatever the media said. I know that the ID4 logo was a thing that was on branding for toys and stuff. I think one of the bad-guy aliens was the last toy I ever bought or my parents ever bought me (if you don't count video games). I REALLY liked that movie when it came out. The special effects blew my mind. It's one of the only movies that I ever saw in the full priced theaters more than once, first with a friend and I somehow talked my dad into taking my brothers and I to see it the following week without waiting for it to go to the dollar show.

I worked at a Toys R Us around that time and they always threw the promotional stuff out, but I got them to give me the huge canvas Independence Day banner they had above the action figures in the toy aisle when they finally took all that down. It was huge... something like 20 to 25 feet wide, and a full shot of the spaceship over the city as it was blasting a building.

I got rid of that in the dehoard. One of the things I wonder if it would have actually been worth any money since they were probably pretty rare 6 years ago, but Independence Day??? I'm not going to beat myself up over that one. It probably should have been put in a landfill 30 years ago.

Do you remember if they called it ID4 in Canada? I know that you have your own Independence day, and I would assume that many nations do. But save the possibility of a rare coincidence or copycat nation, they're not very likely to be on July 4th as well. So I could see it making sense to be marketed everywhere else as ID4.

I always just assumed that was the Internet doing what the Internet does and giving shorthand to pop culture history. But maybe it was that the entire rest of the world was being sold the movie "ID4", and here in America it was called "Independence Day", and once the world got a lot smaller a decade later the majority ruled on the name of the movie.

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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.

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