What movie or TV ep have you seen a RIDICULOUS # of times? by chrisisall

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Originally posted by manwithpez:
When I was a kid I saw Fright Night so many times ...I taped it on audiotape and listened to it before I went to bed at night...is that weird? Don't answer that.

I will answer that. Back in the stone age, before VCR's, I audio taped Star Trek episodes, and went to sleep listening to them. Can't even tell ya how many times I heard City On The Edge Of Forever!!!
You're only the third person I've ever heard of doing such a silly thing!

Makes me feel less like a nut Chrisisall

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Monday, June 27, 2005 10:11 AM

Yep. Empire and Jedi are both up to almost 100 times each for me.

It is too late for me, son Chrisisall

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Monday, June 27, 2005 10:15 AM

WHITEFALL

This is an easy one!

Every episode of Firefly.

Many many many many many times.

"Some people juggle geese!" -Ancient Chinese proverb.

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Monday, June 27, 2005 10:21 AM

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Originally posted by PopeBob:
wel I'm going to have to go with Empire Strikes Back. Starting back in 1979 when it was first shown (yes i know it was 1980 that everyone seems to say it was but i am DAMN certain i saw it in 79. my brother had not been born yet.he was born in 1980, and my mother was not pregnant at the time.)

Regardless of your apparent temporal distortions, Empire came out May 23, 1980. I was at the Loew's Astor Plaza theatre in Manhattan for the first show!
Maybe you're thinkin' of when you saw the trailer? It came out in theatres summer-fall of 1979. Or maybe a test screening?

You'll find I'm full of surprises Chrisisall

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Monday, June 27, 2005 10:23 AM

DIETCOKE

Wow, tough to say, because I don't keep count. I probably have seen Gone With The Wind 15 times, Lord of the Rings (all three) and It's a Wonderful Life at least 10.

TV shows, Once More With Feeling at least 10 times and Smile Time about the same.

And I have no idea how many times I've seen Firefly. Won't admit it even to myself. :)

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Monday, June 27, 2005 11:30 AM

EST120

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Originally posted by lasher99:
Grosse Pointe Blank

Hilarious movie, by the way. "I'm hurt, I'm pissed and I have to find a new job."

I have seen the Angel finale too many times to count.

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Monday, June 27, 2005 12:02 PM

BIKISDAD

I'm going to have to go with "Casablanca", like Soupcatcher. When I was a kid (before cable, satellite, etc.), that movie used to be played as the late movie ALL THE TIME. I probably saw it a bazillion times just when it was broadcast on tv. I hadn't seen it on much in the past 15 or so years, though (which is a real shame because, hello - classic), so I bought the VHS back then and have watched it 3-4 times a year since then. My tape is still in amazingly decent shape, considering, so I haven't replaced it with the dvd yet. Soon though.

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Monday, June 27, 2005 12:10 PM

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Originally posted by chrisisall:
Can't even tell ya how many times I heard City On The Edge Of Forever!!!

Is that the one with Joan Collins and crazy McCoy?

Okay...what have I watched an obscene number of times? 'Funny Face', 'Take Her She's Mine', 'Army of Darkness', 'The Major and the Minor', 'Goonies', 'Grease 2' ( I know it sucks)...and al the ones previously listed. SW, PB, etc...

TV? No idea.

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Monday, June 27, 2005 12:16 PM

EBONEZER

Raiders of the Lost Ark. It was the only movie we had for the longest time, and as we don't get cable, I watched it A LOT.

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Monday, June 27, 2005 12:32 PM

JCLEMENS

Princess Bride is a good one. Another one that gets better with the watching is "Better Off Dead"--funniest move from the 1980's, IMHO.

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Monday, June 27, 2005 12:35 PM

SHINY

Princess Bride and Monty Python & The Quest for the Holy Grail.

Inconceivable!!!

Jayne, your mouth is talkin. Might want to look into that.

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Monday, June 27, 2005 12:46 PM

MAUGWAI

The Paper. That movie is the best example ever of comic timing. I put it in the other day to find CSI's Gary Dourdan, who it turns out is walking around with dreds in the background of most shots, and discovered that my tape is almost done for. I think it's time I invested in a DVD copy.

I became a reporter in part because that movie made it look like fun. Turns out, not so much.

"Dear diary, today I was pompous and my sister was crazy."

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Monday, June 27, 2005 2:47 PM

Terry raises her hand and confesses to audio taping favorite shows - well, certain episodes, anyway. I think it started when I bought the LP (yes, the dark ages) of the 1968 movie Romeo and Juliet. It had dialog on it and kinda hooked me on the concept. I still have half a dozen tapes on the bedroom bookshelf, with my Walkman that hasn't given out yet.

Terry (who wishes she had the reel-to-reel tapes of Dark Shadows from jr. high.)

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Originally posted by chrisisall:
I will answer that. Back in the stone age, before VCR's, I audio taped Star Trek episodes, and went to sleep listening to them. Can't even tell ya how many times I heard City On The Edge Of Forever!!!
You're only the third person I've ever heard of doing such a silly thing!

Makes me feel less like a nut Chrisisall

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Monday, June 27, 2005 2:58 PM

FREMDFIRMA

Battle Beyond the Stars.

Sure, it's B, but I liked it.. still do.

Used to come on about once a month when I was younger and the networks apparently didn't have much else to run, and I watched it every time.

And of course, I "get the joke".
(it's based on Seven Samauri, which was what Magnificent Seven is based on, hence, the name of the planet.)

Ironically Vaughn plays almost the exact same character in both movies - LOVED his speech about how all his money was worthless cause he couldn't show his face to spend it.

-F

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Monday, June 27, 2005 2:58 PM

Chrisisall,

So, how many threads have you started now? :-) Are you writing a book, doing research for a thesis?

But I'll bite - Out of Gas is my most recent multiple rewatching. I taped it as I watched the first run, immediately rewound it and watched it again as soon as it was over. I think I watched it 4 more times before the weekend was over.

I kept my Firefly tapes in the bedroom and watched before I went to bed for over a year after it was cancelled... rewound and started over every couple of weeks. :-) I haven't loved a show that much since Blakes 7.

Another would be the Highlander 2-parter Rev 6:8 and Comes a Horseman. Duncan begging for Methos' life - doesn't get any angstier. Is angstier a word?

And the last episode of Blakes 7 - I know it by heart.

Terry

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Monday, June 27, 2005 3:54 PM

the movie is not the Series. Only the facts have been changed, to irritate the innocent; the names of the actors and characters remain the same

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Originally posted by SoupCatcher:
Casablanca

Have you ever seen the chronological edit? I did, once. It was educational to see the difference it made in telling the story.

Keep the Shiny Side Up . . . (wutzon) Jackie Wilson, "A Woman, a Lover, a Friend", from "Mr Excitement"

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Monday, June 27, 2005 4:33 PM

SHINYSEVEN

Hi, Terryo! I write B7/FF crossovers because they share a hugely depressing view of life and its potential.
...and Leonard Cohen songs are great for both of them.

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Monday, June 27, 2005 4:50 PM

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Originally posted by shinyseven:
Hi, Terryo! I write B7/FF crossovers because they share a hugely depressing view of life and its potential.
...and Leonard Cohen songs are great for both of them.

Mal and crew could use Vila around, to finesse the locks. Explosives are so crude in comparison. LOL.

The only LC song I know is Hallelujah and the version by Rufus Wainwright is always in my top ten (usually #1) favorites.

I don't read FF fic for some reason. Maybe because it's hard for writers to capture anything close to Joss's style of dialog. But I like B7 fic.

Terry

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Monday, June 27, 2005 5:05 PM

SHINYSEVEN

Terryo:
One of the Blakes7 people posted a link to some great Leonard Cohen songs:
http://www.leonardcohenfiles.com/album9.html

First one up has this as its second stanza:
I'm guided by a signal in the heavens
I'm guided by this birthmark on my skin
I'm guided by the beauty of our weapons.
First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin.
[...]
I don't like your fashion business mister
And I don't like these drugs that keep you thin
I don't like what happened to my sister
First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin.

And:
All the rocket ships are climbing through the sky
The holy books are open wide
The doctors working day and night
But they'll never ever find that cure for love.

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Monday, June 27, 2005 8:53 PM

FALLENANGEL

I have seen the Indiana Jones trilogy so many freakin' times, its not funny. Wait, yes it is. I also have seen the 1999 version of The Mummy so many times, I even the know the words that are spoken in eygptian in the movie, EVERY SINGLE ONE. Sad, I know.

Other movies that I have seen many, MANY times:
Lost Boys
Moulin Rouge
Phantom Of The Opera(2004)
Edward Scissorhands
Harry Potter 1
The Ten Commandments-I have been watching this movie every Easter sunday on tv with my father ever since I can remember. Its our lil Easter tradition.

There's more but thats all I can think of.It would take all night to list them all. lol. I'm such a big movie buff. What can I say? I love movies!

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Tuesday, June 28, 2005 1:13 AM

Thanks!

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Terryo:
One of the Blakes7 people posted a link to some great Leonard Cohen songs:
http://www.leonardcohenfiles.com/album9.html

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Tuesday, June 28, 2005 5:48 AM

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Originally posted by thatweirdgirl:
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Originally posted by chrisisall:
Can't even tell ya how many times I heard City On The Edge Of Forever!!!
Is that the one with Joan Collins and crazy McCoy?/B]

Yes. You know your Trek well.
Grease 2?! Are the songs that good, or do you just like seein' Michelle Pfifer in her first flick?
Another thing I've noticed. People who like Firefly tend to like Buffy, and those who like Buffy tend to like Army Of Darkness...

This is my BOOMSTICK Chrisisall

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Tuesday, June 28, 2005 5:50 AM

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Originally posted by Shiny:
Inconceivable!!!

I don't think this word means what you think it means.

Chrisisall

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Tuesday, June 28, 2005 5:52 AM

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Originally posted by chrisisall:
Yes. You know your Trek well.

I try.

As for Grease 2...I think I'm just sick. The only redeeming quality in the movie is the tight-pantsed Pfifer....and I'm a girl so that's not a very good reason.

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Tuesday, June 28, 2005 5:57 AM

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Originally posted by terryo:
Terry (who wishes she had the reel-to-reel tapes of Dark Shadows from jr. high.)

Now there are four.
I had a reel to reel in grade school. I actually miss the pops and clicks from my vinyl lp's, too.
I audio taped entire movies to listen to, also.
In 1982 I taped Blade Runner, cause I didn't wanna wait for the videotape to come out (at that time it was like years you waited), that's my most 'listened to' movie.

LIke our owl Chrisisall

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Tuesday, June 28, 2005 6:12 AM

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Originally posted by terryo:
Chrisisall, So, how many threads have you started now? :-) Are you writing a book, doing research for a thesis?

No, I just haven't met so many with similar interests to my own since the last science fiction convention I went to (in the late 80's!), and I guess I'm making up for lost time.
Since March I guess I started about 50 threads or so...

Thankfull for all the cool people here Chrisisall

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Tuesday, June 28, 2005 6:19 AM

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Originally posted by thatweirdgirl:
As for Grease 2...I think I'm just sick.

I must be sick, too. I love Escape From LA, and I seem to be the only one.
I also love (LOVE) Mummy Returns!!
*raises a mug of mudder's milk*
Here's to bein' sick. Drink fast, I tend to be clumsy...

*falling over backwards in his chair* Chrisisall

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Tuesday, June 28, 2005 6:23 AM

OUTLAWMUSICDJ

Prob the movies I've seen the most are:

Grease (lost count after 100+)

The Breakfast Club (again 100+)

Wizard of Oz (watched that sucker every year it came on)

The Little Mermaid (the Disney version)

and the ORIGINAL Star Wars movies.

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Tuesday, June 28, 2005 6:30 AM

SAFEAT2ND

Well, count me in on the audio taping of TV shows. I used to tape Buck Rogers in the 25th Century when I was a kid 'cause it was on past my bedtime

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I've watched Slingblade (with Billy Bob Thorton and John Ritter) and Disney's Lion King (lots funnier when you've had a coupla wobbly pops) at least a dozen times each. The first disc of Firefly at least that many times too.

Sorry I don't subscribe to the Buffy series. Never liked whatsherface. Angel wasn't bad but never grabbed my attention with ferocity of a staving pitbull like Firefly did. Army of Darkness I watched when it came out originally and thought it was good, but not good enough to inspire me to watch it repetitively. Besides, when you have kids, you have to be....choosey..about what you watch, so it's what ever you can squeeze in between their bedtime and ours.

"Stupid is as stupid does"....does what exactly??

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Tuesday, June 28, 2005 6:38 AM

I've been thinking about this and I realized I left off some movies.

Back in the day Iwatched Breakfast Club all the time. My parents got me hooked on Rocky Horror, who knows how many times I've seen that. Disney's Beauty and the Beast and The Aristocats. The Fifth Element and Galaxy Quest are my space fix. My Fair Lady. Toby Tyler. Pretty much every musical that has ever danced across the screen has danced across my TV at least 20 times. That's a lot of Merman.

As for TV...I was a latch key kid. I grew up with the TV as my friend. I've seen all the great shows, over and over and over. Gilligan, Brady, Donna Reed, Patty Duke, 54, Monkees, Hillbillies repeatedly. Every episode is etched into my brain...poor brain. The one episode I've seen more than any other? The Corbomite Maneuver.

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Tuesday, June 28, 2005 7:05 AM

GEEZER

Keep the Shiny side up

Got to be Blazing Saddles and Fifth Element.

Whenever the world gets just a bit too PC for me, Blazing Saddles goes in the player (so you can imagine it gets quite a workout).

I find something new every time I watch Fifth Element. Maybe just some little thing in the background that makes it more of a real world. And I love the score.

"Keep the Shiny side up"

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Tuesday, June 28, 2005 7:22 AM

CORNCOBB

You know that Limp Bizkit line: "I've seen the Fight Club about 28 times."? Well I've seen it far more than that. Dont ask for a precise number cos I've lost count.
I've also seen Plan 9 from Outer Space so many times I almost know it word for word (ditto Fight Club actually). Same goes for the first ep of Red Dwarf.
As much as I love Firefly I barely get a chance to watch it cos I'm always lending it out to people. I really should get a second box set.

"Gorramit Mal... I've forgotten my line."

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Tuesday, June 28, 2005 7:36 AM

If you _listen_ to many tv shows or movies, you start to like some actors just for their voices. Ron Perlman (Beauty and the Beast) Gareth Thomas (Blakes 7) most any Trek actor... Welsh accents are the best! Peter Wingfield (HL Methos) is Welsh, I think and if the last new Dr Who isn't, then he should be. :-) note: looked Christopher Ecclestone up in imdb - and he's from Lancashire - not Wales but still, a very nice accent...

Crossing Jordan is good too, although it's mostly listening from the couch with a book in my hand.

Terry

Quote:
Originally posted by chrisisall:
Now there are four.
I had a reel to reel in grade school. I actually miss the pops and clicks from my vinyl lp's, too.
I audio taped entire movies to listen to, also.
In 1982 I taped Blade Runner, cause I didn't wanna wait for the videotape to come out (at that time it was like years you waited), that's my most 'listened to' movie.

LIke our owl Chrisisall

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Tuesday, June 28, 2005 7:39 AM

WILLOWY

I too used to audio tape Star Trek off the television! My favorite episodes to listen to were The Apple (Yeeeeah, BROTHER!), and This Side of Paradise (..."right next to the DOG-FACED BOY!!"). Heh. Fun, innocent times.

As far as movies? The original Star Wars in 1977 - twenty-seven times in the theatre. Friends kept taking me because they didn't believe I could recite the whole movie. Of course, they always ended up shushing me twenty minutes into the picture because, hey, annoying! But I still got to see it many, many times so I didn't care.

The Little Mermaid, at least 40 or 50 times on video. Hey! I got kids! ;)

If I want some eye candy I throw in American Outlaws. Hot men, and I love westerns...just fluff but I love it.

Have seen Emma about 15 or 16 times, and Run Lola Run about that many too...

Television: Big word to whomever talked about Once More, With Feeling. It's insane the number of times I've watched that. Also, both seasons of Deadwood- first one on dvd and second on tape because it isn't out yet- a ridiculous amount of time, but I just love it so. It's absolutely brilliant.

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Tuesday, June 28, 2005 7:46 AM

Totally agree, Blazing Saddles is hysterical, and Fifth Element is great, it's weird, but it gets better with each viewing...
Do you have the Superbit version? It's unbelievable!

To quit is my goal Chrisisall

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Tuesday, June 28, 2005 7:48 AM

MANWITHPEZ

Important people don't do field work.

I have seen these movies a ridiculous amounts of times (At least twenty each):

Fright Night, Big Trouble in Little China, Army of Darkness, Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2, Salem's Lot, Candyman, Oscar, Arsenic and Old Lace, Beauty and the Beast, Ghostbusters, Evolution, The Green Mile, Stand By Me, Bringing Up Baby, Fight Club, Seven, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Harvey, The Incredibles, Finding Nemo, A Bug's Life (My very first DVD!), Desperado, Halloween, The Fog, The Patriot, Battle Royale, Ichabod and Mr. Toad, Three Caballeros, High Fidelity, Pump Up The Volume, Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan (Gotta have some Wrath!), And many, many, many others.

As far as TV goes: Scrubs, Friends, Frasier (oh YEAH!!), Firefly, Buffy, Angel, etc, etc, etc.

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Simon: "It means more out here. It's all I have..."

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Tuesday, June 28, 2005 7:53 AM

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Originally posted by Willowy:
I too used to audio tape Star Trek off the television! My favorite episodes to listen to were The Apple (Yeeeeah, BROTHER!), and This Side of Paradise (..."right next to the DOG-FACED BOY!!"). Heh. Fun, innocent times.

We have to start a 'I audio-taped Trek' support group! I never thought so many did that,too!
Arena, City on the Edge of Forever, Amok Time, This Side of Paradise, and Shore Leave were my most listened to eps, although at one time I think I had almost the whole 79 eps on tape!
I had to shush everyone in the house weekdays at 6pm to 7pm for months, my parents thought i was crazy!!

I'm still twenty years old. Look at you, you're an old man Chrisisall

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Tuesday, June 28, 2005 7:59 AM

I have an issue w/Seven. As soon as he saw her head, he shoulda fired! No thinkin', nothin' matters, just animal reaction. He paused too long, and that one little thing ruined the movie (for me).
Desperado's up there for me, too. Sometimes I watch it just to hear the soundtrack.

But you had to do it the hard way Chrisisall

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Tuesday, June 28, 2005 8:21 AM

SPIKEANDJEZEBEL

Hey Terryo,

I'm with you on Blakes 7 - the final episode of that is my favorite hour of filmed entertainment. I've probably seen it 50 times, and can recite the whole show by memory. I finally got sick of waiting for a region 1 release of B7 on DVD, so I got a regio free player and have been watching season 1 again - damn, this show holds up well!

Following that, I would have to go with "Once More With Feeling". That episode of Buffy inspired me to learn guitar, and now I can play and sing all the songs from it!

"Stand still! Have you betrayed us? Have you betrayed me?!" - Kerr Avon

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Tuesday, June 28, 2005 8:22 AM

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Originally posted by manwithpez:
Harvey

You are so cool.

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Tuesday, June 28, 2005 8:43 AM