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Thread ID: 56016	2005-03-25 01:51:00	Easter Quiz:	Terry Porritt (14)	PC World Chat

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337803	2005-03-25 01:51:00	Can anyone discover the connection between the film Casablanca, and the recent thread on time travel and teleportation (pressf1.pcworld.co.nz) A clue is a tune for all occasions :)	Terry Porritt (14)
337804	2005-03-25 09:15:00	Herman Hupfeld "As Time Goes By" ?	Winston001 (3612)
337805	2005-03-25 09:34:00	Great winston :) A tune actually written in 1931 for the show Everybody's Welcome, which now everybody's forgotten! But made famous in the 1942 film Casablanca starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman. Very few people nowadays will realise that the tune had a verse, you only hear the chorus, or refrain..."you must remember this, a kiss is still a kiss.. etc But the verse spoke of Mr Einsteins theory, showing that by 1931, Einsteins relativity theories (or Poincaré/Lorentz if you prefer) had reached the general public at least by name. www.science.psu.edu In the film, Sam, Rick's piano player played and sang 'As Time Goes By' for Ingrid Bergman, who said "Play it, Sam". So let's hear him: www.vincasa.com	Terry Porritt (14)
337806	2005-03-25 10:28:00	And while we're into "Casablanca" trivia (and because it's been a dreary drizzly day here & I've done nothing but boring housework - so need a break for something totally inconsequential...) (1) The "Play it, Sam" became misquoted over the years as:"Play it again, Sam." So much so that Woody Allen called one of his films that. (2) The stars of Casablanca not only thought of it as a minor movie when making it, but weren't aware of how the plot would end until shooting got to that stage. The writer/s were still deciding while filming was in progress. (Well, that's what I recall from a documentary made for its 50th anniversary) Neither Ingrid Bergman or Humphrey Bogart chose to be in the film by reading the script beforehand. They fronted up as part of their studio contracts for xxxx films. It was a cheapie - all shot in a few weeks - and both were surprised later when it achieved more fame than the studios' "major productions" of the time. There are 3 other fairly famous lines...quoted by people who know the original & sometimes people who don't: (1) "Round up the usual suspects." (Spoken by a police chief trying to conceal the known perpetrator) (2) We'll always have Paris...(No explanation required for romantics) (3) And here's what my neighbour calls:"the Alzheimers kicking in." OK somebody - what's the final line in the movie? When Rick & the police chief (is it Claude Rains?) head off into the darkness prepared to fight the WW2 baddies... Famous, eh? But I've forgotten it. (See what boring housework does to the brain)	Laura (43)
337807	2005-03-25 10:39:00	RICK: Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship. (Rick and Renault walk off together into the night.) www.vincasa.com Yes it was a great film.	Terry Porritt (14)
337808	2005-03-25 11:28:00	Yay - thanks, Terry I knew someone would know - and you were actually my first bet for a reply.. (Got diverted from the screen/reply by Housework phase 2). So why can't someone invent a computer that knows in advance what I would/wouldn't throw out & promptly supplies me with that list? Then I wouldn't have to spend time agonising over the decisions. Obviously it would have to have some access to my brain & know what similar decisions I'd made in the past. And why I'd made them. And what might have changed since. I'd be quite happy to be wired up for experimental puposes if anyone had a remotely feasible chance of success in this. Or am I a decade or so too early?	Laura (43)
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