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Re: Moulin Rouge. Pearl Harbor. Idioms?
Posted By: Nyperold, on host 206.96.180.71
Date: Saturday, May 26, 2001, at 10:25:43
In Reply To: Re: Moulin Rouge. Pearl Harbor. posted by Travholt on Saturday, May 26, 2001, at 05:34:30:

> > Maybe I'm not watching the right channels, but I've seen more commercials for Moulin Rouge than for Pearl Harbor. If any movie is being forced down my throat, it's Moulin Rouge, simply because of the worn out advertising for it.
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> I'm looking at the front page of Amazon right now, and see Pearl Harbor mentioned in FIVE different places! Moulin Rouge is not even there...

Until I read the original post, I didn't know that either was going to be a movie, and I'd only heard of the events at Pearl Harbor. Possibly because I tend to avoid the movie section, I don't watch much TV, and I must've missed all other references to both movies on the 'net. I don't see movies 'til they've been out on video for a while, so...

> Trav"hook, bait and sink"holt.

Seeing the idiom like this got me to thinking. Where's *our* bait? Why are our fish chomping down on baitless hooks so eagerly that they get the line too?

Nyperold