In Tough Assignment (1949), a news reporter and his photographer wife go undercover to get the story on a cattle rustling ring that’s been strong-arming the local butchers to buy their bootleg beef.
No, seriously, that’s the premise.
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#1 by lyzard on July 23, 2009 - 1:02 am
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Bootleg beef? You know, as criminal enterprises go, that one seems like it was designed by the Underpants Gnomes.
#2 by Chad R. on July 23, 2009 - 2:22 am
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Bootleg Beef would be a great title for a gay porn movie.
#3 by Nathan Shumate on July 23, 2009 - 5:56 am
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Thank you for that.
#4 by KeithA on July 23, 2009 - 2:12 pm
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It’s the kind of crime you know that 99% of all organized crime is based upon, but it still doesn’t make for that glamorous a movie.
#5 by Nathan Shumate on July 23, 2009 - 2:15 pm
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Case in point: Credit default swaps and other financial derivatives. Life and death, and yet BO-ring.
#6 by Chad R. on July 23, 2009 - 2:17 pm
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More seriously, this premise probably seemed a bit less ridiculous to people who still remembered wartime meat rationing.
#7 by Nathan Shumate on July 23, 2009 - 2:30 pm
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True, true.
#8 by El Santo on July 25, 2009 - 8:14 am
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Nathan, it may amuse you to learn that the new filtering software on the computer network at my job has decided that Cold Fusion Video is an “adult” site. This is made doubly hilarious by the fact that the filter has no problem with Braineater or 1000 Misspent Hours and Counting, despite the genuine “adult” movies that Will and I have reviewed from time to time.
#9 by Blake on July 25, 2009 - 1:15 pm
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Hmm…either those Surrender Cinema reviews are too much for the software…or someone who works for the filtering software company was once associated with one of the cold fusion award winners. 🙂
#10 by Nathan Shumate on July 25, 2009 - 1:49 pm
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I shall simply argue with the filtering software that “to block this site is not logical” until it starts gushing smoke. Hey, it works for Captain Kirk…
#11 by anon on July 25, 2009 - 1:57 pm
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Heh, the first B-Master site that my company’s filters blocked was AYCUAS. Go Lyz! I still can’t figure out why, unless the filter company has an issue with snakes.
#12 by lyzard on July 25, 2009 - 4:51 pm
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I’m flattered. Puzzled, but flattered.
The only problem I’ve ever had in this respect was my old work system understandably taking exception to Santo, when he was in his Andreas Schnaas phase.
#13 by MatthewF on July 26, 2009 - 2:33 am
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My work sw filters actively, meaning that it scans the page I want to open, which means that sometimes it’s fine and sometimes someone goes and uses a ‘dirty’ work (defined very liberally) and it tells me I am a bad man and I can’t look at such things.
#14 by MatthewF on July 26, 2009 - 2:33 am
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I meant dirty word not work, damn these robot hands.