Reality vs. Movies

db5 · Post by **db5** » Sun May 12, 2013 10:47 pm

Reality vs. Movies

I just watched “Glory Road” which depicts Don Haskin’s basketball team at Texas Western in El Paso (now UTEP) winning the national championship in basketball against Adolph Rupp’s Kentucky Wildcats in 1966. Hollywood does distort things to create a story and should never be believed. As a child I always believed Hollywood and the news on radio. I’ve learned that Hollywood lied much earlier and the TV and radio news lies today.

How do you distort the truth without actually lying? Change a single (one) word and you can change what never happened; e.g. Texas Western never played the ENMU Greyhounds (in the movie the Eastern New Mexico STATE Greyhounds). Change one thing and you can change everything as Hollywood and the political establishment has discovered. “We didn’t say that (exactly) we said this so you can’t complain or file suit.”

Hollywood and Progressive politics has discovered that. “You can’t file suit – but you can complain – who gives a crap – because we didn’t say exactly that! So there.”

bffulgham · Post by **bffulgham** » Mon May 13, 2013 10:32 am

Hollywood and Politics:
[INDENT]“ I know you think you understand what you thought I said but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant”
[/INDENT]On a side note.....my brother and I are both ENMU grads...1969 and 1976, respectively. Bro was still in school when ENMU won the NAIA National Championship in '69. Oh, the good ole days

May need to find a copy of "Glory Road", just for jollies.

Bud

JPG · Post by **JPG** » Mon May 13, 2013 12:18 pm

I am glad they did not change 'UK' to 'KSU'!

That would have created a whole new aspect.

db5 · Post by **db5** » Mon May 13, 2013 12:41 pm

bffulgham wrote:Hollywood and Politics:On a side note.....my brother and I are both ENMU grads...1969 and 1976, respectively. Bro was still in school when ENMU won the NAIA National Championship in '69. Oh, the good ole days Bud

Got my MA from Eastern in '69. Tuition was $50 a semester and fees were another $50. Oh, the good ole days. I still have my unused parking sticker. Wanna buy it to add to your memorabilia?

saminmn · Post by **saminmn** » Mon May 13, 2013 2:18 pm

JPG40504 wrote:I am glad they did not change 'UK' to 'KSU'!

That would have created a whole new aspect.

Yeh 'cause then everyone would have been thinking Manhattan, Kansas:D

bffulgham · Post by **bffulgham** » Mon May 13, 2013 2:21 pm

db5 wrote:Got my MA from Eastern in '69. Tuition was $50 a semester and fees were another $50. Oh, the good ole days. I still have my unused parking sticker. Wanna buy it to add to your memorabilia?

I almost passed out one semester when tuition, room & board (3-meal plan), and fees barely exceeded a grand.

Which college? Probably know some people in common. While I graduated with a BBA in 76, I didn't "get out of college" until 2004 after retiring from Data Processing/Computer Center/Information Services/Information Technology.

Thanks for the offer on the parking sticker, but I still have one from the early 70's still attached to the bottom center back gloss on this '69 Bonneville. Think you should just buy it to add to your memorabilia in remembrance of you getting your MA

frank81 · Post by **frank81** » Mon May 13, 2013 2:44 pm

bffulgham wrote:I almost passed out one semester when tuition, room & board (3-meal plan), and fees barely exceeded a grand.

I remember I almost passed out one semester when my books barely exceeded a grand.

My first year of college, tuition was around $8,500 a semester and I think total with fees, room, and board was around $23,500 a year.

My senior year tuition was up to $11,500 a semester.

I didn't pay anywhere near that, when you're poor and good at sports and academics you get a lot of help. But still, there are people out there crazy enough to pay that.

I just did a quick search and tuition for this year is north of $16 grand a semester.

joshh · Post by **joshh** » Wed May 15, 2013 12:31 pm

I used to manage an SAT / ACT prep company and were had lots of private school kids. St. Marks was the most elite among them with a total tuition of almost $300,000 for 2nd to 12th grade. One mother told me that after all was said and done, she spent over $550,000 PER child, including college.

I feel saddled with debt and I did fairly well..."only" $25,000 in student loans

frank81 · Post by **frank81** » Wed May 15, 2013 1:19 pm

joshh wrote:I used to manage an SAT / ACT prep company and were had lots of private school kids. St. Marks was the most elite among them with a total tuition of almost $300,000 for 2nd to 12th grade. One mother told me that after all was said and done, she spent over $550,000 PER child, including college.

I feel saddled with debt and I did fairly well..."only" $25,000 in student loans

I never understood that. I grew up in an uber-rich beach town where it was a competition to send their kids off to the most expensive boarding school they could find (usually in the mountains of Virginia). Most of them didn't learn anythign beyond how to get in trouble, and the guys I still keep up with have not done much with their lives other than start failed businesses with their parents money.

Meanwhile us poor folk just had to slum it at the public school and our parent(s) had to put forth effort instead of money.

Ed in Tampa · Post by **Ed in Tampa** » Wed May 15, 2013 1:48 pm

frank81 wrote:I never understood that. I grew up in an uber-rich beach town where it was a competition to send their kids off to the most expensive boarding school they could find (usually in the mountains of Virginia). Most of them didn't learn anythign beyond how to get in trouble, and the guys I still keep up with have not done much with their lives other than start failed businesses with their parents money.

Meanwhile us poor folk just had to slum it at the public school and our parent(s) had to put forth effort instead of money.

I never understood that.

It is called more money than brains. Some people have far more money than they do brains and it becomes very evident when you see how they spend their money.