Today's thoughts

I was watching one my favorite movies the other day - Dirty Harry (one of the 8000 movies that I would watch every time it is on, much to my wife's dismay) - and after having the usual laugh about "Dean Wormer" being the mayor of San Francisco, began laughing at another little tidbit. When the psycho punk (who called himself Scorpio and who, in my mind, was forever typecast as that psycho, even when he played a detective in the forgettable movie "Cobra") asks for ransom, he asks for $200,000. That's not the funny part - what was funny was the police lieutenant (?) telling Harry (Clint) that the mayor was "...using up a lot of favors" to drum up the money.

How times have changed. Cost of living AND cost of kidnap dollars have gone up exponentially, and I'd suspect that a similar punk today would be after (say it like Dr. Evil, everyone) a BILLION DOLLARS or something. Meanwhile, $200K probably doesn't even pay for a week's worth of udon and sushi downtown.

OK, I have to write it out now...

Uh uh
I know what your thinkin'
Did he fire 6 shots or only 5
Well, in all this excitement, I've kinda lost track myself
But being that this is a 44 Magnum...the most powerful handgun in the world and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself a question
Do I feel lucky?
Well, do ya, punk?

Now at the beginning of the movie, the reply is "I gots to know". At the end, it is a psychotic laugh, an attempted shot, and a BIG hole in the chest for our friend as he is thrown into the water by the force of the bullet.

Classic stuff.