It's just a number.

[Artemis]

Do you REALLY want another one of my dry historical explanations of that particular term or would you rather carry on in simple minded ignorance saving brain cells for the future?

Simple minded ignorance is my staple but I'll venture into the realm of the intellectual just this once.
Please, continue. I've literally no idea.

There is a nautical source from the days of sailing ships, pertaining to a ships being rigged to catch the wind in a certain way, but for a person to be squared away is a military term. Squared away pertains to two things, perfect square corners to the sheets on your cot and during the First World War the ground sheet you carried was folded into a perfect square and placed flat against your back. So in the military services in the U.K. to have your things in order and tidy was to be 'squared away'.

Some of this is interesting, some needs spoiler tags, some like this puts me to sleep as I type it.....

[manker]

Simple minded ignorance is my staple but I'll venture into the realm of the intellectual just this once.
Please, continue. I've literally no idea.

There is a nautical source from the days of sailing ships, pertaining to a ships being rigged to catch the wind in a certain way, but for a person to be squared away is a military term. Squared away pertains to two things, perfect square corners to the sheets on your cot and during the First World War the ground sheet you carried was folded into a perfect square and placed flat against your back. So in the military services in the U.K. to have your things in order and tidy was to be 'squared away'.

Some of this is interesting, some needs spoiler tags, some like this puts me to sleep as I type it.....

Ah. I have heard of that - to square up meaning to tidy up.
Cheers.

But, like, how does this relate to Mister Nolte?

[mjmacky]

If there was something that this forum was missing, it was someone to keep an eye on and critically evaluate who 'People Weekly' decide is the world's sexiest man.

Btw what you are experiencing is how I feel when you talk about the Premier League.

I knew there was something to him calling it footie.

[Artemis]

There is a nautical source from the days of sailing ships, pertaining to a ships being rigged to catch the wind in a certain way, but for a person to be squared away is a military term. Squared away pertains to two things, perfect square corners to the sheets on your cot and during the First World War the ground sheet you carried was folded into a perfect square and placed flat against your back. So in the military services in the U.K. to have your things in order and tidy was to be 'squared away'.

Some of this is interesting, some needs spoiler tags, some like this puts me to sleep as I type it.....

Ah. I have heard of that - to square up meaning to tidy up.
Cheers.

But, like, how does this relate to Mister Nolte?

Well I could get out my REALLY long rubberband and stretch this one: Mr Nolte was in The Deep, the original bewbs subject of the video and The Deep was about a sailing ship that sank and one of the meanings of squared away is how a sailing ship is rigged (breathe) and so et voila...... by a long convoluted trail they are related.

[manker]

Ah. I have heard of that - to square up meaning to tidy up.
Cheers.

But, like, how does this relate to Mister Nolte?

Well I could get out my REALLY long rubberband and stretch this one: Mr Nolte was in The Deep, the original bewbs subject of the video and The Deep was about a sailing ship that sank and one of the meanings of squared away is how a sailing ship is rigged (breathe) and so et voila...... by a long convoluted trail they are related.

Basically, then, People Weekly are hoping that the housewives and homosexual Canadians who read their pap are film aficionados from the before-time.

We got there in the end, Arty

[IdolEyes787]

Well I could get out my REALLY long rubberband and stretch this one: Mr Nolte was in The Deep, the original bewbs subject of the video and The Deep was about a sailing ship that sank and one of the meanings of squared away is how a sailing ship is rigged (breathe) and so et voila...... by a long convoluted trail they are related.

Basically, then, People Weekly are hoping that the housewives and homosexual Canadians who read their pap are film aficionados from the before-time.

We got there in the end, Arty

I like girls so that makes me more or less bi.

[IdolEyes787]

Ah. I have heard of that - to square up meaning to tidy up.
Cheers.

But, like, how does this relate to Mister Nolte?

Well I could get out my REALLY long rubberband and stretch this one: Mr Nolte was in The Deep, the original bewbs subject of the video and The Deep was about a sailing ship that sank and one of the meanings of squared away is how a sailing ship is rigged (breathe) and so et voila...... by a long convoluted trail they are related.

I suppose you also know that it's based on a novel by Peter Benchley whose also wrote The Island which was made into a film starring Michael Caine who also appeared in Jaws 4 which was based on the novel Jaws which Benchley also wrote or in the novel Jaws (unlike the film) Richard Dreyfus' character Hooper has an affair with Chief Brody's wife and then Hooper gets his comeuppance when he gets eaten.
Hooper was also the name of a Burt Reynold's movie which costarred his then love Sally Field who then went on to win 2 best actress Oscars ,memorably saying after winning the second ( for Places in the Heart) "I can't deny the fact that you like me ,right now,you like me".
Also Jaws was a Bond villain played in two films( Moonraker and The Spy Who Loved Me) by Richard Kiel. Coincidentally Kiel also starred in The longest Yard ( the original) with Burt Reynolds and Force 10 with Robert Shaw(Captain Quint).

[Artemis]

Well I could get out my REALLY long rubberband and stretch this one: Mr Nolte was in The Deep, the original bewbs subject of the video and The Deep was about a sailing ship that sank and one of the meanings of squared away is how a sailing ship is rigged (breathe) and so et voila...... by a long convoluted trail they are related.

I suppose you also know that it's based on a novel by Peter Benchley whose also wrote The Island which was made into a film starring Michael Caine who also appeared in Jaws 4 which was based on the novel Jaws which Benchley also wrote or in the novel Jaws (unlike the film) Richard Dreyfus' character Hooper has an affair with Chief Brody's wife and then Hooper gets his comeuppance when he gets eaten.
Hooper was also the name of a Burt Reynold's movie which costarred his then love Sally Field who then went on to win 2 best actress Oscars ,memorably saying after winning the second ( for Places in the Heart) "I can't deny the fact that you like me ,right now,you like me".
Also Jaws was a Bond villain played in two films( Moonraker and The Spy Who Loved Me) by Richard Kiel. Coincidentally Kiel also starred in The longest Yard ( the original) with Burt Reynolds and Force 10 with Robert Shaw(Captain Quint).

You and I are probably the only two here who have seen Hooper and know that it stars a red version of Burt Reynolds co-star, a Pontiac Trans Am, or know or care that Jaws real name is Richard Kiel. One tidbit you missed from Jaws the movie, Robert Shaw and Richard Dreyfuss hated each other sooooo much that if you look carefully there is virtually no screentime with them in the same shot, it is all carefully blended shots from one actor to the other with them saying lines when the other wasn't even present.
I have read Peter Benchley's books and they are far more visceral than the movies, The Island in particular was a typical Hollywood desecration.

[IdolEyes787]

Dude, if you weren't a Godless foreigner I could actually see myself liking you.

Yeah Benchley's books were a lot more visceral than the movies.I think Spielberg did a good job bringing a sense of adventure to the story if not the down and dirty stuff. As for The Island ,if Michael Caine can't save a movie then it shows you just how terrible it is(see Jaws 4)

Btw I sure if some l33t tracker created a Burt Reynolds Blu-ray pack suddenly a lot of previously clueless apathetic people would suddenly show a lot of interest .

Especially those with seedboxes and/or possibly also Romanians.

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Also Force 10 from Navarone ,you got your Robert Shaw.You got your Edward Fox.You got your Harrison Ford.You got your Franco Nero.You got your babe factor in Mrs. Ringo Starr Barbara Bach. You got your story by Allister MacLean .You got your serviceable if uninspired director in Guy Hamilton.Why is this movie such a piece of shit?

[mjmacky]

Just look at these movie people, it's like a real safari.