If you haven't been watching that documentary about life in rural Louisiana on HBO called "True Detective" (funded, I'm sure, by the Louisiana State Tourism Commission), then you missed one of the classic moments of modern cinema when the ex-cop private detective played by Woody Harrelson tried to talk his way into the house of a major perp by asking to use the phone, explaining that he and his partner played by Matthew McConaughey were professional surveyors. Priceless!
I saw that.
Clearly the clean shirt, tie and shiny Cadillac tipped the half wit woman off! Surely no professional surveyor would come to the door without being covered in mud... at least the boots anyways:)
Well, I haven't surveyed out of a Caddy, but I have surveyed out of a Lincoln Continental. Way, way back in the olden days when I was still in school and working part time for a surveyor there were several occasions when we went out in his Lincoln.
I wouldn't open my front door to those two if they claimed to be from Publishers Clearing House and had a giant sign that looked like a check.
> ...ex-cop private detective played by Woody Harrelson tried to talk his way into the house of a major perp by asking to use the phone, explaining that he and his partner played by Matthew McConaughey were professional surveyors.
Probably just showed the perp some high falutin' metadata; it's what separates the "professional" surveyors from the posers.
Surveying out of a Lincoln...
Back in the early nineties I flew a crew to Olathe, KS. for a week. When we got to the car rental they only had imports where the rods and tripods couldn't fit. For an extra fee they had one Lincoln Town Car, the flagship of their fleet. We took it.
When we returned it on Friday, 30 minutes before the last flight out, it was a muddy mess. The guy at the rental told me, "We can't take that back like that!"
I reminded him we had paid a $25 cleaning deposit (which I knew I had kissed goodbye). He tried to tell me the cleaning deposit didn't cover...that.
I wasn't trying to be a dick, but we were in a hurry. Sorry bud, keep the deposit. We're gone. We left on the shuttle with him standing there looking at his defiled beauty. It was sad.
Closer to the subject...Woody Harrelson would make a fine surveyor, imho....B-)
> > ...ex-cop private detective played by Woody Harrelson tried to talk his way into the house of a major perp by asking to use the phone, explaining that he and his partner played by Matthew McConaughey were professional surveyors.
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> Probably just showed the perp some high falutin' metadata; it's what separates the "professional" surveyors from the posers.
Actually, the woman behind the door was a bit retarded, so metadata wouldn't have meant anything to her. :>
Surveying out of a Lincoln...
Payden, that's funny, about the poor Lincoln!
I just love going to some auto rental place, and they have an advertised "24.95 a day" for some car. By the time they finish adding up all the add on's it is up to 39.95 a day. Well, that time, they paid for you using their lincoln!
> If you haven't been watching that documentary about life in rural Louisiana on HBO called "True Detective" (funded, I'm sure, by the Louisiana State Tourism Commission),
funded by the people of Louisiana.. but it is working out fine down here.
Oscars for local productions this year ..Dallas Buyers Club, Twelve Years a Slaves.
Local New Orleans woman won an Oscar for make-up for Dallas Buyers Club.
She used yellow corn grits on Matthew McConaughey face to simulate postules.
The former NASA assembly facility in New Orleans East is being converted to one of the largest sound stage in the world. They use to build the Shuttle external tanks there.
Matter of fact there are so many movies being done here the list is endless in the past 5 years.
Even our little town has a special fx studio run by a George Lucas protégé.
