Remember The National Enquirer

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Remember the National Enquirer at the checkout stand. They had stories that shape shifting aliens were mating with humans. Or some movie star died, but was revived long enough to finish the movie. And there was Sasquatch, who mated with humans, too. Every article started off with "People were shocked to hear............". You couldn't have item without people getting shocked.
Remember "enquiring minds"?
 

fuzzybuddy said:
Remember the National Enquirer at the checkout stand. They had stories that shape shifting aliens were mating with humans. Or some movie star died, but was revived long enough to finish the movie. And there was Sasquatch, who mated with humans, too. Every article started off with "People were shocked to hear............". You couldn't have item without people getting shocked.
Remember "enquiring minds"?
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I remember it, I didn't realise it doesn't exist any more...
 

C50 said:
My grandmother use to get them and when finished pass them on to my mom, and I would read them as well. Silly rediculas entertainment but if you handed me one right now I would still read it!
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Here ya go.... have at it! Read all about it... Taylor and Travis are battling over her billions and Seacrest is "unrecognizable." Hmmm
Issue January 22, 2024 - National Enquirer @C50 :giggle:
 
The newsstands in Vancouver used to sell the N.E. There were also some imitators of the N.E. that ran even more preposterous, idiotic, outrageous headlines & stories. I never bought one, but probably leafed through a few copies.

I used to marvel at what they'd publish... and was astonished that they drew enough readership to continue publishing. With the bottom publications in the category, writers & editors probably had a lot of fun making the sh-t up!
 
They had the magazines in the School Library at my high school.
I wrote my Graduation Term Paper with / from Quotes off them.
It began as a Skyscraper window cleaner and ended an electromatic wave - particle in deep space.
Solid State Electronics Power controls fascination for life.
 
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fuzzybuddy said:
Remember the National Enquirer at the checkout stand. They had stories that shape shifting aliens were mating with humans. Or some movie star died, but was revived long enough to finish the movie. And there was Sasquatch, who mated with humans, too. Every article started off with "People were shocked to hear............". You couldn't have item without people getting shocked.
Remember "enquiring minds"?
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I think I've met a few of those shape shifting aliens/ humans. Mostly it seems as though they gain weight in the process. I think I may have been one of "them" for a few years but have managed to return to my more reasonable human form.
 
Paco Dennis said:
I did like it when Hillary Clinton adopted the alien baby. I thought that was appropriate. :)
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My favorite was a headline I saw probably in the early 70s... while I was waiting for my mama to get her hair done... "I'm Pregnant Without Sex and My Husband Won't Believe Me!" :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO: Wonder how that poor woman made out with that? :rolleyes: (It wasn't about IVF.)
 
Paco Dennis said:
I did like it when Hillary Clinton adopted the alien baby. I thought that was appropriate. :)

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Aww, why'd you have to post this? Now I have to block you.
 
DaiwaGuy said:
30-year newspaper photog, here. If it bleeds, it should lead.
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Curious minds want to know...What asa speed film would you normally carry around with you on the job? As a P.I. I used 400 speed as a general rule for surveillance jobs shooting free hand. At one time here in Canada in the far distant past, the courts would not allow color photos as evidence, only b&w. JimB.
 
jimintoronto said:
Curious minds want to know...What asa speed film would you normally carry around with you on the job? As a P.I. I used 400 speed as a general rule for surveillance jobs shooting free hand. At one time here in Canada in the far distant past, the courts would not allow color photos as evidence, only b&w. JimB.
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For most of my career, we shot black and white and good ol' ISO 400 Tri-X was my staple. And yeah, I pushed it to 3200 regularly (night sports)

But at my paper, when the T-Max 400 film was introduced, I pushed the living shti out of it to as high as 25,000. I used to mix the T-Max developer stronger than recommended. I was known as the prince of darkness. I could get usable images in lighting conditons that forced the others to use a strobe.

I never used TMax 400 at 400. Always pushed it because Tri-X gave better tones at 400.

When we went to Macs and Photoshop, I still pushed the film enough to make it scream. This was in the day when we used scanners to get our images from the film to photoshop.

Shooting digital is like shooting chromes (slide film), you have to slightly underexpose it to truly get the full image. If you overexpose chromes or digital, it just washes out and in both cases, is unusable.
 

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