Does anyone remember mailboxes? Living on a farm, I had one most of my life. It even had my name on it and a little flag that went up when the mail got dropped off. But rural mail delivery started cutting back years ago, and today we might even ask if anyone remembers e-mail. It seems as though nobody uses that very much anymore. Oh well. Let’s return to the days when such things as mailboxes existed, at least in the movies.
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Alex on Film 
Mind if I play through?
1. The Mist
6 Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet
10 Game Night
11 Signs
15 The Stepford Wives
19 The Insider
24 Polyester
Not too bad, except for the whiff on 6. The ball is still sitting on the tee for that one.
Just a fresh air swing to amuse the crowd. Gnomeo and Juliet.
The crowd were indeed amused.
I still use email, so it’s not dead yet!
As for actual mailboxes, those are still around too, even in rich neighborhoods. I know this because last year my coworker cut a corner too hard while driving the work van and took out the clients mailbox. It was quite the to-do.
I know that Chas. Chan is obviously a Charlie Chan movie, but no idea which. Which leads me to the question, why Chas? Why is Chas an abbreviation for Charles? I’ve never understood that.
But overall, this was a stumper!
Did you know that the technical word for a short pet name like “Chas” for Charles is a hypocorism? I don’t know where it came from originally. Sort of like Dick for Richard.
The problem with mailboxes in the country is when kids would go around on weekends smashing them with baseball bats just for kicks. That used to get me angry.
I did not know that term. I hope I can remember it after today, because it seems a handy one to know.
I’ve heard about kids like that. Those are the kind I don’t mind seeing eaten or something in horror movies…..
A local guy even started a business making and selling mailboxes that were vandalism-proof. They were quite something. Thick plates of steel welded together.
Did you buy one?
I would have if I’d been staying, but that was just a couple of years before I left. They really were great.
Well, if you ever move into a rough neighborhood, think about importing one….
I assure you, mailboxes, mail carriers, and physical paper mail are still around.
Well, I still write cheques too. But then I live in the nineteenth century.
I just wrote a check….
I remember last year I had to show my neighbour how to write one. She’d never done it before.
But then, I’d be lost trying to buy something with a phone.
You can cash checks with your phone….
You see, I did not know that.
4) Cop Land??
5) Critters
6) Gnomeo & Juliet
7) Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind
9) Bonnie & Clyde
13) Leprechaun Returns
14) Henry Bowers (think that’s wrong- too easy)
18) The Conjuring:The Devil Made me do it.
20) Halloween 5 The Return of Michael
22) Pasadena California
25) Cape Fear.
oops Halloween 4 not 5
Cop Land is right. 14 and 22 are misses.
I’m proud of the fact that my work reviewing the Critters and Leprechaun franchises paid off.
22) The Player.
14) It??
Chapitre un ou deux?
deux je crois.
Ah, un coup de chance . . .
En effet!
Tres bien, Mon petit chou!