Lohrenswald
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What's yer point of reference?
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We actually did both, although the DoIs Office of Saline Water (later retitled the Office for Water Research and Technology) always took a back seat. It was eventually
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Movies used to be very very long. Enterprising businessmen saw an opportunity and started selling food from carts outside the theater that moviegoers could buy during the intermissions. Film studios (who at the time also owned the theaters themselves) did not like this so they made their own food in-house, and in various ways undercut the independent food vendors. I can't remember if they banned any outside food coming in or ran food vendors out of the general theater area. One of those two.
Anyway this is why staple foodstuffs in theaters are things like popcorn and hotdogs. They're things which can easily be made from a foodcart.
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Lohrenswald
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Nigel Farage is the man to ask such a question. Meet him in any pub, as long as he can have a pint on you.
And then the studios lost or sold their theatres! How did the custom go on after that?
¿Por qué no los dos? I wouldn't put it past them to try both simultaneously.Owen Glyndwr said:
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So there is a logical(oid) origin to popcorn after all.
Well, the theaters now need to make money somehow, and a lot of the ticket sales go to the studios so....
6 dollars for a small popcorn please.
cybrxkhan
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When I was younger and my parents took me and my bro to the movies we always snuck in popcorn we made at home. At the least it was marginally healthier, but that's like saying Luxembourg is gigantic compared to Vatican City.
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I remember when multiplexes first started. They were like concentration camps, with employees making sure no one snuck into a second movie.
Then they realized that their profits came from the concession stands, not the ticket prices [which went mainly to the studios]. If customers stayed for a second or third movie, they'd get hungry and would buy more junk food. 
So, now you can spend the day in a multiplex, wandering from show to show, dining on popcorn and coca cola.
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That's very strange. I heard recently that the theatres make at least 50% from the ticket sales.
Where the big profits are for the Big Studios is the merchandising associated with the successful films. They make very little from the films themselves since a) they're very expensive to make and b) a lot of films are flops.
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It goes back to the era of the epics?
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It is! And I've given away exactly where, too.
Lohrenswald
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In which case England is around that place in a roughly curved plane.
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from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!
Actually around that oval spheroid.
Lohrenswald
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England does not cover the Earth, Tolni.
I was trying to relate England to TM 29634 34344
I was trying to relate England to TM 29634 34344
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from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!
Not yet, my friend. Not yet. The British Empire will rise again!
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It's an Ordnance Survey coordinate.
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That's true physically.
But spiritually?
England's working on it. And seems to be gaining ground.
Look at how many people speak English! And use it for things like computing.
This may, of course, not be a good thing.
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