A plumber is a tradesperson who specializes in installing and maintaining systems used for potable (drinking) water, sewage, and drainage in plumbing systems. The term dates from ancient times, and is related to the Latin word for lead, "plumbum."
The word "plumber" dates from the Roman Empire. In Roman times lead was known as plumbum in Latin (hence the abbreviation of 'Pb' for lead on the periodic table of the elements). Roman roofs used lead in conduits and drain pipes and some were also covered with lead, lead was also used for piping and for making baths. In medieval times anyone who worked with lead was referred to as a plumber as can be seen from an extract of workmen fixing a roof in Westminster Palace and were referred to as plumbers "To Gilbert de Westminster, plumber, working about the roof of the pantry of the little hall, covering it with lead, and about various defects in the roof of the little hall". Thus a person with expertise in working with lead was first known as a Plumbarius which was later shortened to plumber.
Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher ( /ˈwɜrzəlbɑːkər/; born December 3, 1973), better known by the nickname "Joe the Plumber", is an American conservative activist, commentator and politician. He gained national attention during the 2008 U.S. presidential election when, during a videotaped campaign stop in Ohio by then-Democratic candidate Barack Obama, Wurzelbacher asked Obama about his small business tax policy, and Obama gave a response that included the statement, "when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody." Obama's response was seized on by conservative commentators, as well as by Obama's rival, Republican candidate John McCain, as an indication that Obama was interested in wealth redistribution, and had a socialist view of the economy.
As an employee of a plumbing contractor, Wurzelbacher was given the moniker "Joe the Plumber". The McCain-Palin campaign brought him to appear at several campaign events in Ohio, and McCain referred often to "Joe the Plumber" in subsequent campaign speeches and in the final presidential debate, as a metaphor for middle-class Americans.
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Scare Zone is OLIVER's pride and joy. Sure, it's just another strip-mall Halloween Horror House, but as always, he's put his heart and soul into it. The attraction is open for three nights only, and Oliver has brought back his old staff, including ex-con Spider, eager bride-to-be Summer, and the enigmatic Goth princess Claire. A bunch of newbies are also on board, including earnest young Darryl, who immediately finds himself bewitched by the creepy Claire. The dysfunctional 'scream team' learns to work together while someone or some-thing is out to make the horror REAL.
No One Can Hear You Scream... If They're Screaming Too.
Oliver: You're a kid in a costume. What are you going to do?::Daryl: [grabs chainsaw] I'm going to get Claire.
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Four sets of people arrive in California and stay at the same hotel. One of these persons is Hannah Warren from New York, who has come to take her daughter who ran away from her and would like to stay with her father Bill. So Bill and Hannah spend the day bickering while trying to decide what's best for their daughter. Another one is British actress Diana Barrie, who's nominated for an Academy Award and is attending the thing with her husband Sidnet Cochran who is not the (entertainment) business. And two doctors, Willis Panama and Chauncy Gump, and their wives. Chauncy has been complaining all the way, and when they arrive they learn that only the Panamas have a room but the Gumps are forced to stay in a small single. And Marvin who came to town for his nephew's bar mitzvah, knowing that his wife is not with him his brother takes him out for a little carousing and when he returns he finds a hooker waiting for him. The next day his wife arrives.
Keywords: academy-awards-ceremony, actor, actress, airplane, airport, antique-dealer, based-on-play, black-doctor, camera-shot-of-feet, co-dependency
The best two-hour vacation in town!
Diana Barrie: [after he kisses her] Don't close your eyes, Sidney.::Sidney Cochran: I always close my eyes.::Diana Barrie: Not tonight. Look at me tonight. Let it be me tonight.
Diana Barrie: What's that green slime you're eating? It looks like a dish out of Oliver Twist.::Sidney Cochran: I'm not sure... I think they run the front lawn through a blender.
Diana Barrie: We should never have come. I never know how to dress in this bloody country. It is so easy to dress in England. You just put on warm clothing.
[getting ready for Oscar ceremony]::Diana Barrie: Say something *nice* to me Sidney! I've been getting ready for this horseshit affair for *three hours!*
[first lines]::[a two-seater plane is flying over snow-capped mountains]::Harold: For heaven's sake, Wendy - look for an airport. Will you look for the airport?::Diana Barrie: Oh don't make such a fuss. Just put it down on a mountain.::Harold: What do you mean 'just put it down'? I'm lucky I can keep it up. I told you I never flew before.::Diana Barrie: Don't shout at me - I'm a first-class passenger.::Harold: You're a first class lunatic. It's all over Wendy - our relationship has a quarter of a tank to go.::Diana Barrie: Yes, but - you do love me, don't you Harold? I know this is an awkward time to bring it up, but I must know, for our future.::[plane suddenly plummets]::Harold: Whoa-a-a-a!
[last lines]::Stewardess: Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. Welcome aboard Flight 211 to New York and London. Our flying time this afternoon will be four hours and fifty minutes and we'll be cruising at an altitude of 37,000 feet. We'll now be serving you cocktails and beverages and then serving lunch, followed by our film 'No Left Turn' starring James Coburn and Diana Barrie.::Diana Barrie: Oh Christ! Sidney, let's get off. Tell them to let us off this bloody plane.
Sidney Cochran: I am going to bed. We have a 10 a.m. plane to catch in the morning.::Diana Barrie: 10 a.m. is the morning. That is redundant, you A.H.::Sidney Cochran: Oh, do you think I don't know what you're saying? I *can* spell, you know.::Diana Barrie: Not without moving your lips, you can't.
Diana Barrie: [on the Academy Awards] Why do they have these things so early? I mean, no woman can look good at 5 o'clock in the afternoon. Except, possibly Tatum O'Neal.
Hannah Warren: When you haven't seen your ex-husband in nine years, your eyes have to... adjust.
Hannah Warren: You look so... what is the word?::Bill Warren: Happy.::Hannah Warren: [ignores his reply] Casual.
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A Braodway playwright wants to keep on writing plays for his wife to star in, but all she wants is to retire to Connecticut and, following a few 'worlds-apart" discussion of the issue, they get a divorce. The actress marries a banker in a fit of pique only to quickly discover the divorce was not valid. She communicates this information to her not-yet ex-husband and he, to prevent consummation of the invalid marriage rescues her by sending plumbers, waiters, porters, chambermaids, bellhops, desk clerks, exterminators and, finally, a crowd of roistering conventioneers to the suite to ensure no bedtime story would take place there.
Keywords: 1940s, apartment, banker, broadway-manhattan-new-york-city, broadway-play, career, career-conflict, chambermaid, chopsticks, cigarette-smoking
[last lines, at the end of the play's premiere]::Luke Drake: It's a smash hit, Eddie -- it'll run five years!::Jane Drake: Ladies and gentlemen! This will have the shortest run of any of Mr. Drake's plays...::[gasps from audience]::Luke Drake: No, no, no. Five years!::Jane Drake: It will be closed in the early spring by an act of God. And I'm sure Mr. Drake hopes it will be... a boy.::[Luke faints]
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While Carol Murdock is becoming the golf-champion at the country club, husband Anthony is all wrapped up in his business and rants a lot about how much time his wife spends playing gold, thereby neglecting their home and him. Carol teams up with golfer Phillip Reeves and they win a tournament together, and Reeves becomes infatuated with Carol. Anthony rants some more and Carol packs up and starts the divorce proceedings. Anthony fights back by taking up golf himself.
Keywords: 1930s, argument, attorney, bartender, caddy, champion, cigarette-smoking, clubhouse, competition, country-club
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Based on the story "Mob Rule" by Norman Krasna. Joe Wilson and Katherine Grant are in love, but he doesn't have enough money for them to get married. So Katherine moves across the country to make money. But things go disastrously wrong for Joe when he stops in a small town and is mistaken for a wanted murderer. Through the course of the movie, Fritz Lang shows us how a decent and once civilized man can become a ruthless and bitter man.
Keywords: 1930s, african-american, alienation, arson, assumption, axe, band, bar, barber, barber-shop
TWO LOVERS...VICTIMS OF MOB VIOLENCE! (original 1936 window card poster)
Joe Wilson: I am legally dead!
Joe Wilson: I'll give them a chance that they didn't give me. They will get a legal trial in a legal courtroom. They will have a legal judge and a legal defense. They will get a legal sentence and a legal death.
Katherine Grant: [to Joe] If those people die, Joe Wilson dies too; you know that, don't you? Wherever you go, whatever you do.
District Attorney: [after several witnesses had lied on the stand] I wonder if I haven't been calling the defense witnesses by mistake.
Joe Wilson: The mob doesn't think. It has no mind of its own.
Joe Wilson: "I got you a little momentum." He meant memento.
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Dr. Maurice Lamar is a noted plastic-surgeon who makes his rich clients beautiful, and also makes them. He makes Eve Caron, the wife of Marcel Caron, so satisfied with his skilled hands that she leaves Marcel and marries Maurice. They go on a Mediterranean honeymoon, where he soon finds the affects of his own beauty regulations are more than he can handle. He bids adieu to his new bride, wings it back to Paris with the intention of giving up his practice and becoming a scientific researcher...after winning back the love of his simple, unadorned secretary, Anne.
Keywords: 1930s, adultery, airplane, archive-footage, banquet, bathroom-humor, beautician, beauty-salon, cigarette-smoking, cosmetics
...a racy romance of a famous beauty doctor (original ad)