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    I am curious about that outdoor rink. Where was that? They set up an outdoor rink in Fountain Square each year around Christmas for skating and broomball, but that's the only one I can think of and that is not where they were playing. There are high school hockey teams now in Cincinnati but that is a fairly new development (they weren't around in the 90s when I was in high school) and as far as I know, they all play in the few indoor rinks in the area.

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    Where is Devil's Backbone?

     

    Delhi/Western Hills area. Cuts diagonally across Ebeneezer ends at Rapid Run. It's very twisty and hilly and woodsy. You'd pretty much never use it unless you were visiting someone that lived there. Buffalo Ridge might be even worse, but it doesn't have as cool of a name.

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    Anyway, with all this talk of the different school years and stuff, I have a question that's been bugging me. Are we to believe that Mitchell starts school on the first day (or first few days) of the school year? When he goes into speech class, they are giving introduction speeches about themselves. That would indicate it's the beginning of the school year, right? There's no fucking way a teacher's going to be like, "Hey, now that it's almost Christmas, let's get to know each other through expositional lists of character traits."

     

    So that would lead one to believe that it's the beginning of the school year. But when Mitchell flies in, there's snow on the ground. The best data I could find suggests that the average first snowfall in Cincinnati is November 28. And the earliest recorded snowfall was October 19. Then, I looked up the data on snowfall in Cincinnati from 1993, and the first snowfall was on October 30 that year. Assuming this movie was set in the year it came out, that would mean it's almost Halloween (at the earliest) when this class is FINALLY getting to know each other.

     

    This teacher should not have his fucking job. At all.

     

    The start of serious snow in Cincinnati can vary greatly, but usually you don't see the white death until January. A white Christmas in Cincy is typically flurries if it happens, but yes growing up you would occasionally get serious snowfall as early as late October, but that's pretty rare. Cincinnati actually sits in a slightly different climactic zone than the rest of Ohio, it's often several degrees warmer than even Dayton, OH which is only about 50 miles away. I think it has to do with those hills that were featured so prominently in the movie and the river.

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    Okay, much like tomspanks, I also took notes, like some kind of live show nerd. I would type them all up now, but my notebook's juuust out of reach, so I'll lead off with one thing I noticed that both dates and places the film.

     

    The hockey playing twins spend all of their time in hockey jerseys - the only figures who actually wear hockey-specific shirts, if I recall - and the costume designer did a bang-up job of figuring out what a hockey kid would wear in Cincinnati in 1993. Both of them are wearing jerseys from the Cincinnati Cyclones, an International League team whose most recent iteration now plays in the ECHL. Here's a picture of the boys in their shirts.

     

    airborne-photo-3-black-and-.jpg

     

    As you can see, the Cyclones jerseys are fairly memorable, but most importantly, they were only worn by Cincinnati for one season - the 1992/93 season. So, the team was new in town and the costumer stuck the twins in Cyclones jerseys, which were immediately voted as having the worst logo in all of hockey, voted on by The Hockey News. As a result, the Cyclones immediately flipped their logo into one that didn't look like Jason Voorhees caught in a high wind, and, of course, opted for an anthopomorphised cyclone with a stick, missing teeth.

     

    Go to the authoritative sportslogos.net for more information:

    http://www.sportslog...93/Primary_Logo

     

    What I find coolest about this is that it gives us a definitive date and location for this film, all based on the prominent use of two jerseys featuring a failed logo.

     

    EDIT: Ooh! And I'm just noticing! In the pic above, they're wearing Cyclones sweatshirts, whereas at school, they're wearing Cyclones hockey jerseys. So, I guess they had a range of stuff for them from the same team store.

     

    Also: MOST TWINS DON'T DRESS ALIKE, MOVIE. Particularly not in their teens.

     

    I have way more notes but meh, it's a long week.

     

    Like many minor league teams, the Cyclones history is a little weird.. They started as an ECHL team playing at the Cincy Gardens. A few years in the owners bought an IHL team, renamed it the Cyclones and moved into Riverfront Coliseum (the scene of The Who concert tragedy, btw). Meanwhile, a different group bought an AHL team and moved into the Gardens. That team was the Cincinnati Mighty Ducks, an affiliate of the NHL team. So for a while Cincy had 2 minor league hockey teams. Eventually the Ducks folded, but so did the entire IHL, which led to the Cyclones owners buying yet another ECHL team.

     

    PS, I currently have a collage of pictures of Cincy area landmarks taken around the MLB All Star game from 2015 hanging on my wall taken by the guy who is the current Cyclones mascot, Twister.

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    Another Cincinnatian weighing in...

     

    1) There is a Devils Backbone road in the Greater Cincinnati area and its twisty as hell, but its nowhere near where they are in the movie.

     

    2) This is actually the 2nd time Edie McClurg played a Cincinnatian, she was also Herb Tarlek's wife in multiple episodes of WKRP in Cincinnati.

     

    3) Verne Troyer led the chicken dance at Cincinnati's Oktoberfest in 2002.

     

    4) I think the general appreciation in Cincinnati for the movie is not because we ever thought it was good, but because several movies have shot in Cincinnati, but mostly they use Cincinnati for Old New York City (Lost in Yonkers for example) or its fairly incidental that they occur in Cincinnati (the beginning of Rain Man, Traffic, etc.). Airborne is one of the only ones where the fact that its taking place in Cincinnati is a real plot point.

     

    5) The PB&J burger is specific to that place, its not a general Cincinnati thing. Cincinnati style chili would have been more appropriate.

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    I'm trying to work out the economics. They are going to turn $50000 worth of blank CDs into $1000000 of bootleg Da Brat discs? That's a 2000% profit. How are they doing this? If the blanks were $1 each, they need to sell 50000 Da Brat Bootlegs for $20 each. If the blanks were 10 cents each, they are selling 500000 Da Brat bootlegs for $2 each. I just don't see a sufficient demand no matter how cheap the bootlegs to get that 2000% profit margin.

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    CORRECTIONS AND OMISSIONS

     

    First in regards to the conversation that ended up with "swordfish" as the answer to what "shark" Paul was thinking of; what he may have actually had in mind was a sawtooth shark. A battle between a chainsaw and a sawtooth shark may have been both interesting and clever, which is most likely why it did not wind up in Sharknado 2.

     

    https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcThverwEajQZyqq31ZRLMFtKTfeLI6QehDW1vT9xLvyzUXaRpeR

     

    Second, to clarify on Mark McGrath being excited about smashing through 42. 42 is a retired number across all of Major League Baseball in honor of Jackie Robinson, who was the first black player in MLB when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers. I assume McGrath was psyched because he loves destroying the symbol of a civil rights icon.

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