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Remember the original old Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie?

It was good back in the day, but watching it now it seems a little cheesy I guess. Considering the budget and when it was made (1974 ish) it could almost be considered a classic.

Lots of rumors swirled around the movie. Whether it was true or if parts of it were at least based on real events.

Anyway there was a strange new story in the news about a Texas man who took a chainsaw to his friend of 20 years. They apparently lived in the same house and the guy was trying to do away with his friend by cutting him up with a chainsaw.

The first thing that came to mind is The Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie. Not that it had anything to do with the movie after all these years, but it is not something you hear about very often. And, being it happened in Texas just reminds me of the movie.

Netflix recently raised the price of their most popular plan from $8.99 to $9.99 per month. They also added a streaming only plan for $7.99 per month, at least in the U.S. anyway.

Shortly after news of this increase in price people were immediately complaining. Sure a price increase is a bummer, but we are talking about $1 per month for most people. And, with the streaming only plan they could actually save $1 per month. That is just barely over 3 cents per day more.

I guess people don't realize that it does cost Netflix money to license and distribute all those movies or something. They need a vast network of computers and an impressive system to distribute them which isn't cheap either. Not to mention they do have to pay employees. All so the end user can sit on netflix and watch a movie 24-7 from many electronic gizmo's. They have to pay for it somehow right!

Now I could see if they were doubling or tripling the price or something, but a whole $1 per month! If you ask me the price is still extremely cheap for what you get.

Oh well, it's impossible to please everyone!

Why is that any time a phone number is mentioned or referred to in a movie it is always 555-XXXX? Have you ever wondered about this? Well I do. Apparently here in the U.S. according to Wikipedia there is a specific range reserved for fictional use. I didn't know that. Wikipedia never ceases to amaze me. This 555 (telephone number) post states that 555-0100 through 555-0199 are reserved for basically nothing. Which I guess is why movies use them.



I don't know who would be tempted to call a number based on what they see in a movie, but maybe there are some people out there that would. So the use of 555 phone numbers that do absolutely nothing would make sense. However, after a little google searching I found a page that refers to 555 numbers that were used in movies that fall out of the reserved fictional use range here: (555-List). Exactly how accurate it is who knows.

I have never been tempted to call one of the numbers mentioned in a movie. I just wish one time a movie would use something other than 555-Something.