plans and hopes

"Hope for the best, plan for the worst."

So I said today to one of my former minion's own minions.
What *do* they teach kids these days?

the other Maltese falcon

I caught parts of the Ricardo Cortez version of "The Maltese Falcon" on TCM.
Very strange to see the familiar elements done differently.
Not bad, but...
Huston, Bogart, Astor, Greenstreet and Lorre did it better.