AdamSmith

P.S. Formidable resource... http://math.boisestate.edu/gas/index.html

...It is simply Court etiquette!

Too hard on yourself! Rather, I gratefully consider your discretion Edwardian.

No, no! Surely grand harmonic convergence can be a good thing, just as much as (viz. the Aztec calendar) a very bad thing. One generally aims one's peregrinations straight down the middle of the quandary. Where things get most interesting. Hadn't you noticed?

Gilbert & Sullivan is suddenly all the rage! http://mc.daddysreviews.com/dcboard.php?az...27669&page= (...are the rage?) High time, too. Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa - bel!

Sounds easier than getting rich by working. (Especially working in France!)

So marry a rich guy.

Sex with your spouse? That stops gradually, not all at once! Sex with other people -- that has to stop? Your choice of course. But sleeping with someone is one thing; building a life together is another. No? Pre-nup!

Love it when the British press gets arch and snotty about their American cousins. ...Clothes maketh the 'second family' If a social commentator of the Lady Bracknell school were to describe the Palin family's rendition of formal wear, they might describe it as perfect... for one's first court appearance. In Alaska, check shirts and camouflage jackets are the order of the day, and family photographs tend to be set in the great outdoors, around the carcass of a moose. As a result, the would-be Second Family didn't so much wear their formal outfits on Wednesday, as get worn by them. Sarah Palin carried off her two-piece with elegance: those three-quarter length sleeves looked rolled-up and ready for business. But Ms Palin has had 16 years in politics to refine her wardrobe, and is fortunate after five children to retain the slender profile and shapely calves that helped her to the title of Miss Wasilla, 1984. Her husband, Todd, self-styled "first dude" and judge of this year's Miss Alaska, did well with a dark, two-buttoned suit. But would you buy a used car from him? Eldest son Track resembles a bodyguard, while daughters Bristol and Willow look like old-fashioned girls in pearls. It's difficult not to feel sympathy for one young man in the line-up. Levi Johnston, Bristol's 18-year-old fiancé, carries his arms dead straight and has trouser creases so sharp they could draw blood. If he really has never worn a tie before, Levi had better get used to it: the coming months will bring the christening of his first-born, not to mention his wedding. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/am...lin-919522.html

Bill Melendez, 91; Award-Winning 'Peanuts' Animator Bill Melendez, 91, an Emmy Award-winning animator who transformed the two-dimensional drawings of the "Peanuts" comic strip into some of the most beloved cartoon characters on television and film, died Sept. 2 at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica, Calif. The cause of death was not reported. Mr. Melendez, who began his career at the Hollywood animation studios of Walt Disney and Warner Bros., found his greatest renown as the animator of "A Charlie Brown Christmas," "The Great Pumpkin" and dozens of other Peanuts presentations. With producer Lee Mendelson, Mr. Melendez formed a 43-year partnership that has generated more than 70 "Peanuts" productions, including four feature films. He also animated more than 370 commercials using "Peanuts" characters and remains the only animator Charles M. Schulz trusted to bring his famous comic strip figures to life. "We had a wonderful relationship, the three of us, Schulz, Bill and I," Mendelson said yesterday in an interview. "Bill moved the characters off the page. He didn't do anything too elaborate. By keeping that simplicity, that caused a seamless transition. I think that was the key to our success." Success was hardly assured when the first Peanuts special, "A Charlie Brown Christmas," was broadcast by CBS in 1965. Network executives feared it would be a colossal flop, with no laugh track, a jazz musical score by pianist Vince Guaraldi and a religious message that Mr. Melendez thought at first was too overt. Schulz later told him, according to the Los Angeles Times, "Bill, if we don't do it, then who will?" Much to everyone's surprise, the show was a huge hit and garnered Emmy and Peabody awards. Cartoonist Robert Smigel called it "the greatest half-hour American TV has ever produced." In addition to animating every "Peanuts" film and TV special, Mr. Melendez provided the wordless voice of Snoopy, Charlie Brown's irrepressible beagle. Mr. Melendez spoke gibberish into a tape recorder, then played the tape at high speed. (He used the same method to record the chirping voice of the bird Woodstock.) ... http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...8090401641.html (...AdamSmith upon Andre's return!)

Faster is key. The Firefox code seems to have grown inordinately fat. Of course, as a recent joyful convert to Safari (and all else Mac), I am blissfully off in la-la land. (Please don't tell me anything bad about Safari. )

Lemme try a different analogy. Remember all the bad publicity and bad feeling that Standard Oil got at the height of the Gilded Age? Did Rockefeller give a shit? The company did fuck-all until ultimately the Supreme Court ordered a breakup. I think Comcast and their brethren are more like the 19th-century oil and steel monopolies than like one of many rock bands.

Near-monopolists can take a lot of crap and still get their way.

I had the same reaction. But how easy will it be to find one? In New England, the choices I can find are Comcast cable, or DSL from Verizon or ATT. I must be overlooking some options...? Also, once Comcast meters usage, will it take competitors long to follow? Of course I can use my Verizon Blackberry as a tethered modem -- that is, I could if they would ever add support for Macs -- but the VZN broadband network leaves something to be desired in the way of speed.

Whoa. Not me, nor Stu, nor lookin. How could we, with a straight face?

Indeed. So let's inflate the dark corpse one more time. Herewith the most lacerating poetic parody of all time, IMHO... CHARD WHITLOW (Mr. Eliot's Sunday Evening Postscript) As we get older we do not get any younger. Seasons return, and today I am fifty-five, And this time last year I was fifty-four, And this time next year I shall be sixty-two. And I cannot say I should like (to speak for myself) To see my time over again— if you can call it time: Fidgeting uneasily under a draughty stair, Or counting sleepless nights in the crowded Tube. There are certain precautions— though none of them very reliable— Against the blast from bombs and the flying splinter, But not against the blast from heaven, vento dei venti, The wind within a wind unable to speak for wind; And the frigid burnings of purgatory will not be touched By any emollient. I think you will find this put, Better than I could ever hope to express it, In the words of Kharma: "It is, we believe, Idle to hope that the simple stirrup-pump Will extinguish hell." Oh, listeners, And you especially who have turned off the wireless, And sit in Stoke or Basingstoke listening appreciatively to the silence, (Which is also the silence of hell) pray not for your skins but for your souls. And pray for me also under the draughty stair. As we get older we do not get any younger. And pray for Kharma under the holy mountain. -- by Henry Reed And today's special bonus -- Dylan Thomas reading this piece in the voice of T.S. Eliot! http://www.solearabiantree.net/namingofpar...hardwhitlow.mp3

This'n: http://www.maleescortreview.com/forum/inde...=1992&st=20

That is the funniest thing written here in some time. Michael Moore says Gustav is divine retribution on the GOP.

Try both at the same time! There's nothing like being the baloney in the sandwich.

Fraidy cat! That's where the real fun starts. After bidding adieu to Brian/NYC the other night, I could not sleep and it was past closing time for the boy agencies and the independents I was interested in. So to the rescue -- NYC's Asian-girl agencies. Where commerce never sleeps.

Two or three also put a sock in it while Gore was on. Many find Gore too much of a muchness. But I enjoyed his speech enormously. It was like watching someone knock the administration to the sidewalk, then kick them down the street by the balls for ten minutes solid. No one can do it with better-earned conviction than he.

"Once"? Speak for yourself! (Emoticon chosen deliberately.) That said, I have no real opinion on whether the Fetish forum should stay or go.

Look out. Comparisons of Michelle Obama with Jackie are flying thick & fast.

What has Onassis to do with all this?

Andre has the same body & can still cum several times/day. Only excuse is my more mummified carcass.