AdamSmith Posted February 17, 2018 Posted February 17, 2018 2 hours ago, MsAnn said: LMMFAO I suspect Sully liked this just about as much as Julia Child loved Dan Aykroyd's parody of her. She would play a videotape of it, almost always, at the tail-end of her dinner parties for friends. And always (I am told) fell apart in laughter by the end. https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/the-french-chef/n8667
AdamSmith Posted February 17, 2018 Posted February 17, 2018 16 hours ago, MsAnn said: $125 per person, not including gratuity or tax or liquor? P.S. ...Said the 22yo BMW owner. (My own fave, even beyond the 325xi, was my peppiest little manual six-speed, turbo'd, Audi A4 Quattro. I one time on business visited their engineering organization in Ingolstadt. The most modestly brilliant humans I've ever met.)
AdamSmith Posted February 17, 2018 Posted February 17, 2018 8 hours ago, MsAnn said: That's it from me...Gotta run.
AdamSmith Posted February 18, 2018 Posted February 18, 2018 They Might Be Giants are among the greatest.
AdamSmith Posted February 18, 2018 Posted February 18, 2018 Why DOES the sun shine? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Bethe
Members MsAnn Posted February 18, 2018 Members Posted February 18, 2018 Quote Quote I loved him almost too much... Oh to be so lucky... AdamSmith 1
Members MsAnn Posted February 18, 2018 Members Posted February 18, 2018 ‘I know I’m a terrible liar sometimes, but please believe that I have never betrayed either in word or deed the physical you or the mental you. I simply love you too much. I flatter and am flattered and both too easily. It’s only a question of booze. I behaved like an idiot ... I deserve all the injury that you can inflict, and I will take it as long as you stay with me — Husbs (I hope).’ In the end, he was really no different than the rest of us...
Members MsAnn Posted February 18, 2018 Members Posted February 18, 2018 "As head of the Church of England, and as your spiritual father, I forbid you to pass judgement on me" AdamSmith 1
Members MsAnn Posted February 18, 2018 Members Posted February 18, 2018 6 hours ago, MsAnn said: "As head of the Church of England, and as your spiritual father, I forbid you to pass judgement on me"
AdamSmith Posted February 19, 2018 Posted February 19, 2018 On 2/11/2018 at 8:31 PM, AdamSmith said: Repeating myself here... My favorite poet Wallace Stevens was, in his day job, vice president of surety bonding at The Hartford Insurance Co. One time he delivered a heartfelt, eloquent eulogy for a deceased, well beloved other VP at The Hartford with whom he had had a warm friendship. The next morning, Stevens was sitting at his desk working on surety claims when another VP, whom Stevens loathed, stuck his head into the door of Stevens's office and said, 'That was a marvelous eulogy you delivered yesterday.' Stevens, without looking up or missing a beat, replied, 'I hope to do the same for you some day.' Invisible Priest: Contemporary American Poetry and the Echo of Stevens https://m.poets.org/poetsorg/text/invisible-priest-contemporary-american-poetry-and-echo-stevens
AdamSmith Posted February 19, 2018 Posted February 19, 2018 Farting Passenger Forces Plane To Make Emergency Landing https://www.yahoo.com/news/farting-passenger-forces-plane-emergency-185237663.html MsAnn 1
AdamSmith Posted February 20, 2018 Posted February 20, 2018 A great set of reviews...! Conde Nast Traveler The 50 Best Places to Visit in the U.S.A. https://www.cntraveler.com/galleries/2015-06-27/things-to-do-in-america-all-50-us-states/11
Members RA1 Posted February 20, 2018 Members Posted February 20, 2018 3 hours ago, AdamSmith said: Farting Passenger Forces Plane To Make Emergency Landing https://www.yahoo.com/news/farting-passenger-forces-plane-emergency-185237663.html Why (oh I know why) does the media have to sensationalize a story? This was a simple diversion to an airport not the original destination. Cause: pax acting up. Not a threat to the plane but acts the crew thought should have the consequences reported. So far in my career, I have had no pax act up. Their captain may have on occasion. Best regards, RA1
AdamSmith Posted February 20, 2018 Posted February 20, 2018 25 minutes ago, RA1 said: Why (oh I know why) does the media have to sensationalize a story? It. Sell$. Ad$. As a newspaperman since age 17 -- managing editor of my high school semiweekly [Mangy Editor, I was nicknamed by my co-student journalists and department editors , who resented -- but secretly liked -- my imposing authoritarian schedule-keeping], this universal practice of overdoing it, and almost deliberately losing perspective and framing, makes me sick too. I think it will come right again, once news media find whatever kind of financial model will keep them afloat in this new digital age. The practice is not endemic to news reporting itself. We have only to recall Jefferson: 'Had I to choose between a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to choose the latter.'
