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

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.)

8 hours ago, MsAnn said:

That's it from me...Gotta run.

 

They Might Be Giants are among the greatest.

 

 

 

Why DOES the sun shine? 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Bethe

 

 

 

 

Quote

 

Quote

I loved him almost too much...

Oh to be so lucky...

‘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...

"As head of the Church of England, and as your spiritual father, I forbid you to pass judgement on me"

8 hours ago, MsAnn said:

 

 

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"

 

 

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

Farting Passenger Forces Plane To Make Emergency Landing

https://www.yahoo.com/news/farting-passenger-forces-plane-emergency-185237663.html

 

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

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

49 minutes ago, MsAnn said:

 

LMMFAO 

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.'