10 More Questions And Musings for You
Kim
2. In all the movies in all the land what is the best death scene?
3. Sometimes I wonder about my husband. He called his mother the other day
and his youngest brother answered the phone. His youngest brother, Sam, has
this mess of a wife. About 2 years ago she abandoned their three young kids
and Sam, and took off for a life of fun and adventure. She would
occasionally come back to Sam and the kids, usually after the family had
once again gotten Sam to a stable point - renting him an apartment, buying
him food and furniture, then she would come back, steal what she could, sell
what she could and run them into the ground again, then leave. And the
circle would start again with the family getting Sam and the kids *another*
apartment, set them up, only to have her return a few months
later....lather, rinse, repeat. Well, when Sam answered his mother's phone
the other day he said to hubby, fighting back tears, "Yup - they found my
wife dead the other night - they think she died of an overdose." Hubby
immediately said to him "Cool! You won't have to worry about her fucking up
your life anymore." Sometimes he can be such an ass.
4. So I'm liking the Dish TV - there's only one thing that bugs me and I
can't get an answer from the support people. I've called twice about it.
Here's the scenario: I have a TV in the TV room that hubby watches all the
time. I have a TV in the computer room that *I* watch all the time. Hubby is
in the TV room and he's watching "Suzy remodels her kitchen". I am in the
computer room watching something that's actually interesting. *Not* "Suzy
remodels her kitchen". Hubby wants to record *and* watch "A Stupid Fucking
Show about Harleys". So, he switches to "A Stupid Fucking Show about
Harleys" - and he hits "record this". Immediately it records the show - to
TV 2 and switches the TV in the computer room to "A Stupid Fucking show
about Harleys" - and that's what I have to watch. I can't change the
channel, because if I do it says "We are recording this, if you switch the
channel, it will stop the recording - is that what you want to do?" Now, in
the TV room, where hubby is watching this fucking show *anyway* - he can
change the channel to anything he wants. I need to know how to change the
recording so that it records on TV 1 instead of TV 2.
When I called the support people the first guy said "Oh, your remotes are
mixed up - if you record with remote 1 it will record to TV 1" but that's
not the problem because I *am* recording with remote 1. Hubby only has
access to remote 1. The support guy said "take the other remote and record
to TV 1 with that - because they are "confused"" - well, that didn't help.
Remote 2 doesn't control TV 1. They aren't mixed up.
The second time I called the lady said "It's because you are already
recording something else, and the second recording is defaulting to TV 2."
I tested that theory and it, too was wrong, it happens even when nothing
else is recording.
So, that's the only complaint I have so far. It rained pretty hard here a
couple of times and I haven't lost signal yet, it has snowed quite hard,
too, and that doesn't seem to interfere with the signal, either. And
according to the first bill I received, it is about $40 a month cheaper than
cable for more channels.
5. What is your preference: Cruise ship, powerboat, sailboat, rowboat, kayak
or inner tube?
6. Do you have a favorite painting? What makes it special to you?
7. So, I have a staph infection in my eye. How the hell did I get that? I
also have a raging infection in my glands. The doctor says they could be the
same infection - but he thinks they are 2 separate infections, since my
white count is so high. I also had to have the feeding tube reinstalled,
since I lost 8 pounds and the doctor said "we need to stay on top of your
weight". To which hubby replied - "I've tried to stay on top of her weight -
she kicks me off."
8. Who was your best friend in high school? Do you still keep in touch? Do
you know where he/she is now and what they are doing?
9. So yesterday a friend of hubby's came over - the same guy he bought the
"fantastic" chain saw from. The guy had some tools in the trunk of his car
that he was selling and hubby bought a "saws all" from him - brand new
condition, for $30. Hubby says it was a "deal". Even though he has no use
for a "saws all". But hubby quickly pronounced it "the best bargain" he's
ever gotten. What is the "best bargain" you've ever come across and taken
advantage of?
10. What is one lesson you've had to learn the hard way?
--
Kim
http://thedarwinexception.wordpress.com
*It's encouraging to know the makers of Soylent Green would be forced by
today's FDA guidelines to include the phrase "Ingredients: People" in the
nutritional disclosure. However, I sense most shoppers would just see "Now
with no trans fats!" splashed on the front and drop a few cans in their
carts anyway. (Brad Simanek)*
David Zeiger
>The second time I called the lady said "It's because you are already
>recording something else, and the second recording is defaulting to TV 2."
>I tested that theory and it, too was wrong, it happens even when nothing
>else is recording.
On mine, at least, it looks like you can change which TV the recording
defaults to by going to Menu, then Preferences then Record Plus.
--
David Zeiger dze...@the-institute.net
Whenever I find myself in a difficult situation, I ask myself "What
Would Jesus Do?" The mental image of my opposition being cast into
pits of hellfire for all eternity *is* comforting, but probably not
what the inventors of the phrase had in mind.
Boron Elgar
<72FLHtak...@twcny.rr.com> wrote:
>1. What is the most annoying "love song" ever?
Oooo, I have to go back to bubblegum for that. Lou Christie &
Lightnin' Strikes.
>2. In all the movies in all the land what is the best death scene?
Wuthering Heights, death of Cathy. Olivier-Oberon version.
>
>3. Sometimes I wonder about my husband. He called his mother the other day
>and his youngest brother answered the phone. .... Well, when Sam answered his mother's phone
>the other day he said to hubby, fighting back tears, "Yup - they found my
>wife dead the other night - they think she died of an overdose." Hubby
>immediately said to him "Cool! You won't have to worry about her fucking up
>your life anymore." Sometimes he can be such an ass.
Not surprised he thought it, though.
>
>4.
out of my data set
>
>5. What is your preference: Cruise ship, powerboat, sailboat, rowboat, kayak
>or inner tube?
Sailing.
>
>6. Do you have a favorite painting? What makes it special to you?
I have no favorite painting, but I have several favorite painters:
Rembrandt
Turner
Caravaggio
>
>7. So, I have a staph infection in my eye. How the hell did I get that? I
>also have a raging infection in my glands. The doctor says they could be the
>same infection - but he thinks they are 2 separate infections, since my
>white count is so high. I also had to have the feeding tube reinstalled,
>since I lost 8 pounds and the doctor said "we need to stay on top of your
>weight". To which hubby replied - "I've tried to stay on top of her weight -
>she kicks me off."
You have a nice variety staph bacteria in you and on you all the time.
Something tipped the scale and let it get the upper hand.
Remember Staphylococcus aureus and Toxic Shock Syndrome? The stuff is
there on the skin and in the nose of healthy people...a particular
type of tampon (Rely) gave it a perfect growing medium and it took off
like real killer.
>
>8. Who was your best friend in high school? Do you still keep in touch? Do
>you know where he/she is now and what they are doing?
There was a large group of 8-10 of them that wound up in NYC and we
hung around for a long time. We were young, unattached (at least not
seriously so) and celebrated all our birthdays ad holidays together.
AIDS took half of them, a few got married, had kids and moved away
(like me), one went back to school and moved to Europe...of the ones
still alive, I email a couple of them regularly.
>
>9. So yesterday a friend of hubby's came over - the same guy he bought the
>"fantastic" chain saw from. The guy had some tools in the trunk of his car
>that he was selling and hubby bought a "saws all" from him - brand new
>condition, for $30. Hubby says it was a "deal". Even though he has no use
>for a "saws all". But hubby quickly pronounced it "the best bargain" he's
>ever gotten. What is the "best bargain" you've ever come across and taken
>advantage of?
What brand did he get?
Oh, I have made a few deal on eBay that were really, really nice. One
was a misdescribed item, that I pointed out to the seller, who decided
not to change her description. No one else bid on it but me. It was
worth $2500-$3000 and I got it for a few hundred.
>
>10. What is one lesson you've had to learn the hard way?
Don't wait 20 years to walk out of a crummy marriage.
Boron
Bill Turlock
>
>
> 6. Do you have a favorite painting? What makes it special to you?
>
Hieronymus Bosch
http://tinyurl.com/h9rut
<bigass smiley>
Greg Goss
>1. What is the most annoying "love song" ever?
None come to mind. All I can summon are "silly" love songs. And
what's wrong with that. Further down the thread I will probably
endorse some "Stand By Your Man" pro-abuse song, but I can't think of
any that are actually annoying at the moment.
>2. In all the movies in all the land what is the best death scene?
"Best"? I liked what I considered the realism of the mega-H-Bomb onto
LA at the opening of Terminator 2.
>3. "Cool! You won't have to worry about her fucking up
>your life anymore." Sometimes he can be such an ass.
I would definately think it. After a week or so, I would probably say
it. But that's a queston?
>4. >So, that's the only complaint I have so far.
But that's a question? OK, it's a tech support question. I don't
know enough about satellite TV to have an answer.
>5. What is your preference: Cruise ship, powerboat, sailboat, rowboat, kayak
>or inner tube?
Low-power powerboat on an isolated lake. Less work than rowing, quiet
enough to think, and some nice memories.
>6. Do you have a favorite painting? What makes it special to you?
A sunrise on mountainscape that I bought for the cost of materials
from a middle-aged negative role model when I was a teen. Famous art?
I like stuff that's trying for photo-realism, so that lets out much of
the stuff from the past century or more. Something by Escher perhaps?
>7."she kicks me off."
That's a question?
Sorry to hear about your weight.
>8. Who was your best friend in high school? Do you still keep in touch? Do
>you know where he/she is now and what they are doing?
There was a clique we called "The Brain Trust". Norton, Scott, David
and myself. I can't even recall what Norton or David looked like. As
of the ten-year reunion (1985), Scott was an untenured professor at
Brown U. I haven't contacted him since then. I find a M.Ed in the
counsellors of their continuing ed department with his name, but that
doesn't sound like him. It's been 22 years since the reunion, and
he's probably moved on.
>10. What is one lesson you've had to learn the hard way?
It would derail the discussion. So we'll talk about it another time.
--
Tomorrow is today already.
Greg Goss, 1989-01-27
art...@yahoo.com
> 1. What is the most annoying "love song" ever?
"Love Song" (or whatever it is called), by the Cure. When he sings,
"I will always love you" it sounds like a death sentence.
Others:
Lovin Touchin Squeezin by Journey
I'm All out of Love by Air Supply
> 2. In all the movies in all the land what is the best death scene?
"Just one wafer thin mint"
>
> 5. What is your preference: Cruise ship, powerboat, sailboat, rowboat, kayak
> or inner tube?
Sail boat.
> 6. Do you have a favorite painting? What makes it special to you?
http://tinyurl.com/27zrht
(George Tooker, Highway) I could stare at this for hours.
Also Empire of Light by Magritte
> 8. Who was your best friend in high school? Do you still keep in touch? Do
> you know where he/she is now and what they are doing?
Lost touch with all my high school (and college) buddies
>
> 10. What is one lesson you've had to learn the hard way?
Pick your fights.
byob...@yahoo.com
> "Kim" <72FLHtakethis...@twcny.rr.com> wrote:
> >1. What is the most annoying "love song" ever?
>
> None come to mind. All I can summon are "silly" love songs. And
> what's wrong with that.
I'm glad I read the whole thread before responding, because "Silly
Love Songs" was going to be my pick.
It annoys me because it's *about* how stupid, lightweight love songs
can transcend their stupidity and lightweightness and be really cool
anyway, but the song itself does no such transcending - it just stays
stupid and lightweight. It's like how most songs about rock and roll
are themselves pretty terrible rock and roll.
Hank Gillette
"Kim" <72FLHtak...@twcny.rr.com> wrote:
> 9. So yesterday a friend of hubby's came over - the same guy he bought the
> "fantastic" chain saw from. The guy had some tools in the trunk of his car
> that he was selling and hubby bought a "saws all" from him - brand new
> condition, for $30. Hubby says it was a "deal". Even though he has no use
> for a "saws all". But hubby quickly pronounced it "the best bargain" he's
> ever gotten. What is the "best bargain" you've ever come across and taken
> advantage of?
>
> 10. What is one lesson you've had to learn the hard way?
>
That a guy selling brand new tools out of his trunk is usually selling
stolen goods.
--
Hank Gillette
Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the
United States, please pay attention. -- Molly Ivins
Les Albert
wrote:
> Kim wrote:
Is the Bosch painting (only a portion shown) really your favorite?
Les
Kim
> In article <130d59r...@corp.supernews.com>,
> "Kim" <72FLHtak...@twcny.rr.com> wrote:
>
>> 9. So yesterday a friend of hubby's came over - the same guy he
>> bought the "fantastic" chain saw from. The guy had some tools in the
>> trunk of his car that he was selling and hubby bought a "saws all"
>> from him - brand new condition, for $30. Hubby says it was a "deal".
>> Even though he has no use for a "saws all". But hubby quickly
>> pronounced it "the best bargain" he's ever gotten. What is the "best
>> bargain" you've ever come across and taken advantage of?
>>
>> 10. What is one lesson you've had to learn the hard way?
>>
>
> That a guy selling brand new tools out of his trunk is usually selling
> stolen goods.
Yeah, I thought the same thing after he sold hubby the chainsaw. But his
stuff isn't hot. He actually invited us to go to one of the auctions with
him where he picks up most of his stuff. It's his profession. He goes to the
Bridge Street auction, estate auctions, local garage sales and such, buys
boxloads of shit and then sells it. He also is the pawn shop guy. If local
people need money and have something to sell they will go to him, he'll buy
it and then re-sell it. You should see his house. It looks like a fucking
junk yard. The guy must have 10 snowmobiles sitting on his front lawn. And
20 cars in his backyard. In his living room he has like 15 monitor heaters
all lined up in a row, which he said would be replaced with air conditioners
come good weather.
He's one of my next blog posts about "The Characters of Malone". HIs name is
Jack, but I call him "Red" after the character in "The Shawshank
Redemption". He's the "I can get it for you" guy. No matter what you tell
him you want, he'll say "I can get that for you."
Rick B.
news:130d59r...@corp.supernews.com:
> 1. What is the most annoying "love song" ever?
Either "You Light Up My Life" or "Endless Love."
> 3. Sometimes I wonder about my husband. He called his mother the other
> day and his youngest brother answered the phone. His youngest brother,
> Sam, has this mess of a wife. About 2 years ago she abandoned their
> three young kids and Sam, and took off for a life of fun and adventure.
> She would occasionally come back to Sam and the kids, usually after the
> family had once again gotten Sam to a stable point - renting him an
> apartment, buying him food and furniture, then she would come back,
> steal what she could, sell what she could and run them into the ground
> again, then leave. And the circle would start again with the family
> getting Sam and the kids *another* apartment, set them up, only to have
> her return a few months later....lather, rinse, repeat. Well, when Sam
> answered his mother's phone the other day he said to hubby, fighting
> back tears, "Yup - they found my wife dead the other night - they think
> she died of an overdose." Hubby immediately said to him "Cool! You won't
> have to worry about her fucking up your life anymore." Sometimes he can
> be such an ass.
Band name: Necessary Social Hypocrisy
> 9. So yesterday a friend of hubby's came over - the same guy he bought
> the "fantastic" chain saw from. The guy had some tools in the trunk of
> his car that he was selling and hubby bought a "saws all" from him -
> brand new condition, for $30. Hubby says it was a "deal". Even though he
> has no use for a "saws all". But hubby quickly pronounced it "the best
> bargain" he's ever gotten. What is the "best bargain" you've ever come
> across and taken advantage of?
My Italian wool turtleneck sweater. Original price: something like $129.
Got marked down to half off or below, something like $63.99. Got sent to
the automatic markdown clearance center, where it hung around until it
reached maximum markdown of 80% off the reduced price. That's when I showed
up and used my 10% employee discount and got it for something like $11.52.
This was about 20 years ago and I still have it...probably spent more
having it drycleaned than the original price.
Hank Gillette
Bill Turlock <"Bill Turlock "@sonnnic.invalid> wrote:
>
> Hieronymus Bosch
> http://tinyurl.com/h9rut
> <bigass smiley>
I'm rather fond of the Simpsons version:
<http://homepage.mac.com/hankgillette/simpsons/PhotoAlbum14.html>
Hank Gillette
> 4. So I'm liking the Dish TV - there's only one thing that bugs me and I
> can't get an answer from the support people. I've called twice about it.
> Here's the scenario: I have a TV in the TV room that hubby watches all the
> time. I have a TV in the computer room that *I* watch all the time. Hubby is
> in the TV room and he's watching "Suzy remodels her kitchen". I am in the
> computer room watching something that's actually interesting. *Not* "Suzy
> remodels her kitchen". Hubby wants to record *and* watch "A Stupid Fucking
> Show about Harleys". So, he switches to "A Stupid Fucking Show about
> Harleys" - and he hits "record this". Immediately it records the show - to
> TV 2 and switches the TV in the computer room to "A Stupid Fucking show
> about Harleys" - and that's what I have to watch. I can't change the
> channel, because if I do it says "We are recording this, if you switch the
> channel, it will stop the recording - is that what you want to do?" Now, in
> the TV room, where hubby is watching this fucking show *anyway* - he can
> change the channel to anything he wants. I need to know how to change the
> recording so that it records on TV 1 instead of TV 2.
I don't know the real solution, but in the meantime, just record
everything you want to watch while you are watching it and delete it
afterwards.
Hank Gillette
> 1. What is the most annoying "love song" ever?
"He Hit Me (And It Felt Like a Kiss)".
Hank Gillette
"Kim" <72FLHtak...@twcny.rr.com> wrote:
> He's the "I can get it for you" guy. No matter what you tell
> him you want, he'll say "I can get that for you."
Ask him for a working sink.
Ulo Melton
>1. What is the most annoying "love song" ever?
"The Girl Is Mine," Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney.
--
Ulo Melton
http://www.sewergator.com - Your Pipeline To Adventure
"Show me a man who is not afraid of being eaten by an alligator
in a sewer, and I'll show you a fool." -Roger Ebert
Blinky the Shark
> 1. What is the most annoying "love song" ever?
One that pops up as a candidate is "This Guy's In Love With You".
> 2. In all the movies in all the land what is the best death scene?
Neidermeyer's horse.
--
Blinky RLU 297263
Killing all posts from Google Groups
The Usenet Improvement Project: http://blinkynet.net/comp/uip5.html
Lesmond
>
>
>1. What is the most annoying "love song" ever?
Key Largo
>
>2. In all the movies in all the land what is the best death scene?
Hmmm...probably something involving a chainsaw.
>
>8. Who was your best friend in high school? Do you still keep in touch? Do
>you know where he/she is now and what they are doing?
I talk to her all the time.
--
Things fell apart with the alacrity of a cheetah.
Blinky the Shark
> 20 cars in his backyard. In his living room he has like 15 monitor heaters
Having had to look it up...
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-monitor-heater.htm
John Hatpin
>1. What is the most annoying "love song" ever?
So many to choose from! So little time!
I'll go with "Long-Haired Lover From Liverpool" by Little Jimmy
Osmond. That always gave me the creeps, that did.
>5. What is your preference: Cruise ship, powerboat, sailboat, rowboat, kayak
>or inner tube?
Submarine, of course.
Seriously, though, I've always wanted to go on a cruise ship. Not one
of these modern things with casinos and discos and stuff - an old-time
ocean liner with art deco staircases and glistening ballrooms and
silver cutlery and dining with the Captain and not enough lifeboats
and clutching arms-spread actresses at the bow. But without the
icebergs.
Oh, and it should head south, not west. And then east.
>6. Do you have a favorite painting? What makes it special to you?
I don't understand the concept of "favourite". Sometimes, art (of any
sort) moves me, sometimes it doesn't.
Generally, I've been more interested in Renaissance art than any
other, but I'm no art lover.
>8. Who was your best friend in high school? Do you still keep in touch? Do
>you know where he/she is now and what they are doing?
A guy called Richard. Best friend from the first day of school until
after my first kid was born. He was our best man, he was my son's
godfather. Then he decided not to talk to any of us again, and I
don't know why. Because he wouldn't talk.
Last I know, he was still living very locally, but I've not seen him
since the last time he snubbed me and my kids on the street, about
four years ago.
>What is the "best bargain" you've ever come across and taken
>advantage of?
Not mine, but Marianne picked up an old but unused Bell & Howell
carousel slide projector, with a built-in viewing screen, synchonised
tape recorder and wired remote control, for £10. That was a hell of a
bargain.
>10. What is one lesson you've had to learn the hard way?
That I'm basically a fucked-up person.
--
John Hatpin
Mary
> 1. What is the most annoying "love song" ever?
"You light up my life". Debby Boone. Ugh.
> 2. In all the movies in all the land what is the best death scene?
Geez, I dunno. How about in that one Star Trek movie where Worf and
Picard are on the outside of the Enterprise disconnecting the
thingamajobby and the Borg guys are attached to it and finally it sort
of lets go of the Enterprise with a puff of air and flies off into
space, Borg guys and all, and Word says, "Assimilate THAT".
> 3. Sometimes I wonder about my husband. He called his mother the other day
> and his youngest brother answered the phone. His youngest brother, Sam, has
> this mess of a wife. About 2 years ago she abandoned their three young kids
> and Sam, and took off for a life of fun and adventure. She would
> occasionally come back to Sam and the kids, usually after the family had
> once again gotten Sam to a stable point - renting him an apartment, buying
> him food and furniture, then she would come back, steal what she could, sell
> what she could and run them into the ground again, then leave. And the
> circle would start again with the family getting Sam and the kids *another*
> apartment, set them up, only to have her return a few months
> later....lather, rinse, repeat. Well, when Sam answered his mother's phone
> the other day he said to hubby, fighting back tears, "Yup - they found my
> wife dead the other night - they think she died of an overdose." Hubby
> immediately said to him "Cool! You won't have to worry about her fucking up
> your life anymore." Sometimes he can be such an ass.
Truth can hurt.
> 4. So I'm liking the Dish TV - there's only one thing that bugs me and I
> can't get an answer from the support people. I've called twice about it.
> Here's the scenario: I have a TV in the TV room that hubby watches all the
> time. I have a TV in the computer room that *I* watch all the time. Hubby is
> in the TV room and he's watching "Suzy remodels her kitchen". I am in the
> computer room watching something that's actually interesting. *Not* "Suzy
> remodels her kitchen". Hubby wants to record *and* watch "A Stupid Fucking
> Show about Harleys". So, he switches to "A Stupid Fucking Show about
> Harleys" - and he hits "record this". Immediately it records the show - to
> TV 2 and switches the TV in the computer room to "A Stupid Fucking show
> about Harleys" - and that's what I have to watch. I can't change the
> channel, because if I do it says "We are recording this, if you switch the
> channel, it will stop the recording - is that what you want to do?" Now, in
> the TV room, where hubby is watching this fucking show *anyway* - he can
> change the channel to anything he wants. I need to know how to change the
> recording so that it records on TV 1 instead of TV 2.
Sorry, I don't know.
> When I called the support people the first guy said "Oh, your remotes are
> mixed up - if you record with remote 1 it will record to TV 1" but that's
> not the problem because I *am* recording with remote 1. Hubby only has
> access to remote 1. The support guy said "take the other remote and record
> to TV 1 with that - because they are "confused"" - well, that didn't help.
> Remote 2 doesn't control TV 1. They aren't mixed up.
>
> The second time I called the lady said "It's because you are already
> recording something else, and the second recording is defaulting to TV 2."
> I tested that theory and it, too was wrong, it happens even when nothing
> else is recording.
>
> So, that's the only complaint I have so far. It rained pretty hard here a
> couple of times and I haven't lost signal yet, it has snowed quite hard,
> too, and that doesn't seem to interfere with the signal, either. And
> according to the first bill I received, it is about $40 a month cheaper than
> cable for more channels.
>
> 5. What is your preference: Cruise ship, powerboat, sailboat, rowboat, kayak
> or inner tube?
Canoe. Though kayaks and sailboats are good too.
> 6. Do you have a favorite painting? What makes it special to you?
Gustave Caillebotte, Paris Street, Rainy Day (the name might not be
exactly right, but it hangs in the Chicago Institute of Art). It's - I
don't know, it's fabulous. It's as though you could just step in and
walk down that street.
> 7. So, I have a staph infection in my eye. How the hell did I get that? I
> also have a raging infection in my glands. The doctor says they could be the
> same infection - but he thinks they are 2 separate infections, since my
> white count is so high. I also had to have the feeding tube reinstalled,
> since I lost 8 pounds and the doctor said "we need to stay on top of your
> weight". To which hubby replied - "I've tried to stay on top of her weight -
> she kicks me off."
Tell him there's a reason for that.
> 8. Who was your best friend in high school? Do you still keep in touch? Do
> you know where he/she is now and what they are doing?
Tom. No, haven't seen him in years. Yes, he's a doctor.
> 9. So yesterday a friend of hubby's came over - the same guy he bought the
> "fantastic" chain saw from. The guy had some tools in the trunk of his car
> that he was selling and hubby bought a "saws all" from him - brand new
> condition, for $30. Hubby says it was a "deal". Even though he has no use
> for a "saws all". But hubby quickly pronounced it "the best bargain" he's
> ever gotten. What is the "best bargain" you've ever come across and taken
> advantage of?
Oh, I don't know, but my husband once bought a speeder (which is a
railroad vehicle that runs on tracks, none of which he has legal access
to) because it was such a great deal at $700.
> 10. What is one lesson you've had to learn the hard way?
Cheap shoes aren't worth it.
Mary
Veronique
> Kim wrote:
> > 1. What is the most annoying "love song" ever?
>
> "You light up my life". Debby Boone. Ugh.
Oh man, I forgot about that one. Ugh is right.
V.
--
Veronique Chez Sheep
Mary
> On Mar 25, 11:44 am, Mary <mrfeath...@aol.com> wrote:
>> Kim wrote:
>>> 1. What is the most annoying "love song" ever?
>> "You light up my life". Debby Boone. Ugh.
>
>
> Oh man, I forgot about that one. Ugh is right.
Oh, dear. And I reminded you of it. I'm sorry, Veronique.
Mary
Veronique
> 1. What is the most annoying "love song" ever?
"Silly Love Song", highly annoying. But Mary's suggestion of "You
Light Up My Life" is right up there too.
>
> 5. What is your preference: Cruise ship, powerboat, sailboat, rowboat, kayak
> or inner tube?
Rowboat, kayak, inner tube have been the most fun, not necessarily in
that order.
>
> 6. Do you have a favorite painting? What makes it special to you?
The ConversionOn The Road To Damascus by Carravagio:
http://www.wga.hu/art/c/caravagg/05/29ceras.jpg
The horse's look of complete puzzlement ("What are you doing down
there? I thought you were riding!") is priceless.
Also, my mom's painting of a nowl.
I like a lot of artists.
> 8. Who was your best friend in high school? Do you still keep in touch? Do
> you know where he/she is now and what they are doing?
D & F. D married a cowboy and is living in Wyoming, working in an
insurance office and breeding Quarter horses. We email occasionally,
send xmas cards, and so on.
F married a Methodist minister, for worse apparently. He became
increasingly reactive as he aged, and she chafes under his inflexible
conservatism. She's working in IT occasionally, when being a
minister's wife allows. We are seldom in touch, once every few years.
>
> 9. So yesterday a friend of hubby's came over - the same guy he bought the
> "fantastic" chain saw from. The guy had some tools in the trunk of his car
> that he was selling and hubby bought a "saws all" from him - brand new
> condition, for $30. Hubby says it was a "deal". Even though he has no use
> for a "saws all". But hubby quickly pronounced it "the best bargain" he's
> ever gotten. What is the "best bargain" you've ever come across and taken
> advantage of?
I lived in a house with a sawzall, and we used it all the time. It's a
wonder the house stayed standing.
Best bargain, in retrospect, was spending $1000 on a 1969 VW Bug.
That's amortized to about $50/year.
>
> 10. What is one lesson you've had to learn the hard way?
Procrastination is not a solution. Knowing it != learning it, however.
Jon M
<use...@jfhgetridofthisbitopkin.kaandthisbittooroo.co.uk> wrote:
>>10. What is one lesson you've had to learn the hard way?
>
>That I'm basically a fucked-up person.
(Everybody): "Hi, John"
Maybe you should join Fucked-up People Anonymous. Their are chapters
everywhere. My local chapter meets nightly at Charlie's Bar.
Jon M
Rex Sofa
Hank Gillette
"Veronique" <veroniq...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The ConversionOn The Road To Damascus by Carravagio:
> http://www.wga.hu/art/c/caravagg/05/29ceras.jpg
>
> The horse's look of complete puzzlement ("What are you doing down
> there? I thought you were riding!") is priceless.
It's a good thing artists give titles to theirs paintings. That one
could have easily been interpreted as "Man Being Gelded By Horse".
Ulo Melton
>That I'm basically a fucked-up person.
Who ain't?
Dover Beach
> 1. What is the most annoying "love song" ever?
You Don't Have to Say You Love Me.
Grow a spine, bitch! Kick him to the curb. Stop crawling. Jesus.
>
> 5. What is your preference: Cruise ship, powerboat, sailboat, rowboat,
> kayak or inner tube?
>
Inner tube pulled behind a power boat. That's a blast.
>
> 8. Who was your best friend in high school? Do you still keep in
> touch? Do you know where he/she is now and what they are doing?
Her name is Elizabeth, and I don't keep in touch anymore, but I know
where she is and what she's doing.
>
> What is the "best bargain" you've ever come across and taken advantage
> of?
At the Macy's warehouse years ago I got an ankle-length wool duffle coat
for $6. I wore that thing til it was threadbare. When I was about six
I got a gorgeous heavy white satin wedding dress at a church rummage
sale for $5. I wore it all over the place.
>
> 10. What is one lesson you've had to learn the hard way?
>
That I do better with short-term deadlines.
--
Dover
Ulo Melton
>The ConversionOn The Road To Damascus by Carravagio:
>http://www.wga.hu/art/c/caravagg/05/29ceras.jpg
>
>The horse's look of complete puzzlement ("What are you doing down
>there? I thought you were riding!") is priceless.
I think it was a mistake for Caravaggio to use black velvet as his
medium. One expects Saul to don a white, sequined jumpsuit, or perhaps
to see the horse start playing poker with its colleagues.
Peter Ward
>1. What is the most annoying "love song" ever?
They're nearly all annoying, but the best candidate I've seen in the
thread so far is that McCartney/Jackson one.
>2. In all the movies in all the land what is the best death scene?
Now that's an odd question. Couldn't say, but I'll go for the wafer
thin mint.
>3. Sometimes I wonder about my husband. He called his mother the other day
>and his youngest brother answered the phone. His youngest brother, Sam, has
>this mess of a wife. About 2 years ago she abandoned their three young kids
>and Sam, and took off for a life of fun and adventure. She would
>occasionally come back to Sam and the kids, usually after the family had
>once again gotten Sam to a stable point - renting him an apartment, buying
>him food and furniture, then she would come back, steal what she could, sell
>what she could and run them into the ground again, then leave. And the
>circle would start again with the family getting Sam and the kids *another*
>apartment, set them up, only to have her return a few months
>later....lather, rinse, repeat. Well, when Sam answered his mother's phone
>the other day he said to hubby, fighting back tears, "Yup - they found my
>wife dead the other night - they think she died of an overdose." Hubby
>immediately said to him "Cool! You won't have to worry about her fucking up
>your life anymore." Sometimes he can be such an ass.
Damn good response. It appears to be true, and pointing it out might
well make the his brother feel a lot better once it sinks in.
>5. What is your preference: Cruise ship, powerboat, sailboat, rowboat, kayak
>or inner tube?
Sailing dinghy.
>6. Do you have a favorite painting? What makes it special to you?
Visual art rarely moves me. I do enjoy M.C.Escher's stuff, though. I
like his tricks.
>8. Who was your best friend in high school? Do you still keep in touch? Do
>you know where he/she is now and what they are doing?
Didn't really have a best friend at school, and wasn't overly friendly
with anyone. However, since then I've developed a fairly strong
friendship with one chap who I knew as well as anyone in those days.
I see him fairly often, and we go to gigs and football amongst other
things. There's one other we both see less frequently for a drink or
two or at football.
>10. What is one lesson you've had to learn the hard way?
Life's a piece of shit.
For example, "Cheer up", they said, "things could get worse", so I
cheered up and, sure enough, things got worse.
--
Peter
I'm an alien
email: groups at asylum dot nildram dot co dot uk
Veronique
> "Kim" <72FLHtakethis...@twcny.rr.com> wrote innews:130d59r...@corp.supernews.com:
> > 10. What is one lesson you've had to learn the hard way?
>
> That I do better with short-term deadlines.
Sistah!
Boron Elgar
wrote:
>The ConversionOn The Road To Damascus by Carravagio:
>http://www.wga.hu/art/c/caravagg/05/29ceras.jpg
Now you see, that is one of my favorite Caravaggios. I was first shown
that painting in an art history class in high school and it really
stayed with me.
You know he has another on the same subject?
http://www.wga.hu/art/c/caravagg/05/30conver.jpg
>
>The horse's look of complete puzzlement ("What are you doing down
>there? I thought you were riding!") is priceless.
>
>
>Also, my mom's painting of a nowl.
What's a nowl?
Boron
Boron Elgar
wrote:
>"Kim" <72FLHtak...@twcny.rr.com> wrote in
>news:130d59r...@corp.supernews.com:
>
>> 1. What is the most annoying "love song" ever?
>
>You Don't Have to Say You Love Me.
>
>Grow a spine, bitch! Kick him to the curb. Stop crawling. Jesus.
Yeah, but Dusty could sing anything and I'd have loved it.
Boron
Nick Spalding
on Sun, 25 Mar 2007 11:28:53 -0500:
> 5. What is your preference: Cruise ship, powerboat, sailboat, rowboat, kayak
> or inner tube?
In practical terms sailing but what I really hanker after is a steam boat.
--
Nick Spalding
Charlie Pearce
wrote:
>Maybe you should join Fucked-up People Anonymous. Their are chapters
>everywhere. My local chapter meets nightly at Charlie's Bar.
That would explain the state of my place.
Charlie
--
Remove NO-SPOO-PLEASE from my email address to reply
Please send no unsolicited email or foodstuffs
Veronique
Me too. I started warbling it (how else can it be sung?) and Puff just
bit me.
Veronique
<use...@jfhgetridofthisbitopkin.kaandthisbittooroo.co.uk> wrote:
> Kim wrote:
> >10. What is one lesson you've had to learn the hard way?
>
> That I'm basically a fucked-up person.
gif! gif!
Wait, wrong response.
I'm currently reading a book about suicide, which has all the usual
anecdotes about perfectly extraordinary people killing themselves
because of mental illness or feelings of inadequacy or nobody knows
why, and last night the show I was producing that had turned into a
series of minor disasters in the last three days went off and if it
had sold another 50 tickets it would have broken even, and I'm
reminded once again that at least I'm not Janet Reno waking up the
morning of Waco.
I'm not sure this is the right response either.
I think it's difficult for people who contain a lot of value added,
and who are generally sensitive and intelligent and emotionally
connected enough to understand the human condition and their own part
therein to not to lapse into despair at the human frailty contained
within.
I have one extra vanilla bean; if you want it, it is yours.
Lisa Ann
news:130d59r...@corp.supernews.com...
> 1. What is the most annoying "love song" ever?
"Endless Love" immediately popped into my head.
>
> 2. In all the movies in all the land what is the best death scene?
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. You don't actually see it, but it's
pretty cool when they come out with their guns blazing and the picture
freezes.
> 5. What is your preference: Cruise ship, powerboat, sailboat, rowboat,
> kayak or inner tube?
Well, the only thing I've really had experince with is our pontoon boat, so
I'll say that.
>
> 6. Do you have a favorite painting? What makes it special to you?
Don Quioxte y Sancho Panza by Picasso. Or that one by Salvador Dali with
the clocks melting on the landscape. Or "Mortimer the Bad Egg" from the
"Metal and Magic" website, whoever that artist is. I know why I like
"Mortimer the Bad Egg", it's because I collect Humpty Dumptys and Mortimer
is Humpty's evil alter ego. The other two...I just like.
>
> 8. Who was your best friend in high school? Do you still keep in touch? Do
> you know where he/she is now and what they are doing?
She's still my best friend after 32 years. Yep we keep in touch. Her
birthday's tomorrow.
>
>
> 10. What is one lesson you've had to learn the hard way?
LOL - to not fuck guys on the first date?
Lisa Ann
Opus the Penguin
> 1. What is the most annoying "love song" ever?
>
"I Will Always Love You". The singer is really just singing about
herself and it's painfully obvious.
> 2. In all the movies in all the land what is the best death scene?
>
Mozart's death in _Amadeus_
> 3. Sometimes I wonder about my husband.
>
So do I.
Oh, wait. I guess there's more to this one. I'll keep reading.
> He called his mother the
> other day and his youngest brother answered the phone. His
> youngest brother, Sam, has this mess of a wife. About 2 years ago
> she abandoned their three young kids and Sam, and took off for a
> life of fun and adventure. She would occasionally come back to Sam
> and the kids, usually after the family had once again gotten Sam
> to a stable point - renting him an apartment, buying him food and
> furniture, then she would come back, steal what she could, sell
> what she could and run them into the ground again, then leave. And
> the circle would start again with the family getting Sam and the
> kids *another* apartment, set them up, only to have her return a
> few months later....lather, rinse, repeat. Well, when Sam answered
> his mother's phone the other day he said to hubby, fighting back
> tears, "Yup - they found my wife dead the other night - they think
> she died of an overdose." Hubby immediately said to him "Cool! You
> won't have to worry about her fucking up your life anymore."
> Sometimes he can be such an ass.
>
Was that not the right thing to say?
> 4. So I'm liking the Dish TV -
>
I never got around to making the switch. Inertia.
> there's only one thing that bugs me
> and I can't get an answer from the support people. I've called
> twice about it. Here's the scenario: I have a TV in the TV room
> that hubby watches all the time. I have a TV in the computer room
> that *I* watch all the time. Hubby is in the TV room and he's
> watching "Suzy remodels her kitchen". I am in the computer room
> watching something that's actually interesting. *Not* "Suzy
> remodels her kitchen". Hubby wants to record *and* watch "A Stupid
> Fucking Show about Harleys". So, he switches to "A Stupid Fucking
> Show about Harleys" - and he hits "record this". Immediately it
> records the show - to TV 2 and switches the TV in the computer
> room to "A Stupid Fucking show about Harleys" - and that's what I
> have to watch. I can't change the channel, because if I do it says
> "We are recording this, if you switch the channel, it will stop
> the recording - is that what you want to do?" Now, in the TV room,
> where hubby is watching this fucking show *anyway* - he can change
> the channel to anything he wants. I need to know how to change the
> recording so that it records on TV 1 instead of TV 2.
>
> When I called the support people the first guy said "Oh, your
> remotes are mixed up - if you record with remote 1 it will record
> to TV 1" but that's not the problem because I *am* recording with
> remote 1. Hubby only has access to remote 1. The support guy said
> "take the other remote and record to TV 1 with that - because they
> are "confused"" - well, that didn't help. Remote 2 doesn't control
> TV 1. They aren't mixed up.
>
> The second time I called the lady said "It's because you are
> already recording something else, and the second recording is
> defaulting to TV 2." I tested that theory and it, too was wrong,
> it happens even when nothing else is recording.
>
> So, that's the only complaint I have so far. It rained pretty hard
> here a couple of times and I haven't lost signal yet, it has
> snowed quite hard, too, and that doesn't seem to interfere with
> the signal, either. And according to the first bill I received, it
> is about $40 a month cheaper than cable for more channels.
>
Keep us posted.
> 5. What is your preference: Cruise ship, powerboat, sailboat,
> rowboat, kayak or inner tube?
>
Depends. To own? To travel for five days in? Cruise ship. For an
afternoon on the lake? Rowboat. Floating down the river in a slow
current on a spring day? Inner tube.
> 6. Do you have a favorite painting? What makes it special to you?
>
Depends on my mood. Today I'll go with El Greco's "View of Toledo".
It's just wild and fascinating, the way the city might look in an
uneasy dream.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:El_Greco_View_of_Toledo.jpg
Tomorrow, maybe I'd choose "The Adoration of the Magi" by Fra
Angelico and Fra Filippo Lippi. It's just so colorful and festive and
joyful. It has tons of fascinating detail but is never "busy".
http://cgfa.dotsrc.org/angelico/p-angeli28.htm
> 7. So, I have a staph infection in my eye. How the hell did I get
> that? I also have a raging infection in my glands. The doctor says
> they could be the same infection - but he thinks they are 2
> separate infections, since my white count is so high. I also had
> to have the feeding tube reinstalled, since I lost 8 pounds and
> the doctor said "we need to stay on top of your weight". To which
> hubby replied - "I've tried to stay on top of her weight - she
> kicks me off."
>
I don't get it.
> 8. Who was your best friend in high school?
>
Mark.
> Do you still keep in touch? Do you know where he/she is now
> and what they are doing?
>
We do keep in touch, but only occasionally. I'd love to have the time
to chat more regularly. I haven't seen him and his wife since 1995
and haven't spoken on the phone with him for a couple of years.
> 9. So yesterday a friend of hubby's came over - the same guy he
> bought the "fantastic" chain saw from. The guy had some tools in
> the trunk of his car that he was selling and hubby bought a "saws
> all" from him - brand new condition, for $30. Hubby says it was a
> "deal". Even though he has no use for a "saws all". But hubby
> quickly pronounced it "the best bargain" he's ever gotten. What is
> the "best bargain" you've ever come across and taken advantage of?
>
Mrs. Penguin agreed to marry me and I yelled "No takebacks!"
> 10. What is one lesson you've had to learn the hard way?
>
Pharisaism always increases over time.
--
Opus the Penguin
I'd change it but I can't think of anything I like better just now.
Opus the Penguin
> It annoys me because it's *about* how stupid, lightweight love songs
> can transcend their stupidity and lightweightness and be really cool
> anyway, but the song itself does no such transcending - it just stays
> stupid and lightweight. It's like how most songs about rock and roll
> are themselves pretty terrible rock and roll.
What? You don't like when The Beatles sang "Rock and Roll Music"? You
don't like Bob Seger singing "Old Time Rock and Roll"? You don't like
Peter, Paul, and Mary singing "I Dig Rock and Roll Music"?
Ok, I'll definitely give you that last one. But the other two are good.
What are some well known bad songs about rock and roll?
Dover Beach
news:Xns98FEA90F7DCF0op...@127.0.0.1:
> Kim (72FLHtak...@twcny.rr.com) wrote:
>
>
> "I Will Always Love You". The singer is really just singing about
> herself and it's painfully obvious.
Do you mean Whitney Houston's rendition of it? Have you heard Dolly
Parton's? Or do the lyrics just bug you no matter what?
And no one has said "My Heart Will Go On" yet, have they? Someone needs
to.
>
>
> Mrs. Penguin agreed to marry me and I yelled "No takebacks!"
>
I knew someone was going to come out with something charming and
sentimental. Seriously, though, you should have seen my duffel coat.
It ruled.
--
Dover
Opus the Penguin
> Gustave Caillebotte, Paris Street, Rainy Day (the name might not
> be exactly right, but it hangs in the Chicago Institute of Art).
> It's - I don't know, it's fabulous. It's as though you could just
> step in and walk down that street.
>
You can't just do that without posting a link. Here:
http://www.artic.edu/artaccess/AA_Impressionist/pages/IMP_4_lg.shtml
Wow. That is pretty nice.
Paul L. Madarasz
>1. What is the most annoying "love song" ever?
Muskrat Love, or maybe Yummy Yummy Yummy.
>2. In all the movies in all the land what is the best death scene?
The ending of "Dr. Strangelove."
>3. Sometimes I wonder about my husband. He called his mother the other day
>and his youngest brother answered the phone. His youngest brother, Sam, has
>this mess of a wife. About 2 years ago she abandoned their three young kids
>and Sam, and took off for a life of fun and adventure. She would
>occasionally come back to Sam and the kids, usually after the family had
>once again gotten Sam to a stable point - renting him an apartment, buying
>him food and furniture, then she would come back, steal what she could, sell
>what she could and run them into the ground again, then leave. And the
>circle would start again with the family getting Sam and the kids *another*
>apartment, set them up, only to have her return a few months
>later....lather, rinse, repeat. Well, when Sam answered his mother's phone
>the other day he said to hubby, fighting back tears, "Yup - they found my
>wife dead the other night - they think she died of an overdose." Hubby
>immediately said to him "Cool! You won't have to worry about her fucking up
>your life anymore." Sometimes he can be such an ass.
Not going here.
>4. So I'm liking the Dish TV - there's only one thing that bugs me and I
A winning situation, this.
>
>5. What is your preference: Cruise ship, powerboat, sailboat, rowboat, kayak
>or inner tube?
Powerboat.
>
>6. Do you have a favorite painting? What makes it special to you?
>
>7. So, I have a staph infection in my eye. How the hell did I get that? I
>also have a raging infection in my glands. The doctor says they could be the
>same infection - but he thinks they are 2 separate infections, since my
>white count is so high. I also had to have the feeding tube reinstalled,
>since I lost 8 pounds and the doctor said "we need to stay on top of your
>weight". To which hubby replied - "I've tried to stay on top of her weight -
>she kicks me off."
>
>8. Who was your best friend in high school? Do you still keep in touch? Do
>you know where he/she is now and what they are doing?
I get in touch with Tim McGuire every few years or so, but it's been
years since I've last heard from him.
>
>9. So yesterday a friend of hubby's came over - the same guy he bought the
>"fantastic" chain saw from. The guy had some tools in the trunk of his car
>that he was selling and hubby bought a "saws all" from him - brand new
>condition, for $30. Hubby says it was a "deal". Even though he has no use
>for a "saws all". But hubby quickly pronounced it "the best bargain" he's
>ever gotten. What is the "best bargain" you've ever come across and taken
>advantage of?
Bargain travel: 6 weeks in Mexico for $1,000 -- 26 years ago.
>
>10. What is one lesson you've had to learn the hard way?
I haven't learned it yet.
--
"How 'bout cuttin' that rebop?"
-- S. Kowalski
Paul L. Madarasz
wrote, perhaps among other things:
>"Kim" <72FLHtak...@twcny.rr.com> wrote in
>news:130d59r...@corp.supernews.com:
>
>> 1. What is the most annoying "love song" ever?
>
>Either "You Light Up My Life" or "Endless Love."
Patti Smith does a pretty good version of that.
Jerry Bauer
(in article <simd03pu2ojfa7sq8...@4ax.com>):
What's a piecost?
Wait, I'll get a nadding machine.
--
Jerry Randal Bauer
"Wow, I just noticed this. I'm flattered - I'm being quoted in a
sig!" -- Lisa Ann
Opus the Penguin
> Opus the Penguin <opusthepen...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Kim (72FLHtak...@twcny.rr.com) wrote:
>>
>>
>> "I Will Always Love You". The singer is really just singing about
>> herself and it's painfully obvious.
>
> Do you mean Whitney Houston's rendition of it?
That and all the imitations of her rendition.
> Have you heard Dolly Parton's?
Nope.
> Or do the lyrics just bug you no matter what?
>
Good question. I'm not averse to the idea that there are singers out
there who could sell that song to me.
> And no one has said "My Heart Will Go On" yet, have they? Someone
> needs to.
>
I don't mind that one too much.
>> Mrs. Penguin agreed to marry me and I yelled "No takebacks!"
>>
> I knew someone was going to come out with something charming and
> sentimental. Seriously, though, you should have seen my duffel
> coat. It ruled.
>
I bet it did. I couldn't think of anything I'd gotten that would
really fit the category. I've had some decent bargains, but nothing
that stands out.
Dover Beach
news:agrd0355p45s1n5kv...@4ax.com:
>
> Muskrat Love
Auuugh! You a bad man. I hadn't thought of that in years.
> or maybe Yummy Yummy Yummy.
Nah, that one's fun.
--
Dover
Jerry Bauer
(in article <Xns98FEA90F7DCF0op...@127.0.0.1>):
> Kim (72FLHtak...@twcny.rr.com) wrote:
<<<...>>>
>> To which
>> hubby replied - "I've tried to stay on top of her weight - she
>> kicks me off."
>>
>
> I don't get it.
>
Neither does he.
Paul L. Madarasz
<madp...@yahoo.com> wrote, perhaps among other things:
>On 25 Mar 2007 17:25:51 GMT, "Rick B." <deep...@sprynet.com.aq>
>wrote, perhaps among other things:
>
>>"Kim" <72FLHtak...@twcny.rr.com> wrote in
>>news:130d59r...@corp.supernews.com:
>>
>>> 1. What is the most annoying "love song" ever?
>>
>>Either "You Light Up My Life" or "Endless Love."
>
>Patti Smith does a pretty good version of that.
"You Light Up My Life," that is.
John Hatpin
>On 25 Mar 2007 12:27:05 -0700, "Veronique" <veroniq...@gmail.com>
>wrote:
>
>>Also, my mom's painting of a nowl.
>
>What's a nowl?
It's like a nostrich or a nemu, but smaller.
Don't get me started on ightingales or uthatches.
--
John Hatpin
John Hatpin
>"Kim" <72FLHtak...@twcny.rr.com> wrote in message
>news:130d59r...@corp.supernews.com...
>> 2. In all the movies in all the land what is the best death scene?
>
>Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. You don't actually see it, but it's
>pretty cool when they come out with their guns blazing and the picture
>freezes.
I don't think I've seen that film, but it explains the ending of "A
Fistful of Traveller's Cheques", a spaghetti Western parody by the
Comic Strip team.
--
John Hatpin
Charles Bishop
Penguin <opusthepen...@gmail.com> wrote:
>Mary (mrfea...@aol.com) wrote:
>
>> Gustave Caillebotte, Paris Street, Rainy Day (the name might not
>> be exactly right, but it hangs in the Chicago Institute of Art).
>> It's - I don't know, it's fabulous. It's as though you could just
>> step in and walk down that street.
>>
>
>You can't just do that without posting a link. Here:
>
>http://www.artic.edu/artaccess/AA_Impressionist/pages/IMP_4_lg.shtml
>
>
>Wow. That is pretty nice.
A favorite of mine too, but, maybe considering my work, I like his of the
floor scrapers at work, preparing a floor for refinishing. And, while a
photograph or even a web image can give you a look at the subject and
composition, nothing takes the place of seeing it in person. This is true
for most of the art I've seen, I think. It is much more powerful than any
reproduction can be and this one, for me is overpowering. I have a
postcard of my favorite of his, and though it's no where near as powerful
as the original, it can transport me back to when I was standing in front
of it, drinking it in, storing up memories and impressions (heh).
--
charles
Veronique
> In article <Xns98FEAB18DAC98opusthepenguinnet...@127.0.0.1>, Opus the
>
> Penguin <opusthepenguin+use...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >Mary (mrfeath...@aol.com) wrote:
>
> >> Gustave Caillebotte, Paris Street, Rainy Day (the name might not
> >> be exactly right, but it hangs in the Chicago Institute of Art).
> >> It's - I don't know, it's fabulous. It's as though you could just
> >> step in and walk down that street.
>
> >You can't just do that without posting a link. Here:
>
> >http://www.artic.edu/artaccess/AA_Impressionist/pages/IMP_4_lg.shtml
>
> >Wow. That is pretty nice.
>
> A favorite of mine too, but, maybe considering my work, I like his of the
> floor scrapers at work, preparing a floor for refinishing. And, while a
> photograph or even a web image can give you a look at the subject and
> composition, nothing takes the place of seeing it in person.
I felt that way about Stubbs' "Whistlejacket." I'd always thought it
was nice but the praise overblown, until I saw it in person.
Pixel Dent
"Kim" <72FLHtak...@twcny.rr.com> wrote:
> 2. In all the movies in all the land what is the best death scene?
Where Michael Corleone has all his enemies killed interspersed with the
baptism of his child in The Godfather.
>
> 5. What is your preference: Cruise ship, powerboat, sailboat, rowboat, kayak
> or inner tube?
Sailboat for the same reason I like automatic (aka self winding)
watches. I like things which power themselves using only forces of
nature. Or something like that.
>
> 6. Do you have a favorite painting? What makes it special to you?
Sur La Terrace, Renoire.
>
> 8. Who was your best friend in high school? Do you still keep in touch? Do
> you know where he/she is now and what they are doing?
Still keep in touch, exchange email on a regular basis. He's a techie on
the opposite coast and an author who had his first couple stories
published recently.
>
> 9. So yesterday a friend of hubby's came over - the same guy he bought the
> "fantastic" chain saw from. The guy had some tools in the trunk of his car
> that he was selling and hubby bought a "saws all" from him - brand new
> condition, for $30. Hubby says it was a "deal". Even though he has no use
> for a "saws all". But hubby quickly pronounced it "the best bargain" he's
> ever gotten. What is the "best bargain" you've ever come across and taken
> advantage of?
My current house. Got it at the absolute bottom of the last housing
market in this area a few days after 9/11. I also bid a funky amount for
it (212121.21) and found out years later from realtor that the sellers
were debating making a counter but decided not to since they thought the
number I bid might have some sort of strange meaning to me.
>
> 10. What is one lesson you've had to learn the hard way?
Diversify your portfolio
Dana Carpender
Hank Gillette wrote:
> In article <130d59r...@corp.supernews.com>,
> "Kim" <72FLHtak...@twcny.rr.com> wrote:
>
>
>>9. So yesterday a friend of hubby's came over - the same guy he bought the
>>"fantastic" chain saw from. The guy had some tools in the trunk of his car
>>that he was selling and hubby bought a "saws all" from him - brand new
>>condition, for $30. Hubby says it was a "deal". Even though he has no use
>>for a "saws all". But hubby quickly pronounced it "the best bargain" he's
>>ever gotten. What is the "best bargain" you've ever come across and taken
>>advantage of?
>>
>>10. What is one lesson you've had to learn the hard way?
>>
>
>
> That a guy selling brand new tools out of his trunk is usually selling
> stolen goods.
>
Boy, that's what I was thinking. I'm surprised that Sawz-all didn't
scorch Paul's hands.
Dana
Dana Carpender
Opus the Penguin wrote:
> Kim (72FLHtak...@twcny.rr.com) wrote:
>
>
>>1. What is the most annoying "love song" ever?
>>
>
>
> "I Will Always Love You". The singer is really just singing about
> herself and it's painfully obvious.
>
That song was written by Dolly Parton when she left the Porter Waggoner
show. Waggoner had been her mentor, but it was time for Dolly to move
on. And if you haven't heard Dolly sing it, you haven't heard the song.
Dana
Dana Carpender
Dover Beach wrote:
> Opus the Penguin <opusthepen...@gmail.com> wrote in
> news:Xns98FEA90F7DCF0op...@127.0.0.1:
>
>
>>Kim (72FLHtak...@twcny.rr.com) wrote:
>>
>>
>>"I Will Always Love You". The singer is really just singing about
>>herself and it's painfully obvious.
>
>
> Do you mean Whitney Houston's rendition of it? Have you heard Dolly
> Parton's? Or do the lyrics just bug you no matter what?
>
> And no one has said "My Heart Will Go On" yet, have they? Someone needs
> to.
>
Oh, yes, please. I'll nominate that. Along with Endless Love. Ugh.
And for worst wannabe love song, "To All the Girls I've Loved Before,"
which should really be called "To All The Girls I've Fucked Before."
<Julio voice>
To all the girls I've fucked before
Who then I kicked right out my door,
I'm glad I had the chance
To get into their pants --
To all the girls I've fucked before.
</Julio voice>
<Willy voice>
To all the girls I took to bed,
Who jacked me off, who gave me head,
I'm glad the sucked my schlong,
I dedicate this song,
To all the girls I've fucked before.
Dana
Mary
> On Mar 25, 12:24 pm, Mary <mrfeath...@aol.com> wrote:
>> Veronique wrote:
>>> On Mar 25, 11:44 am, Mary <mrfeath...@aol.com> wrote:
>>>> Kim wrote:
>>>>> 1. What is the most annoying "love song" ever?
>>>> "You light up my life". Debby Boone. Ugh.
>>> Oh man, I forgot about that one. Ugh is right.
>> Oh, dear. And I reminded you of it. I'm sorry, Veronique.
>
>
> Me too. I started warbling it (how else can it be sung?) and Puff just
> bit me.
You can't really blame her, can you?
Mary
Mary
> Mary (mrfea...@aol.com) wrote:
>
>> Gustave Caillebotte, Paris Street, Rainy Day (the name might not
>> be exactly right, but it hangs in the Chicago Institute of Art).
>> It's - I don't know, it's fabulous. It's as though you could just
>> step in and walk down that street.
>>
>
> You can't just do that without posting a link. Here:
>
> http://www.artic.edu/artaccess/AA_Impressionist/pages/IMP_4_lg.shtml
>
>
> Wow. That is pretty nice.
>
Yep, that's the one. Thanks for the link.
Of course, there's also pretty much anything by Vermeer.
Mary
Mary
Well, Paul reminded me of one. $250 airfare, Chicago to Luxembourg on
Icelandic airlines in 1978. Heck of a deal. I bought the ticket and
spent 4 months in Europe and 2 in Israel on a couple of thousand bucks.
Mary
Les Albert
> In article <Xns98FEAB18DAC98opusthepenguinnet...@127.0.0.1>, Opus the
> Penguin <opusthepenguin+use...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Gustave Caillebotte, Paris Street, Rainy Day (the name might not
> >> be exactly right, but it hangs in the Chicago Institute of Art).
> >> It's - I don't know, it's fabulous. It's as though you could just
> >> step in and walk down that street.
> >You can't just do that without posting a link. Here:
> >http://www.artic.edu/artaccess/AA_Impressionist/pages/IMP_4_lg.shtml
> >Wow. That is pretty nice.
> A favorite of mine too, but, maybe considering my work, I like his of the
> floor scrapers at work, preparing a floor for refinishing. And, while a
> photograph or even a web image can give you a look at the subject and
> composition, nothing takes the place of seeing it in person. This is true
> for most of the art I've seen, I think. It is much more powerful than any
> reproduction can be and this one, for me is overpowering. I have a
> postcard of my favorite of his, and though it's no where near as powerful
> as the original, it can transport me back to when I was standing in front
> of it, drinking it in, storing up memories and impressions (heh).
His painting of the floor scrapers is one of my favorites, too.
I guess you saw it, as I did, when it was on display at the Legion
several years ago.
Les
Jerry Bauer
(in article <L1ENh.9055$_c5.6163@attbi_s22>):
'Way back when it was a chart-topper, John Davidson wailed it on the
Tonight Show. He erred on the lyrics -- there's a place where they
say "It can't be wrong, when it feels so right" -- Davidson sang "It
can't be *right*," and with just the tiniest bit of "oops"-face
continued with "but it feels so right."
Jerry Bauer
(in article <Z4ENh.9058$_c5.8568@attbi_s22>):
Don't forget about "Mona Lisa" by Shawn Wilson.
Dover Beach
news:0001HW.C22C5FF5...@news.earthlink.net:
> 'Way back when it was a chart-topper, John Davidson wailed it on the
> Tonight Show. He erred on the lyrics -- there's a place where they
> say "It can't be wrong, when it feels so right" -- Davidson sang "It
> can't be *right*," and with just the tiniest bit of "oops"-face
> continued with "but it feels so right."
>
In my sophomore dorm, there was this very nice freshman guy who lived
across the hall. I remember a bunch of us were sitting around talking
about which celebrities were attractive and which were overrated. He
wouldn't admit which celebrity he thought was attractive. Later I
cornered him and pried out of him that he really thought Debby Boone was
attractive. He looked so defiant, and he was such a sweet-natured guy.
That has always stuck with me and I have cut Debby Boone a little slack
ever since then.
Later he married the first woman he slept with, a gal who was 10 years
older than he was and thrice-divorced. It really doesn't pay to be
sweet-natured. He was into Morris dancing. Also? His parents were
divorced but his dad lived in a trailer in the driveway of his mom's
house. I hope he is doing well.
--
Dover
Charles Bishop
"Veronique" <veroniq...@gmail.com> wrote:
Who is Stubbs?
I suspect that this is true of most painting. Reproductions in ink and the
like, can't convey all that is there in the original. I suppose it isn't
true of photographs and the like, since the reproductions would be very
close to the original. Anyone think differently?
charles, actually, I know having asked once before, bishop
Dana Carpender
Greg Goss wrote:
> "Kim" <72FLHtak...@twcny.rr.com> wrote:
>
>>8. Who was your best friend in high school? Do you still keep in touch? Do
>>you know where he/she is now and what they are doing?
>
>
> There was a clique we called "The Brain Trust".
That's nice. My brother and his closest pals called themselves The
Hitler Youth. Sounds awful, I know, but it had nothing to do with
political or philosophical leanings. They just listened to a lot of
Kraftwerk at the time.
Dana
Opus the Penguin
> Opus the Penguin <opusthepen...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Kim (72FLHtak...@twcny.rr.com) wrote:
>>
>>
>> "I Will Always Love You". The singer is really just singing about
>> herself and it's painfully obvious.
>
> Parton's? Or do the lyrics just bug you no matter what?
>
I have just found the lyrics online and reviewed them. I hate them no
matter what. How can people complain about "You Light Up My Life" and
"My Heart Will Go On" when there is drivel of this magnitude in the
world?
--
Opus the Penguin
I am not the father of Anna Nicole's baby.
I did not poison the pet food.
Charles Bishop
<pixel...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>In article <130d59r...@corp.supernews.com>,
> "Kim" <72FLHtak...@twcny.rr.com> wrote:
>
>> 2. In all the movies in all the land what is the best death scene?
>
>Where Michael Corleone has all his enemies killed interspersed with the
>baptism of his child in The Godfather.
>
>
>>
>> 5. What is your preference: Cruise ship, powerboat, sailboat, rowboat, kayak
>> or inner tube?
>
>Sailboat for the same reason I like automatic (aka self winding)
>watches. I like things which power themselves using only forces of
>nature. Or something like that.
Come with us down the Kern on an innertube then. The rescue team had to
get my mom and sister off of an island once.
[snip]
--
charles
Dana Carpender
Hank Gillette wrote:
> In article <130d59r...@corp.supernews.com>,
> "Kim" <72FLHtak...@twcny.rr.com> wrote:
>
>
>>1. What is the most annoying "love song" ever?
>
>
> "He Hit Me (And It Felt Like a Kiss)".
>
Does anyone else here remember kd lang singing "Johnny Get Angry" on SNL
back in the '80s? She beat herself up while she sang it. Ended up on
the floor.
Sadly, I couldn't find a youtube of it.
Dana
Charles Bishop
Albert" <lalb...@aol.com> wrote:
>On Mar 25, 3:47=EF=BF=BDpm, ctbis...@earthlink.netttt (Charles Bishop) wrot=
>e:
>> In article <Xns98FEAB18DAC98opusthepenguinnet...@127.0.0.1>, Opus the
>> Penguin <opusthepenguin+use...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >Mary (mrfeath...@aol.com) wrote:
>
>> >> Gustave Caillebotte, Paris Street, Rainy Day (the name might not
>> >> be exactly right, but it hangs in the Chicago Institute of Art).
>> >> It's - I don't know, it's fabulous. =A0It's as though you could just
>> >> step in and walk down that street.
>
>> >You can't just do that without posting a link. Here:
>> >http://www.artic.edu/artaccess/AA_Impressionist/pages/IMP_4_lg.shtml
>> >Wow. That is pretty nice.
>
>> A favorite of mine too, but, maybe considering my work, I like his of the
>> floor scrapers at work, preparing a floor for refinishing. And, while a
>> photograph or even a web image can give you a look at the subject and
>> composition, nothing takes the place of seeing it in person. This is true
>> for most of the art I've seen, I think. It is much more powerful than any
>> reproduction can be and this one, for me is overpowering. I have a
>> postcard of my favorite of his, and though it's no where near as powerful
>> as the original, it can transport me back to when I was standing in front
>> of it, drinking it in, storing up memories and impressions (heh).
>
>His painting of the floor scrapers is one of my favorites, too.
>I guess you saw it, as I did, when it was on display at the Legion
>several years ago.
Same place. Though several includes decades, if I remember correctly. I
went to the show 4 times in all, I think. Took relatives and friends after
the first one and said "Look at these, just look at them." Art being
relative, I liked them more than anyone I took to see them. I should track
it down and go look at it again.
--
charles
Dana Carpender
Opus the Penguin wrote:
> Dover Beach (moon.b...@gmail.com) wrote:
>
>>Opus the Penguin <opusthepen...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>Kim (72FLHtak...@twcny.rr.com) wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>"I Will Always Love You". The singer is really just singing about
>>>herself and it's painfully obvious.
>>
>>Do you mean Whitney Houston's rendition of it? Have you heard Dolly
>>Parton's? Or do the lyrics just bug you no matter what?
>>
>
>
> I have just found the lyrics online and reviewed them. I hate them no
> matter what. How can people complain about "You Light Up My Life" and
> "My Heart Will Go On" when there is drivel of this magnitude in the
> world?
>
What do you hate about them? Do you really think it's impossible to
love someone but know you don't belong together? To break up with
someone but wish them well with all your heart?
Dana
Dover Beach
news:Xns98FED07B9BB74op...@127.0.0.1:
>
> I have just found the lyrics online and reviewed them. I hate them no
> matter what. How can people complain about "You Light Up My Life" and
> "My Heart Will Go On" when there is drivel of this magnitude in the
> world?
>
Have you reviewed the lyrics to Dylan's "Don't Think Twice, It's All
Right" lately? There are a lot of "this song is ostensibly about you
but really it's all ME ME ME ME ME and then also ME" out there.
--
Dover
Charles Wm. Dimmick
Ours was LLL, which stood for various things, depending.
We usually explained it as Literary, Lunching, and Lynching.
Six of us who didn't fit into ordinary society. Four of us
were "brains", two just nonconformists. Of the six of us,
two entered the ministry, one ended up in state prison
for stealing semis, one became a radio announcer, one
became a hippy, and me.
Charles
Veronique
> Dana Carpender wrote:
>
> > Greg Goss wrote:
>
You sound like a Bob Dylan song.
Veronique
> Opus the Penguin <opusthepenguin+use...@gmail.com> wrote innews:Xns98FED07B9BB74op...@127.0.0.1:
>
>
>
> > I have just found the lyrics online and reviewed them. I hate them no
> > matter what. How can people complain about "You Light Up My Life" and
> > "My Heart Will Go On" when there is drivel of this magnitude in the
> > world?
>
> Have you reviewed the lyrics to Dylan's "Don't Think Twice, It's All
> Right" lately? There are a lot of "this song is ostensibly about you
> but really it's all ME ME ME ME ME and then also ME" out there.
That's a great song, though. But the ultimate teenaged boy song.
John Hatpin
>Have you reviewed the lyrics to Dylan's "Don't Think Twice, It's All
>Right" lately? There are a lot of "this song is ostensibly about you
>but really it's all ME ME ME ME ME and then also ME" out there.
Funnily enough, I've just got off the TV after watching a bit of Dylan
as part of an ad-hoc experiment.
STOP PRESS!!! HOLD THE FRONT PAGE!!! BREAKING NEWS!!!
He was shite.
Honestly, I tried to like what he was doing, but the more I watched,
the less I liked his nasal, whining, twanging, narcissistic drawl and
pseudo-"cool" pretentious persona. I give up.
--
John Hatpin
Dana Carpender
Kim wrote:
> 1. What is the most annoying "love song" ever?
Probably "Endless Love."
>
> 2. In all the movies in all the land what is the best death scene?
>
> 3. Sometimes I wonder about my husband. He called his mother the other day
> and his youngest brother answered the phone. His youngest brother, Sam, has
> this mess of a wife. About 2 years ago she abandoned their three young kids
> and Sam, and took off for a life of fun and adventure. She would
> occasionally come back to Sam and the kids, usually after the family had
> once again gotten Sam to a stable point - renting him an apartment, buying
> him food and furniture, then she would come back, steal what she could, sell
> what she could and run them into the ground again, then leave. And the
> circle would start again with the family getting Sam and the kids *another*
> apartment, set them up, only to have her return a few months
> later....lather, rinse, repeat. Well, when Sam answered his mother's phone
> the other day he said to hubby, fighting back tears, "Yup - they found my
> wife dead the other night - they think she died of an overdose." Hubby
> immediately said to him "Cool! You won't have to worry about her fucking up
> your life anymore." Sometimes he can be such an ass.
>
> 4. So I'm liking the Dish TV - there's only one thing that bugs me and I
> can't get an answer from the support people. I've called twice about it.
> Here's the scenario: I have a TV in the TV room that hubby watches all the
> time. I have a TV in the computer room that *I* watch all the time. Hubby is
> in the TV room and he's watching "Suzy remodels her kitchen". I am in the
> computer room watching something that's actually interesting. *Not* "Suzy
> remodels her kitchen". Hubby wants to record *and* watch "A Stupid Fucking
> Show about Harleys". So, he switches to "A Stupid Fucking Show about
> Harleys" - and he hits "record this". Immediately it records the show - to
> TV 2 and switches the TV in the computer room to "A Stupid Fucking show
> about Harleys" - and that's what I have to watch. I can't change the
> channel, because if I do it says "We are recording this, if you switch the
> channel, it will stop the recording - is that what you want to do?" Now, in
> the TV room, where hubby is watching this fucking show *anyway* - he can
> change the channel to anything he wants. I need to know how to change the
> recording so that it records on TV 1 instead of TV 2.
>
> When I called the support people the first guy said "Oh, your remotes are
> mixed up - if you record with remote 1 it will record to TV 1" but that's
> not the problem because I *am* recording with remote 1. Hubby only has
> access to remote 1. The support guy said "take the other remote and record
> to TV 1 with that - because they are "confused"" - well, that didn't help.
> Remote 2 doesn't control TV 1. They aren't mixed up.
>
> The second time I called the lady said "It's because you are already
> recording something else, and the second recording is defaulting to TV 2."
> I tested that theory and it, too was wrong, it happens even when nothing
> else is recording.
>
> So, that's the only complaint I have so far. It rained pretty hard here a
> couple of times and I haven't lost signal yet, it has snowed quite hard,
> too, and that doesn't seem to interfere with the signal, either. And
> according to the first bill I received, it is about $40 a month cheaper than
> cable for more channels.
>
> 5. What is your preference: Cruise ship, powerboat, sailboat, rowboat, kayak
> or inner tube?
What, no canoe? I'd take either the cruise ship, if someone else is
fronting the bill, or a canoe for a day of relaxing fun.
>
> 6. Do you have a favorite painting? What makes it special to you?
Hmmm. How about a lithograph? I used to go visit a numbered print of
Jamie Wyeth's The Sea Pumpkin at the gallery at the mall where I worked.
I desperately wanted to buy it, but it was $1200.
>
> 9. So yesterday a friend of hubby's came over - the same guy he bought the
> "fantastic" chain saw from. The guy had some tools in the trunk of his car
> that he was selling and hubby bought a "saws all" from him - brand new
> condition, for $30. Hubby says it was a "deal". Even though he has no use
> for a "saws all". But hubby quickly pronounced it "the best bargain" he's
> ever gotten. What is the "best bargain" you've ever come across and taken
> advantage of?
Oh, I dunno -- 25c a pound chicken?
No, it would have to be when the nice folks at PromptCare saved my
husband's life for $399. A resounding bargain. Especially since while
he was undergoing treatment we were joking that we'd obviously just
blown right through our deductible -- they gave him two shots of epi,
two of Benedryl, one of steroids, a liter and a half of IV fluids, and
roughly three hours of near-continuous monitoring. We were stunned when
the bill was so small.
>
> 10. What is one lesson you've had to learn the hard way?
"Wear goggles when washing ceilings with trisodium phosphate." Learned
that one today. Cost me a $20 copay at the same PromptCare and $50
worth of prescription eye drops. Could be worse; could have cost me my
sight, which would have truly sucked.
Dana
bill van
John Hatpin <use...@jfhgetridofthisbitopkin.kaandthisbittooroo.co.uk>
wrote:
There's no need for everyone -- or for anyone in particular -- to like
Bob Dylan. You're right, he has not been a very likable person. The
opposite, actually. But he has been a successful entertainer for what,
45 years now? Must be something happening, even if you don't know what
it is.
bill
Opus the Penguin
> Dover Beach wrote:
>
>>Have you reviewed the lyrics to Dylan's "Don't Think Twice, It's
>>All Right" lately? There are a lot of "this song is ostensibly
>>about you but really it's all ME ME ME ME ME and then also ME" out
>>there.
>
> Funnily enough, I've just got off the TV after watching a bit of
> Dylan as part of an ad-hoc experiment.
>
> STOP PRESS!!! HOLD THE FRONT PAGE!!! BREAKING NEWS!!!
>
> He was shite.
>
Sheesh. Then so's Stevie Wonder because I don't get him.
> Honestly, I tried to like what he was doing, but the more I
> watched, the less I liked his nasal, whining, twanging,
> narcissistic drawl and pseudo-"cool" pretentious persona. I give
> up.
Fine. Nobody asked you to try again.
Mary
It's at the Orsay in Paris, isn't it?
Take me with you.
Mary
John Hatpin
>On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 19:35:58 +0100, John Hatpin
><use...@jfhgetridofthisbitopkin.kaandthisbittooroo.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>>10. What is one lesson you've had to learn the hard way?
>>
>>That I'm basically a fucked-up person.
>
>(Everybody): "Hi, John"
>
>Maybe you should join Fucked-up People Anonymous. Their are chapters
>everywhere. My local chapter meets nightly at Charlie's Bar.
I'm too fucked-up to join my local chapter. If I poked my head around
the door, they'd say "fuck off, you're too fucked-up".
Seriously, though, I do feel lately as if I've been desperately
running alongside the bus of life all these years, and I just don't
know how to jump in and join the rest of humanity in there. After a
while, you get fed up of wasting effort trying, and just sit on the
kerb getting your breath back. I'll walk the rest of the way.
--
John Hatpin
Dover Beach
news:1174874936.9...@l75g2000hse.googlegroups.com:
Sure, I like it. I like Gordon Lightfoot's cover, actually.
> But the ultimate teenaged boy song.
>
No, no, I'm sticking with Ben Folds for that.
--
Dover (Well fuck you too, and don't forget to give me back my black
tee-shirt)
Lesmond
>Later he married the first woman he slept with, a gal who was 10 years
>older than he was and thrice-divorced.
My sophomore year roommate was a very sweet natured girl, too. Smart (she
aced Calculus without buying the book or going to class), but very naive.
Got herself into bad situations. Met a guy who decided she should drop out
and become a topless dancer, so she did. Showed up at my house a couple of
years later with her 3 year old, sad that his dad was going to be in prison
for a long time. I'm glad that at least they weren't married.
It really doesn't pay to be
>sweet-natured. He was into Morris dancing.
Uh...
Also? His parents were
>divorced but his dad lived in a trailer in the driveway of his mom's
>house. I hope he is doing well.
Her parents were very young when she was born, 17 I believe. While we were
college, they got divorced, sold the house and moved to Philadelphia, renting
apartments across the hall from each other.
I also hope she is doing well.
--
Things fell apart with the alacrity of a cheetah.
Opus the Penguin
>
>
> Opus the Penguin wrote:
>
>> Dover Beach (moon.b...@gmail.com) wrote:
>>
>>>Opus the Penguin <opusthepen...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>Kim (72FLHtak...@twcny.rr.com) wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>"I Will Always Love You". The singer is really just singing
>>>>about herself and it's painfully obvious.
>>>
>>>Do you mean Whitney Houston's rendition of it? Have you heard
>>>Dolly Parton's? Or do the lyrics just bug you no matter what?
>>>
>>
>>
>> I have just found the lyrics online and reviewed them. I hate
>> them no matter what. How can people complain about "You Light Up
>> My Life" and "My Heart Will Go On" when there is drivel of this
>> magnitude in the world?
>>
>
> What do you hate about them?
They're trite, hackneyed, colorless. These aren't the words of
someone who really feels that way. Or if they are, they come from
someone who doesn't know how to write poetry. So she cobbles together
without artistry words and phrases that have been used so many times
they lack meaning.
> Do you really think it's impossible
> to love someone but know you don't belong together? To break up
> with someone but wish them well with all your heart?
>
I'm curious how you got the idea that I think that.
Veronique
You say that, but I think it's just Sunday (or Monday, or something.)
'Coz I've been feeling that way all day.
Opus the Penguin
> Opus the Penguin <opusthepen...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I have just found the lyrics online and reviewed them. I hate
>> them no matter what. How can people complain about "You Light Up
>> My Life" and "My Heart Will Go On" when there is drivel of this
>> magnitude in the world?
>>
>
> Have you reviewed the lyrics to Dylan's "Don't Think Twice, It's
> All Right" lately?
Man that's a great song! For starters it's much better poetry than "I
Will Always Love You". The tune's more interesting. I haven't heard
Dolly sing IWALY, so I can't compare her to Dylan, but Dylan's
superb.
> There are a lot of "this song is ostensibly
> about you but really it's all ME ME ME ME ME and then also ME" out
> there.
>
Maybe so, but the lyrics don't draw attention to that fact. So it
remains a sub-text that adds a layer of irony to the song. You can
sympathize with the guy while at the same time understanding that he
may have brought about his own downfall, may even have a tragic flaw
unobservable to himself that dooms him to repeat this experience.
That's deep, baby. It's like an up and coming prize fighter--who
everyone thought was faithful to his girl--dying in his car with a
woman not his wife because they'd rolled the windows up tight and
left the car running on a cold night.
You'll never get that kind of complexity out of "I Will Always Love
You" even if you wring it from now till next Thursday.
Veronique
wrote:
> John Hatpin wrote:
> > Dover Beach wrote:
>
> >>Have you reviewed the lyrics to Dylan's "Don't Think Twice, It's
> >>All Right" lately? There are a lot of "this song is ostensibly
> >>about you but really it's all ME ME ME ME ME and then also ME" out
> >>there.
>
> > Funnily enough, I've just got off the TV after watching a bit of
> > Dylan as part of an ad-hoc experiment.
>
> > STOP PRESS!!! HOLD THE FRONT PAGE!!! BREAKING NEWS!!!
>
> > He was shite.
>
> Sheesh. Then so's Stevie Wonder because I don't get him.
You and I really were separated at birth[1], weren't we?
V.
[1] And remember momma's scream? "I've given birth to a pengheep!
AAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHH! Or maybe it's a sheeguin. Hard to tell
from this angle."
--
Veronique Chez Sheep
Lesmond
He *is* Mr. Jones.
Lesmond
>
>
>Dover Beach wrote:
>
>>Have you reviewed the lyrics to Dylan's "Don't Think Twice, It's All
>>Right" lately? There are a lot of "this song is ostensibly about you
>>but really it's all ME ME ME ME ME and then also ME" out there.
>
>Funnily enough, I've just got off the TV after watching a bit of Dylan
>as part of an ad-hoc experiment.
>
>STOP PRESS!!! HOLD THE FRONT PAGE!!! BREAKING NEWS!!!
>
>He was shite.
What were you watching to come to this unusual conclusion?
>Honestly, I tried to like what he was doing, but the more I watched,
>the less I liked his nasal, whining, twanging, narcissistic drawl and
>pseudo-"cool" pretentious persona. I give up.
No one ever said he was a good singer.
Opus the Penguin
Lots of people have said exactly that. I'd be one of them. He
certainly doesn't have what would traditionally be described as a
good voice. But like Leonard Cohen, Dylan's voice is extremely
expressive. It gets at things in some of his songs that cover artists
just can't. His phrasing can be absolutely marvellous and evocative
as well.
Jerry Bauer
(in article <1174856849.4...@n59g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>):
>
> I think it's difficult for people who contain a lot of value added,
> and who are generally sensitive and intelligent and emotionally
> connected enough to understand the human condition and their own part
> therein to not to lapse into despair at the human frailty contained
> within.
I don't often lapse into despair, but I certainly identify with this.
As you say, this "resonates tremendously"; a thunderclap in the
mountains.
--
Jerry Randal Bauer
John Hatpin
>On Mar 25, 11:35 am, John Hatpin
><use...@jfhgetridofthisbitopkin.kaandthisbittooroo.co.uk> wrote:
>> Kim wrote:
>
>
>> >10. What is one lesson you've had to learn the hard way?
>>
>> That I'm basically a fucked-up person.
>
>gif! gif!
You can have my pic any time, but it won't show me in the process of
being fucked-up. Not in any kind of literal sense, anyway.
>Wait, wrong response.
Nah - it made me chuckle.
>I'm currently reading a book about suicide, which has all the usual
>anecdotes about perfectly extraordinary people killing themselves
^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ordinary???
>because of mental illness or feelings of inadequacy or nobody knows
>why, and last night the show I was producing that had turned into a
>series of minor disasters in the last three days went off and if it
>had sold another 50 tickets it would have broken even, and I'm
>reminded once again that at least I'm not Janet Reno waking up the
>morning of Waco.
Don't worry, I'm twenty million miles away from doing anything
desperate.
As for Reno/Waco, isn't there some comfort in being able to do the
"there but for the grace of God" thing? And that rebounds, because
you feel like you have no right to complain at all, as if being fed-up
is something unnatural.
(Bear in mind I've been henpecked out of being allowed to complain for
twenty years - still adjusting to the new-found freedom to do so, and
it's taking a while to get used to.)
>I think it's difficult for people who contain a lot of value added,
>and who are generally sensitive and intelligent and emotionally
>connected enough to understand the human condition and their own part
>therein to not to lapse into despair at the human frailty contained
>within.
Agreed, although I don't despair, just get fed-up at times.
>I have one extra vanilla bean; if you want it, it is yours.
Now that I don't understand. Some cultural reference?
--
John Hatpin
Lesmond
It *can* be, certainly. But I have found it to often be a caracature of
itself, particularly in later years. I think he's a genius and disagree with
Mr. Hatpin's (hastily developed?) opinion of him. But I also think that
Dylan has produced material over the years that is disappointing. When the
music is disappointing, his voice is positively grating.
I would call him a talented vocalist, but rarely think of him as a "good
singer". It may be my own little prejudice, but I've never thought
Springsteen could sing either, even though everything he did before 1980 is
some of the greatest music of all time.
Lesmond
>
>That's deep, baby. It's like an up and coming prize fighter--who
>everyone thought was faithful to his girl--dying in his car with a
>woman not his wife because they'd rolled the windows up tight and
>left the car running on a cold night.
Someone reads Kim's blog.
>
>You'll never get that kind of complexity out of "I Will Always Love
>You" even if you wring it from now till next Thursday.
You know, while we're talking about this - and I may have mentioned it before
- The Beatles song "We can Work It Out" has always seemed to me to be a
creepy song.
John Hatpin
There was a clique at my school who called themselves "The
Rastafarians". No-one knew what that meant, including the members of
the clique. These were white, middle-class English boys, and there
were almost no black kids at school, and no Jamaicans at all. They
just liked the sound of the name, I suppose.
Lots of the kids wanted to join "The Rastafarians" but couldn't; I had
absolutely no interest in this kind of social separation, which was
possibly why I was granted the status of an "Honorary Rastafarian" by
their leader. I recall not feeling flattered in the slightest, but it
inspired jealousy in the more conformist idiots at the school.
--
John Hatpin
Dana Carpender
Opus the Penguin wrote:
> Dana Carpender (dcar...@kivanospam.net) wrote:
>
>
>>
>>Opus the Penguin wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Dover Beach (moon.b...@gmail.com) wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Opus the Penguin <opusthepen...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Kim (72FLHtak...@twcny.rr.com) wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>"I Will Always Love You". The singer is really just singing
>>>>>about herself and it's painfully obvious.
>>>>
>>>>Do you mean Whitney Houston's rendition of it? Have you heard
>>>>Dolly Parton's? Or do the lyrics just bug you no matter what?
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>I have just found the lyrics online and reviewed them. I hate
>>>them no matter what. How can people complain about "You Light Up
>>>My Life" and "My Heart Will Go On" when there is drivel of this
>>>magnitude in the world?
>>>
>>
>>What do you hate about them?
>
>
> They're trite, hackneyed, colorless. These aren't the words of
> someone who really feels that way. Or if they are, they come from
> someone who doesn't know how to write poetry. So she cobbles together
> without artistry words and phrases that have been used so many times
> they lack meaning.
Keep in mind that it's a country song, and they tend toward simple,
straightforward lyrics. That Whitney did a pop version doesn't change
the country roots.
Dana
Lesmond
>
>
>
>
>Kim wrote:
>
>> 1. What is the most annoying "love song" ever?
>
>Probably "Endless Love."
I'm still amazed that one one has mentioned "The Pina Colada Song".
John Hatpin
It's funny - good days and bad days, good weeks and bad weeks, even
good hours and bad hours. There's no pattern to it, is there?
So, the best thing to do is, when you're feeling bad, just sit on that
kerb and get your breath back. Don't worry about why you're out of
breath: this stuff happens.
The sky was blue today, and the sun shone brightly. There was some
good stuff on the radio, and a good book to read too. Life was good.
--
John Hatpin
Jon M
<72FLHtak...@twcny.rr.com> wrote:
>1. What is the most annoying "love song" ever?
Nobody yet seems to have mentioned Torn Between Two Lovers. Or
Afternoon Delight. Or Those Were the Days, My Friend. Whatever the
hell that last was called.
>
>2. In all the movies in all the land what is the best death scene?
Rosebud.
>
>5. What is your preference: Cruise ship, powerboat, sailboat, rowboat, kayak
>or inner tube?
Between my social avoidance thing and my poor lung capacity, I think
I'll fly.
>
>6. Do you have a favorite painting? What makes it special to you?
It used to be Hopper's Nighthawks, but I try not to be those people
anymore
>
>
>8. Who was your best friend in high school? Do you still keep in touch? Do
>you know where he/she is now and what they are doing?
Gary, Doug, Cindy and I last saw Peggy at her husband Scott's memorial
service last fall. Next time we'll get together will be at my son's
wedding in June.
>
>9. So yesterday a friend of hubby's came over - the same guy he bought the
>"fantastic" chain saw from. The guy had some tools in the trunk of his car
>that he was selling and hubby bought a "saws all" from him - brand new
>condition, for $30. Hubby says it was a "deal". Even though he has no use
>for a "saws all". But hubby quickly pronounced it "the best bargain" he's
>ever gotten. What is the "best bargain" you've ever come across and taken
>advantage of?
Probably the Pets.com Tshirt I got on Ebay for $8.00 -- it's still my
favorite.
>
>10. What is one lesson you've had to learn the hard way?
That I should listen to Boron in matters of the heart.
Jon M
Rex Sofa
John Hatpin
>On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 03:09:23 +0100, John Hatpin wrote:
>
>>Funnily enough, I've just got off the TV after watching a bit of Dylan
>>as part of an ad-hoc experiment.
>>
>>STOP PRESS!!! HOLD THE FRONT PAGE!!! BREAKING NEWS!!!
>>
>>He was shite.
>
> What were you watching to come to this unusual conclusion?
Oh, it was some footage of him in a studio, interspersed with some
live stuff from various stages of his career.
>>Honestly, I tried to like what he was doing, but the more I watched,
>>the less I liked his nasal, whining, twanging, narcissistic drawl and
>>pseudo-"cool" pretentious persona. I give up.
>
>No one ever said he was a good singer.
I know. Probably, it boils down to the fact that I find him
irritating and overrated. But that's personal taste, and, as we've
talked about before here, enough truly good musicians (Al Kooper, for
example) hold him in very high esteem - it's just that I don't get it.
--
John Hatpin