@anonymously99stwin,
Take care of yourself, anonymously99stwin. I'm 70 years old and the remaining years of my life are few; you have a long road ahead; I trust it is as peaceful as it is possible for you to be.-Ron
I think aliens are what the country needs. Imagine Juan Valdez for secretary of state, Brigitte Bardot head of CIA, and so on.
@edgarblythe,
Juan Valdez would guarantee some of the best coffee and plenty of it. I'm all for that.
the NSA won't tell Senator Bernie Sanders whether it is spying on him (because, they say, that would violate his privacy).
And yet portions of his cheeks look as though they might have been washed as recently as ten years ago.
Burglars attempted to burgle Sigmund Freud's ashes. Don't see why. Sometimes, ashes are just ashes.
@edgarblythe,
edgarblythe wrote:
And yet portions of his cheeks look as though they might have been washed as recently as ten years ago.
I'm thinking he had to have cut himself by accident once or twice in the past countless decades. What then? He didn't wash the wound? What about any attempt to stop infection? I don't believe the story.
@tsarstepan,
They could have exaggerated the years, but not the filth.
FUNNY MEN AND WOMEN
There has been a new series on television in recent weeks and the series is aired after midnight.1 Since my wife and I do not have taping facilities; since I don’t follow the programming after midnight, and since most of the TV I watch is after midnight, it is always a delightful surprise when something comes onto the screen of great interest. The episode tonight1 was about: Mae West, Moms Mabley, Lenny Bruce and Richard Pryor comedians who waged a war through comedy, on hypocrisy, conservatism, political correctness and prejudice. -Ron Price with thanks to 1“Make 'Em Laugh: The Funny Business Of America: When I'm Bad, I'm Better / The Groundbreakers,” 12:55 to 1:55 am ABC2, July 17 2011.
Mae West, American actress, playwright,
screenwriter, and sex symbol arrived in
Hollywood In 1932--the end of an Heroic
Age1 and the beginning of another—that
Golden Age of motion pictures-----with a
motion picture contract from Paramount.
In 1959, the year I joined the Baha’i Faith,
Goodness Had Nothing to Do With It2 was
released and it went on to become a best
seller----my own autobiographical life was
just beginning, a life about as different from
Mae’s as can be! As far as Moms Mabley &
Lenny Bruce & Richard Pryor are concerned
I’ll leave commentary on them to another time.
1 The Heroic Age of the Baha’i Faith: 1844 to 1932
2 Mae West’s autobiography
Ron Price 17 July 2011
I had no idea you could clean your computer screen from the inside...
http://lingdao.fr/outils/nettoyeurecran/cleanscreen.swf
House Republican leaders sent a memo this week to the entire GOP conference with talking points designed to help rank-and-file Republicans show compassion for the unemployed and explain the Republican position on unemployment benefits.
—The Washington Post
Quote: The subject of renewing the extension of unemployment benefits can be tricky for the party of personal and fiscal responsibility. Here are some tips to help you navigate this potential minefield:
If a constituent tells you that he is unemployed, do not laugh. Odds are, his situation is not funny to him. Still, if you want to be absolutely sure he isn’t joking around, you can ask him what job he previously held. If he says something like “F.B.I.—female-body inspector” then it was a goof after all, and the two of you can share a chuckle. If he says that he worked in a factory or a mine, it only sounds like a joke, and you should not laugh.
Once you have verified that he is actually unemployed, tell him you’re sorry that he lost his job. Do not roll your eyes while you are telling him this. Do not do air quotes when you say the word “sorry.” If you are having trouble not doing air quotes, try clenching a small shard of broken glass in each of your hands. If all else fails, imagine that, instead of a gross unemployed person, you are talking to Ronald Reagan. And imagine that, instead of whining, the gross unemployed person is reading to you aloud from “Atlas Shrugged.” Pretend that he is already fifty-five pages into the big John Galt speech and that you feel sad because it’s nearly half over. Note: Be careful when using the imaginary Reagan-“Atlas Shrugged” trick. In these situations, there is such a thing as too much crying.
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/shouts/2014/01/gop-tips-for-how-to-show-compassion-for-the-unemployed.html#entry-more
@panzade,
Why am I not surprised. I assume it's real. This reads like the Onion, but is from the Wash. Post.
@edgarblythe,
Sometimes The New Yorker vies with The Onion in funny parodies.
@panzade,
Yeah. Can't quite believe it's true.
@edgarblythe,
Love your screen cleaner, edgar - sent it round loads of friends here in England!
