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Title: OLD MAN RIVER
Post by: bk on May 09, 2006, 12:14:29 AM: Well, you've read the notes, the notes have rolled along and so have you, and now it is time for you to post until the cows come home - they're currently rolling along and trying to find old man river so the twain can meet. However, the twain is at the station, so that's always a problem.
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Post by: bk on May 09, 2006, 12:15:48 AM: And the word of the day is: DELIVERANCE!
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Post by: Tomovoz on May 09, 2006, 12:23:36 AM: My favourite Stan Freberg track is "Elderly Man River"
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Post by: Tomovoz on May 09, 2006, 12:24:56 AM: Word of the day - first thought of that Noel Coward line from "I Wonder What Happened To Him" - "Took to pig sticking in quite the wrong way"
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Post by: George on May 09, 2006, 12:25:47 AM: Boating stories? I've only been on few boats and all experiences have been (thankfully) fairly uneventful. And that is the end of any of my boating stories. :)
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Post by: Tomovoz on May 09, 2006, 12:30:27 AM: Trains and Boats and planes!

As a young teenager I used to spend many summer days on my Uncle's launch - fishing, and listening to Top 40 songs.

I did travel to England from OZ by ship in 1973 - via the Panama Canal.

I also remember far from successful attempts at rowing a boat. I've never been sailing or in a canoe or kayak.
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Post by: George on May 09, 2006, 12:37:59 AM: Quote from: Tomovoz on May 09, 2006, 12:30:27 AM
I did travel to England from OZ by ship in 1973 - via the Panama Canal.

That would've been cool! My former supervisor and her husband used to take a vacation every May (for practically the entire month). Usually, they would go to Hawaii, but once in a while, they would take a cruise. One time, they flew down to Florida (I think), got on the ship, cruised down south, went through the Panama Canal and ended up in California, then they flew back to Seattle. She did mention that it wasn't unusual at the end of each cruise to hear that at least one person had died! Usually, older people falling off of the walkways...but still!
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Post by: Tomovoz on May 09, 2006, 12:45:00 AM: Perhaps TCB will regale us with tales of his days as cabin boy on the Tea clipper ships.
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Post by: George on May 09, 2006, 12:45:39 AM: I must be off. Good evening, Tom!
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Post by: George on May 09, 2006, 12:46:35 AM: Quote from: Tomovoz on May 09, 2006, 12:45:00 AM
Perhaps TCB will regale us with tales of his days as cabin boy on the Tea clipper ships.

I'm sure he has tales to tell! ;)
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Post by: Tomovoz on May 09, 2006, 12:53:04 AM: "Boot and knee on the Mountie" A rugged tale of Canadian life in the protective services - injured parties being carried to safety by Stetcher Christians after being heel mauled.
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Post by: Tomovoz on May 09, 2006, 12:53:41 AM: Goodnight DR George.
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Post by: S. Woody White on May 09, 2006, 03:22:17 AM: Quote from: bk on May 09, 2006, 12:15:48 AM
And the word of the day is: DELIVERANCE!
My hairdresser told me "De liver rinse will do de most mahveluss things for you hair, dahling. We extract de juices from only de very best cuts of calves liver and massage it onto you scalp, where it adds body and vitamins and... no, wait, where you going?"

::)
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Post by: S. Woody White on May 09, 2006, 03:22:59 AM: Good morning, Danise!
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Post by: Danise on May 09, 2006, 03:24:10 AM: Good morning to all!

Hi S. Woody White, what are you doing up this early?

Just wanted to say Thank you to everyone for making my Birthday a special one.

My boss brought in all sorts of sweet rolls for my Birthday and a Apple turnover (Yum! My favorite) for me.

I'm glad that David Blaine is alright. Above all the hype, etc, he still is a human and I wouldn't want to watch anyone die for my "entertainment'.

Gotta run!

Laters all.
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Post by: Danise on May 09, 2006, 03:25:12 AM: Quote from: S. Woody White on May 09, 2006, 03:22:59 AM
Good morning, Danise!

Good morning to you as well! :D
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Post by: S. Woody White on May 09, 2006, 03:45:07 AM: TOD:

Ever hear of a Folbot? (http://www.folbot.com/)

They are a kind of kayak, but can be taken apart and put back together. My Dad decided it would be fun to have one to take with us on our camping trips. The frame, which had to be put together in two parts first, was made of wood and aluminum piping. After the fore and aft halves were assembled, they were inserted and then joined inside the hull, which was made of a rubberized fabric. Ours was a steely blue color, with a sunshine yellow top.

The first time we put it together was in the livingroom of our home in Burbank, CA. Since the Folbot was a two-person rig, it stretched from the far end of the livingroom on into the dining room. Of course, since it was new everything was stiff, and putting it together was a bitch. Not to mention how stiff my Dad felt the next morning. After a few days, Mom complained that it was making housekeeping too difficult, so we took it apart again. At least we knew what we'd be doing on our next camping trip.

Back then, the fifth member of my family was our dog, Shortz, who had quite the personality. Shortz was a black and tan miniature Daschund, so named by my sister because everyone else in the family (save my mother) was tall. I didn't care for the name, myself, and would often call him Hugo or Henrick or Herbert, anything that started with an H, and he fully understood that I was referring to him.

Well, it didn't take long for Henrick to decide that he, too, wanted to get in the Folbot when we were out on a lake paddling around. At first, he was content just to put his front paws on the railing around the passenger section, and watch the world go by. After a while, however, he decided it would be fun to get up on the yellow top of the hull. It was strong enough to hold him. And it would be fun to look down at the water.

And, oops, he fell in!

So of course we had to fish him out of the water, and dry him off. And after he was dried off, he would watch the world go by...

And presently he would climb up on the top of the hull again...

He had a marvelous time riding in that boat, and swimming around it. We learned very quickly to take several towels with us whenever he would go riding.
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Post by: S. Woody White on May 09, 2006, 04:03:59 AM: I'm up this early because I've got an early shift at the store today.

The week to come should be interesting. Yesterday, four new cashiers started their training, in preparation for the summer. Being a resort town, Rehoboth Beach gets very busy during those months, and a lot of the people who come into town don't eat all their meals in restaurants. There will be lots of barbecues and parties, so we'll be selling a lot of food.

So, much of my shift yesterday was spent with Lauren, showing her how I do what I do, explaining as I went. She's pretty sharp, caught on quickly, and listened well. After our break, she spent some time watching a video on how to bag properly, and then came back and worked as my bagger.

And I needed one! We had six registers running, and there was rarely a break between customers. Quite often we had a line, just a short one but a line all the same. I've a hunch it's going to be a very busy summer.

Whether or not I'll be training someone else today, I don't know. I do know we've been short-staffed, what with some of our old hands transferring to the new store a half-hour south of here. Three of the cashiers who are still with us have moved to other departments, and one is out on medical leave (after having both hips replaced, he's become addicted to the procedure and had the same done to one of his shoulders). That's why I've been putting in close to full-time hours on this "part-time" job.

It's strange, realizing that I'm now one of the old-timers. Good, but still strange.
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Post by: S. Woody White on May 09, 2006, 04:10:04 AM: We (der Brucer and I) are almost totally out of dog food.

I want to replace our fondue pot, since Fletcher broke our old one.

And I'm out of soda, but we're having a sale on Coke products, ten two-liter bottles for seven bucks, not a bad price.

That's the other reason why I work, aside from enjoying my job. Have to earn the money to pay for this $..+.
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Post by: Jrand73 on May 09, 2006, 04:49:04 AM: Well...I am only been on two boats - one was a .... no three....two outboard motorboats...and once flatbed riverboat.

Neither time was it exciting or interesting and I am not interested in repeating either experience.
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Post by: Jrand73 on May 09, 2006, 04:50:27 AM: Coyle & Sharpe!

236.....

Could we have the gnomes live in the house?
Well, I guess you CO-OULD!!
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Post by: Tomovoz on May 09, 2006, 04:56:26 AM: Not even a Glass Bottom Boat with DD.
Good morning DR JRAND55
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Post by: Ben on May 09, 2006, 04:58:41 AM: I worked on a Showboat in 1976. We were docked and didn't travel at all but we were still on the boat. It was great fun and one of the highlights of my performing career.

I like boats but I have not taken any real boat trips. In spite of the cheesy aura usually surrounding cruises, I would love to take a cruise. I would like to leave from NYC on a ship such as the new Queen Mary and take a long, leisurely trip to Southhampton, get off, spend some time in dear old England and then return home on the same ship.
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Post by: Ben on May 09, 2006, 04:59:03 AM: Good Morning all!
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Post by: DearReaderLaura on May 09, 2006, 05:18:34 AM: Good morning, Ben.

TOD: While visiting my sister in Maine years ago, we went on a whale-watching cruise. And we took a couple of the ferry boat rides in Casco Bay.
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Post by: Ginny on May 09, 2006, 05:49:15 AM: Tuesday morning greetings! Yes, DR Elmore did pass up salsa and margaritas, but he and DH Richard and I have a breakfast date for tomorrow morning at the coffee shop near our house.

TOD - We live just north of Cincinnati, Ohio, which is on the Ohio River. Every few years, since 1992, there has been a riverboat festival called

Tall Stacks (http://www.tallstacks.com)

during which riverboats, both historic and new, rally on Cincinnati's riverfront. We've gone to the fest every year, sometimes taking a cruise on one of the boats, sometimes just enjoying looking at them from the shore. In 2003, DH Richard and I went with my mom and my aunt and rode on the Creole Queen (http://www.neworleanspaddlewheels.com/about_creolequeen.html) in the Parade of Boats that was broadcast on WLWT-TV. We were standing on the bow as we came into port, called DS Rob (who had just gotten home from school), and he saw us waving!

This year's Tall Stacks will take place during the week that many of us will be in NYC.
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Post by: vixmom on May 09, 2006, 06:44:47 AM: My dad bought his first boat when I was 10, a fiberglass 15 foot outboard... he worked in town and used to be home by 4:30 and it was only 15 minutes to the boatslip so almost every evening inthe summer he and I would go out fishing or just for a ride... it was beautiful watching the sun set over the Robert Moses Bridge across the Great South Bay.

The whole family (my two younger brothers, Mom , Dad & I) would often go out on a Saturday or Sunday with a cooler and a hibachi and go out to the State Channel where there were small barrier beaches. We'd pull the boat up on the sand and have a picnic and have the whole beach to ourselves. Dad, the boys and I would go clamming with our feet and our parents (none of we kids could abide actually eating clams) would pop them open and eat them fresh from the sea (which I always found a bit gruesome)

I once found a scallop... did you know they have blue eyes? Hundreds of 'em!

We would also take trips over to Fire Island and dockl the boat at one or another of the little towns.... there is a Sunken Forest on Fire Island a little forest below sea level between the Atlantic Ocean and the Great South Bay http://www.nps.gov/fiis/FireIslandTrek.htm

Later when we were teenagers,and then adults my parents bought a larger boat they would go to the far eastern end of Fire Island a spot called Watch Hill, a couple of miles east of Cherry Grove and The Pines and stay for a weekend or sometime as a week or more, several of their boating friends would go and dock up at the same time and they would have a little floating community there.

My friends and I would take the Ferry over and spend the day often wandering westward to Davis Park, Cherry Grove or the Pines or soemtimes taking the water taxi as far west as Kismet where they had two restaurants The Kismet Inn and The Kismet Out

A lot of my parents' boating friends passed away or moved away and after a while they decided it was too much work and too much money and they sold their last boat when the Vixter was about 2. She has only ever been out on on large fishing boat when the Captree Boat Basin Annual Fair Weekend is on every falll and we go for a free ride.
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Post by: TPunk on May 09, 2006, 06:51:48 AM: Good morning everyone! I am officially done- no more school, no more internship, nada! All I have to do is show up in two weeks wearing my cap and gown.
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Post by: Ben on May 09, 2006, 06:53:06 AM: To quote yesterday's notes Hoo and Ray for TPunk!!!
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Post by: DearReaderLaura on May 09, 2006, 07:00:01 AM: Congratulations, TPunk!! How did your kids do when you said good-bye?
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Post by: Ginny on May 09, 2006, 07:05:05 AM: DR TPunk - Congratulations on your monumental accomplishment! We must have photos of you in your grad garb.
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Post by: bk on May 09, 2006, 07:19:59 AM: We'd better have photographs of you in said cap and gown, TPunk.

My favorite boating experience was getting to cruise to Mazatlan, Puerto Vallarta, and Acapulco, first class, for free, and then getting to shoot an episode of The Partridge Family on the way back. Now THAT'S a job! The food was incredible, we were treated like royalty, and it was all very grand.

I also used to go with my ex-wife's family to Catalina twice a year, and I always took a speedboat out and cruised, which I liked very much. Worst boating experience was when I went out with someone and we fished for sand dabs, and caught quite a few. Unfortunately, the guy I was with cleaned the fish on the boat and I got so nauseous I thought I was going to die.

As a child, I used to do the motorboats at MacArthur Park (of the song).
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Post by: Matt H. on May 09, 2006, 07:32:16 AM: Good morning!

Gray skies here, and they're not supposed to clear up (apologies to Strouse and Adams) today. A little armer today than yesterday (high in low 70s), but it's been abnormally chilly at night, and I just can't seem to regulate correctly how much cover to put on the bed to get a warm night's sleep. Ah, well, I'll try again tonight.
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Post by: Matt H. on May 09, 2006, 07:33:41 AM: Congratulations, DR TPunk!
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Post by: bk on May 09, 2006, 07:36:29 AM: Very gray here, too, but maybe it will burn off.
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Post by: bk on May 09, 2006, 07:36:42 AM: Have to figure out what I'm staging today.
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Post by: Matt H. on May 09, 2006, 07:38:22 AM: I've never been on a cruise, but I've always thought it would be a fun venture. However, I would only want to do it with a bunch of friends, and all of my friends have been on cruises before and have no desire to repeat the experience. (Maybe that should tell me something!)

My late uncle was a creature of habit. He loved to travel to favorite places and do the same things he had enjoyed there before. Because he had no children, my brother and I were his children, and he took us many, many places. My first ten trips to NYC were with my aunt and uncle, and on EVERY one of them, we would take the boat trip around the island. Very enjoyable the first time around, and I didn't even mind the second time, but after the fourth or fifth time, it got OLD (the trip basically kills an entire morning or afternoon). I was glad when I became old enough for them to trust me out of their sight in NYC so I didn't have to go on that boat trip.
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Post by: Ginny on May 09, 2006, 07:40:18 AM: My mother just booked her first cruise - to Alaska - and she will be almost 88 years old when she sets sail.
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Post by: Matt H. on May 09, 2006, 07:41:23 AM: On my first trip to New Orleans, we took one of the paddleboats up the Mississippi. It was lots of fun, and the boat I was on served the BEST hurricanes I've ever had. Not Pat O'Brien's or any other place celebrated for their hurricanes could touch the one (or three!) on that paddleboat.
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Post by: Matt H. on May 09, 2006, 07:42:17 AM: Quote from: Ginny on May 09, 2006, 07:40:18 AM
My mother just booked her first cruise - to Alaska - and she will be almost 88 years old when she sets sail.

Thanks, DR Ginny! That gives me hope that I will one day get to take one! ;)
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Post by: vixmom on May 09, 2006, 07:42:27 AM: Quote from: Matt H. on May 09, 2006, 07:38:22 AM
My first ten trips to NYC were with my aunt and uncle, and on EVERY one of them, we would take the boat trip around the island.

We did this after our wedding with my parents and Vixdad's parents. I also attended a wedding reception on a boat that motored around NYC... very lovely they arranged for us to circle the Statue of Liberty at sunset
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Post by: Matt H. on May 09, 2006, 07:43:11 AM: I hope to get to Sunday's THE SOPRANOS today and also last night's OLD CHRISTINE and CSI: MIAMI.

On the DVD front, I have FALLEN ANGEL waiting for viewing.
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Post by: vixmom on May 09, 2006, 07:43:23 AM: Quote from: bk on May 09, 2006, 07:36:42 AM
Have to figure out what I'm staging today.
As long as you';re not staging another meltdown all should be fine :D :-*
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Post by: Matt H. on May 09, 2006, 07:44:56 AM: Quote from: vixmom on May 09, 2006, 07:42:27 AM
We did this after our wedding with my parents and Vixdad's parents. I also attended a wedding reception on a boat that motored around NYC... very lovely they arranged for us to circle the Statue of Liberty at sunset

That does sound lovely. A beautiful memory of your wedding day.
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Post by: Jrand73 on May 09, 2006, 07:49:26 AM: Cruise to Alaska is in my distant future....not that at my age I HAVE a distant future.
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Post by: Rodzinski on May 09, 2006, 07:51:29 AM: I took a paddleboat ride near Louisville when I was a kid. On the Ohio River.

Over at "Indiana Beach" aka Schafer Lake, we rode around on a pontoon boat. Mostly about that day, I remember going to eat at Burger Chef and one of the counter girls refusing to believe I was not Mikey from the LIFE cereals commercials. When my mom assured her I was not Mikey, I'll never forget the girl asking, "But is his NAME Mikey?"
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Post by: Jrand73 on May 09, 2006, 07:53:40 AM: May I add my congratulations to the newly edu-ma-kated DR TPUNK. And my outrage at Bosco's exclusion from the Park!

Also my congratulations to our local DOT - SR 267 now funnels four lanes down to two....which includes SIX lanes of Interstate 70 which exits onto the road necessitating three stop lights within 70 feet of each other.

AND for choosing this exact time to CLOSE old SR 267 which is one mile WEST of this road, runs parallel, and could carry MUCH of the traffic...were it not CLOSED CLOSED CLOSED CLOSED.

You truly cannot get there from here. It took me 45 minutes to travel 1/4 mile. So much for conserving gasoline.

Projected completion date: November, 2006.
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Post by: Jrand73 on May 09, 2006, 07:54:55 AM: He likes everything!
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Post by: Jrand73 on May 09, 2006, 07:55:57 AM: AAMF, DR TOMovOZ...thanks to DRELMORE, I own and can enjoy Miss DD in the GLASS BOTTOM BOAT at my own leisure.

MR BK were you surrounded by autograph seekers - and did you wear sunglasses whiile on the filming cruise?
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Post by: Jrand73 on May 09, 2006, 07:56:45 AM: I have ONE Coyle & Sharp album....and the Home for Gnomes and 236 are two of my favorite cuts!
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Post by: Rodzinski on May 09, 2006, 08:01:42 AM: My mom took us on a vacation to Wyoming once, and the highlight was rafting on the Snake River.

Did some canoeing in New Jersey near the Cheesequake State Park. I like to type the word "Cheesequake."

Sometimes I take out-of-towners on a nice ride on the Staten Island Ferry which is free pleasure, especially when it is warm out.
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Post by: Rodzinski on May 09, 2006, 08:02:56 AM: Quote from: JRand55 on May 09, 2006, 07:54:55 AM
He likes everything!

You don't know how many times I heard that as a kid!
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Post by: Rodzinski on May 09, 2006, 08:05:16 AM: The Home for Gnomes is great. And the Mole People.
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Post by: Jennifer on May 09, 2006, 08:10:43 AM: Hey you guys are good. I was typing in asking for some postal vibes. Since an important package for my sister was to be delivered on Friday (and had yet to come). Anyhow it came as i was preparing to type. Although stuff was hanging out of it (and it was sort of half opened). What's up with that?

Anyhow I do still need postal vibes since i also sent a very important express envelope which should have arrived yesterday. It absolutely must arrive today! Fingers crossed.
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Post by: Jennifer on May 09, 2006, 08:16:13 AM: DR MattH I am surprised that all your friends who have been on cruises have no desire to return. Every person i've heard of who has been on a cruise cannot wait to go back.

I went on a carribean cruise a few years ago, alone, and it was magnificent.
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Post by: JMK on May 09, 2006, 08:19:03 AM: I have quite a few boating stories, as I was the (as they called it) "Featured Artist" on board a semi-popular dining cruise line here in Portland for almost 9 years, until they decided that they needed to match their mediocre food with equally mediocre entertainment, at which point I lovingly bid them adieu. :)

Anyway, on one particular cruise, the captain, who claimed he had the patent on the hacky sack (I kid you not), ran us aground on a sandbar. It was quite a violent little crash--all of the hanging glasses at the bar flew off and burst into a million little pieces (this was years before anyone had heard of James Frey), a chest of drawers fell over on a cruise manager and broke his arm, and I flew off the piano bench backwards. There was much screaming and commotion. Not wasting a moment, I picked myself up, dusted myself off, sat back down at the piano and began playing "The Morning After." Personally I found it hilarious. It was a major news event in Portland, and I was IV'd repeatedly, since most of the reporters knew I was married to Betsy, who was still doing news in those days. I got royally reamed (hmmm....) by the owners of the cruiseline for deigning to speak to the reporters, even though I said that it was a Coast Guard buoy placing error (which later turned out to be entirely correct). This was the first of many clues that this particular cruise line was managed by absolute idiots. Here they had someone who knew all of the reporters making this the lead story on all the evening newscasts, and instead of using that to their advantage to get their side of the story out, freaked out and did a "Bush" and clamped down on all commenting.

Some other time I'll regale you with the story of the stowaway in the hold with the knife (shades of Clue)--and this was after the 9/11 protocols had been implemented to "beef up" security. Oy.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on May 09, 2006, 08:22:01 AM: Quote from: George on May 09, 2006, 12:46:35 AM
I'm sure he has tales to tell! ;)

Tales AND tails....
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on May 09, 2006, 08:24:07 AM: Good morning! Good day!
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on May 09, 2006, 08:24:44 AM: I don't know from the kinds of cruises you guys are discussing.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on May 09, 2006, 08:25:23 AM: I once drove aboard an auto ferry in Corinth, Greece, and disembarked two days later in Rimini, Italy. It was smooth sailing and an interesting experience.
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Post by: Matt H. on May 09, 2006, 08:25:33 AM: Heading downstairs now to tend to some household chores and then on to lunch preparation.

WBBL.
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Post by: Matt H. on May 09, 2006, 08:28:07 AM: Page Three Yzma and Kronk Dance!!!
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on May 09, 2006, 08:33:15 AM: Of course, I served on two aircraft carriers -- USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) from 1984-87. We had two Western Pacific "cruises" (called WestPacs, in Navy lingo). One took me into the Bering Straits, then into the Sea of Japan with a brief stop in Osaka, Japan. Next was Hong Kong. From there we went to the Philippines for several days, and then onward to Singapore for another few days. Afterwards we entered the Indian Ocean. We had a couple of days in Mombasa, Kenya, and then spent a week or so off the coast of Somalia in December 1986 (that was the time when Somalia was getting international military assistance and supply drops, etc.). We entered the Persian Gulf two days after Christmas that year and stayed there 97 days without setting foot on land. Our first "landing" after that was Singapore (yes, again) and then on to Perth, Australia. Then it was on to Honolulu and, finally, back into port in Alameda CA. That was typical for that time of unrest in the Persian Gulf. That was my second cruise.

On USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) , Oct. 1992-Dec. 1993, our WestPac was a variation of that sans the Bering Straits/Sea of Japan diversion. We were also not going to the Philippines any longer. We did hit Singapore and Hong Kong. During our Persian Gulf time (roughly 65 days), we made a port visit to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates which lasted about 7 days. Of note during this time was that Saddam Hussein had violated the no-fly zone several times and the U.S. was, along with allied military forces, launching air strikes against military targets in Iraq. My ship was the "launching pad", as it turned out, and we hosted a horde of international media on a daily basis for about two weeks. My life, as assistant Public Affairs Officer and the ship's Chief Journalist/Broadcaster, was dedicated to meeting the logistical needs of those media reps while maintaining daily operations of ship's TV and newspaper. Somehow it all worked out...it was euphoric and exhausting and one of the more interesting times of my life. I lived on roughly 4 hours of sleep per day during those two weeks.
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Post by: bk on May 09, 2006, 08:42:47 AM: I shall now be on my way to LACC, where I shall spend two hours doing something or another.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on May 09, 2006, 08:43:32 AM: While I was serving on USS Carl Vinson, I took some time off and visited my parents back in South Carolina. We went to their lake house and, for the first time in my adult life (actually, the first time since I was about 7 years old), I went out on a boat with my parents to fish.

I got sea sick!
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Post by: Jrand73 on May 09, 2006, 08:51:10 AM: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Express vibes for DR JENNIFER
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Post by: Dan (the Man) on May 09, 2006, 08:54:03 AM: Quote from: Rodzinski on May 09, 2006, 08:01:42 AM
Did some canoeing in New Jersey near the Cheesequake State Park. I like to type the word "Cheesequake."

Sounds like a new type of pizza at Pizza Hut.
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Post by: MBarnum on May 09, 2006, 09:24:43 AM: During the late 60s and early 70s my parents had a boat that we took to the lake often...my family was big into skiing. My dad sold the boat to finance my sisters wedding in 1971. However, my sister's marriage was to a river guide and we made many trips down the Rogue River throughout the 1970s.
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Post by: George on May 09, 2006, 09:26:33 AM: Quote from: TPunk on May 09, 2006, 06:51:48 AM
Good morning everyone! I am officially done- no more school, no more internship, nada! All I have to do is show up in two weeks wearing my cap and gown.

CONGRATULATIONS TPUNK!!!
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on May 09, 2006, 09:32:30 AM: Re: Last night's "Medium"

SPOILER POTENTIAL

I watched about half an hour and then started nodding off. I was pooped/whipped/tired. I was determined to outlast the show, however, but I admit I missed parts as I couldn't keep myself from nodding off.

Still....I got the gist of it. And as for the last scene, as MattH commented last night, it seems they tried to be a little more clever than they needed to be...although, I think it does set up Grammer for future appearances as "death."
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Post by: George on May 09, 2006, 09:38:19 AM: Quote from: Jennifer on May 09, 2006, 08:10:43 AM
Anyhow I do still need postal vibes since i also sent a very important express envelope which should have arrived yesterday. It absolutely must arrive today! Fingers crossed.

[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]~~~SWIFT AS THE WIND POSTAL VIBES FOR DR JENNIFER!!~~~[/move]
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Post by: elmore3003 on May 09, 2006, 09:45:45 AM: Good afternoon, all! I got my father to the hospital by 8 am, and the technician told me to retrieve him from his PET scan in 3 hours. I went to the hospital cafeteria, had a bit of breakfast, edited some of the new Act One libretto for BABES IN TOYLAND, read a bit of THE DAVINCI CODE (I've finished the Prada-wearing Devil), and my father joined me around 10:45. He seems okay, so I took him out for a cheeseburger since the doctors are protein-ing him up for the chemo.

Now, I'm enjoying my liesure at the public library. Tonight, I have dinner with friends, tomorrow morning breakfast with DR Ginny. The social whirl in Ohio is exhausting. This town is so deplorable!

I never cruise, only chase.
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Post by: elmore3003 on May 09, 2006, 09:49:13 AM: [move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!ACCOLADES TO OUR DR TPUNK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Post by: Charles Pogue on May 09, 2006, 09:51:17 AM: Alas, the times I have been on a boat have been damned few and so I have no real interesting boating stories. Those few times, I've been on a boat, I've always enjoyed it and it looks like a leisurely lifestyle...but one I've never actively pursued.

Though with three lakes where I live and this lovely Kentucky spring, I keep thinking, "Maybe I should get a boat." Then I think: "Why? You don't fish; you don't water ski; if you want to swim, you'd prefer a chlorinated pool...and think of the expense and up-keep, nah..."

We used to take a ferry across the river from Northern Kentucky to Coney Island in Cincinnati and that was always fun. We've actually got a car ferry down on the Kentucky River. And one of my High School reunions was spent on a paddle wheeler, going up the Ohio River for about three hours.

I've always want to take one of those steam boat cruises along the Ohio or Mississippi...probably in the fall. I'm thinking it would be a lovely, leisurely way to spend the week and see the fall colours and the country. But when I mention to other friends, no one else seems intrigued. Maybe they regard as a sure sign of impending geezer-dom.
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Post by: FJL on May 09, 2006, 10:16:03 AM: Congratulations to TPUNK!!!!
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Post by: FJL on May 09, 2006, 10:22:08 AM: I enjoy the Circle Line around Manhattan when there's an interesting person doing the guiding announcements. Also, the Jungle Cruise at the Magic Kingdom in Disney World is quite enjoyable, despite being attacked by an animatronic alligator.

And of course, I do enjoy the ferry across to Jersey from the pier on the West Side. (That was for Tomovoz.)
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Post by: Jennifer on May 09, 2006, 10:30:52 AM: Re: David Blaine from last night.

I happened to switch it over near the end (I was watching THE APPRENTICE). But I found it very unsettling to watch (he was in bad shape). So i switched it back and did not see the end.
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Post by: Dan (the Man) on May 09, 2006, 10:32:23 AM: [move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]! ! ! ! ! CONGA-GRATUALATIONS TO DR TPUNK ! ! ! ! ![/move]
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Post by: Maria on May 09, 2006, 10:33:38 AM: ***CONGRATS, T'PUNK!***

If anyone wants an excuse not to celebrate Mother's Day, read, "Oh, mothers!"-- the cover article in the SCIENCE section of today's NY Times.

TOD - I was going to say I have no particular boat adventures to relate, but then I read DR Pulliam's post and remembered I'd been out on the aircraft carrier CONSTELLATION to do research for a screenplay. It was quite the experience. Nothing earth-shattering -- just really, really interesting. One thing that struck me was how incredibly young most of the sailors were.
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Post by: Jennifer on May 09, 2006, 10:34:30 AM: Congrats to DR Tpunk!
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Post by: Dan (the Man) on May 09, 2006, 10:35:51 AM: Hey, I just made up a riddle:

What do they play when a mohel graduates?

(I bet DR FJL is the first one who guesses correctly.)
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Post by: Maria on May 09, 2006, 10:36:34 AM: I should modify the last sentence of my post. But what the hey, go for it.

Postal vibes to DR Jennifer. (Although that sounds like I'm hoping she'll go out and shoot a few people.)
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Post by: Jennifer on May 09, 2006, 10:38:11 AM: Re: last night's MEDIUM.

spoilers.

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I did enjoy the show. Although it was pretty creepy having alison thinking she would die. And i'm not quite sure why she didn't die. I mean why do some of her dreams come true, but this did not.

I also think the demise of kelsey's character (not death) happened a bit too fast and didn't really make too much sense.

But it was interesting to see how everything unfolded.
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Post by: FJL on May 09, 2006, 10:38:54 AM: Dan - Is it Pump and Circumcise?
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Post by: Maria on May 09, 2006, 10:42:08 AM: Quote from: Dan (the Man) on May 09, 2006, 10:35:51 AM
Hey, I just made up a riddle:

What do they play when a mohel graduates?

"Pomp and Circumcision"...?
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Post by: Maria on May 09, 2006, 10:43:32 AM: Great (Jewish) minds think alike.
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Post by: Dan (the Man) on May 09, 2006, 10:44:47 AM: I'll give a point each to DRs FJL and Maria.

Now how about this one:

How do you request a circumcision on the internet?
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Post by: FJL on May 09, 2006, 10:46:00 AM: I almost said The Theme from Shaft, but then I remembered this is a family site.
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Post by: Maria on May 09, 2006, 10:46:07 AM: ...although I have to admit that FJL's "circumcise" is better than Maria's "circumcision"...
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Post by: Maria on May 09, 2006, 10:48:23 AM: Fun as this is, I have to get back to work. I don't think that the producer would accept "circumcision riddles" as a valid excuse for not getting my script in on time.
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Post by: FJL on May 09, 2006, 10:48:23 AM: Dan - How about a hint? Soemthing to do with "cut and paste" maybe? :)
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Post by: FJL on May 09, 2006, 10:48:58 AM: A little late for this, but one for Mohel!
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Post by: Maria on May 09, 2006, 10:50:09 AM: FJL - Check the NY Times obits for a Dybbuk connection,

Laters!
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Post by: Ben on May 09, 2006, 10:52:12 AM: I forgot that I, too, have taken the Circle Line around Manhattan. It's a fun ride. I've done it more than once and found that I know as much or more about the Island of Manhattan as the "guides" on the ship.
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Post by: Dan (the Man) on May 09, 2006, 10:52:39 AM: Quote from: FJL on May 09, 2006, 10:48:23 AM
Dan - How about a hint? Soemthing to do with "cut and paste" maybe? :)

Ewwwww! (Not the answer, either.)
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Post by: Ben on May 09, 2006, 10:53:21 AM: I wonder if Jose lurks for the time being. If so, I'm seeing Lestat on Wednesday, May 24th, the evening performace. It's finally made an appearance on TDF and a $36 ticket is just the ticket (as they say).
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Post by: FJL on May 09, 2006, 10:58:51 AM: Everybody's favorite game show, CIRCUMCISION RIDDLES

(Cue the theme song:)

Circumcision riddles, you got me on the go
Circumcision riddles, I'm all aquiver
Circumcision riddles, producers wanna know
Why I've got a script that I can't deliver
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Post by: FJL on May 09, 2006, 11:02:42 AM: Maria - Wow, 99 years old. It pays to make a career in Jewish theater.

As my mother says (I'm paraphrasing), you do Jewish theater for 99 years, you live long.
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Post by: FJL on May 09, 2006, 11:08:54 AM: Dan - Is it Foreskin Quit? (a play on Force Quit)
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Post by: FJL on May 09, 2006, 11:09:19 AM: Alt Shaft Delete?
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Post by: FJL on May 09, 2006, 11:17:16 AM: I remember the great cartoon of Moses looking at the heavens and the caption was " "Now let me get this straight, you want us to cut the ends of our what's off?"
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Post by: FJL on May 09, 2006, 11:19:04 AM: Did Dan actually leave without giving the answer to that last riddle??????
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Post by: Dan (the Man) on May 09, 2006, 11:22:08 AM: Nope. The answer is--

Through E-Mohel.

Oy!
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Post by: Ginny on May 09, 2006, 11:23:29 AM: Ooo, I'm so excited - I now have a blog:

Nonprofit Notes (http://nonprofitnotes.blogspot.com/)
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Post by: FJL on May 09, 2006, 11:23:59 AM: Oh right, no groaning on HHW! (a response to Dan's joke, not Ginny's blog :) )
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Post by: elmore3003 on May 09, 2006, 11:24:12 AM: I have been all over this fershlugenah town in search of postcards. Fifty years ago, when this hole was an All-American City, there were postcards up the wazoo. Now that it's turned into a ghost town and pit of inanity, no one wants to publicize it with colorful cards. Such is the story of my hometown, which houses the world's fattest people. I am definitely on the slender side in this burg! Oy!
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Post by: Dan (the Man) on May 09, 2006, 11:31:55 AM: Quote from: FJL on May 09, 2006, 11:23:59 AM
Oh right, no groaning on HHW! (a response to Dan's joke, not Ginny's blog :) )

Though there is the temptation to start telling circumcision jokes in DR Ginny's blog's comment section :D
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on May 09, 2006, 11:33:02 AM: Quote from: Maria on May 09, 2006, 10:33:38 AM
***CONGRATS, T'PUNK!***

If anyone wants an excuse not to celebrate Mother's Day, One thing that struck me was how incredibly young most of the sailors were.

Babies, most of 'em....some 17 and 18 years old...and still not shaving.
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Post by: Ginny on May 09, 2006, 11:40:05 AM: Quote from: Dan (the Man) on May 09, 2006, 11:31:55 AM
Though there is the temptation to start telling circumcision jokes in DR Ginny's blog's comment section :D

Yikes! That motivated me to find out quick how to disable the comment section ;)
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Post by: Cillaliz on May 09, 2006, 11:51:24 AM: Congrats TPunk!!!!!
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Post by: Rodzinski on May 09, 2006, 11:52:29 AM: Ginny
How can you call those the core of the GIC Reference Collection with a straight face?

You completely left out "Foundation Center's Guide to Winning Proposals III: Even More Ways to Win!"
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Post by: Cillaliz on May 09, 2006, 11:53:17 AM: DR Ron - I have cancelled my trip to San Francisco. There are many unpleasant things that have been happening at work and I decided to take the cats to the lake for 4 or 5 days around memorial day rather than spend 4-5 days in a hotel meeting room listening to lectures about things I already know...even if it is in San Francisco
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Post by: Ginny on May 09, 2006, 11:55:01 AM: Quote from: Rodzinski on May 09, 2006, 11:52:29 AM
Ginny
How can you call those the core of the GIC Reference Collection with a straight face?

You completely left out "Foundation Center's Guide to Winning Proposals III: Even More Ways to Win!"

Only a matter of time, DR Rodzinski!
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Post by: Cillaliz on May 09, 2006, 11:56:00 AM: Boating?? At the lake we have a speed boat, 2 sailboats (there may be 3, not sure if the one that was for sale has been sold), a paddleboat and my best friend has a E-Class Sailboat and she also bought my kayak.

I've also been on a cruise to Alaska and many many boat rides. I'll have to think of some stories. I used to have lots from the days when we did the late night booze cruises, but that was long ago
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Post by: Cillaliz on May 09, 2006, 11:56:48 AM: I am home due to a splitting headache, so I think i shall go rest.
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Post by: Ginny on May 09, 2006, 11:58:48 AM: Quote from: Cillaliz on May 09, 2006, 11:56:48 AM
I am home due to a splitting headache, so I think i shall go rest.

DR Cillaliz - hope you feel better soon. It must be bad at work to cancel a trip to San Francisco!
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Post by: Dan (the Man) on May 09, 2006, 11:59:39 AM: I wonder if Luba Kadison's apartment was rent controlled.
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Post by: Ginny on May 09, 2006, 12:14:58 PM: Can anyone here tell me how to insert a screen shot of a website into a Word document?
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Post by: Dan (the Man) on May 09, 2006, 12:24:10 PM: Quote from: Ginny on May 09, 2006, 12:14:58 PM
Can anyone here tell me how to insert a screen shot of a website into a Word document?

If the resolution is not that important, you can just hit ALT + Print Scrn on the web page and then Paste it into the Word doc. If you want to be able to clearly read the what's on the webpage, you might have to paste it into Paint and then crop off some of the white space before you paste into the Word doc.
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Post by: elmore3003 on May 09, 2006, 12:24:35 PM: My library visit is now at an end. See you all tomorrow.
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Post by: Maria on May 09, 2006, 12:26:47 PM: Quote from: Dan (the Man) on May 09, 2006, 11:59:39 AM
I wonder if Luba Kadison's apartment was rent controlled.
I once visited Dorothy Frooks, an elderly lady lawyer, at Morgans, the too too trendy hotel on Madison Ave. (I was doing research for a screenplay. Miss Frooks had been hired by Harry K. Thaw - yes THE HKT - to defend a young woman accused of murder. Thaw fell for Miss Frooks in the midst of all this. A fascinating story. Frooks is featured as one of the "witnesses" in the movie REDS.)
ANYWAY, Miss Frooks had lived for many years in what had become Morgans. When they were renovating the building to create the chrome-on-chrome hotel, she refused to leave her digs, so her rent could not be raised.
So - when you entered her apartment, you'd go from the terribly trendy hallway and step back 50 years by crossing her threshold. Very unsettling and interesting.
If you want to read a little about Dorothy Frooks, BTW, the Wikipedia entry is TOTALLY wrong. You can find a bit at
http://library.law.columbia.edu/rise_of_women/practice/dorothy_frooks.html
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Post by: Dan (the Man) on May 09, 2006, 12:36:39 PM: Quote from: Maria on May 09, 2006, 12:26:47 PM
I once visited Dorothy Frooks, an elderly lady lawyer, at Morgans, the too too trendy hotel on Madison Ave. (I was doing research for a screenplay. Miss Frooks had been hired by Harry K. Thaw - yes THE HKT - to defend a young woman accused of murder. Thaw fell for Miss Frooks in the midst of all this. A fascinating story. Frooks is featured as one of the "witnesses" in the movie REDS.)
ANYWAY, Miss Frooks had lived for many years in what had become Morgans. When they were renovating the building to create the chrome-on-chrome hotel, she refused to leave her digs, so her rent could not be raised.
So - when you entered her apartment, you'd go from the terribly trendy hallway and step back 50 years by crossing her threshold. Very unsettling and interesting.
If you want to read a little about Dorothy Frooks, BTW, the Wikipedia entry is TOTALLY wrong. You can find a bit at
http://library.law.columbia.edu/rise_of_women/practice/dorothy_frooks.html

Good for her! She sounds like a good ol' gal.

And now I wonder, is Ms. Frooks' apartment in the same shape as you saw it.
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Post by: Ginny on May 09, 2006, 12:41:22 PM: Quote from: Dan (the Man) on May 09, 2006, 12:24:10 PM
If the resolution is not that important, you can just hit ALT + Print Scrn on the web page and then Paste it into the Word doc. If you want to be able to clearly read the what's on the webpage, you might have to paste it into Paint and then crop off some of the white space before you paste into the Word doc.

That's more or less what a co-worker just told me - and it worked! Thanks, DR Dan(the Man)!
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Post by: Dan (the Man) on May 09, 2006, 12:48:14 PM: As for Wikipedia's accuracy, read this linked article (http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2005-11-29-wikipedia-edit_x.htm).
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Post by: TPunk on May 09, 2006, 12:49:43 PM: Quote from: DearReaderLaura on May 09, 2006, 07:00:01 AM
Congratulations, TPunk!! How did your kids do when you said good-bye?

Things went alright because we have been talking about it for the past 6 weeks or so. Everything went pretty well yesterday up until the afternoon when I found out the reason why one of my kids wasn't present at school so I could say goodbye. He had been hospitalized over the weekend and his mother had been arrested (mostly without cause) so that made for a rough and uncertain but I suppose rather fitting end to my internship.
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Post by: TPunk on May 09, 2006, 12:51:13 PM: Quote from: Ginny on May 09, 2006, 07:40:18 AM
My mother just booked her first cruise - to Alaska - and she will be almost 88 years old when she sets sail.

My mother just booked her first cruise - also to Alaska - as a 60th birthday present to herself.
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Post by: TPunk on May 09, 2006, 12:58:37 PM: Thank you for all of the good wishes everyone. I think I am still waiting for it to completely sink in. Maybe it won't until my diploma is in hand.
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Post by: TPunk on May 09, 2006, 12:59:48 PM: I just had the most amazing lunch with Rodzinski. I met him at his office and we went to Little India in Queens for an Indian buffet lunch. I made three trips to ensure we got our money's worth of course.
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Post by: TPunk on May 09, 2006, 01:00:36 PM: Now I am back home doing laundry which is not quite as amazing.
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Post by: Dan (the Man) on May 09, 2006, 01:01:58 PM: Two releases today that have me shaking my head because of their covers:

First, there's this one:

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v130/WandaDuck/hc.jpg)

and then that one:

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v130/WandaDuck/ta.jpg)
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Post by: bk on May 09, 2006, 01:06:38 PM: Back from LACC and a very productive two-and-a-half hour rehearsal, in which I barrelled through a good deal of the first act and blocked three musical numbers. By the end of Thursday, I hope to be close to finishing the first act. Then I'll try to barrel through act two next Tuesday and Thursday, which will leave us a week to hone stuff as much as possible and to start having run-throughs. Hopefully, I can at least get everything to flow properly. The kids are all picking everything up very fast.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on May 09, 2006, 01:18:28 PM: Quote from: Cillaliz on May 09, 2006, 11:53:17 AM
DR Ron - I have cancelled my trip to San Francisco. There are many unpleasant things that have been happening at work and I decided to take the cats to the lake for 4 or 5 days around memorial day rather than spend 4-5 days in a hotel meeting room listening to lectures about things I already know...even if it is in San Francisco

Doh! Gizzafratz und ratzendatz!

:(

Oh, well. Another time.

I'll live.

Enjoy the lake...I'm sure the tranquillity and companionship will be very soothing.

:)
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on May 09, 2006, 01:19:54 PM: Quote from: elmore3003 on May 09, 2006, 12:24:35 PM
My library visit is now at an end. See you all tomorrow.

See ya...'round the stacks!

:)

(couldn't resist).
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Post by: Rodzinski on May 09, 2006, 01:30:32 PM: Quote from: Dan (the Man) on May 09, 2006, 12:48:14 PM
As for Wikipedia's accuracy, read this linked article (http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2005-11-29-wikipedia-edit_x.htm).

Thanks for that, Dan. Fascinating and scary. Guess people better not toss out their Funk & Wagnalls just yet.
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Post by: Ginny on May 09, 2006, 01:35:43 PM: Quote from: Rodzinski on May 09, 2006, 01:30:32 PM
Thanks for that, Dan. Fascinating and scary. Guess people better not toss out their Funk & Wagnalls just yet.

DS Rob and I were just discussing Wikipedia's accuracy last night. In my information-waitressing, I use their entries just as sources of clues for where I might find credible information.
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Post by: Matt H. on May 09, 2006, 01:35:58 PM: Got many things watched and cleared off the DVR. First up was last night's OLD CHRISTINE. I enjoyed the show, and the brother character is growing on me. He was very funny last night. Wanda Sykes fits in this show as a supporting player much better than when she was the lead of her own series. Not a skilled enough comic actress to carry the burden of a series, but to pop in, deliver a few jokes, and exit, she's perfect.
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Post by: Matt H. on May 09, 2006, 01:38:47 PM: CSI: MIAMI had a story based on the Paris Hilton/Jessica Simpson types of celebrities famous for being famous. Good episode setting up the two part season finale.
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Post by: Matt H. on May 09, 2006, 01:39:53 PM: THE SOPRANOS was a rather humdrum episode, I thought. A couple of plot points puttering along at a snail's pace, but a lot of other stuff of not much interest (to me anyway).
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Post by: Matt H. on May 09, 2006, 01:44:37 PM: Then I watched MADAME X that I had recorded off TCM over the weekend. Hadn't seen it all the way through in a long time. I noticed the credits were windowboxed, but the rest of the film was shown full frame.

I know he made some famous movies, but how did Keir Dullea not become a bigger star? He had the looks, the talent. I guess Robert Redford moved in and got what might have been his career.
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Post by: TCB on May 09, 2006, 01:53:06 PM: Quote from: bk on May 09, 2006, 12:15:48 AM
And the word of the day is: DELIVERANCE!

<<squeal>>
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Post by: TCB on May 09, 2006, 01:55:42 PM: Quote from: Tomovoz on May 09, 2006, 12:45:00 AM
Perhaps TCB will regale us with tales of his days as cabin boy on the Tea clipper ships.

But you warned me never to repeat those stories.
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Post by: Ginny on May 09, 2006, 01:58:11 PM: Speaking of information waitressing, I have 4 solid hours of it tonight - alternating between the reference desk and the phone center.

Bye for now.
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Post by: Jrand73 on May 09, 2006, 02:04:20 PM: DR MATTH - that is one of my favorite Lana Turner performances (Pauline Kael notwithstanding).... And of course she looks fantastic....

There is the story (might be publicity of course) that once Lana was made up as the OLDER Holly, that all the mirrors be covered so that she wouldn't catch sight of herself.

Constance Bennett was the scary looking one, though. And dead between filming and release. She had gone to Switzerland for a long put off face lift....she was afraid of the surgery....but went through with it once she was cast in MADAME X... Vanity.....
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Post by: Jrand73 on May 09, 2006, 02:04:36 PM: Nice blog, DR GINNY......
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Post by: Tomovoz on May 09, 2006, 02:19:24 PM: I guess I should have added Mississippi Cruise, Circle line NY cruise, Crossing the English channel, cruise on Lake Lucern , Cruises on whatever the lake is in Queenstown Hobbitland, a cruise up the Rhine and cruises on the Moldau, and on the Thames.

The crews I left to Jose.

And the Mark Twain at Disneyland!!
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Post by: vixmom on May 09, 2006, 02:21:51 PM: Quote from: Ginny on May 09, 2006, 11:23:29 AM
Ooo, I'm so excited - I now have a blog:

Nonprofit Notes (http://nonprofitnotes.blogspot.com/)

Very VERY cool!!!
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Post by: MBarnum on May 09, 2006, 02:25:12 PM: Quote from: TPunk on May 09, 2006, 12:59:48 PM
I just had the most amazing lunch with Rodzinski. I met him at his office and we went to Little India in Queens for an Indian buffet lunch. I made three trips to ensure we got our money's worth of course.

Well, I'll be darned...that is where I had lunch with Rodzinski! Did you stop and buy any $5 Bollywood DVDs?
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Post by: vixmom on May 09, 2006, 02:27:50 PM: DR Tomovoz... when are you due to hit NYC?
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Post by: vixmom on May 09, 2006, 02:30:57 PM: I cannot remember if I congratulated TPunk on her momentous achievement and being too lazy to try and backtrack...

[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR MOMENTOUS GRADUATION ACHIEVEMENT DEAR READER TPUNK WE ARE VERY PROUD OF YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! [/move] [/color]
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Post by: vixmom on May 09, 2006, 02:31:49 PM: Mother/Daughter Girl Scout Dinner starts in 30 minutes!! BYE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by: Matt H. on May 09, 2006, 02:37:26 PM: Quote from: JRand55 on May 09, 2006, 02:04:20 PM

Constance Bennett was the scary looking one, though. And dead between filming and release. She had gone to Switzerland for a long put off face lift....she was afraid of the surgery....but went through with it once she was cast in MADAME X... Vanity.....

Thanks for this info. I didn't know it. And I thought Constance looked marvelous in the early scenes. Her old age make-up was frightful at the end. Keir's sparkling blue eyes were remarkable for me today.
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Post by: Matt H. on May 09, 2006, 02:40:02 PM: Page Six vulture Dance!!!
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Post by: Matt H. on May 09, 2006, 02:48:47 PM: Off to do the usual household chores and then on to tonight's TV.

Elvis night on IDOL!
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Post by: DearReaderLaura on May 09, 2006, 02:58:40 PM: DR SWoody or DR DerBrucer:
Do you have a large digital photo of Peggy and her pups you email to me?
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Post by: bk on May 09, 2006, 03:24:00 PM: I've checked out both letterboxed and anamorphic DVDs - the letterboxed is the sharper, I'm afraid - but I don't know if that's just the nature of the DVD being transfered from a digi-beta to a DVD-R or what. I'm going to ask the authoring guy his opinion from just looking at the digi-betas of each.

I think I'll try jogging - it's always an ordeal starting, I must say. Then I'll be supping later. Had another telephonic conversation where many interesting things were said, and, depending on my state of mind, things might be resolved and in a fairly positive way - but that would require me just putting aside everything that's gone down this past week. We shall see.
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Post by: Jed on May 09, 2006, 03:43:28 PM: Beaucoup congrats, DR TPunk!
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Post by: Jed on May 09, 2006, 03:45:23 PM: Boats? For being around so much water, I've sadly little experience on 'em. Just a few ferries around Puget Sound and up to Victoria, B.C.
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Post by: Cillaliz on May 09, 2006, 03:47:20 PM: Hello all. Boy, I slept all afternoon. It was great. Headache is gone, cats are happy I am here and I feel a lot better.
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Post by: Jed on May 09, 2006, 03:47:42 PM: A friend of mine ended up with a couple free tickets to the Seattle Mariners game tonight, so I get to go with him. Hope they at least slightly resemble a major league baseball team for a change.
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Post by: Cillaliz on May 09, 2006, 03:50:49 PM: Ok, call me crazy, but in addition to the crazy stuff happening at work, for the past 3-4 weeks I have had this overwhelming feeling that I shouldn't go to San Francisco on this trip. It isn't usual for me to get this feeling and I had a huge rush of relief when I cancelled the trip. Maybe it's nothing, but I feel a lot better.
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Post by: Cillaliz on May 09, 2006, 03:53:46 PM: I need to go to my old house, put on the screen windows and air it out for awhile. The woman who looked at it 4 times and took in a contractor to get an estimate to redo the kitchen hadn't bothered getting her financing lined up and hadn't put her house on the market. The bank turned her down for a bridge loan so she wasted a lot of people's time.

There is another prospective buyer who is very interested and should know about her financing this week. So I'm going to go air out the house and see if I need to do a little sprucing up.
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Post by: bk on May 09, 2006, 04:41:20 PM: I shall shortly be on my way to sup, after which I shall return.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on May 09, 2006, 04:44:46 PM: Quote from: Cillaliz on May 09, 2006, 03:50:49 PM
Ok, call me crazy, but in addition to the crazy stuff happening at work, for the past 3-4 weeks I have had this overwhelming feeling that I shouldn't go to San Francisco on this trip. It isn't usual for me to get this feeling and I had a huge rush of relief when I cancelled the trip. Maybe it's nothing, but I feel a lot better.

Oh, crap!

Ponder this a bit more, will ya? See if your feeling was more about the "flight" than the actual "being in" San Francisco.

Otherwise, I'm gonna start packing stuff up to survive the earthquake!
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on May 09, 2006, 04:46:34 PM: Here is something ODD that should tickle the fancy of many of you:

On eBay, with a starting bid of $380,000:

Paul Bern's wedding gift to Jean Harlow (http://cgi.ebay.com/Jean-Harlow-wedding-gift-from-Paul-Bern-Hollywood-MGM_W0QQitemZ7615575908QQcategoryZ197QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem)
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Post by: Ginny on May 09, 2006, 05:11:21 PM: Last hour of the evening in telephone reference. Someone just called to find out the time in Italy and was quite surprised to learn that Rome is in Italy ::)
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Post by: Tomovoz on May 09, 2006, 05:17:45 PM: Was the call from someone in the White House?
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Post by: Ginny on May 09, 2006, 05:22:03 PM: Quote from: Tomovoz on May 09, 2006, 05:17:45 PM
Was the call from someone in the White House?

You know, DR Tomovoz, he didn't say...hmm, could be.
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Post by: DakotaCelt on May 09, 2006, 05:23:34 PM: Congrats TPunk!
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Post by: Ginny on May 09, 2006, 05:51:30 PM: P.A. announcement: "The Library closes in 15 minutes." ;D
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Post by: Jane on May 09, 2006, 06:04:07 PM: Quote from: TPunk on May 09, 2006, 06:51:48 AM
Good morning everyone! I am officially done- no more school, no more internship, nada! All I have to do is show up in two weeks wearing my cap and gown.

CONGRATULATIONS!!! It's very exciting, I expect you to post a photo of you in your cap and gown.
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Post by: Jrand73 on May 09, 2006, 06:10:34 PM: The library is closed!
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Post by: Jrand73 on May 09, 2006, 06:10:59 PM: Pictures of the Girl Scout dinner, DR VIXMOM....please.
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Post by: Jrand73 on May 09, 2006, 06:11:33 PM: MR BK you must get your hands on an advance copy of the VD DVD...and let us know the TRUE extent of the extras.

Sparkle, Neely, sparkle!
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Post by: Jrand73 on May 09, 2006, 06:12:08 PM: DR RLP - what is the scariest place on an aircraft carrier? What is the most exciting?
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Post by: Jrand73 on May 09, 2006, 06:12:35 PM: My American Idol favorite has had busy lines for nearly 15 minutes. I hope that is a good sign.
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Post by: Jrand73 on May 09, 2006, 06:12:51 PM: I have to work tomorrow....
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Post by: FJL on May 09, 2006, 06:28:43 PM: I'll be E&T (Entertained and Traveled as well as Errant & Truant) for the next few days, through Saturday, or at least I think I will be, because I'm not sure what the internet situation is where I'm staying in San Diego. I assume I'll be able to read the goings-on here, just not sure if I'll be able to post, since I had that trouble last time I took a trip.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on May 09, 2006, 06:30:42 PM: Quote from: JRand55 on May 09, 2006, 06:12:08 PM
DR RLP - what is the scariest place on an aircraft carrier? What is the most exciting?

Scariest: Flight Deck during flight operations

Most exciting: Any exit being used for "Liberty Call".

Well, I guess the Chief's Mess was pretty lively...best food on the ship...but "exciting"? It eluded me.
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Post by: Cillaliz on May 09, 2006, 06:32:08 PM: Quote from: Ron Pulliam on May 09, 2006, 04:44:46 PM
Oh, crap!

Ponder this a bit more, will ya? See if your feeling was more about the "flight" than the actual "being in" San Francisco.

Otherwise, I'm gonna start packing stuff up to survive the earthquake!

No, it's not a specific feeling about the trip of being there. Could be that something may happen here if I'm gone. Just a general feeling I really shouldn't go
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Post by: Jane on May 09, 2006, 06:33:31 PM: SWW I enjoyed the story about the Folbot and Henrick .

Ginny, lets see how small this world really is…when does your mother leave for her cruise?

Rodzinsky/Mikey can you post a photo from back then? I want to decide for myself if you are really Mikey. ;D
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Post by: Jane on May 09, 2006, 06:43:46 PM: JMK were you the only one laughing when you played “The Morning After”? ;D
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Post by: Ginny on May 09, 2006, 06:50:02 PM: Quote from: Jane on May 09, 2006, 06:33:31 PM
Ginny, lets see how small this world really is…when does your mother leave for her cruise?

Jane - I think she said she leaves on September 8.
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Post by: Jane on May 09, 2006, 06:58:58 PM: Ginny, cool, your own blog. What does the E. stand for?

TPunk when is your mother going to Alaska?

Cillaliz I’m sure you did the right thing following your instincts and canceling the trip.
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Post by: Jane on May 09, 2006, 06:59:58 PM: Ginny, not such a small world. ;D We leave July 2nd.
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Post by: Jrand73 on May 09, 2006, 07:01:03 PM: Quote from: Ron Pulliam on May 09, 2006, 06:30:42 PM
Scariest: Flight Deck during flight operations

Most exciting: Any exit being used for "Liberty Call".

Well, I guess the Chief's Mess was pretty lively...best food on the ship...but "exciting"? It eluded me.

Interesting. Thanks! ;D
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Post by: Jrand73 on May 09, 2006, 07:02:19 PM: Anyone going to see the new POSEIDON movie?
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Post by: Jane on May 09, 2006, 07:03:08 PM: CP some of the stream cruises look very nice. I would like to try a short cruise on one.

There are a number of river cruises I find tempting, here and abroad. If we have to go to Bucharest again, a cruise on the Danube or the Black Sea from Bucharest might be nice.
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Post by: Jrand73 on May 09, 2006, 07:03:47 PM: I finally got through to cast my half dozen votes for my AI choice.
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Post by: Jane on May 09, 2006, 07:04:18 PM: Quote from: JRand55 on May 09, 2006, 07:02:19 PM
Anyone going to see the new POSEIDON movie?

Only if Keith wants to see it, which means if the reviews are good I expect so.
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Post by: Jane on May 09, 2006, 07:19:55 PM: Summers I went to camp and enjoyed kayaking and canoeing. A few summers ago our neighbor took us kayaking with him, once down a beautiful river on a bird sanctuary (have no idea where I was) and twice on the lake near our house. We used his double person kayak so Keith could do the work when I was tired. ;D

The problem with boats is they usually make me sick, cruises are okay for the most part. The cruise we took from Anchorage to Vancouver 11 years ago was fantastic & the reason we are returning this summer with friends. I don’t know if this trip will be as great since the ship doesn’t go as far up into Alaska, considering its Alaska it can’t be bad. :)

My best experience on a boat, in spite of the fact I was incredibly sea sick, was in Maui on a dolphin excursion. It was absolutely incredible-hundreds of Spinning Dolphins. Dolphins love to play in the wake of boats so if you want to have a nice long time with the dolphins the boat must spin continually to keep them there. So round and round we went, at full speed, :Pwhile up and around the dolphins went. :D
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Post by: Jrand73 on May 09, 2006, 07:25:59 PM: Quote from: Jane on May 09, 2006, 07:04:18 PM
Only if Keith wants to see it, which means if the reviews are good I expect so.

I am of a couple of minds about it....so I will wait for the HHW reviews...
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Post by: Jane on May 09, 2006, 07:39:57 PM: Sunday we saw Akeelah and the Bee, my kind of movie. :) We found Keke Palmer to be a delightful young actress. It really is her movie yet she had third billing, under the movie title while the two stars were above it.
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Post by: Jane on May 09, 2006, 07:41:42 PM: Jennifer did your express mail arrive? This afternoon I sent one to Romania, only takes 3-5 days. Good mail arriving in time vibes!

FJL have fun in San Diego.

‘night.
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Post by: Dan (the Man) on May 09, 2006, 07:50:51 PM: Did any LOST fan spot in their newspaper today an ad from The Hanso Foundation? It's a very realistic looking ad, in the front news section, no less. Basically, it decries a newly published novel called BAD TWIN (the manuscript that Sawyer had been reading) which conntains "misinformation" about the foundation. The ad says that the truth about Th Hanso Foundation can be found at (of course) www.TheHansoFoundation.org .

I'm sure that this (along with the commercial on last week's episode) is all part of the contest DR Jennifer mentioned a week or so ago. I don't think I like the show being promoted in this way. The "reality" of the show seems cheapened when it's called attention to this way.
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Post by: Matt H. on May 09, 2006, 08:09:46 PM: I was able to watch the first hour or so of FALLEN ANGEL. The DVD is GREAt looking, and except for an odd speck or two, is just wonderful. I'm thoroughly enjoying it. Look forward to seeing the conclusion tomorrow.
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Post by: TCB on May 09, 2006, 08:16:29 PM: Quote from: bk on May 09, 2006, 07:36:29 AM
Very gray here, too, but maybe it will burn off.

Pretty gray here too................. oh, you were talking about the weather.
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Post by: Matt H. on May 09, 2006, 08:18:26 PM: IDOL opinions - - - -

Well, my favorite Elliott pulled off two controlled, classy, passionate, and confident vocals. Definitely my favorite two songs of the night.

I thought Taylor had a very good night as well. I'd rank him second among the vocalists. He had fun with "Jailhouse Rock" and did a very soulful "In the Ghetto." His best overall night for quite a while, I thought.

Chris had an up and down night, but it was mostly fine. "Suspicious Minds" was mellow; "A Little More Conversation" was pretty good. The arrangement might have shifted the key upward a little earlier to give him more thrust into the song. The lower parts were rather bland while he did get in all the words and notes.

Sad to say, Katharine had a disastrous evening in my estimation. She not only forgot some words on her medley of "Hound Dog, "Don't Be Cruel" but when she got back the words, she was not on pitch and it ended badly. My favorite Elvis song "Can't Help Falling in Love With You" was just massacred to my ears. She took this sweet, simple ballad and embellished it to irritating and ineffectual degree. Again, by the end, her breathing was off, she lost her pitch, and lost the end of the song completely.

Everyone's lines were busy tonight, but I managed to get through at certain points to everyone (Taylor the least), so this may be close. Taylor alone is the only remaining vocalist who's never been in the bottom group. I think he'll stay that way tomorrow night, too.

For me, Elliott did more than enough to warrant a place in the final three, but I have a feeling that he'll go and Katharine will get to stay.
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Post by: Matt H. on May 09, 2006, 08:21:43 PM: HOUSE had a devastating episode tonight and a surprising turn of events with one of the characters which I didn't see coming at all.
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Post by: Jennifer on May 09, 2006, 08:21:44 PM: Well the important express mail did not arrive today. I've been feeling sick since i found out. Tomorrow is the last possible day they have. BUt it should have arrived yesterday. I can't believe that you pay extra and they take their time. I sent a regular parcel to the same address on the same day and it arrived 2 days ago! Argggggggggggg!!!!!!!!!! I felt so bad for the person who was desperately needing the express package. :(
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Post by: Matt H. on May 09, 2006, 08:24:23 PM: LAW & ORDER: SVU had a very unusual take on internet underage porn. And there was Gregg Edelmann right in the midst of it!

I noticed Mariska Hargitay's real-life husband Peter Hermann also guested on the show tonight playing an attorney representing the teenaged boy.
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Post by: Matt H. on May 09, 2006, 08:25:16 PM: I was tempted to go ahead and watch VERONICA MARS tonight to see the identity of the killer, but I can wait until tomorrow. Gives me something to look forward to.
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Post by: Jennifer on May 09, 2006, 08:25:40 PM: No, DR Jane no express package. Yes here it is also 3-5 days. And since the US has mail on saturday it should have arrived on monday. I will call tomorrow morning and see what they say. BUt i'm not happy.
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Post by: Jennifer on May 09, 2006, 08:28:24 PM: DR Dan re: LOST what was the commercial? I wish someone had mentioned it, because i specifically recorded the show on ABC in case they showed anything. But i did not see any commercials.

RE: that novel Bad Twins, i've read about that being an actual book that people can buy.
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Post by: Jennifer on May 09, 2006, 08:32:04 PM: I won't get to see VERONICA MARS until friday. :(

Gosh I am going to do my best not to read any of the entertainment sites on the internet!
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Post by: Jennifer on May 09, 2006, 08:34:18 PM: I'm not sure who I think will go on IDOL.

I guess it's not over yet on the West Coast, so i will leave some space.

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I think katharine will definitely be in the bottom 2. ANd i actually think that the judges praise will mean elliot will not go.

I didn't really get to watch it as well as usual, because i was with a big group of people, and my little niece. So it was hard to concentrate.

But I think that what the judges say will make a big difference. It wouldn't surprise me if Elliot was not even in the bottom 2. All the judges really went to bat for him.
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Post by: Jennifer on May 09, 2006, 08:35:25 PM: I also just watched the season finale of the Gilmore Girls, which plays from 10pm-11pm here.

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It made me all teary!
I cannot believe how emotionally wrenching some of these season finales have been!
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Post by: TCB on May 09, 2006, 08:41:00 PM: Quote from: Jed on May 09, 2006, 03:45:23 PM
Boats? For being around so much water, I've sadly little experience on 'em. Just a few ferries around Puget Sound and up to Victoria, B.C.

Well, I have had a lot of experience with cruising, and some of it did involve ferries. In addition, I have taken about eight or nine major cruises in the last twenty years. I love cruise ships. It is my chance to get a taste of how the elite are pampered. The cruise around the tip of South America was incredible (how many people can say they have been to the Falkland Islands?), the Bahamas cruise in the middle of a hurricane was frightening; but for me, cruising the Caribbean is still the absolute best.

Next year I am hoping to either go back through the Panama Canal, or do a round trip cruise from LA to Hawaii.
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Post by: TCB on May 09, 2006, 08:54:37 PM: Quote from: Ron Pulliam on May 09, 2006, 04:46:34 PM
Here is something ODD that should tickle the fancy of many of you:

On eBay, with a starting bid of $380,000:

Paul Bern's wedding gift to Jean Harlow (http://cgi.ebay.com/Jean-Harlow-wedding-gift-from-Paul-Bern-Hollywood-MGM_W0QQitemZ7615575908QQcategoryZ197QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem)

Oh! You meant the mural.
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Post by: Matt H. on May 09, 2006, 09:39:54 PM: Heading off to bed now.

Good night, everyone!
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Post by: TCB on May 09, 2006, 10:08:02 PM: CONGRATULATIONS,

TPUNK!
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Post by: bk on May 09, 2006, 10:36:08 PM: Back from dinner and a movie - a perfectly ordinary, somewhat wretched movie called Friends With Money - more about that in the notes.

So, I think the conversations that have happened over the last two days have sort of turned out okay - profuse apologies were made, which were, I feel, heartfelt, so I think things will be fine, although I'm always a bit wary after these sorts of things.
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Post by: DearReaderLaura on May 09, 2006, 10:43:19 PM: I'm glad things are going to turn out ok, BK.
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Post by: DakotaCelt on May 09, 2006, 10:57:55 PM: Quote from: vixmom on May 09, 2006, 07:43:23 AM
As long as you';re not staging another meltdown all should be fine :D :-*

and I am not far from one... It has been a very bad week...

It is the primary reason I have been E & T... I just do not want to inflect my grouchiness on anyone....
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Post by: DakotaCelt on May 09, 2006, 11:05:07 PM: TOTD:

I have been on a boat a few times...

One of the more interesting watercraft experiences was when some friends and I went canoeing at Cormarant Lake in Minnesota and in the wilderness area we got to see Bald Eagles nesting. What a sight! One swooped down and grabbed a fish from in the water near us.

I have been on a ferry up in Vancouver when I was visiting rellies in Vancouver and Seattle. While we were waiting for the ferry to leave i was watching this cat on a houseboat near by. He was having a hayday on the roof.

I have been on a boat a few other times since.
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Post by: DakotaCelt on May 09, 2006, 11:06:50 PM: Elmore, Ihope you enjoy DaVinci Code. I read it last summer and enjoyed it. I am presently reading Angels and Demons.
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Post by: DakotaCelt on May 09, 2006, 11:09:08 PM: Quote from: TPunk on May 09, 2006, 12:59:48 PM
I just had the most amazing lunch with Rodzinski. I met him at his office and we went to Little India in Queens for an Indian buffet lunch. I made three trips to ensure we got our money's worth of course.

Fargo now has an Indian buffet. The food is pretty good.
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Post by: DakotaCelt on May 09, 2006, 11:14:01 PM: Quote from: Ginny on May 09, 2006, 05:51:30 PM
P.A. announcement: "The Library closes in 15 minutes." ;D

hee hee hee.... Gee ours is a bit different. "The Library will close in 25 Minutes and circulation in 10 minutes."

I do like the closing one... One of the students did it in a darth vader voice.. RAther neat.. "The library now closed, please leave the building"
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Post by: DakotaCelt on May 09, 2006, 11:15:50 PM: I agree with the others, TPunk, we need to see a picture of you in your cap and gown!!

Again, congratulations, you have worked hard!
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Post by: DakotaCelt on May 09, 2006, 11:20:55 PM: Have a safe journey to San Diego, FJL... I will also add try to have some fun also!!
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Post by: PennyO on May 10, 2006, 12:00:50 AM: I just got back to the cabin from Seattle - reading was a real good time. All solid actors, all very congenial. And the director had FoOD there for us, at the act break! Mmmmm, nice marinated mozzarella, seedless dark purple and green grapes, those blue (BLUE!) corn chips with guacamole and a nice spinach dip... I go back again tomorrow. This is so fun! I realize that I have done readings of three plays in less than three weeks! Ah, life!

Well, it's very late for me - so I'll toddle off to bed. Sweet dreams, all!
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Post by: George on May 10, 2006, 12:13:08 AM: Good news about the conversations, BK. Vibes that there is no need to be wary in the future. :)
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Post by: George on May 10, 2006, 12:14:59 AM: Good night, Penny! I can't wait until Monday! I'm going to try and borrow my sister's digital camera and maybe we can get a couple of pictures afterwards...NOT DURING, of course! ;D
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Post by: George on May 10, 2006, 12:17:18 AM: Gratuitous Post in memory of the TV show, "Room 222." ;)
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Post by: George on May 10, 2006, 12:22:10 AM: Well, this Friday (the day after tomorrow), Cheryl Bentyne of The Manhattan Transfer is performing in Seattle! She's doing two shows and, on a whim, I bought a ticket to each performance! She's doing a 7:00 p.m. show and a 10:00 p.m. show. I bought one for each! They were fairly cheap, so I thought, "Why Not?" (a Manhattan Transfer reference!). So that's what I'll be doing on Friday. ;D