Topic: HENCEFORTH (Read 30925 times)

Jane · « **Reply #120 on:** June 09, 2004, 02:52:03 PM »

RLP-LOL.

bk · « **Reply #121 on:** June 09, 2004, 03:22:39 PM »

Heidi Fleiss - I am so there.

Jason · « **Reply #122 on:** June 09, 2004, 03:33:54 PM »

I'm tired. I don't know why--I didn't do much of anything at work today. I wasn't at the reception desk today--I was sans computer--that's why I didn't post earlier.

It's really hot in New York today. And yes, Danise, it smells like dog poop and rotten garbage outside. According to Weather.com, it's 90 degrees right now in Central Park...and it's 6:30!! It shouldn't be 90 degrees at 6:30! I was good today, though, and turned the A/C off before I left my apartment (I left the fan running), so hopefully that will save my landlord a few bucks.

I'm still listening to VIOLET. I swiped a persual copy of the script and vocal book from work today so I can read it. I'd really like to do this show someday. And don't worry--I'll return the script when I'm done with it.

Ask BK: BK, who left the cake out in the rain?

Loving you
Is easy because you're beautiful....
Making love with you
Is all I want to do....
Loving you
Is more than just a dream come true....
And everything that I do
Is out of loving you....

Doo-ooh doo-ooh doo doo...
AHHHHHHHH!

Sandra · « **Reply #123 on:** June 09, 2004, 03:47:09 PM »

Dear BK or anybody else,

My brother would like to know why Frank Sinatra was called the Chairman of the Board, and frankly (see what I did there?) I would like to know too.

George · « **Reply #124 on:** June 09, 2004, 03:47:39 PM »

Quote from: RLP on June 09, 2004, 02:48:10 PM

We all got a memo from the Board of Supervisors today informing us that Governor Schwarzenegger has declared Friday a holiday for State workers, as it is for Federal workers, in honor of the interment of President Reagan.

Alameda County workers, the memo said, will observe a moment of silence at NOON, to commemorate the late president's memory.

NOON!...Most folks are at lunch at NOON. THey're not even giving us ONE FREAKING MINUTE OF County time!

We (at the library where I work) got an e-mail from our director saying:

I understand there has been some question about lowering the flags for 30 days in memoriam of the death of a past President. We will be lowering our flags to half-staff at all locations from now until July 5th. This is not a question of politics, but of protocol.

However, we will not be closing on Friday for the funeral. Federal offices are closing for the day, but the State Library informs me that State offices are not closing [we're a special county taxing district]. Because we have four hours of funeral leave available to each employee to cover funerals of non-relatives, you would be free to use that, if you want to watch the funeral on TV. Be sure to check with your supervisor first. Of course, not everyone in a location can be gone at the same time.

I know of one woman already who has asked to use this Funeral leave so that she can watch the funeral at home. If anyone else has this option, will you use it? I'm just curious. I respect the man, but I don't feel the need to take time off from work to watch him being put into the ground. I have a VCR and I know how to use it...although, I'm not planning on it. Just my opinion.

Charles Pogue · « **Reply #125 on:** June 09, 2004, 04:08:13 PM »

Friday is a holiday for Federal Workers? You mean NO mail Friday? Damn!

bk · « **Reply #126 on:** June 09, 2004, 04:15:24 PM »

Because he was the Chairman of the Board - the leader, A-Number One, top of the hill. I, on the other hand, am the Chairman of the Bored.

I would say eBay has a major problem on their hands. Whoever did what they did last Saturday came back on today and managed to do it again to 229 people, many of them the same as last time - they caught him quickly but not quickly enough, and now we're out two listing fees and two final value fees that we can't get back for weeks. BUT, I finally have a phone number to call - I shall be calling them first thing in the morning.

Sandra · « **Reply #127 on:** June 09, 2004, 04:33:50 PM »

Thank you, BK.

It is nice and cool here. It's only 93 degrees.

Some time I'll have to tell y'all the story of The Fourth Grade Teacher and the Zebra Fish.

Robin · « **Reply #128 on:** June 09, 2004, 04:35:55 PM »

I must be one of the fortunate few who have never, not even once, in nearly 200 eBay transactions, as seller and as a buyer, have only once had a problem.

But that was because of the United States Postal Service crushing a package to death, and not because of anything the seller did. It took me nearly a year to get the Post Office to pay for the insurance, and that was a pain in the tuchus, lemme tell ya!

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #129 on:** June 09, 2004, 04:36:08 PM »

"Chairman of the Board" -- it's one of those nonsensical euphemisms someone made up...probably because it was more masculine than calling him "Old Blue Eyes" in introductions, etc.

The question is: What board? Board of what? A Sinatra fan ought to answer here, 'cause I haven't a clue how to gush over someone I didn't care for.

Robin · « **Reply #130 on:** June 09, 2004, 04:38:39 PM »

Quote from: Charles Pogue on June 09, 2004, 04:08:13 PM

Friday is a holiday for Federal Workers? You mean NO mail Friday? Damn!

Do you think there will be a holiday for Federal Workers when Jimmy Carter shuffles off this mortal coil?

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #131 on:** June 09, 2004, 04:40:58 PM »

Quote from: Robin on June 09, 2004, 04:35:55 PM

I must be one of the fortunate few who have never, not even once, in nearly 200 eBay transactions, as seller and as a buyer, have only once had a problem.

But that was because of the United States Postal Service crushing a package to death, and not because of anything the seller did. It took me nearly a year to get the Post Office to pay for the insurance, and that was a pain in the tuchus, lemme tell ya!

My one tragic -- and inexplicable -- eBay disaster centered around a Sondheim article I won that was part of a public broadcasting auction in New Jersey.

It was a mockup for a Sondheim compilation LP -- the one in which Sondheim's signature -- blown up, of course -- appears diagonally from lower left to upper right corner. There had been a few of those, and Sondheim had signed in his own hand underneath the blown-up signature.

I got my several hundred dollars back....but the mystery is what happened to it -- it was supposedly shipped, insured, but no one could come forward with the supporting documentation -- and, of course, NO ONE could possibly suspect anyone in the "station" of theft. Huh-uh!!!

It was to have been a unique acquisition that brought money to the station -- instead, they lost the article and the money, too. I'm still steamed about it and it has been more than a year since it happened.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #132 on:** June 09, 2004, 04:42:28 PM »

Quote from: Robin on June 09, 2004, 04:38:39 PM

Do you think there will be a holiday for Federal Workers when Jimmy Carter shuffles off this mortal coil?

I don't think there's much question about it. I hope not, anyway.

It shouldn't matter what party is in power -- Carter is the ONLY ex-President who has selflessly given of him self on local, national and international levels time and again.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #133 on:** June 09, 2004, 04:43:32 PM »

Since Friday won't be a "day off", I'm taking a floating holiday.

My plan is to see "...Prisoner of Azkaban."

George · « **Reply #134 on:** June 09, 2004, 04:52:32 PM »

This Friday, I'm leaving work early to go to a Seattle Storm women's basketball game. My niece was supposed to go, but she can't (she's having gum surgery today), so I'm going with a co-worker who likes basketball.

bk · « **Reply #135 on:** June 09, 2004, 04:53:51 PM »

I decided to jog after all and just got back from another two-miler. I must now collapse on my couch like so much fish.

MBarnum · « **Reply #136 on:** June 09, 2004, 05:31:50 PM »

DR Jason, thank you very much for the CD! It just arrived (Bombay Dreams) and I am listening to it as I type. I really like it so far. Nice songs. Is this the original version or the revamped version (it is revamped for the US showing isn't it?).

Have you listened to Nayak yet? I haven't heard the Shakalaka Baby song on Bombay Dreams just yet so don't know if it is same or a different from the version on Nayak.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #137 on:** June 09, 2004, 05:33:18 PM »

Good Evening!

Sorry to be so relatively "quiet" today. I guess I'm just settling into my post-long-run routine. Of course, getting out of bed around 2:00, and then somehow finding myself napping on the couch around 5:30 probably doesn't help either. So...

For Ask BK Day:

Do you wear running/jogging shoes when you go for your jogs? Or do you just wear the standard "tennis shoes"?

-For myself, I have a separate pair of running shoes - which truly were/are worth the investment. Otherwise, I have a pair of cross-trainers for my daily wear/use. -And I only wear New Balance since I have wide feet. *Although, it has felt like I've "lost" some width as I've lost some weight over the past two years.

How much thought do you put into your jogging attire? Do you dress for comfort? Or do you dress for the possibility that you might run into someone you know while you are jogging?

MBarnum · « **Reply #138 on:** June 09, 2004, 05:33:30 PM »

Ok, I am listening to Shakalaka Baby on Bombay Dreams and it is different...on Nayak it is sung in Hindi but this other version is in English...I still like it though. I wonder what Shakalaka means in Hindi?

Panni · « **Reply #139 on:** June 09, 2004, 05:38:02 PM »

Quote from: bk on June 09, 2004, 04:53:51 PM

I decided to jog after all and just got back from another two-miler. I must now collapse on my couch like so much fish.

I hate to be a pedant, but if a fish

collapsed on your couch it would die a horrible death.

Unless your couch is underwater, of course. So unless you're planning to shuffle off this mortal coil, perhaps another analogy is called for.

Jane · « **Reply #140 on:** June 09, 2004, 05:48:27 PM »

Quote from: Sandra on June 09, 2004, 03:47:09 PM

Dear BK or anybody else,

My brother would like to know why Frank Sinatra was called the Chairman of the Board, and frankly (see what I did there?) I would like to know too.

Keith says, because he was Chairman of the “Rat Pack”. Then he said to check out Google where I got a slightly different answer:

He originally recorded for Columbia Records in the 1940s but switched to Capitol Records in the 1950s. At Capitol, he worked with many of the finest arrangers of the era, most notably Nelson Riddle and Billy May, with whom he made a series of highly regarded recordings. By the 1960s he was a big enough star to start his own record label: Reprise Records. His position with the label earned him the long-lasting nickname "The Chairman of the Board".

Keith still thinks he is correct.

Panni · « **Reply #141 on:** June 09, 2004, 05:51:29 PM »

On a happier note - I hear that SCTV has just been released on DVD. Now I MUST get a new DVD player because I want to laugh and then laugh some more.
One of the joys of working on KING OF KENSINGTON in the last century, was that, as I recall, every single one of the SCTV people guested at least once, some several times. (For those not familiar with SCTV, that would be Joe Flaherty, Andrea Martin, Catherine O'Hara, Dave Thomas, John Candy, Eugene Levy and Rick Moranis.) No matter how lame the Kensington material (and sometimes it was - NEVER when I wrote if, of course) they made it funny.

Sandra · « **Reply #142 on:** June 09, 2004, 05:55:48 PM »

It's probably best not to argue, Jane.

Tell Keith thank you for me.

I am listening to my Arthur and Friends CD. The showstopper is called My Nightlight. Very moving and powerful.

George · « **Reply #143 on:** June 09, 2004, 06:09:37 PM »

Quote from: MBarnum on June 09, 2004, 05:33:30 PM

Ok, I am listening to Shakalaka Baby on Bombay Dreams and it is different...on Nayak it is sung in Hindi but this other version is in English...I still like it though. I wonder what Shakalaka means in Hindi?

"Shake your heiny?"

Yea, that's it! Shake Your Heiny, Baby!

Jane · « **Reply #144 on:** June 09, 2004, 06:12:27 PM »

Did anyone read this weeks Parade? I just finished reading the story of a woman’s whose life was saved while on-line with her gaming group. Seems there are some happy on-line gaming families out there. It made me think of our happy family here at HHW.

Jane · « **Reply #145 on:** June 09, 2004, 06:13:29 PM »

Sandra, Keith says you are welcome.

Jane · « **Reply #146 on:** June 09, 2004, 06:18:36 PM »

Now I’m reading about a miniature horse named Panda that is a guide horse for a blind woman.

bk · « **Reply #147 on:** June 09, 2004, 06:21:05 PM »

I just wear tennis shoes - I don't think they're special running shoes or anything.

Jane · « **Reply #148 on:** June 09, 2004, 06:24:21 PM »

Now I must get some work done. I’m trying to read without posting much lately as I have way too much work to do before we leave for Prague next week.

Jane · « **Reply #149 on:** June 09, 2004, 06:26:45 PM »

Bruce you really should wear proper running shoes when you jog-to protect your back and knees if nothing else.

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