Topic: TOPSY-TURVY (Read 7269 times)

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #31 on:** October 26, 2023, 06:47:26 AM »

From British Gramophone:

vixmom · « **Reply #32 on:** October 26, 2023, 06:51:47 AM »

I am so tired of a minuscule extremist group destroying this country.

I would go back to 2000…abolish the electoral college and have straight majority vote for President. Also abolish the congressional districts and have a statewide vote for congressman. The ones ( however many each state is entitled to) with the most votes go to DC an d represent the whole state.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #33 on:** October 26, 2023, 07:05:43 AM »

I can’t even think about all of that right now. Too depressing.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #34 on:** October 26, 2023, 07:15:40 AM »

A question:

I wanted to see how I’d described something way back in one of my earlier posts here (like, early 2012), and was surprised to find that the index stops in September 2012. I guess I’ve never looked back that far before, but I thought the index of postings went back quite a bit farther. Were the earlier years on different software?

ChasSmith · « **Reply #35 on:** October 26, 2023, 07:18:46 AM »

Looks like the column archives of BK’s notes go all the way back to the very beginning in 2001. I thought the discussion pages might, too.

EDIT: I don’t need to do that search. Just wondered.

John G. · « **Reply #36 on:** October 26, 2023, 07:56:39 AM »

About an inch of rain (0.91 to be exact) fell this morning.

John G. · « **Reply #37 on:** October 26, 2023, 07:56:58 AM »

I have some happy plants.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #38 on:** October 26, 2023, 08:07:20 AM »

TOD:

I can add nothing to what has already been posted......I wish......

Jrand74 · « **Reply #39 on:** October 26, 2023, 08:07:54 AM »

Watching the press conference from Maine. Terrible.....shooter still at large.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #40 on:** October 26, 2023, 08:08:45 AM »

DR JEANNE you don't have to do anything to become a member of the DO NOTHING CLUB.

You're already in. I'll not send you all the details someday.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #41 on:** October 26, 2023, 08:09:06 AM »

What did Topsy do at the end of the play "Uncle Tom's Cabin"?

Jrand74 · « **Reply #42 on:** October 26, 2023, 08:09:27 AM »

She took off her makeup and went back to the hotel.

George · « **Reply #43 on:** October 26, 2023, 08:10:10 AM »

Quote from: Ron Pulliam on October 26, 2023, 05:48:55 AM

But first: TOD

Let's just say that Trump would not exist, nor would any of the so-called MAGA crowd.

~~~SUPER DITTO!!~~~

Jrand74 · « **Reply #44 on:** October 26, 2023, 08:11:55 AM »

The early microwaves were six feet tall and weighed 750 lbs. So that photo is a bit misleading.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #45 on:** October 26, 2023, 08:29:22 AM »

I wonder if this was posted here before. I do remember hearing about his plans to do it, and it apparently happened about a year ago. Tom Lehrer has released all of his songs and lyrics into the public domain.

https://tomlehrersongs.com/?fbclid=IwAR2tRo4-ioD_K-VNb-q9cmktXiUzTgmIdrqLo2YoGYIPZJGJrNzuVJgRtvM

So if anyone grew up listening to these and wants to have them, here you go.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #46 on:** October 26, 2023, 09:41:23 AM »

Quote from: Ron Pulliam on October 26, 2023, 06:44:05 AM

Mike Barnacle and Chris Matthews discussed Johnson on "Morning Joe" a few minutes ago. The view was more positive than I thought it might be.

Matthews thinks Johnson -- despite his MAGA association and having been a "voice" to overturn the 2020 vote count -- could do well and keep the MAGA element in the House happy.

Meh!

As a court show watcher, it's been my observation that as soon as a defendant proclaims himself/herself a decent Christian, they're guilty as hell and neither decent nor Christian. The new Speaker is playing the same game.

singdaw · « **Reply #47 on:** October 26, 2023, 10:37:38 AM »

Thanks for posting that review clip, DR Ron Pulliam. Either I missed it, or I haven't received that issue yet. There seems to be a lag.

singdaw · « **Reply #48 on:** October 26, 2023, 10:40:39 AM »

TOD: I'd like to make kindness and civility fashionable again. I know; a lost cause.

singdaw · « **Reply #49 on:** October 26, 2023, 10:41:18 AM »

Thanks for the reminder about Tom Lehrer, DR ChasSmith.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #50 on:** October 26, 2023, 10:43:26 AM »

Quote from: singdaw on October 26, 2023, 10:37:38 AM

Thanks for posting that review clip, DR Ron Pulliam. Either I missed it, or I haven't received that issue yet. There seems to be a lag.

Someone on FB posted it yesterday. I have the impression it is from the latest issue.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #51 on:** October 26, 2023, 10:48:09 AM »

Tom Lehrer can always make me laugh.

Thanks for the link.

vixmom · « **Reply #52 on:** October 26, 2023, 10:51:00 AM »

Wordle 859 4/6

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ChasSmith · « **Reply #53 on:** October 26, 2023, 11:01:01 AM »

I just spent an hour and a half "clearing brush".

(Note: not a euphemism.)

So actually, about 50 minutes was spent pulling brambles and stuff, cutting a few things with the snippers, that kind of thing. Guess what the remaining 40 minutes was spent on.

I'd better just tell you. It was spent pulling tiny burrs off my work gloves, my shirt, my jeans, my shoelaces, my cap, and some skin just for good measure. Nothing painful, though I definitely wouldn't want to fall into a patch of whatever this is. As for what it is, I'll have to do some googling or asking around. It seems to be a kind of weedy growth that's new to my property, and I certainly wasn't expecting it. I'm used to forgetting myself and walking through some weeds and having to pick burrs off my shoes, but these are tiny little things that just take forever to pull off.

bk · « **Reply #54 on:** October 26, 2023, 11:02:49 AM »

I'm up, I'm up - a little over eight hours of sleep. Would have slept another hour but, you know, telephonic calls.

George · « **Reply #55 on:** October 26, 2023, 11:03:40 AM »

Quote from: ChasSmith on October 26, 2023, 08:29:22 AM

I wonder if this was posted here before. I do remember hearing about his plans to do it, and it apparently happened about a year ago. Tom Lehrer has released all of his songs and lyrics into the public domain.

https://tomlehrersongs.com/?fbclid=IwAR2tRo4-ioD_K-VNb-q9cmktXiUzTgmIdrqLo2YoGYIPZJGJrNzuVJgRtvM

So if anyone grew up listening to these and wants to have them, here you go.

Yup. My sister's boyfriend told me about that.

George · « **Reply #56 on:** October 26, 2023, 11:21:41 AM »

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ChasSmith · « **Reply #57 on:** October 26, 2023, 11:22:37 AM »

Quote from: Jrand73 on October 26, 2023, 10:48:09 AM

Tom Lehrer can always make me laugh.

Thanks for the link.

I was wondering if he was going to share his actual piano arrangements from when he recorded these, as opposed to sheet music versions or those from the "Tomfoolery" book. Not so. BUT...it also doesn't much matter because many of the songs are very simple in their accompaniment so they are indeed pretty faithful to what he played. And I transcribed the extended "Vatican Rag" piano part decades ago and could probably still play it right now. If I had a mind to. Which I don't.

"New Math" has an interesting note. He says it would have taken so many pages to actually write out the 2/4 patter rhythm he plays through much of it that he didn't bother to try including that. He's got the chorus and all the lyrics and spoken parts there.

singdaw · « **Reply #58 on:** October 26, 2023, 11:31:06 AM »

DR ChasSmith - there are many apps that allow you to take a photo of a plant and it will tell you what it is. The one I have works very well.

singdaw · « **Reply #59 on:** October 26, 2023, 11:31:38 AM »

The apps don't, however, do the yard work for you. Alas.

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