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Title: MUNCHING ON MUNCH
Post by: bk on August 28, 2025, 12:19:00 AM
Well, you've read the notes, the notes munched on Munch, and now it is time for you to post until the munching cows come home.
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Post by: bk on August 28, 2025, 12:21:00 AM
And the word of the day is: SHIMMERING!
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Post by: George on August 28, 2025, 12:47:49 AM
Wordle 1,531 4/6

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Post by: George on August 28, 2025, 12:48:57 AM
Topic of the Day:  Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi.
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Post by: Freddie on August 28, 2025, 02:35:29 AM
TOD:

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
The Godfather, Part II


If Silence of the Lambs qualifies as a sequel, then Silence of the Lambs


I'm sure there are others, but I can't think of them right now.
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Post by: elmore3003 on August 28, 2025, 04:19:08 AM
Good morning, all!
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Post by: elmore3003 on August 28, 2025, 04:22:23 AM
My body is a bunch of pains this morning: shoulder, back, and upper thighs are all out of whack. I suspect the back and aches come from lying in a poor position last night, but if I were a horse, I'd soon be a can of Alpo,
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Post by: elmore3003 on August 28, 2025, 04:23:06 AM
Tomorrow I must step out, so I plan on taking it very very easy today.
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Post by: elmore3003 on August 28, 2025, 04:24:18 AM
DR George, that photo of the coast makes me want to play in the surf and bask in the sun. It's really stunning.
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Post by: elmore3003 on August 28, 2025, 04:27:25 AM
Last night, I received the most wonderful email from Jack Viertel:
I’ve just made my way through your absolutely charming book, which reads like a fictional memoir of three creatures, of whom you are one. It’s adorable and engaging and I hope many readers find it, and find it so. And I have to say that I, who am not by nature a cat person, admire your cats much more than Andrew Lloyd Webber’s. Even if Annabelle and Thatch like Cats, they didn’t convince me. But over all, the book was just what you meant it to be, and that’s a very uplifting, whimsical tale of life in the big city, minus most of the city.
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Post by: elmore3003 on August 28, 2025, 04:29:04 AM
Speaking of Jack, he and his son Josh have a book coming out very soon:
https://www.amazon.com/Glass-Eel-J-Viertel/dp/161316680X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=23SPFPTY37WV7&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.noxiZHCUT2gyPnpoQRVFBjrnZljNEXXi58ZAZ9qYZPnz7__20qs2OW9nl2FGvTfNKDeUTJIXEFYhbNLaMoxUlfzUdy8QjxgXjdieLLdB63UPWcUP7CQ71hnHmR5-NNwjJ8hys7m2aqM3PyNz3953VfFb5dIX0CLPn2Fr9-srfrwVTQzTurzBiKfmUb-CpbTD9ZBD01RS6DkPgRutZp7-IJgBxN74TTkGu9N3c14Tqb8.nzx6ta8UDn8h7AE0ZVbASguNUNgRsfQKrVOmau5uKYc&dib_tag=se&keywords=the+glass+eel&qid=1756380206&sprefix=the+glass+eel%2Caps%2C105&sr=8-1
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Post by: elmore3003 on August 28, 2025, 04:35:09 AM
I'm still pondering my day. I need to call Joshie, but my principle focus is gathering and printing personal information for an application. My deadline is Sept. 30, but I want to make the submission ASAP so I know everything is in their hands.
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Post by: singdaw on August 28, 2025, 04:58:13 AM
That is indeed a wonderful email, DR elmore3003!
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Post by: singdaw on August 28, 2025, 04:58:30 AM
Good morning, friends.
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Post by: singdaw on August 28, 2025, 04:58:37 AM
And others.
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Post by: Freddie on August 28, 2025, 05:05:48 AM
Speaking of Jack, he and his son Josh have a book coming out very soon:
https://www.amazon.com/Glass-Eel-J-Viertel/dp/161316680X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=23SPFPTY37WV7&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.noxiZHCUT2gyPnpoQRVFBjrnZljNEXXi58ZAZ9qYZPnz7__20qs2OW9nl2FGvTfNKDeUTJIXEFYhbNLaMoxUlfzUdy8QjxgXjdieLLdB63UPWcUP7CQ71hnHmR5-NNwjJ8hys7m2aqM3PyNz3953VfFb5dIX0CLPn2Fr9-srfrwVTQzTurzBiKfmUb-CpbTD9ZBD01RS6DkPgRutZp7-IJgBxN74TTkGu9N3c14Tqb8.nzx6ta8UDn8h7AE0ZVbASguNUNgRsfQKrVOmau5uKYc&dib_tag=se&keywords=the+glass+eel&qid=1756380206&sprefix=the+glass+eel%2Caps%2C105&sr=8-1


Larry, just be careful of that wolf in sheep's clothing - remember how miserably you said (right here on HHW) that Jack Viertel had treated you before he decided that you were useful to him at the time of "New Yorkers."







Title: Re: MUNCHING ON MUNCH
Post by: Freddie on August 28, 2025, 05:06:42 AM
Last night, I received the most wonderful email from Jack Viertel:
I’ve just made my way through your absolutely charming book, which reads like a fictional memoir of three creatures, of whom you are one. It’s adorable and engaging and I hope many readers find it, and find it so. And I have to say that I, who am not by nature a cat person, admire your cats much more than Andrew Lloyd Webber’s. Even if Annabelle and Thatch like Cats, they didn’t convince me. But over all, the book was just what you meant it to be, and that’s a very uplifting, whimsical tale of life in the big city, minus most of the city.


That's a lovely, well-deserved email, though.
Title: Re: MUNCHING ON MUNCH
Post by: Freddie on August 28, 2025, 05:17:15 AM
In that email, I'd have to say, Jack Viertel speaks the truth.
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Post by: John G. on August 28, 2025, 05:28:39 AM
Good morning, all.
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Post by: John G. on August 28, 2025, 05:28:58 AM
Great email, Elmore.
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Post by: ChasSmith on August 28, 2025, 06:57:53 AM
Good morning, all.
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Post by: ChasSmith on August 28, 2025, 07:00:52 AM
This is a weird day. But they all are. With the housemates coming and going for various reasons lately, my sense of what day it is has been entirely screwed up. Now they're both at Howe Caverns in upstate NY for the next week or so (special job project Kristi is working), and every day feels like a Saturday to me.
Title: Re: MUNCHING ON MUNCH
Post by: ChasSmith on August 28, 2025, 07:23:46 AM
You might remember several days ago I posted about a restaurant in June 1972 called Munch Box which had formerly been a Du-Par's. The web is full of postcards and photos showing the Du-Par's, but I'd never found anything on its Munch Box incarnation until I remembered to check Ed Ruscha's "Then and Now" book of Hollywood Blvd. photos. In his April 1973 photo strip, THERE IT IS. So I know it was Munch Box for at least a year.

But wait, there's more! BK had posted this incredible 1971 film strip taken around Hollywood & Highland which I've been poring over. And now there's another one of Hollywood & Vine. So in 1971, in between being a Du-Par's and Munch Box, the name of the jernt was Jim Collins' Restaurant, something I'd never heard of. A quick search on the name Jim Collins returns James A. Collins who was pretty big in the food biz - he was a franchisee of Kentucky Fried Chicken, and he bought the Sizzler chain! I haven't determined that was his place on Vine, but I'm betting it was.

Here follows the photographic evidence. First the pre-1970s Du-Par's:

Title: Re: MUNCHING ON MUNCH
Post by: ChasSmith on August 28, 2025, 07:24:23 AM
In early 1971, Jim Collins' Restaurant. Click to enlarge:
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Post by: ChasSmith on August 28, 2025, 07:24:58 AM
In 1973, Munch Box. You definitely have to click on this one:
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Post by: ChasSmith on August 28, 2025, 07:26:55 AM
After that, I know it was a Sun Palace, and I believe I can dig out a picture of my own showing that. Maybe later.

The cafeteria across the street was a BK favorite, and I was also in it in 1972. It was an Ontra, but I believe that name wasn't still on it when I knew it.
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Post by: ChasSmith on August 28, 2025, 07:27:55 AM
Happy to have unearthed Munch Box on Munching on Munch Day.
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Post by: John G. on August 28, 2025, 09:26:46 AM
You might remember several days ago I posted about a restaurant in June 1972 called Munch Box which had formerly been a Du-Par's. The web is full of postcards and photos showing the Du-Par's, but I'd never found anything on its Munch Box incarnation until I remembered to check Ed Ruscha's "Then and Now" book of Hollywood Blvd. photos. In his April 1973 photo strip, THERE IT IS. So I know it was Munch Box for at least a year.

But wait, there's more! BK had posted this incredible 1971 film strip taken around Hollywood & Highland which I've been poring over. And now there's another one of Hollywood & Vine. So in 1971, in between being a Du-Par's and Munch Box, the name of the jernt was Jim Collins' Restaurant, something I'd never heard of. A quick search on the name Jim Collins returns James A. Collins who was pretty big in the food biz - he was a franchisee of Kentucky Fried Chicken, and he bought the Sizzler chain! I haven't determined that was his place on Vine, but I'm betting it was.

Here follows the photographic evidence. First the pre-1970s Du-Par's:



That sign is so beautiful.
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Post by: John G. on August 28, 2025, 09:27:14 AM
Food distributed.
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Post by: John G. on August 28, 2025, 09:27:51 AM
This week, we had boneless leg of lamb to hand out in addition to everything else.
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Post by: John G. on August 28, 2025, 09:28:02 AM
Two!
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Post by: Jane on August 28, 2025, 09:28:54 AM
Thank you DR Rodzinski.
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Post by: Jane on August 28, 2025, 09:31:20 AM
From Bruce:

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The most maddening thing to correct is her habit of suddenly writing about the past in the present tense, where it makes no sense, and doesn't mesh with other sections of the book. That takes forever to fix. But I mush on because I musht.

Oh my.  I'm relieved you will soon be done.
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Post by: Jrand75 on August 28, 2025, 09:32:09 AM
Thursday.
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Post by: Jrand75 on August 28, 2025, 09:32:23 AM
DR CHAS SMITH nice photos.
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Post by: Jrand75 on August 28, 2025, 09:32:56 AM
I checked out ORPHAN but it would cost me $12.99 to watch it.  I may just see if there is a DVD on Ebay.
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Post by: Jane on August 28, 2025, 09:33:04 AM
DR George have a fun day.  It sounds like it will also be a long day.
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Post by: Jrand75 on August 28, 2025, 09:33:19 AM
Very cloudy today. But that's okay.
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Post by: Jane on August 28, 2025, 09:34:03 AM
Wordle 1,531 4/6

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Very good.
Title: Re: MUNCHING ON MUNCH
Post by: Jane on August 28, 2025, 09:36:04 AM
You might remember several days ago I posted about a restaurant in June 1972 called Munch Box which had formerly been a Du-Par's. The web is full of postcards and photos showing the Du-Par's, but I'd never found anything on its Munch Box incarnation until I remembered to check Ed Ruscha's "Then and Now" book of Hollywood Blvd. photos. In his April 1973 photo strip, THERE IT IS. So I know it was Munch Box for at least a year.

But wait, there's more! BK had posted this incredible 1971 film strip taken around Hollywood & Highland which I've been poring over. And now there's another one of Hollywood & Vine. So in 1971, in between being a Du-Par's and Munch Box, the name of the jernt was Jim Collins' Restaurant, something I'd never heard of. A quick search on the name Jim Collins returns James A. Collins who was pretty big in the food biz - he was a franchisee of Kentucky Fried Chicken, and he bought the Sizzler chain! I haven't determined that was his place on Vine, but I'm betting it was.

Here follows the photographic evidence. First the pre-1970s Du-Par's:



Thanks for the photo.
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Post by: Jane on August 28, 2025, 09:37:10 AM
You might remember several days ago I posted about a restaurant in June 1972 called Munch Box which had formerly been a Du-Par's. The web is full of postcards and photos showing the Du-Par's, but I'd never found anything on its Munch Box incarnation until I remembered to check Ed Ruscha's "Then and Now" book of Hollywood Blvd. photos. In his April 1973 photo strip, THERE IT IS. So I know it was Munch Box for at least a year.

But wait, there's more! BK had posted this incredible 1971 film strip taken around Hollywood & Highland which I've been poring over. And now there's another one of Hollywood & Vine. So in 1971, in between being a Du-Par's and Munch Box, the name of the jernt was Jim Collins' Restaurant, something I'd never heard of. A quick search on the name Jim Collins returns James A. Collins who was pretty big in the food biz - he was a franchisee of Kentucky Fried Chicken, and he bought the Sizzler chain! I haven't determined that was his place on Vine, but I'm betting it was.

Here follows the photographic evidence. First the pre-1970s Du-Par's:



That sign is so beautiful.

It is a nice sign.
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Post by: Jane on August 28, 2025, 09:37:36 AM
DR Chas, I enjoyed the other two photos as well.
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Post by: Jrand75 on August 28, 2025, 10:14:54 AM
HA! I found ORPHAN on DVD (no case disc only) for $3.50.

So i should have it some time next week.
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Post by: elmore3003 on August 28, 2025, 11:33:48 AM
I've had a nice bath and accomplished some of the work I wanted to do today. I think I can fiinish up by next Tuesday.
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Post by: Freddie on August 28, 2025, 12:01:50 PM
This is almost a "No groaning allowed" kind of wordplay -

but an old clip is going viral where Carly Simon explains that as a kid, she thought her dad owned a shoe store -  and someone pointed out to her "No, your dad doesn't own a shoe store, he's Simon of Simon and Schuster."   
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Post by: Freddie on August 28, 2025, 12:20:04 PM
I got a lovely note from an old friend who's a greatly respected professor to whom I'd sent my new book.  (He and his wife were so instrumental in helping me navigate the world of publishing many years ago.) I don't dare ask him to write an Amazon review, but if I ever do go on to do a hardcover edition of this new book, I might feel comfortable asking him to do a blurb.

"First, thanks you SO much for sending us your delightful, smart, funny, wise and politically necessary book. I’ve always admired your smarts, your comic flair and your deft skill with lyrics and this collection is a real feast of all of those things combined/  A  treasure. Again, thank you SO much for thinking of us and all of our love to you and Skip"


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Post by: Freddie on August 28, 2025, 12:20:58 PM
I'm feeling if I'm going to trust the good "reviews," I have to trust the one with reservations, even when they're not five stars.  I'm guessing it's a blind spot in my part to have thought "The Little Things You Do Together" from COMPANY was a generally well-known song, except to people who know the Sondheim catalog reasonably well.

I'd guess in thinking over Sondheim sings, "Send in the Clowns" is a famous song, "Good Thing Going" and "The Ladies Who Lunch" and "I'm Still Here" are generally known, but "The Little Things You Do Together" is not.
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Post by: Jane on August 28, 2025, 12:22:36 PM
This is almost a "No groaning allowed" kind of wordplay -

but an old clip is going viral where Carly Simon explains that as a kid, she thought her dad owned a shoe store -  and someone pointed out to her "No, your dad doesn't own a shoe store, he's Simon of Simon and Schuster."   

:))
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Post by: Jane on August 28, 2025, 12:23:37 PM
I got a lovely note from an old friend who's a greatly respected professor to whom I'd sent my new book.  (He and his wife were so instrumental in helping me navigate the world of publishing many years ago.) I don't dare ask him to write an Amazon review, but if I ever do go on to do a hardcover edition of this new book, I might feel comfortable asking him to do a blurb.

"First, thanks you SO much for sending us your delightful, smart, funny, wise and politically necessary book. I’ve always admired your smarts, your comic flair and your deft skill with lyrics and this collection is a real feast of all of those things combined/  A  treasure. Again, thank you SO much for thinking of us and all of our love to you and Skip"

Nice note indeed :)
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Post by: Freddie on August 28, 2025, 12:24:26 PM
And I guess regarding June Styne songs, on balance "I'm Going Back" from BELLS ARE RINGING is indeed on the obscure side to the general public, while "The Party's Over" and "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" are famous songs.
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Post by: Freddie on August 28, 2025, 12:27:49 PM
I got a lovely note from an old friend who's a greatly respected professor to whom I'd sent my new book.  (He and his wife were so instrumental in helping me navigate the world of publishing many years ago.) I don't dare ask him to write an Amazon review, but if I ever do go on to do a hardcover edition of this new book, I might feel comfortable asking him to do a blurb.

"First, thanks you SO much for sending us your delightful, smart, funny, wise and politically necessary book. I’ve always admired your smarts, your comic flair and your deft skill with lyrics and this collection is a real feast of all of those things combined/  A  treasure. Again, thank you SO much for thinking of us and all of our love to you and Skip"

Nice note indeed :)

Thanks, Jane!
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Post by: Freddie on August 28, 2025, 12:31:17 PM
I feel like I'm doing something wrong, writing long posts on slow-posting days,
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Post by: Freddie on August 28, 2025, 12:31:40 PM
and wonder if I should be doing my part and spreading out those long posts vixmom-style.
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Post by: Freddie on August 28, 2025, 12:32:19 PM
Even those two posts could have been four posts, if I'm being honest.
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Post by: Jrand75 on August 28, 2025, 12:39:17 PM
Nice note DR FREDDIE
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Post by: Freddie on August 28, 2025, 12:39:34 PM
I was supposed to do a Zoom interview this morning for a "public access" theater show which also has a good internet presence,
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Post by: Freddie on August 28, 2025, 12:40:08 PM
the type of show where if I'd bombed as an interviewee, no one would have noticed, bit if it turned out well, I could have spread around the link to the interview.
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Post by: Freddie on August 28, 2025, 12:40:40 PM
 But their Zoom capability faltered today.  They said they'll reschedule me for a later show, which is fine because there's nothing time sensitive about this book, but being about 2001 to 2025, the book should feel "current" until the end of the year. 
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Post by: Freddie on August 28, 2025, 12:41:03 PM
I intentionally cut the book down from 180 pages to a manageable under-100 pages, to be a book people can actually hold in their hands if they choose to sing along - and 100 pages would be a limit. 
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Post by: Freddie on August 28, 2025, 12:41:18 PM
It ended up at 94 pages.  So there are over 80 pages I'd cut out if I were of a mind to do a follow up book on "2001 to 2025."
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Post by: Freddie on August 28, 2025, 12:41:51 PM
So trying vixmom posting style, that got us to page 3!
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Post by: Freddie on August 28, 2025, 12:42:41 PM
I still feel I should have spread it out more.  (It's almost 4 pm Eastern time.)
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Post by: Freddie on August 28, 2025, 12:45:06 PM
Nice note DR FREDDIE

Thanks, Jrand! 
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Post by: Freddie on August 28, 2025, 12:47:46 PM
Is posting on HHW about spreading out postings on HHW what someone might call "Meta," I wonder.
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Post by: Freddie on August 28, 2025, 12:48:45 PM
I know Facebook is what someone might call "Meta,"
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Post by: Freddie on August 28, 2025, 12:49:14 PM
and indeed Mr. Zuckerberg DID call it "Meta."
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Post by: Freddie on August 28, 2025, 12:50:17 PM
I don't think I have enough to say to get us to page 4 before 4 PM (Eastern).
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Post by: John G. on August 28, 2025, 01:00:14 PM
And I guess regarding June Styne songs, on balance "I'm Going Back" from BELLS ARE RINGING is indeed on the obscure side to the general public, while "The Party's Over" and "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" are famous songs.
Jule has many.
Also:
Everything’s Coming Up Roses
I Don’t Want to Walk Without You
Just in Time
Make Someone Happy
People
Don’t Rain on My Parade
The Christmas Waltz
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Post by: John G. on August 28, 2025, 01:03:50 PM
In the last two days, I have listened to Buena Vista Social Club and Real Women Have Curves. Buena Vista is an exciting jukebox musical, if you like salsa. Real Women is surprisingly traditional Broadway with a salsa flavor. I think I would enjoy it on stage. And I expect it to be staged many times in San Antonio.
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Post by: John G. on August 28, 2025, 01:04:43 PM
Researching pie today. Anyone ever had Amber Pie, which includes blackberry jam with a meringue topping?
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Post by: Freddie on August 28, 2025, 01:11:39 PM
And I guess regarding June Styne songs, on balance "I'm Going Back" from BELLS ARE RINGING is indeed on the obscure side to the general public, while "The Party's Over" and "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" are famous songs.
Jule has many.
Also:
Everything’s Coming Up Roses
I Don’t Want to Walk Without You
Just in Time
Make Someone Happy
People
Don’t Rain on My Parade
The Christmas Waltz


The reviewer who gave the new book four stars, but mentioned in this review that he had given volumes 1 and 2 five stars, was  - when Amazon had that category - a "Top Reviewer."  The "Top Reviewers" to keep that status have to be concerned  about being seen as helpful to the general readership - his five stars indeed must have been very helpful in my volume 1 and volume 2 having exceeded my expectations in sales, if I'm understanding it right.

(As I'm sure you know, John G, but others may not, they used to have Top 100 and Top 1,000 reviewers, etc, based n how helpful people found their reviews - but they discontinued that.).
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Post by: bk on August 28, 2025, 01:13:32 PM
I'm up, I'm up - eight hours of sleep.
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Post by: bk on August 28, 2025, 01:14:15 PM
Food arrived shortly after I got up - a turkey, Swiss, coleslaw and Russian dressing on rye from Daughter's Deli - thanks to a 50% coupon.
Title: Re: MUNCHING ON MUNCH
Post by: Freddie on August 28, 2025, 01:15:25 PM
In the last two days, I have listened to Buena Vista Social Club and Real Women Have Curves. Buena Vista is an exciting jukebox musical, if you like salsa. Real Women is surprisingly traditional Broadway with a salsa flavor. I think I would enjoy it on stage. And I expect it to be staged many times in San Antonio.


I've got to listen to the lyrics of Real Women Have Curves with more attention.  IIRC, I think I let the score just wash over me while doing other things.


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Post by: Freddie on August 28, 2025, 01:25:15 PM
Page 4 before 5 pm (Eastern) seems in reach
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Post by: bk on August 28, 2025, 01:25:33 PM
I am absolutely fascinated by the number of people here who got books delivered but have failed to mention it - unless I missed it - Singdaw, JohnG., Freddie (who mentioned but hasn't retrieved), vixmom, Jrand. All show as delivered. :)
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Post by: Freddie on August 28, 2025, 01:25:42 PM
but I can't find the stuff to fill it
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Post by: Freddie on August 28, 2025, 01:25:53 PM
without the posts irritating even myself.
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Post by: Freddie on August 28, 2025, 01:28:46 PM
I am absolutely fascinated by the number of people here who got books delivered but have failed to mention it - unless I missed it - Singdaw, JohnG., Freddie (who mentioned but hasn't retrieved), vixmom, Jrand. All show as delivered. :)


It reached the package room about 2 p.m. yesterday -  but Skip did go by the package room before, and they were closed for an employee party.

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Post by: Freddie on August 28, 2025, 01:29:01 PM
We have the Kindle and paperback, but am very very curious as to any extras that come with the hardcover from Kritzerland.
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Post by: Freddie on August 28, 2025, 01:30:32 PM
I am absolutely fascinated by the number of people here who got books delivered but have failed to mention it - unless I missed it - Singdaw, JohnG., Freddie (who mentioned but hasn't retrieved), vixmom, Jrand. All show as delivered. :)

Some of those mentioned having received the book.
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Post by: Freddie on August 28, 2025, 01:36:26 PM
BK sometimes speaks of irritating videos, but here's a video series so faux-irritating it's hysterically funny.

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Post by: Freddie on August 28, 2025, 01:37:18 PM
I post this only because it's a slow posting day, and posts must be filled on the way to page 4 before 5 p.m. Eastern.

They must! (almost a Pillow Talk reference)


 
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Post by: Freddie on August 28, 2025, 01:37:48 PM
Have you seen these two Jews doing comedy, who as part of their shtick wander around in places like parks singing (supposedly) improvised songs to people just going about their business.

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Post by: Freddie on August 28, 2025, 01:38:09 PM
This one is hysterical and NOT suitable for work (unless you work for yourself) -

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Post by: Freddie on August 28, 2025, 01:39:01 PM
where they serenade a handsome, nicely built man reading a book shirtless on a park bench - though I'm guessing the man was in on the type of comedy they do, maybe he's even an actor, because he's not shocked.

Again, VERY not suitable for work, and only to help with posts on a slow-posting day. 
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ApWWVIoGSko
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Post by: Freddie on August 28, 2025, 01:40:15 PM
And now page 4 is in reach.
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Post by: Freddie on August 28, 2025, 01:40:54 PM
Actually, those two Jewish guys have some very funny stand-up shtick in actual comedy clubs.
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Post by: Freddie on August 28, 2025, 01:41:21 PM
Just a couple of posts away.
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Post by: Freddie on August 28, 2025, 01:41:32 PM
One post away.
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Post by: Freddie on August 28, 2025, 01:41:44 PM
Page Four!
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Post by: Freddie on August 28, 2025, 01:44:53 PM
Surprisingly, that video earlier doesn't carry with it any age restrictions. 
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Post by: bk on August 28, 2025, 02:10:36 PM
Add elmore to the book delivered list.
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Post by: bk on August 28, 2025, 02:10:59 PM
I know I may have missed a mention or two but couldn't find them.
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Post by: Freddie on August 28, 2025, 02:20:18 PM
I do wonder:  At age 41, does Aaron Tveit have a chance at making the Billboard Top Ten with his version of "One Night in Bangkok"

Aaron Tveit - part of his rendition of "One Night in Bangkok"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1_0r_hf_dg
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Post by: MichaelG on August 28, 2025, 02:24:23 PM
I do wonder:  At age 41, does Aaron Tveit have a chance at making the Billboard Top Ten with his version of "One Night in Bangkok"

Aaron Tveit - part of his rendition of "One Night in Bangkok"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1_0r_hf_dg

I don't know about that, but so far so good from that clip. Can't wait to see this in November!
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Post by: singdaw on August 28, 2025, 03:48:55 PM
I am absolutely fascinated by the number of people here who got books delivered but have failed to mention it - unless I missed it - Singdaw, JohnG., Freddie (who mentioned but hasn't retrieved), vixmom, Jrand. All show as delivered. :)

Just checked our package room and our mailbox. No book. Perhaps tomorrow. Sometimes those notification thingies are off a day.
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Post by: singdaw on August 28, 2025, 03:50:51 PM
I think so.
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Post by: singdaw on August 28, 2025, 03:51:38 PM
I tried to walk like an Egyptian.
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Post by: singdaw on August 28, 2025, 03:51:53 PM
Now, I need to see a Cairo practor.
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Post by: singdaw on August 28, 2025, 03:52:24 PM
DR Jrand75, do you read plams?
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Post by: singdaw on August 28, 2025, 03:52:47 PM
If you see someone without a clew, give them one of yours.
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Post by: singdaw on August 28, 2025, 03:53:01 PM
And THAT'S what comes from men and women dancing!
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Post by: George on August 28, 2025, 04:20:54 PM
Last night, I received the most wonderful email from Jack Viertel:
I’ve just made my way through your absolutely charming book, which reads like a fictional memoir of three creatures, of whom you are one. It’s adorable and engaging and I hope many readers find it, and find it so. And I have to say that I, who am not by nature a cat person, admire your cats much more than Andrew Lloyd Webber’s. Even if Annabelle and Thatch like Cats, they didn’t convince me. But over all, the book was just what you meant it to be, and that’s a very uplifting, whimsical tale of life in the big city, minus most of the city.


That's wonderful, Larry!
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Post by: Jane on August 28, 2025, 04:56:49 PM
Keith got Wordle in five.
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Post by: singdaw on August 28, 2025, 06:04:49 PM
The Thursday Murder Club is streaming on Netflix as of today.
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Post by: singdaw on August 28, 2025, 06:06:36 PM
We won't be able to catch it until the weekend.
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Post by: singdaw on August 28, 2025, 06:06:53 PM
The l-o-n-g weekend.
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Post by: singdaw on August 28, 2025, 06:07:07 PM
Thank goodness.
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Post by: singdaw on August 28, 2025, 07:30:28 PM
Oh dear. No posts in several hours.
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Post by: singdaw on August 28, 2025, 07:30:47 PM
This is a dire state of affairs.
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Post by: singdaw on August 28, 2025, 07:31:09 PM
And a fair state of dires.
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Post by: singdaw on August 28, 2025, 07:34:05 PM
 :)
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Post by: singdaw on August 28, 2025, 07:38:40 PM
Indeed.
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Post by: singdaw on August 28, 2025, 07:43:43 PM
I always regret making a good first impression.
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Post by: singdaw on August 28, 2025, 07:44:04 PM
There's no way I can keep that ruse up.
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Post by: singdaw on August 28, 2025, 07:45:13 PM
If you spell "absolutely nothing" backward, you get "gnihton yletulosba."

Which means absolutely nothing.
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Post by: singdaw on August 28, 2025, 07:47:24 PM
I had an idyllic childhood.
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Post by: singdaw on August 28, 2025, 07:47:40 PM
My dad used to put me in tires and roll me down the hill.
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Post by: singdaw on August 28, 2025, 07:47:50 PM
Those were Goodyears.
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Post by: singdaw on August 28, 2025, 07:49:47 PM
This is my recollection from grade school years.
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Post by: singdaw on August 28, 2025, 07:50:00 PM
Finally! PAGE FIVE
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Post by: singdaw on August 28, 2025, 08:00:35 PM
They say with AGE comes WISDOM.

Therefore, I don't have wrinkles. I have wise cracks.
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Post by: singdaw on August 28, 2025, 08:00:47 PM
OK. Enough.
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Post by: singdaw on August 28, 2025, 08:00:58 PM
Good night, friends.
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Post by: singdaw on August 28, 2025, 08:01:07 PM
And others.
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Post by: John G. on August 28, 2025, 08:18:35 PM
I am absolutely fascinated by the number of people here who got books delivered but have failed to mention it - unless I missed it - Singdaw, JohnG., Freddie (who mentioned but hasn't retrieved), vixmom, Jrand. All show as delivered. :)

I mentioned it yesterday.
Title: Re: MUNCHING ON MUNCH
Post by: John G. on August 28, 2025, 08:28:54 PM
A local theater is doing Sweeney Todd. Should I go?
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Post by: John G. on August 28, 2025, 08:29:21 PM
I have no idea if the cast can sing.
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Post by: bk on August 28, 2025, 10:12:47 PM
Nobody here but us chickens.
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Post by: bk on August 28, 2025, 10:13:01 PM
Everybody else must be reading a book :)
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Post by: bk on August 28, 2025, 10:16:59 PM
I'm proofing a book.
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Post by: bk on August 28, 2025, 10:17:32 PM
About thirty-five more pages, but I think she was very impatient at this point, so even more corrections than usual.
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Post by: bk on August 28, 2025, 10:17:44 PM
And that's a lot.
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Post by: bk on August 28, 2025, 10:17:54 PM
No posts in hours.
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Post by: bk on August 28, 2025, 10:18:40 PM
I have some clam chowder and a baked potato on the way.
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Post by: bk on August 28, 2025, 10:19:28 PM
That'll be a nice little snack - I only had the sandwich earlier and some chocolate mousse from Hugo's. All pills have been taken, though.
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Post by: bk on August 28, 2025, 10:19:37 PM
Pilled up.
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Post by: bk on August 28, 2025, 10:21:01 PM
How can we still be on page five.
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Post by: bk on August 28, 2025, 10:21:14 PM
It's enough to make a feller sing the blues.
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Post by: bk on August 28, 2025, 10:22:05 PM
I think one of the first 45s I ever bought was by a guy named Guy Mitchell and it was a song called Singin' the Blues - am I remembering this correctly? On RCA? Let's check.
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Post by: bk on August 28, 2025, 10:23:50 PM
Yep, all correct except RCA - Columbia.
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Post by: bk on August 28, 2025, 10:24:05 PM
Where ARE all those 45s?
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Post by: bk on August 28, 2025, 10:24:15 PM
I still have a few from way back then.
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Post by: Rodzinski on August 28, 2025, 11:12:55 PM
Let’s get another page involved.
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Post by: Rodzinski on August 28, 2025, 11:13:37 PM
We, the fam and I, are in the Nashville area.
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Post by: Rodzinski on August 28, 2025, 11:14:15 PM
Flew here to see my mother who lives with my sister Polly.
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Post by: Rodzinski on August 28, 2025, 11:14:39 PM
Hope to have a relaxing time.
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Post by: Rodzinski on August 28, 2025, 11:15:07 PM
But got here too late for much visitation.
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Post by: Rodzinski on August 28, 2025, 11:15:41 PM
Did hit a Waffle House on the way here from the airport.
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Post by: Rodzinski on August 28, 2025, 11:16:08 PM
The Sixth Page.
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Post by: Rodzinski on August 28, 2025, 11:27:12 PM
Oh I saw a movie on the plane. “Mickey 17,” the Sci-fi flop starring Robert Pattinson in many roles all as the same guy. Long and heavy handed, Mark Ruffalo gives an over-the-top performance that is genuinely repellant. Cannot recommend.
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Post by: George on August 28, 2025, 11:53:03 PM
So, today, my niece, my housemate and I went to Westport, Washington to spend a day at the beach.
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Post by: George on August 28, 2025, 11:53:33 PM
My mom was supposed to go, but she wasn't feeling well, so she stayed home.
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Post by: George on August 28, 2025, 11:55:51 PM
It's a very small town...basically just a couple of streets going the length and a few side streets.
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Post by: George on August 28, 2025, 11:56:47 PM
We got lunch at a local shop (I got a bacon burger that was pretty darned good), and we ate next to this observation tower.
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Post by: George on August 28, 2025, 11:57:19 PM
I didn't get a picture of it, but I took a few pictures while up there.
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Post by: George on August 28, 2025, 11:58:22 PM
This is pretty much all of Westport proper:
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Post by: George on August 28, 2025, 11:59:11 PM
Here's a picture of a ship in the water:
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Post by: George on August 28, 2025, 11:59:56 PM
To the left of this was a paved path that had entrances to the beach area:
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Post by: George on August 29, 2025, 12:00:30 AM
Here are my actual feets in the ocean:
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Post by: George on August 29, 2025, 12:01:47 AM
We spent a couple of hours in total at Westport.
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Post by: bk on August 29, 2025, 12:02:20 AM
At least we had SOME postings.
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Post by: George on August 29, 2025, 12:02:25 AM
We walked through the local shops, bought some different kinds of candy.
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Post by: bk on August 29, 2025, 12:02:28 AM
Just not enough.
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Post by: bk on August 29, 2025, 12:02:39 AM
Is it ever enough?
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Post by: bk on August 29, 2025, 12:02:47 AM
Once is not enough.
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Post by: bk on August 29, 2025, 12:03:32 AM
How did I ever get through the 1970s without even looking at a single drug?
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Post by: bk on August 29, 2025, 12:03:53 AM
The book I'm proofing has a lot of drugs, but no heroin.
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Post by: George on August 29, 2025, 12:04:19 AM
Shelly bought me a keychain, but I forgot to take a picture of it and I left it downstairs.
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Post by: bk on August 29, 2025, 12:05:21 AM
I'm so happy to have never had even a puff of a Mary Jane cigarette.
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Post by: bk on August 29, 2025, 12:05:57 AM
Singdaw was supposed to get his book today but now it says tomorrow.
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Post by: bk on August 29, 2025, 12:06:05 AM
Thus the USPS.
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Post by: George on August 29, 2025, 12:06:15 AM
I'm so happy to have never had even a puff of a Mary Jane cigarette.

I haven't either.  I just can't stand the smell. :P
Title: Re: MUNCHING ON MUNCH
Post by: bk on August 29, 2025, 12:06:35 AM
I believe all the others I mentioned who haven't mentioned receiving it WERE delivered.
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Post by: bk on August 29, 2025, 12:07:30 AM
I have never done freebase nor have I done paidbase.
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Post by: George on August 29, 2025, 12:07:42 AM
Here's the keychain:
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Post by: bk on August 29, 2025, 12:07:52 AM
I have never even looked at cocaine - or - I has never seen snow.
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Post by: bk on August 29, 2025, 12:08:31 AM
I have never taken an LSD acid trip, although I'm sure my life has resembled one at certain points.
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Post by: George on August 29, 2025, 12:08:33 AM
After we left Westport, we stopped at the Westport Winery to get a few things.
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Post by: bk on August 29, 2025, 12:08:48 AM
We must be close.
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Post by: bk on August 29, 2025, 12:08:54 AM
See?
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Post by: bk on August 29, 2025, 12:09:01 AM
New notes are up.
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Post by: bk on August 29, 2025, 12:09:08 AM
Up are new notes.
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Post by: bk on August 29, 2025, 12:09:15 AM
I've seen them.
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Post by: bk on August 29, 2025, 12:09:22 AM
I've read them.
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Post by: bk on August 29, 2025, 12:09:28 AM
I wrote them.
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Post by: George on August 29, 2025, 12:09:47 AM
I rarely drink, but I got these four little bottles (almost samples) of creamy drinks:
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Post by: bk on August 29, 2025, 12:10:06 AM
They can be read and enjoyed without the use of the marijuana cigarettes.
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Post by: George on August 29, 2025, 12:10:44 AM
Here are the backs that say what they are:
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Post by: George on August 29, 2025, 12:11:33 AM
They can be read and enjoyed without the use of the marijuana cigarettes.

Of this, I have no doubt!