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by cafard 3y ago
Joke from the 1970s, scene is a recording studio with people listening to the final master: pianist to engineer: Don't you wish you could play like that? engineer to pianist: Don't you wish you could?
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by cafard 3y ago
Farley Mowat, later known for Never Cry Wolf served in the battle at Ortona, and wrote a most interesting book about his war service, And No Birds Sang . (This could well be mentioned in the article, but I haven't evaded the paywall
693.
by cafard 3y ago
Michael Howard (who served in Italy) wrote a book I remember as The Mediterranean Strategy of the Allies During WW II . Quite interesting. The Balkans would have been hard to get at without having Italy in hand. Where would one have attack
694.
by cafard 3y ago
Less when counting in transportation? Where did you live at the time?
695.
by cafard 3y ago
An odd area to show off in. What next, hair shirt fashion shows?
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by cafard 3y ago
Last weekend I was on a block where a store probably has them, and I didn't think to stop in. Shoot.
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by cafard 3y ago
A lot of Priuses in my neighborhood lost their catalytic converters a few winters ago. Mostly this happened at night, so there was more time than for whoever hit your friend's car..
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by cafard 3y ago
Kim Jong Il?
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by cafard 3y ago
> Protip: if you spent nearly two decades in full-time education but somehow remain unable to construct a proper written sentence in your native language... your parents should ask for their money back. In principle, I agree with you. Bu
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by cafard 3y ago
Glossy-magazine journalism.
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by cafard 3y ago
The first time they ran the Clyde's 10K in Georgetown, the course included several blocks of cobblestoned streets. The race flyer for the following year explicitly said that the course included no cobblestoned streets.
702.
by cafard 3y ago
Just over 50 years ago, I delivered chicken and pizza for place in the Denver suburbs. I made minimum wage, and I used the restaurant's vehicle. It is possible that this was feasible for the owners only because it hadn't occurred
703.
by cafard 3y ago
Work. She worked for a customer of my employer.
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by cafard 3y ago
Odd. I wasn't crazy about The Corrections , but it struck me as straightforward reading. Moby Dick , The Man Without Qualities , and Don Quixote are long, but to my notion very readable in a way that Remembrance of Things Past o
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by cafard 3y ago
I like baseball well enough, and would not have minded the pace, but I don't want to got to nine-inning games that take three and a half hours to play.
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by cafard 3y ago
Somebody mentioned the "luxury" tax. I will just add that in the days before any of this was dreamt of, the Yankees won 10 World Series from 1947 to 1962, and 13 pennants.
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by cafard 3y ago
One college summer I worked on a highway landscape crew. They put us on a schedule of 6 am to 2:30 pm, which got us out of the hottest part of the day. I would come home, clean up, and nap until dinner, say 5:30, then have a normal evening,
708.
by cafard 3y ago
Isn't it a little harsh to include Sam Bankman-Fried in an article about San Francisco?
709.
by cafard 3y ago
Many years ago, I saw in the Washington Post help-wanted section an advertisement for somebody with a master's degree and fluent in Chinese, for wages that were about secretarial level. Much later I understood that this was work-visa s
710.
by cafard 3y ago
Latest? Didn't Marx say that the ruling classes slept around? But I suppose they didn't acknowledge it.
711.
by cafard 3y ago
Does this include senators who voted to authorize Gulf War II? Given the slow turnover, I suppose it must.
712.
by cafard 3y ago
I'm still waiting on my winery and my Corvette, but maybe that's because I was born in the 1950s.
713.
by cafard 3y ago
Perhaps one should say that SQL "does not enforce relations". One can create systems that enforce uniqueness throughout and avoid nulls. My recollection is that Peoplesoft was one such--it used single spaces where some might have
714.
by cafard 3y ago
Not so effective when they guy trying it is the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, and has demonstrated that he has quite efficient hitmen of his own.
715.
by cafard 3y ago
Yeah, right. The regime tried to stiff its creditors once too often.
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by cafard 3y ago
Would Dijkstra have tolerated the expression "amour-propre" better than "ego"?
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by cafard 3y ago
I really think that it is a disservice to Dijkstra to remember him as the Don Rickles of computer science.
718.
by cafard 3y ago
Judo/wresting match. Alan Bates and Oliver Reed were the actors. At the moment, I can remember the name only of Reed's character, Gerald. Bates played the Lawrence stand-in.
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by cafard 3y ago
Somebody who served in the Carter administration was caught writing a prescription for low-level staffer with what was not the staffer's name on it. When the young woman was caught, the MD went also. He was the editor of what I recall
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by cafard 3y ago
For that matter, how about Women in Love ?

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