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721.
by cafard 3y ago
Not for mayor of New York, no.
722.
by cafard 3y ago
Nabokov spoke with respect of it in the introduction to his translation of the epic of Prince Igor. (Or so I recall--it has been a while since I read it.) He knew perfectly well that it was a forgery, but the translations into Continental l
723.
by cafard 3y ago
I doubt any of this matters compared to the loss of advertising. If the classified ads still were what they were in 1990, newspapers could source their news from National Enquirer and government press releases and still afford a large staff
724.
by cafard 3y ago
It is worth saying that Dodge City, Kansas, was a no-gun zone at one time. Cowboys arriving checked their weapons with the town police, and retrieved them when they left.
725.
by cafard 3y ago
(And actually I do now and then think of Harding in two contexts: Mencken's mockery of his inaugural address; the poetry Harding addressed to his mistress.)
726.
by cafard 3y ago
I suppose the return to normalcy hasn't exactly burned itself into the national consciousness. Wouldn't George Washington or Jefferson Davis be a better comparison?
727.
by cafard 3y ago
I volunteer as an ESL teacher, and have worked with some who are retired and seem to put in a fair bit of volunteer time to other activities also. I can't speak what else all of them do, but one is a frequent source of information on f
728.
by cafard 3y ago
Latex is I guess fine. I have no complaints from sleeping on it. But it is a bear to move. If you don't have a couple of stevedores in your household, good luck.
729.
by cafard 3y ago
I am extremely wary of drivers. Years ago--before cell phones were ubiquitous--I saw a car around here start to pull out to a fire truck, one that had its lights and sirens goin. Having said that, pedestrian wariness can carry one only so f
730.
by cafard 3y ago
I have been a runner for many years, and I do habitually glance at running shoes.
731.
by cafard 3y ago
Where is that? In Washington, DC, non-emergency plumbing calls might take a week. Emergency (forgot to turn off the outside water during a cold snap, basement flooded) seems to be handled quickly.
732.
by cafard 3y ago
https://www.osha.gov/fatalities#&sort[#incSum]=0-1-1-0&page[...
733.
by cafard 3y ago
I imagine people thought that the back of the front seat would stop the rear-seat passengers. You should also remember that dashboards were every hard, and that windshield glass would rip you to shreds.
734.
by cafard 3y ago
Are you aware that News Corporation (Rupert Murdoch) owns the Wall Street Journal?
735.
by cafard 3y ago
I don't know much about this history of (e.g.) Wall Street. But for Washington, DC, I can think of a lot of people who made it pretty far up the ladder before booze caught up with them. Wilbur Mill was head of the House Ways and Means
736.
by cafard 3y ago
Do we have these discussions about Victor Orban?
737.
by cafard 3y ago
I guess that you should ask the matron.
738.
by cafard 3y ago
Tom Wolfe popularized the expression "the Me Generation" a dozen or fifteen years before Bo Burnham was born. I read his essay at about that time, but have no idea at all whether he was talking about anything like this.
739.
by cafard 3y ago
Amazon would love to sell me the novel Bastard out of Carolina in paperback or electronic format, or a DVD of the movie made from the novel.
740.
by cafard 3y ago
Towed sweepers? We do rake our lawns, front and back, and haul the leaves to the curb using an old shower curtain as some would use a tarp. However, my wife does prefer to rake leaves out of the garden beds, so every fall we have a conversa
741.
by cafard 3y ago
Only in the fall? A lot of lawn crews like to blow the grass off sidewalks after they mow.
742.
by cafard 3y ago
Yes, in community property states, money and property acquired during the term of a marriage get split--but this is not restricted to money and property acquired by the husband.
743.
by cafard 3y ago
What proportion of divorces include alimony? My impression was that it was pretty small.
744.
by cafard 3y ago
My school did--at least it taught debugging. In his memoir of his secondary school years, <i>What's to Become of the Boy: Or, Something to do with Books</i>, Heinrich Boll talked about his older brother's method
745.
by cafard 3y ago
With kids of 3 and 7 I have to think that you have plenty to occupy you. Your kids school or extra-curricular activities will probably get you new acquaintances soon. (We are in touch still with some people we met through our son's sch
746.
by cafard 3y ago
A lot of mining towns have closed up when the ore (or coal) ran out. Some of them may have gained back population because they are in country that is attractive to the well-off.
747.
by cafard 3y ago
Somebody tell the poor kid about fern bars. They were a distinctly boomer phenomenon, and I don't know whether they still exist.
748.
by cafard 3y ago
Think of as the Charlie Sheen principle: You aren't paying them to show up, you're paying them to go away.
749.
by cafard 3y ago
Thanks. As a fairly long-time database administrator, I couldn't quite figure twochillin's comment.
750.
by cafard 3y ago
Shoot, "Fine + Points" could be taken to mean "Not only is it fine, we give you style points for it."

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