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811.
by cafard 3y ago
John sounds as if he were born and raised to demonstrate Equord-Hammerstein's bit about the stupid and energetic. If Marko ever runs into John again, he can point out the words "epic" and "epoch" derive from Greek,
812.
by cafard 3y ago
You've never known middle-class shoplifters? Admittedly, by their 20s become risk-averse. But in high school and college, they might not be.
813.
by cafard 3y ago
No; I'm suggesting that the performance of off-street parking is diminished by its scarcity in many of the places I'd care to go.
814.
by cafard 3y ago
"While free on-street parking usually stays filled to capacity—if not over capacity—off-street paid parking underperforms." Oh? Friends of ours used to live on T St. NW in Washington, DC, just east of 16th St. We eventually learne
815.
by cafard 3y ago
One should also credit Lew Wallace and his troops for their delaying action at the Monocacy.
816.
by cafard 3y ago
As a boomer male, I can claim no insights here. But in my neighborhood there are a lot of women whom I know or assume to be millenials (27 to 42) and have more than one child.
817.
by cafard 3y ago
Washington, DC. Pros: Decent public transportation, the city itself is compact, it has good tree coverage and lots of parks. Many museums are free. Cons: There are a lot of car break-ins lately. Many of the public schools are bad--many uppe
818.
by cafard 3y ago
OK. How about Braxton Bragg (Chattanooga), Pickett (less for Gettysburg than for his role in the Pig War), and John Bell Hood (marched his troops all the way to Nashville to be defeated by a numerically superior, well-rested, well-equipped
819.
by cafard 3y ago
Caught, I can't say. I have heard of users becoming alarmed and running to IT for reassurance. I got one or two of these emails, and couldn't for the life of me guess on what sites I had used the (pretty weak) passwords.
820.
by cafard 3y ago
It seems to me that the relatively good times of the late 19th Century in both Europe and America left a lot of young men spoiling for a challenge. In the US this probably contributed to the Spanish-American War. Theodore Roosevelt had ques
821.
by cafard 3y ago
"(Truth is always an absolute defence in libel cases.)" In US law, yes. But I thought that was not so under English law. "Mansfield said it, it's true as the Bible/The greater the truth, the greater the libel."
822.
by cafard 3y ago
Right, because John von Neumann, Alan Turing, etc. skipped college to play the guitar.
823.
by cafard 3y ago
As the article says, the Athletics weren't home-grown. For that matter, the Warriors, like the Athletics, started in Philadelphia.
824.
by cafard 3y ago
For some years before the US had a Poet Laureate, the equivalent honor was Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. I know Randall Jarrell held the position for a year (whence, I suppose "The Woman at the Washington Zoo"),
825.
by cafard 3y ago
Yes, and he bit Bruce Jay Friedman's shoulder, after Friedman had knocked him down, in a fight that Mailer started.
826.
by cafard 3y ago
Hardly anyone makes a living as a poet, unless you count a few songwriters. American academia has employed a lot of poets. Otherwise: T.S. Eliot spent much of his life working for a publisher, Faber & Faber; William Carlos Williams was
827.
by cafard 3y ago
I don't see anything wrong with having only a handful of friends. However, the "find my future partner online and have the rest work itself out" seems pretty speculative. You might find volunteer work a way to ease into a mor
828.
by cafard 3y ago
There's a snotty remark about Mach somewhere in there--does that count?
829.
by cafard 3y ago
An aunt by marriage grew up in Buffalo. Her parents would respond to unreasonable requests from their kids by saying, Sure, when Niagara Falls dries up. In 1969 the now grown kids called up to claim all those ponies, dogs, etc.
830.
by cafard 3y ago
So Epstein's activities in New York, Florida, and the Caribbean justify an armed intrusion on a restaurant?
831.
by cafard 3y ago
Some years ago, I gave a family member the NYRB printing of Butcher's Crossing by John Williams. The thank you note said that he had loved the book, but hated the introduction. I told him that I had been vaguely aware that book had a
832.
by cafard 3y ago
The Beatles might claim prior art.
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by cafard 3y ago
My own impression is that she who can write PL/SQL can write T-SQL. My own background is largely in Oracle, but I've dealt with SQL Server a fair bit.
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by cafard 3y ago
Wow.
835.
by cafard 3y ago
In the 1980s, the Attorney General of Maryland beat up on a number of department stores for this sort of thing.
836.
by cafard 3y ago
The Washington Post for Sunday, November 26 has an article about a store named "Unclaimed Baggage" in Scottsboro, Alabama, where some of the contents of untraceable suitcases end up.
837.
by cafard 3y ago
The Germans among you will correct me, but "‘a new Gründerzeit’ (the rampant period of German urban construction in the late nineteenth century)" seems to me to misstate what the "Gründerzeit" was all about: I understan
838.
by cafard 3y ago
Not by the day of the magazine-fed rifle, no.
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by cafard 3y ago
During the pandemic lock-down, I walked around my neighborhood once or twice a day (a Washington, DC, neighborhood nearly all of free-standing houses). I constantly saw kids out playing minimally supervised--i.e. Mom or Dad might have looke
840.
by cafard 3y ago
How many of your country's prime ministers have been assassinated, and when was the last attempt? What would be the global effect of a sudden large swing in your country's policies? Johnson became president when JFK was assassinat

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