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Post by ♥ COVID-19♥ on Jan 18, 2010 19:02:26 GMT -6
Is it possible to have a hot dog stand even if you can't stand hot dogs?
-- Philosophical Kirk
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Post by Ardbeg... innit on Jan 18, 2010 19:11:00 GMT -6
Ive never been able to get a hot dog to kneel let alone stand
Doggy Style Kirk
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Post by ♥ COVID-19♥ on Jan 18, 2010 19:28:28 GMT -6
Which would make it impossible to run a hot dog stand.
-- E=MC2 Kirk
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Post by Ardbeg... innit on Jan 19, 2010 5:48:14 GMT -6
Stumbling is not falling
Malcolm Kirk
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Post by Merlot Joe on Jan 19, 2010 17:18:26 GMT -6
"Love Story" author Erich Segal died. I never liked that movie. He's dead Jim, Kirk LOVE STORY'Love Story' author Erich Segal dies aged 72 Associated Press Writer Meera Selva, Associated Press – 49 mins ago LONDON – Erich Segal, the Ivy League professor who attained mainstream fame and made millions sob as writer of the novel and movie "Love Story," has died of a heart attack, his daughter said Tuesday. He was 72. Francesca Segal said her father died Sunday at his home in London. She said he had suffered from Parkinson's disease _a neurological condition that affects movement — for 25 years. His funeral was held in London on Tuesday, she said. Segal was a Yale classics professor and screenplay writer when he turned a proposed movie about two college students — preppy Oliver and smart-mouthed Jenny — into a novel. Published in 1970, "Love Story" was a weeper about a young couple who fall in love, marry and discover she is dying of cancer. It was a million seller guaranteed to make readers cry and critics scream. A much bigger audience caught up with the film version, which starred Ryan O'Neal and Ali MacGraw. Directed by Arthur Hiller, with a plaintive, Henry Mancini-composed theme song that wouldn't quit, "Love Story" gained seven Oscar nominations — including one for Segal for writing the screenplay, as well as for best picture, best director and best actor and actress. It won one Oscar, for best music. Segal also wrote a sequel, "Oliver's Story," published in 1977, and made into a film, with O'Neal again in the lead male role. Segal would later say that Oliver was based in part on a couple of Harvard undergraduates who later became quite well known: Al Gore and Tommy Lee Jones. (He disputed reports that Jenny was based on Gore's future wife, Tipper). He was adored, and mocked. The famous "Love Story" line — "Love means never having to say you're sorry" — became a national catchphrase, but provided endless fodder for jokes. John Lennon countered that "Love means having to say you're sorry every 15 minutes." Even O'Neal parodied his earlier role. In the comedy "What's Up Doc?", he responded to the famous line with the riposte, "That's the dumbest thing I ever heard." A rabbi's son, born in New York City in 1937, Segal also had a long, distinguished academic career in classics, gaining a doctorate at Harvard and teaching at Yale, Princeton and Dartmouth while writing era-defining screenplays and novels. He worked on surreal popular works like the 1968 screenplay to the animated Beatles film "Yellow Submarine" while also publishing works on Greek tragedy, Latin poetry and ancient athletics. At his funeral, his daughter Francesca spoke of the knowledge that had been destroyed by Parkinson's disease. "In (Tom) Stoppard's Arcadia, Thomasina mourns the burning of the library of Alexandria and the losses of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides — all of Aristotle's own library destroyed. And the image has for years made me think of my father, all his erudition and knowledge and wit and puns and stuff consumed in the flames of neurological disease," she said in a eulogy she delivered at his funeral and later e-mailed to the AP. In the eulogy, she added: "That he fought to breathe, fought to live, every second of the last 30 years of illness with such mind-blowing obduracy, is a testament to the core of who he was — a blind obsessionality that saw him pursue his teaching, his writing, his running and my mother, with just the same tenacity. He was the most dogged man any of us will ever know." Segal was an honorary fellow of Wolfson College at Oxford University. He is survived by his wife, Karen James, and daughters Francesca, 29, and Miranda, 20.
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Post by Chicago Jake on Jan 19, 2010 17:33:14 GMT -6
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Post by Ardbeg... innit on Jan 20, 2010 7:17:11 GMT -6
Where do I begin To tell the story of how great a death can be The sweet dead story that is older than the sea
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Post by Merlot Joe on Jan 20, 2010 10:38:21 GMT -6
Where do I begin To tell the story of how great a death can be The sweet dead story that is older than the sea Better watch Gordon, thing happen in 3's. Joe
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Post by ♥ COVID-19♥ on Jan 20, 2010 10:50:46 GMT -6
As any parent of triplets can confirm.
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Post by Irish Stu on Jan 25, 2010 8:29:04 GMT -6
A point for Tex :
Simon
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Post by Ardbeg... innit on Jan 25, 2010 8:36:50 GMT -6
I heard last week that this was coming up. Simon both of us got screwed on this, I dont know why you dropped him off, but I figured that he still was offering enough information to keep him around... I guess the brain was drained. Congrats Tex
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Post by Irish Stu on Jan 25, 2010 8:39:57 GMT -6
I read the same thing about CA last week but figured he'd hung on this long so he'd hang around (pun intended) another year or so. I'm kicking myself .
Simon
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Post by Tex on Jan 25, 2010 12:34:28 GMT -6
This is one that no one shed any tears over.
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Post by Ardbeg... innit on Jan 25, 2010 13:10:58 GMT -6
Dry as the Iraqi desert
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Post by Merlot Joe on Jan 25, 2010 16:08:27 GMT -6
I think they stretched his time out long enough!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Joe
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Post by Tex on Jan 25, 2010 17:23:12 GMT -6
I think they stretched his time out long enough!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Joe his neck too
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Post by Chicago Jake on Jan 25, 2010 19:02:13 GMT -6
I heard his sister Kirstie was a bit sad.
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Post by Merlot Joe on Jan 26, 2010 0:01:29 GMT -6
Looks like the last of the Cartwright's have headed to the big Ponderosa Ranch Roberts
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Post by Ardbeg... innit on Jan 26, 2010 5:54:11 GMT -6
I heard his sister Kirstie was a bit sad. Which explains her latest food eating binge
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Post by Ardbeg... innit on Jan 26, 2010 8:05:03 GMT -6
Looks like the last of the Cartwright's have headed to the big Ponderosa Ranch I wonder if he first got Lorne Green's permission to die.
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Post by Christinko on Feb 8, 2010 15:57:27 GMT -6
My right-wingnut bro-in-law sent me this news:
John Murtha (D-PA) has died - and will continue to vote Democrat.
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Post by Chicago Jake on Feb 8, 2010 19:38:45 GMT -6
Now if we can get Robert Byrd to fly the coop, we'll have two of the biggest spenders out of Congress.
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Post by Chicago Jake on Feb 14, 2010 20:45:02 GMT -6
Mamama My Lymphoma!!!!! Doug Fieger, lead singer of The Knack, bites the dust........Jake PS - It might be noted in passing that his brother Geoffrey was attorney for prominent euthanasist Jack Kevorkian. ************************* Knack lead singer Doug Fieger dies of cancerDoug Fieger, the lead singer of the rock band The Knack, has died after a battle with cancer, his brother, the prominent Southfield attorney Geoffrey Fieger, confirmed today. He was 57. Fieger sang lead vocals on the 1979 hit "My Sharona," which held the No. 1 spot for six weeks.....more..... From The Detroit News: www.detnews.com/article/20100214/METRO/2140317/Knack-lead-singer-Doug-Fieger-dies-of-cancer#ixzz0fZJeewjG
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Post by Ardbeg... innit on Feb 15, 2010 6:28:59 GMT -6
His brother Geoffrey was Dr Kervorkian's attorney... is there a whiff of CO in the air?
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Post by ♥ COVID-19♥ on Feb 20, 2010 19:10:09 GMT -6
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Post by Merlot Joe on Feb 20, 2010 20:24:42 GMT -6
You never know!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Joe
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Post by Ardbeg... innit on Mar 11, 2010 11:41:16 GMT -6
It looks like a turnover on downs on the Little Football Field on the Prairie
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Post by Merlot Joe on Mar 11, 2010 12:58:23 GMT -6
Very nice gentleman. RIP Merlin.
Joe
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Post by Merlot Joe on Mar 11, 2010 13:04:18 GMT -6
That was the best defensive line ever in the NFL. The Fearsome Foursome-Lamar Lundy, Rosey Grier, Merlin Olsen and Deacon Jones.
# 2 was the Purple People Eaters- Alan Page, Carl Eller, Jim Marshall, Gary Larsen.
Joe
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Post by ♥ COVID-19♥ on Mar 11, 2010 14:19:04 GMT -6
How sad -- if he had been able to hang on only 5 more years, he would've made it to his jersey number.
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