and what a song. written by a 17 years older yet. again, wow!
Pocahontas’ (Melissa Villaseñor) boyfriend, John Smith (Beck Bennett), comes over for Thanksgiving dinner with her family (Will Ferrell, Maya Rudolph, Fred Armisen).
btw, Ferrell also did a good gordon sondland last night. (see next to last comment on yesterday’s thread for the SNL cold open skit)
Absolutely beautiful Jack. Thank you. Fleming has a magnificent voice.
As to Mozart at 17, what was that Antonio Salieri quote from Amadeus, “Too many notes”. They are such great notes, how could you leave one out?
Renee’s got pipes. Saw her a year ago at the Pittsburgh Symphony orchestra gala where she was the featured performer and had the privilege of meeting her and getting a picture with her, me and Mrs. P. It was pretty special.
XR, Gophers done good. Good on ‘em.
for all you wordies out there, Maureen Dowd’s “trump’s white whale” oped in NYTimes:
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump is a rodomont. Not to mention a grobian. And, of course, a Sinon suffering from proditomania.
With Trump firmly lodged in our heads, it is understandable if we have all become a little conspiracy-minded.
Case in point: A few weeks ago, someone signed me up for A.Word.A.Day email from Wordsmith.org. Soon I began to detect a pattern.
Friday’s word was vulgarian, following close after bareknuckle. Others included rodomont (a vain boaster), grobian (a buffoonish person) and Sinon (one who misleads and betrays). Also chirocracy (a government that rules with a heavy hand) and froward (difficult to deal with or contrary).
Sound like anyone you know?
Since this is a town of fevered conspiracists now, theories abound about why the president went to Walter Reed military hospital last Saturday. But nobody here buys that it was a spontaneous desire to do Phase 1 of a physical.
As Trump himself said Friday about it, “A lot of things are a matter with me.” But we do know the name of one severe malady the president has: proditomania. A.Word.A.Day defined it as the feeling or belief that everyone is out to get you.
Trump believes that paranoia can be useful. He sees the world as vicious and life as a battle for survival.
As we draw closer to Trump getting a lump of coal in his Christmas stocking, with Nancy Pelosi implacably heading toward a holiday impeachment, his proditomania is revving up.
Even Steve Doocy looked a little bemused during Trump’s shambolic 54-minute call into “Fox & Friends” on Friday.
[…]
It recalls a prescient moment from September when the president’s former homeland security adviser, Thomas Bossert, appeared on ABC’s “This Week” and warned that Trump had to let go of his conspiracy theory linking CrowdStrike, Ukraine and the D.N.C. server.
“If he continues to focus on that white whale,” Bossert said, “it’s going to bring him down.”
But, like Ahab, Trump can’t ever let go. He’s hellbent on harpooning himself, chasing that which will sink him.
Seppuku. My word of the day.
oops, here’s that NYTimes link for Maureen’s new words fest
.
Just for grins I took the Washington Post “Which Candidate Matches”. What surprised me the most was that Buttigieg was one question only. I was not surprised by my top four though.
Q: Why do chicken coops have 2 doors?
A: Because if they had 4 doors they’d be a chicken sedan
Guy walks into an auto parts store and says to the counterman “I’d like new air freshener for my Yugo.” The guy behind the counter shakes his hand and says “OK, sounds like a fair trade.” Q: What did Batman say to Robin before they got in the car?
A: “Robin, get in the car.” Q: What’s the difference between a Ferrari and six trash bags of recyclables?
A: I don’t have a Ferrari in my garage. Q: What has six wheels and flies?
A: A garbage truck. Q: What do you call a VW bus at the top of a hill?
A: A miracle. Q: What’s the difference between a Fiat and a golf ball?
A: You can drive a golf ball more than 200 yards. Q: What’s the easiest way to make your car run better?
A: Look at the price of a new car.
patd
Theme music for Modo
Hey Sturge
What are those Dad jokes?
Sorry, failed to attribute said jokes to their rightful location. Favorite jokes of Click and Clack, the Tappet Bros down at “Car Talk”
The goops are like Alec Guinness in that bridge movie…..not realizing that the bridge they’re so proud of has to be blown up. But will they, in the end, fall on that plunger?
Maybe we should just play the theme from Bridge on the River Kwai in response to any comment made by a goop rather than trying to reason with them.
fun thread, with Jack’s tunes and Sturg’s jokes
Twitter
Maria Bartiromo asks Nunes “bottom line, were you in Vienna with Shokin?” Nunes says he really wants to answer “all of the questions” but can’t right now “because there is criminal activity here,” referring to… CNN?
Sturgeone
Loved Click and Clack on Car Talk. They had a great law firm: Dewey, Cheatham, and Howe
Yeah good jokes
Also
I appreciate how the folks here filled in the blanks that I left and should have filled about the performers. After all it is they who bring this 250 year old music to life. I still think it is amazing that a 17yr old could write this. Renee Fleming’s Wiki
I almost went with Kathleen Battle’s performance (here)
I really love her but I went with what I did because it was a live performance and I love to watch the musicians work. Kathleen Battle’s wiki
Jack
Sturge , sound as if ol Devin is taking the 5th?
Jack
Speaking of NPR, i do prefer the “Prairie Home” replacement called “Live From Here”. Paul Simon was on today’s program, and sounded good.
an oldie from 1973 getting some replay
Ain’t no flies on Paulie…..
Artie neither.
Seeking out the poorer quarters where the ragged people go.
I’m guessing that nunes will be summoned to talk to the House Ethics Committee. If the Ukrainian election interference story were factual, I guess he’d get a reprimand for withholding evidence or not recusing himself. However, since the russian interference story is the factual one, nunes could be condemned and ejected from his seat for being a party to the russkie plot.
Much thanks to Mr Jack for Mr Mozart’s Exultate, performed by Ms Fleming, and his many other gifts to the Trail Hands and Lurkers. sigh.
Parenthetically, when Amadeus was my age, he’d been dead close to forty years. How embarrassing for me. Well, and most other people, too.
X-R, they’re questioning his use of taxpayer dollars to pay for his trip to dig up dirt on joe
Congratulations to the Tide side, Mr Pogo. 66 – 3 wasn’t exactly a nail-biter. My Gophers were disappointing. This year 38-22 over Northwestern was no great victory.
We might yet meet, if MN can wallop a tough WI team and then pull of a titanic upset of Ohio State in the BIG IO championship game. Otherwise, maybe we’ll be up against GA.
Ms Pat, Whoa. If they can show that he embezzled Fed money to contribute to the trump campaign, he could be impeached by the House for trial in the Senate, as a first demo repub corruption. Unless of course, he preferred to name names.
Sometimes I wonder how much I am missing in my hearing. So many veterans I know tend to not understand they are freakin’ deaf. They pretend, my father was a big one on this, that they are not missing anything. You can always tell who was in the artillery, just listen for the loudest person yelling. I was not in the Army, I was Air Force with a few hours on the flight line. Most of my hearing loss is from firearms and explosives going boom, not from jet engines five feet from my head. Oh well, just one of those old bitch things on a Sunday night.
Seems there is a lot coming out about SFB and his cult this weekend, notice these are not on a weekday. Something about WH emails going around trying to come up with a cover story for the Ukraine money being withheld. Something about Nunes playing footsie in the Ukraine and lying about it. Something about Nunes ready to sue CNN and reporters for stating he is a lying SOB commie pinko; and that CNN welcomes it to put him in front of their attorneys for a deposition. Something else about the Secretary of the Navy lying about a war crimes criminal pardoned by SFB. And, the big one, more questions about sfb and his “planned” visit to Walter Reed a week ago. It seems there is something going on in his world now that he spent almost an hour yacking about the world he exists on live on television. It is sort of an existential blathering of life in the mentally ill (and I am sorry about including SFB with all those with mental issues, myself included. He is a special case).
Another good opinion piece was, “My Father and I didn’t speak for three years after Trump was elected. And for What?” It’s on my tablet still, but I can’t find it at WaPo online. Hummm…anyhow.
XR, Bama – Gophers in a New Years six matchup is definitely a possibility, and not that remote a possibility. The only way Bama has a chance to make the playoffs is to beat the crap out of Auburn and LSU loses in the SEC championship, and even that might not be enough. I don’t know enough about Minnesota’s remaining schedule to know what it would take for them to get in. I think Alabama – Minnesota would be a great bowl game.
wow! thanks, jack.
renee can really sell a song can’t she.
and what a song. written by a 17 years older yet. again, wow!
Pocahontas’ (Melissa Villaseñor) boyfriend, John Smith (Beck Bennett), comes over for Thanksgiving dinner with her family (Will Ferrell, Maya Rudolph, Fred Armisen).
btw, Ferrell also did a good gordon sondland last night. (see next to last comment on yesterday’s thread for the SNL cold open skit)
Absolutely beautiful Jack. Thank you. Fleming has a magnificent voice.
As to Mozart at 17, what was that Antonio Salieri quote from Amadeus, “Too many notes”. They are such great notes, how could you leave one out?
Renee’s got pipes. Saw her a year ago at the Pittsburgh Symphony orchestra gala where she was the featured performer and had the privilege of meeting her and getting a picture with her, me and Mrs. P. It was pretty special.
XR, Gophers done good. Good on ‘em.
for all you wordies out there, Maureen Dowd’s “trump’s white whale” oped in NYTimes:
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump is a rodomont. Not to mention a grobian. And, of course, a Sinon suffering from proditomania.
With Trump firmly lodged in our heads, it is understandable if we have all become a little conspiracy-minded.
Case in point: A few weeks ago, someone signed me up for A.Word.A.Day email from Wordsmith.org. Soon I began to detect a pattern.
Friday’s word was vulgarian, following close after bareknuckle. Others included rodomont (a vain boaster), grobian (a buffoonish person) and Sinon (one who misleads and betrays). Also chirocracy (a government that rules with a heavy hand) and froward (difficult to deal with or contrary).
Sound like anyone you know?
Since this is a town of fevered conspiracists now, theories abound about why the president went to Walter Reed military hospital last Saturday. But nobody here buys that it was a spontaneous desire to do Phase 1 of a physical.
As Trump himself said Friday about it, “A lot of things are a matter with me.” But we do know the name of one severe malady the president has: proditomania. A.Word.A.Day defined it as the feeling or belief that everyone is out to get you.
Trump believes that paranoia can be useful. He sees the world as vicious and life as a battle for survival.
As we draw closer to Trump getting a lump of coal in his Christmas stocking, with Nancy Pelosi implacably heading toward a holiday impeachment, his proditomania is revving up.
Even Steve Doocy looked a little bemused during Trump’s shambolic 54-minute call into “Fox & Friends” on Friday.
[…]
It recalls a prescient moment from September when the president’s former homeland security adviser, Thomas Bossert, appeared on ABC’s “This Week” and warned that Trump had to let go of his conspiracy theory linking CrowdStrike, Ukraine and the D.N.C. server.
“If he continues to focus on that white whale,” Bossert said, “it’s going to bring him down.”
But, like Ahab, Trump can’t ever let go. He’s hellbent on harpooning himself, chasing that which will sink him.
Seppuku. My word of the day.
oops, here’s that NYTimes link for Maureen’s new words fest
.
Just for grins I took the Washington Post “Which Candidate Matches”. What surprised me the most was that Buttigieg was one question only. I was not surprised by my top four though.
Q: Why do chicken coops have 2 doors?
A: Because if they had 4 doors they’d be a chicken sedan
Guy walks into an auto parts store and says to the counterman “I’d like new air freshener for my Yugo.” The guy behind the counter shakes his hand and says “OK, sounds like a fair trade.”
Q: What did Batman say to Robin before they got in the car?
A: “Robin, get in the car.”
Q: What’s the difference between a Ferrari and six trash bags of recyclables?
A: I don’t have a Ferrari in my garage.
Q: What has six wheels and flies?
A: A garbage truck.
Q: What do you call a VW bus at the top of a hill?
A: A miracle.
Q: What’s the difference between a Fiat and a golf ball?
A: You can drive a golf ball more than 200 yards.
Q: What’s the easiest way to make your car run better?
A: Look at the price of a new car.
patd
Theme music for Modo
Hey Sturge
What are those Dad jokes?
Sorry, failed to attribute said jokes to their rightful location. Favorite jokes of Click and Clack, the Tappet Bros down at “Car Talk”
The goops are like Alec Guinness in that bridge movie…..not realizing that the bridge they’re so proud of has to be blown up. But will they, in the end, fall on that plunger?
Maybe we should just play the theme from Bridge on the River Kwai in response to any comment made by a goop rather than trying to reason with them.
fun thread, with Jack’s tunes and Sturg’s jokes
Twitter
Maria Bartiromo asks Nunes “bottom line, were you in Vienna with Shokin?” Nunes says he really wants to answer “all of the questions” but can’t right now “because there is criminal activity here,” referring to… CNN?
Sturgeone
Loved Click and Clack on Car Talk. They had a great law firm: Dewey, Cheatham, and Howe
Yeah good jokes
Also
I appreciate how the folks here filled in the blanks that I left and should have filled about the performers. After all it is they who bring this 250 year old music to life. I still think it is amazing that a 17yr old could write this.
Renee Fleming’s Wiki
I almost went with Kathleen Battle’s performance (here)
I really love her but I went with what I did because it was a live performance and I love to watch the musicians work.
Kathleen Battle’s wiki
Jack
Sturge , sound as if ol Devin is taking the 5th?
Jack
Speaking of NPR, i do prefer the “Prairie Home” replacement called “Live From Here”. Paul Simon was on today’s program, and sounded good.
an oldie from 1973 getting some replay
Ain’t no flies on Paulie…..
Artie neither.
Seeking out the poorer quarters where the ragged people go.
I’m guessing that nunes will be summoned to talk to the House Ethics Committee. If the Ukrainian election interference story were factual, I guess he’d get a reprimand for withholding evidence or not recusing himself. However, since the russian interference story is the factual one, nunes could be condemned and ejected from his seat for being a party to the russkie plot.
Much thanks to Mr Jack for Mr Mozart’s Exultate, performed by Ms Fleming, and his many other gifts to the Trail Hands and Lurkers. sigh.
Parenthetically, when Amadeus was my age, he’d been dead close to forty years. How embarrassing for me. Well, and most other people, too.
X-R, they’re questioning his use of taxpayer dollars to pay for his trip to dig up dirt on joe
Congratulations to the Tide side, Mr Pogo. 66 – 3 wasn’t exactly a nail-biter. My Gophers were disappointing. This year 38-22 over Northwestern was no great victory.
We might yet meet, if MN can wallop a tough WI team and then pull of a titanic upset of Ohio State in the BIG IO championship game. Otherwise, maybe we’ll be up against GA.
Ms Pat, Whoa. If they can show that he embezzled Fed money to contribute to the trump campaign, he could be impeached by the House for trial in the Senate, as a first demo repub corruption. Unless of course, he preferred to name names.
Hokey Western of the week, with extra hokey.
Badman’s Country is a 1958 American Western film directed by Fred F. Sears and written by Orville H. Hampton. The film stars George Montgomery, Neville Brand, Buster Crabbe, Karin Booth, Gregory Walcott and Malcolm Atterbury. The film was released by Warner Bros. on August 2, 1958.[
Pat Garrett, Wyatt Earp, Buffalo Bill Cody, and Bat Masterson team up in Abilene to battle Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid, and their Gang of Gangs.
Sometimes I wonder how much I am missing in my hearing. So many veterans I know tend to not understand they are freakin’ deaf. They pretend, my father was a big one on this, that they are not missing anything. You can always tell who was in the artillery, just listen for the loudest person yelling. I was not in the Army, I was Air Force with a few hours on the flight line. Most of my hearing loss is from firearms and explosives going boom, not from jet engines five feet from my head. Oh well, just one of those old bitch things on a Sunday night.
Seems there is a lot coming out about SFB and his cult this weekend, notice these are not on a weekday. Something about WH emails going around trying to come up with a cover story for the Ukraine money being withheld. Something about Nunes playing footsie in the Ukraine and lying about it. Something about Nunes ready to sue CNN and reporters for stating he is a lying SOB commie pinko; and that CNN welcomes it to put him in front of their attorneys for a deposition. Something else about the Secretary of the Navy lying about a war crimes criminal pardoned by SFB. And, the big one, more questions about sfb and his “planned” visit to Walter Reed a week ago. It seems there is something going on in his world now that he spent almost an hour yacking about the world he exists on live on television. It is sort of an existential blathering of life in the mentally ill (and I am sorry about including SFB with all those with mental issues, myself included. He is a special case).
Good Opinion. Opinions
I was a juror in Roger Stone’s trial. I am proud of how we came to our decision.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/i-was-a-juror-in-roger-stones-trial-we-took-his-rights-seriously/2019/11/22/234d7df0-0d46-11ea-97ac-a7ccc8dd1ebc_story.html
Another good opinion piece was, “My Father and I didn’t speak for three years after Trump was elected. And for What?” It’s on my tablet still, but I can’t find it at WaPo online. Hummm…anyhow.
XR, Bama – Gophers in a New Years six matchup is definitely a possibility, and not that remote a possibility. The only way Bama has a chance to make the playoffs is to beat the crap out of Auburn and LSU loses in the SEC championship, and even that might not be enough. I don’t know enough about Minnesota’s remaining schedule to know what it would take for them to get in. I think Alabama – Minnesota would be a great bowl game.
go 9’ers
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