CHRISTMAS IS COMING

And no gift says "Peace On Earth" like this gift.

(Thanks to Claire Martin)

Comments

[Kafaleni]

Annie.. maybe Earl goes on a road trip because one of his "list" things is either A) something stupid he did elsewhere or B) done locally, but the offendee has moved.

I don't really want to see Borat. I'm not a big fan of Sacha Baron Cohen in any of his incarnations.

Sly - sounds like a great night!

It's Guy Fawkes Day here today! I heard a LOT of people letting off fireworks last night. There will probably be a lot more tonight. At this time of year, it doesn't get dark till around 9pm, so fireworks start late and go even later. Wheee!

One open home that I know of today. This one is Mum's dream house. It's at a ridiculously low price for the area that it's in.. apparently, it needs a litle redecoration. It's been snapped up three times already, but every time, something has happened and the deal has fallen through. To quote Mum yesterday "The only reason that I wouldn't put an offer on this place is if I found a septic tank in the middle of the living room". Dad said "I can walk to the golf club!" (The street is a cul-de-sac, and the golf club is across the road and about two doors down from the entrance) So I'm going to go with her this afternoon, just to see where I'll be visiting from December onwards, because I'm pretty sure I saw the septic tank in the master bedroom.

[Annie Where-but-here]

Kaf - good point. The shot I saw is from downtown, where it looks a lot like Mayberry. Many of the houses are over 100 years old, which is old for the LA area.

Kaf - do you have to do your Mum's renovations? Maybe you could turn the septic tank into an aquarium. ;)

Years ago, a coworker arguing with a dumb coworker-
Coworker:...I think it's just a question of semantics.
Dumb coworker: I wouldn't know about that. I'm not Jewish.

Really.

[Kafaleni]

LOL Annie. My sister would do the renovations, rather than me. She's got the touch. Water features in the bedroom would not be doing my mother any favours.. all that tinkling and trickling would send her running to the bathroom every hour on the hour.

[Kafaleni]

Who remembers (way back in the mists of time, earlier this year) when we snapped up various chunks of the globe for our own personal pleasure? Turns out that we could have made money from it, but someone's beaten us to it.

I've sent this to Dave, but I just thought I'd share here, too!

[Jeff Meyerson]

Kaf, got an "error message" on your linkee.

We made the downtown run today - Chipotle for lunch, market for apples and knishes and a few other goodies, Sahadi for chicken & salads, Downtown Atlantic for yummy chocolate coconut cupcakes, Court Pastry for a lobster tail and fig cookies, and a couple of other places.

We were going to go to the Central Branch of the library but decided to put it off to Monday.

It's about like yesterday - sunny but chilly and breezy, upper 40s.

Sly, loved the image of Mr. & Mrs. Conservative get funky and do the Elaine.

And for those who missed Kaf's reference: Guy Fawkes Night.

[Jeff Meyerson]

I'm not sure if this will come through, but:

The Elaine Dance.

[Marie in Kourou]

It just links back to this MOAT, Jeff. Is it on YouTube? I may go look in a while, because I dance a LOT like Elaine. Unfortunately.

[Jeff Meyerson]

That link (I e-mailed it to you) was from a woman's own website.

Here is the youtube link.

[Leetie]

*snork*

SWEET FANCY MOSES!

[Blogchik]

This is what Politics Match said about me:

You scored the following on the PoliticsMatch questions:

Personal Score 64%
Economic Score 27%

Where You Fit In

Based on the above score, you are a Populist-Leaning Liberal .

I came in on the line where the "Moderate" square meets "Liberal." I get more liberal the older I get, strangely enough.

Re: Hillary Clinton: I would rather vote for a potted plant. Given the choice of Hillary vs Bush (which of course is constintutionally impossible, but which I put down cause I'd never vote for Bush), I'd vote for Dave.

I am liking McCain and Obama. Not on a ticket together, though.

[Blogchik]

Although that's just what I got the third time I took the test--I got a different score each time. Apparently my degree of liberalness depends on the time of day or something.

[Blogchik]

Oh, and I'd like to see Borat, but it looks like I'll have to wait til the semester is over, since everybody I know here who wants to see it is already planning to see it with somebody else.

I have to finish my paper now...

[Jeff Meyerson]

Not that I had anything of great importance to say, but I've been trying - unsuccessfully - to post since about 7:00.

I hate that.

[«LabSpecimen»]

That's for sure. ;)

[djtonyb]

*unblurk*

"I'm not dead yet!"

*reblurk*

[Kafaleni]

You will be soon!

Well, I went with my parents to see the dream house, and we never even got in the door. The real estate agent was meeting people in the driveway, and saying "There was a typo in the advertising" The numeral in the hundred thousands position was out by one. Which put the house about $70k out of their price range. There's probably not a septic tank in the living room, either. Not that I will ever know now.

[Marie in Kourou]

Sorry to hear that, Kaf. (About the price, not the septic tank!)

[slyeyes]

Kaf, well, that explained that.

A Trader Joe's just opened near me. I love it. Recently, the Post-Dispatch ran an article about it in which a guy who works near the new Trader Joe's said he won't go in it. He claims it's addictive because he's noticed that everyone who goes into the store buys something.

Ummm. yeah. Can't argue with that.

[slyeyes]

Oh, I forgot to mention in that post that for breakfast, I'm eating yogurt and a triple berry blend that I bought at Trader Joe's yesterday. Yummm. I'm liking this addiction.

[Eleanor]

*zips in*

Good morning from
beautiful su.so.ca. where the big news today is that the
Chargers are playing later today!

[Eleanor]

djt!

Come back sweetie, we miss you like crazy!

But I'm glad to know you're still among us!
*smooch*

[Leetie]

We always stock-up on frozen mango at TJ's. Cubed chunks of frozen mango make wonderful daiquiris.

I also like to get their fresh (refrigerated) pizza dough. It's only a buck and can be stored in the fridge for a few days.

[Kafaleni]

We don't have Trader Joe's here. I'm sure I could develop an addiction, however, if I tried hard enough.

[slyeyes]

It was a little too chilly to have cappucino and yogurt 'n berries on the porch this morning; so I partook whilst lounging on my couch with the windows open.

The house next door to me, a duplex, sold and the new neighbors are moving in today. It was bought by two sisters and they'll live there, one on each side. I haven't met them yet, but I'm guessing there is a certain amount of persnicketiness over there. What tells me this? As I sit on my couch looking out my window at my neighbor's porch, I can see two decorative signs; "Use the Sidewalk" and "Scoop your Poop".

But you know what this means, don't you? Fresh blood for Amoro(u)s neighbo(u)r guy. YAY!

Right now, I can't tell who the sisters are. There are a couple of generations over there moving things in and out. I'm going to guess it's the older ones (60's or so) and their kids are helping with the moving.

[slyeyes]

.....and the signs have been put on the pile at the curb for the trash man. OK, maybe not as persnickety as I feared.

[Eleanor]

But at least it's not THE WEIRD NEIGHBORS WHO NEVER CAME OUT, is it? :)

[slyeyes]

I've seen more and more of them lately, El. In fact, I was beginning to think I was wrong as to the wife. There's a woman I was seeing so often that I had concluded she was a sister or something. Then I saw so much of her with the little boy and the guy that I began to think I was wrong about the wife being a total recluse and morbidly obese and that SHE is the wife.

But the other day, I was pulling my car into the garage and glanced up. Their bedroom is right over the garage (sucks to be them) and the sister and wife were close the window. The sister was helping the wife. The wife is the one I saw walking across the lawn when I first moved in. Oh my gosh. She was large then, she's so much larger now. In that brief glimpse, she appeared to be one of those people who are so large they can't get through the door.

I'm serious. That may be why I'm seeing more of the sister (or whoever she is), because they need more help over there.

Really sad.

But speaking of not getting through the door, I'm now watching the new neighbors having trouble getting a sofa through the door. That sucks!

[slyeyes]

Something tells me that Jeff is having trouble with Pypetard again.

*waves at Jeff*

[Kafaleni]

ugh... sorry about that, Jeff!

Sly.. that's really sad, for her, for the kid, for all of them.
I hope the new neighbours are much more fun!

I live over a garage block and you just don't notice it after a while. My mother was here the other day.. all of a sudden she went really still and said "What's that?" It was a garage door, and I hadn't even noticed.

[Eleanor]

*puts chocolate chip cookie in the trash*

[slyeyes]

!

El! Let's not be rash.

The sofa is sitting on the lawn and there's a group of people standing around the door, looking at it, measuring it, scratching their heads, looking at the sofa, and re-measuring the door. I'm trying to figure out how to sneak a picture of it all to show you because it's SUCH good theater, but I that's kind of stalkerish, right? And not very new neighborly.

Anyway, I'm depressed. Rams have had three turnovers and the Chiefs have scored on each one.

*sob*

OK, I've got to go into work now and finish what I need to do for a deadline.

Booger. I really want to see what happens with that sofa. Oh. The doorframe is coming off.

[Eleanor]

Don't go to work! Stay home, watch football, and give us a narrative on The Couch.
Sounds like they need Kramer - he'd know what to do! ;)

[slyeyes]

It's not going well with the doorframe. I'm starting to hear naughty words through the open window.

Later!

[Jeff Meyerson]

Sly is right, pypetad hates me. This has been going on for 3 full days now and I don't know what to do.

Either the MOAT comes up as "normal" and it just refuses to post, giving me an error message or, like this time (I think) it stops at "post a comment", then eventually goes to the bottom as normal. In the latter case I am (generally) able to post.

It's gotten so when I do get to post I feel like just sitting here and remembering everything I wanted to say all day and say it, assuming I'll never get another chance!

The sofa is sitting on the lawn and there's a group of people standing around the door, looking at it, measuring it, scratching their heads, looking at the sofa, and re-measuring the door.

Sounds like the scene with Jack in While You Were Sleeping when they try to get the couch in Peter's apartment.

I'm back from putting the clothes in the dryer. I didn't dare post.

The weather is beautiful if still very cool. We did NOT go to check out the marathoners today as we've done some years in the past, especially when we knew someone running. They say runners like the colder weather so they should be happy today.

Oh well, here goes nothing.

[Wurm42]

I just sat through an ENTIRE commercial break of nothing but political ads.

Can't I please, please watch the football game in peace? That, or start penalizing senate candidates for unsportsmanlike conduct?

[Wurm42]

Note: above was meant to be in [vent] tags but they don't show up anymore. Hmmm....

[Jeff Meyerson]

I had a feeling that Borat was going to be a big hit.

And it opened in only 1/3 as many theaters as the other top movies.

Let's see if it has legs.

[Kibby F5™]

kibby czeching in watching the NO - TB game.

[LucyVanPelt]

Sly--I think we are planning a Trader Joe's run this month sometime. I heard that everything is pretty cheap, and lots of yummy but healthy choices.

Ok...no more moating it's game time! Go Steelers!! (I'm a loyal fan, even when we suck, and I'm forced to cheer first downs)

[Kibby F5™]

moving over to the Pitts game ... bad start.

[slyeyes]

I got downtown just as the Rams game ended. (and badly) Most of the people were appropriately dressed in Rams blue and gold. Then there was the smattering of Chiefs' fans in Red.

But, there were also quite a few people in Cardinal jerseys and sweatshirts.

???

People who are still celebrating, or Chiefs' fans and that was the only red they had? Or Chiefs' fans who are also Cardinals' fans?

Hard to tell.

OK, to work.

[Susan]

Work? Eeeeek!

Well, I do have to go in in a little while to get things done.

Did not much of anything today...went to a large discount club store...samples alllll over the place. All kinds of yummy stuff.

We even ended up buying a few of the things we tried.

My life is sooo thrilling sometimes.

[Jeff Meyerson]

The NY Giants have a habit (no matter how good they are) of playing down to the level of bad teams and either losing or coming close to it. This happens almost always (not this year) the week after the bye and at least once a year otherwise. Luckily they got it together enough at the end to beat Houston, 14-10.

Just heard from my cousin Nancy with a picture of her new 12 hours old granddaughter but AOHELL won't open the file.

Oh, the baby's name? Jade.

Interesting choice.

They did open a Trader Joe's on 14th Street a block from Union Square, with the wine store in a separate building next door. We went there once but managed not to buy anything - we'd have had to carry it all the way home, for one thing. My parents shopped at TJ's regularly when they were in California but I don't know if they still do in Arizona.

[Jeff Meyerson]

We've been listening to The Eagles' greatest hits CD and I can't help wondering if this came from Glenn Frey's unhappy divorce experience, which he refers to on stage, or Don Henley:

The more I think about it, Old Billy was right
Let's kill all the lawyers, kill 'em tonight

[Jeff Meyerson]

Q: What do you call a male lawyer with an IQ of 60 who is wearing a black dress?
A: Your honor.

[Jeff Meyerson]

Sly gets questioned on the way to work:

Lady #1: Is this express?
Lady #2, looking at her purse: Oh no, this is Prada
Lady #3: I think she was asking about the bus.
Lady #2: Oh...Can you believe I got this on sale?

[Kibby F5™]

GO STEELERS!

... that is all.

[slyeyes]

*sigh*

More with the lawyer jokes.

[bbescuela]

Um, Jeff, we have plenty of female judges who fit that description. There is no sexual discrimination when it comes to morons on the bench.

What do you call a judge with half a brain?

I don't know. I've never met one with half a brain.

[Eleanor]

pssst, private message to partner, we need Huey, locked and loaded - NOW.

[Curious]

Whadda ya have against lawyers?
And don't go pleading the "I just copied and pasted, didn't mean to offend anyone" card either.

[Jeff Meyerson]

Curious: when you stop hiding and come out from behind your pseudonym maybe you'll get an answer.

[DDi]

I agree with C, and no pseudonym here Jeff. Why the dislike or constant teasing of the lawyers?

*adjusts glasses and sits back in leather chair with note pad in hand*

You can tell us Jeff...Were you traumatized by one in a prior life? Did they hurt you? You should share your feelings if thats the case because its really unhealthy to keep such feelings bottled up inside.

[Jeff Meyerson]

Why the dislike or constant teasing of the lawyers?

Since you asked:

1. "constant teasing"?
Can you back that up? There was one joke, period.

2. "dislike"?
Hardly. Some of my best friends and relatives...blah blah blah.

If you really want my thought processes, they are too boring to bother you with but OK;

As mentioned, I was listening to the Eagles record and heard that line and, as I said, I wondered what had brought it on.

I knew they were quoting Shakespeare so went to look it up, as to where it came from and if I'd remembered it correctly. Interestingly, in context it was not an anti-lawyer comment but the opposite.

Although not looking for it, in the Shakespeare piece I saw that joke, WHICH HAD PREVIOUSLY BEEN POSTED HERE BY A LAWYER, so posted it.

OK? Bored yet?

[Jeff Meyerson]

*prepares for next attack*

[DDi]

An attack? You took that as an attack?

Interesting.

1. It might have been your first joke this evening, but you have posted comments in the past.

2. Glad to hear it!

3. There is no 3.

4. Yes. I think I'll go to the OINY site now.

[Blogchik]

Update on paper: Still not written yet.
I have, however, acquired a migraine thinking about it.
No need to bash my head against the wall, the migraine is providing that sensation for me.

*whimpers in corner*

[slyeyes]

*deletes extremely foul expletive(s)*

Bugger!!

I'm home, but still have work to do. I brouht it home with me because I didn't want to be in the office by myself on a Sunday night; I prefer doing it from the comfort of my living room.

BUT I CAN'T ACCESS OUR INTERNET

*sob*

I'll give it a few more tries, then I have to change out of my jammies and go back downtown.

*more sobbing*

[slyeyes]

SUCCESS!

I channeled Chloe, scrunched up my face, tapped away at the keyboard at a hundred miles and hour, said "I'm on in Jack" and VOILA! I'm in!
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........and there was that one call to the help desk, but it was mostly the face scrunching.

[slyeyes]

And When Harry Met Sally is on Oxygen. Perfect background movie for working.

[Curiouser]

Has ya ever noticed that persons with no sense of humor tell jokes to covr it up

[neophyte]

Hi guys! Did ya hear the one about... erm.
Um....

I guess this isn't the place for jokes anymore.

Booger.

So... how 'bout those... umm...

Dang.

It's getting so a person can't post anything here anymore without worry that people are going to complain about it.

[Marie in Kourou]

Harry: So why did you guys break up?

Sally: [with hilariously smug look on face] How do you know we broke up?

Harry: Of course you two broke up. If you were still together you wouldn't be going to New York with me; you'd be with Shel the Wonder Schlong.

(Just one of many quotes that ran through my head when Sly mentioned the film. Ahhh, I love it.)

[wolfie]

Woah. It's sunday night. Howd that happen?

*scratches head and tries to recall the weekend*
Has annoy seen my panties? I could swear I was wearing some. Or maybe that was yesterday. Before the whole 'frozen duck banned from the grocerystore minor restraining order' thing.
But I digress. Which I think is still allowed.

*slaps an ~I post to piss people off!~ sticker across her butt and does the macarena around the Moat*

Has anyone seen Thumper? I've decided he will be having my babies.

[slyeyes]

Harry's jogging to the New Year's Eve party right now.

[Jeff Meyerson]

Looks like I can post again. The randomness of it is too bizarre.

I already told Di privately that I didn't think her questions were an attack, as I didn't.

But enough of that.

We just watched Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story. The movie is loosely inspired by the story of the mare Mariah's Storm. Well, I never heard of the horse, but the movie was well done for what it was. With a halfway decent script it's hard to go wrong with Kurt Russell, Kris Kristofferson & Dakota Fanning in it.

"You made a woman meow?"

[Jeff Meyerson]

Sly, it looks like he jogged from Greenwich Village to Midtown, but since I'm not real clear on where this New Year's Eve party took place, it could have been somewhere more joggable.

Jackie has a lot in common with Sally. "On the side" is very big with her too.

NTTAWWT

[slyeyes]

It's midnight. They fell in love.

*sniff*

[Jeff Meyerson]

We watch it every New Year's Eve.

[Eleanor]

*waves hi to wolfie*

[Jeff Meyerson]

Just FYI: they are already running Target Christmas ads. On November 5.

[bbescuela]

Jeff, for what it's worth, I don't mind the lawyer jokes. (Although I am a bit bothered by anonymous posters confronting my MOATie pals.) I'll bet I know more sleazy lawyers than just about anyone here. And I know a good many dim witted judges too. I think of those people when I hear a good lawyer joke.

I've never had the impression that you disliked lawyers. Yankee bashers, maybe, but lawyers? Nope.

[slyeyes]

Christmas moozak is already in stores to inspire us to start buying.

It's not working, at least on me, because I don't have "The Lists" yet.

[DDi]

The lite radio station has begun running their Christmas music show, all Christmas music all the time. They started this past Monday. Before Halloween.

FINE! I confess! I've been listening to it!

*hands head in shame*

[DDi]

A direct quote, minus the "--" through the weasels.

"Perhaps one of our resident weasels attorneys can give us the sleazy legal viewpoint."

I must have just misread/misunderstood that comment. I'm sure it was meant in good fun. I guess I just don't have a sense of humor anymore.

Goodnight all!

[slyeyes]

I've worked with attorneys for over 25 years and I'll admit it, I'm not a huge fan of lawyer jokes. Mainly because, there are no new ones. Haven't been for 20 years. Probably longer.

In fact, are there any new jokes about anything anymore? Or, due to the internet, do they go around the world so fast that they wear out sooner?

[slyeyes]

I edited the above comment and took out a huge section that made me sound like an apologist/protector of lawyers. But my first sentence about working with them was left in and now doesn't seem to fit. Just edit out that part when reading, please. And thank you.

[bbescuela]

No thank you.

[wolfie]

I have never worked with a lawyer.
I have however, been fingerprinted and background checked.
I passed both. A fact which continues to amaze me.

Should I tell Thumper I intend him to have my babies before or after I get him pregnant?

[bbescuela]

wolfie, how can he have babies before you get him pregnant? Better yet, how can HE get pregnant?

[neophyte]

Wolfie is incredibly talented, BB. You'd be amazed at what she can do.

[neophyte]

BB, are you still here? If so, please check your email as soon as I write you.

[bbescuela]

Got it.

[insomniac]

'Jade' is Kylie's middle name, although the use of 'first name/middle name when in trouble' doesn't work well on 16 month olds... tone is the key.
she already knows a celebrity name... Elmo!

[Kafaleni]

Insom.. the two year old at work loves Elmo..and Finding Nemo. He has a "smush" name that covers either or both programs. He calls them "Melmo". With three Elmo vids and the Finding Nemo DVD, when he asks to watch "Melmo" it takes a little working out somedays!

To paraphras our illustrious leader, "If anything I've said makes you want to sue, then I was kidding" Can I tell jokes yet?

Okay. I'll keep my mouth shut, then,

[Marie in Kourou]

I went "awww" at Kylie's celebrity name and Kaf's "Melmo". Both kids sound so cute.

I'm playing "Mustang Sally" on the computer now. Commitment-y goodness.

[Marie in Kourou]

Sally [on the plane]: It's amazing. You look normal, but you are actually the Angel of Death.

---

Marie [Carrie Fisher sans Danish buns on her head, not me]: There's someone staring at you in "Personal Growth".

There are so many gems in that movie.

[Kibby F5™]

Jeff saw Dreamers, I was wondering what that was about when I saw the TV listing - refrained from watching it because I wasn't in the Inspired by true story mood. I WANTED FICTION D@MN IT!

*roles up Huey loaded with MIRVsAA (Multiple Independent Return Vehicles, Anti-Attorney-type)*

Here ya go! Just aim in the general direction. GPS and the inherent low pressure made by the 'sucking sound' will guide them to the targets. ;-)

Steelers lost but KIBBY WON!!!

... seems like a previously undefeated individual will be going down too. Not much of a chance to even a 30+ point gap. HA HA!

[slyeyes]

I agree, Kibby, about the fiction. Especially since "Inspired by a true story" is code for most of this is fiction because we think the true story wasn't exciting enough so that anyone who watches this is going to think THIS is the true story.

And, if I hang onto my lead through tonight's game, I could be TIED for first place.

!

Today is Saxophone Day, and Marooned Without a Compass Day.

Susan, in honor of the Saxaphone part, could you play Jimmy Buffett's Saxophones?

I know there's got to be a good song for the marooned part, but my brain is still sleeping and I can't think of one; but I'm sure someone else will come up with a good one.

Oh, btw, I don't see a sofa sitting on the lawn. Hopefully, that's a good sign.

OK, off to work. Byeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

[Jeff Meyerson]

Good morning. There has been talk, naturally, on the morning talk shows about Rev. (sic) Haggard (an aside - why are these news show so illiterate? Yesterday Jackie noticed one of the crawls spelled it as "Reverand") and forgiveness vs. hypocrisy.

I can understand people like Haggard & Jim McGreevey fighting against urges and desires that they have been taught are sinful and even taking what I personally consider the wrong step of trying to prove (to yourself, mostly) that you're NOT gay by getting married (which is unfair to your wife, to start with).

What I cannot accept is (again, apparently) self-destructive, perhaps self-hating people who spend their public lives railing against others (gays, in this case) when they are gay themselves.

There are too many examples, i.e. Jesse Jackson talking about morality. My uncle was the biggest sinner I know and now that he's 'found' religion (under duress, as it were) he feels free to lecture others on how they live and should live, damning my cousin when she was in her 'exploring the boundaries of her womanhood' period for one.

My belief is that if you are truly religious, more power to you, but lead by your own shining example rather than by telling ME what's wrong with my life and how I have to change.

/end rant

Sorry, didn't mean to go on like that but once I got started there was a lot to say. Ask anyone who really knows me and they'll tell you, to me hypocrisy is the thing I really can't stand, going back to Nixon.

I've never had the impression that you disliked lawyers. Yankee bashers, maybe, but lawyers? Nope.

Thanks, bb. I don't. In the old days I may have disliked Yankee bashers but as I've gotten older I've become much more tolerant of even them. As annoying as it can be hearing "Yankees Suck" in Fenway, I find fans yelling "Red Sox Suck" at the Stadium to be just as dumb.

"Perhaps one of our resident weasels attorneys can give us the sleazy legal viewpoint."

Di, don't know who said that but it wasn't me.

Was it?

Sly, I guess people tell lawyer jokes because they're easy and, yes, often funny. Most of the ones I've heard over the years have come from my sister and other lawyers, of course. But since they bother you and Di I'll be more original in the future and not fall back on easy stuff.

The fact is, there are sleazy lawyers out there just as there are sleazy members of every other profession. Unfortunately for the legal profession, We get to see a higher percentage of the sleazy lawyers than the sleazy other professions on the news. I think that adds to the 'lawyer jokes' factor, but there could be other reasons.

Special thanks this morning to rita for the (non-lawyer) joke. Now that was funny!

[Jeff Meyerson]

Sly, I think there is a hierarchy of movies: 'based on a true story' is supposed to be closer to the truth than 'inspired by a true story'.

In this case it seems there was a horse that broke the cannon bone in the leg, recovered, and went on to ride in the Distaff Breeders Cup, where it finished ninth. Of course, this was Hollywoodized in Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story but I won't give it away for those who might watch and enjoy it later. Anyway, it was as much a "family redemption" story as a horse story.

Plus, the ending will not be a surprise to anyone over the age of ten, in all likelihood.

In the late 50s most songs seemed to have a sax break in the middle. King Curtis played on a lot of them.

Maybe Susan could also play "Yakety Yak" or "Tequila" in home of Saxophone Day.

Marooned? How about the "(Theme From) Gilligan's Island"? Or not.

[Kibby F5™]

... the horse dies ...

disclaimer: kibby didn't watch the movie.

[wolfie]

The butler did it.
He also did the maid, the gardner and the pool boy.
The butler got around.
I haven't seen the movie yet either.

Jeff ~ yup it was.

I just discovered I can bribe my boss with a roll of smarties. Hot d@mn!

[Marie in Kourou]

Sly, I think there is a hierarchy of movies: 'based on a true story' is supposed to be closer to the truth than 'inspired by a true story'.

I had never thought of there being any difference. I just assumed at least half of everything was... embellished, to say the least, no matter what disclaimer was plastered on the screen just before the beginning.

[Leetie]

Good morning! I'm very sore. We raked leaves both days this weekend, and have only gotten halfway around the house. And I thought I was done with physical labor for awhile.

Had a great visit with Rita the other night. I heated up this flatbread pizza thingy with gruyere cheese from Trader Joe's that made the house smell like gym socks. Lucky Rita! ;)

Last night we went to our favorite restaurant. It's no longer our favorite restaurant. We've been going to it for about 10 years, since it opened. The last 2 times we went there, we had disappointing experiences. The first disappointment was JU's portion of their most excellent ribs. We both got an order of them, but his portion wound up about half the size of mine. I remember the days when the manager would tell us that they're just not serving the ribs because they just don't meet their standards of quality. Last night, we had to listen to pop music blaring out of the speakers. During Sunday night dinner. What restaurant plays POP music with the likes of Britney Spears pounding through the sound system? It was so irritating. And distracting. I complained to the manager. I said that I felt like I was in a shopping mall. They said it was a fluke. I'm not sure I want to take that chance again. *sigh*

[BigD®]

Susan, how about Europa by Gato Barbieri for sax day?

[Jeff Meyerson]

No kibby, the horse doesn't die, but good guess.

You get the set of flatware and the home version of our game.

I'm beginning to think the "can't post" thing may be a return of the IP problem I had a couple of years ago. I couldn't post and checked the IP and it started 64. I went off and came back on and it was 152 and this time looks like I can post.

My sister just called for congratulations on the new addition to their family: a beagle. (Jackie spoke to her so I don't know details about age or sex or name.) It was kind of pathetic, as she told Jackie that Charles (her husband) had always wanted a dog because "his dog was his only friend as a kid". Also, C.J. wanted a pet, so I guess we'll see how he does with it.

[Marie in Kourou]

Beagles always make me think of the Beatles (I thought this as a child as well). All you need is love, doo doo-doo-doo-dooooo.

Mutts are my favorites, though. Dogs or cats or anything, really.

[insomniac]

for being marooned day, how about 'message in a bottle' (police)?

[rita]

I got hideously lost (no surprise to me) on the way to Leetie's house Saturday night. I realized once I got in the car that I'd left the map our the hotel room. I'm horrible with directions anyway. I started off in one direction and turned around and went another direction and

Dave's on Today next!