HudsonHawk
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I've never heard "The Fathers" before -- what's the derivation?
"Fathers" = Padres. "Padre" is just Spanish for "father".
I've never heard "The Fathers" before -- what's the derivation?
That p.o.s. has demonstrated about the lowest standards possible. He makes Archie Bunker look like Mother Teresa.
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Always, but always, do this if you have a complaint with a purchase of goods or services. So used to e-mail are corporate staff these days that a snail mail letter is actually seen as a trophy. But, trophy or not, it will illicit a response. Remember though, if you do send a hand written reply, make sure that you keep an exact copy, or you might wind up with egg on your face when the recipient of your letter quotes you, and you can't respond because you couldn't remember what it was that you had written.But, then I also actually write out thank you notes and mail them to people rather than using the much more impersonal email.
Sometimes I wonder if the gene that makes you like sit-com & soaps, perhaps leaked out, before the moment of my conception. Whether it was Lucy in the 50's & 60's through to Friends in the 90's & 2000's, I have never, ever, been able to find them either funny, or enjoyable.Have you ever actually watched an episode of I Love Lucy from the 50s?
Speaking of dress codes has anyone else noticed how doctors have gone down the scale? When I was a kid 50 years ago they dressed like professional men in suits, ties and white shirt. In the office they might exchange the suit jacket for a white coat.
Around 1980 they started dressing like they were going out for a round of golf. By the 90s they looked like they were going out to rake the leaves. Most of them today, I wouldn't hire to rake the leaves.
They used to inspire confidence because they looked like they knew what they were talking about. I am sure a lot of people felt better by the placebo effect, or being reassured by someone they trusted.
Martin Shkreli, the man who puts the scum in scumbag.
Have you ever actually watched an episode of I Love Lucy from the 50s?
As far as slapstick comedy was concerned, Lucy didn't do anything that Thelma Todd and Patsy Kelly hadn't already done to death in the thirties.
The fifties sitcom that really glorified idiocy was "My Little Margie." I dare anyone to watch even half an episode and not roll their eyes so far back into their heads that they'll have to go straight to an opthalmologist. It made "My Friend Irma" look like Shakespeare.
In 1961 Newton Minow, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, speaking before a convention of the National Association of Broadcasters, laid down a famous challenge:
But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite each of you to sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air and stay there, for a day, without a book, without a magazine, without a newspaper, without a profit and loss sheet or a rating book to distract you. Keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that what you will observe is a vast wasteland.
You will see a procession of game shows, formula comedies about totally unbelievable families, blood and thunder, mayhem, violence, sadism, murder, western bad men, western good men, private eyes, gangsters, more violence, and cartoons. And endlessly, commercials -- many screaming, cajoling, and offending. And most of all, boredom. True, you'll see a few things you will enjoy. But they will be very, very few. And if you think I exaggerate, I only ask you to try it.
Again, this was 1961 -- Boomer-era television at flood tide.
And how did the nation's broadcasters and producers respond to this speech?
They made "Gilligan's Island."
Latest word is Shkreli has gone completely nuts. Tweeting to his fans, things like '**** da fbi you know they cant touch a god like meh'.
I always knew he was a shmuck this is taking stupid to a whole new level.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-...tter-was-hacked-or-he-has-gone-totally-insane
Lizzie I am sure you will enjoy watching his downfall. Salt won't save him now as grandma used to say.
I love reading this type of stuff in hindsight. By today's standards, TV in 1961 was all 'My Little Margie-ville.' To see how we got from there to here, you have to look at the progression from year to year, and era to era. It didn't all happen in one big ga-poof.
Speaking of dress codes has anyone else noticed how doctors have gone down the scale? When I was a kid 50 years ago they dressed like professional men in suits, ties and white shirt. In the office they might exchange the suit jacket for a white coat.
Right. In other news, the moon has exploded and meteorologists are expecting it to start raining cheese any minute now.Latest word on Shkreli's Twitter account is that someone hacked it and tried to make him look bad. Talk about coals to Newcastle.
...I always enjoyed "Dick Van Dyke" as a kid, but I never was able to *relate* to it -- who did I know who lived in New Rochelle and wrote for a famous TV comedian? The Petries might as well have lived on Neptune for all the similarity they had to anything that I could recognize. The only person I wanted to emulate on that show was Rose Marie, who I liked because she was sarcastic and mouthy....
The last job I had was in 1991 before my child was born and I became a stay-at-home mom. Human Resources didn't exist in those days, but obviously they are now the PC police in companies. I'm thankful that I'm no longer in the business world because I wouldn't play well with the HR department. Middle-age has made me intolerant of stupidity and left me with the inability not to point it out when I encounter it. And to think when I was a very young child I was so shy that I'd hide behind my dad to avoid talking to people. Not anymore.