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Crocus sativus wrote:Wagner was a philosopher... Götterdämmerung is an epic philosophical school expressed in form of an Opera.

Nietzsche, Hitler and many others looked @ Wagner for that school.
That's what I mean... Shallow...Immature... :twisted:
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Endovelico wrote:
Crocus sativus wrote:Wagner was a philosopher... Götterdämmerung is an epic philosophical school expressed in form of an Opera.

Nietzsche, Hitler and many others looked @ Wagner for that school.
That's what I mean... Shallow...Immature... :twisted:
viking stuff is epic philosophy :)

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"American Pie" -- Don McLean

Listen... I understand it's a tribute to Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and the Big Bopper all dying in the plane crash, but the song could've easily been a fitting tribute at the four minute mark. I'd even take five. But nearly nine minutes? Number one on my list of most annoying pub sing-a-long songs - best time to take a piss or a cigarette break outside.

My take: it's a maudlin song of cheap sentimentality, and it's way too long for a pop song.
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Azrael wrote:My take: it's a maudlin song of cheap sentimentality, and it's way too long for a pop song.
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Azrael wrote:"American Pie" -- Don McLean

Listen... I understand it's a tribute to Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and the Big Bopper all dying in the plane crash, but the song could've easily been a fitting tribute at the four minute mark. I'd even take five. But nearly nine minutes? Number one on my list of most annoying pub sing-a-long songs - best time to take a piss or a cigarette break outside.

My take: it's a maudlin song of cheap sentimentality, and it's way too long for a pop song.
nice pick; and I'm going to throw the Eagles and "Hotel California" in the mix.
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NapLajoieonSteroids wrote:
Azrael wrote:"American Pie" -- Don McLean

Listen... I understand it's a tribute to Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and the Big Bopper all dying in the plane crash, but the song could've easily been a fitting tribute at the four minute mark. I'd even take five. But nearly nine minutes? Number one on my list of most annoying pub sing-a-long songs - best time to take a piss or a cigarette break outside.

My take: it's a maudlin song of cheap sentimentality, and it's way too long for a pop song.
nice pick; and I'm going to throw the Eagles and "Hotel California" in the mix.
+1 to both.

and while we are at it and im freshly reminded, oliver stone and john lennon.

the former for doing high school levels of depth and the latter for doing primary school levels.
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Martha Stewart
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noddy wrote:
NapLajoieonSteroids wrote:
Azrael wrote:"American Pie" -- Don McLean

Listen... I understand it's a tribute to Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and the Big Bopper all dying in the plane crash, but the song could've easily been a fitting tribute at the four minute mark. I'd even take five. But nearly nine minutes? Number one on my list of most annoying pub sing-a-long songs - best time to take a piss or a cigarette break outside.

My take: it's a maudlin song of cheap sentimentality, and it's way too long for a pop song.
nice pick; and I'm going to throw the Eagles and "Hotel California" in the mix.
+1 to both.

and while we are at it and im freshly reminded, oliver stone and john lennon.

the former for doing high school levels of depth and the latter for doing primary school levels.
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Charlie Rose

Thomas Friedman

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NapLajoieonSteroids wrote:
Azrael wrote:"American Pie" -- Don McLean

Listen... I understand it's a tribute to Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and the Big Bopper all dying in the plane crash, but the song could've easily been a fitting tribute at the four minute mark. I'd even take five. But nearly nine minutes? Number one on my list of most annoying pub sing-a-long songs - best time to take a piss or a cigarette break outside.

My take: it's a maudlin song of cheap sentimentality, and it's way too long for a pop song.
nice pick; and I'm going to throw the Eagles and "Hotel California" in the mix.
Seconded re the Eagles and Hotel California.
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Azrael wrote:Charlie Rose
A friend of a friend just won a landmark legal case against the Charlie Rose show, saying that they are able to come in at a low budget because they use Interns to do work that would normally be paid for. This victory is likely to cause a landslide of such cases to come about with people suing organizations for back wages. As this issue affects millions of people, it could be fairly significant.
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Marissa Mayer

According to the media, she's practically a god; but one of the first things she does after taking the helm of Yahoo! was to scrap Yahoo! Babel Fish (formerly AltaVista Babel Fish). That was incredibly stupid. Babel Fish was great. It was one of the best things about Yahoo!, probably the best thing they had after Yahoo! email and Yahoo! Directory. What's next, Marissa? Are you going to sabotage Yahoo! Directory, too?

Edit: it looks like somebody beat her to it. It looks like Yahoo! Directory hasn't had much new material or editing to fix broken links since 2005.

It looks like Open Directory may be becoming a better bet.
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Enki wrote:
Azrael wrote:Charlie Rose
A friend of a friend just won a landmark legal case against the Charlie Rose show, saying that they are able to come in at a low budget because they use Interns to do work that would normally be paid for.
Unfortunately, that sordid practice is becoming more and more commonplace, eg Huffington Post.
This victory is likely to cause a landslide of such cases to come about with people suing organizations for back wages. As this issue affects millions of people, it could be fairly significant.
I hope so.
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Julia Roberts
Jennifer Aniston

-- have both made careers out of dim wit and needing more emotional maitenance than a British race car. As Venus-vicarious as crashing cop cars are on Mars, any man foolish enough to lash himself to one of these monu-mental millstones deserves to drown in the inevitable rising ocean of tears, or spend his life chasing the next big emotional realization.

I once thought about a remake of Gone With The Wind. Jennifer Aniston had too narrow a range to play Melanie Wilkes, and the role of Aunt Pittypat would probably send Julia straight down Sunset Boulevard the rest of her days.




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Giving boys names to girls

Stacy, Lesley, Ashley, Courtney, Casey, Lindsay . . . they all used to be boys names.

if you write a letter to "Stacy Smith" starting with "Dear Mrs. Smith", and Stacy turns out to be a he, you might lose a client.

Sometimes you can't find a picture on Google to determine the gender, or it's a picture of the wrong "Stacy Smith".
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Latvia and "austerity"

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Latvia's response to the Great Recession and "austerity" in general.

(HT Mark Adomanis aka "the Russia Hand")
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the belief in free lunches and square circles.....

gun control laws....
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Outsourcing, particularly the outsourcing of public safety
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Azrael wrote:Giving boys names to girls

Stacy, Lesley, Ashley, Courtney, Casey, Lindsay . . . they all used to be boys names.

if you write a letter to "Stacy Smith" starting with "Dear Mrs. Smith", and Stacy turns out to be a he, you might lose a client.

Sometimes you can't find a picture on Google to determine the gender, or it's a picture of the wrong "Stacy Smith".
You can assume that anything that ends with a 'wye' or an 'ee' sound is a girly name. That's something the culture has decided. Hard consonants or nasty-sounding fricatives - that will be reserved for the guys.....'>>......
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Miss_Faucie_Fishtits wrote:
Azrael wrote:Giving boys names to girls

Stacy, Lesley, Ashley, Courtney, Casey, Lindsay . . . they all used to be boys names.

if you write a letter to "Stacy Smith" starting with "Dear Mrs. Smith", and Stacy turns out to be a he, you might lose a client.

Sometimes you can't find a picture on Google to determine the gender, or it's a picture of the wrong "Stacy Smith".
You can assume that anything that ends with a 'wye' or an 'ee' sound is a girly name. That's something the culture has decided. Hard consonants or nasty-sounding fricatives - that will be reserved for the guys.....'>>......
I would have liked to have seen someone try to tell that to Audie Murphy.
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Typhoon wrote:
Miss_Faucie_Fishtits wrote:
Azrael wrote:Giving boys names to girls

Stacy, Lesley, Ashley, Courtney, Casey, Lindsay . . . they all used to be boys names.

if you write a letter to "Stacy Smith" starting with "Dear Mrs. Smith", and Stacy turns out to be a he, you might lose a client.

Sometimes you can't find a picture on Google to determine the gender, or it's a picture of the wrong "Stacy Smith".
You can assume that anything that ends with a 'wye' or an 'ee' sound is a girly name. That's something the culture has decided. Hard consonants or nasty-sounding fricatives - that will be reserved for the guys.....'>>......
I would have liked to have seen someone try to tell that to Audie Murphy.
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Freedom House

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Miss_Faucie_Fishtits wrote:
Azrael wrote:Giving boys names to girls

Stacy, Lesley, Ashley, Courtney, Casey, Lindsay . . . they all used to be boys names.

if you write a letter to "Stacy Smith" starting with "Dear Mrs. Smith", and Stacy turns out to be a he, you might lose a client.

Sometimes you can't find a picture on Google to determine the gender, or it's a picture of the wrong "Stacy Smith".
You can assume that anything that ends with a 'wye' or an 'ee' sound is a girly name. That's something the culture has decided. Hard consonants or nasty-sounding fricatives - that will be reserved for the guys.....'>>......
My daughter is named Logan. Incidence is about 2/3 male, most common female usage is in Ireland and has been for a long time.

One reason we picked it was because of the sexual ambiguity. We figured she will have to be picked off a list of names more than once and deliberately chose a strong given name, plus all the female names in our families are rather old-fashioned.
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So, what inspired you to pick the name "Logan"?
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