Unpigeonholeable (or, Nobody Scroofs Me)
From Eric Idle's autobiography: "I still remain foolishly optimistic even with the threat of global warming, which worries me slightly less than personal cooling."
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"I like him in this movie! This is the best I've ever seen him!" -Emma Eck (talking about Billy Crystal)
August 10, 2015
Postscript- In Howl's Moving Castle
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I'm going to dedicate a new word to this flower growing in the cement walk outside my house: un-pigeon-hole-able.
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Tip: when you feel like crap, you'll come to hate your new Benny Hill ringtone.
August 10, 2011
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The Pueblo Revolt begins in New Mexico began on this day in 1680. They lost and became predominantly Catholic.
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Sunset Boulevard was released on this day in 1950.
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Leno and Rosemary LaBianca were brutally murdered by the Manson family on this day in 1969.
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Son of Sam, David Berkowitz, was arrested in Yonkers on this day in 1977 after a year-long murder spree. He's somehow apparently reformed himself in prison, became a Christian, and a model, upright citizen. Or maybe there's just no dog barking next door to the prison.
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The Smithsonian Institution is chartered by Congress on this day in 1846, after James Smithson donated $500,000. It's a good bet that he never could have conceived that one day it would house Fonzie's leather jacket and Archie Bunker's chair.
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Candid Camera made its television debut on this day in 1948, after being on radio for a year as Candid Microphone. Woody Allen's dictation to his secretary is an all-time classic.
https://youtu.be/LGb_jzaUWOg
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Ferdinand Magellan's five ships set sail to circumnavigate the globe on this day in 1519. And on this day in 1990, the Magellan space probe reached Venus.
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Conservative writer and intellectual, Andrew Sullivan, was born on this day in 1963.
"Monsters remain human beings. In fact, to reduce them to a subhuman level is to exonerate them of their acts of terrorism and mass murder — just as animals are not deemed morally responsible for killing. Insisting on the humanity of terrorists is, in fact, critical to maintaining their profound responsibility for the evil they commit.
And, if they are human, then they must necessarily not be treated in an inhuman fashion. You cannot lower the moral baseline of a terrorist to the subhuman without betraying a fundamental value."
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Canadian poet, Christian Bök, joined us on this day in 1966. From Eunoia:
"Scots from hogtowns or cowtowns work from cockcrow to moondown -- to chop down woodlots, to plow down cornrows."
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New York Times- David Rakoff, 47, Comic Essayist, Dies
I couldn't suggest Half Empty more highly... a book extolling the virtues of pessimism. The fact that it's so funny sheds light on some some hidden truth about this topsy-turvy world of ours.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/11/books/david-rakoff-award-winning-humorist-dies-at-47.html
August 10, 2012
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The Berglas Effect
The magician doesn't touch the cards, asked one audience member to pick a specific card, asks another to pick a number between 1 and 52. A third person counts down, and the card is in that position in the deck.
https://youtu.be/mdXIVQ-asqU
August 10, 2014
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The Creepiest Things Ever Said By Kids:
I was tucking in my two year old. He said "Good bye dad". I said, "No, we say good night". He said "I know. But this time its good bye."
Had to check on him a few times to make sure he was still here.
And another...
When my cousin was 2 years old or so, her mom got pregnant again. One day she went to hug her mom's belly and said "little brother sick".
A few days later she had a miscarriage.
And another...
When my son was small, I was talking to him about growing potatoes. I described how you bank up the earth around them as they grow, and he said "I used to do that when I was an old man".
Hard to stop, and another...
Getting my two and a half year old daughter out of the bath one night, my wife and I were briefing her on how important it was she kept her privates clean. She casually replied "Oh, nobody 'scroofs' me there. They tried one night. They kicked the door in and tried but I fought back. I died and now I'm here." She said this like it was nothing.
Zowie!
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Hitler- "I walk with the self assurance of a sleepwalker toward my destiny."
Damn, that's trouble!
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James Baldwin- "Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor."
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Flannery O'Connor- "Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher."
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