Most of me thinks this is wonderful.
A little bit of me thinks it's repellant.
Will we post-counterculturists ever make peace with the current world?
(I hope they stay together forever.)
Romance in the '10s
Started by Sneakeater, Jun 10 2012 09:47 PM
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Posted 10 June 2012 - 10:11 PM
On the other hand, we learn from the same source today that it remains better to be wealthy.
If anyone wants to meet in front of any of those people's homes with a machine gun tonight, just PM.
If anyone wants to meet in front of any of those people's homes with a machine gun tonight, just PM.
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Posted 10 June 2012 - 10:15 PM
trust fund babies with a dream fall in love. i'm all verklempt.
“One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. 'Oh, no!', I said, 'Disneyland burned down.' He cried and cried, but I think that deep down he thought it was a pretty good joke. I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late.”
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Posted 10 June 2012 - 10:54 PM
I like reading The NYTimes wedding announcements and sometimes, just for fun, I look at a couple's wedding registry. The other day I looked at their registry and it was terribly normal. Not at at what I would have expected from a couple of (with?) their pedigrees. Bloomingdale's and Crate and Barrel, mostly mid-range stuff.
(on a related note, after watching bits and pieces of Anderson Cooper's daytime show, I would say that Gloria Vanderbilt has some very ordinary (at least in their tastes and general comportment) progeny. I don't think this is necessarily a bad thing.)
(on a related note, after watching bits and pieces of Anderson Cooper's daytime show, I would say that Gloria Vanderbilt has some very ordinary (at least in their tastes and general comportment) progeny. I don't think this is necessarily a bad thing.)
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Posted 11 June 2012 - 03:20 PM
trust fund babies with a dream fall in love. i'm all verklempt.
The only difference between rich people and poor people is that rich people are more confortable in their misery.
"The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances and demonstrations for impressions." -John Ruskin
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Posted 11 June 2012 - 03:37 PM
Better to be crying in front of the crew of your yacht than the folks at the food stamp office
trust fund babies with a dream fall in love. i'm all verklempt.
The only difference between rich people and poor people is that rich people are more confortable in their misery.
“One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. 'Oh, no!', I said, 'Disneyland burned down.' He cried and cried, but I think that deep down he thought it was a pretty good joke. I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late.”
~Jack Handey
*proud descendant of cheese eating surrender monkeys*
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Posted 11 June 2012 - 04:40 PM
Better to be crying in front of the crew of your yacht than the folks at the food stamp office
trust fund babies with a dream fall in love. i'm all verklempt.
The only difference between rich people and poor people is that rich people are more confortable in their misery.
Why? Neither group cares.
[M]ost of the pastas hover around $25. This ought to be enough to buy bucatini that is cooked on both ends. -- Pete Wells on Caravaggio ( * review)
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Posted 11 June 2012 - 06:37 PM
Yeah, but you have the power to fire one group. You depend on the other for largesse.
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Posted 11 June 2012 - 08:00 PM
Yeah, but you have the power to fire one group. You depend on the other for largesse.
And which is which?
[M]ost of the pastas hover around $25. This ought to be enough to buy bucatini that is cooked on both ends. -- Pete Wells on Caravaggio ( * review)
Tonight, there was a dessert of coconut, rhubarb, and black olive. Obvious in its execution how innovation and experiment, when introduced for their own sake, are annoying. --irnscrabblechf52, May 9, 2013
notorious stickler -- NY Times
deeply annoying and nitpicking -- Molly O'Neill, One Big Table
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Posted 11 June 2012 - 08:41 PM
Unless your relations with personal staff and governmental employees are very different from mine, I think you know.
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Posted 11 June 2012 - 10:50 PM
Unless your relations with personal staff and governmental employees are very different from mine, I think you know.
I tend not to have relations with either. Unless you count my cleaner as "personal staff." Although I sometimes think it's the other way around.
[M]ost of the pastas hover around $25. This ought to be enough to buy bucatini that is cooked on both ends. -- Pete Wells on Caravaggio ( * review)
Tonight, there was a dessert of coconut, rhubarb, and black olive. Obvious in its execution how innovation and experiment, when introduced for their own sake, are annoying. --irnscrabblechf52, May 9, 2013
notorious stickler -- NY Times
deeply annoying and nitpicking -- Molly O'Neill, One Big Table
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Posted 12 June 2012 - 01:21 AM
Definitely an interesting wedding article.
I do have some concerns about starting a small business with both principals located 1500 miles away from it. That suggests a lot of confidence in local staff.
I do have some concerns about starting a small business with both principals located 1500 miles away from it. That suggests a lot of confidence in local staff.
Contrast this to Rutt's Hut, an old school Jersey hot dog legend. You can't even get across the parking lot without encountering pigeons who are so bold that they try to take bites of hot dogs from people who are walking to their cars. These pigeons are so brazen that they routinely shake down rats for lunch money.
hotdoglover, describing the well known Clifton NJ dog house
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Posted 12 June 2012 - 02:57 PM
My wife did a lot of work with the groom's father during her career. THey may try to pretty it up, but at bottom he's an insurance salesman.Most of me thinks this is wonderful.
A little bit of me thinks it's repellant.
Will we post-counterculturists ever make peace with the current world?
(I hope they stay together forever.)
It was hard to avoid the feeling that somebody, somewhere, was missing the point. I couldn't even be sure that it wasn't me. - Douglas Adams
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