Jul 16, 2008 -
Lucy and Harpo Marx - TV Comedy Classics...
(By the time I Love Lucy became popular The Marx Brothers
were already venerable film stars. In this scene from
an early episode of the show Harpo Marx makes a guest
appearance and recreates and old movie scene with Lucy.
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Feb 25, 2009 -
"A great many people think they are thinking when they are
merely rearranging their prejudices." -William James
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"Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man
to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity."
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Nov 18, 2009 -
Love means never having to say you're sorrry.
爱就是永远不必说对不起。(《爱情故事》)
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.You never know what you're gonna get.
妈妈说生活就像一盒巧克力,你永远都不知道你会得到什么。(《阿甘正传》)
There is no crying in baseball.
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Oct 30, 2009 -
The Heritage Center links of londona leaflet listing historic sites. Among them are these:
The Gatehouse Museum devoted to the Order of St. John of Jerusalem is open Tuesday and Friday, from 10 A.M.
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Oct 20, 2009 -
I was reading the NY Times' book reviews and I came across an interesting review on the book, Liquid Memory: Why Wine Matters by Jonathan Nossiter. (262 pp. Farrar, Straus & Giroux $26)
As background, I would hope that every serious wine drinker has seen Modovino by this time, a movie ostensibly about the world wine trade. if nothing else it is fascinating. I will admit here and now that I am no fan of Robert Parker nor of that other popular wine magazine which seems like it is at every checkout counter. however I dislike them for different reasons. Parker, at very least, knows something about wine, but his mere favorable mention of a given wine has been known to send it soaring. There are many popular examples. The other magazine, which shall go unmentioned, has attempted to manipulate wine drinkers into various drining habits. Not without its merits, especially in areas of travel articles, there is a common joke in the wine trade that when a wine is panned in the magazine, it is said that the winery probably forgot to pay its bill.
In any case, I thought this review was a pretty good one, of not only the book but the way in which we find the wine world today, so I am posting it here. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
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Aug 26, 2009 -
"Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too, that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very existence." - Jan Morris
"To read is to empower. To empower is to write. To write is to influence. To Influence is to change.
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Aug 14, 2009 -
Facts Are Not Distortion
By Robert M. Goldberg
When it comes to evaluating the claims of Democrat party leadership and others about rationing and how to deal with grandma, I am guided by that great philosopher, Marx. That's Groucho, not Karl, who famously said: "Who do you believe, me or your eyes?"
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Jul 16, 2009 -
by Ann Coulter
07/15/2009
Every time a Democrat senator has talked during the Senate hearings on Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor this week, I felt lousy about my country. Not for the usual reasons when a Democrat talks, but because Democrats revel in telling us what a racist country this is.
Interestingly, the Democrats' examples of ethnic prejudice did not include Clarence Thomas, whose nomination hearings began with the Democrats saying, "You may now uncuff the defendant."
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May 06, 2009 -
PUBLIC POST
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Question to Left: If You love America, Why ‘Transform’ It?
By Dennis Prager
If you met a man who said he would like to "transform" or "remake" his wife, would you conclude that he: a) thought very highly of his wife and loved her? Or b) held his wife in rather low esteem and therefore found living her rather difficult?
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