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They have to come up with a better name. How many retired 55 year olds do you know?
I'm never going to retire. One day they'll just find me face-down on my keyboa
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By the way, Sarah Palin, if you're watching, how is that offshore
drilling working out for ya?
-David Letterman
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"NY-Based Makers Of AriZona Tea Caught Up In Misguided Boycott." Oh no!
That's what happens when you name your product after another place, as
learned the hard way by the old Auschwitz Ice Cream Company.
-Elayne
Boosler
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I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to
understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language
devised for telling one another where the best fruit is.
-Terry
Pratchett (b. 4/28/1948)
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I don't argue with people about their religious beliefs for the same
reason I don't go around telling little kids there's no Santa Claus.
Kids who believe in Santa try to be good in the hope they'll eventually
be rewarded. There's no downside. I'm just relieved there's no jihadist
Muslim Santa.
-Kevin G. Barkes
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A study revealed that the kind of face a woman finds attractive on a man can differ depending on where she is in her menstrual cycle. If she is ovulating, she is attracted to men with rugged and masculine features. If she is menstruating or menopausal, she is more attracted to a man with duct tape over his mouth and a spear lodged in his chest while he is on fire. No further studies are expected.
(via MJ Wuijts McNeill)
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My daughter now has business cards
to accompany her new real estate
license!
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Significant births on this date:
William Shakespeare
William Penn
James Buchanan
Stephen A.
Douglas
Max Planck
Janet Blair
Shirley Temple
Roy Orbison
Lee
Majors
Sandra Dee
Michael Moore
Valerie Bertinelli
Melina
Kanakaredes
Kal Penn
John Oliver
and my granddaughter, Leanna Renée Salopek, who's seven today.
I'm giving her an acute accent. Because she's-a cute.
Not only is she cute, she's a high honor student.
We know where she got the brains; it's the red hair that's the puzzlement.
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Glen Campbell isn't just a country/pop star from the 60s and 70s- he was one of the most accomplished and in-demand studio musicians of the era. Campbell's work can be heard on hit recordings by Bobby Darin, Ricky Nelson, The Kingston Trio, Merle Haggard, The Monkees, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, The Troggs, Frankie Laine, The Association, Jan & Dean, and The Mamas & the Papas.
Campbell was a touring member of The Beach Boys, filling in for Brian Wilson in 1964 and 1965 playing bass guitar and singing falsetto harmonies. He played guitar on the group's Pet Sounds album, among other recordings. Other classics featuring his guitar playing include "Strangers in the Night" by Frank Sinatra, "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin" by The Righteous Brothers, and "I'm a Believer" by The Monkees. (via Wikipedia)
I remember watching his variety show in the 70s. As the clip above shows, he's still rolling along.
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The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected.
-G.K. Chesterton, Illustrated London News, April 19, 1924
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True. Our water bill is $40 a month. Cable tv and internet? $210.
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Yes, the Boston tea party involved the seizure of tea in the ship
because it was taxation without representation. This fight is about
taxation by duly elected representatives that you don't happen to agree
with and can vote out at the next election- and two years after that,
and two years after that, and two years after that. That's very
different.
-President Bill Clinton
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Since Google is eliminating its Blogger service for those of us who want to keep our material on our own sites (and not on Blogspot servers), I have to convert kgbreport.com to another blogging platform.
Odd things may occur here in the next few weeks as I get familiar with the new software and try to jimmy things into place. Your patience is appreciated.
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If Patrick Henry thought taxation without representation was bad, he
should see how bad it is with representation.
-The Farmer's
Almanac
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(Ahh, a beagle/Jack Russell mix accompanied by Yakety Sax.)
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In three months I've gone from network television to Twitter to performing live in theaters, and now I'm headed to basic cable. My plan is working perfectly.
-Conan O'Brien, in a TBS statement announcing his new show on the basic cable network.
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With Dave Thomas as DeForest Kelley as Julia Child's husband.
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Oh, no. You can't fool me again. I'm not as blond as I used to be.
-Sara Kay Salopek
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The Ten Commandments (1956)
ABC: Saturday, April 3 7:00 PM EDT
1956,
G, ***1/2, 03:40, Color, HD, English, United States
Moses (Charlton Heston) leads an exodus of those wacky Children of Abraham from Egypt to the Promised Land, complete with a pre-cgi -yet still unequalled- parting of the Red Sea, matte lines and all. Hilarity ensues as The Lord leads Moe and the gang on a 40-year meander through the desert, climaxing in Moses' demise just before their arrival in the only country in the Mideast without significant petroleum reserves. And some claim God doesn't have a sense of humor.
Cast: Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Edward G. Robinson, Anne Baxter,
Yvonne De Carlo, Debra Paget, John Derek, Cedric Hardwicke, Nina Foch,
Martha Scott, Judith Anderson, Vincent Price, John Carradine, Eduard
Franz, Olive Deering, Donald Curtis, Douglas Dumbrille, Lawrence Dobkin,
Frank DeKova. Watch for the cameo by Alfalfa
of "The Little Rasacals."
Director(s): Cecil B. DeMille
Producer(s):
Cecil B. DeMille
(I kid, but this is one of my favorite films and still the high-grossing film, adjusted for inflation, in its original release. I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of airings I've missed since I've been a kid, even though I have it on laserdisc. For lots of interesting background and trivia on the making of this landmark film, go here, here, and here.
Great quotes:
Memnet: What have you found?
Bithiah: The answer to my
prayers!
Memnet: You prayed for a basket?
Sethi: Harden yourself against subordinates. Have no friend. Trust no woman.
Moses: The city is made of bricks. The strong make many, the starving make few, the dead make none. So much for accusations.
Nefretiri: You will be king of Egypt and I will be your footstool!
Moses:
The man stupid enough to use you as a footstool isn't wise enough to
rule Egypt.
Moses: Love cannot drown truth, Nefretiri.
Nefretiri: Oh Moses, Moses, you stubborn, splendid, adorable fool!
Rameses: You have a rat's ears and a ferret's nose.
Dathan:
To use in your service, son of Pharaoh.
Rameses: You will be mine, like my dog, or my horse, or my falcon, except that I shall love you more-and trust you less.
Nefretiri: You need have no fear of me.
Sephora: I
feared only his memory of you.
Nefretiri: You have been able
to erase it?
Sephora: He has forgotten both of us. You lost
him when he went to seek his god. I lost him when he found his god.
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Edwin Starr's (1/21/1942 - 4/2/2003) #1 hit "War" (Motown, 1970). Forty years later, it remains the most successful protest song ever recorded. Too bad those in authority don't listen to the lyrics.
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I'm for free speech and bad tv. But having Sarah Palin host a WILDLIFE
show is like going to Hitler's house for Passover.
-Elayne Boosler
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