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P7,Originally posted by Phoenix7 View Post
I thought there was some kind of error - I just deleted my entire post, and please delete it from your post too. Thanks.Tim - Retired Problem SolverComment
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R.I.P. Yogi Berra. What fond childhood memories you gave me. Oh those Yankee games on the radio! Who said "Nostalgia ain't what it used to be"? Oh yeah, you did, even if you might not have originated it.
"That he triumphed on the diamond again and again in spite of his perceived shortcomings was certainly a source of his popularity. So was the delight with which his famous, if not always documentable, pronouncements — somehow both nonsensical and sagacious — were received.
“You can observe a lot just by watching,” he is reputed to have declared once, describing his strategy as a manager.
“If you can’t imitate him,” he advised a young player who was mimicking the batting stance of the great slugger Frank Robinson, “don’t copy him.”
“When you come to a fork in the road, take it,” he said, giving directions to his house. Either path, it turned out, got you there.
“Nobody goes there anymore,” he said of a popular restaurant. “It’s too crowded.” (My favorite by far).
Whether Berra actually uttered the many things attributed to him, or was the first to say them, or phrased them precisely the way they were reported, has long been a matter of speculation. Berra himself published a book in 1998 called “The Yogi Book: I Really Didn’t Say Everything I Said!” But the Yogi-isms testified to a character — goofy and philosophical, flighty and down to earth — that came to define the man.
Berra’s Yogi-ness was exploited in advertisements for myriad products, among them Puss ’n Boots cat food and Miller Lite beer but perhaps most famously Yoo-Hoo chocolate drink. Asked if Yoo-Hoo was hyphenated, he is said to have replied, “No, ma’am, it isn’t even carbonated.”
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And, in case you missed it, the latest in the topic "BOYS WILL BE BOYS". (He stuck his WHAT??? WHERE???)
The Prime Minister Did What With a Pig's Head? By HARI KUNZRU
A scurrilous story about David Cameron's student days reveals much about Britain's prurient fascination with privilege.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/24/op...&nlid=47075250Comment
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I went to a commuter college not far from my home. I was pledging for a fraternity , but could not make Hell Night because I could not be absent from my night job.Originally posted by riverbabe View Post
Basically they took the pledges out , tied them to a tree and doused them with ketchup, mustard and other food stuffs. They also made them run into a bowling alley with one sock on , grab some pins and run.
Total B.S. Glad I did not leave my job for that nonsense!Comment
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Scope this one for me. I decided I would go online with CVS to get my prescription refilled after always using the phone system. So I log on to CVS and go to the pharmacy section and it has my name and birth date already filled in but I was unable to enter my address exactly as they have it even with a filled prescription in my hand so I have to call the helpline. To prove it was me she said she would read me a couple of questions and I was to choose the correct answer from a list she gave me. First was towns I had previously lived in. Ok, so they have previous addresses on file. Next was what kind of car I drive. Now remember SHE is giving me a list of 4 choices. Now how the h e double hockey stick does CVS know what kind of car I drive? But they had the right one in their list of 4, even the model, not just the brand. Scary.Comment
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A twofer post
Lunar eclipse Sunday September 27 2015 at 10:11 p.m. for those in the Eastern Time Zone
This is an amazing talk on how we relate to each other - can someone tell me how they do the drawing stuff?
Tim - Retired Problem SolverComment
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A Beautiful Old Original Song and A later Remake . Enjoy.
2 Versions Of Walk Away Renee! Sure brings back memories!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uqBTzfcIk4 Original Version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSXfMQuiqwg RemakeComment
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sorry, ignoreComment
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COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio seems to have taken a page from Lake Wobegon, where all the children are above average.
Last month, state officials releasing an early batch of test scores declared that two-thirds of students at most grade levels were proficient on reading and math tests given last spring under the new Common Core requirements.
Yet similar scores on the same tests meant something quite different in Illinois, where education officials said only about a third of students were on track. And in Massachusetts, typically one of the strongest academic performers, the state said about half of the students who took the same tests as Ohio’s children met expectations.
It all came down to the different labels each state used to describe the exact same scores on the same tests.
(read more here...http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/07/us...&nlid=47075250. If you get a NYT advert, use your BACK arrow.)
(This is what grabbed me LOL....)
In a seventh-grade English class at Berwick recently, Rashaun James had posted this thought, paraphrased from the Common Core: “Gather relevant information from multiple sources and draw conclusions.”
Her teaching methods were more creative than the dry standard suggested. Cordoning off a large space in the middle of the classroom with yellow caution tape, she had faked a crime scene, strewing dirt and gravel from the school garden across a large piece of butcher paper on which she had drawn outlines of two bodies and stamped footprints of shoes dipped in red paint.
Ms. James urged the students to analyze the clues and come up with possible victims, suspects and motives for an ultimate assignment of writing a narrative about the crime.
She was not too concerned how the assignment would affect test performance. In 10 years of teaching, she said, tests changed and policies came and went. The Common Core could “go away tomorrow,” she said.
“But does it make a difference in terms of whether I have a crime scene in my classroom?” she added. “There will always be a crime scene in my classroom.”Comment
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JESSE VENTURA MAKES SENSE!
Although some of Jesse's conspiracy theories are off the wall, he does make some pertinent points. The following is a brief summary of his appearance on Coast To Coast AM Talk Radio Show.
"Former Independent governor of Minnesota, Jesse Ventura is also a former professional wrestler, a movie actor, and a visiting fellow at Harvard Kennedy School of Government. In the first half of Tuesday's show, he detailed corporate and government conspiracies which he believes are undermining the fabric of the country, as well as opined about the 2016 presidential election. The campaigning for president starts way too early, he asserted. "We need to pass a law that says you cannot even form a campaign committee until the year of the election," he said, noting that multiple senators and governors are missing votes, and not doing their jobs by focusing on their campaigns.
Our elected officials no longer represent the people at all, but rather those who have bribed them, especially their campaign contributors, Ventura remarked. "That's the one refreshing thing about Donald Trump," because he's using his own money, he's not being controlled in the same way as the other candidates. One of the biggest possible conspiracies: Did the Saudis do 9/11 so that the US would overthrow Saddam Hussein as payback for them?, Ventura pondered. "I don't understand why we're involved in a civil war in Syria...I'd like to see us get completely out of the Middle East and bring our troops home," he stated. Politics is a lot like pro-wrestling, he continued-- in front of the camera, the two political parties are adversaries who despise each other, but behind the scenes it's all business, and they're doing it to make money. "
Folks check out Jesse Ventura interview Mike Rowe Interesting to say the least! http://www.ora.tv/offthegridLast edited by Phoenix7; 10-07-2015, 08:52 AM.Comment
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WHAT IS GOING ON WITH RUSSIA AND SYRIA?
Well a guest on Coast To Coast AM Radio elicited his comments which differ radically from the comments coming from our current administration.
Very interesting indeed!
" Russia & Current Events:
In the first half of Wednesday's show, analyst of geopolitics and foreign policy Craig B. Hulet offered commentary on the Russian attacks in Syria, and current news. Putin has long term plans to resolve crises in Syria, Ukraine, and Iraq to the benefit of Russia, and the US (which Hulet believes is controlled by a corporate oligarchy) will not be able to stop him, he said. If America chooses to fight him "we will have a conventional WWIII on our hands," but the oligarchy will win either way, Hulet asserted. Russia has been strengthened by alliances, and recently signed military agreements with China and India. According to the Israeli news website, DEBKAfile, the Chinese have an aircraft carrier off the coast of Syria, and are sending in military advisors to aid Russia, while Iran is sending ground troops to Syria to back up the Russians, he reported.
Explaining the situation in Syria, Hulet suggested that the US intelligence community created ISIS in order to attack the Assad regime. "Then we go in and we attack supposedly ISIS for the terrible things they are doing, but in fact we're destroying the infrastructure of Assad" under that guise. Proof that the US hasn't been trying to eliminate ISIS is that Putin has already killed off 40% of ISIS in Syria in just one week, he cited."Comment
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On October 17th 2015 2 boxing champions will meet in the ring. What makes a champion , and what goes through their minds? This short 14 min video is well produced , and will give you some excellent insights into the lives of these 2 boxers! You will learn something! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPagHDfTFmoComment
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Phoenix, Thanks for posting the clip. I'll take Golovkin, but the other guy looks tough also.
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