Random Thoughts or Whatever

[Mystic]

In the 60s, Al-Bara’em became Palestine’s first rock band to perform original songs in Arabic.

 

[Mystic]

The mother of Chris Blackwell, the founder of Island Records, was the inspiration for Ian Fleming’s quintessential Bond girl, "Pussy Galore".

LINK: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2...is-blackwell-im-interested-in-whats-different

 

[Mystic]

In 1949, Downbeat magazine held a contest offering a $1,000 prize to anyone who could come up with a new name for “jazz”, a term the editors considered “outdated.”

The winning entry: Crewcut

 

[Pio1980]

Billy Wilder, on meeting Erich von Stroheim: “I’ve always admired you, sir. Your work is 10 years ahead of its time.”

Von Stroheim: “Twenty.”

Interesting that Wilder directed von Stroheim in Sunset Blvd.

 

[Pio1980]

The mother of Chris Blackwell, the founder of Island Records, was the inspiration for Ian Fleming’s quintessential Bond girl, "Pussy Galore".

LINK: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2...is-blackwell-im-interested-in-whats-different

Island Records founder Chris Blackwell looks back on his life in music https://www.npr.org/2022/06/08/1103...ris-blackwell-looks-back-on-his-life-in-music

 

[Mystic]

Which aspect of libertariaism is more bothersome?

- That you have to make decisions pertaining to your life.
- That you don't get to make decisions pertaining to my life.

 

[noogies]

Which aspect of libertariaism is more bothersome?

- That you have to make decisions pertaining to your life.
- That you don't get to make decisions pertaining to my life.

Always a quandary for me, as I'm better at solving everybody else's problems than my own.

 

[bluesky]

Dive Dive Dive.

 

[Mystic]

 

[painttoad]

i love old styx!

this would be my favorite from them:

 

[egellings]

I always viewed the eighties as the big hair 'me' decade.

 

[Mystic]

I've learned so much from my errors that I'm thinking about making several more.

 

[Mystic]

Cherkasy, Ukraina. 13 JUNE 2022

 

[BillyTheKid]

I once worked with a guy from Moldova. One day at break he was telling us about the soft drink machines in his home country. They use a common drinking glass. He said you put in your money, it fills the glass, you drink it and rinse it out before the next person.
We thought he was crazy. Until he found a picture of it on the web. Disgusting.

 

[Pio1980]

I once worked with a guy from Moldova. One day at break he was telling us about the soft drink machines in his home country. They use a common drinking glass. He said you put in your money, it fills the glass, you drink it and rinse it out before the next person.
We thought he was crazy. Until he found a picture of it on the web. Disgusting.

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Or use your own instead of a communal glass.

 

[SolderIron]

I once worked with a guy from Moldova. One day at break he was telling us about the soft drink machines in his home country. They use a common drinking glass. He said you put in your money, it fills the glass, you drink it and rinse it out before the next person.
We thought he was crazy. Until he found a picture of it on the web. Disgusting.

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It makes a healthy and strong population ? ? That which doesn't kill you....

 

[BillyTheKid]

It makes a healthy and strong population

Would they tell us if it didn't ?

 

[LF240]

I once worked with a guy from Moldova. One day at break he was telling us about the soft drink machines in his home country. They use a common drinking glass. He said you put in your money, it fills the glass, you drink it and rinse it out before the next person.
We thought he was crazy. Until he found a picture of it on the web. Disgusting.

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In the late 90s my brother spent the summer in Moscow and did a lot of traveling around the eastern states. He told me about seeing a few of these in bus / train stations that served only vodka. Can't remember what he said it cost, but it was far cheaper than the soft drink vending machines.

 

[invaderzim]

.... That which doesn't kill you....

leaves you scarred and bitter.

 

[Lou F Quincy]

I learn something every day.

I forget two things.