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- Mon May 31, 2010 8:44 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: One gal's opinion on oil spill
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3969
Re: One gal's opinion on oil spill
I usually enjoy your sometimes odd sense of humor Mark, but sometimes you also seem to be standing on both sides of the same line. But of course, it must be your sense of humor, not my perception. Where did you see any humor? Where did you see standing on both sides? You don't agree that any argume...
- Mon May 31, 2010 2:28 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: One gal's opinion on oil spill
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3969
Re: One gal's opinion on oil spill
But then I did not hear you say anything about corporate misinformation, disinformation, and how corporate spokespersons have incredibly minimized the impact of this spill. Is that not an even greater flaw than exaggeration? I think you're mistaking where I'm at. I AGREE with you. All I was saying ...
- Mon May 31, 2010 10:56 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: One gal's opinion on oil spill
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3969
Re: One gal's opinion on oil spill
Thanks for posting it. This is one of those kinds of things that I take both seriously and 'with a grain of salt.' I'm assuming there's a lot to what she says, but also wary that it might be at least somewhat exaggerated. What I hope will happen is that it will get enough play that the other side(s)...
- Mon May 31, 2010 2:17 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Add [theonewhosenameshallnotbeposted] to your ignore list
- Replies: 52
- Views: 23545
Re: Add Saul to your ignore list
Yes, but one of us is being scientific, and the other isn't.living_stradivarius wrote:SameMarkC wrote:I'm just pointing out what I'm observing.
- Mon May 31, 2010 2:16 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: A virtuoso performance
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4469
Re: A virtuoso performance
.....My local team - who can't seem to find the win column..... I follow 'your' team a little bit closely because one of the players -- Jeff Keppinger -- became a mild ( very mild) cult figure while he was here in New York with the Mets. I'm glad to see that he's doing well -- or at least seems to ...
- Sun May 30, 2010 10:58 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Add [theonewhosenameshallnotbeposted] to your ignore list
- Replies: 52
- Views: 23545
Re: Add Saul to your ignore list
You want to paint people as all good or all bad?living_stradivarius wrote:Defending him yet again......
I don't believe in being extreme. Especially when it's wrong.
And besides, I'm not "defending" or "offending." I'm just pointing out what I'm observing.
- Sun May 30, 2010 10:51 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: A virtuoso performance
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4469
Re: A virtuoso performance
I think you'll need to tell us exactly why that is.slofstra wrote:Thanks for reminding me of why I dislike major league baseball so much.
- Sun May 30, 2010 10:45 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Interview with pianist Jerome Rose by Gary R. Lemco
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2391
Re: Interview with pianist Jerome Rose by Gary R. Lemco
Thanks for posting it, Lance. Years ago I had the great opportunity not only to hear Jerome Rose play the Brahms D minor Concerto, but also........ The night before, he dropped in on a master class given by a friend of his in that town, and I happened to be there. He joined in hearing some of us pla...
- Sun May 30, 2010 10:40 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Add [theonewhosenameshallnotbeposted] to your ignore list
- Replies: 52
- Views: 23545
Re: Add Saul to your ignore list
BTW........I notice that Saul admirably is staying away from this thread.
- Sun May 30, 2010 11:06 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Add [theonewhosenameshallnotbeposted] to your ignore list
- Replies: 52
- Views: 23545
Re: Add Saul to your ignore list
OK, that's ONE.
You need to find a bunch more before you're right.
And before you go and do all that work, be forewarned: For every one you find that I replied to, I'd be able to find a hundred that I didn't!
P.S. I'm not stupid enough to do that work though.
You need to find a bunch more before you're right.
And before you go and do all that work, be forewarned: For every one you find that I replied to, I'd be able to find a hundred that I didn't!
P.S. I'm not stupid enough to do that work though.
- Sun May 30, 2010 11:02 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: A virtuoso performance
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4469
Re: A virtuoso performance
LOL! I must admit, you fooled me. :) I was wondering, who just gave a concert? Kissin? Ax? Ma? Hamelin? And yes. Halladay is one of the greats, right before our eyes. If there's any pitcher who "deserves" to get a perfect game, he's it. When fans talk about who might make the Hall of Fame, often the...
- Sun May 30, 2010 3:12 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Add [theonewhosenameshallnotbeposted] to your ignore list
- Replies: 52
- Views: 23545
Re: Add Saul to your ignore list
No, quite often.... We must disagree on our concepts here. :) One time, it is said, Reggie Jackson and Mickey Rivers (baseball players) got into some stupid argument, wherein Reggie felt compelled to say, "Why am I even talking to an idiot like you? My IQ is 160." Rivers said, "Out of what, a thous...
- Sun May 30, 2010 12:34 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Add [theonewhosenameshallnotbeposted] to your ignore list
- Replies: 52
- Views: 23545
Re: Add Saul to your ignore list
RARELYliving_stradivarius wrote:......All this coming from someone who replies to him on a regular basis......
- Sun May 30, 2010 12:23 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Add [theonewhosenameshallnotbeposted] to your ignore list
- Replies: 52
- Views: 23545
Re: Add Saul to your ignore list
......A friend mine declined an invitation to this "hate-mongering" forum. One member makes it a "hate-mongering forum"? In a way I can't even relate to what y'all are saying, because I barely notice those posts. My eyes just sort of automatically skip over them. For all intents and purposes I don'...
- Sat May 29, 2010 11:59 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Add [theonewhosenameshallnotbeposted] to your ignore list
- Replies: 52
- Views: 23545
Re: Add Saul to your ignore list
P.S. I was kinda like that the other nite, without a drop of alcohol.piston wrote:
- Sat May 29, 2010 11:59 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Add [theonewhosenameshallnotbeposted] to your ignore list
- Replies: 52
- Views: 23545
Re: Add Saul to your ignore list
Hey, I'm not sure she was drunk!piston wrote:ON A MORE POSITIVE NOTE, we're not quite there ... yet!:
Perhaps she's just a pound or two overweight and a little uncoordinated.
- Sat May 29, 2010 5:27 pm
- Forum: Films & Movies & Their Music
- Topic: The Worst Actor-Actress You Have Ever Hissed and Boohed
- Replies: 18
- Views: 14412
Re: The Worst Actor-Actress You Have Ever Hissed and Boohed
Not to be a d1ck :) but........I don't think I'd ever hiss or boo an actor/actress. But.......if we can broaden it to bad acting with or without booing: Joyce Randolph . In fairness, I don't think she did a lousy job of "Trixie," but alongside Jackie Gleason, Art Carney, and Audrey Meadows, she did ...
- Sat May 29, 2010 3:31 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Add [theonewhosenameshallnotbeposted] to your ignore list
- Replies: 52
- Views: 23545
Re: Add Saul to your ignore list
I wish this "anti" stuff would stop -- I mean the threads directed against a particular member.
If you don't like his stuff, don't reply to it. The replying encourages it and increases it. If you reply less (or not at all) -- sure, It'll still go on, but it won't be as prominent.
If you don't like his stuff, don't reply to it. The replying encourages it and increases it. If you reply less (or not at all) -- sure, It'll still go on, but it won't be as prominent.
- Sat May 29, 2010 3:11 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Please refrain from religious discussions.
- Replies: 38
- Views: 13120
Re: Please refrain from religious discussions.
You might, if you didn't express yourself in some of the ways as you have done on here.Brendan wrote:.....I know I have the moral high ground.....
As it is, you lose it.
- Sat May 29, 2010 2:36 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Please refrain from religious discussions.
- Replies: 38
- Views: 13120
Re: Please refrain from religious discussions.
Sorry, but I can't tell if you're being serious.Chalkperson wrote:......Any restriction, other than the Rules of the Site, people have to self censor....
If you are, you did misunderstand (and still do).
If not, you need to use more smileys. [sm. suppr.]
- Sat May 29, 2010 2:07 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Please refrain from religious discussions.
- Replies: 38
- Views: 13120
Re: Please refrain from religious discussions.
I don't think it is "religious discussions" that we should refrain from. I think it's any kind of obnoxious/provocative/polemic post -- which IMO may be a political post as often as a religious one. And sometimes (rarely) about other subjects also. I like your basic idea, but how about we target it...
- Fri May 28, 2010 10:58 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Please refrain from religious discussions.
- Replies: 38
- Views: 13120
Re: Please refrain from religious discussions.
I do care. And I've been saying what I think.
- Fri May 28, 2010 10:50 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Please refrain from religious discussions.
- Replies: 38
- Views: 13120
Re: Please refrain from religious discussions.
.....Now, let's see. Somebody comes to you in a pub and, for the next half hour, you are exposed to his views and opinions and beliefs. Can you just relinquish your seat and, because of this exchange, say goodnight to the bar tender and go home?..... I'll have to be hypothetical since I don't go to...
- Fri May 28, 2010 10:33 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Please refrain from religious discussions.
- Replies: 38
- Views: 13120
Re: Please refrain from religious discussions.
He's not ruining the forum. In fact, IMO in a certain way, he lends it a certain "color." :) The main problem is that people reply to him, which then enables him to reply to the reply, etc. etc., then reply to the reply to the reply -- and of course re-copying the whole sequence of posts each and ev...
- Fri May 28, 2010 10:13 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Please refrain from religious discussions.
- Replies: 38
- Views: 13120
Re: Please refrain from religious discussions.
Replying to him in a nasty off-color way doesn't do anything and won't do anything.
I don't know if anything would, but that sure won't.
I don't know if anything would, but that sure won't.
- Fri May 28, 2010 9:40 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Please refrain from religious discussions.
- Replies: 38
- Views: 13120
Re: Please refrain from religious discussions.
I don't think it is "religious discussions" that we should refrain from. I think it's any kind of obnoxious/provocative/polemic post -- which IMO may be a political post as often as a religious one. And sometimes (rarely) about other subjects also. I like your basic idea, but how about we target it ...
- Fri May 28, 2010 4:06 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: An alternate theory
- Replies: 26
- Views: 7536
Re: An alternate theory
In case you care, you don't enhance your own credibility or anything at all when you say stuff like that.Brendan wrote:....Go sacrifice a goat to your god, you rancid filthy moron.
Then again, I've given advice to Saul and he didn't pay any attention, so......maybe I'm not enhancing anything either.
- Fri May 28, 2010 4:02 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Kathryn Selby
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4198
Re: Kathryn Selby
Thanks, I guess. [smiley suppressed]Chalkperson wrote:Yep, he does...
- Fri May 28, 2010 3:58 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: An alternate theory
- Replies: 26
- Views: 7536
Re: An alternate theory
Jean -- IMO it's not impossible.
I had a teacher/colleague/friend who believed that.
In any event, I do believe it's likely that there is intelligent life elsewhere. As for the rest of the theory, if I had to bet one way or the other, I'd bet no. But I wouldn't bet everything I had.
I had a teacher/colleague/friend who believed that.
In any event, I do believe it's likely that there is intelligent life elsewhere. As for the rest of the theory, if I had to bet one way or the other, I'd bet no. But I wouldn't bet everything I had.
- Thu May 27, 2010 10:52 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Kathryn Selby
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4198
Re: Kathryn Selby
Not at all!
How do you know that I don't feel I wasn't paying enough attention?
Secondly, I did find out!
Thirdly, I was mostly kidding.
How do you know that I don't feel I wasn't paying enough attention?
Secondly, I did find out!
Thirdly, I was mostly kidding.
- Thu May 27, 2010 10:19 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: "Hatikvah" - Variations for Piano
- Replies: 22
- Views: 14943
Re: "Hatikvah" - Variations for Piano
VERY INTERESTING to see the posts by Ric and Lance. I guess I have a lower standard of amusement. :) Plus, I admit gladly, I give huge weight (no pun intended) :lol: to spectacle , plus anything that's "different" (although I'm not in the Glenn Gould school of thought which says that the only reason...
- Thu May 27, 2010 10:09 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Kathryn Selby
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4198
Re: Kathryn Selby
Good post, but if you don't know she's Agnes's daughter, you haven't been paying enough attention!
BTW.......I just learned recently.
BTW.......I just learned recently.
- Thu May 27, 2010 10:07 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Why are so many libs closet fascists?
- Replies: 46
- Views: 9709
Re: Why are so many libs closet fascists?
I'll repeat for the deaf. The federal income tax, as we have it today, was undeniably a liberal brainchild ..... Saying it louder doesn't change it or make it better. We heard you. BTW.......the "Republican"/"Democrat" post was an appropriate reply, all things considered, including context and impl...
- Thu May 27, 2010 1:27 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: New Lincoln Center restaurant lacks name
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2664
Re: New Lincoln Center restaurant lacks name
I think our vote on that would be unanimous.jbuck919 wrote:.....maybe we should suggest that it be called CMG (for Classical Music Gourmet, of course).......
- Wed May 26, 2010 12:47 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: "Hatikvah" - Variations for Piano
- Replies: 22
- Views: 14943
Re: "Hatikvah" - Variations for Piano
P.S. Ric -- you don't have to see the film to see that performance.
Here it is on YouTube:
Here it is on YouTube:
- Wed May 26, 2010 12:20 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: "Hatikvah" - Variations for Piano
- Replies: 22
- Views: 14943
Re: "Hatikvah" - Variations for Piano
How he did in the competition: It was one of the most interesting and controversial things about the event. He finished with the Ritual Fire Dance, which he played (apparently consciously) as an imitation and exaggeration of Rubinstein, including the raising of the hands way way above the keyboard b...
- Wed May 26, 2010 12:35 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: "Hatikvah" - Variations for Piano
- Replies: 22
- Views: 14943
Re: "Hatikvah" - Variations for Piano
I thought it was totally wild.Lance wrote:......I'm delighted to learn that a Google search brought you right back to your good old home here at CMG!
And of course I was delighted to see that James has been discussed here.
- Tue May 25, 2010 11:30 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Taking Stock: Beethoven's Sonata #32 in C Minor, Op. 111
- Replies: 54
- Views: 21291
Re: Taking Stock: Beethoven's Sonata #32 in C Minor, Op. 111
Give it time, you're young yet.Lance wrote:Remember: it's QUALITY, not QUANTITY that really counts! This whole collecting thing can become obsessive eventually if you allow it. I'm just glad it hasn't happened to me - yet!
- Tue May 25, 2010 11:29 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: "Hatikvah" - Variations for Piano
- Replies: 22
- Views: 14943
Re: "Hatikvah" - Variations for Piano
Wow. :) Guess what........I stumbled on this old thread via GOOGLE search (not a search of this site), looking up something about James. He's been part of the "amateur competition" scene, and he's featured quite a bit in the documentary They Came to Play which I've talked about on here, including in...
- Tue May 25, 2010 10:07 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Taking Stock: Beethoven's Sonata #32 in C Minor, Op. 111
- Replies: 54
- Views: 21291
Re: Taking Stock: Beethoven's Sonata #32 in C Minor, Op. 111
Yes you do belong..........you have about 9 times as many as I do.barney wrote:I have 18 versions, so don't belong on the same page as the likes of Lance with more than 90......
- Tue May 25, 2010 11:40 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: CMG NYC meet-up change of plans
- Replies: 40
- Views: 39386
Re: CMG NYC meet-up change of plans
That makes two and counting.
(THREE if you include me.) [sm. suppr.]
(THREE if you include me.) [sm. suppr.]
- Tue May 25, 2010 2:29 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: CMG NYC meet-up change of plans
- Replies: 40
- Views: 39386
Re: CMG New York meet-up: Time to choose the menu
Maybe it's your thought processes. <ducking>..... Definitely! (no need to duck) Whatever else it is or isn't, it's definitely my thought process. :lol: After all, remember: "Don't expect me to be sane, I'm playing Scriabin" :mrgreen: But the 'beauty' of speculation like mine is that it can never be...
- Mon May 24, 2010 11:35 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Is Stem Cell Research Ethical?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 23165
Re: Is Stem Cell Research Ethical?
Jean -- I don't see that you said anything offensive either.
I guess it's just that with things like this, stuff can be taken in any which way.....
I guess it's just that with things like this, stuff can be taken in any which way.....
- Mon May 24, 2010 7:19 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Is Stem Cell Research Ethical?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 23165
Re: Is Stem Cell Research Ethical?
......Also, those opposed to this kind of reasearch claim that there is no possibility of medical benefit from it. How do they know?..... Speaking as someone on your side, I've never heard any of them be that brazen. Maybe I've been fortunate not to hear from any of the more brazen among them. :) W...
- Mon May 24, 2010 3:39 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Top Two Cadets-West Point, Class of 2010
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5952
Re: Top Two Cadets-West Point, Class of 2010
......I hope we'll never know when the first non-closeted gay person achieves such honors, because when it happens no one will think it significant enough to be worth reporting. I remember the first time I witnessed something along those lines. I consider myself pretty 'liberated' but maybe I'm not...
- Mon May 24, 2010 3:35 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: CMG NYC meet-up change of plans
- Replies: 40
- Views: 39386
Re: CMG New York meet-up: Time to choose the menu
That means the concert idea was scuttled? I wouldn't have any complaint about that -- just curious.slofstra wrote:One of the reasons O'Neal's was chosen originally was its proximity to the Lincoln Center. Since that is no longer a criterion.....
- Mon May 24, 2010 3:20 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: CMG NYC meet-up change of plans
- Replies: 40
- Views: 39386
Re: CMG New York meet-up: Time to choose the menu
I don't know, Mark - we were there just a week ago Saturday, and the place was busy as ever - and i don't remember seeing even one veal item on the menu...... Sounds like my speculation wasn't much right. :) But there may have been something to it. We shrink types look for signs of stuff. :) If vea...
- Mon May 24, 2010 2:50 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: CMG NYC meet-up change of plans
- Replies: 40
- Views: 39386
Re: CMG New York meet-up: Time to choose the menu
If the news about O'Neal's closing is valid, the selection of menus becomes irrelevant...... Indeed. BTW......not to be flip, but i wonder if their thing with veal hasn't helped them. Granting that I'm biased, it seems to me that their featuring veal to the extent that they put it as the one-and-on...
- Mon May 24, 2010 2:12 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: CMG NYC meet-up change of plans
- Replies: 40
- Views: 39386
Re: CMG New York meet-up: Time to choose the menu
Longtime Upper West Side eateries have been closing one after another in the last few years; Café des Artistes and Lenge come to mind and there have been others whose names I forget..... You didn't already forget Tavern on the Green, did you...... :) And, depending on how far back we want to go: Hi...
- Mon May 24, 2010 1:32 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: CMG NYC meet-up change of plans
- Replies: 40
- Views: 39386
Re: CMG New York meet-up: Time to choose the menu
My wife and I are still planning to come, but, again, we can't be there until after 9PM, if that's still OK. Am voting for the more expensive option, twice. Huh. I guess I should vote twice then too! (My wife would probably be coming.) But that makes me wonder......does that mean there's no mechani...