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A very Happy Birthday to you B! All the best!

I haven't heard it, but it certainly does look interesting. I haven't heard Jim Reider on much else other than the Gerry Mulligan CJB.

"Not My Job" Award candidate.

There's a Pong II ????

Maybe they intuitively knew what you needed as opposed to what you wanted?

Yeah, I thought of that too, Moose. Actually, my bigger regret is spending a very large chunk of money on the down payment for our house and furniture to fill it. Sure, we settled and I got some money back, but nowhere near what I put into it, and she's in the house. It's going to be a long time (if ever) that I can afford to buy a house again (much less find someone to share it with!). I feel pretty foolish about that. I don't know if I'd qualify that as a dumb purchase - either the ring or the house. Wouldn't you say that at the time it was the right thing to do, and only in hindsight, after the relationship soured, did your view of it change. I think that's more a change of opinion of the relationship, than something you bought for or with your partner. At least in my case. My ex has our old house (paid for with my downpayment money), and pretty much all of our furniture (some of which is antique, and some very nice persian carpets we got in Europe) that we bought together. But I feel more regret that the relationship didn't work out, than upset about anything we bought when we were together. And even then, the regret is more because of the hurt that it caused (and probably continues to cause) my children, than anything it's done to me or the ex. Yes, you're right, it was the right thing to do at the time, and my biggest regret is about the failure of the relationship (thankfully we had no children). Although now that I'm looking back with a bit more objectivity I can see more clearly where things were going south. It was a VERY expensive life lesson though! And it's left me very cautious (paranoid? cynical?) about doing anything like that in the future (if I'm ever again in a position to do so). BTW, my apologies for the thread drift.

Yeah, I thought of that too, Moose. Actually, my bigger regret is spending a very large chunk of money on the down payment for our house and furniture to fill it. Sure, we settled and I got some money back, but nowhere near what I put into it, and she's in the house. It's going to be a long time (if ever) that I can afford to buy a house again (much less find someone to share it with!). I feel pretty foolish about that.

My worst car purchase was probably the Chevy Celebrity I owned many years ago. Not a terrible car, pretty wimpy power-wise, but just overall a very cheaply made car. I saw many others around that had the same defective paint that mine had, kind of bubbling and rusting prematurely. Yuck.

Sheesh, I'd never even heard of this, but I'm a McFarland fan (apparently not a very thorough one, however!) and after checking out the samples have ordered it. Thanks for the heads up, TeeTeeKay! I see Sangrey is tempted. What WILL he do, what WILL he do?

organissimo relocation to Italy, 2010. Eurorganissimo?

I lobbed that one over the plate, I'm just surprised it was you who swung at it, Rachel!

Thanks for the advice, Governor Spitzer, and welcome to the board! Good to hear you'll have more time to post!

No shit! After about six hours my legs go to sleep.

My God, Randy, they're HUGE!!!

Damn....we're all getting older, Al!

Thought I'd bump this very old thread up. Kind of fun to read some of the posts form the "beginning".

I'd have to say that Battlefield Earth was perhaps the worst movie I've ever seen. Even worse than Ishtar.

Yes, I just love the teaser where the anchor says "You're being exposed to a deadly threat in your own home RIGHT NOW!......details at eleven...."

Very sorry to hear about this. I plan to send something. Deep Venous Thrombosis is what killed that reporter David Bloom, wasn't it?

Nice photos, Chris! That IAC building is really interesting. Chaka Khan in The Color Purple? Hmmmmmm.........

"......and whiskers on kittens....."

I had heard lately he wasn't doing well. He was a great musician and (although I never met him) I heard he was a wonderful person. I'm very sorry he's gone, but I'm glad his suffering is over (my understanding was that it was spinal cancer). RIP

......and they saw you!

Now that's ironic! The crowd stays for the set of Shorter tunes, but not for the artist himself!