Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Lilac Wall


10 comments:

  1. Well! Darned if Howard isn’t still first! And here for your delectation are three quotes, in chronological order:

    “It is better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don’t want and get it.” —Eugene V. Debs

    "Eighty percent of success is showing up.” — Woody Allen

    “It is better to show up than to give up.” —Bernie Sanders

    —Alan

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  2. Mum missed Bernie's announcement; she was napping. She knew he'd be making it though. She also said there's a potential problem wit him getting on the ballot in New Hampchair, something to do with his being a Socialist? Listener, do you have any dope on this?

    Ummm... Could you please give the street and web addresses for Bernie's campaign again?

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    1. It's not that he's a Socialist, but that he is an Independent. However, he has been caucusing with the Dems all this time in Congress, so they more or less accept him. It's more an issue of technicality and the letter of the law, and how to deal with that.

      The NEW street address
      BERNIE 2016
      PO BOX 905
      BURLINGTON, VT 05402

      www.berniesanders.com

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    2. Thanks. I'll get some love off to him. May also invest in a new T-shirt. Mediums seem a trifle tight these days. Ahem.

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  3. LOL, Cat! I started to write the actual street address (131 Church Street 05401), but went to the website to see if they had any sort of "Suite 2" in it or what and found the PO Box address. After I posted it I realised how strange it must have read! :-D

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  4. Sometimes people go above and beyond.

    My latest quiz is wordplay of the sort where you are given a word or phrase and asked to find other, shorter words using the letters in it. For some reason that mystifies me, this is apparently called a scramble. Unsurprisingly, mine involves finding words using the letters in ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK.

    On submitting, I included a note explaining that an editor had told me this type of quiz was no longer accepted for the Brain Teasers category, but it's my favorite kind of wordplay and I hoped it would still be all right for subcategories of Music. If not, I apologized.

    Today it went online. In her note letting me know, my editor friend Agony told me they don't accept quizzes of this type but she persuaded the other Music editors to let mine through since it was finished. From things both she and other editors have told me in the past, I know I am considered serious, trustworthy and good to work with. To tell the truth, Agony has bent the rules for me once or twice before, though never to such an extent and I'll certainly be minding my Ps and Qs for quite a while after this. But, I mean, she didn't have to go to any trouble. She could have simply rejected the quiz. She didn't have to go to bat for me. I find it touching that she thinks highly enough of me to do me such a favor.

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  5. Any word on how Bernie's day in New Hampster went?

    --Alan

    P.S.: In case anyone missed it, you might want to check out my Huey Long links on the previous page; particularly the first one (if my memory serves me well), where he gives the same sort of statistics about what percentage of the population holds what percent of the wealth in the country... If Huey and Bernie are correct, the distribution of wealth is now more unequal than in 1934!

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