Recent content by HarryMinot

OK, provoked by a cocktail reference, I submit the following: Proving that silent films were a much-too-limiting venue for Harold Lloyd, whose command of sound effects was marvelous.

Not really a joke, but humor in song from the late, great Sir Noel Coward:

Scheherazade is weeping. I'd best go and dry her tears.

It's spelled "prostate". The new technology does include spell-check, but hasn't yet developed the ability to insert something meaningful into a vacuum. And Nature's not the only one who abhors a vacuum. Not meaning to be unkind. I'm just sayin'.

I'm 57. Never had any problem mastering all sorts of new technology. Otherwise, I am most grateful for, and humbled by, the gifts which I have received since I passed the age of 40. I would share with you the method of their attainment, but I somehow doubt that a younger person might/would...

Was that question addressed to me? If so, I began with S&P eminis and have stuck exclusively with that.

Howard, your avatar is bringing back very fond memories of the recording level indicator on my mom's old Revere tape recorder, the one that took 5 inch reels and ran at 3 3/4 inches per second. Ahhhhh!

I just don't know what I'd do without Joe's homespun wisdom. It's rawther like reading a chapter out of Little House On the Prairie on a cold and rainy night. DAMN! I just scalded my tongue with hot cocoa!

Hedgehogs can be adorable, but they're rawther spiky.

yet ANOTHER free e-book: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Course_in_Miracles/Text

Burma Shave

I think I just heard the Rank gong. "We're sorry, Mr. Poe, but there's simply nothing we can do about those bells!"

I am, once again, convulsed. BTW, verbification of that word owes itself to the late, great Preston Sturges, who deployed it in the mouth of Joel McCrea in "The Palm Beach Story".

Additional bemusement: an old trading-related song from the 1930s:

Color me bemused.