BrunoBrimley

75 Today Well he was 74 when I posted it at first Are you sure about Eddie and his birthdate? According to his tombstone he's a bit older~~~~~~~~~ Sad to see his wife Edith has already left us. Moving back to the matter at hand, I remeber Edward Woodward from Breaker Morant and also as Robert McCall in the U.S. television series from the 1980's The Equalizer. Something of a comedy although I'm sure it wasn't meant to be. The most memorable scene was in an early episode in which Woodward's character grabs a lowlife thug and thrusts him hard against a wall and with less than a hand span between their faces says to him "You will stay away from her. You will not follow her. You will not go near her. Do you understand me? Do I make myself perfectly clear?" It was absolutely hysterical. Mind you this was not a show to be watched without appropriate resources; but with a good bottle of booze it became tolerable.

For the 87th time I have to ask is this Salinger fellow really worth a plug nickel of our time? I mean if you had mentioned bringing the REAL Salinger (Pierre) into this Jungle I might well have gone for it but this discussion seems to be somewhat of a somehting for the Birds, but yet I do not give up Hope that you'll enlighten me as to why I'd care about a person who wrote one of the most boring books I've ever been faced with. Yuck! I could barely get through 4 paragraphs before needing to be rushed to the hospital due to severe boredom. Now moving back to the others, of course Sal Lombino is still alive although his work has slowed since his marriage to wife number 3 (or was it 4?), he is scheduled to be 79 in October of this year so still slightly on the young side. Len Deighton? Who knows. Who else all did you mention? Oh and did you know, were you aware that Larry Block is still alive? Must be pushing 90 around now.

...and in response to your snacking question IYG- Yes, I would like a chocolate covered pretzel, very much so!

I sincerely doubt it. In fact if he had not played this little 'death bed confession' card we'd never have even heard of him. In another few years he'll be less than a footnote in even the largest encyclopedia.

Getting a Plesk message? Invision Power Boards seem to do that.

Jeb Stuart Magruder(now an ordained minister), Alexander Haig(went on to fame after Ronald Reagan was shot by saying "I'm in charge here"), Robert Bork(lost a Supreme Court appointing due to disgruntled Democrats who were sore that Nixon resigned before they could impeach him.), William Rucklehaus and of course as Matt said G.Gordon "Will" Liddy who orchestrated the whole darned thing. A rather low level figure in the entire hearings which followed the breakin was none other than (Mr.) Hillary Rodham (who then went on to marry Slick Willie Clinton). She was doing some legal research and setting the paving stones for her future run as Supreme Dictator. Uh, no, I meant to say Do-Nothing Senator from New York State.

We tried, really we did. From the earliest school days to the latest displays in the General Store (almost a Mercantile but not quite), we have been handed metric. Even our rulers are metric on one side or t'other. During the first week of school metric was always given to us in our daily lesson plan. In the more advanced years (high school) it became part of the regular science curriculum whereas in junior high (a.k.a. middle school/intermediate school) it had been a part of the mathematics. Then in the late 1970's to early 1980's products in stores started appearing with metric listings. Although sodee pop (Pepsi, Dr.Pepper, Royal Crown Cola, Dr. Brown's Celry, Hire's, Luchesse Red Flood, Fanta, Etc. ) are sold in liter, 2 liter or 3 liter the oddity then occurs. Buy a bottle of this carbonated sugar water under a liter in size and it is sold as '16 fluid ounces' or '20 fluid ounces'. Milk on the other hand is sold by pint, quart, half gallon, gallon. Completely non-metric. Weights of products are usually done in ounces and pounds which is how it should be. Distances are in miles except in races where it varies from one to another (10K races or 5 mile runs--depends upon the race sponsor). It never will catch on completely here and why should it? After all we have a perfectly valid and functional system in place and unlike certain backwards sorts, we drive on the RIGHT side of the road (and I don't just mean right, I also mean right, as in the correct side) and if we've got the driving thing done right then we know our measurement system must be correct as well.

No offense taken (except perhaps by some with my American Standard spelling). Now if only I could summon up the courage to click on that link. Now that I think on it, I'm not that fond of William Jasper Joel either. (Yes, I made up the Jasper part.)

Left the planet? Really? Has he flown to Jupiter or some region in the outer Nebulae of MXZylgriaMpOGG? (not possible to give actual spelling here as we Earthlings don't have certain letters in our alphy-bet). Anyway, supposing for a moment that you meant to say one of them had passed over to the other side (croaked, bit the dust, kicked the bucket, died) I visited our internet sites of interestingly integrated integrity and found that Mr. Woodward, born on the 25th day of March in the yeast free year of 1943 is still alive at the tender age of 62. Further searching revealed that Mr. Bernstein was born on the 14th full day of February in the following year of 1944 which happened to be a leap year, causing the month to have one more day than it did in the month pror to Mr. Woodward's birth and Mr. Bernstein although he has at times appeared ossified (or so I'm told), is quite alive as well at the age of 61. So the thing is, both the reporters are still very much alive although one Richard M. Nixon is not.

Now why on earth would I want anything to do with anything that could or would relate in any way shape or form to anything related to that Canadian goose voiced horror known as Celine? Ugh! It just makes me old body shudder violently and viciously even thinking of her screech tearing across the airwaves. Go ahead just try to refute me.

I think it's mainly just a ploy (and a rather unclever one at that) to help you garner attention as you rack up the posting numbers (come to think of it that's what this post is about as well). Ollie (as his close pals refer to him, although some lovingly call him Stonedee) has been in the throes of his addictions for years and shows no signs of tossing in the towel although his latest film certainly did.

That might work in theory except for the fact that it was not in numerical but rather in word form. November 9, 2004 as opposed to 11/09/04. Now if it had been numeric then you might have an almost reasonable although clearly insane arguement of irrationality; however, seeing as how what we have here is the complete month of November being spelled out, your idea falls to the wayside much like cheese to the bottom of the barrel during a typhoon.

Of course if they're all empty it won't matter much now will it?

Next up: Frank Cady, born September 8,1915. Cady as has been previously discussed was in the 3 inter-related Henning series as General Store Owner Sam Drucker. He appeared in The Beverly Hillbillies, Petticoat Junction and Green Acres all at the same time. I certainly do miss those flotsam filled non-reality shows of yesteryear. It was fun each week watching the 3 Bradley girls as they appeared in the water tower (where all good small town folk went to swim--UGH! Just imagine the skin particles floating in the town water supply). We would watch as The Hooterville Cannonball made it's way roun' the bend on the way to Petticoat Junction and the Shady Rest Hotel. Occasionally there'd be the trip to the Pixley Cinema in Pixley. Or how about when the girls missed the train (run by Flooyd Smoot and some other guy) and had to use the old contraption on the tracks and get themselves into town? Hours of good clean fun. Then of course The Beverly Hillbillies and always wondering how Mr. Drysdale with the help of Miss Jane would attempt to screw the Clampetts out of their money but of course Jethro Bodine and Jed Clampett would somehow see the workings going on and have Granny or Ellie May divert the attentions away and thus keep their mansion and stay on a while longer in Beverly Hills. Good thing too, seeing as how Ellie May didn't have 'no desire to be a-moving her critters'. Settling in for the evening we'd then be amused by Oliver and Lisa Douglas and their farm hand(?) Eb. Usually we could count on someone in each episode to realize where the Douglas couple lived and they would say in utter dismay: "The Haney Place?" Amusing moments included weekly climbs up the telephone poll to answer the phone and who can forget the memorable episode where Oliver decided to paint the house and it turned out that the clapboard siding just kept sucking in buckets and buckets of paint. Maybe Fred Ziffels pig Arnold would be able to help explain it or maybe Hank Kimball could sell some notion which would fixalate the matter. Sad to see Paul pass over so soon and so young.

Quite a few undoubtedly--or is that, should it be, perhaps if it would or could be, rather better said as 'undoubtedly quite a few.'? Hmm...Anyway the corrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrect wording of the song is 'gay OLD time' ol usually only refers to the Tennessee Shrine (The Grand Ol' Opry). Fred, Barney, Wilma, Betty, Pebbles, Bam Bam, Mr.Slate, Dino, Arnold, Cary Granite...

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA The Montel Williams Show in a nutshell. "Okay. Today we have Toffanee and she is here to find out who the father of her baby is. She was married to Harold but had a relationship with Arturo and Buck while still married to her 3rd husband Warren. Let's bring out Toffanee." The audience greets Toffanee with loud thunderous applause. Or: "With us today is Ray. Ray is here to tell his wife that he has a child from a previous marriage but what he doesn't know is that his wife is having an affair with that child. Let's bring out Ray." The audience issues catcalls and boos. And of course: "Today we are going to meet with Annie and Joseph who are sick and tired of their parents using drugs and drinking. Folks let's meet Annie and Joseph." at this point come out two punk rock style middle aged people who clearly are drugged out themselves. The audience gasps. Montel Williams is a watered down, slightly more serious, more issue oriented version of Jerry Springer. They both use sordid topics and go into matters that nobody of any real self respect would ever air on television.

George is a VERY honest president. The problem is liberal leftists who pretend that Bubba Boy Clinton is the epitome of a saint. Take a good look at the media and see how one sided they've become. A recent poll showed that more than 65% of the media related employees (owners, reporters, editors) voted for John Kerry last November. These are the folks supposedly presenting an unbiased view of electioneering. A great big HARUMPH to that. With the exceptions of Theodore Roosevelt, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison and Chester A. Arthur, George W. Bush is the best President we have ever had (followed closely by Millard Filmore, James Polk, Ulysses S. Grant and George H.W. Bush).

Here's a suggestion DeathLustBoy--VOLUNTEER for the list next year and then be the first to have success. Although you won't be around to celebrate your success you'll be long remembered.

Because at the time it would seem that Grim Rita thought it was the right thing to do and a tasty way to do it.

Mike Wallace suffers from rather severe depression and if he hasn't offed himself yet then the odds are he won't and since he still appears weekly on 60 Minutes(of left wing garbage) a weekly television news-magazine (very little in the way of real or honest news), on Sunday evenings at 7 p.m. Eastern Standard time, on CBS, uh, what was the question again? Oh yes the thing is that entire series has octagenerians. Andy Rooney born in 1919. Mike Wallace born in 1918. Morley Safer born in 1931 but looks like it could be reversed numbers and he may have been born in 1913. Ed Bradley born in 1941 but looks a lot older than that. and none of them seem ready to polish the chrome just yet. On the brighter side 60 MinutesII the Wednesday show has died. It's met up with the HH axe.

Yes I do believe that's what he said.

How little? But in all seriousness, if I may be so bold as to attempt this new endeavor (seriousness that is), I did appreciate his work. And a darned fine actor too.

Bloody hell!!!!!!!!! When? Last week. He had just enjoyed a fifty thousandth showing of The Lawrence Welk Show in which Myron Floren plays 'Take-a-the-A-Train' on the accordion while Guy and Ralna attempted to exit the stage even though though temporarily blinded from the bright light given off of Norma Zimmer's teeth when a spotlight ray hit them and they both had severely damaged hearing from Joe Feeney hitting a higher note than any other ever has. (All ths happened even as Bobby and Cissy and Arthur Duncan danced around on stage, oblivious to the other happenings.) Good gosh golly I sure do miss Lawrence Welk and his Chamagne Music show. Why was Dolphie so fond of Larry and his music? Well, even though Mr. Welk had been born in North Dakota (near Bismarck) he had been raised a strict German which endeared him to old Dolphie. Here's more: Lawrence Welk In Strasberg

Remind me to seem interested.

Technically that would be Dan Rather who first reported the information to Walter who then conveyed the information to the United States via live broadcasting from CBS headquarters in New York City. So, you're saying that Dan Rather is only months from death? What's the frequency, Kenneth? Kennedy Dead So which one will it be? OR