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Done! Invoice is in the mail.

Nothing a little balalaika music with a vodka chaser can't fix. OMG! Total Slavic Bliss! We sang this one in Chorus in Grade 10.. Paul Robeson is way better than Dickie Lebordeau was, even though as the only true bass in the entire school, he was pretty good. I am going out right now to get some Matriona dolls to throw at the Red Wings.

Dear Emile, I am a very talented excellent very good player. My coach just got fired and everybody blaming me. Not my fault! They say I not listen to him and put fingers in my ears and sing "Song of the Volga Boatmen" while he is talking, also roll my eyes, Not true. It is not my fault I do not understand English or French altthough I try very hard, also I do not understand Russian except my dialect of my village, Weirdsk-upon-the Volga. What to do about my jealous teammates? Wondering in Washington Dear Wondering. Try backchecking once in a while, you monumental baby. There are many retired NHLers who do not speak any known language and have had highly successful careers. If they could get over themselves , you can.

Um, Jonathan, suggestion (Adam's actually) Maybe you could throw a few pages of Rand's correspondence with RWL onto the ice at a rational moment?

I thought North Stars was better too, but the Wilder connection is great (see other thread). But Wild does connote wildlife, like those rats the Panthers fans threw on the ice, or some unorthodoxy that is not really in keeping with the non-concussion causing aspects of hockey, of which there are some. The Islanders are so pathetic, maybe your nephew just wants to be sure of seeing the home team win, Hoping he is not a secret bully.

I thought North Stars was better too, but the Wilder connection is great (see other thread). But Wild does connote wildlife, like those rats the Panthers fans threw on the ice, or some unorthodoxy that is not really in keeping with the non-concussion causing aspects of hockey, of which there are some. The Islanders are so pathetic, maybe your nephew just wants to be sure of seeing the home team win, Hoping he is not a secret bully.

Incidentally Jonathan, did you get forcefed much Sinclair Lewis in school? He's unfashionable now but I love him. Main Street and b Babbitt are perennial re-reads for me. Full disclosure, those novels contain all the actual facts I know about Minnesota, outside of Rose and the Wild as elsewhere referenced.Hey, was the naming of the team a nod to Wilder?

Ah. Yeah, Rose was the daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder and Almanzo Wilder. I thought that you knew that, and that you were suggesting that maybe Rose was the love child of Almanzo and Nellie Oleson, or of Laura and Reverend Alden or something. Or maybe some kind of wicked three-way with Mr. Edwards. J No, I didn't know it but I love knowing it now. Ayn Rand's Plato was Michael Landon's dreamdaughter! I love OL.

There is a ridiculous rumour floating around that the "Minnesota Wild" are in first place. Hilarious. We know there is some sort of hockey team there (they do have winter, after all), but anyone who knows anything about Minnesota knows that the last thing they would call anything is "Wild."

Huh? I said I wasn't trying to change Phil, but rather, I'm putting together an easy reference source so people don't have to go hunting through old threads. Here's "complete scumbag", followed by Phil's takedown of Umberto Eco. In spite of having six novels translated into French, he and his translators are in urgent need of French language lessons from Phil, and I'm sure they appreciate the help. http://www.objectivi...ndpost&p=145928 http://www.objectivi...ndpost&p=146831 Oh, Ok. Pax. You are not trying to move the immovable and Phil is not trying to convince the unconvinceable. You are just the both of you sometimes a little bit...trying.

"Human beings cannot bear too much reality"

He was her dad. J Woo-hoo! Which side of the blanket? The right side. Or at least I've always assumed. Why, do you know something about "Beth" and "Manly" that we don't? J I am sorry, excuse my levity. Probably I should engrave that on top of all my posts. I know who Rose Wilder Lane is, and I know Laura Ingalls Wilder only from "Little House" reruns on TV. That is the sum total of my knowledge, I made the connection of names for purely comic effect. I take it that you are serious and they are related.

Shameless. Coming soon: convenient links to Phil calling me a “complete scumbag” and “Nihilist Dipshit”, and of course the classic “Phil goes cunting” exchange. Ninth, you are the irresistible force trying to move the immovable object. You will never agree to be the mountain and Phil will never agree to be Mohammed. You are the Florida East and he is the Florida Wherever and never the twain.... Need I go on?

Still an empty den. What's the gestation period for Lions, anyway? Still an empty den. What's the gestation period for Lions, anyway? I have a venture where I really need somebody to lend me their car over Christmas because I do not have one. I have cash, maybe $300. Does this qualify? I will pay commission.

He was her dad. J Woo-hoo! Which side of the blanket?

But not your need to mention it. George, George! Take the test, please. Don't tell anybody at all the score, escept me (I know what it would be anyway) and keep pretending you never took it, and I'll never tell anybody.

While it may be tempting to make black-and-white generalizations, this is mostly too simple. It all depends on the teachers. I have attended both private and public schools and can't say that the public school teaching lagged in any way behind. Some teachers I had in public school were actually excellent and quite inspiring. I don't mean public schools as opposed to private schools. I mean "the kind of schooling the public is fond of". As opposed to apprenticeships, for example, a kind of education that works really well (here in Germany anyway) but no one ever talks about. But then apprenticeships are voluntary, and people really don't like that. John, you are 100% right about apprenticeships. It is disgraceful that this sensible, traditional way of learning a trade has been allowed to lapse. I feel strongly about this because my husband was a skilled tradesmen who served an apprenticeship (at Rolls-Royce Aero, in Glasgow) as well as attending technical college. He was in my view and that of his peers a master millwright, one of the best in Toronto. My younger son is also a tradesman working for the public transit system, which reimburse employees for earning trades certificates. My elder son chose the risky trade of radio broadcasting. No safety net there. But he has certainly served the apprenticeship and has kept his job or two whole years. My trade is teaching, as you know. I served a two-year "apprenticeship" as a supply teacher, with adventures and discoveries you would hardly believe.

Really? I do know about basketball. I only watched it live through high school and university years, then on TV, and really there was no difference (it is the one game whose mechanics I know, having played it albeit execrably). It may be a logistical thing. A basketball court is relatively small and the action is concentrated in a small area. A hockey rink is large, and in the view of many, including me, should be larger. The action is continuous. What is happening or not happening where the puck isn't, is as important as what is happening where the puck is.. but the camera can only follow the puck. Football is agonizingly slow and watching hordes milling around with headsets does not contribute to a spectator's knowledge of what they are watching. Lipreading a hockey coach who is offcamera is hugely instructive. Also, getting a good view of both benches which is easy on-site, is much better than dugout shots. Probably this is why hockey is an old-schol, bums on seats business while soccer for example aims to be a virtual experience, with billions of fans who will never ever see their adored team play for real. Sad, really.

Oh come on, Phil . I'd enjoy that kind of self-test and probably so would others, I have to think I would do better than on the science one! As to J, at first I did agree that he could not have learned so much in junior high, but thinking about it I tend to believe that he could. It all depends on what your teachers know and how far they go to encourage the students' interest in the subject . It just brought to mind my Grade 9 math teacher, Alma Douglas, a brilliant woman who explained binary theory and the birth of computers to us in (I think) 1966).She had a passion for her subject and didn't much care if anybody got it, as long as she got to talk about it. As far as I know nobody got it, I don't think anybody ever became a physicist, but you better believe we all passed math. Also, Jonathan is from Minnesota. I believe Laura Ingalls Wilders' husband was related to Rose. Think Little Symposium on the Prairie.

Seriously, going to hockey games as opposed to watching on TV, really is more fun. Not only because of the group vibe and fan energy. For actually watching and absorbing the whole game. You just do not get the whole experience of the play itself, unless you are there. This view is not original with me, many sportswriters have noted it (OK mostly Canadian ones, but most American ones have never watched hockey at all). A football game for example can be followed and absorbed on TV, as if you were watching from a top tier seat. Of course you would miss the tailgate parties.

But isn't this a great idea by a teacher: inspiring students to get in touch with real writers? While it may be tempting to make black-and-white generalizations, this is mostly too simple. It all depends on the teachers. I have attended both private and public schools and can't say that the public school teaching lagged in any way behind. Some teachers I had in public school were actually excellent and quite inspiring. I never attended private school but I think the situation here is the same, my impression is that in public schools the parents and community have much, much more input and control. With the private schools, money talks and the richest contributors too often dictate the culture and even curriculum - and the teachers are hampered at every turn from doing their jobs by "special-interest" considerations. I'd be interested in Phil's observations here since his career was in private school teaching.

Hey wait! I just looked at the quiz againI (thanks Ellen) and I am 100% sure that I got the mitosis one right though it was marked wrong! I demand a recount, at least then I would be tied with Shane and not dead last.

Temporarily balked from seeking out new victims, the delightful Sandusky is reduced to tormenting and manipulating those he has already abused. He and his able attorney made sure they were forced to face the horror of reliving the worst times of their lives in public, right up to the moment when Sandusky said, "No, I'll waive the preliminary hearing, you can go home. "For now. "You can spend months and months more dreading the moment you'll have to testify. We're going to fight you to the death - if you thought you suffered before, wait till cross-examination -- maybe you'll wish you were dead. "See, I'm still in charge. People just don't get it." The sickest thing is, of course he will take a plea. Obviously they are just not offering a plea he thinks he can "live with." Whatever they offer, it will be better than the sentence he will get, if he does indeed force those young men to relive what he did to them. His interesting risktaking lawyer must know that. as to what Jerry can live with, at least his life as we have known it, is over.

No Brant, you would still have beaten me. So far I am the lowest of the low at 29 correct - 48%. 58%.

Well, you're in LA - I guess you'll have to throw Kardashians. Maybe one of them can get hold of a pro athlete who is actually employed.