#john reston

[tomoleary]

Paul Gulacy and Pablo Marcos - Master of Kung-Fu #46 title splash page (1976) Source

The comic today

[felassan]

Article: 'EA’s BioWare will lay off 50 and cut ties with unionized Keywords playtesting group'

[BioWare Blog post for reference]

Excerpts:

"The layoffs are a blow to morale at the studio and have made the environment difficult, said Gary Mckay, general manager of the developer, in a statement to employees today. He said EA is trying to make BioWare into a more agile and more focused studio. EA has an estimated 12,000 to 13,000 employees, and BioWare had perhaps 250 people. The moves come with a couple of related or perhaps coincidental events. A spokesperson for EA said that the company was unable to come to an agreement with a part of Keywords, a big game services firm, that provides playtesting services. In June 2022, this small part of Keywords had a group of contractors who voted to unionize. EA said it was unable to create a new contract and so will let that current one expire on September 27. It’s not clear what will happen to the contractors without the EA contract, but it’s fair to guess that some jobs will likely be lost over at Keywords unless they find other work. An industry source said EA has renewed work orders with Keywords Studios since their employees voted to unionize in June 2022. But the source added that, in this instance, the two companies simply couldn’t agree to terms. The Keywords contract requirements exceeded what EA/BioWare needed given the change in development approach at the studio.  The layoff also comes about three months after EA moved production of its massively multiplayer online game, Star Wars: The Old Republic, to a third-party publisher, Broadsword, in Reston, Virginia. The game debuted way back in 2011 and has entered maintenance mode. Broadsword has also taken over games like Ultima Online and Dark Age of Camelot so players can keep playing them. McKay’s leadership will not be affected. Michael Gamble, who recently returned to BioWare, serves as head of the Mass Effect team, and pre-production continues on the next Mass Effect game. Corinne Busche and John Epler, two leaders on Dragon Age, also continue in their roles. Andrew Wilson, CEO of EA, announced back in March that the company would cut about 6% of its total workforce, and these cutbacks are related to that move. EA has not said when Dragon Age: Dreadwolf will ship."

[source and full article]

[coraniaid]

One irritatingly common claim I see about Joyce Summers is that she's poorly characterized because she was "written by men" (and, therefore, one supposes, can be safely despised in a fun and feminist way). I've always been struck by how odd a claim that is, for a couple of reasons.

First, while it's true that Buffy as a whole was created by a (particularly terrible) man and most of the show's other writers were men (especially in the first two seasons), it's not clear why this would necessarily be a problem for Joyce if it isn't for every other character. If you're willing to grant that middle-aged men can write believable and sympathetic teenage girls (something which, if you like the show at all, you presumably do agree with), then what exactly is stopping them writing believable and sympathetic adult women?

Second, of all the Buffy characters to level the "written by men" charge at, Joyce is perhaps the least suitable. The majority of episodes of the show where Joyce has a significant presence on screen were, in fact, not written by men. Since those handful of episodes are the ones that do the most to establish her character, I would argue that Joyce Summers is, in fact, mostly written by women.

The nine episodes of the show in which Joyce Summers has the most speaking time are, (ordered by percentage of dialgoue for the whole episode; the individual ranking changes if we look at a total time but the actual top nine doesn't) :

S3E02 Dead Man's Party (written by Marti Noxon), 18.3%

S5E09 Listening To Fear (written by Rebecca Rand Kirshner), 16.4%

S3E11 Gingerbread (written by Thalia St. John & Jane Espenson), 14.2%

S3E06 Band Candy (written by Jane Espenson), 12.3%

S2E11 Ted (written by David Greenwalt & Joss Whedon), 10.5%

S2E12 Bad Eggs (written by Marti Noxon), 10.2%

S2E22 Becoming Part 2 (written by Joss Whedon), 8.7%

S1E03 Witch (written by Dana Reston), 8.5%

S2E03 School Hard (written by David Greenwalt & Joss Whedon), 8.2%

Two thirds of those spisodes -- and four of the top five -- were written by women. And I don't think the statistics are misleading here. These are all episodes in which Joyce features heavily for a reason: episodes explicitly about her relationship with Buffy or episodes in which she has a significant role in the plot. And I don't think there are important Joyce episodes that don't appear on this list (except, perhaps, The Body, for obvious reasons, but that's not really an episode about Joyce as a person).

Oh, and third, of course, the whole premise that men are somehow fundamentally incapable of understanding women and as such cannot possibly write them well is brain-rotting gender essentialist nonsense. One of the most popular characters on the show is Faith, and (unlike Joyce), her character really is mostly written by men (well, mostly written by Doug Petrie, if we want to be exact). Of course the character on the screen is not just the character in the script, and we certainly shouldn't understate the role that Eliza Dushku played in actually bringing the character she played to life. But then, we surely shouldn't make this mistake for Kristine Sutherland either.

[the-unspeakable-tsar]

The Holmes Family Tree

At the top are the parents. Sherlock's father; Sieger, Sherlock's Mother, Violet Rutherford; and Sherlock's Stepmother Eudoria

First lets start with Violet and Sieger's children:

Sherlock, Sherringford, Mycroft, Shirley, and Rutherford

Then there are Eudoria and Sieger's Children:

Enola, Sigrina, and Siegerson.

Let's start with the branch that descends directly from Sherlock.

I have placed Sherlock's Children as five in Number. Raffles is the son of Majorie Raffles (the sister of A.J Raffles). Henry Holmes and his wife Elizabeth are the creations of the Charlotte Holmes series.

Keep Sherlock Holmes Jr in mind as we'll focus on him later. We'll go down Henry and Elizabeth's line.

Pascal, Valentina, Agatha, Perpetua and Johnathan Holmes are the children of Elizabeth and Henry

Crispin and Morland are Pascal and Elizabeth's sons. Crispin marries Celine, and Morland marries May. Keep Morland in mind.

Crispin and Elizabeth have the following children: Alistair, Agatha, Julian, Leander.

Morland is a complicated old bastard with two sons: Sherlock and Mycroft. Note that i've written Elementary beneath them.

Alistair and Emma have: Milo and Charlotte

Julian and Kim Min-Ji: Margarate Holmes, Carmilla Holmes, and Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock & Co.)

Now let's move to the side along the chart and go back to one of Sherlock's children.

Sherlock Jr is a problem, I've decided. He is the start of a parallel branch. He had some unknown son. then that son would in time go on to sire the lineage that produced the following

Euris, Mycroft, and Sherlock (BBC's Sherlock). Euris would then later bear a child with a descendent of Moriarty. Resulting in Ron Kamonohashi.

Mycroft has a smaller branch. Three children:

Andrew Holmes, Violet Holmes, and Isabella Holmes.

Violet Holmes would then have a child later with James Bond, resulting in Clive Reston.

Shirly Holmes would marry Charles Jones. Resulting in the birth of Fetlock Jones and Laura Jones.

Laura Jones and her husband Lord Hamish Croft establish the lineage that would come to result in Laura Croft.

Fetlock's is Jupiter, and his daughter Charlotte marries Peerless Jones.

The following children of Peerless and Charlotte are: Barnaby, Darwin, and David.

David Marries Judith Walton and has three children: Fred Jones Sr, Martin "Merlin" Jones, and Ellie. Fred Jones Sr later illegally adopts a son, naming him "Fred Jones Jr".

Barnaby has a son named Harold and a grandson named Jebediah Romano Jones.

Sherringford Holmes, the older brother of both Mycroft and Sherlock, would have three children. Richard, an unknown country squire, and Sebastian.

Richard would change his surname to Queen in the United States to establish himself as an independent detective. He has two sons, Dan and Ellery Queen.

Ellery has two sons: Ellery Junior and Gullivar.

The Squire has one son: Stuart. Stuart has two kids, Jenny and David.

Sebastian marries a woman named Peg: Through them they have a son named Robert who becomes an ambassador for the United Kingdom.

Robert and his wife Joanna then later have a daughter named Shirley Holmes (many of her name).

Rutherford is Sherlock's twin brother and a vampire (making him a genetic dead end).

Sigerson Holmes (son of Eudoria) marries Jenny Hill, a descendent of Fanny Hill. Their daughter then marries a Weston and have a son named Geoffrey Weston.

I wasn't sure how to fit Enola Holme because, as far as I know,w she doesn't go on to have anyone I can identify as being a possible descendent. (good for her.)

Lastly, Charlotte Holmes. I also believe that Charlotte was having an affair with Mary Watson, but that is neither here nor there. She marries some fuck-off prince named Rupert of Kravonia and they have a son: Alexander (i accidentally named him Rupert as well in the image).

Sirgrina and John Vanstattart Smith have three Children:

Dennis Nayland Smith, Violet Smith, and John Smith.

Dennis Nayland fathers: George, Harold, and John "Hannibal" Smith.

Violet marries a man named Sneed and has a son named Lancaster "Shockwave" Sneed. A supervillain from Marvel Comics who used to beat the fuck out of Shang-Chi.

Thus concludes the family tree of The Holmes. Please reblog or message me if you have questions or comments.

[little-candy-store-of-horrors]

Where did those quotes in the art piece of yours you reblogged about Charles V being ugly and stupid actually come from?

I'm really curious about which academics said that

YAY im being recognised as a reliable source to come to for these things!!!11!

Moving on okurrrrr i //did// say academics in like massive inverted commas so 🤡🤡🤡 regular history book writers is more like but doesn't quite have a ring to it. Anyway here are your Sauces™ because i may throw words around but I don't make shit up!! *Taps head*

"A perfect twit, a cruel victim of spoiling and aristocratic inbreeding" - Eric Metaxas, Martin Luther

"He couldn't help being ugly", "Villainously ugly" - John Julius Norwich 🔫 WHAT'S GOOD CUNT!!!?!?!????!*, Four Princes

"Not quite put together.... Ungainly and frail-looking" - James Reston Jr, Defenders of the Faith

"Thin, sickly-looking and somewhat ugly" - Henry Kamen ((aka the only bitch on this list i respect)), Spain 1469-1714: A Society of Conflict

*((if you all KNEW how much i hate JJN. it's Unreal. Had semen scumbag Montefiore from soviet history's good review on the very back of this book too they can suck each others and rot together imo.))

Have a sketch i never posted with it! And yes he was a skrunkly lad wasn't he!! If I can't *quite* say I love him then I can at least say I feel a deep sympathy really every time someone unironically dunks on what was otherwise an uncomfortable teenager. It just feels mean, ye know what i mean?

And then a deep fascination with his arc from that sopping wet rat to whatever the hell god complex delulu bullshit he became when he got older. Thoroughly insufferable. I'm obsessed.

[gbhbl]

Horror Movie Review: Brain Dead (1990)

Dr. Martin's life is plunged into a chaotic nightmare in which he will be forced to confront and question everything he understands about reality.

Brain Dead, not to be confused with Braindead (1992) is a horror film directed by Adam Simon, releasing in 1990. Dr. Rex Martin (Bill Pullman) is a top neurosurgeon, who is active in studying brain malfunctions that cause mental illnesses. High school friend Jim Reston shows up at Rex’s office. He requires Martin’s aid in reaching the mind of John Halsey, a former genius mathematician who once…

[taraross-1787]

This Day in History: First Live Televised POTUS Press Conference

On this day in 1961, John F. Kennedy becomes the first United States President to give a live, televised press conference. Modern Americans are used to seeing Presidents in such situations, but the concept was entirely new back then.

“[It’s] the most haphazard method ever devised to obtain the views of a President of the United States,” journalist Bob Considine scoffed before the press conference. He was joined by New York Times columnist James Reston who thought it “the goofiest idea since the hula hoop.”

What if a presidential slip of the tongue caused an international incident?

The story continues here: https://www.taraross.com/post/tdih-press-conference

[2mchworld]

These  insults are from an era before the English language got boiled down to 4-letter words.

1. "He had delusions of adequacy ” Walter Kerr

2. "He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.”- Winston Churchill

3. "I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure. - Clarence Darrow

4. "He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.”-William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)

5. "Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?"- Ernest Hemingway (about William Faulkner)

6. "Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it.” - Moses Hadas

7. "I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.” - Mark Twain

8. "He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.” - Oscar Wilde

 9. "I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend, if you have one.”   -George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill

10. "Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... if there is one.” - Winston Churchill, in response

11. "I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here” - Stephen Bishop

12. "He is a self-made man and worships his creator.” - John Bright

13. "I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.” - Irvin S. Cobb

14. "He is not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others.” - Samuel Johnson

 15. "He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up. -  Paul Keating

16. "He loves nature in spite of what it did to him.” - Forrest Tucker

17.  "Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?” - Mark Twain

18. "His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.” - Mae West

19. "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.” - Oscar Wilde

 20. "He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination.” - Andrew Lang (1844-1912)

21. "He has Van Gogh's ear for music.” - Billy Wilde

r22. "I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But I'm afraid this wasn't it.” - Groucho Marx

23. The exchange between Winston Churchill & Lady Astor: She said, "If you were my husband I'd give you poison." He said, "If you were my wife, I'd drink it."

24. "He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know." - Abraham Lincoln

25. "There's nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure." -- Jack E.  Leonard

26. "They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge." --  Thomas Brackett Reed

27. "He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebears, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them." -- James Reston (about Richard Nixon) —Robert L Truesdell

-from Not Right Quotes on FB

[lilydalexf]

Here are some very good fics with one or both of Doggett and Reyes and, usually, Scully and/or Mulder. I'm afraid I have not read enough Doggett/Reyes fics to provide a decent recs list specifically for that, but Dogg-Eared (a Doggett fanfic archive) has a bunch and so does AO3. Enjoy! After the Ship and The Glimmering Girl by Tesla After Mulder comes back to life. / Mulder works a child abduction with Frank Black, while Scully is away for the weekend, but very much on Mulder’s mind. All I Have To Give by Azar What do you give the woman you love for Valentine’s Day when all she wants is another man? Any Moment by winter baby Through the years, the moments. Backlash by Joann Humby After a year on the run, a series of bombings mean that everyone agrees that it's time for Mulder and Scully to stop running. By Falling In And In by Aloysia_Virgata (@aloysiavirgata) Things go AU after DeadAlive, and Scully must answer the following questions: "So what do you want to do? Do you want to live separately? Do you want a place together? A creampuff wedding gown and a Barbie Dream House in Reston?" Coming Home by @baronessblixen Prompt: Mulder comes back to Scully. They can’t stop kissing in the station. Two very embarrassed Doggett and Monica remind them that they should probably get going. Hot home reunion while William is at Maggie’s house. Tender reunion with Mulder and his son the next morning. Dumb Luck by Lara Means "Bad blood and ghosts wrapped tight around me." Bob Fassl's legacy. i'm quitting i swear by @wtfmulder Scully and Reyes share a smoke break. Mild, mild Scully/Reyes and milder allusions to postpartum depression. In Trutina by Seema (@seemaunbound) Doggett receives a postcard. Doggett/Reyes with shades of MSR. Takes place several months after the events in "The Truth". Marines and Cops by JS Michel “…anybody who fit such a perfect Bureau mold couldn’t possibly understand the X-Files.” A Mother's Love by @greekowl87 Scully and Reyes reflect on the growing dangers surrounding William after rescuing him from the UFO cult on the way back to Georgetown. Nebraska by Emma Brightman A late night diner trip provides Doggett with some unexpected clarity. nightblindness by Shaye Getting through the night together is far more perilous than this. The Ninth Plague by cgb "Whatever happens in the future they will forever have the weight of this between them." Set pre-"William" and post-"Release." One Fish Two Fish by Rah Scully on maternity leave. Only The Essentials by DanaFox1013 Only the essentials. The words repeat like a mantra in her head. She only has a few hours and a single bag. It’s not enough to contain the products of a life. Only in Threes by cgb "You wanted this." Resurrection Day by Emma Brightman DeadAlive post-ep Roadkill by spookycc missing scenes, post-ep, Provenance, Providence. POV shifts between first person Reyes and third-person Skinner. She Is and She's Never Been by Abrae (Abra Elliott) John Doggett discovers Mulder's journal. Season 8. / Mulder's back and Doggett still has his journal...and something else. Slow Returns by @o6666666 This is a Three Words fix-it fic. Some By Virtue Fall by circe (@invidiosa) She’s her mother, after all…missing scenes fic for S8 up to Dead/Alive Something in Between by @doctorhelena Graveyards, a kicking baby, death, resurrection, and pizza. Set between the Season 8 episodes “Three Words” and “Empedocles”. Something in Common by Polly and SLS "I'm a man who values the truth, remember? That's something we do have in common." The Truer Lie by sophiahelix (@sophia-helix) He loves her, but she's still waiting for him; she'll use them both. Or, dividing love among four people. Two Such Men by Horatio Doggett makes one last stop before leaving New Mexico. Violation by J.S. Michel Long-lost mail. whirlwind by skuls (@ghostbustermelanieking) AU where Mulder comes home during Providence and helps Scully search for their son. You can’t sit there all day by @gaycrouton Post-William / Angst

[bonesandthebees]

oh ive got another question

how were your literature classes (or english classes where you did literature) in like middle/high school (basically in classes that were mandatory and not chosen)

bc here like half the books we learn about are czech and the other half are important books from all around the world

but my friend from france told me that they only learned french literature in middle and high school so they never did like shakespeare or tolstoy or the iliad

I known usa is kinda known for almost only teaching about usa even in history, geography and so in literature it wouldnt be surprising, but maybe its different

oh this is an interesting question

very interesting to see the difference in literature education around the globe! I will say I don't remember anything I read in middle school, and my high school wasn't 'normal' in terms of the books we read bc I went to a kind of weird STEM focused school?? idk how to explain it but I did go to a normal high school for my first year so I have that under my belt

anyway, we didn't necessarily read american exclusive books, we did read books by english people as well, but that was the extent of it for the most part? like in my first year of high school we read 1984, of mice and men, to kill a mockingbird, books like that. then I transferred to the weird school so my second year I read hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy and some others, and then we had a choice of books we could read to write an essay on and we were given a list to pick from. I chose fahrenheit 451. the year after that I was in an english glass that had a focus on medical history?? so I read the hot zone by richard preston which was actually super fascinating, it was a book written about the ebola reston virus outbreak in the 80s and went into the science of epidemiology and the strains of the virus and all that. we also read death be not proud by john gunther (a memoir from a man whose son died of a brain tumor in the 1940s so it discussed the cancer treatment that existed in the 40s), the things they carried by tim o'brien, the jungle by upton sinclair, it was a very interesting selection

anyway, yeah, didn't have a very normal high school literature experience. either way yeah it was still mostly american/british centric

[angelloverde]

"Mo Soul" Player Playlist 3 February

1. Opolopo Feat. Angela Johnson - Good Lover 2. DJ Spen & John Khan, Earl TuTu Feat. Bianca Gerald - Let It All Go 3. Lisa Fischer & Cindy Mizelle - Into My Life (Louie Vega Roots Mix) 4. Soulful Session Feat. Lizzie Nightingale - Before The Night (Rightside Remix) 5. Soulista Feat. Rona Ray - Love Yourself (Rightside & Mark Di Meo Remix) 6. Beat Rivals Feat. Lifford - Help Me (Michele Chiavarini & DJ Spen Remix) 7. Sharon Brown Adams - We Got The Funk (Thommy & Spen Remix) 8. John Morales & Thommy Davis Feat. Richard Burton - Was That All It Was (DJ Spen Remix) 9. Common - Go! 10.Steph Payne - Pull Up 11. Restone Feat. Laura Benack - All Night 12. Julian Jonah - A Little Lovin' 13. Laura Jackson - Sprung Out 14. Miracle Thomas - I'm All You Need (Rob Hardt Mix) 15. Tuxedo - The Tuxedo Way

If you really want to enjoy music and help musicians and bands, buy their lp’s or cd’s and don’t download mp3 formats. There is nothing like good quality sound!!!

(Angel Lo Verde / Mo Soul)

[nebris]

Auld Skool Insults

1. "He had delusions of adequacy ” Walter Kerr 2. "He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.”- Winston Churchill 3. "I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure. - Clarence Darrow 4. "He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.”-William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway) 5. "Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?"- Ernest Hemingway (about William Faulkner) 6. "Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it.” - Moses Hadas 7. "I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.” - Mark Twain 8. "He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.” - Oscar Wilde 9. "I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend, if you have one.”   -George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill 10. "Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... if there is one.” - Winston Churchill, in response 11. "I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here” - Stephen Bishop 12. "He is a self-made man and worships his creator.” - John Bright 13. "I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.” - Irvin S. Cobb 14. "He is not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others.” - Samuel Johnson 15. "He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up. -  Paul Keating 16. "He loves nature in spite of what it did to him.” - Forrest Tucker 17.  "Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?” - Mark Twain 18. "His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.” - Mae West 19. "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.” - Oscar Wilde 20. "He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination.” - Andrew Lang (1844-1912) 21. "He has Van Gogh's ear for music.” - Billy Wilder 22. "I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But I'm afraid this wasn't it.” - Groucho Marx 23. The exchange between Winston Churchill & Lady Astor: She said, "If you were my husband I'd give you poison." He said, "If you were my wife, I'd drink it." 24. "He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know." - Abraham Lincoln 25. "There's nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure." -- Jack E.  Leonard 26. "They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge." --  Thomas Brackett Reed 27. "He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebears, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them." -- James Reston (about Richard Nixon)

[politicsarecool2]

“These sayings/insults are incredible gems from an era before the English language got boiled down to 4-letter words! I hope you delight in them as much as I have. 😅♥️

1. "He had delusions of adequacy. ” Walter Kerr

2. "He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.”- Winston Churchill

3. "I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure. - Clarence Darrow

4. "He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.”-William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)

5. "Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?"- Ernest Hemingway (about William Faulkner)

6. "Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it.” - Moses Hadas

7. "I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.” - Mark Twain

8. "He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.” - Oscar Wilde

9. "I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend, if you have one.” -George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill

10. "Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... if there is one.” - Winston Churchill, in response

11. "I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here” - Stephen Bishop

12. "He is a self-made man and worships his creator.” - John Bright

13. "I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.” - Irvin S. Cobb

14. "He is not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others.” - Samuel Johnson

15. "He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up. - Paul Keating

16. "He loves nature in spite of what it did to him.” - Forrest Tucker

17. "Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?” - Mark Twain

18. "His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.” - Mae West

19. "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.” - Oscar Wilde

20. "He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination.” - Andrew Lang (1844-1912)

21. "He has Van Gogh's ear for music.” - Billy Wilder

22. "I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But I'm afraid this wasn't it.” - Groucho Marx

23. The exchange between Winston Churchill & Lady Astor: She said, "If you were my husband I'd give you poison." He said, "If you were my wife, I'd drink it."

24. "He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know." - Abraham Lincoln

25. "There's nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure." -- Jack E. Leonard

26. "They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge." -- Thomas Brackett Reed

27. "He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebears, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them." -- James Reston (about Richard Nixon) —Robert L Truesdel”

From FB

Unknown MP on witnessing Winston Churchill fail to wash his hands in the members WC after urinating .."At Eton, we were taught to wash our hands!". Winston .. "At Harrow, we were taught not to piss on our fingers!" 🤣

More…

“Dorothy Parker reviewing a book

This book is not one to be tossed lightly aside but hurled with great force.

Parker on Margot Hemingway

Who broke he leg

She broke her leg by sliding down a Barrister.

Margot Asquith to Jean Harlow - who always pronounced the T at the end of Margot.

“ no dear the T is silent - as in Harlow.

Dorothy Parker and a rival were heading towards a door

“Age before beauty “said her rival motioning DP to go first

And Pearls before Swine said DP and she sailed through the door.

Disraeli was once asked the difference between a misfortune and a Catastrophe

He replied

If Gladstone were to fall into the Thames that I suppose would be a misfortune

But if someone were to pull him out that would be a catastrophe.

French Catholic ambassador took the English Protestant ambassador to a gallery and showed him a painting which he knew would enrage him

A painting of Christ with the French King on one side of Christ and the Pope on the other side.

Without missing a beat the English ambassador thanked him for the informative tour and said

I always knew that our Lord was crucified between two thieves but until now I never knew their identity.”

[kwebtv]

Loose Change - NBC - February 26-28, 1978

Drama (3 Episodes)

Running Time: 360 Minutes Total

Stars:

Cristina Raines as Kate Evans

Season Hubley as Tanya Berenson

Laurie Heineman as Jenny Reston

Guy Boyd as Rob Kagan

John Getz as John Campbell

Gregg Henry as Hank Okrun

June Lockhart as Irene Evans

Ben Masters as Joe Morgan

Joshua Shelley as Sol Berenson

Judy Strangis as Judy Berenson

Carl Franklin as Ed Thomas

Paula Wagner as Roxanne

Stephen Macht as Peter Lane

Michael Tolan as Mark Stewart

Stuart Nisbet as Steve Evans

Richard Stanley as Timmy Reston

Theodore Bikel as Tom Feiffer

Alice Hirson  as Rosemary

Kate Reid as Hilda

David Wayne as Dr. Moe Sinden

[ibonoco]

Our silence is also a crime!

“Ne devenons pas complices des crimes, des atrocités, des pogroms perpétrés lâchement contre tout un peuple. Ne restons pas silencieux face à l’indicible ignominie, ne soyons pas complices par indifférence…” John Ibonoco ” Le monde est dangereux à vivre non pas tant à cause de ceux qui font le mal, mais à cause de ceux qui regardent et laissent faire. “ Albert Einstein, né en 1879 à Ulm,…