Random Thoughts 14: I can see clearly now 2020 edition

[Cybirdy]

How is it that all these people of approximately my age haven't read The Outsiders? I thought it was required reading in like 8th grade at that time in Iowa. @VeloClone and @BCClone haven't read it. How about you @CloneLawman and @coolerifyoudid?

Can’t remember if it was required reading (I fall into the same age/location category) but I definitely read it and watched the movie growing up. It has been required reading in 8th grade for my older two (I have one in 8th grade this year).

Usually I love a good snow day, but one kid or another has been home sick in our house for a week and a half now. Two on antibiotics. Now everyone home today (while hubby works from home). These children need to go to school but half of the kids in school are sick, too.

 

[ImJustKCClone]

Here he is in All The R

ight Moves, made that same year (1983). Teeth look fine......they may have made him wear a prosthetic set, so he looked more like a kid from the wrong side of the tracks.

Except his teeth were misaligned in Taps also, which was made before both of those. IIRC he had veneers first, then decided to actually get the teeth straightened...he had braces on at one of his premieres later on.

 

[ImJustKCClone]

Can’t remember if it was required reading (I fall into the same age/location category) but I definitely read it and watched the movie growing up. It has been required reading in 8th grade for my older two (I have one in 8th grade this year).

Usually I love a good snow day, but one kid or another has been home sick in our house for a week and a half now. Two on antibiotics. Now everyone home today (while hubby works from home). These children need to go to school but half of the kids in school are sick, too.

Two of our sons have four kids also...and it seems like their kids typically infect each other sequentially instead of all of them being sick at the same time. I'm not sure which is worse...but either way, you have my sympathy, mom!

 

[jcyclonee]

Except his teeth were misaligned in Taps also, which was made before both of those. IIRC he had veneers first, then decided to actually get the teeth straightened...he had braces on at one of his premieres later on.

I thought scientologists could cure crooked teeth on their own.

 

[VeloClone]

How is it that all these people of approximately my age haven't read The Outsiders? I thought it was required reading in like 8th grade at that time in Iowa. @VeloClone and @BCClone haven't read it. How about you @CloneLawman and @coolerifyoudid?

I must have been slogging through Les Miserables at the time. Or maybe I was reading Gone With the Wind, Oliver Twist, Doctor Zhivago or David Copperfield.

I'm messing with you, of course, but I don't remember it being on our reading list when I was in school, but I read many outside of what I had to for school. We just didn't have that one at home and most of the classics I picked up were off our shelves at home. I guess there are too many great classics to have read them all.

Confession time:

I read Doctor Zhivago about 5 years after high school after I saw the movie for the first time. It is one of my favorite movies of all time now.

I read an abridged version of Les Miserables for a high school class. I didn't read the full boat, unabridged Les Miz until after I saw the Broadway show (touring). Unless you know a lot about 18th and 19th century Europe - particularly France - be prepared to have whole chapters you need to slog through because they have very little meaning to a modern American. But, that meat between those bones is masterful.

 

[jcyclonee]

I must have been slogging through Les Miserables at the time. Or maybe I was reading Gone With the Wind, Oliver Twist, Doctor Zhivago or David Copperfield.

I'm messing with you, of course, but I don't remember it being on our reading list when I was in school, but I read many outside of what I had to for school. We just didn't have that one at home and most of the classics I picked up were off our shelves at home. I guess there are too many great classics to have read them all.

Confession time:

I read Doctor Zhivago about 5 years after high school after I saw the movie for the first time. It is one of my favorite movies of all time now.

I read an abridged version of Les Miserables for a high school class. I didn't read the full boat, unabridged Les Miz until after I saw the Broadway show (touring). Unless you know a lot about 18th and 19th century Europe - particularly France - be prepared to have whole chapters you need to slog through because they have very little meaning to a modern American. But, that meat between those bones is masterful.

I once slogged my way through War and Peace. I preferred the Woody Allen movie about it.

 

[Cyclones_R_GR8]

I must have been slogging through Les Miserables at the time. Or maybe I was reading Gone With the Wind, Oliver Twist, Doctor Zhivago or David Copperfield.

I'm messing with you, of course, but I don't remember it being on our reading list when I was in school, but I read many outside of what I had to for school. We just didn't have that one at home and most of the classics I picked up were off our shelves at home. I guess there are too many great classics to have read them all.

Confession time:

I read Doctor Zhivago about 5 years after high school after I saw the movie for the first time. It is one of my favorite movies of all time now.

I read an abridged version of Les Miserables for a high school class. I didn't read the full boat, unabridged Les Miz until after I saw the Broadway show (touring). Unless you know a lot about 18th and 19th century Europe - particularly France - be prepared to have whole chapters you need to slog through because they have very little meaning to a modern American. But, that meat between those bones is masterful.

I read the Classic Comics version of Les Miserables

 

[BCClone]

You all had reading lists? Man I like my HS more and more.

 

[SCyclone]

We read stuff like The Catcher in the Rye and The Old Man and the Sea (cue the boomer jokes. yeah, ha ha! I get it!) and things of that nature. But I had a really great journalism teacher who encouraged me to read things like Poe and All Quiet on the Western Front.

One thing I do remember from my school days - my brother was a sci-fi buff and took me to see 2001: A Space Odyssey when I was in 8th grade. I was a long time getting over that one.

 

[BCClone]

My fortune cookie says. Happiness is around the corner and wealth is down the street.

if I leave the wrong way does that mean I’m getting mugged or something?

is JLH behind Panda Express waiting for me?

Seeings how my wife and kids cost me mucho denaro, I think I am supposed to drive the opposite direction of home.

I’m confused folks.

 

[cycloner29]

My fortune cookie says. Happiness is around the corner and wealth is down the street.

if I leave the wrong way does that mean I’m getting mugged or something?

is JLH behind Panda Express waiting for me?

Seeings how my wife and kids cost me mucho denaro, I think I am supposed to drive the opposite direction of home.

I’m confused folks.

You are one lucky guy!! Are you going to be a sugar daddy? Sorry i was reading this as "happiness and wealth down on the street corner." Some guys have all the luck on here.

 

[BCClone]

You are one lucky guy!! Are you going to be a sugar daddy? Sorry i was reading this as "happiness and wealth down on the street corner." Some guys have all the luck on here.

When I left an attractive blonde came around the corner.

 

[GMackey32]

My salesman: "You've got to get me the best price on this to bring to the customers. Do what you can."

Me: *Brings in stuff with the best price*

My salesman: "You have to get me better quality stuff. This is going to lose us business."

Me: *Brings in original stuff*

My salesman: "You've got to get me the best price on this to bring to the customers. Do what you can."

Me: *Banging my head on my desk*

This encapsulates my day to day interactions with these no-talent assclowns that I work with.

 

[SCyclone]

My boss asks if I want to go to a vendor dog-and-pony show down at the Riverside Casino. Drinks, nice meal, they put you up overnight at the hotel so A) you don't have to drive all the way home that night and 2) you can get smashed if you want to. Even says I can take the vixen if she's so inclined.

And then he adds, "Oh BTW you'll have to use a day of PTO."

Is he out of his frickin' MIND? I'm not wasting a day of my PTO to go to a business related activity that he is asking me to attend.

And people wonder why I drink so much.

 

[ImJustKCClone]

I must have been slogging through Les Miserables at the time. Or maybe I was reading Gone With the Wind, Oliver Twist, Doctor Zhivago or David Copperfield.

I'm messing with you, of course, but I don't remember it being on our reading list when I was in school, but I read many outside of what I had to for school. We just didn't have that one at home and most of the classics I picked up were off our shelves at home. I guess there are too many great classics to have read them all.

Confession time:

I read Doctor Zhivago about 5 years after high school after I saw the movie for the first time. It is one of my favorite movies of all time now.

I read an abridged version of Les Miserables for a high school class. I didn't read the full boat, unabridged Les Miz until after I saw the Broadway show (touring). Unless you know a lot about 18th and 19th century Europe - particularly France - be prepared to have whole chapters you need to slog through because they have very little meaning to a modern American. But, that meat between those bones is masterful.

I was a big fan of Dumas (pere). Count of Monte Cristo, Man in the Iron Mask, The Three Musketeers...good stuff!

 

[VeloClone]

I was a big fan of Dumas (pere). Count of Monte Cristo, Man in the Iron Mask, The Three Musketeers...good stuff!

 

[VeloClone]

Both Mrs. Velo and I separately read all of the Poe we could get our hands on. In junior high I got on a Tolkien kick and read The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and anything else of his I could find. The Silmarillion gets pretty deep when you are in 8th or 9th grade. And yes, I was into Tolkien before Peter Jackson ever made his very first feature film.

 

[Cyclones_R_GR8]

people wonder why I drink so much.

This pretty much sums up my days at work

 

[CycloneErik]

My boss asks if I want to go to a vendor dog-and-pony show down at the Riverside Casino. Drinks, nice meal, they put you up overnight at the hotel so A) you don't have to drive all the way home that night and 2) you can get smashed if you want to. Even says I can take the vixen if she's so inclined.

And then he adds, "Oh BTW you'll have to use a day of PTO."

Is he out of his frickin' MIND? I'm not wasting a day of my PTO to go to a business related activity that he is asking me to attend.

And people wonder why I drink so much.

That's nasty of the boss.
That said, I'm impressed that jobs can have benefits.

 

[Ms3r4ISU]

View attachment 70174

DH at conference in San Antonio this week. Felt obligated to send him a pic of our -9.4 on the indoor-outdoor thermometer this morning. Poor guy needed to know what he’s missing.