Gilded age
 

None other than Mel Brooks. And Alan Alda definitely solidified his sensitive 70s girly-man image with "William's Doll."

Ollie (it's alright to cry, if you're a 300 pound all-pro offensive lineman, otherwise, shut the hell up, sissy boy) Ramone

Gilded age
 

Was there a chick too or did he do both voices? Did FTBU&M get discussed on the boards earlier? If not I've had some conversation about it in the not-so-distant past. Maybe I should buy it.

Edited to add it's Marlo Thomas, I looked it up.

Things I miss about NYC
 

Me? Another key lime martini sir? Charge to client, per normal? Very good then.

Or so I've heard.

Ty's K
 

Sez Ty:

It's been clear to the rest of us for a long time. Everyone but Sidd is seeing eye to eye on this one.

You're the stripper, right?

Sez Me:

Thanks for the K. Next time you're at the club, I'll give you a lapdance you won't forget.

Kisses!

Things I miss about NYC
 

It may be key lime, but it sure as hell ain't a martini.

Sigh.

Anthrax
 

Because it's what I do...

Anthrax search closes 11 post offices.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 — Nearly a dozen area post offices remained closed Friday while authorities tried to determine whether anthrax was found at a Navy facility that handles mail for federal agencies.
Equipment that routinely monitors the air at the Naval Automated Processing Facility in Washington indicated Wednesday the presence of “small amounts of biological pathogens, possibly anthrax,” said Rachael Sunbarger, a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security.
After the initial field test, eight air samples were sent to Fort Detrick, Md., for testing, according to Lt. Cmdr. Edward Zeigler, a spokesman for the Naval District of Washington. One sample tested positive for anthrax, and seven tested negative, he said.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/990473.asp?0cv=CB10

Wedding Pictures
 

If anyone would care to see any of the thousand+ wedding pictures our photographer took, pm me and I'll give you instructions as to how to view them.

Wedding Pictures
 

Do you have any close-ups of the tomato-basil?

(hyphenating for dtb's pleasure)

Gilded age
 

Your hippie parents probably told you all about how Rosey was good friends with Bobby Kennedy, and that Rosey held Bobby as he lay dying in that hotel kitchen in Los Angeles in June 1968, and how RFK's death meant the death of the idea of workers, students, and blacks getting together to save the country from the horrors of Vietnam, and how the death of RFK led to the election of that bastard Nixon. Uh, or something like that.

Marlo and Mel Brooks, I think.

Green River killer
 

He does have a middle name--it's Gary Leon Ridgway.

And the part that really creeped me out was where he took a "camping" trip to Oregon with his son, with a body and a half stashed in the trunk with his son's bike. I don't even want to think about how he explained having to get stuff out of the trunk and scatter it in a wooded area.

tm

PS We have FTBY&M, and Magnus LOVES it. We have both the book and the video, and he sings the title song to himself while reading along in the book. I'm thinking of getting the sequel.

Green River killer
 

Yes, but unless I'm not paying close enough attention the media, at least the local media, does not use all 3 names as a matter of course, as they did with John Wayne Gacy.

What is this? Am I a bad parent, other than my work induced absenteeism, because I'm not getting this reference?

Green River killer
 

Yes, but you may be able to do some remedial work if you buy your kids the 70's video and or CD of Free to Be You and Me. Amazon seems undecided as to whether there are ellipses involved in the title. Your children will learn to reject traditional gender roles, and may be lucky enough to end up just like me. You can up your chances on that by sending them to Montessori school, too.

Tax Break
 

To all who own SUVs, try to start a small business.

Nov. 7 — When Congress this year decided to allow small-business owners, doctors, lawyers and real estate salespeople to deduct up to $100,000 from their taxable income for the purchase of a luxury SUV, Texas car-dealership magnate Jerry Reynolds could hardly believe his good fortune.
HE TOOK to the radio to spread the news, drafted a treatise for the Internet, and last week, the man known around Dallas simply as “the car guy” began advertising in the Dallas Morning News. “It’s a loophole.”

Since 1997, anyone deemed to be a small-business owner for tax purposes could write off some amount of equipment purchases each year — up to $18,000 worth that first year, up to $25,000 in 2003. Since 1984, the Internal Revenue Service, thinking more about Chevy Silverado pickups than Cadillac Escalades, has considered vehicles that weigh more than 6,000 pounds to be deductible business equipment.
When lawmakers began writing this year’s $350 billion tax-cut plan, they looked for ways to help the economy by encouraging small businesses to invest in new equipment. Congress raised the maximum annual value of the deduction to $100,000, through 2005. At the time, environmentalists implored tax writers to disqualify SUVs, but lawmakers declined. With the top business tax rate at 35 percent, Washington effectively cut $18,900 from the price of a $54,000 Escalade, bringing its cost more in line with an Oldsmobile Aurora sedan.
So many new models are just over 6,000 pounds that Reynolds suspects that automakers have their eyes on the tax code. A 2003 two-wheel-drive Dodge Durango weighs 6,050 pounds.

http://a799.g.akamai.net/3/799/388/b...ws/2063591.jpghttp://www.msnbc.com/news/990356.asp

Carnivale
 

Originally posted by cheval de frise

Tweak-show, not freakshow. It's not her personality; it's the drugs.

Green River killer
 

Or other ne'er-do-wells like William Jefferson Clinton and Thomas Penfield Jackson (he's considered a criminal in your neck of the woods, no?).