OT - NO POLITICS Off Topic Thread: Work sucks, I know

[Ladyfan]

NeelyDan's Friday Five:

1. If you had to live with having someone else's face as your own for the rest of your life, whose would it be?
2. In light of the recent job/do it for free chatter - what is your current occupation?
3. What did your parents do for a living?
4. What is your favourite series of books?
5. Name a movie that had an impact on you as a child - pure awe, fear, etc.


you could marry me

1. Geez...I don't know. Maybe a young Ali MacGraw.

2. Retired after over 50 years of working in Material management (Senior Planner of capacity and materials for high tech). I am/ was good with numbers.

3. Dad. A District manager for the Borden foods company. Mom, a musician (played organ/ piano for over 48 years)

4. Too many to name. I read fast so like the big thick books that last longer than one day.

5. I am old. As a child I loved the Haley Mills movies. Older...Jaws kept me out of swimming in the ocean for a while. Loved the Lord of the Rings films. (Viggo Mortenson )

 

[GordonHowe]

BTW, if interested, there is no better introduction to TR than the Edmund Morris biography, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt,

I love John Adams.

I showed the HBO series in my classroom and have seen it in its entirety dozens of times.

Every time I rewatch it, I pick up something new.

Read McCollough’s biography that it was based on as well.

Favorite John Adams,

 

[smithformeragent]

BTW, if interested, there is no better introduction to TR than the Edmund Morris biography, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt,

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Favorite John Adams,

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I made it halfway through “The Billy Pulpit” which is about TR and Taft, the breakdown of their relationship, and The Progressive Era.

Same with McCullough’s “Morning’s on Horseback”.

I should finish both.

 

[quietbruinfan]

NeelyDan's Friday Five:

1. If you had to live with having someone else's face as your own for the rest of your life, whose would it be?
2. In light of the recent job/do it for free chatter - what is your current occupation?
3. What did your parents do for a living?
4. What is your favourite series of books?
5. Name a movie that had an impact on you as a child - pure awe, fear, etc.


you could marry me

1. I don't care to live with someone else's face.

2. I am an English tutor and sometime voice actor. (I am Walken from the Dead Zone.) lol

3. My mom worked in retail, owned a maternity shop, and bartended later in life. Dad worked construction, did carpentry, and was a sous chef-all this after he stopped being a small college and semi-pro wild disturber of a hockey player. Think of an even crazier version of P.J. Stock in many respects...(He did not have a long career. His first wife, and many injuries, including a broken collar bone that never healed right, talked him out of it.)

4. i don't have a favorite series, like LOTR. Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker books, I guess.

5. Books had more of an impact than movies. Alfie hit me where I lived for some reason. Maybe I am just a rake at heart...Nah. I swear Nobody's Fool was almost based on my late father and I, but we had never met Richard Russo.

 

[GlenFeatherstone]

The answer to 5. When Artax the horse dies sinking into the mud in the Neverending Story. To this day it hits me when I see it.

 

[Mione134]

The answer to 5. When Artax the horse dies sinking into the mud in the Neverending Story. To this day it hits me when I see it.

This is a core memory that hurts.

 

[BMC]

NeelyDan's Friday Five:

1. If you had to live with having someone else's face as your own for the rest of your life, whose would it be?
2. In light of the recent job/do it for free chatter - what is your current occupation?
3. What did your parents do for a living?
4. What is your favourite series of books?
5. Name a movie that had an impact on you as a child

1. Mariska Hargitay
2. Third generation owner of family insurance agency
3. Dad was an insurance agent, Mom was at home
4. Bruce Catton's Civil War trilogy
5. None. For years there were no theaters less than a 20 minute drive away.

 

[Ladyfan]

The answer to 5. When Artax the horse dies sinking into the mud in the Neverending Story. To this day it hits me when I see it.

That is an amazing movie. We saw it when my daughter and I had rented (for 2 weeks) a cottage on Lake Ossipee. It rained almost every day.

We went into Conway (not North Conway) to an old, restored movie theatre (with dark velvet curtains). It was a great place to watch this movie. If you haven't seen it I highly recommend it.

I love the good luck dragon Falcor.

 

[Ladyfan]

There are a bunch of movies I love. Some, I have no idea why.

I love While Christmas and Camelot. I love French Kiss (it isn't one I would usually like) with Kevin Kline (he is so good in this) and Meg Ryan. I loved the Harry Potter books even as an adult and the movies are great also.

 

[EverettMike]

For several reasons, I am not a fan of Jefferson, either. But, he was a successful president who exercised his own brand of political genius. I don't like him, but I have to give him that much.

His biggest successes as President came when he abandoned his principles and acted like a Federalist!

 

[Ludwig Fell Down]

1. If you had to live with having someone else's face as your own for the rest of your life, whose would it be?
Paul Newman

2. In light of the recent job/do it for free chatter - what is your current occupation?
Lawyer

3. What did your parents do for a living?
Dad drove a bus for the T, then got a job with the union. Mom raised us.
Every so often I got to ride in the front seat of the bus while my dad drove, and I thought that was the greatest thing in the world.

4. What is your favourite series of books?
I'm an avid reader but I don't read series. As a kid I loved The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe series. I read the Harry Potter books with my kids but never really got into that.

5. Name a movie that had an impact on you as a child - pure awe, fear, etc.
Riki Tiki Tavi. The cobra scared the s--- out of me.

 

[Kate08]

1. If you had to live with having someone else's face as your own for the rest of your life, whose would it be?
Probably Julia Stiles. We have similar features but she’s x100.

2. In light of the recent job/do it for free chatter - what is your current occupation?
Chief Operating Officer

3. What did your parents do for a living?
Dad was a printer (as in he worked at a print shop with printing presses) and a bartender. When print shops went away he was a truck driver. Mom has been a medical secretary/referral coordinator he whole career. Was going to be a nurse then a little bundle of joy ruined that for her circa 1983.

4. What is your favourite series of books?
Babysitters Club hands down. Made me a voracious reader as a kid, still am.

5. Name a movie that had an impact on you as a child - pure awe, fear, etc.
Wizard of Oz. The moment it went from black and white to color was always an “oooooo” moment as a kid.

 

[Ladyfan]

1. If you had to live with having someone else's face as your own for the rest of your life, whose would it be?
Probably Julia Stiles. We have similar features but she’s x100.

2. In light of the recent job/do it for free chatter - what is your current occupation?
Chief Operating Officer

3. What did your parents do for a living?
Dad was a printer (as in he worked at a print shop with printing presses) and a bartender. When print shops went away he was a truck driver. Mom has been a medical secretary/referral coordinator he whole career. Was going to be a nurse then a little bundle of joy ruined that for her circa 1983.

4. What is your favourite series of books?
Babysitters Club hands down. Made me a voracious reader as a kid, still am.

5. Name a movie that had an impact on you as a child - pure awe, fear, etc.
Wizard of Oz. The moment it went from black and white to color was always an “oooooo” moment as a kid.

Oh...Wizard of Oz is another favorite!

It used to air once a year (in the old days) and we (my family) always sat down to watch it.

 

[Gee Wally]

I loved all the Potter books (and movies).
Allowed to share an interest with my kids.

 

[Ladyfan]

I loved all the Potter books (and movies).
Allowed to share an interest with my kids.

Amanda had a job at the bookstore when she was attending Wesleyan U. The bookstore was for the town and the University.

She told me there was a list of hundreds awaiting the second book of a kid's series called Harry Potter. During the summer she picked up the first two books and we both read them! They were great.

We would wait in line at midnight to get into the first showing of the movies (did the same for LOTR)

 

[Mione134]

Had this little one all day today. How many times did we watch Encanto?

Too many. Too, too many.

But then again we watched Miss Rachel for almost 2 hours so I'll gladly take Encanto. Such a beautiful and colorful movie.

 

[Ludwig Fell Down]

Oh...Wizard of Oz is another favorite!

It used to air once a year (in the old days) and we (my family) always sat down to watch it.

That and Its a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad world.

 

[Concessionaire]

On the list of surprises today, Paul Rudd gets multiple votes for adopted face

On the entire freaking planet

Paul Rudd

 

[Ladyfan]

That and Its a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad world.

We saw that at the Drive in (that is no longer there) .

 

[GordonHowe]

His biggest successes as President came when he abandoned his principles and acted like a Federalist!

Do you mean the Louisiana Purchase? What else?

Actually, I'm not certain Jefferson had principles of a hard and fast nature.

If you look up the phrase "Situational Ethics," it will likely be accompanied by a picture of our third president.

 

[GordonHowe]

'Boring' can sound like a criticism but it's not meant to be. Washington was surely a great man and easily the most thoroughly decent and principled of the founders (which admittedly isn't saying much because most of them were assholes of one kind or another) and he set a great example as a leader that has been too seldom followed.

But I guess this is where the difference lies between history and biography. Reading about the history of the man and his time is very interesting and rewarding, but do I want to read a character study focused primarily on him as an individual? Yeah probably at some point, but it's not a high priority. For bios I tend to be drawn to people who were great but flawed, or touched by obvious genius or something else that made them quite unique. While I'm sure Washington had his negative qualities and quirks and different facets like all people, and he was clearly a clever enough fellow who achieved great things, there's nothing I've observed as being especially remarkable or fascinating that draws me to him as a subject.

Having said that I will readily conceded that I may be surprised, and I will definitely take up your recommendations at some point. Until you do sufficient reading for yourself, you never really know!

I suspect you will, indeed, be surprised.

In important respects, history is biography.

Captain Obvious says: If you want to know why a political figure (or anyone else) is the way they are, all you have to do is look at their childhood. It's all there, for good or ill.

 

[GordonHowe]

Liszt Liebestraum no.3.....yes please....

 

[GordonHowe]

Indeed. It otherwise looks like a lovely spot. But as someone who also lives on the coast (not quite that close though!) the potential power of the sea is very familiar. Sometimes there is just no holding it back.

 

[TD Charlie]

On the list of surprises today, Paul Rudd gets multiple votes for adopted face

On the entire freaking planet

Paul Rudd

lol i mean, come on. He’s a good looking guy! Not full blown male model status, but just a gentlemanly looking dude

 

[EverettMike]

Do you mean the Louisiana Purchase? What else?

Actually, I'm not certain Jefferson had principles of a hard and fast nature.

If you look up the phrase "Situational Ethics," it will likely be accompanied by a picture of our third president.

You're god damn right I'm talking about the Louisiana Purchase!!!