The Hall of Fire

No, it's no longer tied, the sound is off, and I'm grading papers while waiting for the next game to start.

A fine movie that dances around the "reveal" but never does is Robert Wise's "The Haunting," not to be confused with the more recent travesty of the same name, which featured Liam and Catherine Zita and some others I forget. The original is wonderful. This abject aspect is very a...

Indeed, Fara. A great game.


As I write, it is not yet decided.



*Wonders about the entymology of them darn bugs, which is certainly Anglo-Saxon*

I don't know if you East Coasters were able to stay up for the end of the game last night (Rockies/Pads), but I was. Though alone with my unmarked papers (and with grades due tomorrow), I exclaimed regularly at the alternately bizarre and dramatic events. San Diego, with vaunted pitching depth, used...

That was Dwayne Hickman???? Now that you mention it, of course it was. (The Indian was the best of her inept gang.) It's the best spoof of westerns. Much better than Burning Saddles, imho. Like Airplane, you need to have seen many of the genre to get all the references, and I'm sure I don't, though ...

Being very very much older than you, my dear Alatar, I was allowed to enter the theatre to watch Jane frolick in space tights with . . . um . . . John Michael Vincent? . . . I don't exactly remember, though it might be a question tonight at Trivia. I do remember very clearly how boring it was. I was...

I used to like "ubiquitous, " but I hear it all the time these days. From another thread, I do like "putative," which must somehow relate to "the idea you put forth." As my mother used to say, "Hoe's a real gonorr." There's a treoatment theose days.

*Swoons for Brian*


But I ask for other opinions.

Frelga, there is an English equivalent, and it doesn't (I think) relate to "breaking" on the wheel. It is "rounder." It's still in use as noun and adjective. I don't think it has anything to do with punishment, or the wheel. I think it simply refers to a man who "gets around...

Soli, I wasn't happy with the "moral" wickedness terminology, for I find "morality" a slippery fish. I'd be better suited if mere "wickedness" were stated as a generic, the less defined the better.


I know it when I see it.

Well, it must be nice to have your teams playing meaningful game in September. I'd gotten used to it in the Bay Area, by which I don't mean the Chesapeake. But not now, not this year. Sassafras: I actually like Jon (I'm full of myself) Miller , in spite of the fact that. Can't say the same for Littl...

Must be the European spelling. As the multiple definitions indicate, "Bodega" has become fairly generic for a type of place. My reference was to the place Hemingway called "a wine shop" in A Farewell to Arms. It is there that he goes after retreating (running?) from the front. Fo...

*Throws tiny tantrum* NO, NO, NO!!!!! This isn't a dartboard. It was "11's" that were traitors at the 11th Orionzo, and before. They like the idea of war and the idea of defeating the Hun, but they do not like the fact. They just wanted to go back to the bodega and talk about it some more...

Oh, yeah, and I just remembered . . .


I went to Synecdoche once. It's Upstate. I was on the way to Rensselaer to receive a reward for a bunch of us who did something. The rest of them couldn't make it.

Blast the synechdotal evidence; I stand as poor evidence of HoF itself, and I would not be unhappy to be used litotally as a counter example. Not unhappy at all. I ran into "desulpherisident" while looking for another word in the RanHouUnAb , a tome that has sucked many days out of my life...

I'm a 9. And proud!!! And I haven't had any recreational drugs for several hours. Anyone who doesn't agree with me is crazy, except for Voronwë, who's an 11, apparently. I'm sorry, Ax, you can't be "bits of 3 and 4", nor can you admire 5 without being a 5. If I catch you away from the fro...

I like recreational drugs.

[quote ="Primula Baggins "] . . . As for the rest of you, you are not taking this sufficiently seriously. :x[/quote] Sufficiently seriously is exactly how baby tuckoo has taken this, which is why he has belatedly responded due to his fragging professional responsibilities now. I've smirkin...

Just when I thought that I was King of the Universe.


Damn.



Must be my meds.

Is dizzy from the swirl de al igmolemolemolelo.


Falls down. Looks for bottle. Spits up. Looks to be held.