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Yay! San Diego reservoirs filling up
The Speedy Gonzales joke must be pretty bad, but this one is no worse than the preceeding comments. Cowboys hate to cook, but one bunch's cook died, and the duty had to be done by someone. Nobody volunteered. So the boss had them do a shooting competition to decide who the victim was to be. He added, however, that whomsoever uttered a disrespectful word about the food would have to assume the duties. The loser assumed the duty but soon grew so tired of it that he started sloughing off. He put rocks in the beans and sand in the meat, but nobody complained. After numerous other attempts to encourage complaints without success, he got an idea; he made biscuits out of cow pies. "This tastes like $hit!" said one cowboy, "but the best damn shit-biscuits I've ever had!"— March 31, 2017 4:32 p.m.
The Lord passed by the San Diego Symphony
Johann Sebastian Bach: Matthäus-Passion (St Matthew Passion) / Sir Simon Rattle, conductor · Berliner Philharmoniker · Topi Lehtipuu, tenor · Jonathan Kelly, oboe · Rundfunkchor Berlin (Simon Halsey, chorus master) · Peter Sellars, ritualization / Recorded at the Berlin Philharmonie, 19 September 2013 ?— March 31, 2017 12:11 p.m.
The Lord passed by the San Diego Symphony
Don Bauder: Thank you for the tips. Your kind of critical thinking and willingness to share your knowledge always is welcome. Smarmy snobbery never is, and it doesn't help get people to concerts and classical operas. While we heathen recognize the quality of pre-20th century music, what about the 20th and 21st?— March 31, 2017 12:02 p.m.
The Lord passed by the San Diego Symphony
I have not been to Hungary, but one of my best friends (a Resistance fighter at 14) was from there. I planned to name a son Zoltan! Even little Romania has given us at least one dynamite singer, the toast of Europoe. Comparing Europoeans with Americans snob index would be interesting. Never got that feeling there (Paris Opera, Verona's Coliseum, etc.). Prices are better too. Not to mention the theaters. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyASRvqzmCo— March 30, 2017 10:19 p.m.
Yay! San Diego reservoirs filling up
Goof courses are enough of an insult to the earth and its life anyway. But on the desert they are an abomination.— March 30, 2017 9:39 p.m.
Yay! San Diego reservoirs filling up
The more complacent the more vulnerable.— March 30, 2017 5:03 p.m.
The Lord passed by the San Diego Symphony
I don't believe Russia would send even its second-string fiddlers to the US. The Czechs are particularly good. Their bar-room pianists would be Carnegie Hall material here. Europe in general has a better-educated population than the USA, and their standards are higher. Audiences know $hit from $hinola there.— March 30, 2017 9:38 a.m.
Yay! San Diego reservoirs filling up
Promoters in Borrego Springs whistled past the graveyard in the fifties; they are whistling *in* the graveyard now. The fundamentals can be understood with an IQ somewhere around 92--If you dig a well and the water level keeps dropping and never rises, you're not in an aquifer that recharges--at least enough to ensure a stable, sustainable supply. It takes a larger IQ to be capable of slinging enough bullshit to build golf courses and grow alfalfa under such conditions. Any sale of real estate should recite the facts about water supply. And on and on . . . And oh, yes, Borregoeños are lucky to have the Dice’s—and that they haven’t been rolled yet. Ignoring them is a bad bet in this case.— March 30, 2017 9:29 a.m.
The Lord passed by the San Diego Symphony
We rushed down, at great expense to us, to hear their "last" performance--to support "our" symphony, at least in token respect. OUTSTANDING! What wonderful musicians we have had, and have, right here in River City! Carnegie, eat yer heart out! Earlier, we had attended a concert that turned out to be atonal. I sat and actually booed, whilst the rest of the crowd gave them a standing ovation. I've never done such a thing before, however poor the performance. In this case, I took it that the *performance* was fine; it was the composition that stank. The swells and stuffed shirts complain that the heathen fail to support the symphony and the other arts. It's not that we don't like the music, the dance, the painting and sculpture, it's that we're not "into" snobbery. And, we can't afford it.— March 29, 2017 3:54 p.m.
The Lord passed by the San Diego Symphony
Showman to the end. But truly talented.— March 28, 2017 8:40 p.m.