PrivateTim

Not to bruise your fragile psyche, but in Chapter 6 you talk about the "execution of Edmond Jouhaud", but he was merely sentenced to die, the execution never took place and he was actually rehabilitated under Mitterand. General Jouhaud died at age 90 in 1995.

That is the University of Southern California Marching Band. I can only say that Tommy's grandparents have warped him by taking him to USC football games. I am hoping a trip up north can restore him to normalcy.

Ah yes, well do be careful or they'll send a Sandman after you and all scream "renew, renew!" at Carousel!

If you are 18 and they are 55 it better damn well be filet and lobster with champagne and a BM'er thrown in......

I like the AFI lists, they take you through all the classics. Moulin Rouge gave me a headache with the movie never being on one scene longer than 3 seconds. No wonder youth have ADD. Chicago on the other hand was brilliant. Love musicals, My Fair Lady, Sound of Music, Paint Your Wagon, Funny Girl, Oklahoma, Show Boat, South Pacific, West Side Story, Fiddler on the Roof and the King and I. There are also the classic Westerns, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, Stagecoach, High Noon, Big Country, Shane, How the West Was Won and Fort Apache. Or pick an actor and go through his work. My two faves are Cary Grant and Peter O'Toole, both could do any genre; drama, comedy, sports, western it didn't matter. Cary Grant's best are Bringing up Baby, His Girl Friday, Operation Petticoat, Walk, Don't Run, Father Goose, Arsenic and Old Lace, Houseboat, That Touch of Mink, North by Northwest.... gawd I could go on forever on his movies. Peter O'Toole has Lawrence of Arabia, The Stuntman, My Favorite Year, Zulu Dawn, Murphy's War, Lion In Winter, Beckett, How to Steal a Million, The Ruling Class, Goodbye Mr. Chips..... and many more. Love John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, Katherine and Audrey Hepburn...... Damn I love movies......

Narf! This is how hockey players look!

Just make sure Mark Arbour isn't around..... snuggling and cuddling inevitably lead to sex in his stories

Ah ha! John Adams describes Jefferson perfectly!

You misspelled it. It is Stanfurd. and it isn't even a really a university, they say so right in their name, Leland Stanfurd Junior University. See, they admit it! A junior university. Go Bears.

You have to sag then so people can see it.

This was the next to last Ugly Betty and it doesn't seem to have been discussed here. Ugly Betty was one of the best TV shows in recent memory and beautifully treated Justin Suarez's teen angst.

I would be interested in the methodology used to get the information. The numbers on the sexual activity of teens, especially the boys, seems low and out of sync with other surveys on sexual behaviors and with what I've observed anecdotally in my exposure to teens. In fact, the age at which teens become sexually active seems to drop every year.

If I were young again it would be Taylor from The Ordinary Us and Hello Stupid.

I think TMZ is just wrong for the invasion of privacy that they foist on all the celebrities, not just Bieber, but all of them. And I will go with Libera for fantastic young voices.

Like this pretty much.

Sure, love wrestling.

To his Coy Mistressby Andrew Marvell Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime. We would sit down and think which way To walk, and pass our long love's day; Thou by the Indian Ganges' side Shouldst rubies find; I by the tide Of Humber would complain. I would Love you ten years before the Flood; And you should, if you please, refuse Till the conversion of the Jews. My vegetable love should grow Vaster than empires, and more slow. An hundred years should go to praise Thine eyes, and on thy forehead gaze; Two hundred to adore each breast, But thirty thousand to the rest; An age at least to every part, And the last age should show your heart. For, lady, you deserve this state, Nor would I love at lower rate. But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. Thy beauty shall no more be found, Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound My echoing song; then worms shall try That long preserv'd virginity, And your quaint honour turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave's a fine and private place, But none I think do there embrace. Now therefore, while the youthful hue Sits on thy skin like morning dew, And while thy willing soul transpires At every pore with instant fires, Now let us sport us while we may; And now, like am'rous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour, Than languish in his slow-chapp'd power. Let us roll all our strength, and all Our sweetness, up into one ball; And tear our pleasures with rough strife Thorough the iron gates of life. Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run.

OCD

Actually the old GA thread mentioned you by name. Gunn High School Sings Out To Drive Away Phelps and WBC M. Arbour's story locale in Palo Alto was in the news 3/30/10

It was in GA six months ago. Gunn & Lowell HS

Well this is an old topic. GA Soapbox