Thanks, old chum! I'll let you know how tough it is so you can prepare thusly.

Grazie mille, Opera_Punk!

Thank you, Your Irish Holiness! And a very happy birthday to you as well.

Aw, my goodness, I am overwhelmed! Many thanks, LJo1!

Why thank you, Scrawler!

Local team is the Padres, but we're going to a Dodgers game. I'd like to see a game in every ballpark, and Dodger Stadium will be my sixth. Progress is slow, but I'm getting there!

Thanks, Ms. Hat! Very kind of you indeed.

Thanks, Liz n Dick!

I imagine he'll also be the last president who can list "failed haberdasher" on his resume!

Birthdays Thread

I got my mom a Downton Abbey jigsaw puzzle! That seems like the quintessential "mom gift."

I'm really excited to read a book a friend just sent me for my birthday later this week - it's called Those Angry Days, and tells the story of FDR's battle with Charles Lindbergh and the isolationists in the years before the Second World War. I'm trememdously interested in this topic (especially since The Plot Against…

Mine too! At least, that's what I'm told; I don't actually remember first hearing Dudley Moore's dulcet narration until a few years later.

"I love puppies."

Yeah he is - he's related to Albert Einstein!

AHAHAHAHA, that's marvelous.

"Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein

Geez, that'd make Al Jolson blush!

Laurence Olivier, Roger Sterling - some folks can get away with anything!

Ha! I came across that YTMND and embraced it readily, having no idea that the person behind it was none other than our very own beema. Thanks!