I’ll see your ZAUBERFLOTE and raise you a PARSIFAL.

I have never had to take a job waiting on tables in my life (62 as of yesterday). I always tip 20% (have rarely run into a situation where the server was so bad that I would pay less) and, when I’m in NYC, at least 25%. I had a very short career in retail and, except for jobs that deal with death, psychotics and/or…

Thank you for the education. I would be lost without BBC3 (radio) and I suspect that Europe would be as well as I see a good deal of their programming exported to the rest of the European Broadcast Union.

Thanks for the clarification. I should have realized that the designation referred to the television channel.

Maybe it’s because the classical music radio scene in the US is in its death throes but BBC3 seems like it’s going strong to me. (I cannot tell you how many hours of programming I have recorded from them.) What do you see in the station’s being harmed that I can’t apparently see here in the US?

If you need a trigger warning, then you’re not ready for college.

I love that joke and I always add something to the punchline. “God says, You schmuck, I sent a plane, a helicopter and a boat.”

Not dipshits. Sociopaths. Which is what the majority of the GOP candidates are.

Sociopaths don’t have consciences; ergo they sleep just fine.

Although he’s much too classy for that, I would love to see Rep. John Lewis confront this guy about putting his life on the line for something he holds sacred; Rep. Lewis was almost killed on the Pettus Bridge during the Selma March. Your “martyr” wouldn’t have lasted two steps on that March.

I found Bernstein’s article quite credible, at least in giving another side to the story. And given the Times’ horrendous “reporting” on Hilary Clinton’s emails I’m not going to give them the benefit of the doubt.

Did you read the article? Bernstein and his wife went over the two major publications that carry the majority of ads for Korean and Chinese nail technicians for the time period that the Times author claimed.

Oops. Didn’t scroll down to see this before I posted a reply above. (Not that most people would see it as I’m still in the greys.)

The Royal Family also stayed at Buckingham Palace during the Nazi bombing raids. They were urged to relocate to the countryside but King George refused to do so. The Queen (Mother) and the princesses stayed by his side.

Thank G-d Gregory Peck is dead.

Excellent in HOLLYWOODLAND (George Reeves).

My first thought was that this sounded so much like SECONDS, which is a film that really needs to be better known. And I like REINDEER GAMES, which I thought was a nifty little who-did-what-to-whom and the first time I saw James Frain.

Pretty brilliant of Wagner since he died in 1883 and Hitler was born in 1889.

INSOMNIA is my favorite Stephen King novel because it led me to THE DARK TOWER.

You can have a lab do a titre. I was born in the early ‘50’s and got all the usual childhood diseases (except for rubella) because there were no vaccines at the time. I have been a little concerned about my exposure to measles (because who knows if the children you come in casual contact with have been vaccinated…