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Post 6521

Baron Grim

Nope... I don't care who sings it. I was mistaken earlier. It was Whitney who made this song ubiquitous, not Celine. Celine had that insipid song from Titanic.

Dolly Parton got awards for writing a song that has one single line. smiley - facepalm


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Post 6522

paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant

smiley - laugh

We also sang the Titanic song at the same concert. smiley - evilgrin

Song quality seems to have been on a downward slide for the last twenty or thirty years. Which you would expect me to say in a thread for grumpy geezers. smiley - winkeye Yep, I'm a geezer, and I'm grumpy. smiley - biggrinsmiley - cross

The songs in "The Greatest showman" are very undistinguished, and yet one of them was nominated for a Golden Globe award. Gone are the days when a Mancini song would get awards as well as popularity. I haven't heard the music from "Hamilton" yet, so maybe there are still pockets of tunefulness and maybe even lyrical wit. I'm not sure it helps that Gershwin tunes are repackaged for new shows, or that Mel Brooks thinks his old movies can be mounted a Broadway shows with some new tunes. Even Monty Python's Eric Idle is repackaging movies as stage shows.

Something better will come along eventually, but for now.....smiley - sadface


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Post 6523

Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~



I called Celine Dion "The Siren of Titanic" in a review a decade or two ago. Not many caught the reference smiley - winkeye

smiley - pirate


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Post 6524

ITIWBS

Girasole (Jerusalem artichoke) is tricky, one of the most easily overcooked and mildly flavored vegetables in the world, more easily overcooked than bean sprouts and milder in flavor.

Best used after the manner of Chinese water chestnuts or in salads.

If cooked longer than suggested above, might as well boil till they dissolve completely for soup stock or gravy.


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Post 6525

Jackruss a Grand Master of Tea and Toast, Keeper of the comfy chair, who is spending a year dead for tax reasons! DNA!




smiley - rolleyes topic drift smiley - laugh


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Post 6526

paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant

Topic drift? Yes.

But are you saying it's a good thing or a bad thing?


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Post 6527

Jackruss a Grand Master of Tea and Toast, Keeper of the comfy chair, who is spending a year dead for tax reasons! DNA!




good thing smiley - smiley of course


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Post 6528

paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant

That's what I thought.


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Post 6529

Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~



I prefer topic drifts to snow drifts

smiley - pirate


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Post 6530

paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant

Well, today I'm getting both. As the blizzicane moves past us, it will suck polar air into our region, with temperatures as low as 8 below zero Fahrenheit. smiley - brr


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Post 6531

Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~



Stay safe, my friend!

smiley - pirate


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Post 6532

paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant

The greatest safety can probably be had inside, hoping the power stays on. smiley - grovel


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Post 6533

Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~



Power to the people!

smiley - pirate


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Post 6534

Baron Grim

Our meteorologists are just having so much fun introducing the American public to scary sounding weather phenomena.

This time it's "bomb cyclone" or "bombogenesis"...

Srsly!? smiley - erm

Last year, or mehbe it were the previous year, we learned of "Polar Vortices", now we got "bomb cyclones". From what I understand a polar vortex smiley - galaxy just involves an uncommonly deep bulge in the jet stream bringing arctic air further south. And a "bomb cyclone/bombogenesis" (proper term is explosive cyclogenesis) is just when the barometric pressure in a low pressure area drops more than 24 millibars in 24 hours.


But that don't sell soap (or pharmaceuticals like 90% of the ads we see during the evening news hours) so they gotta scare it up.

And when they're not introducing us to new "scary" terms, they've been just flat out making them up. Remember the "snowpocalypse?

Give me peace. smiley - facepalm



It's this kind of hyperbole that gives credence to the climate science deniers who claim that scientists are trying to scare the public to get more funding. (Yes, people I know have told me that's why they think climate science is a hoax.) TV meteorologists aren't scientists, they're specialized newsreaders, but they are the public face of weather and most Americans don't know the difference.


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Post 6535

paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant

I hear you, Baron, I hear you.

Siberian methane was part of the plot in the movie "Downsizing," which I saw last night. The Norwegian colony of downsized people are so sure of imminent climate horrors that they create an underground bunker to stay in for 8,000 years, after which (if they haven't gone mad and drunk the purple Kool-aid) they can safe come back to the Earth's surface One of the characters pooh-poohs their extreme expectations, calling them a cult. In a way, the whole movie is about peer pressure to join the latest "discovery," in this case shrinking people so that they're only 5 or 6 inches tall. This is supposed to reduce humanity's pressure on the environment for food and fuel, etc.

Here in Boston, they've coined the term "blizzicane," which wasn't necessary, as we already had "Nor-easter."


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Post 6536

paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant

The last "they" refers to media meteorologists in these parts. Our weather has little to do with meteors, but that's a problem of much longer standing. smiley - erm


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Post 6537

Baron Grim

By the way, this "blizzicane" has a name. It's Grayson. smiley - rolleyes


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Post 6538

paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant

That makes sense. It's driving me bats, man!


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Post 6539

ITIWBS

Scary, isn't it, knowing the news readers are semi-literates who learned their popular science watching exploitation movies like "Shark-nado" and actually believe in their own qualifications.

All part of the 'great leap backwards.


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Post 6540

Baron Grim

Yes, but aren't they an attractive lot? smiley - magic


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