Hi Michael,

 ML> > Back after being unable to connect with Marc for a few days,
 ML> wondering > if the storm messed up his power or otherwise.

 ML> Likely. We are subject to the elements in a
 ML> quaintly old-fashion way, which, if we were to
 ML> cast our bread on the impersonal waters of the
 ML> Internet, would be mostly negated.

And those who depend on electronics in one form or another would be up
the proverbial creek without the proverbial paddle.

 ML> >  ML> > soccer, golf and more), the Times covered quite a few sports.
 ML> Their >  ML> main > emphasis was news and business but every Wednesday
 ML> they also >  ML> had a section dedicated to food.
 ML> >  ML> But Newsday is the traditional font of sports wisdom in
 ML> >  ML> the City. Even the Post and the Daily News have better
 ML> >  ML> sports coverage than the Times.
 ML> > True, but if your dad buys the Times, that's what you read. (G)

 ML> The Times's sportswriters were too artistic and
 ML> not entertaining enough. The tabloids had that
 ML> breathless offensive style, but at least they
 ML> imparted most of the facts. Newsday, which as I
 ML> recall was the Long Island newspaper of choice,
 ML> struck a decent balance.

Nobody in our area sold that one. It was the Times or Daily News for NYC
papers, plus the locals and regionals. Food sections were interesting
reading, would have been more so now as my tastes have matured.

 ML> >  ML> >  ML> To me it's something that's to laugh at, especially
 ML> >  ML> >  ML> as it's unenforceable.
 ML> >  ML> > Yes, it is laughable but I also shudder at the blatantly
 ML> deliberate >  ML> > mispronunciation.
 ML> >  ML> That tends to get me upset as well, but Harvard boys
 ML> >  ML> can take care of themselves, by and large.
 ML> > Harvard girls also?

 ML> In my day, we had Harvard boys and Radcliffe girls.
 ML> The instruction was the same, the endowments different.

Quite so. (G)


 ML> The lovely Jane it turns out went to Wells College,
 ML> which I thought an adjunct of Cornell. Not so, Cornell
 ML> had been co-ed since its founding but at a 4:1 ratio,
 ML> so nearby women's college (maddest folly going) was a
 ML> source of intelligent poised marriage bait, similar to the
 ML> situation with Wellesley College and Harvard/Radcliffe and
 ML> its 4:1 ratio.

The college I went to was co-ed from the beginning.

 ML> >  ML> > I know a few words, but not enough to carry on any sort of
 ML> >  ML> conversation.
 ML> >  ML> Spasebo.
 ML> > That being one of them. Dosvedanya (spelled phonetically) is
 ML> another, > and the standard da & nyet.

 ML> Pretty much all I have except for the usual food terms.

So you could get something to eat but not navigate your way around
Moscow? Actually, if the city had color coded transportation lines, you
could get around--to some extent.

 ML> >  ML> > Eating Big Bird for supper?
 ML> >  ML> Wouldn't bother me.
 ML> >  ML> Big Bird & Snuffleupagus Breakfast
 ML> > This was cute. I'd try it out on grandkids but they're all beyond
 ML> the > Sesame Street age of appreciation (or will be, youngest will be
 ML> 6 next > month). Not sure when we'll be seeing them again.

 ML> It will happen for sure, sometime.

I know, just trying to figure when that might be. We do get snaps on fb
and text quite often so have (sort of) kept up that way but it's not
like being there.


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