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Post by beccabear67 on Jul 30, 2020 19:25:32 GMT -5
Maybe some good comes if it wakes people up to distancing and masks. I've learned I've been using two-ply (with a bendable metal inside top edge) which is pretty effective, some are using sewn fabric ones of one-ply that while not open at the sides at all is not too effective but still help a bit. I would think three-ply would be difficult for most people even without glasses. We are almost normal up here in opening up, 0 new cases on our island (which is about the size of Long Island NY but nowhere near the population) again today and mask wearing is around 60% of people from what I saw today. Meanwhile business are having to close up again in many parts of the U.S., which they might not have had to were almost everyone on the same page from say late March. I'd be fed up if everything kept having to shut down, but wearing a mask, even with glasses, and keeping distanced in lines and in shops and not going to big gatherings is not such a burden. Apparently Cain tweeted something about people being fed up with masks earlier this month? Talk about infamous last words. Still, it is too bad he and his family has paid this price. He may have gone on to do some good and employed people. Masks and distancing are not political, they are just necessary at this time, I do know of conservative people who did, and hopefully still do, both things.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2020 2:58:06 GMT -5
R.I.P. to former Red Sox manager John McNamara, who was the skipper of the infamous '86 squad that lost the Word Series to the Mets. He was 88.
-M
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Post by beccabear67 on Jul 31, 2020 11:46:14 GMT -5
I remember that Mets win even though I often didn't follow baseball. It was quite a drama, as was the Red Sox just falling short various times! I loved watching them finally win with that team that had 'Trot' Nixon. I'm wondering if baseball itself might be r.i.p. soon though. It might be ice hockey can just manage it with these bubble zone arenas in Canada and no live audience, but I'm not sure other team sports will be able to make things work for long enough. Perhaps the indoor football/soccer could but it's not the big viewership in North America.
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Post by Prince Hal on Jul 31, 2020 12:26:11 GMT -5
R.I.P. to former Red Sox manager John McNamara, who was the skipper of the infamous '86 squad that lost the Word Series to the Mets. He was 88. -M Vilified for letting Buckner stay in Game 6. But I can't let that obscure what I'll always remember first and most about McNamara...
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Post by brianf on Aug 1, 2020 3:04:16 GMT -5
RIP Alan Parker, director of Midnight Express, Pink Floyd The Wall, Angel Heart and others. I also enjoyed The Road to Wellville, a somewhat strange film about the bizarre origins of Kellogg cereal.
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Post by junkmonkey on Aug 1, 2020 4:27:13 GMT -5
I liked the Road to Wellville too. Bugsy Malone is a family favourite. I once nearly collided with Alan Parker coming out of a production office in London. He was coming out. I was going in. I only realised who he was a moment too late not to look totally foolish running after him and gabbling something incoherent. His book of cartoons Will Direct for Money is funny. I may have to watch Fame or The Commitments tonight.
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Post by Farrar on Aug 1, 2020 13:01:04 GMT -5
R.I.P. to former Red Sox manager John McNamara, who was the skipper of the infamous '86 squad that lost the Word Series to the Mets. He was 88. -M Vilified for letting Buckner stay in Game 6. Oh yes Game 6! Along with the first game back at Shea after 9/11, the most incredible game I've ever seen live. I'll never forget my guy Gary Carter getting that single, and of course a few batters later Mooooookie!
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Post by Prince Hal on Aug 1, 2020 13:28:18 GMT -5
Vilified for letting Buckner stay in Game 6. Oh yes Game 6! Along with the first game back at Shea after 9/11, the most incredible game I've ever seen live. I'll never forget my guy Gary Carter getting that single, and of course a few batters later Mooooookie! Wasn’t it fun when we used to be friends?
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Post by spoon on Aug 1, 2020 23:27:34 GMT -5
The living legend Wilford Brimley has died. The Thing, Cocoon, Our House, The China Syndrome, Hard Target, The Natural, the Postmaster General in Seinfeld, Ewoks: The Battle for Endor . . .
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Post by foxley on Aug 2, 2020 1:21:24 GMT -5
The living legend Wilford Brimley has died. The Thing, Cocoon, Our House, The China Syndrome, Hard Target, The Natural, the Postmaster General in Seinfeld, Ewoks: The Battle for Endor . . . Not to mention The Waltons, Death Valley, High Road to China, Hard Target...
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Post by codystarbuck on Aug 2, 2020 10:18:31 GMT -5
You forget his greatest: Remo Williams, the Adventure Begins!
Off to the great oatmeal barrel in the sky!
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Post by shaxper on Aug 2, 2020 10:19:43 GMT -5
Son of Frankenstein's and voice of Bambi Donnie Dunagan. I had no idea he was still going!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2020 13:30:47 GMT -5
The living legend Wilford Brimley has died. The Thing, Cocoon, Our House, The China Syndrome, Hard Target, The Natural, the Postmaster General in Seinfeld, Ewoks: The Battle for Endor . . . I wasn't surprised he had just passed (many of my friends thought he had passed years ago).
but I was SHOCKED by his age. . he was much younger than I could have imagined. . .heck, he looked "old" back in those shows in the late 70's and 80's. . .
R.I.P. mr. Dia-be-tus (which is likely what he's best known for among the younger crowd)
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Post by Icctrombone on Aug 2, 2020 13:36:36 GMT -5
not celebrating that he died, but really don't care either.
Act like a moron, and die because you got a disease that you could have taken *simple* precautions to avoid?
we don't have a Political Thread. . . so won't say anything more.
I'm ashamed of this comment. He died of stage four cancer. I think you're better than this.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Aug 2, 2020 14:17:51 GMT -5
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