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Post by berkley on Sept 29, 2023 18:30:02 GMT -5
Makes you wonder - since there's usually a minimum age for holding political offices why isn't there a maximum age as well? Around 75 would seem reasonable to me.
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Post by codystarbuck on Sept 29, 2023 22:20:12 GMT -5
Makes you wonder - since there's usually a minimum age for holding political offices why isn't there a maximum age as well? Around 75 would seem reasonable to me. Age discrimination laws. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Sept 30, 2023 4:54:40 GMT -5
Makes you wonder - since there's usually a minimum age for holding political offices why isn't there a maximum age as well? Around 75 would seem reasonable to me. Age discrimination laws. Term limits like they have for President or Goveneurs would take care of that situation. But why would any sane politician agree to that ? Being a politician is the greatest scam ever. |
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Post by codystarbuck on Sept 30, 2023 7:10:12 GMT -5
Term limits like they have for President or Goveneurs would take care of that situation. But why would any sane politician agree to that ? Being a politician is the greatest scam ever. Well, let's see.....they'd have to be voted in by the people they would limit.....they're a pretty selfless bunch, right? |
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Post by Farrar on Oct 1, 2023 13:11:35 GMT -5
RIP to actor Michael Gambon... Like others here I've seen him in many films over the years. I also had the good fortune of seeing him on Broadway in David Hare's Skylight in the late '90s . I already knew what he looked like from movies and TV but when he appeared in this play it was like watching a friend's father onstage and not an actor I'd seen on film many times before--he was that realistic. Not at all "actor-y." RIP Mr. Gambon. |
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Post by Calidore on Oct 1, 2023 20:10:34 GMT -5
Makes you wonder - since there's usually a minimum age for holding political offices why isn't there a maximum age as well? Around 75 would seem reasonable to me. Thing is, everybody ages differently and there are many people with 75 far in their rear-view mirror who are still living an active life and enjoying it. Here, we have local superheroine Sister Jean Schmidt, chaplain of the Loyola University men's basketball team, still sharp and working at 104. And another local 104-year-old just today set a record as the oldest person to ever skydive.
Term limits would be the fair way, although codystarbuck certainly has a point about the people who would be affected by them being the ones to implement them. |
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Post by Prince Hal on Oct 1, 2023 21:38:23 GMT -5
For baseball fans... An absolute treasure of a human being died earlier today.  Red Sox pitcher Tim Wakefield, humble, loyal and selfless on and off the field, succumbed to a seizure brought on by brain cancer, which he did not even know he had a month ago. Forget how good a ballplayer he was (200 wins -- courtesy his knuckleball -- well over 3,000 innings pitched, 17 years with the Sox, a couple with the Pirates, two World Series championships and a Roberto Clemente Award); he was an even better man. Tireless worker for the Jimmy Fund, Franciscan Hospital and any charity who asked for his support. Never sought the spotlight. Rendering this an even more devastating tragedy... his wife is suffering from pancreatic cancer. Not only does cancer suck. Too goddam often, life does, too. And the execrable narcissistic hypocritical charlatan who tried to use this heartbreak earlier in the week to cover up for yet another of his disgraceful behaviors only debased himself further. And that wasn't easy to do. Farewell, Wake. You were really something. And know, if you can, that your wonderful life continues to eclipse that of the supposed friend who betrayed your privacy, your wishes, and your trust. |
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Post by berkley on Oct 1, 2023 22:06:17 GMT -5
Makes you wonder - since there's usually a minimum age for holding political offices why isn't there a maximum age as well? Around 75 would seem reasonable to me. Thing is, everybody ages differently and there are many people with 75 far in their rear-view mirror who are still living an active life and enjoying it. Here, we have local superheroine Sister Jean Schmidt, chaplain of the Loyola University men's basketball team, still sharp and working at 104. And another local 104-year-old just today set a record as the oldest person to ever skydive.
Term limits would be the fair way, although codystarbuck certainly has a point about the people who would be affected by them being the ones to implement them. But the same argument could be applied to the minimum age limit - some people mature faster and earlier than others. Imagine if Alexander the Great hadn't been allowed to lead the Macedonians because he was too young! |
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Post by codystarbuck on Oct 1, 2023 22:40:45 GMT -5
The news media are reporting the death of former NFL player Russ Francis, in a plane crash near Lake Placid. I'm not a football fan; but, Francis' father, Ed, promoted professional wrestling in Hawaii, through the 1970s and Russ dabbled a bit, during the off-season, including the Battle Royal at Wrestlemania 2, along with William "The Refrigerator Perry."
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Post by Cei-U! on Oct 5, 2023 21:59:09 GMT -5
Football legend and occasional actor Dick Butkus has died at age 80. I wasn't much of a gridiron fan as a kid but even I knew of Butkus' fearsome reputation.
Cei-U! I summon the passing of a titan!
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Post by foxley on Oct 6, 2023 1:53:48 GMT -5
Football legend and occasional actor Dick Butkus has died at age 80. I wasn't much of a gridiron fan as a kid but even I knew of Butkus' fearsome reputation.
Cei-U! I summon the passing of a titan!
That's a real name, and not just some joke you're playing on us foreigners?
Although after Dick Trickle and Dick Pound, I guess I shouldn't be surprised. Do parents not consider how a first name (or a likely nickname) will combine with their surname?  |
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Post by Prince Hal on Oct 6, 2023 7:34:17 GMT -5
Football legend and occasional actor Dick Butkus has died at age 80. I wasn't much of a gridiron fan as a kid but even I knew of Butkus' fearsome reputation.
Cei-U! I summon the passing of a titan!
That's a real name, and not just some joke you're playing on us foreigners?
Although after Dick Trickle and Dick Pound, I guess I shouldn't be surprised. Do parents not consider how a first name (or a likely nickname) will combine with their surname? Smile when you ask me that, stranger...  But just be glad you weren't born with this guy's last name.  {Spoiler: Click to show}
Johnny Dickshot |
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Post by Rob Allen on Oct 6, 2023 9:47:32 GMT -5
I work with database software that was developed by a guy named Dick Pick.
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Post by driver1980 on Oct 6, 2023 17:11:57 GMT -5
Football legend and occasional actor Dick Butkus has died at age 80. I wasn't much of a gridiron fan as a kid but even I knew of Butkus' fearsome reputation.
Cei-U! I summon the passing of a titan!
I just remembered he was in the TV series Blue Thunder. |
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Post by codystarbuck on Oct 6, 2023 22:14:52 GMT -5
I was trying to recall when I first saw Butkus, since I never watched football. Probably when Brian's Song first aired, since he appeared in it. The Six Million Dollar Man episode, "One of Our Running Backs is Missing," was a big favorite, with Butkus as one of the villains, along with Mike Henry (ex-NFL, ex-Tarzan, future Penobscott) and Larry Csonka, as an old college friend of Steve Austin's, complete with bionic football game, in the third act. Mother, Juggs and Speed and the Miller High Lite commercials would have been a similar time frame and the long run on My Two dads.
We are actually alumni, as he attended the University of Illinois. I wasn't there yet when his nephew, Mark, was playing on the team that last went to the Rose Bowl and went out and partied and had blown the game in the first half, leading to Dick being interviewed and ragging how bad they were screwing up out there. That ignominious defeat was followed by NCAA sanctions, for recruting violations, and being kicked off national tv until I think my junior or senior year, just in time for ABC Sports (or was it NBC?) to show footage of the campus that made it look like WW1, because the Quad was torn up, putting in new water and drainage lines, while they revamped Foelinger Auditorium, with the entire Quad a mass of mud and trenches.
I came close to meeting him once...sort of. I was working for Dick's Sporting Goods/Field & Stream, when they opened a new combined store, in Champaign-Urbana and Butkus was one of the celebrity guests for the Grand Opening. However, his appearance was limited to ticket patrons and was done on the Dick's side, in the evening and my job started at about 6 am. On the Field 7 Stream side, we got someone from some swamp-themed outdoor program, in some boondock cable channel. he poked his head into our breakroom, before his appearance. No idea who he was, could care less. Similar with some fishing champion. Okay....wow, you caught a fish. Me, too. Several of them, With a $10 Zebco rod and reel (hell, probably more like $5, back then, when I was a kid), instead of the stuff we sold.
I was more impressed by the bald eagle they had for pictures and the ribbon cutting...mostly waiting for it to break loose and seek revenge for DDT and similar atrocities.
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