The Isolated Blurt Thread XVII : Squish Me Like You Mean It!

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15 runs? before noom?

small mountain, eh?

Nah. There are six mountains within the area with a total vertical of 3,000'. Taking two lifts in the morning gets you to the upper mountain and it's then a simple matter of skiing down to the second lift by any number of trails and hopping on repeatedly. The biggest lift line I saw this morning had six people in it.

That'll make you hungry for the big cheeseburger and fries that's waiting at the lodge for lunch.


 

The Samuel Langhorn Clemens you never knew about before.



"...The newfound respectability was especially marked in his comments about the 'demoralizing' and 'lascivious hula,' the 'dance that was wont to set the passions of men ablaze in the old heathen days.' Sam compared it in his journal to 'copulation in public.' His friend Sam Damon was one of the missionaries who had petitioned the Hawaii government in 1858 to ban the dance. It was afterward 'forbidden to be performed, save at night,' privately behind closed doors, in the presence 'of few spectators, and only by permission duly procured from the authorities; upon payment of ten dollars for a license'..."


-Gary Scharnhorst
The Life of Mark Twain: The Early Years 1835-1871
Columbia, Missouri 2018.




Thorough and exhaustive don't begin to describe this magnificent work by Scharnhorst. If you're interested in Twain, this is must reading.

This is not the usual hagiography. This is not the sanitized Samuel Clemens you're used to— a carefully managed image consciously created only after his marriage to a rich and respectable younger wife. This is Samuel Clemens with all the warts. He may have given his wife syphilis. He certainly was a plagiarist.

Scharnhorst is Distinguished Professor of English (emeritus) at the University of New Mexico.



 

Nah. There are six mountains within the area with a total vertical of 3,000'. Taking two lifts in the morning gets you to the upper mountain and it's then a simple matter of skiing down to the second lift by any number of trails and hopping on repeatedly. The biggest lift line I saw this morning had six people in it.

That'll make you hungry for the big cheeseburger and fries that's waiting at the lodge for lunch.



So, that's like an average of 500 vertical per hill?
 
I love boundless curiosity but I cannot wait to get over this "call bullshit on literally everything".

Why?
Why?
Are you sure?
Is it really?
What's that?
Why is it like that?
Why are you doing that?

I don't know, Socrates, your father is an idiot I don't know what the fuck to tell you love of god be fuckin ON today.

The universe is vast and unknowable. Get over it and live in constant existential fear like the rest of us.

I'm fucking tired.
 
Two days in a row working late. I just hope I get it all done because when I get back it's going to be a bear. :eek:
 
I don't know why everything is getting on my nerves today, but I just have real strong opinions about everything. I've never in my life given a shit about Barbie and I've got like real strong convictions about her divorce.
 
Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts. In a series of novels published by Random House in the 1960s, her parents' names are given as George and Margaret Roberts from the fictional town of Willows, Wisconsin.[21] In the Random House novels, Barbie attended Willows High School; while in the Generation Girl books, published by Golden Books in 1999, she attended the fictional Manhattan International High School in New York City (based on the real-life Stuyvesant High School).[22]

She has an on-off romantic relationship with her boyfriend Ken ("Ken Carson"), who first appeared in 1961. A news release from Mattel in February 2004 announced that Barbie and Ken had decided to split up,[23] but in February 2006, they were hoping to rekindle their relationship after Ken had a makeover.[24]

Barbie has had over 40 pets including cats and dogs, horses, a panda, a lion cub, and a zebra. She has owned a wide range of vehicles, including pink Corvette convertibles, trailers, and Jeeps. She also holds a pilot's license, and operates commercial airliners in addition to serving as a flight attendant. Barbie's careers are designed to show that women can take on a variety of roles in life, and the doll has been sold with a wide range of titles including Miss Astronaut Barbie (1965), Doctor Barbie (1988), and Nascar Barbie (1998).

Mattel has created a range of companions for Barbie, including Hispanic Teresa, Midge, African American Christie, and Steven (Christie's boyfriend). Barbie's siblings and cousins were also created including Skipper, Todd and Stacie (twin brother and sister), Kelly, Krissy, and Francie. Barbie was friendly with Blaine, an Australian surfer, during her split with Ken in 2004.[25]

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Who owns a panda? And a zebra? :eek:
 
Still working. ‘‘Tis the season.

I doubt Mattel will go through with the couple. In side scoop.;) Sales are down and they don’t want to shake things up. They are sticking with classics.
 
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