Doppelgänger story: My law partner and dear friend, ten years younger, looks like me. Or I look like him. We once tried a case together - typically one of us in court, the other preparing the next witness. At a motion argument where we both were in attendance, opposing counsel came up to us and said he was relieved to learn there really were two of us, instead of the same guy pretending to be two people. Last year at a funeral, a retired senior partner, who had practiced law with both of us for two decades, addressed him by my name. My friend was - shall we say - not happy. I thought it was hilarious.
Dopplegangers: I once was eating alone in a restaurant when I felt like I was being stared at, and I looked over and noticed another solitary gentleman doing the staring. He looked so like me that I had no doubt of the reason. Neither of us was brave enough to say hello, but I smiled at him.
Criticism of judging: when I single out an HM for praise in a comment, you may take that as my gentle hint that maybe it could have scored higher, if you really feel the need to be second-guessed...
Prior to hosting Top Chef, Padma Lakshmi had appeared in 8 different television programs and 5 films in 4 different countries (she is fluent in 5 languages), including hosting the Planet Food documentary in the U.S. She had also written one cookbook and was working on her second when she started hosting Top Chef. So maybe the next time we decide to criticize someone's credentials (including "her boobs and face"), maybe we can take literally 30 seconds to do some basic, Wikipedia-level research about that person.
"Curiously, almost none of the entries dared tell what happens on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2024, except for a couple that had Trump declaring victory from his prison cell."
Trump will declare victory on Monday Nov. 5, no matter what, no matter from where.
A number of years ago, I told one of my colleagues, a first-generation daughter of Indian immigrants, that I thought Padma Lakshmi was hot. She looked askance and replied that I needed to re-assess my sense of female attractiveness. She added that she thought Padma Lakshmi's head and face didn't look quite right. I considered her opinion and decided that she was correct. Padma Lakshmi shares a facial structure with Marilyn Quayle and Sarah Jessica Parker, a facial structure suggesting that Mister Ed lurks somewhere in the family tree.
Dude, not cool. Not the place for your gross and sexist opinions on who you find attractive. I've been pondering how to reply to this for 8 hours and it's still bothering me, so I did. Please be better.
I can’t help but think about how much richer the lives of Betty Blooper and her husband probably were than they would have been if she had been a conventional speaker. Not just when her verbal train wrecks initially occurred, but over the years in recollections of her prize-worthy adventures. Thanks for writing about her.
This is one of the funniest lists of results all year. Tastefully, it didn’t include me. I appreciate your humility, but don’t understand how one is not allowed to not like an ethnic food, in the context of humor. I appreciate Padma’s practicing of her commercial draw and I was trying to codify it, not insult it. But how is it a forum to call for the firing of humor journalists. That’s rhetorical.
Ahem...we still have a landline phone that has a hook--and it still works fine. It's especially pleasing to hang up on telemarketers that call 20 times a day. It is a VoIP line but we have an analog to VoIP adapter that our cable company installed in the old box on the outside of our house. The house still has all copper wiring for the phone lines and works perfectly well,
On the themes of looking ahead and back, I was shocked and delighted to receive a letter the other day. Yes --- a handwritten letter from a young relative. Okay --- she was required to do it as part of cursive writing initiative in her school and yes, it read a little like a form letter, but the expression of affection and her signature-in-progress was all her --- and surprisingly moving. What I also found moving was the distinctly personal effort that went into it, rudimentary at this stage though it was. On writing back in longhand, the only possible way to reply, I was told how satisfying, and what a sense of accomplishment it was, to be able to both write the original letter and read mine. As I believe I mentioned in passing here before, cursive writing seems to be making a comeback. This after, I'm told, the widely adopted Common Core State Standards more than a decade ago, attempted to bring some national uniformity to the teaching of English/language arts and explicitly emphasized keyboard skills, consequently resulting in a decline in the teaching of cursive writing. Not the easiest to implement by already time-strapped teachers, I am also told, many of whom themselves have not been trained in it. There is a body of research that credits learning cursive with a variety of biological and psychological benefits for young students which don't accrue from keyboarding. Selfishly for me, the benefit is the delight on receiving the occasional card and letter personalized by thought and handwriting from a young relative. Another simple pleasure in a complex world.
Here’s Dave Barry’s Year in Review without paywall.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/dave-barry-review-2023-ai-100000295.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9kdWNrZHVja2dvLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAC8fudb5LOOThghIRN_HiJuzjjpi3sdx5vJgy7Z33HnKa-OdUtj0wQaeAncawjJH98HWXVPi4Z-MK4VQ1I_590BdGfW3r-ctu0ALjmrzJLnLI_o1_2ouDvRjjVwbrrYUTcYTxJTgHIK0Ka0uBwlFQromR9xUTMhcb-MFBTEwict-
Read it while it’s still up.
Doppelgänger story: My law partner and dear friend, ten years younger, looks like me. Or I look like him. We once tried a case together - typically one of us in court, the other preparing the next witness. At a motion argument where we both were in attendance, opposing counsel came up to us and said he was relieved to learn there really were two of us, instead of the same guy pretending to be two people. Last year at a funeral, a retired senior partner, who had practiced law with both of us for two decades, addressed him by my name. My friend was - shall we say - not happy. I thought it was hilarious.
Dopplegangers: I once was eating alone in a restaurant when I felt like I was being stared at, and I looked over and noticed another solitary gentleman doing the staring. He looked so like me that I had no doubt of the reason. Neither of us was brave enough to say hello, but I smiled at him.
Criticism of judging: when I single out an HM for praise in a comment, you may take that as my gentle hint that maybe it could have scored higher, if you really feel the need to be second-guessed...
FInally: "furor". Hah.
Prior to hosting Top Chef, Padma Lakshmi had appeared in 8 different television programs and 5 films in 4 different countries (she is fluent in 5 languages), including hosting the Planet Food documentary in the U.S. She had also written one cookbook and was working on her second when she started hosting Top Chef. So maybe the next time we decide to criticize someone's credentials (including "her boobs and face"), maybe we can take literally 30 seconds to do some basic, Wikipedia-level research about that person.
Thank you! I was just about to post something similar. The sexism is jaw-dropping.
And let's also remember that she called for Gene to be fired.
A Thursday without Judy Freed is a goddamn waste of my time.
"Curiously, almost none of the entries dared tell what happens on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2024, except for a couple that had Trump declaring victory from his prison cell."
Trump will declare victory on Monday Nov. 5, no matter what, no matter from where.
A number of years ago, I told one of my colleagues, a first-generation daughter of Indian immigrants, that I thought Padma Lakshmi was hot. She looked askance and replied that I needed to re-assess my sense of female attractiveness. She added that she thought Padma Lakshmi's head and face didn't look quite right. I considered her opinion and decided that she was correct. Padma Lakshmi shares a facial structure with Marilyn Quayle and Sarah Jessica Parker, a facial structure suggesting that Mister Ed lurks somewhere in the family tree.
Dude, not cool. Not the place for your gross and sexist opinions on who you find attractive. I've been pondering how to reply to this for 8 hours and it's still bothering me, so I did. Please be better.
Who asked you?
Obviously not you.
Shouldn't it be spelled "onnacowna"? Or is that just a Bronx locution?
Bronx.
I can’t help but think about how much richer the lives of Betty Blooper and her husband probably were than they would have been if she had been a conventional speaker. Not just when her verbal train wrecks initially occurred, but over the years in recollections of her prize-worthy adventures. Thanks for writing about her.
Scrolling right down here to load some love onto "onnaconna." Took me so far back into my childhood I almost crashed my Schwinn into a jump rope game.
It is always wise to read the Invite while riding a bike. I endorse it.
PS - I adore the Admiral Reidy story.
This is one of the funniest lists of results all year. Tastefully, it didn’t include me. I appreciate your humility, but don’t understand how one is not allowed to not like an ethnic food, in the context of humor. I appreciate Padma’s practicing of her commercial draw and I was trying to codify it, not insult it. But how is it a forum to call for the firing of humor journalists. That’s rhetorical.
Right? I don't honk for me, I honk for the poor bastards behind me. Especially when the jackass won't pull under the light before it goes yellow.
I had a doppelgänger in 1st year economics, was always a start to see him, looking like me a year or two before.
Finding your doppelganger: https://www.makeuseof.com/online-tools-find-doppelganger/
twinstrangers.net uses AI to find pictures they deem as a match, with an option to send them a pm. If you'd like, I can forward yoj the pictures.
Or this guy: https://twinstrangers.net/profile/ai_results?l=11621097
I will email you the pictures, if you wish. I think the second one is better, though the first guy's was posted upside down.
Ahem...we still have a landline phone that has a hook--and it still works fine. It's especially pleasing to hang up on telemarketers that call 20 times a day. It is a VoIP line but we have an analog to VoIP adapter that our cable company installed in the old box on the outside of our house. The house still has all copper wiring for the phone lines and works perfectly well,
On the themes of looking ahead and back, I was shocked and delighted to receive a letter the other day. Yes --- a handwritten letter from a young relative. Okay --- she was required to do it as part of cursive writing initiative in her school and yes, it read a little like a form letter, but the expression of affection and her signature-in-progress was all her --- and surprisingly moving. What I also found moving was the distinctly personal effort that went into it, rudimentary at this stage though it was. On writing back in longhand, the only possible way to reply, I was told how satisfying, and what a sense of accomplishment it was, to be able to both write the original letter and read mine. As I believe I mentioned in passing here before, cursive writing seems to be making a comeback. This after, I'm told, the widely adopted Common Core State Standards more than a decade ago, attempted to bring some national uniformity to the teaching of English/language arts and explicitly emphasized keyboard skills, consequently resulting in a decline in the teaching of cursive writing. Not the easiest to implement by already time-strapped teachers, I am also told, many of whom themselves have not been trained in it. There is a body of research that credits learning cursive with a variety of biological and psychological benefits for young students which don't accrue from keyboarding. Selfishly for me, the benefit is the delight on receiving the occasional card and letter personalized by thought and handwriting from a young relative. Another simple pleasure in a complex world.
The old British billion was a million million. While in the USA it is a thousand million.
And google?
Google is a website. Googol is a large number.