I kind of think that lloyd’s of London starting as a coffee shop sort of proves that argument.

Nice story. Thank you for posting it

Years ago I picked up the book ‘Gone Girl.’ I got about twenty pages into it and put it down because I couldn’t stand the smug, entitled yuppie narrator.

Later, I watched and enjoyed the movie, and read some of the author’s other books.

It made me realize what a good writer she is; she made me hate a character so much that I couldn’t read the book.

Serious question.

What’s the last thing in entertainment that you think was known to everyone in the USA? I’m not talking about Taylor Swift dating a football player. I mean a brand new act coming out and all kinds of people excited.

I can’t think of anything.

Older than you are and worth looking at. [available on Youtube]

The Prisoner. Imagine if Ian Fleming and Franz Kafka got together to do a TV show. A government official resigns and is immediately kidnapped. He wakes up in The Village; a lovely little place with nice views, great food, plenty of fun things to do, and no possible escape.

I, Claudius. A very young Patrick Stewart is the least reason to watch this reenactment of the first five Roman emperors.

Connections. Non-fiction. Wonderfully entertaining and informative. The creator’s premise is that scientific progress is almost never straight forward. Coffee houses open in London = coffee houses become popular places to do business = coffee house customers join together to invest in ships to the New World = the new ‘companies’ begin looking for ways to make their ships safer = they start to invest in making pine tar to protect the ships = add two hundred years and you have insurance companies and the chemical industry

It was amazing, then got weak after Dalton left. mho

Mythbusters covered it, and said that everything in that scene was within the realm of possibility.

I think they were bribed by Jessica Beil’s thighs

I can see someone liking League if they’d never read the comic.

I was thinking about it this morning.

Look at Beatle-mania or Spice Girl-mania.

Back in the day, 100 million people were aware of one big thing and it brought them together.

Today with the internet, you’ve got a million different ‘big things’ each with 100 fans.

Reminds me of an old joke.

A beautiful princess is galivanting across the sward one fine morning. She comes upon a muddy pond. A frog jumps out of the slimy water and bows at her feet.

“Oh princess, I am under the curse of an evil witch. If you give me but a single kiss I shall return to my true form. Kiss me and I’ll become the world’s best drummer.”

The princess gathers her skirts, bends over, picks up the frog, and shoves him into her purse.

“Aren’t you going to kiss me and break the witch’s spell?”

“Hell, no! I can make a lot more money with a talking frog than I can with the world’s best drummer.”

You could set up a small business with the pressure washer.

Start looking for another job.

Silverberg’s Law states that 90% of everything is crap.

We tend to ignore the lousy stuff and focus on the great things.

Also, a lot of them were actually funny and creative.

Which begs the question, why fly the Hammer and Sickle at all?

Politics is a game and if you want to win elections you should learn to play it.

Nixon hid his anti-Black agenda behind phrases like ‘safe streets’ and ‘the War on Drugs.’

Do you want to win elections or do you want to lose but be able to boast about how pure your intentions were?

Like I said, if you can’t come up with anything except a comedy act, we have nothing to discuss.

Here’s a clip from his early days, proof that he couldn’t possibly have ever changed his thoughts about anything.

https://youtu.be/-sx-7NucjEk

Let me explain something you may not be aware of.

The man was an entertainer. His job was to make people laugh. I can cherry pick his work and come up with all kinds of absurd ideas he put into his act.

If the only argument you can make is based on a comedy routine, then we have nothing more to discuss.

If George was alive today he’d be begging people to vote against Trump.

No.

Look at how the system actually works. There are two choices. Both candidates have to compete for all the people who vote. If you sit out the election that doesn’t mean either candidate will try to get your vote; they’ll ignore you and go after the people who do vote.

Someone else came up with this analogy. It’s like the trolley problem except the there’s a third option. The third choice is to throw the switch to “Neither,” but “Neither” isn’t connected and the trolley kills someone anyway.